The Crazy Zoo Tangle

Another mad-cap adventure from the author of Dead Hairy. Welcome to the Amazon, where heads shrink and villains slink! Media-savvy author with connections in the children's book world Established fan-base from Dead Hairy Author available for innovative in-store events Following a hair-raising adventure last summer, Abbie Hartley can't wait to join her friend Perdita on the trip of a lifetime. Their destination? The Amazon jungle. Their mission? To find the lost wife of their friend Fernando. There's only one problem. Fernando and his wife are shrunken heads ... and the Amazon jungle is huge. Oh, and another one. Squashy Grandma insists on coming, with her shopping bag on wheels and her pet wig. Oh, and just one more. Abbie's arch-enemy Dr Hubris Klench, burger-on-legs and villain extraordinaire, is lurking in the undergrowth with some very wicked tricks up his very wide sleeve.

Twelve-year-old Juniper Webb and her best friend Alison find themselves enmeshed in a tangled web when the two girls begin to investigate Juniper's new stepmother's in this middle grade novel from the author of The Seventeenth Swap.

A blind warrior. A broken oath. A dangerous adventure into the underbelly of humanity. Cohen is consumed by sadness, anger, and guilt for breaking his vows to his beloved mate back home, and he makes a sacrificial oath to honor her in death. Annis, also from his world, has a new human body but it has restrictions—during the day she is blind, but once the sun goes down, her vision returns. As she struggles to find her place among those of her kind, she finds herself the target for Cohen’s unwarranted anger. As the Forgotten Alien Warriors are forced into the underbelly of humanity to catch the evil from their world, danger from others of their race threaten to rip them apart. Cohen and Annis must face the ghosts of their pasts and try to sort out the tangled web of their lives. Can mortal enemies become passionate lovers?

Where does our food come from? Whose hands have planted, cultivated, picked, packed, processed, transported, scanned, sold, sliced, and cooked it? What production practices have transformed it from seed to fruit, from fresh to processed form? Who decides what is grown and how? What are the effects of those decisions on our health and the health of the planet? Tangled Routes tackles these fascinating questions and demystifies globalization by tracing the long journey of a corporate tomato from a Mexican field to a Canadian fast-food restaurant. Through an interdisciplinary lens, Deborah Barndt examines the dynamic relationships between production and consumption, work and technology, biodiversity and cultural diversity, and health and environment. A globalization-from-above perspective is reflected in the corporate agendas of a Mexican agribusiness, the U.S.-based McDonald's chain, and Canadian-based Loblaws supermarkets. The women workers on the front line of these businesses offer a humanized globalization-from-below perspective, while yet another "globalization" is revealed through examples of resistance and local alternatives. This revised and updated edition highlights developments since the turn of the millennium, in particular the deepening economic integration of the NAFTA countries as well as the growing questioning of NAFTA's consequences and the crafting of alternatives built on foundations of sustainability and justice.

"Another cozy mystery from Marjory Sorrell Rockwell is as welcomed as another slice of watermelon pie. Enjoy!" —Martha Griswold, Online Critics Corner Those feisty ladies of Caruthers Corners -- Maddy, Bootsie, Cookie, and Lizzie -- are back again in another cozy mystery, this one about the Hoople Quadruplets, a madman who wants to poison the town, and a previously unknown mate to the Reconcilation Quilt, the most valuable quilt in the world. And there's a dead body or two. Can the Quilters Club, with the help of Maddy's grandchildren Aggie and N'yen, solve the mystery? You bet — with a number of surprising twists and turns. The little Indiana town's founding fathers would likely be rolling over in their graves!

A Crackling Zoo Adventure for kids aged 4 to 94! This is a rhyming story about a group of animals that break out of the zoo, but as they escape, they get stuck in the gate so tightly that their skins get mixed up. A resourceful young person helps them resolve this terrible problem by helping them trap the pirate responsible and getting their skins returned to their respective owners. Rhythm and rhyme help kids remember new words and develop vocabulary, through repetition. Parents will love to read this book to their kids as the story is engaging and humorous, even to adults. I designed the book with these objectives in mind. Will Enns

A magical adventure for fans of Katherine Applegate and Jennifer Holm about a girl with a mysterious connection to the elephant who saved her life. An elephant never forgets, but Lexington Willow can't remember her past. Swept away by a tornado as a toddler, she was dropped in a nearby Nebraska zoo, where an elephant named Nyah protected her from the storm. With no trace of her family, Lex grew up at the zoo with her foster father, Roger; her best friend, Fisher; and the wind whispering in her ear. Years later, Nyah sends Lex a telepathic image of the woods outside the zoo. Soon, Lex is wrapped up in an adventure involving ghosts, lost treasure, and a puzzle that might be the key to finding her family. Can Lex summon the courage to discover who she really is--and why the tornado brought her here all those years ago?