Author: Rafe Esquith
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: shortcuts
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-05-11
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1400030838
ISBN-13: 9781400030835

Year after year, Rafe Esquith’s fifth-grade students excel. They read passionately, far above their grade level; tackle algebra; and stage Shakespeare so professionally that they often wow the great Shakespearen actor himself, Sir Ian McKellen. Yet Esquith teaches at an L.A. innercity school known as the Jungle, where few of his students speak English at home, and many are from poor or troubled families. What’s his winning recipe? A diet of intensive learning mixed with a lot of kindness and fun. His kids attend class from 6:30 A.M. until well after 4:00 P.M., right through most of their v

Author: Rafe Martin
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Keywords: parrot, little, brave
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 1998-03-23
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 039922825X
ISBN-13: 9780399228254

When a raging fire threatens to burn down the forest, all of the animals run away in fear. All except for one brave little parrot, who has an idea. Help me, she cries to the elephants, beseeching them to fill their trunks with water to spray on the flames. Help me, she begs the cheetahs, even as they urge her to flee and save herself. But the brave little parrot will not be daunted. Can the determination and courage of one small bird be enough to save a forest? Susan Gaber’s majestic illustrations and Rafe Martin’s lyrical retelling bring to life an inspiring tale from ancient Ind

Author: Suzanne Enoch
Publisher: Avon
Keywords: rafe, taming
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1999-04-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0380798867
ISBN-13: 9780380798865

No Woman Could Tame Him Rafe Bancroft was nothing but a scoundrel! But the sexy, infuriating man was now the owner of Forton Hall, Felicity Harrington’s ancestral home. The fiery beauty was determined to save her family-and herself-from ruin at the hands of the handsome rake. But how can she, when she lies in bed each night longing for her irresistable enemy’s touch? Until He Met The Right One . . . Rafe might have won Forton Hill in a card game, but he had no intention of settling down. No, his plan was to sell the place and be off on his next adventure-until he met Felicit

Author: Rafe Martin
Publisher: Scholastic
Keywords: bookshelf, scholastic, god, shark
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2007-06-01
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 059039570X
ISBN-13: 9780590395700

In a country whose ruler is cruel and whose people are hardened, two children remain warm-hearted and exuberant. One day after freeing a shark trapped in the shallows, the children are so excited that they touch the King’s forbidden drum. They are thrown into prison, and no one will listen to their parents’ pleas for mercy. So, at great risk, they go to the Shark God himself, and he takes retribution, causing a great flood that leaves only the good family behind, and clears the way for a better, kinder future.

Author: Rafe Martin
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Keywords: girl, face, rough
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 1998-04-13
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0698116267
ISBN-13: 9780698116269

In an Algonquin village by the shores of Lake Ontario, many young women have tried to win the affections of the powerful Invisible Being who lives with his sister in a great wigwam near the forest. Then came Rough-Face Girl, scarred from working by the fire. Can she succeed where her beautiful, cruel sisters have failed?.

Authors:Rafe Martin,  Calvin Nicho L,
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Book
Keywords: one, world
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2002-11-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0590379763
ISBN-13: 9780590379762

Cast out of the Seneca tribe because they are unable to make war, Crow and his grandmother struggle to survive alone. Then Crow hears the magnificent voice of the Storytelling Stone - an ancient rock that tells the tales of the Long Ago Time, when the Sky Woman trod the Avove World and a child could alter the ways of people. As he listens to the Stone’s stories, Crow comes to realize his own power to effect change and his destiny as a Seneca and a man. The World Before This One laces Seneca legends with Crow’s narrative to create a thrilling, innovative novel about a boy who may ha

Author: Rafe Martin
Publisher: Puffin
Keywords: puffins, picture, princess, storytelling
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2003-05-26
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0142500852
ISBN-13: 9780142500859

This princess may be lost, but she’s not helpless. Swept overboard on the way to meet the prince her parents have chosen for her to marry, a princess seizes the opportunity to decide her own future and turns a twist of fate into a wildly entertaining adventure. Rafe Martin and Kimberly Bulcken Root combine their award-winning literary and visual talents in this energetic and original celebration of storytelling, imagination, and destiny. Illustrated by Kimberly Bulcken Root.