The Magic Pencil    by Karen E. Dabney
Price: $1.50 USD. 38720 words. Published on August 12, 2009. .
Malcolm Bakersfield's new classmate, Nia Stellar is "not your average girl." Exciting and fantastic events occur, seemingly to do with her and a scruffy, used pencil. Nia challenges Malc in many ways and he discovers new abilities and sides to himself. We join him in his quest to find the truth to to the power of the pencil. And, like him, we just may learn a lot about ourselves.

Between Us Bilinguals: a fairly unbiased dissertation on monolingual and bilingual views on code-switching    by Ewa Niemiec
Price: $15.00 USD. 43160 words. Published on December 31, 2009. .
The author describes code-switching as a natural and universal aspect of bilingual linguistic ability and states that the key to the full understanding of the phenomenon lies in the notion of 'language mode', a unique feature of bilingual competence. The expressed standpoint is illustrated and tested by means of a case study of proficient Polish-English bilinguals...