The books are Phonics and Sight Word based. The books guide readers through the Foundations of Learning to Read. Book 1 teaches three Letter Word Families and Sight Words. Book 2 covers Long Vowels and Digraphs. Book 3 Covers Sounds Exceptions, Digraphs, Blends, and Controlled R Words. The books are filled with colorful illustrations. The characters in the stories entertain young readers and engage them in learning to read. When the readers read the stories they are at the readers level and the stories guide them meticulously through learning the various Word Families, Sight Words, and Phonics lessons. They teach reading through 3 Letter Word Families, Long Vowel Word Families, and Common Exceptions (Sound Exceptions, Digraphs, Blends, and Controlled R Words). The Author, Heather Ross, has a Masters in Elementary Education from UCLA and a Bachelors of Arts from UC Berkeley. She also has teaching credentials in both California and Ontario, Canada. She was a teacher and is a mother of three children.

A funny, wise, and charmingly illustrated guide to the different kinds of boys we may encounter as we enter—or reenter—the dating scene. Author and illustrator Heather Ross journeys with the reader through the many kinds of boys she will meet in the wild—smart boys, dangerous boys, beautiful boys, and more—and the wonders and mysteries they all hold. With its field guide approach, women learn how to identify these types of boys in their natural habitats and what tools are needed to navigate each kind of relationship. For example, quiet boys are especially hard to identify because they hide in the tall grass or silent corners of the library! With simple yet insightful text and delightfully whimsical imagery, Boys: An Illustrated Field Guide gives readers the confidence they begin to consider the possibilities of romance. It’s ultimately a tender, relatable guide about emerging from heartache with hope, and most importantly, a stronger knowledge of the self.

In the powerful poems of her fifth collection, Heather Ross Miller reveals the traps in daily life, especially those set for the innocent and the cautious - poisoned tap water, a date turned to rape, oppressive domesticity. One poem deals with the brutality of butterfly collecting and ends with a woman caught in a net, unable to breathe. In another, man-eating plants catch and devour those who pass too close. Some of the victims in Friends and Assassins contemplate the pleasures of revenge, some go beyond contemplation, but all of them gain strength by confronting the truth. With deceptively simple language and moments of wry humor, Miller sketches the dimensions of danger around us all.

When her daughters jokingly stick a Post-it note that says a born loser onto her photograph, the adult Titania is jolted to reflect on why they might, even in jest, consider her a loser. She determines to write out the story of her youthful adventures to disprove their taunt, but her memories overtake herboth of her youthful escapades and shining moment of triumph and of the bittersweet more recent events of her adult life. Though she doesn t get a word of it down, these memories become the narrative of this novel."

Fourteen stories on love and reality. In Sparkle Plenty, a man marries a woman because she is so like a girl in his favorite comic books, in Popeye the same couple divorce. By the author of Gone a Hundred Miles.

More than just a pair of days, a weekend is also a state of mind—a feeling of relaxation and freedom to immerse ourselves fully in a favorite activity. In Weekend Sewing, designer Heather Ross presents creative projects for clothing, accessories, and home items that can be made in a weekend or less. Some, like the Quick Garden Gloves and Ruby’s Bloomers, take a few hours; others, like the Weekend-Away Travel Bag and Trapeze Sundress, require a day or two—but all of them capture that weekend feeling. And because weekends are often the most fun when they’re social, Ross features ideas that encourage us to share our stitching and our time, such as a recipe for soup to simmer while sewing, then serve to guests later in the day, and tips for transporting a sewing machine to a friend’s house for an afternoon of social stitching. The sewing instructions are beautifully illustrated.

For thirteen years, Heather Ross Miller and her family lived in North Carolina's Singletary State Park, a remote wilderness fifty miles from the nearest town. This memoir, written in quiet narrative, explores her life in the park, recounting the hardships and the joys that taught her to respect both nature and the people sharing her hinterland.