Cheryl: 1838 books

Cheryl Blackford's debut novel is set in England during World War II and told from the dual perspectives of ten-year-old Lizzie, a homesick girl evacuated from bomb-blitzed Hull to the remote Yorkshire valley, and Elijah, a local gypsy boy. When Lizzie discovers an abandoned baby, her dangerous friendship...

Twelve-year-old Molly Trenton and her obnoxious cousin Ben find more than they bargained for when they decide to go ghost-hunting in the old McGilly Road cemetery.

A young narrator tells readers about her friend Maya, who absolutely loves to dance. In this rhyming picture book, Maya attends a lively dance class. She can’t get enough of dance: the costumes, the grand entrances, the pirouettes, the music, the final bow, and the magic of recitals. She even loves...

A child is never more curious than when he or she is a toddler or preschooler. Every day is a new adventure and an opportunity to explore. Toddlers and preschoolers are like little sponges ready to soak up the world before them. Nurture that sense of wonder and curiosity by giving them age-appropriate...

Balancing deeply researched stories of trailblazers from the past with those of contemporary women, Women in Blue serves as both a historical reference and a career exploration resource. Original interviews reveal details of life on the job for various law enforcement positions, as well as practical...

This revised collection can be used with "Just Like Jonah Wail Tales Workbook," the parent/teacher/independent study edition with discussion questions and Scripture citations. Each has the same eight wail tales, or exaggerated tales of woe involving modern Jonahs who land in a whale of trouble! In...

When Ethel hears rumors about an uprising across the lake, it seems like a distant matter for the adults to debate. Ethel has her own problems to worry about, anyway. But when the violence marches into her hometown, it is much worse than the rumors suggested. Ethel finds herself pulled into an ancient...

When Abe joins his friends for a movie about Abraham Lincoln, it provokes an unusual dream about the former U.S. President. In the dream Abe, a soon-to-be college history major, overhears a conversation between Lincoln and God. Lincoln says he shouldn't be getting all the credit for ending slavery...

When an Arsonist Destroys a Home… Kit Blume loses everything. All that remain are her annoying neighbor, a cryptic letter from her father, and the disturbing PTSD flashbacks and nightmares that involve a killer with a gun. Determined to find out the truth about her lost childhood, Kit discovers...

After trauma turns Laura Sutherland's life upside down in 1966, she flees the U.S. to escape the man who intends to kill her. From Cincinnati to Europe and onward to Africa, she hides with the assistance of a Franciscan monk. Keeping secrets and telling lies to stay alive, Laura and Mack, a...

Let dead bodies lie... The last thing Vivian expects to see during a garden party at her family's opulent lake house is the love of her life, Charlie Haverman, standing over the body of Hap, a man from Vivian's past, and clutching a pair of blood-covered scissors. But there's no denying the...

A brilliant and utterly engaging novel—Emma set in modern Asia—about a young woman’s rise in the glitzy, moneyed city of Singapore, where old traditions clash with heady modern materialism. On the edge of twenty-seven, Jazzy hatches a plan for her and her best girlfriends: Sher, Imo,...

Enter the “fascinating” and frightening world of modern forensic psychology as experienced by one of the most respected practitioners in the field today (Robert K. Tanenbaum, New York Times–bestselling author). At the heart of countless crimes lie the mysteries of the human mind. In this...

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