If it is the child's first routine dental appointment, there will be lots of questions. Heck, most adults share these same nervous and apprehensive feelings. It is entirely normal and common for children to experience anxiety about going to the dentist. Young kids will giggle throughout this book about a dentist who may look a little different than their own!Ĭhildren's Books About the Dentist Will Ease the Jitters Using creative problem-solving, the dentist manages to help the fox feel better without getting eaten. De Soto faces when his patient, who would ordinarily eat him for lunch, happens to have a toothache. Young children will appreciate the conundrum Dr. A funny, classic, Caldecott honor book whereby the dentist has a case of the jitters, not the patient.
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Nothing – and no one – could change her mind before then. Only one more year and she will be free of the curse of magic, her aunt’s teachings and the disappointment of the little she is capable of. She will join her aunt alongside the other Binders who believe magic is a sin not to be used, but denied. It’s why she has been protected from the magical world and, in one year’s time, what little magic she has will be bound. It was, after all, magic that killed her parents and left her in her aunt’s care. She has taught her to fear how it twists and knots and turns into something dark and deadly. Within the boroughs of London, nestled among its streets, hides another city filled with magic.Įver since Anna can remember, her aunt has warned her of the dangers of magic. Genre: Contemporary Fantasy, Paranormal, Coming of Age Originally it was much more lenient with its villagers when a man named Miles Clifton founded it, but is now very strict and prevents anyone from leaving. Clifton is a replica of a historical village with the tourists hidden, watching the village's activity by video from under the ground. Jessica’s mother takes her to a blind spot for the reveal because all the adults were contracted to not tell the kids. Also, there are cameras all around watching them, but there are some blind spots. During a village-wide outbreak of diphtheria, Jessie's mother reveals it is really 1996, and Clifton Village is a tourist attraction. Jessie Keyser is a 13-year-old girl from the village of Clifton, Indiana, in the 1840s. Running Out of Time is a novel by Margaret Peterson Haddix, published in 1995. Hanna is subjected to ridicule and racism, but finds solace and solidarity with other girls and women in town who eventually stand up for her. Hanna's Chinese immigrant mother has died, and she and her white father are looking to start over by running a dry goods store in a small prairie town. Linda Sue Park has done those of us who grew up loving the Little House books a solid by writing this meticulously realized story of Hanna, a half Chinese girl who works as a dressmaker in her father's shop in Dakota Territory. Name: - What: - Sidekick-to: - About: - Book First Seen In: His best friend and familiar is both a goblin and a laptop, changing from one shape to the other as needed. Ravirn, the great-grandson of one of the three Fates, is a talented sorcerer, a computer hacker extraordinaire, and in the process of becoming a minor demigod. In the 21st century, magic has advanced with the times and gone digital, Necessity: sentient computer that runs the universe.Webmage, web goblin, Fates, sorcerers, webgoblin, mages, minor demigod, Hades, Hell, Greek Mythology, shape-changing, goblin and a laptop, Norse pantheon, Underworld/Hades, ~ WebMage | Kelly McCullough Lead's Species Ī Greek demi-god sorcerer as a magic-based computer hacker and spy, assassin-type In the process of “testing” his Great-Aunt Atropos’s security, Ravirn, a hacker/sorcerer, and his laptop familiar, Melchior, uncover a plot that could shake the foundations of Olympus and change humanity’s relationship with Fate forever. Of course where there are computers, there are also hackers. In order to keep up with an ever increasing number of life threads, the Fates have upgraded to a computerized system that blends magic with programming. WebMage: A fantasy-cyberpunk hybrid that revolves around Ravirn, a grandson of the Greek Fate Lachesis. Urban Fantasy / Fantasy-cyberpunk hybrid (per author) / Sci–UF Inspired by the true story of Anne Boleyn and King Henry VIII, Anne & Henry beautifully reimagines the intensity, love, and betrayal between one of the most infamous couples of all time. Henry is willing to do anything to be with her, but once they’re together, will their romance destroy them both? His mother, his friends, and even his girlfriend warn him away, but his desire for Anne consumes him. Wild, brash, and outspoken, Anne is everything Henry isn’t allowed to be-or want. And now he’s trapped: forbidden from pursuing a life as an artist or dating any girl who isn’t Tudor-approved. But ever since the death of his brother, the pressure for Henry to be perfect has doubled. Henry Tudor’s life has been mapped out since the day he was born: student body president, valedictorian, Harvard Law School, and a stunning political career just like his father’s. In this wonderfully creative retelling of the infamous-and torrid-love affair between Anne Boleyn and King Henry VIII, history collides with the present when a sizzling romance ignites in a modern-day high school. It’s about helping families who need it the most. What are the perks of dealing with strange things for a living? My boys on that field on a beautiful fall Sunday makes me really happy. I got one quarterback, one receiver and one tight end. Jason Hawes: Sunday is about watching my three boys, who are all on the same football team, work together and slaughter another team. Review-Journal: What does a ghost hunter consider a great Sunday? His series “Ghost Nation” revolves around Hawes and fellow ghost hunters responding to urgent calls about spirits who refuse to stay on their side. “The ghost is just saying, ‘I want you to acknowledge me,’ ” Hawes says. It’s like watching a TV show that keeps repeating.” “It might just be a ghost trying to communicate with you, so they follow the same path daily. But look on the bright side,” he insists. “Let’s say you see the same spirit walking down your staircase at 4 p.m. “The living scare me more than a confused ghost who is just trying to get his or her message across,” the star of the Travel Channel’s new series “Ghost Nation” says. Got a weird noise in the middle of the night? Fear a harrowing haunting? Who you gonna call, especially during the Halloween season?Īs an OG paranormal investigator and founder of the Atlantic Paranormal Society, Jason Hawes doesn’t sweat “things” that go bump in the night. Cast members Steve Gonsalves, Jason Hawes and Dave Tango of Travel Channel's "Ghost Nation" (Karolina Wojtasik/Travel Channel) Will Laurentia be able to forgive Dom's betrayal? Will Dom discover before it's too late that it's love and not just lust that he feels for the Princess? Meanwhile, Dominic has a dark agenda that honor insists he fulfill, but despite his better sense, he finds himself falling in love with the petite, courageous Princess. Laurentia fights Dominic's overwhelming sensual pull, for he's much too handsome and she has cause to distrust handsome, powerful men. Neither Laurentia nor the King could have anticipated that the man who would make her heart sing would be Dominic of Baminia, the mercenary and bastard brother of the king of neighboring Sereminia. King Jerome adores his daughter and summons suitors from far and near to compete for her hand, determined that she shall marry for love to a man worthy of her. Her first marriage was a nightmare, and she's not anxious to repeat the experience, but she must marry and produce an heir to the throne. Crown Princess Laurentia is 25, a widow, and a virgin. She's traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal-an experience that shocks him to his core. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. A novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.Įdwin St. His final letter to the gentleman of the "Bevolkings bureau", regarding the umbrella, is a brilliant piece of writing, but also his conversation with the man working on the tram on his trip out to “Simplex” is something to be enjoyed without food or drink near. The story shows enthusiasm about foreign languages and how thin basically the support of only an old dictionary is. Brown and his doubtful successes in speaking Dutch, without going through proper training and refusing guidance for it, is absolutely wonderful. Let me first say that this book won’t make any sense if you don’t have a decent grasp of the English and the Dutch language (preferable also older Dutch as the book is quite old). I acquired it through the Gutenberg Project and was curious about it as it was written in the beginning of the 20th century. This book had me in tears and stitches more than once. |