Most Popular Books by Ann Cameron

She was little and quick and pretty. Her mother nicknamed her Colibri, Spanish for "Hummingbird". At age four she was kidnapped, torn from her parents on a crowded bus in Guatemala City. Since then, she''s traveled with "Uncle," the ex-soldier and wandering beggar who has renamed her Rosa. Uncle has always told Rosa that he searched for his parents but had no success. There''s almost no chance Rosa will ever find them--but Rosa still remembers and longs for them. When she was young, Uncle consulted fortune-tellers who told him that Rosa would bring him luck--a treasure big enough to last him all his life. So he''s kept her with him. Together, they have traveled from town to town in the highlands of Guatemala, scraping out a living, hoping to find the treasure. Eight years have passed, and Rosa has turned twelve. No treasure has been found, and Uncle has almost given up hope. When he turns angry and desperate, danger threatens Rosa from all sides--but especially from Uncle himself. Ella era pequena, bonita y muy lista. Su madre la apodo Colibri. A los cuatro anos fue raptada en la Ciudad de Guatemala mientras viajaba con sus padres en un autobus. Desde entonces, ha viajado con un ex soldado mendigo y andariego, su "tio", que la llama Rosa. El siempre le ha dicho que busco infructuosamente a sus padres. Pero cuando Rosa era joven, una adivina le dijo a el que la nina le ayudaria a encontrar un tesoro muy grande que le duraria toda la vida y es la unica razon por la que la mantiene a su lado. Pero Rosa ya va a cumplir 12 anos y no hay senales del tesoro. El tio se enoja y se convierte en una amenaza para ella.

Called a troublemaker by his human family, a reflective dog defends himself and then relates the family''s adoption of an aristocratic but incompetent cat, who gives him a life purpose and and new way of looking at his world.

How do you catch a zebra? Huey''s big brother, Julian, is mean. He says that Huey is too little and noisy to play with him. But Huey has a plan. With a few tools and a lot of skill, Huey teaches his brother a lesson - and makes a new friend along the way!

In these three stories Huey beats his fear of the dark, tries to overcome his fussy eating, and invents banana spaghetti, proving he''s just as brave and clever as his older brother Julian. Includes activities.

Eat the Whole Mint: Living with a Chronic Illness is an inspirational account of Mary Ann Cameron''s personal struggle with Lyme disease. Her story captures the disheartening circumstances she has encountered, offers intimate glimpses into her heart - revealing not only her hurts and fears; but more importantly, where she has found the hope, courage, and strength to persevere. Mary Ann''s story is not her story alone. It is your story, too.one that will inspire you to find joy in the sorrow, a hope for tomorrow, and a passion for living life today. If you want to be encouraged, this book is it!

Living in a rural community in Wisconsin during the 1950s, eleven-year-old Amanda gradually and painfully learns a lot about herself, her parents, and her older sister.

Un recueil de six courts récits mettant en vedette Julien et son monde: sa famille, son jardin, sa dent, son amie. Des textes simples, agréables, empreints de réalisme, d''humour et de sensibilité.

The multimodal study of how people around the globe and across the life span thrive is of great interest to social scientists, educators, health practitioners, and social workers. To investigate thriving, our international, multidisciplinary team adopted a quasi-ecological model of healthy development nested within the contexts of prevailing social and physical environments. Assuming that individuals function from the most personal sphere to the largest spheres of geopolitics, we added a chronological learning dimension to the model to scaffold our human developmental life span interests. Furthermore, we employed a feminist framework of relational wellbeing that posits thriving in terms of five important strengths: zest for life or vitality, sense of worth, knowledge, sense of connection, and power or effectiveness. Our assumptions are that these basic models effectively support investigations of the commonalities of psychosocial processes that help people to do well in their local contexts. However, how acts of thriving are carried out diverges across cultures and contexts. To capture and explore the nature of the transactions of a participant as they go about their daily transactions, we continuously filmed in situ "A Day in the Life" from early morning until bedtime. We recorded interviews with participants throughout. In the present case description, we focus on the challenges and rewards for investigators engaged in this visual, multidisciplinary methodology that we have applied with colleagues in Canada, Italy, the United States, Thailand, the United Kingdom, Turkey, China, South Africa, Peru, Finland, Lithuania, and Brazil.

Design: A cross-sectional survey of leaders and their managers and controls and their managers.

Tiger the dog loves his human family but finds it frustrating trying to communicate with them.