Lisa Lavinder Dunn

This third edition has continued its staple as a text that relates the student to the concepts. By describing basic communication theories in everyday, non-technical terms, the emphasis on practical situations in the book helps students to connect the examples to their daily lives. Comm...

Stresses the importance of understanding and celebrating difference   This text describes basic communication theory in everyday, non-technical terms, while offering students an abundance of opportunities to analyze, understand, practice, and apply skills to real-life situations.  Communicat...

Dagger of Willow and Strike has waited a lifetime to return to the village of his birth. He’s been promised the throne of Koradin, but getting captured by his treacherous sire wasn’t part of the plan. Dagger needs a miracle to turn his childhood dreams into reality—And Grit of Berth and Stone might ...

Banished for a foolish mistake, sixteen-year-old Grit scorns the loss of her home, her honor, and her only ally. Only the weak worry about such things. But war is brewing all across Chasmaria, and as a group of rebels pull Grit into their ranks, she begins to question what strength, courage, and ho...

The year is 1936. The place is Nazi Germany. Lilly is not Jewish. She is a typical eight-year-old German girl who is too busy playing in the cemetery her pappa runs to worry about what is going on around her. That is until Hitler and his Nazis interrupt her life. Shadow of the Swastika is based on ...

Shoeless Shoe-mess is a short story of self acceptance for children.It is intended to improve literacy by using words that will assist slow readers and a literacy activity at the end.

Synopsis: Jeremy has a problem. He doesn't want teachers and classmates at his new school to meet his mom. A rather large scar on her face embarrasses him. Will things change when Jeremy's dad reveals the origin of his mother's scar? Jeremy’s Mom follows the life of a middle school student for a d...

The elusive, unstable and treasured fragments that make up our individual identities are often traceable to the awkward experiences of our fleeting teen years. The stories in this collection look back upon these awkward coming of age years with wit and wisdom. Some of the talented wordsmiths in th...