New Releases by Conor Grennan

The Hadley Academy Educator''s Guide is a companion to The Hadley Academy for the Improbably Gifted by Conor Grennan. This guide can be utilized in the classroom, in a home school setting, or by parents seeking additional resources. Ideal for grades 4th-6th.

Young readers will find action, suspense, and a perilous battle between good and evil in The Hadley Academy for the Improbably Gifted from New York Times bestselling author Conor Grennan. For ages 10 and up, this dystopian fantasy novel follows a boy''s unlikely journey to save humanity as he unravels his true identity and the responsibility it comes with. Jack Carlson is dreading a class presentation when he suddenly finds himself transported to the Hadley Academy, a secret institution that tracks teens with unlikely gifts and trains them to protect the world from an unseen squad of killers. But Jack isn''t the only one who doesn''t know what he''s doing at Hadley. Despite indications that he is the one prophesied to end the ancient Reaper War, Jack appears to have no extraordinary abilities. So when dark, mysterious forces grow, Hadley is in a confused panic. Much to everyone''s dismay, humanity seems to depend on Jack and his new teammates. Can Hadley''s rawest recruits push past personal struggles and enormous doubts, develop their dormant powers, and stop the spreading evil? And are they willing to commit to Hadley''s motto, "One Life for Many," and make the ultimate sacrifice? The Hadley Academy for the Improbably Gifted might be just the place for Jack after all. This action-packed novel will captivate readers with its riveting plot, relatable characters, humorous dialogue, and dynamic illustrations. Fans of the Hunger Games, the Chronicles of Narnia, Divergent, Maze Runner, and Rick Riordan''s books will find themselves at home in the battle for good at the Hadley Academy.

The excerpts featured in this free sampler come from some of our most popular nonfiction books for middle and high school classrooms—making them ideal choices to meet the new Common Core Standards for the English Language Arts. From the primary documents of The American Reader to The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind—the story of young man from an impoverished African village who built a windmill to bring life-changing electricity to his community—these books will take students across time periods and around the world. They''ll grapple with complex ideas and meet people from the past and present who will inspire them. Along the way, your students will come to understand the components of critical thinking and good writing—and why they matter.

Describes how the author''s three-month service as a volunteer at the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal became a commitment for advocacy and reform when he discovered that many of his young charges were victims rescued from human traffickers.

Conor Grennan volontiert in einem nepalesischen Waisenhaus. Das, was er dort erlebt und erfährt, wird sein Leben vollkommen verändern: In Wahrheit sind die Kinder keine Waisen. Ihre Eltern, meist einfache Bauern, haben sie für viel Geld Vermittlern anvertraut, die versprachen, ihnen eine bessere Zukunft zu ermöglichen. Doch die Kinder hat man ausgesetzt, und wer im Waisenhaus gelandet ist, hat noch Glück gehabt. Conor wirft alle Lebenspläne um und wagt das Unmögliche: Er bringt die Familien wieder zusammen...

In un paese dalle molte anime, in cui il giallo dei campi di senape convive con il grigio delle baraccopoli e il bianco delle montagne più alte del mondo, un''incalzante corsa contro il tempo per salvare sette bambini scomparsi nel nulla.

Op zijn wereldreis van een jaar besluit Conor Grennan drie maanden vrijwilliger te worden in een kinderopvang in het door oorlogen verscheurde Nepal. Wat hij daar ziet en meemaakt, verandert zijn leven. Tot zijn grote schrik en afgrijzen komt hij erachter dat de `wezen waarvoor hij zorgt in de meeste gevallen helemaal geen wees zijn, maar door kinderhandelaren onder valse voorwendselen voor veel geld van hun ouders `overgenomen zijn, zogenaamd om ze in de grote stad Kathmandu een beter leven te geven. Wie in een tehuis terechtkomt, heeft eigenlijk nog geluk gehad, maar waar hun ouders zijn, of waar ze vandaan komen, weten de kinderen niet. Toch onderneemt Conor het schier onmogelijke: de kinderen herenigen met hun ouders. Maandenlang reist hij door de onherbergzame Himalaya op zoek naar aanknopingspunten, met handen en voeten gesprekken voerend en foto s van de kinderen tonend. Op pakkende en goudeerlijke wijze vertelt hij hoe het voelt als hij zich plotseling realiseert dat hij niet alleen zijn eigen leven heeft veranderd, maar ook de levens van anderen.

A young man embarks on a life-threatening mission to reunite Nepalese children with their families in this New York Times–bestselling memoir. In search of adventure, twenty-nine-year-old Conor Grennan embarked on a yearlong journey around the globe, beginning with a three-month stint volunteering at an orphanage in civil war-torn Nepal. But a shocking truth would forever change his life: these rambunctious, resilient children were not orphans at all but had been taken from their families by child traffickers who falsely promised to keep them safe from war before abandoning them in the teeming chaos of Kathmandu. For Conor, what started as a footloose ramble became a dangerous, dedicated mission to unite youngsters he had grown to love with the parents they had been stolen from. In Little Princes, Conor recounts a breathtaking adventure through the treacherous Nepalese mountains to bring the children home.

Describes how the author''s three-month service as a volunteer at the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal became a commitment for advocacy and reform when he discovered that many of his young charges were victims rescued from human traffickers.