What would you do for your Best friend?Cassandra Grace will live through heartbreaks over a thousand lifetimes. Ellie (Eleanor James) wants to be a superstar. She has natural beauty and talent but is super impatient in achieving her goals. She drops out of High School to pursue acting. She achieves greater success but it comes at a cost. She dwells deeper into darkness as fame becomes a dangerous drug to her. Cassie (Cassandra Grace) is sweet and loving. She is terribly indecisive about what she wants to do in life but will follow Ellie anywhere, including dropping out of High School. After a few years, she decides to go back to University and discovers her love for English literature. As her life gains purpose, she doesn't realize how much her friend Ellie is drifting into despair. Can she save her? She vows to be there for Ellie and to get her the life she deserves to have, even if it means challenging Fate...and losing everything she loves to save her. 'My Dear Ellie' is Aisha Urooj's debut novel and is the first in the Love & Friendship trilogy series. She is currently working on her second novel 'Eleanor's Travels' which will chronicle Ellie's once-in-a-lifetime trip around the world, a extraordinary present given by her parents on her twenty-first birthday. Read 'My Dear Ellie' to learn about the two best friends and the two extraordinary girls, Ellie and Cassie. Join them in their triumphs, their struggles, their adventures and misadventures, and most of all join them for the love and friendship shared between them growing up from little girls to young ladies.

With the high school reunion approaching, according to a pact among my friends, I have to find my Marriage Match. Too bad I hate him. I know exactly what I want: an epic adventure on the open road, alone. Forget the silly dating dare. My quest is to visit all fifty states and find a place to call home. When my mom asks for a favor to help a family friend, I can't say no even though I despise the guy. Elliot O'Connell is a rock star in recovery with a debilitating fear of flying, but he needs to get to an awards show. To him, a road trip with a pretty woman sounds like a song in the making. Turns out, he's my number one nemesis-not a fan of his lifestyle or that thing he did that time. Me, forgive and forget? Not on your life, buddy. We clash when tailed by a crazy ex, try to detour from past heartbreak, and take a wrong turn that leads us to discover what we have in common. When the trip comes to an end and real-life intervenes, sending us in different directions, he says I'm like a tune he can't get out of his head. Forgive? Forget? Maybe... Will these speedbumps slow us down or are we destined for love?

The zoo is closing! Ellie and her friends want to save their home, but Ellie's just a baby elephant, and she doesn't know what she can do to help. While the other animals are busy working, Ellie finds a brush and some paints, and gives the zoo a big splash of color! Will her bright new talent be enough to keep the zoo's gates open for good? Follow along with word-for-word narration to find out!

"Look out, Junie B. Jones! Ellie the engineer is thinking, making, creating, and showing enthusiasm and brilliance with her creations!" -School Library Connection A charming, hilarious illustrated middle grade about a girl who is an engineer--no, not the kind on a train, the kind that builds things! Perfect creative, STEM-powered fun for girls who have interests in how things work. Ellie is an engineer. With a tool belt strapped over her favorite skirt (who says you can't wear a dress and have two kinds of screwdrivers handy, just in case?), she invents and builds amazing creations in her backyard workshop. Together with her best friend Kit, Ellie can make anything. As Kit's birthday nears, Ellie doesn't know what gift to make until the girls overhear Kit's mom talking about her present--the dog Kit always wanted! Ellie plans to make an amazing doghouse, but her plans grow so elaborate that she has to enlist help from the neighbor boys and crafty girls, even though the two groups don't get along. Will Ellie be able to pull off her biggest project yet, all while keeping a secret from Kit? Illustrated with Ellie's sketches and plans, and including backmatter with a fun how-to guide to tools, this is a STEM- and friendship-powered story full of fun!

Ellie’s starting ninth grade and she’s got some very definite goals. She’ll stay best friends with Magda and Nadine. She’ll go on a diet and stick to it. She’ll get a glamorous hairstyle. And she’ll get a boyfriend. Even if she has to settle for one who likes her more than she likes him. Any guy will do, right?

For a parent and a community, there is no greater loss than the death of a child. This was the nightmare that Ellie Lane's parents endured seven years ago in the enchanted land of the Cherokees deep in the Smoky Mountains. Then the miracle occurred. Seven years after her death, Ellie returns. Her still-grieving parents confront fear, superstition, and suspicion as Ellie begins her new life, the second life she has somehow been given. In a world where people are divided by the contradictions of skepticism and fanaticism, science and religion wage war to claim the answers. Cults are born to worship the young girl as a deity. Legends and apocalyptic visions come to life. Celestial signs portend that something beyond comprehension is coming. A rough beast to end all days? Ancient astronauts in chariots of fire? Winged seraphs strumming harps of gold? Does Ellie's return mean a new beginning for mankind - or its end?

Ellie begins her life with loving parents and a stable home. Tragedy strikes when she is seven years old with the death of her mother. Her fatheras death one year later plunges Ellie into a nightmare of abuse and frequent moves. Her ever-changing caregivers have one thing in commona]a sinister force who has made Ellie the target of his obsession. He torments Ellie until he breaks the essence of her, leaving a terrified shell where a happy child should be. Ellie endures the remaining years of her childhood and adolescence isolated emotionally, longing for love. Though broken in spirit and beaten down, she eventually finds the courage to break free. After some time as a homeless runaway, Ellie finds her way in making a life for herself. Ultimately, this is a story that will inspire and give hope to anyone who has faced challenges in life.