Katie Kennedy Books

 Ever wonder why the president has a Cabinet? Why there’s such  thing as trial by jury? Why someday you’ll have to pay income tax, or  why there are no Dukes, Duchesses, Counts, or Countesses in the United  States? Because the Constitution says so––and so much more. And now, in The Constitution Decoded,  the ideas, concepts, and rules that make America are unpacked and  explained in detail to help all of us, kids and parents too, become more  informed citizens.
 

Written with impeccable clarity and  illustrated in a style that brings America’s early days to life, this  fascinating guide goes through the Constitution literally word by word,  sentence by sentence, and idea by idea to give readers a true  understanding of not only how the Framers envisioned the United States,  but also why they made the choices they did. Here’s why, for example,  the United States has three branches of government—legislative,  executive, and judicial. It explains how bills become laws, why we have  the right to free speech, how we can change the Constitution as our  country evolves, and so much more.

Packed with historical  context and figures, vocabulary, anecdotes, and trivia, this book is an  accessible yet richly layered work that belongs in every family library. 

An asteroid is hurtling toward Earth. A big, bad one. Maybe not  kill-all-the-dinosaurs bad, but at least  kill-everyone-in-California-and-wipe-out-Japan-with-a-tsunami bad. Yuri,  a physicist prodigy from Russia, has been recruited to aid NASA as they  calculate a plan to avoid disaster.

The good news is Yuri knows  how to stop the asteroid--his research in antimatter will probably win  him a Nobel prize if there's ever another Nobel prize awarded. But the  trouble is, even though NASA asked for his help, no one there will  listen to him. He's seventeen, and they've been studying physics longer  than he's been alive. 

Then he meets (pretty, wild, unpredictable)  Dovie, who lives like a normal teenager, oblivious to the impending  doom. Being with her, on the adventures she plans when he's not at NASA,  Yuri catches a glimpse of what it means to save the world and live a  life worth saving. 

Prepare to laugh, cry, cringe, and have your mind burst open with the questions of the universe.

 Rosa and Eddie are among hundreds of teens applying to NASA's  mysterious Interworlds Agency. They're not exactly sure what the  top-secret program entails, but they know they want in. Rosa has her  brilliant parents' legacies to live up to, and Eddie has nowhere else to  go--he's certainly not going to stick around and wait for his violent  father to get out of jail. Even if they are selected, they have no idea  what lies in store. But first they have to make it through round after  round of crazy-competitive testing.

And then something happens that even NASA's scientists couldn't predict . . .

From the author of the acclaimed Learning to Swear in America comes another high-stakes adventure that's absolutely out of this world.