"Orion The Skateboard Kid" is a marvelous short novel of a young skateboarder and her friends, who are nearly run over and encounter trouble with the law just for practicing their favorite sport in a parking lot. Looking at the Milky Way, Orion realizes that what she and her friends need is a safe place just for skateboarding; together, they resolve to build a skateboard park and bike path in northern Florida. Illustrated with particularly striking color images of constellations that serve as metaphors parallel to Orion's struggle, "Orion The Skateboard Kid" is a heartening story of civic responsibility and the hard work involved in making a cherished dream come true. Enthusiastically recommended for school and community library collections "Orion The Skateboard Kid" is entertaining, engaging reading for 4th and 5th grade level students.

Orion the Skateboard Kid

Children's Books

Raymond, Juanita S.

Raymond, Leland F.

Literature & Fiction

Cypress Pubns

Poetry and Haiku from the Tallahassee Writers' Association 20th Annual Penumbra Contest

Penumbra 2007: Poetry and Haiku from the 20th Annual Penumbra Contest

Poetry

Struggling in life with an alcoholic father and “lost in the past” grandfather, Cuban-American teenager Miranda Trelles searches for escape with two young men who are as opposite as they come: Lucio the mysterious grafitti artist and Frank the All-American athlete. Miranda soon finds herself on a journey filled with love, fantasy, and violence where answers to her family’s present lie in her grandfather’s Cuban past.

White Trees

Florido, Lourdes R.

Contemporary

Fixin' Famu: The Last Supper Concoction of Cast Steel Bryant

Thompson, Barbara A.

Humor & Satire

On August 9, 1990, sixteen-year-old American Jeff Connors enters the lobby of a four-star hotel in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, dressed in the ragged clothes of an Arab Bedouin. He's there to be reunited with his father, from whom he'd been separated for one terror-filled week. His happiness and relief are tempered by one vexing problem: should he give his judgmental father a short and sanitized version of his week, one which would make him look competent and in control, or should he lay it all out? The bonehead decisions? The risks? The narrow escapes? In the end, he does all that and more, thanks to a new-found sense of courage and resourcefulness. Surviving an invasion by a ruthless Iraqi army will do that. Sandstorm is the story of one young American. Jeff has no idea he's been caught in the first strike of a local war that will, over the years, threaten to screw up the whole world. During his traumatic week, he's just trying to stay alive.

Sandstorm

Ted Simmons

Teen & Young Adult

An Odd Fable

Sundberg, Norma J.

In Tallahassee, Florida, twelve-year-old, wheelchair-bound Newt Willis modifies his father's top-secret computer program into a holographic game, and when spies steal a game disk from one of his school friends, Newt must save his father's program and company.

Newt's World: Beginnings

Womble, Susan L.

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Coming of age is never easy, especially for seventeen-year-old Peter Grayson. Still grieving his father's suicide, Peter and his mother move to a small Texas town. Other than his girlfriend Jennifer and best friend Jerrod, Peter finds it difficult to fit in. When a family of Hispanic workers is killed in a tragic fire, Peter is scrutinized by the police. Suddenly, his world makes little sense. His best friend ignores him, and he is lured into the frightening world of a secret militia. Peter becomes the unlikely hero: saving Jerrod and his sister, undermining a second hate-crime tragedy, and finding the courage to believe in his convictions. White Heat, White Ashes is a fast-paced, dramatic adventure told with humor, compassion, and huge doses of the reality of the underbelly of racial bigotry.

White Heat, White Ashes

Simmons, Ted

A baby farm animal discovers that he is a Nubian goat.

Marvin the Magnificent Nubian Goat (I Wish You Ice Cream and Cake)

Moore, Carol Hair

Animals

This workbook is intended as a supplemental study guide to Newt’s World: Beginnings, ISBN: 978-0-9776958-8-1. The student edition of this workbook, Newt’s World: Beginnings Workbook, Student’s Edition, ISBN 978-1-935083-05-4, is identical to this edition, with the exception of the answer key. Ordering information with discount terms for all three books is available from the publisher by calling 850-576-8820 or emailing lraymond@nettally.com.

Newt's World: Beginnings Workbook

Education & Reference

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