Studious Stella Louella is frantic trying to find her missing library book and return it by the due date. She ends up visiting everyone in town, including the people at the fix-it shop and diner, the police officer, the scouts, and everyone in between. Full-color illustrations.

The lonely old woman and the lonely old man decide to bake a "girl" this time, but when they open the oven, she runs off like her brother did. Never fear, this smart cookie has a plan to outfox the fox. Will it work? Let's just say that the ending is sweet for everyone.

?Ernst's familiar art, here placed against gingham-check backgrounds, utilizes the oversize format to best advantage, with large characters leaping out of their frames. On the cover, the candy-studded Gingerbread Girl with licorice-whip hair stares boldly out at readers. Kids won't be able to resist following her inside. "Booklist"

There are six eggs in Mother Hen's nest, but--"Chip Chip Chip Chip Chip "--only five eggs hatch The sixth egg goes on a high-rolling adventure across the barnyard, past the pig and the tomato patch, and, finally, into Mother Hen's waiting wings. What a wild ride Lisa Campbell Ernst's bold, energetic illustrations transform a short trip across the barnyard into a rollicking good time.

As she tries to find the book that she must return to the library that day, Stella gathers a growing group of people who have all enjoyed reading the book.

Young readers can look at each letter of the alphabet in a whole new way through bold, bright cut-paper shapes. Imaginative, challenging, and fun, this kid-friendly book is perfect for sharing and exploring. Full color.

Developing readers can have fun while learning with these Green Light Readers, featuring short sentences, creative stories, and simple dialogue. Illustrations.

Hidden secrets, infatuation, and a touch of the supernatural consume eighteen-year-old Ashley Stevens during her first semester in college. When Ashley arrives late on the first day of her sociology class, she meets Natalie-who she quickly develops a friendship with. Early on in their friendship, Ashley discovers that there is something going on with Natalie, and becomes intrigued with her secretiveness. But that is soon deflected once Ashley pursues a romantic interest with Jeremy-whose attractive greenish-gray eyes give her butterflies every time she sees him. Will the burning flames of attraction make Ashley want to follow through in a relationship with Jeremy? Or will it smolder as she begins to discover a few things about his past relationship?

Traumatized by an experience she once had with her mother in a cemetery, eighteen-year-old Natalie Johnson can no longer bear the impending doom she feels. After having a confrontation with a close friend-whom she had confided in about her haunting experience-she decides to leave college and move back home. Though once Natalie returns, she becomes troubled by strange occurrences that force her to question her own state of mind, leaving her to contend with the possibility that she may be destined to have the same fate as her mother. But after one unexpected night of finding solace in the arms of her ex-boyfriend, things become even more complicated when she has to decide between a once cherished friendship, and the renewed feelings for her first love.

"We grew up with the same parents in the same castle, but in many ways we each had a moat around us. Sometimes when visitors came they would say, "You are such lucky children; it's a fairytale life you live." And I knew they were right, it was a fairytale upbringing. But fairy tales are dark and I had no way of telling either a stranger or a friend what was going on; the abnormal became ordinary."

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Liza Campbell was the last child to be born at the impressive and renowned Cawdor Castle, the family seat of the Campbells, as featured in Shakespeare's "Macbeth," Liza's father Hugh, the twenty-fifth Thane, inherited dashing good looks, brains, immense wealth, an ancient and revered title, three stately homes, and 100,000 acres of land. "A Charmed Life" tells the story of Liza's idyllic childhood with her four siblings in Wales in the 1960s, until Hugh inherited Cawdor Castle and moved his family up to the Scottish Highlands. It was at the historical ancestral home that the fairytale began to resemble a nightmare.

Increasingly overwhelmed by his enormous responsibilities, Hugh tipped into madness fuelled by drink, drugs, and extramarital affairs. Over the years, the castle was transformed into an arena of reckless extravagance and terrifying domestic violence, leading to the abrupt termination of a legacy that had been passed down through the family for six hundred years.

Written with a sharp wit, "A Charmed Life" is a contemporary fairytale that tells what is like to grow up as a maiden in a castle where ancient curses and grisly events from centuries ago live on between its stone walls. Painstakingly honest and thoroughly entertaining, LizaCampbell offers a compelling look at what it is like to grow up with enormous privilege and yet watch the father she idealizes destroy himself, his family, and his heritage.

Praise for A CHARMED LIFE:

"Beautifully written...eminently readable...A memoir which has many elements to identify with--even if you ain't no Lady." --Tama Janowitz, author of "Slaves of New York" and "Area Code 212"

"Campbell tells the wild, sorry tale with a sharp, offhand wit." --" Sunday Times "(UK)
"She writes not from catharsis or revenge, but in the spirit of puzzlement and discovery...Completely compelling." --" Daily Telegraph "(UK)
"A gripping page turner...A CHARMED LIFE is a great title, and Liza Campbell's book lives up to it." --" Daily Mail "(UK)

"A modern tragedy ... Written with great courage ... A stark tale of profligacy and injustice." --" Country Life "(UK)

"A very powerful, painful story...I have never read such a compelling study of addiction...An exceptional writer." --" Mail on Sunday "(UK)
"This is a sad book; yet Campbell's lack of sentimentality and needle-sharp wit make for a guiltily voyeuristic read." -" Independent "(UK)""

"A memoir that is as free of self-pity as it is of sentimentality ... Poignant."

-"Scotsman "(UK)

"As a prose stylist, Liza is comparable to Nancy Astor: wry, deadpan, whimsical." -- "The Sunday Telegraph" (UK)