Mrs. Feeny and the Grubby Garden Gang

Mrs. Feeny and the Grubby Garden Gang is all about a woman who works to outwit an imaginative gang of 8- and 9-year olds. Does she succeed? Kid-chasing Mrs. Feeny tries everything to maintain her perfect lawn, including running the sprinkler way too long. However, the neighborhood kids continue to cut across her corner lot on foot or bike, creating a dirt path in the middle of her front yard. This is also a tale of intergenerational discord. Author Sandy Baker creates a compelling story as "meany, meany Mrs. Feeny" devises a unique lawn replacement solution to the kid issue. Brilliant gouache illustrations by Jim DeWitt cause the kids and garden to practically jump off the pages. The one-page glossary contains terms helpful in reading the book as well as in home and school gardening projects. Parents and grandparents who love gardening will enjoy reading this book with their children.

Children's Books

Baker, Sandy

Sports & Outdoors

Black Garnet Press

An aging Russian cargo plane descends to a remote airstrip in Kazakhstan. Its mission is a nightmare: exchange 1,300 pounds of gold for an equal amount of weapons-grade uranium—the first crucial step in an Iranian plot to build and detonate a nuclear bomb in the heartland of America. Col. Ashkan Gharabaghi, an officer of Iran’s murderous Quds Force, stands near the runway, studying the aging plane’s lumbering approach. Elizabeth Mallory watches, too. The brilliant young CIA agent has ridden Gunpowder over long stretches of desolate, fallout-poisoned Kazakh countryside to try to stop the export of the black market uranium. Time is short. The sun is setting. The nuclear bomb material sits at the end of the dusty runway, ready for loading. This is how Tom Reed’s frighteningly real thriller, The Tehran Triangle, takes off. In his riveting first novel, Reed, a noted historian, fuses a lifetime’s experience in nuclear weaponry and spy craft to a story deeply wedded to fact. The book’s harrowing outcome will be remembered—and feared—long after it has been read. Reed is a former Secretary of the Air Force under two presidents and the youngest-ever Director of the National Reconnaissance Office, an organization so secret that its very existence was not revealed until the end of the Cold War. He plunges thriller fans into the harrowing chessboard of international surveillance and intelligence gathering. Farsi speaking Agent Mallory emerges as the CIA’s point person on Iran. Gharabaghi rises in the Quds ranks, becoming a powerful colonel, sponsored by his long-time friend Mansoor Alizadeh, the President of the Iranian Republic. Mallory’s perilous investigation of Iranian penetration of the US brings her to a most unlikely hub of terrorist activity—a machine shop servicing the oil and gas industry and owned by retired Air Force Sergeant Bum Bradley and his brother, Hiram. She discovers Col. Gharabaghi’s evil scheme to recruit two American citizens of Iranian descent, engineer Rosincourt Sadr, and his girlfriend, Soroya Assad, to assemble the nuclear bomb. Step by step, Reed reveals how a religion’s most extreme beliefs can drive even comfortable, well-educated American citizens into the fever grip of terrorism. Col. Gharabaghi orchestrates the plot from Chihuahua while Mallory urgently tries to counter his murderous moves from El Paso, right across the border. It is now July 2012. As the plot moves toward its furiously-paced conclusion, Mallory makes increasingly frantic efforts to sabotage the bomb, now rolling down railroad tracks toward the Trinity detonation site in New Mexico. The countdown culminates when Gharabaghi punches a code into his cell phone to set off the biggest terrorist strike in US history, triggering readers to ask, “What if?”

The Tehran Triangle

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Tom Reed

Sandy Baker

Thrillers & Suspense

A kid gardening detective story! Betsy finds the bodies--of the dead butterflies. Heartbroken, she grabs her magnifying glass and camera and launches an investigation to figure out who or what killed her favorite insect. Classmates taunt her when she vows to plant a garden to bring back the butterflies. Betsy writes and draws every day in her diary as she works to solve the mystery. She does. The Dead Butterflies Diary is an 8" x 10" 32-page picture book especially for 5-10 year olds. Perfect for home reading or the classroom. A great companion for those schools with gardens. Book includes a Glossary, Favorite Butterfly Flowers, and Betsy's Tips for Planting Your Butterfly Garden. Lots of additional gardening information at www.sandybakerwriter.com.

