Author : Carla Stevens
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 27,85 MB
Release : 1998-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0141300833
The whole city of New York is blanketed by snow. But it's the final day of the spelling bee, and snow or no snow, Anna has to get to school. It's not as easy as she expected!
Author : Marty Rhodes Figley
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 20,10 MB
Release : 2004-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1575057743
When nine-year-old Sarah and her little sister, Annie, set out on their way to school on January 12, 1888, they have no idea what their day will hold. The weather’s so warm they go outside to play. Suddenly, the wind turns cold and begins to roar—it’s a blizzard! The wind is so strong it rips the school’s roof off. What will they do? The freezing snow is already up to their knees and without a roof they’ll freeze. Their teacher, Miss Freeman, ties them all together with a long rope and they head out into the blinding storm. Will they make it to safety in time?
Author : Ken Follett
Publisher : Fawcett
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 26,2 MB
Release : 2010-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307775194
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only ally: the beautiful, highborn Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell. Though separated by politics and position, these two restless young people are bound by their passionate search for a place called freedom. From the teeming streets of London to the infernal hold of a slave ship to a sprawling Virginia plantation, Ken Follett’s turbulent, unforgettable novel of liberty and revolution brings together a vivid cast of heroes and villains, lovers and rebels, hypocrites and hell-raisers—all propelled by destiny toward an epic struggle that will change their lives forever.
Author : Linda Oatman-High
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 27,78 MB
Release : 2004-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0802789102
A fictionalized account, told in free-verse poems, of a young girl's experience living through the 1888 "Great Blizzard" in New York City.
Author : Clyde Robert Bulla
Publisher : HarperCollins Children's Books
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 41,54 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :
A young Pilgrim boy is always causing trouble for Plymouth Colony until one day his mischief results in more friendly relations with the Indians.
Author : William Beery
Publisher :
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 25,37 MB
Release : 1957
Category :
ISBN :
Also includes some descendants of Otto Beery. He was born in 1859 at Langnau, Berne, Switzerland and immigrated to the United States ca. 1885. He married Mary McCleary in 1890 at Passaic, New Jersey. They had five children, 1891-1906. He died in 1918 at Wallington, New Jersey.
Author : Lynda G. Adamson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 18,67 MB
Release : 1994-06-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 0313387966
Spanning grades 1-10+, this annotated bibliography of 970 recommended American and world titles published through early 1994 includes adult titles suitable for young readers; at least 200 of the titles are award winners. In support of interdisciplinary English and social studies curricula, librarians and teachers can easily assemble a basic list of books on a geographical place and time period. Geographical sections are divided into historical time periods within which entries are organized alphabetically by author. Each entry contains both reading and interest grade levels, a short incisive annotation about the historical event, setting, plot, protagonist and theme, current publication availability, and awards won. Seven reference appendices allow for easy searching. These helpful appendices and an authors, a titles, and an illustrators index help to make this volume a critical professional tool.
Author : Yoko Tawada
Publisher : Portobello Books
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 12,85 MB
Release : 2018-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1846276713
Yoshiro thinks he might never die. A hundred years old and counting, he is one of Japan's many 'old-elderly'; men and women who remember a time before the air and the sea were poisoned, before terrible catastrophe promted Japan to shut itself off from the rest of the world. He may live for decades yet, but he knows his beloved great-grandson - born frail and prone to sickness - might not survive to adulthood. Day after day, it takes all of Yoshiro's sagacity to keep Mumei alive. As hopes for Japan's youngest generation fade, a secretive organisation embarks on an audacious plan to find a cure - might Yoshiro's great-grandson be the key to saving the last children of Tokyo?
Author : Amy Gelman
Publisher : Lerner Publications
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 20,76 MB
Release : 2001-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780822540571
An introduction to the state's geography, history, population, jobs, and environmental concerns.
Author : Karen Gibson
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 44,53 MB
Release : 2021-03-13
Category :
ISBN : 9781736826706
Grace believed she went from losing it all to having it all. In a desperate attempt to put her life back together, Grace, divorced and jobless, leaves Tucson to return to Chicago-a place she never planned to call home again. She also never planned to fall for Benjamin Hayward. Drawn into the fairytale existence of his power and wealth, Grace is unable to see what her family and friends see, and ignores the warning signs of Dr. Benjamin Hayward's dark side. Benjamin's secrets-the death of his mentally ill wife and the disappearance of his daughter-push Grace into an abyss deeper than the one that brought her home in the first place, and she risks losing even more. Pieces of Grace is a complicated story of relationships confused by undercurrents of mental illness. Readers find themselves hoping family and friends can carry Grace through her most difficult moments.
