Books for gifted children from Royal Fireworks Press, publishers for the gifted education curriculum.

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Tree Huggers

Novel

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 The trees in Alex’s neighborhood are being cut down by the town government, and she and her friend Josh don’t like it. They decide to join BUST, Belwood United to Save the Trees, a group of people who are trying to save the final few trees that are still standing. But what’s a girl to do when no one is listening or seems to care? When your favorite tree in the whole world, Luna, is about to be hacked to the ground, and you kind of like your friend Josh as more than a friend and have some stiff competition from the pretty, shiny-haired Hailey, another girl who has joined the group to get closer to Josh? Read more: Tree Huggers

Breaker at Dawn

Novel

This is a novel of the American coal industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is told from the point of view of Paddy O'Grady, a 12-year-old working in a Pennsylvania mine in the breaker where boys below the age of 14 sorted through rapidly-moving streams of coal picking out rocks and shale from the anthracite on the way to the rail siding.

Miners and their families came from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, and Italy. The mine owners allowed the differences of national origin and ethnic rivalries to keep the workers separate and relatively powerless, and the mining towns were divided by ethnicity. Mining families were always poor, and Paddy O’Grady was not unusual in going to work in the breaker at the age of eight. Read more: Breaker at Dawn

Child of Oz

Novel

On a trip to Kansas to sell the old family house, Dorothy's granddaughter, Ashley, finds a special wardrobe and is drawn by the Lion to Oz.  There is trouble in Oz. The Wicked Witch has a plan to take over Oz as Glinda ages and weakens. Read more: Child of Oz

Dragon Girl

Novel

An interactive, 'forks of life' adventure, where you see that the choices you make can impact the direction your life will take.

In a moment that she would live to regret, Jane wishes her younger sister Belle would disappear “back where you came from.” Belle had been adopted from China, and very soon after the wish was expressed, Belle disappears.

Jane knows that she has to find her, but she has no idea how hard the quest will be. At each turn, she has to make choices, and those put her closer to Belle or can end her search forever.

You can help Jane make the choices that will bring success! ” It refers to the fact that the 

Congratulations to author V.S. Chin who has been named a 2010 Georgia Author of the Year for this, her first middle-grade children’s novel Read more: Dragon Girl

Stardust and Moonbeams

Novel

Author:	Gutsche, Brigitte
Subjects:	Family Relationships; Values; Growing up; Friendship
Grade:	4,5,6
Order Code:	5183
Price:	$9.99
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For Sue-Ellen a summer filled with excitement began with a storm of guilty tears and ended with rediscovering the trust and love of her family and friends.

Part of the Holt's Friends series by Brigitte Gutsche, a wholesome set of books about four youngsters, their friendships, motivations and family relationships. It covers a four-year period from the time Benjamin, Kevin, Ashley and Sue-Ellen are 10 - 14 years old. The novels look at their world from their point of view Read more: Stardust and Moonbeams

 

 

Ashley's Secret

Novel

Author:	Gutsche, Brigitte
Subjects:	Family Relationships ; Values; Growing up; Friendship
Grade:	4,5,6
Order Code:	5175
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Sue Ellen's sweetness and smiles may have warmed the hearts of Kevin and Benjamin, but Ashley's has gone as cold as stone toward her.  Over a boy!  Can the friendship of the four survive the monster of jealousy?

The Holt's Friends series by Brigitte Gutsche is family fare: a wholesome set of books about four youngsters, Read more: Ashley's Secret

 

 

Tending Ben's Garden

Novel

Author:	Cory, Kim Delmar
Subjects:	Family relationships; Great Depression
Geographical:	Michigan
Order Code:	7789
Price:	$9.99
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This is the story of a big sister's fierce love for her younger brother. Set in Michigan during the Great Depression, Kate and Ben's family do not think that they can do the best for little Ben, an uncommon child, and they allow him to go to a foster home.

Kate will not accept the situation, and she gets their brothers to help her tend his garden through all the seasons of his absence. The garden was important to Ben so the garden was important to them. Read more: Tending Ben's Garden

 

 

Surviving Erebus: An Antarctic Adventure

Novel

Author:	Barell, John
Subjects:	Historical Adventure; Sea Adventure; Growing up/Boys
Geographical:	Antarctic
Grade:	5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Order Code:	7031
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This new novel, Surviving Erebus, is based on an amazingly courageous and pioneering Antarctic voyage of exploration that began in 1839 and lasted for several years. Told through the eyes and experience of a young stowaway, whose chances for survival were low when he is discovered and who has to prove himself again and again to the ship's usually hostile and aggressive crew, this is a tale of confronting the most adverse conditions on the planet.

His adventures of exploration and discovery in Antarctica are described graphically and accurately Read more: Surviving Erebus: An Antarctic Adventure