Jesse and the Climate Monster

Jesse and the Climate Monster

An Introduction for parents and teachers

As the news of climate change and climate related disasters expands, our school age children are not immune to the feelings of fear and helplessness. Jesse and the Climate Monster, published as a bilingual (English/Spanish) book, allows young readers, their classmates and their families, an opportunity to begin to understand climate change as presented in an engaging tale. Within the story, early readers are exposed to many of the effects of climate change as Jesse relates the experiences of Jesse’s classmates. In addition to the story, the accompanying links, activities, and illustrated glossary allow younger students, their classmates and their families, further access to climate information in an age-appropriate format. This story provides a ray of optimism, and a feeling of empowerment to our young readers.

Jesse y el Monstruo Climático

Una introducción para padres y maestros

Mientras que se difunden noticias de desastres relacionados con el clima, nuestros estudiantes jóvenes no son inmunes a sentimientos de miedo y desamparo. Jesse y el monstruo climático les brinda a los lectores jóvenes una oportunidad para empezar a entender el cambio climático a través de un cuento cautivador. Dentro del cuento, los lectores son expuestos a muchos de los efectos del cambio climático mientras Jesse relata las experiencias de sus compañeros de clase. Su uso de poderes recién descubiertos revela las múltiples posibles maneras de abordar el cambio climático. Además del cuento, los enlaces, actividades y glosario ilustrado les permiten a los estudiantes jóvenes profundizar su acceso a información climática en un formato apropiado para su edad. El cuento brinda un rayo de optimismo, citando evidencias de actividades respetuosas con el clima que todos pueden realizar. 

Jockeying for Position

It’s said that amazing things happen when you’re in the right place at the right time. Right place, right time was a reality one early morning as I walked down the shed row of the barn at the racetrack toward my boss, Jim. I will never forget him looking up from the newspaper and saying to me, “Well, jock, do you want to ride races?” I was so angry when he said that because in those days, women were not allowed to be jockeys. I remember thinking, I am as good as any guy on a horse but I can’t ride races because it is a male dominated sport. Jim looked at me and said, “Look at this article in the paper.” Sure enough, a woman, Kathy Kusner, had applied for a jockey license.

This would change history, my life, and the lives of many other women who wanted to pursue non-traditional careers. I am the 4^th woman jockey in US history to ride and win a race at a recognized track. I am also the first woman jockey to win races in Arizona and Colorado, and the first woman jockey to become a member of the male Jockey Guild. It has been over 50 years since I rode my first race. Since I’m not getting any younger, I decided it was about time that I wrote my story, because it is so unique. Hope you have as much fun reading it as I did living it.

Journey to the Pumpkin Patch

Sense the cool, crisp, autumn evening air, the whistling wind that shakes the last of the dry colorful leaves from the nearly bare branches beneath the full moon as you travel across the northeast countryside.

On this spirited journey, the reader is destined for the pumpkin patch. But hold on; along the bumpy, eerie adventure, one hears and sees some spooky sounds in the moonlight, and shadows and creatures of the night greet the reader whimsically.

Through this spooky suspenseful ride, the reader learns to breathe through scary feelings, and leave the pumpkin patch unharmed and empowered to overcome anything again that might go bump in the night. Come along and join the fun!

Just Be Kuz – A Life Most Fractious

This book blurb introduces the concept of being a ‘sunshine seeker’ and asks whether these individuals are never satisfied with what they have or simply driven to be their best selves. The author shares personal stories related to addiction, family, divorce, and other topics, offering a unique perspective on the world. The book contains some strong language and shocking content.

See the world through the lens of a sunshine seeker. See how he feels about everything from sex to addiction, to family and divorce.

Be entertained by the stories which drive Just Be Kuz in his world of sunshine seeking. See where you agree and disagree.

Caution, there’s some real shock value in this book – and some off-colored language! Apologies up-front.

Just Like Us

After Jenny’s best friend and next-door neighbor, Ashley, moves out of the neighborhood, she is sad and lonely for a pretty long time. Then one day, she is excited to see a new family move in with a girl about her age. But the members of this new family are really weird: the mom wears a flowing robe and a turban, the dad dons a thick black beard, and they speak an alien tongue. Maybe they are Martians from outer space.

Jenny’s fears get worse as she watches more strange, mysterious and alien characters dropping in at their house from time to time. What happens next comes as a surprise!

Justice or Not

As you read Paul Harrington’s day-to-day and month-to-month experiences within the state's prison system, you will see a broken system – one that is full of loopholes, lies, cover-ups and corruption. This system is full of daily violence and numerous officers are injured by violent inmates.

