Bøger af Francesca Hampton

Three years have passed since the dramatic journey described in Dolphin Singers, Voyage of the Makai Part 1. Michelle and Jason still feel the strong pull of the romance that started between them, but their reunion at a science fair goes terribly wrong and leaves each confused about the feelings of the other. When Michelle disappears in a squall during a sailboat race off Honolulu, carried off by an eccentric old fisherman named Greenstone, everyone at first thinks her dead. Little do her friends know of the dramas still to come as Jason and the others follow their hunches and then set out once again in the yacht Makai to find her. Ahead lie modern pirates and shipwreck, a desperate ride across the open sea on a kite board, and a promise made by Greenstone that will change the lives of Michelle and Jason forever.

The distance from California to Hawaii is more than 2500 miles, a daunting journey for any yacht. But for five young people, it has come to seem the only way back to families they have lost. Hiding from pursuers, learning as they go, they rely on Jason, and the eldest at 14, to captain the yacht Makai. But when Jason is injured in a storm, and his friend Jimmy comes down with bronchitis, it is up to his plucky sister Jenny, and Jenny's beautiful, troubled friend Michelle to get them and five-year-old Christopher through it. Storms are not the only peril at sea however. Lost and starving themselves, they come across a pod of dolphins trapped in a drift net. With the days going by and their hunger and thirst growing, the youngsters find that these new found friends may make all the difference. From Dolphin Singers: "Its great length and weight unsecured in the panic, the mainsail boom came swinging hard above Jenny's head as the schooner jibed again. It raked across the cockpit, hit Jason's head with a resounding crack and continued far enough to smack Jimmy and Michelle on the knees and knock them down on the boat deck. Not until it had swung its full 180 degrees arc and yanked the boat almost onto her side did it come to rest in its new position, dragging the downed sail behind it across the width of the vessel and partially out over the water. When it was done, only Jenny remained at the job Jason had set her, her small hands clutching the knobs on the wheel until her knuckles whitened as Michelle and Jimmy cried in pain and Christopher screamed in terror down below. She cast a desperate glance at her older brother, but there could be no more advice from him. Half-buried under the blue-grey splotched mainsail, Jason was unconscious..."

A wildly engaging and imaginative story that introduces the world of meditation to kids ages 6–10 through a relatable character named Leo, who learns to cultivate relaxation, mindfulness, and lovingkindness.Everyone in Leo’s family meditates but him—his mom, his dad, his older sister, and even his stuffed bear, Teddy! But what does it mean to “meditate,” and is it something that Leo can do too? When Mom becomes his meditation teacher, Leo discovers that it’s about more than just sitting still. After starting to get the hang of it, he’s got to apply what he’s learned off the cushion and out in the world when a bully targets him at school and steals his piece of apple pie.Through his experiences, Leo learns to meditate in the up times, the down times, and the in-between times. A graphic-novel illustration style gives Leo''s story a fun and easy-to-follow narrative arc. It gives parents, guardians, and teachers an opportunity to playfully introduce children to meditation and even includes a step-by-step guided practice at the end to get their kids started.