THE KITTENS, THE KITTYTUBERS, Book 2Underdog Cat saves the day! Again.Angel Persian throws herself into the role of Underdog Cat to the delight of the Kittytube audience. Her views soar.But Angel also longs to try other things. Can a cat's body do acrobatics? Standing at a height, can she jump and do a double-flip before landing?As the kittens grow, they must learn to adapt to their changing bodies and find acting roles that will keep them earning views on KittyTube. Will Angel find a role that makes her happy and finds an audience? She has to because by the end of the month, only twenty kittens will move on to the next phase of their education. Will Angel Persian become a KittyTuber star?

Ages 6-9She arrived on Halloween Eve, in the Year of Acorns. Benjy named her Tricks.From award-winning author Darcy Pattison comes a humorous Halloween story with a hard-of-hearing girl who uses ASL (American Sign Language).Mom said, "No pets."Then, they discover the cat's owner. Erika has just moved next door to stay with her grandmother while Erika attends the Deaf School. She brought Fluffy, her cat, with her. Fluffy likes to wander the neighborhood and make friends.This delightful Halloween short chapter book is about cats, sign language, and a surprising friendship. It's perfect for the elementary reader who needs to build confidence in reading skills.Need a great read-aloud for Halloween? This will delight and entertain the kids, even during this busy holiday. Includes 13 b/w sign language illustrations.

Discover the secret world behind the scenes of your favorite cat videos.On a glittering night of destiny, a cat star is born.The Majestic Kennels, home to the famous cats of KittyTube, welcomes a new kitten, Angel Persian. Angel is eager to follow in the footsteps of her famous mother and father and become a Kittytube sensation.When DaddyAlbert’s new movie goes bankrupt, leaving him stranded in France, Angel desperately works harder. Her videos must go viral, so she’ll win a cash prize and bring him home.Will Angel become a water cat, a piano cat, a ghost cat, or something new? Will this tiny kitten find her courage—and her audience on KittyTube? Will she have what it takes to win? What will it take for this tiny kitten to become a star?

Does Angel Persian have what it takes to become a KittyTuber star? Angel Persian is struggling to find her place among the kennels of Kittywood. They have one last month to find a kennel and to work with. Each kennel can offer two contracts to kittens, just two. Angel's beloved Majestic Kennels will likely choose her best friend Jazz, whose dress-up videos consistently ranked high on KittyTube. Their second contract will likely go to her other friend, Rudy, and his Ivory Bongo Harp Band. That leaves Angel without a home kennel for her videos. To become an actress, she must work with the Directors from the other kennels: Malachi-Glenys, Wells Brothers, Fox, and Cardinal. It's a month of work, filming new videos in strange studios to please strange directors. Will one of these kennels become her new home?Join the kittens in this new adventure and watch as they grow up and move into new acting roles. What does the future hold for the beloved...

Tamora Pierce meets Rick Riordian in this riveting fantasy that combines the intriguing abilities to Find what’s missing with pulse-pounding suspense.A great loss has frozen Win’s heart. He cares for nothing. But a plague is spreading like wildfire across the Heartland.Win must use his Wayfinding skills to descend into the great Rift, for beyond it lies the Well of Life. Only its waters will heal the plague.No one has ever returned from a journey into the Rift.But the Heartland depends on him. Can he put his loss behind him and fight for the Heartland?

The Girl, the Gypsy and the Gargoyle by Darcy Pattison"Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it."—Michelangelo But what if an unscrupulous sculptor could trap someone inside a block of stone, just so he could carve them?Master Gimpel, a deformed stone carver, intrigues Laurel and Jassy, her gypsy friend, when he offers a path to untold riches. Master Gimpel explains that his Troll's Eye, a red jewel, is a doorway into the stone world where a treasure cave awaits. From the moment Laurel looks through the Troll's Eye, she and her gypsy companion enter a dangerous race for their lives. There's darkness in this cautionary tale, that nevertheless pulls off not one, but two miracles, and brings Laurel home to stay.

