Author : Nicci French
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,99 MB
Release : 2010-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0446569364
From the bestselling author of Killing Me Softly and Beneath the Skin comes a stunning new novel of psychological suspense.
Author : Barry Jonsberg
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,82 MB
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 177306892X
Twins Ashleigh and Aiden have always promised to protect each other, but after an accident on a school trip, Aiden starts behaving strangely. Are they just growing apart, or is something more sinister going on? In a future Australia ravaged by climate change, twins Ashleigh and Aiden Delatour have always promised to protect and be there for each other, no matter what. Their privileged upbringing and loving, wealthy parents leave them with little to worry about. But when Aiden is seriously injured during a school trip, the twins’ entire world begins to unravel. Back home from the hospital, something about Aiden seems different and Ashleigh’s quest to find out why will uncover dark truths about the world they thought they knew, challenge their bond as twins and push how far they are willing to go to keep their promises. Catch Me If I Fall is a thrilling, timely examination of the possible future of our planet, the true meaning of family and our responsibilities to each other. Key Text Features chapters dialogue epilogue explanation prologue Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.3 Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character's thoughts, words, or actions). CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.6 Describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3 Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6 Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.
Author : Rosie Childs
Publisher : Random House
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,45 MB
Release : 2011-08-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0753547775
Because she was black, Clare Malone was the talk of her Liverpool council estate. Her mother and her mother's husband were both white and from birth she was stigmatised for this proof of her mother's infidelity. Clare was left in a bare, filthy council house to fend for herself and her siblings until, aged nine, she was placed in the care of an order of strict and often cruel nuns. She finally embarked on a settled life as a nanny and pre-school teacher, but she couldn't escape from herself and the black cloud of her childhood. After suffering a breakdown, Clare was placed in a series of dehumanising psychiatric hospitals for many years until she was helped to remember the horrifying secret of the childhood she thought she had buried forever. Now, with support, she has rebuilt her life as Rosie Childs and has moved on. She is truly happy at last.
Author : Bonnie Graves
Publisher : Fitzroy Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 14,3 MB
Release : 2019-01-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781947548015
Set in Wisconsin during the Great Depression, this is a tale of Emma, a gutsy twelve-year-old girl, and her quest to learn the identity of her father who may be Filippo the Flying Wonder at the visiting circus.
Author : John Hassett
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 12,43 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0618704906
In this version of "The Gingerbread Man, " an ice cube runs away to sea hoping to grow as big as an iceberg and bump into boats.
Author : Irene Awret
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,24 MB
Release : 2004-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0299188337
Berlin 1939. A few months after Kristallnacht, eighteen-year old Irene Spicker tries to flee to Belgium but ends up in a Nazi prison. Freed after a few weeks, she tries again—this time, in the dark of night, she successfully crosses the frontier. The Germans invaded Belgium, and Irene was forced into hiding. Constantly on the move, she worked as a farmhand, at one point using false identity papers. Arrested by the Gestapo, she sat in a cellar prison cell destined for transport to Auschwitz. To calm her fears, she made a small detailed drawing of her hand which was to save her life. Incarcerated in the concentration camp in Mechlen, she was assigned to paint signs, posters and numbers for her co-prisoners to wear around their necks. This is Irene Awret’s story of her first twenty-five years, from coming of age in a middle-class Jewish family to Mechlen where she met the young sculptor Azriel Awret, to liberation and freedom once more. Copublished with Dryad Press.
Author : Anders Arhoj
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 23,61 MB
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1452169225
Cats and dogs rule—and wreak humorous havoc—in this innovative picture book that reads from front to back and back to front! In this action-packed follow-up to Find Me: A Hide-and-Seek Book, readers will delight in tracking a sly cat, Big Meow, and an elusive dog, Little Woof, through 11 richly detailed scenes populated with dogs, cats, and other cute creatures. Finding each protagonist is made even more fun with vibrant color changes on every page. Open the book from the front to search for Big Meow, then open the book from the back to turn the tables and catch Little Woof. It's two seek-and-find experiences in one book!
Author : Neil Bartlett
Publisher : Serpent's Tail
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,38 MB
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1782833943
It is 3 a.m. in The City, and in a dark corner of The Bar, two lovers collide in the beginnings of a passionate and violent affair. Boy: nineteen, beautiful, ready for anyone to take him home, and 'O': the Older Man, cynical, unpredictable, and at the mercy of his personal demons. Their romance is orchestrated and observed by the owner of The Bar, Madame, who looks after her boys and ensures that their haven remains inviolate. At once a joyful celebration of homosexual love and culture, and a devastating evocation of the homophobic climate which stemmed from the 80s AIDS crisis, Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall offers a decisively contemporary recasting of the traditional love story. First published in 1990 and immediately acclaimed as the work of a bold new voice in English fiction, Neil Bartlett's powerful debut continues to shine with an ageless wisdom and wit.
Author : Clyde Watson
Publisher : Philomel
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 42,69 MB
Release : 1978
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9780529054388
Thirty-two rhymes for the very young including counting rhymes, lullabies, and games.
Author : Mark Sperring
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 13,5 MB
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 148145207X
In the spirit of Someday and Guess How Much I Love You comes a lyrical and endearing picture book about the people in our lives who are always there to look out for us. Who will keep the boy safe? “I will,” said his mother. “I will hold him close... and never let him lean too far.” Big or small, near or far, we all need someone to watch over us. This touching picture book is a reassuring tale about a journey and the people who are with us as we travel through life. It is for anyone who has wondered, Who will keep me safe? and for anyone who has answered, I will.