The Dead Butterflies Diary

Ter Sarkissoff, Rita

Science, Nature & How It Works

Mrs. Feeny finds herself at odds with the neighborhood children as they continue to walk and ride bikes across her lawn, creating a dirt path. "Meany Mrs. Feeny," they taunt. Perimeter rocks, signs, fencing, yelling, and sprinklers don't help. Find out how she solves the problem. This is a kids' version of "lawn alternatives." Gardening tips and glossary included. 32-pages, full color kid gardening picture book with a plot. For 5-10 year olds. Great for gardening parents and grandparents to read together (and garden) with their kids. Perfect for school programs, too.

Masterson, Pete

In her newest book Three Sisters Garden, Sandy Baker follows the recipe of her previous children’s gardening books by combining adorable characters, charming illustrations, and a fun story line. Cara, Sara, and Bari plant corn, squash, and beans, much like Native Americans have for centuries. Sandy weaves in gardening information to complete this compelling and educational book that young students, parents, and teachers alike will appreciate. The book is 32 pp, 8"x10" full color, soft cover and includes a glossary, great recipe for a delicious and hearty one-pot Three Sisters meal, and information about the original American Indian style of Three Sisters gardening with corn, squash and beans.

Three Sisters Garden

Fourteen year old Sal is shocked to see a huge lump traveling around his belly. Mom is horrified. His belly button explodes. They rush to the ER where the doctor is rather casual about the diagnosis. "The Exploding Belly Button" is one of 13 short stories in this collection for middle graders. Sweet, gross, horrifying, surprising, fun--it's all there for the reader who likes variety in his/her short reads. Historical fiction, fan fiction, memoir—all kinds for the curious reader. It's a "Baker's dozen" that will leave you wanting more.

The Exploding Belly Button: Plus Twelve

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

General George Washington and his American Patriot troops were bivouacked on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River in the freezing snowy cold of Christmastime 1776. "Should we cross the river to New Jersey and attack the British and Hessian soldiers?" General Washington wondered. Along came 11-year old Silas who offered to sneak across the icy river to find out the plans of the British generals. Would they cross the river in a surprise attack against the Patriots? Or would they spend Christmas on the New Jersey side and wait for better weather? The future of the young American colonies was at stake. Liberty or death? Freedom from the ruling British king or subjugation? This historical fiction story takes the reader back to a pivotal time in the American Revolutionary War when General Washington must decide whether to take his very cold and exhausted troops across the Delaware to attack the British. Young Silas offers to help. His patriotism and bravery are unquestioned. Kid Spy is perfect reading for middle grade students. Although Silas probably did not exist in history, the book gives historical perspective to the importance of that moment. There were spies on both sides, men and women of all ages, but maybe not an 11-year old--though it's possible. Both sides scrambled to get information about the other. Six months later on July 4, 1776 the colonies officially declared independence from Great Britain. On the back pages, the reader will find vocabulary from those times and important bits of history. The black and white scratchboard illustrations by artist Colleen Dwire lend reality to the story; you can feel the cold and sense the significance of the event through her artwork. And once again, book designer Rita Ter Sarkissoff does an outstanding job as book designer putting the book together.

George Washington's Kid Spy: A Tale from the American Revolution, Christmas 1776

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Mrs. Feeny and the Grubby Garden Gang

The Tehran Triangle

The Dead Butterflies Diary

Mrs. Feeny and the Grubby Garden Gang

Three Sisters Garden

The Exploding Belly Button: Plus Twelve

George Washington's Kid Spy: A Tale from the American Revolution, Christmas 1776