Lisa Brown

Fierce, fabulous and fed-up describes 32-year-old Nyla Johnson. She is a successful businesswoman, an entrepreneur with her own realty company, successful at being a supportive and loving friend, and daughter and sister. Nyla seems to attain success at everything-except love. She can't get to the altar to save her life. Nyla's deep longing to find the love of her life and start a family leaves a deep void inside of her. She soon finds out that before...

"Join a family of four as they maneuver their way through the bustling maze of a modern-day airport"--

"A young girl with appendicitis recounts her strange and scary trip to the hospital, and the nine times she cried--and a few times when she did not."--

"Ruby and Violet Mutch, a matched pair, have always collected things in pairs, but when their house will no longer hold everything, Ruby packs her things and moves out." --

After Jennie Lovell's fiancé, Will, is killed during the Civil War, she forms an alliance with a spirit photographer and uses her ability to talk to the dead to investigate the secrets Will was hiding and how he really died.

A brother and sister spend a day in preschool learning lessons about boundaries, such as that it is sometimes okay to make a lot of noise, but at other times one must be quiet.

When two children pretend to be various animals, they discover how to be themselves.

Fresh, accessible, and inspiring, Shaking Things Up introduces fourteen revolutionary young women--each paired with a noteworthy female artist--to the next generation of activists, trail-blazers, and rabble-rousers. From the award-winning author of Ada's Violin, Susan Hood, this is a poetic and visual celebration of persistent women throughout history. In this book, you will find Mary Anning, who was just thirteen when she unearthed a prehistoric...

A brother and sister wonder about the mysterious establishment in the next town called the Swinster Pharmacy.