Her family life shattered by her parents' divorce when she was nine, the author provides insight into the harrowing ordeal that divorce is for children and shows how, with great courage and sensitivity, the effects can be overcome

While at an engagement party she has no interest in, Whitney Lawford finds a place to wait out the night. It’s a quiet bedroom away from the hubbub, so she decides to take a nap. When she wakes up, she’s lying next to a man she doesn’t know. He turns out to be the groom, Sloan Illingsworth. When his fianc? finds them together, she calls the engagement off. Having promised his mother he would marry, Sloan tells Whitney she will have to become his fianc?. Can Whitney, a woman who likes to play it safe, finally find love in this crazy situation?

The true story of eighteenth-century mathematician Sophie Germain, who solved the unsolvable to achieve her dream. When her parents took away her candles to keep their young daughter from studying math...nothing stopped Sophie. When a professor discovered that the homework sent to him under a male pen name came from a woman...nothing stopped Sophie. And when she tackled a math problem that male scholars said would be impossible to solve...still, nothing stopped Sophie. For six years Sophie Germain used her love of math and her undeniable determination to test equations that would predict patterns of vibrations. She eventually became the first woman to win a grand prize from France's prestigious Academy of Sciences for her formula, which laid the groundwork for much of modern architecture (and can be seen in the book's illustrations). Award-winning author Cheryl Bardoe's inspiring and poetic text is brought to life by acclaimed artist Barbara McClintock's intricate pen-and-ink, watercolor, and collage illustrations in this true story about a woman who let nothing stop her.

Her family life shattered by her parents' divorce when she was nine, the author provides insight into the harrowing ordeal that divorce is for children and shows how, with great courage and sensitivity, the effects can be overcome