Each officer has their unique view of the prison system. Here, Harrington wishes to share his perspective of how different administrations created changes in the daily operations at Fishkill Correctional Facility, where he was stationed after a 15-month stint at Sing Sing.

Not every day was routine, albeit that is how most officers wanted it, including the author. Even the inmates wanted to know what to expect on their assigned units each day they woke up. This book will take you down the hallways and up the stairs of Fishkill's various buildings in its vast complex. It will show you everything from contraband weapons to a takeover note written by inmates 20 years ago following a homicide of a prisoner that led to 40 inmates being shipped out just hours later.

Kabaslot

Life for Allison Johnson, a young girl growing up in the heart of a thriving independent capital city, was good. Part of a well-to-do Krio family, she and her siblings had enjoyed the best of everything, and Allison was quick to share her life with their new adoptive sister, an orphan from the provinces.

Just as she starts to discover love with an unlikely suitor, tragedy strikes. The Republic is in crisis. As events spiral out of control, Allison’s life as she knows it is turned upside down. On the other side of a vicious civil war, she must give up everything she has known as home, to seek safety in the United States.

Navigating the turn of events and her new life as an immigrant, she finds strength and resilience she had only heard about in the stories of her ancestors.

She immerses herself in a quest for spiritual restoration until a sudden shift puts her at the center of a plot to bring the decayed Republic back from the brink. She’s intrigued by the opportunity but must contend with ghosts from a dark past.

Karen’s Spiritual Pilgrim Journey

This book describes my days on a pilgrimage to Haifa, Israel before the pandemic hit the world, and my feelings and thoughts on each day of the magnificence, serenity, and deeply felt love in each and everything I did with the assigned group of each day. Even today I shed tears when reflecting on my time and being in the presence of such grandeur and beauty. The Baháʼí Faith is just waiting for receptive souls to reach out and grasp hold of the reigns of this glorious pathway to gain virtue and practice daily good deeds. I sit and wonder at how I have been blessed with this wondrous ‘Prescription for Living’ (Rabbani, 1950) in my days of material living. I offer to the readers a glimpse of my journey with the thought that maybe you also are searching, seeking, wondering, ‘where can I find the place I belong?’ The Baháʼí Faith may be that place for you.

Kennedy's Ghosts

Kennedy’s Ghosts is a novel that follows a young journalist as he embarks on a journey that begins in 1960, when he meets a mysterious bohemian bag lady. The story takes readers from the post-war era through the 1960s and beyond, as the journalist uncovers a web of secrets and conspiracies surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Against the backdrop of a tense Cold War and increasing paranoia over UFO sightings, various leaders - both in government and the intelligence community - work to keep the truth from the public. With the fate of the nation hanging in the balance during a critical election, Kennedy finds himself locked in a battle with an entrenched Republican incumbent. Meanwhile, two teenagers with ties to the intelligence community become embroiled in the mystery, unaware of the deadly forces that are closing in on them. 

Killdozer… And Other Stories of Horror

Dive into six tales that begin with a man who couldn’t deal his cards with reason and, instead, uses another form of negotiation with a fabricated 60-ton decision maker!

Then follow the journey of a man who finds himself stranded on an island with amnesia, and an approaching fog carrying within it unknown horrors!

Learn why one shouldn’t open their home to a stranger who might simply be crying wolf, and be wary of the houses we buy, for either can turn into ultimate nightmares!

And so, journey into madness, and prepare for absolute horror as you read these tales of phantasmagoria!

Knysna Forest

Sparky, a 19-year old, quick-witted thrill-seeker, went hiking in the majestic Knysna forest in South Africa upon returning from the United Kingdom. After a series of bad decisions, driven by stubbornness, he tumbles off a cliff with no turning back.

Wounded, lost, low on supplies, and without any knowledge of survival, he is plagued by nature’s lethal attacks until he is too weak to carry on. As dusk and dehydration ominously takes its toll, he is faced with fears he never anticipated.

As death approaches mercilessly again and again, he must fight above willpower to stay alive. With every calculated risk, less calculated, hope, survival, and divine intervention, becomes a distant dream.

Knysna Forest is an epic, true miracle race-against-time survival-story that will leave adventurers astounded in anticipation.

“If you are reading this, it means that you are experiencing the result of a miracle, because how is it possible that I survived death, more than once?”

Kristy, Mikey, and Harley D the Cat

Kristy and Mikey are siblings and best friends. They play together every day but not today. Today, all Kristy wants to do is be alone and read her new storybook, but her little brother has some other ideas. If that is not enough, Mikey thinks he is a superhero that can fly through the air. Honestly, how much can a girl take? Kristy has to find a way to escape, but how?