Reggies Tree House

This story is for the young or young at heart reader. Pastor Steve helps his neighbors (people and animals) learn about Jesus Christ and how to live out Christianity in a practical way. The story is a blend of whimsical characters and the adventures that they encounter along the way. The story contains prayers and basic teachings of Christianity.

The Treehouse is a collection of two short stories and a novella. The first of the short stories, “Saving a Nation”, is a work of historical fiction that provides a speculative—albeit fictional—perspective into the sinking of the Titanic by a German U-boat. The second, “Blue Sweat, White Breeze”, set amid the backdrop of New York City, fictionalizes the social, financial, and psychological struggles of a blue-collar worker as a result of the recession of 2008 in America. The final piece, which shares the title of the book, The Treehouse, is a work of horror dealing with the inner struggles of a man and his deformed daughter whose existence is unknown to her mother after her twin died at birth. He keeps her hidden from both his wife and society in the backwoods of his house. She is his alter ego, his child, his penance.

The story of Lizzie and Leopold was the first book in this series about the little friends in my grandma's secret garden. This story of Regis and Reggie is about some new friends found on the other side of the levy behind the garden. A new tree house built by my grandpa is way up in the branches of the big oak tree in the garden. I can see forever from up here and have discovered a whole new set of friends along the river. Regis and Reggie are mischievous little raccoons who get into all kinds of situations and will give the reader a chuckle and a hoot of pleasure getting to know them.

The Dramatic Conclusion to The Link Series On the verge of cataclysm, humanity needs heroes. Reggie and Lisa are in no condition for the job. When fate pulls them from the brink of despair, only to push them into confrontation with a cosmic madman, they both must reach past personal loss, and work together to discover the truth about the link. The answers they seek lie deep in The Beyond, and time is running out. Reluctant heroes, a maniacal cosmonaut, all of humanity in peril. The search to find out what it means to be human ends here.

"Beautifully written and spectacularly spooky, Ravenous Things is an instant new favorite!" —Claribel Ortega, New York Times best-selling author of Witchlings Climb aboard the midnight train! Things wondrous and terrible await you... Twelve-year-old Reggie Wong has a quick temper that's always getting him into trouble at school, while at home his mom struggles to get out of bed--let alone leave their apartment. That's why Reggie desperately needs his dad back. One problem: His dad is dead. Enter the Conductor, a peculiar man who promises to make Reggie's wish to see his father just one more time come true. All he must do is climb aboard the man's subway train, which leaves St. Patrick Station promptly at midnight. Desperate to have his dad and happy family back, Reggie takes him up on the offer, only to discover the train is filled with other children who have lost a loved one, just like him. As he speeds through the wild, uncharted tunnels beneath the city, Reggie meets Chantal, an annoyingly peppy girl obsessed with lists and psychiatry, and Gareth, his arch-nemesis and bully since the fourth grade. As each kid steps off the train and into the arms of their lost family member, Reggie can't believe his impossible wish is about to come true. But when Reggie comes to the end of the line and sees his father waiting for him, he soon discovers all is not as it seems. He and his unlikely new friends have been ensnared in a deadly trap. Together, the three must find a way to foil the Conductor's diabolical plot and find their way out of the underground subway where horrors worse than they have ever imagined lurk around every corner. The rats of St. Patrick Station have taken over and they're absolutely ravenous. In this stunning debut, author Derrick Chow reenvisions the tale of the Pied Piper. Both terrifying and hauntingly beautiful, Chow masterfully uses literal and figurative monsters to explore the themes of grief and how we handle loss.

On his way to State University, nineteen-year-old James runs into a former friend and is immersed in memories from the year they were twelve and learned that monsters exist in the world--and within themselves.

Good writing requires knowledge and practice. Building Writing Skills provides both! Each page explains a basic writing skill concept, offers an interesting exercise to learn the skill, and helps students to acquire writing skills one at a time. The objective, easy-to-grade activities are perfect for reinforcing classroom learning, providing additional practice, and building confidence. The pages also work as excellent tools to help teachers assess student abilities. Extension suggestions allow students to become authors and put skills to work immediately for additional reinforcement. An invaluable addition to your classroom writing program. Reproducible. 128 perforated pages.

Twelve-year-old Violet Crane is an only child in a lonely household who longs to be part of the gregarious family that’s just moved in next door. With a mother struggling with anxiety, a father who recently moved out, and no siblings to commiserate with, socially awkward Violet Crane feels like she is starting middle school with less going for herself than that of your average kid. When the rambunctious Walker family moves in next door, Violet can’t help but wish she could become a part of their household—everyone and everything seems so normal compared to her own. After she meets them, Violet falls in love with all five Walker siblings and especially with Mrs. Walker, who is nothing like her own mother. Violet and Reggie, the black sheep of the Walker family, find that they have an easy understanding of each other, and it doesn’t hurt that they are in the same grade at school. But then Violet overhears a conversation between Reggie and his mother in which she tells him that she doesn’t feel like Violet is an appropriate friend. Violet is devastated until she faces a truth--no person, family or friendship is perfect—and realizes just how lucky she is.

"Living today as if tomorrow never comes." After surviving an attempted suicide, Tom Jones, a shy Christian adolescent, learns to use writing in his diary as a means of communicating with himself as the family settles in on a new life in West Texas. High school football in Texas seems to be the state's unofficial religion, yet it's the emergence of television, "the new God," that starts to have a stronghold in shaping Tom's newly found pop culture world. "The Game" begins when star quarterback Reggie Thomas moves in across the street and takes Tom under his wings, tutoring Tom on the road to the end of innocence. Will the duo score on a last-ditch drive to escape with their souls in contact, or find how easy it is to get lost in the forbidding world of sex, drugs, and rock and roll? Just as the Stone Ages and Ice Ages were both lost to history, Tom's diary journals how the Teen Age somehow got lost in history as this page-turner continues to unfold masterfully, sure to leave readers laughing at the anecdotes on an unforgettable journey down memory lane. ***** Tony Gaines's first novel is a creative marvel. It's witty, informative, thought-provoking, with well-placed twists throughout the entire novel. There were so many lesson learned. ""-Gina Price, Former Abilene High School Alumni Awesome read: it's fast-paced, funny, with a shocking twist. The ending caught me by total surprise. ""Josh Daniel, Sports Editor Metro State University

Can virtue be found in a turn-of-the-century bordello? Can a frontier teacher stand idly by as the Shoshone culture is subsumed by Anglo missionaries? Can a suburban lawyer justify that his casual dalliances don't amount to infidelity? From the opulent parlor of an 1898 Seattle bordello to a Portland law firm in 1989, each heroine, hero, and villain in this memorable collection of short stories is captured at a crossroads in life. They are ordinary people: brave, timid, foolhardy, modest, brazen, and often self-sacrificing. And they struggle with the budding concerns of their time-women's suffrage, chauvinistic double-standards, prejudice, misogyny, and the loneliness of separation brought on by war. Gehla S. Knight deftly explores these issues without reserve, placing her characters in crisis situations where they must act despite the murkiness of what's right and what's wrong. In small but powerful ways, their choices challenge the prevailing views of their time and blaze new trails that those who follow can easily travel. Juxtaposing society's often ill-conceived mores with individual will and desire, Knight deftly combines historical settings with colloquial dialogue and vivid characters. Spanning nearly a century of American history, Plum's Pleasure is a satisfying collection that will tantalize both your senses and sensibilities.