Most Popular Books by Carolyn Meyer

When seventeen-year-old Denny, who is black, falls in love with his white stepsister and her father throws him out, he drives cross-country to find his own father, whom he barely knows.

Retells nine familiar Bible stories accompanied by instructions for making relevant projects such as wall hangings, pillows, and stuffed toys.

Describes the life of Alaskan Eskimos and their dilemma in trying to reconcile the white man's ways with their ancient culture.

A fourteen-year-old Jewish girl goes to live with her father and stepmother in a small town and soon finds herself the center of a civil rights battle when she objects to the high school band marching in the formation of a cross.

Traces the history of spinning and weaving, patchwork and quilting, silversmithing, jewelry making, glassblowing, pottery, woodworking, and bookbinding and examines the lives of two or three artisans working in each craft.

Instructions and patterns for making a number of items by crocheting, knitting, weaving, and by macramé.

The author recounts her visit to South Africa where she interviewed numerous young people, both black and white, to find out what growing up is like in a country torn apart by racial strife.

Drowning her unhappiness in luxurious parties and scandalous fashions when she falls short of impossible court standards and expectations, Marie-Antoinette incites the wrath of her impoverished French subjects and her disapproving mother. By the award-winning author of Doomed Queen Anne.

Information on how masks have been used by various peoples over the centuries and directions for making similar masks out of easily available materials.

In today's fast-paced, multi-tasking work environments, successful communication means more than getting the message across: it means getting noticed and getting results. Communicating for Results: A Canadian Student's Guide offers practical, classroom-tested instruction not only in grammar but in the rhetorical techniques and persuasive strategies that students need to become effective writers and speakers. Its hands-on, skills-based approach uses models, organizational plans, workshops, discussion forums, quick-reference guides, and checklists to simplify the writing process while banishing writer's block and easing fears about public speaking. A bonus CD packaged with the text features an invaluable package of additional resources, including information on and examples of informational and analytical reports and 26 full-text models of different kinds of professional communication. Designed to make effective communication achievable in even the most demanding workplace environment, Communicating for Results is equally suitable for classroom use and personal desktop reference.

In Stratford-upon-Avon in the sixteenth century, Anne Hathaway suffers her stepmother's cruelty and yearns for love and escape, finally finding it in the arms of a boy she has grown up with, William Shakespeare.

In today's fast-paced, multi-tasking work environments, successful communication means more than getting the message across: it means getting noticed and getting results. Communicating for Results: A Canadian Student's Guide offers practical, classroom-tested instruction not only in grammar but in the rhetorical techniques and persuasive strategies that students need to become effective writers and speakers. Its hands-on, skills-based approach uses models, organizational plans, workshops, discussion forums, quick-reference guides, and checklists to simplify the writing process while banishing writer's block and easing fears about public speaking. Designed to make effective communication achievable in even the most demanding workplace environment, Communicating for Results is equally suitable for classroom use and personal desktop reference.

Originally published in 2000 as: Anastasia, the last Grand Duchess.

In 1501 fifteen-year-old Catharine of Aragon arrives in England to marry Arthur, the eldest son of King Henry VII, but soon finds her expectations of a happy settled life radically changed when Arthur unexpectedly dies and her future becomes the subject of a bitter dispute between the kingdoms of England and Spain.

In 1921 in Dillon, Texas, twelve-year-old Rose Lee sees trouble threatening her black community when the whites decide to take the land there for a park and forcibly relocate the black families to an ugly stretch of territory outside the town.