Karin Anderson

This book teaches young learners about the various kinds of families and discusses human families, animal families, friends, pets, and teams. Engage students in reading as they develop their comprehension and literacy skills and learn basic concepts. Featuring exciting TIME For Kids content, this full-color book will keep students engaged in reading and learning. Aligned to state and national standards, this text introduces students to simple informational...

"Before Us Like a Land of Dreams follows a disheartened Utah mother traveling an evocative route through the sites of her arid Western ancestry. As her narration fades, the dead speak their stories: a ragged Mormon boy; a hoarder's queer son; descendants of British squatters. They give no answers, but conjure vivid moments set in iconic--and diminishing--American places"--Amazon.

Blossom as the Cliffrose: Mormon Legacies and the Beckoning Wild features original poems and prose by writers who are faithful, non—faithful, believers, heretics, converts and de—converts, dragged in or forced out of the Mormon faith. This dynamic collection demonstrates the breadth, complexity, and diversity of a Latter—day Saint legacy of commitment to natural place and challenges readers to examine the myriad ways deeply rooted heritage shapes...

"Cassandra Soelberg, pregnant at seventeen, was cast out by Mormon patriarchs of her community. Returning to her rural Utah hometown after forty years to care for her senile mother, she meets a young man with an uncanny resemblance to the father of her never-known child. Drawn back into traumatic scenes of young adulthood, she must reconcile with her past in the fiercely beautiful landscapes that shaped her. What Falls Away is a powerful and compassionate...