Book Description
From one of the brightest talents in teen fiction and the winner of the Waterstones Children's Book prize comes a new novel about family and friendship.
Author : Sally Nicholls
Publisher : Scholastic Fiction
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 24,61 MB
Release : 2015-04-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1407145312
From one of the brightest talents in teen fiction and the winner of the Waterstones Children's Book prize comes a new novel about family and friendship.
Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 26,24 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1590302532
This volume is a stimulating series of spiritual reflections which will prove helpful for all struggling to find the meaning of human existence and to live the richest, fullest and noblest life. --Chicago Tribune
Author : Andrea Spalding
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 30,25 MB
Release : 2008-03-31
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1554884918
Fifteen-year-old Rowan, the daughter of foreign correspondents in Africa, finds herself beached for a summer with her cousins near Tofino, British Columbia. Desperate for a summer project, she camps on a neighbouring island to monitor the progress of an endangered group of sea otters, further threatened by the development plans of a real estate agent trying to sell the property for tourism.
Author : Tamsin Calidas
Publisher : Black Swan Books, Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,47 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781784164782
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Memoir of the year' - Vogue 'A wondrous, sensuous memoir of salt-stung survival . . . clear-eyed and poetic prose' Sunday Times 'A fascinating memoir' - Daily Mail When Tamsin Calidas first arrives on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides, it feels like coming home. Disenchanted by London, she and her husband left the city and high-flying careers to move the 500 miles north, despite having absolutely no experience of crofting, or of island life. It was idyllic, for a while. But as the months wear on, the children she'd longed for fail to materialise, and her marriage breaks down, Tamsin finds herself in ever-increasing isolation. Injured, ill, without money or friend she is pared right back, stripped to becoming simply a raw element of the often harsh landscape. But with that immersion in her surroundings comes the possibility of rebirth and renewal. Tamsin begins the slow journey back from the brink. Startling, raw and extremely moving, I Am An Island is a story about the incredible ability of the natural world to provide when everything else has fallen away - a stunning book about solitude, friendship, resilience and self-discovery.
Author : Laurel Snyder
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 49,34 MB
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0062443437
A National Book Award Longlist title! "A wondrous book, wise and wild and deeply true." —Kelly Barnhill, Newbery Medal-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon "This is one of those books that haunts you long after you read it. Thought-provoking and magical." —Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson series In the tradition of modern-day classics like Sara Pennypacker's Pax and Lois Lowry's The Giver comes a deep, compelling, heartbreaking, and completely one-of-a-kind novel about nine children who live on a mysterious island. On the island, everything is perfect. The sun rises in a sky filled with dancing shapes; the wind, water, and trees shelter and protect those who live there; when the nine children go to sleep in their cabins, it is with full stomachs and joy in their hearts. And only one thing ever changes: on that day, each year, when a boat appears from the mist upon the ocean carrying one young child to join them—and taking the eldest one away, never to be seen again. Today’s Changing is no different. The boat arrives, taking away Jinny’s best friend, Deen, replacing him with a new little girl named Ess, and leaving Jinny as the new Elder. Jinny knows her responsibility now—to teach Ess everything she needs to know about the island, to keep things as they’ve always been. But will she be ready for the inevitable day when the boat will come back—and take her away forever from the only home she’s known? "A unique and compelling story about nine children who live with no adults on a mysterious island. Anyone who has ever been scared of leaving their family will love this book" (from the Brightly.com review, which named Orphan Island a best book of 2017).
Author : Richard Brightfield
Publisher : Skylark
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 30,62 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780553482317
Welcome to Alura! You and your family are going on a trip to the small but beautiful Caribbean island. It's got plenty of sun, surf -- even coconuts! At least that's what the brochures say. You can't figure out how your parents got such a good deal -- the price was really cheap. It's as if the island was practically begging you to come and visit. But you soon realize there's more to this place than just sandy beaches. Something creepy. Something sinister. But you'll be going home soon, right? What happens next in this bone-chilling story? It all depends on the choices you make. How will your nightmare end? Only you can find out! And the best part is that you can keep reading and rereading, getting new chills and thrills -- until not one but all of your worst nightmares have come true! Give yourself goosebumps...
Author : Peter M. Coan
Publisher : Checkmark Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 25,77 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816035489
Presents first-hand accounts from the last surviving immigrants.
Author : William James Heaton
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 37,23 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Bible
ISBN :
Author : Fireside pictorial annual
Publisher :
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 32,33 MB
Release : 1878
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Gémino H. Abad
Publisher : UP Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 41,75 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9715425844