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Luke Dellar, age twelve, is weary of his flip-flop life. He flies to his father's house in San Diego one month and back to his mother's house in Seattle the next. He's even more tired of taking pills for his ADHD that has worsened since his parent's divorce. A solution to his flip-flopping, pill-popping life? Run away and hike the Pacific Crest Trail, a 2650 mile, five-month journey from the Mexican border to the Canadian border.

Yoga's popularity is soaring, but its widespread acceptance as an exercise for physical fitness and the recognition of its health benefits have not been matched by an understanding of the emotional, intellectual, and spiritual development that the yogic tradition can also offer. In Light on Life, B.K.S. Iyengar explains this new and more complete understanding of the yogic journey.

How come there are so many unanswered questions about schools? How come school buses are yellow? How come the school year is nine months long? How come there are more women than men teachers? Come and read how come. New edition! New stories!

It's long, low and cozy! Coots Apartment! Just the type of lodging the Wilson family prefers to stay in. And an added bonus! Every evening they have visitors while a baseball game goes on right outside their front door. Play ball! Book with Tunes. Hit on the links to hear the songs! 5th book in The Elevator Family series.

Frontier Tales is an online ezine dedicated to bringing new Western short stories into view. Each month, readers vote on their favorite Tale for that month. At the end of the year, there are 12 stories they have selected as the best. The editor then picks one more to make a total of thirteen, a baker's dozen. These are the winning stories from the sixth year of the ezine's production. Enjoy!

Scientists predict that within the next few decades, the entire Arctic region, including the North Pole, will be free of ice. Only one person, fourth-grader Tom Tucker, has asked the important question. What will happen to Santa? Santa is in trouble. Global warming has wreaked havoc upon his North Pole home. The toy factory roof leaks. The reindeer barn is flooded, and the snow is too slushy for safe sleigh take-offs. In order to be ready for Christmas Eve, Santa has no choice. He must move. His helpers will build a ship, the Arctic Ark, and from there Captain Claus can prepare for ...

Meet the Specials, the school superheroes and supersheroes-- Ace+, Jump Rope, Spitball, Noise, and Gold Star. We’re glad they are at our school. This time the Specials do battle with Dr. TT, a former school principal, who attempts to take control of the local school board and become School Board Emperor.

Meet the Specials, the school superheroes and supersheroes-- Ace+, Jump Rope, and Spitball, and Noise. We’re glad they are at our school. This time, the Specials match wits with Bad, a disgruntled teenager, who attempts to take over Acorn School with his band of masked delinquents--Graffito, Class Clown,Tease, and Out-Of-Order.

In a small cozy cottage on the cold South Pole lives a tall, skinny man with a bushy black beard. His name is Anta Claus. Ten-year-old Carol Snow travels with Anta Claus throughout the US delivering appropriate gifts to children on Anta's Naughty List. Long the way, Carol learns what it takes to switch from Anta's list onto the Nice List that Santa Claus carries. Book with Tunes! Scan the QR codes or click on the links to hear the songs.

Class out of control? Will no regular substitute dare enter that fourth-grade classroom? It's time to press the red button under the office clock to summon Miss Subway, the Substitute of Last Resort.

An e-book for boys and girls without a solitary E in it! A financial crisis! Cut costs! With dough running low at his school, Principal Ouia insists that his staff and pupils must stop using that most popular non-consonant that follows d and is prior to f. That common writing symbol was also cut from this book!

Miss Biggypedagog, the two-hundred foot second grade teacher, continues her first year of teaching in the Portable classroom. During the winter, the class plays jumbo soccer and takes a field trip to the beach. During the spring, they have a super-sized visitor--Miss Biggy's Uncle Everest from The Highlands.

Spend a school year with Miss Biggypedagog, the new two-hundred-foot-tall teacher for the second grade class in the Portable classroom.

Del and Estelle perch on the streetlight at the intersection of College and Ashby. Estelle is tidy and polite. Del puts the "pig" in pigeon. Somehow these two birds manage to get along. Book with Tunes! Scan the QR codes or click on links to hear the songs.

The rousing sequel to Apple Island, or the Truth About Teachers. The Thinking Cap has been stolen, and Bradley Zimmerman, by request from the Gods of Education on Mt. Academy, must take another long and perilous trip to try and retrieve it. What is more, he must also rescue his class (again) from Flunk, the God of Failure and the Lord of the Underschool.

The tight-knit Wilsons family hikes up Mt. Baldy and stays in a cozy cabin on top of a tall steel tower. What a view! And what friendly neighbors they find staying in the wilderness around them! Only the best! Book with Tunes. Scan the QR codes to hear the Elevator Family songs. 3rd book in The Elevator Family series.

The Elevator Family, Walter, Winona, Winslow, and Whitney Wilson, take a train to the Twin Cities to attend the SMALL (the Society of Minimal and Living Little) Conference. They find the snow and ice-covered lakes to their liking. The small Warming Hut beside the ice-skating rink is a perfect place for them to stay. Better yet, how about the tiny hut they find on the ice of Lake Minnetonka? Book with Tunes. Scan the QR codes to hear the Elevator Family songs! 7th book in The Elevator Family series.

NASA asks the Wilson family to stay six months at the Mars Desert Research Station in the Mojave Desert. The Wilsons will simulate living on the red planet to see how well a family can work together in a small confined environment. No sweat for this tight-knit family. Book with Tunes! Scan the QR codes to hear the songs. 8th book in The Elevator Family series.

London calling at Christmastime! A display window at Harrods Department Store! A red telephone booth! The London Eye! All those small, cozy places for the Wilsons to stay in! But after some royal heroics at the Tower of London, they end up spending Christmas Eve in a guardhouse outside Buckingham Palace. Only the best! Book with Tunes. Scan the QR codes to hear the Elevator Family songs. 4th book in The Elevator Family series.

“Only a bedbug knows how it goes while you doze.” That's the motto of the three bedbugs who live in Irene’s four-poster bed. One night, when the moon is particularly bright, Irene meets this helpful trio, who tell her about her nighttime visitors--the Sandman, the Tooth Fairy, the Nice Dream Man, Night Mare, and the dreaded Boogeyman--and how the bedbugs protect her from the mayhem, mischief, and mishaps that can happen while she sleeps. Mercy me! Hit on the song links to hear the songs!