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Mike Wilson, a junior at Cypress Christian Academy, discovers he's been reading minds by accident. The day after he gets his license, he can drive as well as his Driver's Ed teacher, Mr. Clark. He has a full day of memories straight from the mind of Zayden Perez, the most loved and hated guy at school.This year at CCA, the world-famous tech entrepreneur, Henry Jacks is teaching at the school. Mike inadvertently downloads his mind during the first day of class and now Mike's a tech genius too. He desperately wants Mr. Jacks out of his head and he doesn't want to steal any more thoughts, but that might be the only way he can survive.

During the plague of 1262, Minty Nothingmore contracts the Pox at her birth. Her mother dies from it only hours later, singing lullabies for Minty to her last breath. The ancient woman named Granny Shin holds a milk-soaked rag for Minty to suckle. No one else expects the infant to survive. No baby with plague had before, but Minty Nothingmore is no ordinary baby. She lives. Granny sends Minty to the orphanage with a letter that will shake the world and save every person on the little island of Rocky Cove. 12 years later...Minty Nothingmore, age twelve, requires only a few things to be happy. Order. Cleanliness. Predictability. Unfortunately, she lives in an orphanage with thirteen other children and Mr. Blick, who doesn't understand the complexities of a broom. She works all day to keep everything dusted, swept, mopped and perfectly aligned.She knows nothing of the empires, pirates, slave-traders, plagues and hurricanes that threaten her little, organized world. Soon, the dangerous world will close in around her. Hopefully, the world survives. The earth is filled with a million islands. Rocky Cove is just a small, insignificant one that doesn't show up on any of the maps. Soon, it will become the most important of all.

Barry Gibson is desperate for something exciting to happen to him like in his comic books. His twin sister, Megan is sick of listening to his wild theories. When they find a ring of green stones in the forest, Barry and Megan come between a dangerous alien ship and its evil plans for the human race. They must overcome their fears and find a way to save the city from the attacking UFO before everything they love is destroyed.

Daily survival is a battle for Raykin Smythe, a fifteen-year-old cabin boy aboard a Sardonian slave ship. For years, he has learned to stay a second or two ahead of trouble. When the ten-ship armada raids the island of Rocky Cove for slaves, they are decimated by a little, pale girl named Minty Nothingmore. The Captain and the crew are now dead Raykin flees for his life with a handful of the surviving raiders. They must sail The Last Red Ship to Sardonia and tell the king of a weapon so great it might threaten the whole empire. Getting home won't be easy with storms, mutinies, starvation, and sea battles threatening.

This book is for fathers. Most of us are not doing a great job and the world has noticed. We've garnered a bad reputation. Spend ten minutes around a group of wives and you are likely to hear a handful of criticisms about some guy's fathering skills.Being a good father is not easy. It doesn't come naturally. Why should dads bother trying? Why are kids important? Why are fathers a necessary part of their lives? Why should we prioritize our kids over our hobbies and work? Is there some goal we are working toward with them or is parenting just haphazard and random? Wouldn't our kids be better off without us? Everyone knows that kids need their mom, but what about dad?Fathers have a unique influence and sizable power to make the world a better place by investing time and energy into building stronger families. What would the world look like if dads stepped up to the challenge of fatherhood? What if they protected their kids from negative influencers instead of inviting them into the cave?The world is in desperate need of good fathers. Father and The Wolves: A Guide to Elevate Fatherhood, Fix Families, and Save the World depicts a new kind of hero, one who takes up the spear and steps into the greatest work of his life.

Life on the homestead is hard work. Danielle helps the family grow food, chop firewood, and entertain busloads of tourists on their way to Denali National Park. Her not-so-ordinary life is turned upside down when she discovers an air creature is living in their wood pile. These newly discovered creatures can only be seen by dusting powdered sugar over their bodies. They gobble up the sugar, but for a moment, you can see them. The creature that lives in her wood pile is acting strangely, even for an air creature. It blasts out lifting gas a thousand times more powerful than helium.Danielle and her family investigate this strange phenomenon and capture some of the gas. Despite their best intentions and safety protocol things get out of control in Danielle and The Zero Gravity Suit. Danielle finds herself, twenty-five thousand feet in the air, fighting for survival.

Those who neglect to teach their children well condemn their grandchildren to slavery of one sort or another.There is a lot of noise around the subject of educational reform these days. Everyone has a sense that something is deeply wrong with our public school system but no one can agree on what it is and how to fix it. Fixing Education: One Dad's Quest to Unclog the Bathroom Sink, Redesign School, and Save the World cuts through the clutter. The public school system has major design flaws that are now reaching a breaking point. Students are paying the price today. The nation will pay the price in the future. We must redesign the public school system to be an improvement and innovation machine instead of a lumbering behemoth incapable of adapting to a changing world. Systemic flaws and mismanagement threaten the foundation of our society, a highly skilled and literate citizenry. Modern technology provides new solutions and more options to today's students, parents, and teachers than has ever been available before. For the first time since the creation of the public school system, we can do a better job. Don't you think we should fix education?

When Monday Egg visits the Eggs of Thorn Dome, he discovers they are in grave danger. The pain-inducing thorns that protect the Eggs have attracted a desperate man, who is going to dig up the vines and sell them. Monday struggles to convince the Eggs to leave the only safe place they have ever known before it is destroyed.