Layla is a shy new girl in first grade and her classmates wonder why she wears a head scarf. As the school day progresses, the first graders learn about Layla's culture and help make her feel more at ease in her new school. Part of the We Love First Grade!™ series.

After wondering about the new girl's hijab, the class learns just how much they all have in common.

Kar-Ben Read-Aloud eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to bring eBooks to life! It's 1942. Sam's class is knitting socks for soldiers and Sam is a terrible knitter. Keiko is a good knitter, but some kids at school don't want anything to do with her because the Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor and her family is Japanese American. When Keiko's family is forced to move to a camp for Japanese Americans, can Sam find a way to demonstrate his friendship?

“A joyful, wildly imaginative book” —The New York Times It’s Rashin’s first day of school in America! Everything is a different shape than what she’s used to: from the foods on her breakfast plate to the letters in the books! And the kids' families are from all over! The new teacher asks each child to imagine the shape of home on a map. Rashin knows right away what she’ll say: Iran looks like a cat! What will the other kids say? What about the country YOUR family is originally from? Is it shaped like an apple? A boot? A torch? Open this book to join Rashin in discovering the true things that shape a place called home. P R A I S E ★ “A creative, child-centered picture book about finding a new home after immigration. Ebulliently illustrated.” —Kirkus (starred) ★ “It’s hard to find a more joyful take on the first day of school in a new country than that found in Kheiriyeh’s new work.” —School Library Journal (starred) ★ “Exuberant...A warm and welcoming story about a group of children who may have come from other places but have found a classroom that is ‘shaped like a home.’” —Booklist (starred)

'If you want to invent something nobody has ever thought of before, you need to read the things that others don't read, look in the spaces other people are not in...' Layla believes she was right to stand up for herself against a bully, but it's landed her a suspension - not the way she (or her parents) would have wished to begin her time at her fancy new school! This is just a setback though, and she's determined to prove that she does deserve her scholarship by making new friends and setting her sights on inventing something that could win the big robotics competition. But where to begin? You Must Be Layla introduces Sudanese-born author, broadcaster, social advocate and mechanical engineer Yassmin Abdel-Magied as an exciting new voice in children's writing. "...this warm, humorous account of a larger-than-life Sudanese girl navigating a posh Australian school is an engaging read for 12-plus." - The Guardian

Growing up with his atheist astrophyicist mother, Lucy, thirteen-year-old Nic Delano is beginning to ask a lot of questions about the meaning of life, and his mother does not like the answers he has been getting from his friends, a group of devout Christians, until unexpected tragedy strikes, and both of their beliefs are put to the test. Original.

Step into a captivating world where the clash between vampire and vampire hunter ignites an electrifying enemies-to-lovers romance. Join Sam and Layla on a pulse-pounding journey, defying insurmountable odds at every turn, and lose yourself in a tale of forbidden love that will leave you breathless, eagerly flipping through each page, craving more with every twist and turn from beginning to end. The Hunted As a vampire hunter, capturing targets should be easy. But when I draw my enemy out in the open, I’m blindsided by his mesmerizing green eyes and snarky wit. Sam Mason is the type of vampire my mom warned me about. The kind who will seduce you with his easy smile and arrogant charm. A million red flags are telling me to run. But my sisters’ lives are in jeopardy, and the only way to save them is to grovel for Sam’s help. The Predator I bit a vampire and liked it. Now, I’m craving blood as if I’m a creature of the night. I’m far from it. My family has been hunting bloodsuckers for centuries. So it comes as a horrifying shock when my aunt catches me licking blood off a knife like its cake batter. Panicking, she calls Sam Mason. Little does she know that dangling me like a carrot to the cocky Vampire Navy SEAL has consequences. If my uncle finds him on his property, he’ll burn Sam alive. Now instead of killing vampires, I’m rushing to save one. I pray I can’t get there in time. Otherwise, my family will suffer a fate worse than death. The Union Since I slept with a vampire, my family thinks I’ve committed a sacrilege, and they want to lock me away. It’s not me the Aberdeens should worry about but the powerful Vampire Navy SEAL Sam Mason. Beneath Sam’s boyish charm lies a predator, a ticking time bomb ready to destroy anyone who dares to mess with him or those he cares about, especially me. Yet he hasn’t met my human grandmother. She’s sweet with a dash of salt and a sprinkle of acid to complement her personality. It’s a lethal combination that will burn the toughest of adversaries right down to the bone. Nothing will stop her hunger for control and power and to lead a genetically altered army of supernatural killers with me as her lieutenant. A family war is brewing between the Aberdeens and Masons, and now I must choose sides. Sam and Layla Box Set includes the first three full-length novels of a seven book series. This collection has eight hundred pages in this enemies-to-lovers paranormal romance. It’s packed with a roller coaster of intrigue, suspense, and a slow-burn romance between a feisty heroine and a snarky, arrogant vampire.