Amanda Webster: 15 books

Brave, honest and ultimately uplifting, *The Boy Who Loved Apples *is a compelling and beautifully written account of life with an eating disorder, and a gritty, moving testament to a mother’s love. When it became clear that Amanda Webster’s eleven-year-old son Riche was not just a little...

A foreigner's criticism provides the impetus for Amanda Webster to embark on a long-intended search for two former school friends – Aboriginal kids from the Kurrawang Mission near where she grew up in Kalgoorlie. As a child, Webster supposed Mission kids were well-cared for orphans, however growing...

This book presents an international research-based framework that has empowered parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to become critical decision makers to actively guide their child’s learning and self-advocacy. Parents can use this framework to identify their child’s vision...

When Valley realizes her Uncle Jacob has stolen something very precious from her family, she knows it is up to her to return to Tellarton to retrieve it. The existence of her family’s precious beehive hangs in the balance, along with the future of her family and the farm that has now expanded to...

Amber is finally forced to deal with her dysfunctional marriage while mourning the death of her teenage daughter. Meanwhile, an even bigger disaster looms near as the outside world struggles with its own uncertain fate. In this prequel to her upcoming novel, Valley of the Bees, author Amanda L. Webster...

In a world where honeybees are all but extinct, Valley has spent her entire life in the tranquil river bottoms where her family camps out every summer and grows more food than most folks can dream of. But, that’s all about to change on her sixteenth birthday when her Uncle Jacob informs her that...

I’ve never really considered myself a poet. My writing efforts are typically focused more on fiction. However, over the years, I have written the occasional poem here and there. I have collected these random poems in notebooks and computer folders for years. Recently, I decided I should round them...

A guide to both theory and practice of blended learning offering rigorous research, case studies, and methods for the assessment of educational effectiveness. Blended learning combines traditional in-person learning with technology-enabled education. Its pedagogical aim is to merge the scale,...

No one likes F-ing Freddy Fisher. Not even his teachers. Coach Carlson is irritated with him for not showing up for basketball tryouts. Mrs. Foster can’t say his name without spitting it out like venom. Freddy annoys and terrorizes teachers and students alike. Only his next-door neighbor Olivia...

Valley’s whole existence is in turmoil as all of her friends decide what they want to do with the rest of their lives. It seems like everyone except Valley is finding his or her own way in this fast-changing future world that has been struck so hard by the honeybee famines. Liam and Junior both...

Can you ever really know the man you're marrying until you've really gotten to know him? Vicki is beginning to learn just what kind of man she has married. Is the honeymoon over so quickly? It may be 73 degrees and sunny in Hawaii, but it always rains at 3:00. This is a short story of about 6,800 words.

Fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie series will no doubt be familiar with the phrase, “Enough is as a good as feast.” Ma Ingalls would often utter these words to her children to remind them that they were well enough off, regardless of how little they possessed. The...

In a world where honeybees are all but extinct, Valley has spent her entire life living in the tranquil river bottoms where her family camps out every summer and grows more food than most folks can dream of. But, that’s all about to change on her sixteenth birthday when her Uncle Jacob informs her...

This year’s Fiction Vortex Horror Contest has some of the best short fiction horror we’ve ever seen. Entries ran the gamut from personal to apocalyptic. Filled with strangeness and terror, madness and fear, these stories are a tour to the dark places of the imagination. FICTION VORTEX:...