Wendy Joy: 9 books

You are experiencing phenomena you cant explain: You know the phone is going to ring before it does. You feel a friends emotions as you stand close by. You awaken at the same time every night, feeling like you need to do somethingbut what? You see a glow around people. You sense a presence in the...

I hope children and adults alike enjoy this book first of a set about Scrappy the Echidna and his friends and all the adventures they will have in the Australian out-back. The excitement of leaving home, the danger of bush fires in the out-back the laughter and tears at what his friends and his face...

A passenger flight from Nome to Los Angeles goes off course and crashes in the wilderness of Alaska. The crash site can’t be found, and, after several weeks, all hope for survivors is gone. Several months later, a thirteen year old girl, named Jada, bundled up in raggedy clothes, walks out of the...

Jake, a middle-aged man, has a beautiful home, a well-paying job, a wife he dearly loves, and two teenage daughters, both of whom he adores. He is a very happy man and hardly ever remembers the bad thing he did when he was a teenager. The bad thing happened in nearly total darkness and was the result...

Marnie is the oldest of three children who are orphaned in New York when they are told their parents died in an automobile accident. The three can’t seek help because they know they are in the country illegally, the family having arrived from Europe in mysterious circumstances and the children had...

Not knowing what to do when her experience of men was always negative, Joanna sought solitude, craving a world of no men to harm her. She knew of no experience of men that didn't hinge upon their desire to abuse or possess her. Joanna could not talk to her mother about it for fear of being taken away...

Two sisters, eleven and twelve years old, run away from home with no destination in mind. Rose, the youngest, doesn’t know why they are running away until years later, after alcoholism had taken its toll and she was near death, diagnosed with a year to live. Sexual, physical, and religious abuse...

Waveform celebrates the role of women essayists in contemporary literature. Historically, women have been instrumental in moving the essay to center stage, and Waveform continues this rich tradition, further expanding the dynamic genre’s boundaries and testing its edges. With thirty essays by thirty...

In early childhood, the most important period of learning and human development, young children often achieve developmental milestones in a short time. Learning from Young Children: Research in Early Childhood Music presents research on the importance of fostering musical growth during this period. These studies discuss: _