Eight-year-old Carrie Parker struggles to protect her younger sister Emma from the harsh realities of the impoverished life in North Carolina, using her imagination to create a fairytale world where they can escape from reality.

"'She Kills Me' tells the true stories of forty women who murdered out of necessity, fear, revenge, or even for pleasure. Alongside the more commonly know murderesses--Lizzie Borden, Virginia Hall, and Mary I of England--is a cast of lesser-known women with gruesome tales all their own. These femme fatales do the things that women aren't supposed to do and live the lives that women aren't supposed to want: lives that are impulsive and angry, messy...

"Malala retells her story of speaking out for girls' education rights for chapter book readers"--

The #1 New York Times bestselling author brings us her most ambitious and provocative work yet-a searing and timely novel that explores the most volatile issue of our time-domestic violence. At the break of dawn, Caroline Shelby rolls into Oysterville, Washington, a tiny hamlet at the edge of the raging Pacific. She's come home. Home to a place she thought she'd left forever, home of her heart and memories, but not her future. Ten years ago, Caroline...

In March 2005, Ashley Smith made headlines around the globe when she miraculously talked her way out of the hands of alleged courthouse killer Brian Nichols after he took her hostage for seven hours in her suburban Atlanta apartment. In this moving, inspirational account, the twenty-seven-year-old widowed mother of a six-year-old girl shares for the first time the little-known details of her traumatic ordeal and expands on how her faith and the bestselling...

An award-winning filmmaker recounts the intimate abuse she suffered from former New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, using her story as a prism to examine the domestic violence crisis plaguing America.

Obsession can be deadly... Nobody knows that better than Shadow Harper. It seemed like a dream come true when a rich, suave older man noticed her during her second year of college. Stefan Stockman seemed to love her obsessively. He came into her life and swept her off her feet, seduced her, married her...and then slowly, eventually, that dream come true became a living nightmare. Now, three years after she finally escaped him, she's trying to put...

A portrait of a young girl in the glorious wasteland of 1990s Los Angeles, Fade Into You recalls the hormonal haze and urgency of adolescence. High school junior Nikki Darling alternates between cutting class and getting high, falling into drugs, crushes, and counterculture to figure out how she fits into the world. Running increasingly wild with other angst-ridden outcasts, she pushes herself to the edge only to find herself trapped in the cyclical...

In Malala Yousafzai, early readers will learn about the life, accomplishments, and contributions of activist Malala Yousafzai. Vibrant, full-color photos, and carefully leveled text will engage emergent readers as they learn about her life. A timeline helps readers identify major life accomplishments in Yousafzai's life, while a picture glossary reinforces new vocabulary. This title also features reading tips for teachers and parents, a table of...

Presents the life and accomplishments of the Pakistani girl who champions for the right to education in her country, despite being targeted by extremist groups for her actions.