In 2017, seven-year-old Ava in South Carolina wrote a letter to Tyshaun, an eight-year-old boy from Washington, DC. She asked him to be her pen pal; Ava thought they could help each other. The kids had a tragic connection-both were traumatized by gun violence. Ava's best friend had been killed in a campus shooting at her elementary school, and Tyshaun's father had been shot to death outside of the boy's elementary school. Ava's and Tyshaun's stories...

Three months after the battle of Zabor, the five friends that came together to defeat her have been separated. Burdened with the Calamity Stone she acquired in Scion of the Fox, Roan has gone to Scotland to retrace her grandmother's steps in an attempt to stop further evil from entering the world. Meanwhile, a wicked monster called Seela has risen from the ashy Bloodlands and is wreaking havoc on the world while children in Edinburgh are afflicted...

Meet Leo -- A "Child" of the Apocalypse The world was first overrun by zombies fifty years ago, but Leo doesn't really mind. He has a decent life as the de facto delivery guy for those who remain. He enjoys his solitary existence as he ferries valuable resources around on his bike through the crumbling city that once held millions, and now numbers in the hundreds. But now Leo is seeing evidence that the zombies are becoming more mindful....

Desmond Tutu retells more than fifty of his most beloved Bible stories, artfully highlighting God's desire for all people to love one another and to find peace and forgiveness in their hearts. Many of the finest artists from around the world-such as Jago, E.B. Lewis, Javaka Steptoe, and Xiao Xin-have been selected to illustrate the stories, portraying the stories with the style and richness of their own culture. Creating the first truly global Bible...

A powerful novel by Carnegie Medal–winning author Beverley Naidoo that is in turns heart-wrenching, infuriating, and inspiring—and at its core, a call to readers to make a better world than they have found. Adam and his sister, Leila, are Nons—second-class citizens, living under the Permitted ruling class. Though their life in the Stone City is filled with family, stories, and music, they must carefully follow the rules, have all paperwork...

Nothing ever happens in a sleepy town like Middlebrook. Until the residents are shaken to their core, when one hot Saturday afternoon, at a back-to-school party, nine children sneak into a barn... and only eight come out unharmed. The press immediately starts asking questions. What type of parents let their children play unsupervised in a house with guns? What kind of child pulls the trigger on their friend? And, most importantly: of the nine children...

"It is not difficult to be happy under a blue sky. But it takes a lot of courage to be strong even under a black sun." Over the years, a black sun has risen twice. A dark dawn whose rays have done terrible things to people's minds, driving them to all sorts of horror. Twelve years have passed since the last time and the world still fears the return of that inexplicable phenomenon. But fear is not the only legacy of those terrible days. All the...

Children nowadays are oblivious to the joys of reading. Far too engrossed in their digital devices, Children are missing out on excellent experiences of story book reading and its benefits. Did you ever desire for your children to read. Well, here's an excellent way of doing so. Eight Illustrated Stories and Fables, running along with contextual images, which are not only fun and interesting to read but also educational in their nature. Written in...

Many children's ministries are a flurry of activity, run by dedicated volunteers and staff who put in long hours and work hard for the good of the children and parents they serve. Yet despite good intentions, many children's ministries today are not effective. They lack purpose and intentionality. A twenty-five year veteran of children's ministry in the local church, pastor Steve Adams has ministered to families in multiple churches, from tiny...