Saucy and Bubba: A Hansel and Gretel Tale by Darcy PattisonIn this modern-day Hansel and Gretel story, Saucy and Bubba struggle to get along with Krissy, their alcoholic stepmother. One freezing cold night, Krissy locks Saucy out of the house and Saucy must sleep in the barn. In a desperate move, Saucy and Bubba run away to their aunt's house–except Aunt Vivian isn't home. Trying to take care of Bubba for several days forces Saucy to take charge of her own life and accept a terrible sacrifice in order to find safety for herself. This is a heartbreakingly simple story that weaves through the tangled threads of a family and builds to an ending full of hope. PRAISE FOR THIS BOOKSometimes you have to help yourself before you can help someone else, but if you mark your trail, you can always find your way home. That's what the spunky main character of Darcy Pattison's Saucy and Bubba learns in this modern day Hansel and Gretel tale. Saucy is a real...

Longing for Normalby Darcy PattisonA boy unites an immigrant community and rebuilds his family–using a simple sourdough bread recipe.Eliot Winston, a grieving son, must convince his new step-mother – now Griff Winston's widow – to adopt him. But when she married Griff Winston, Marj hadn't bargained on being the single mother of a twelve-year-old boy. Alli Flynn, a foster child new to the school, convinces Eliot that he must fight to keep his family intact and the best way to do that is to help Mrs. Winston with the Bread Project, a fund raising project for the school. With his whole future at stake, Eliot tries hard to please Marj; but as the deadlines near for the Bread Project and for Marj to sign his adoption papers, Eliot finds it harder and harder to hang on to hope.In the tradition of Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt, this story follows two kids who search for a family and a home. A Bread Project Takes Over the...

Kell and the Detectivesby Darcy Pattison, illustrated by Rich DavisALIENS FOR KIDS! Chapter Book Series for Boys and Girls: Book 4 Fun and Humor: Detectives are at Work!Kell makes a startling discovery: he has zigzag fingerprints. Worse, Mrs. Lynx and the Society of Alien Chasers know about the fingerprints, and they are on the hunt. Everyone turns detective in this continuing adventure of an alien family from planet Bix, who struggles to make ends meet by putting on birthday parties for kids. But the stakes are higher than ever because Kell's mom has just laid a beautiful green egg. With Mrs. Lynx on the prowl, can Kell and Bree keep the egg safe?Do Historians Act as Detectives?For History Day, Kell and friends must figure out which teacher created a special graffiti poster. And graffiti just got a lot more fun when a white concrete fence gets a new coat of paint.A new spin on books for readers in grades two, three, four, and...

Kell, the Alienby Darcy Pattison, illustrated by Rich DavisAliens for Kids! Chapter Book Series for Boys and Girls: Book 1 Fun and Humor: Can an alien family find a way to make a living on Earth?Shipwrecked on earth and desperate to make money, an alien family decides to make a living by opening Aliens, Inc., an intergalactic event-planning business master-minded by 9-year old alien boy, Kell Smith.Kell discovers that his neighbor, Bree Hendricks, turns 9-years-old next month and she wants a party with an alien theme. That should be simple as flying from star to star. But things aren't that easy: Earthling's ideas about aliens are totally wrong. Even worse, Principal Lynx is a UFO-Chaser and suspects aliens around every corner.Will the Aliens totally blow the Aliens Party? Will Principal Lynx capture Kell and his family and them over to the government?Will an alien boy find school friends?Kell must find a way to fit into the...

"Watership Down" with armadillosVAGABONDSby Darcy PattisonAn Immigrant's TaleFor decades, the southern states have witnessed the relentless migration of vagabonds from Mexico. They are now found as far north as the Ozarks of southern Missouri. No one knows why they keep traveling north, ever northward. Until now.In the tradition of Charlotte's Web or The Underneath comes the American fantasy, VAGABONDS, the saga of El Garro's armadillo colony, the scouts and pioneers who have always been at the forefront of the migration. Rumors from their original homeland, the jungles far to the south, indicate that El Garro's colony may be nearing the fabled Faralone Falls, where they will find the answer to why they have traveled northward for decades. Galen must leave the comfort of his den and lead the search party. Accompanying him are Tex, a representative of the southern clans, Corrie, who is El Garro's daughter, and Blaze, the barn owl....