The place is a mess, but Monster Megan has a plan to get a BIG monster clean-up underway. Even though monsters don’t usually like picking up, they make a game out of sorting circles from squares and triangles from rectangles. Meet Molly, Max, Megan, and Mo—The Busy Monsters. This new series of fun stories from Ruby Tuesday Books has been carefully crafted to help young children learn to read. To build reading confidence, each book combines repetitive, predictable text with high-frequency and familiar sight words. Illustrated with bold, quirky, collage-style artwork, this title helps young readers build on their understanding of shapes and shape words as they enjoy the fun monster story.

Monster Molly is feeling sad. But when her best friend Max suggests a trip to the park, Molly is very happy. From riding up and down on the see-saw, to splashing in big and little puddles, join the monsters on their BIG day out. Meet Molly, Max, Megan, and Mo—The Busy Monsters. This new series of fun stories from Ruby Tuesday Books has been carefully crafted to help young children learn to read. To build reading confidence, each book combines repetitive, predictable text with high-frequency and familiar sight words. Illustrated with bold, quirky, collage-style artwork, this title helps young readers practice opposites as they enjoy the fun monster story.

Monster Max is feeling very, very hungry. He eats one tractor, two trees, and three pizzas. Later, he gobbles down six socks and seven sausages. When Max starts to burp, his best friend Molly suspects things are about to get yucky! Meet Molly, Max, Megan, and Mo—The Busy Monsters. This new series of fun stories from Ruby Tuesday Books has been carefully crafted to help young children learn to read. To build reading confidence, each book combines repetitive, predictable text with high-frequency and familiar sight words. Illustrated with bold, quirky, collage-style artwork, this title helps young readers practice counting and number words as they enjoy the fun monster story.

It’s Monster Mo’s birthday, but what kind of party would Mo enjoy best? Will it be a pink party with pink hats, or a red party with red jello? Maybe the monsters should throw a blue party for their friend with blue balloons. How will the monsters decide? Meet Molly, Max, Megan, and Mo—The Busy Monsters. This new series of fun stories from Ruby Tuesday Books has been carefully crafted to help young children learn to read. To build reading confidence, each book combines repetitive, predictable text with high-frequency and familiar sight words. Illustrated with bold, quirky, collage-style artwork, this title helps young readers practice color words as they enjoy the fun monster story.

Every campfire story has an origin; a shadow on the water, a sound in the dark, a tragedy with no explanation. The legend of Camp Alkali is no different. Stories have been woven over the years about a beast that lurks beneath the surface of Lake Alkali. Generations of folks have told tall tales of Alkali's Monster with nothing but their imaginations to guide them. Eddie used to be one of those people, but now, he's seen things that others refuse to believe. After the events of the previous summer, Eddie isn't to be trusted by his fellow campers or the camp counselors. When kids start to go missing, Eddie knows that his chance to clear his name is within reach. Not even a run-in with the lake's monster will stop him from solving the mystery of their disappearance once and for all.... Right

Having escaped the clutches of the Hag Silvene, Megan has been recaptured by Darkspawn lord Alsheer, and resumes her journey toward Bal-Karesh. Anabel has been left distraught at the loss of her friend Merrith and vows to do anything to aid her release from a fate worse than death, marriage to slave-master Grik. Brinn is entangled in a war not of his choosing in Timberland North, but feels compelled to help his Dwarf friend Helfwen regain the High King’s throne. But the sickness grows ever worse, and Balzimar has to watch helplessly as his young acolyte falls deeper into the abyss with each accidental use of the latent magic running amok through his body. Ben Preem sits outside the walls of Mabak-Var awaiting a resolution to the conflict that has plagued mankind for a generation. When Regent N’Dhun offers honourable terms for surrender, Overlord Imrit must make a tough decision. A decision that will have profound consequences for all of Mankind. The Karesh are ready to take back what was once theirs. But when Ultor consults the Seers the message is mixed. Though he is shown great victories for his army, there is also danger. The mysterious Northman, as ever, stalks the edges of prophesy, his presence casting a cautionary shadow over all. The Karesh warlock has carefully placed his pieces upon the chessboard; now it is time for his next move. Heave -ho, me hearty lads, heave-ho. Furl sail and run for home. ‘Twixt thunderous cloud and rising tide. And mind the Maelstrom, berth her wide. Or rest yer bones to windward side. To ne'er again see smiling bride. Heave-ho, me hearty lads, heave-ho. ("The Widow's Wheel."Ballad, circa 325 Mur-ro.)

The pieces in this collection range in setting from the small towns of New England to the deserts of the Southwest. Grounded in personal experience these essays ask through narrative what it means to be a rebel girl, a rebel teenager, and a rebel woman in a world that seems to offer no real alternative to traditional roles. Infused with lyrical and figurative language, this collection combines the swiftness of the prose poem with the power of the personal essay resulting in writing that pulls the ground out from under the reader again and again. The collection is organized chronologically in a way that charts the development of a woman as she attempts to adapt to the world around her through stories of love, heartbreak, and adventure. The essays travel with the narrator from a summer camp in Maine, to opal mining in Nevada, to the story of a deadly thunderstorm in Vermont, to hunting for ginseng, asking the questions about belonging, expectation and, ultimately, if there is a chance for real happiness.