Author : Elizabeth Atkinson
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books ®
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 20,28 MB
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1467732214
I, Emma Freke is a charming search-for-identity story about Emma—the only "normal" member of her quirky family. While Emma desperately tries to find her niche, she discovers that perhaps it's better to be her own "freak" than someone else's Freke.
Author : Elizabeth Atkinson
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books ®
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 37,60 MB
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1512404721
Eleven-year-old Martin can hardly imagine a worse summer. Martin's dad wants him to like "normal" boy things—playing sports and exploring the outdoors—so he sends Martin to his great-aunt Lenore, who lives on a tiny island called Beyond. Nothing about Beyond is what Martin expects, certainly not the strange, local boy who unexpectedly befriends Martin. Solo can canoe and climb trees and survive on his own in the wilderness, and Martin's drawn to him in a way he doesn't quite understand. But he's not sure he can trust Solo. In fact, can he trust anything about this strange island, where everyone seems to be keeping secrets?
Author : Elizabeth Atkinson
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 23,51 MB
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1541590740
A heartfelt story that sensitively tackles the everyday inner turmoil of growing up and staying true to oneself. Twelve-year-old Agnes hates everything about her life: her name, her parents' divorce, her best friend's abandonment, her changing body . . . . So while staying with her dad over the summer, she decides to become someone else. She tells people she meets that her name is Chloe, she's fourteen, her parents are married, and she's a dancer and actor—just the life she wants. But Agnes's fibs quickly stack up and start to complicate her new friendships, especially with Fin, whose mysterious relative runs a local raptor rehab center that fascinates Agnes. The birds, given time and care, heal and fly back home. Agnes, too, wants to get back to wherever she truly belongs. But first she must come to see the good in her real life, however flawed and messy it is, and be honest with her friends, her family, and herself.
Author : Jacqueline West
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 30,56 MB
Release : 2011-06-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1101532297
For fans of Small Spaces, Coraline, A Series of Unfortunate Events, and James Howe's Bunnicula classics comes the first book in the award-winning, New York Times bestselling Books of Elsewhere series. This house is keeping secrets . . . When eleven-year-old Olive and her parents move into the crumbling mansion on Linden Street and find it filled with mysterious paintings, Olive knows the place is creepy—but it isn’t until she encounters its three talking cats that she realizes there’s something darkly magical afoot. Then Olive finds a pair of antique spectacles in a dusty drawer and discovers the most peculiar thing yet: She can travel inside the house’s spooky paintings to a world that’s strangely quiet . . . and eerily sinister. But in entering Elsewhere, Olive has been ensnared in a mystery darker and more dangerous than she could have imagined, confronting a power that wants to be rid of her by any means necessary. With only the cats and an unusual boy she meets in Elsewhere on her side, it’s up to Olive to save the house from the shadows, before the lights go out for good.
Author : Tim Freke
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 48,76 MB
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1780289626
A stirring response to Eckhart Tolle’s invitation to find the “Power of Now” that invites spiritual seekers to rethink awareness, awakening, and presence After a lifetime studying the world’s spiritual traditions, pioneering philosopher Tim Freke presents the mystical heart of spirituality in eight transformative principles. Drawing from his personal experience, he compares spiritual awakening to the experience of lucid dreaming—except while in the waking state. Awakening is lucid living. This astonishingly direct book points to an awakened state, guiding you through a radically new way of looking at the present moment, step by step. It will take you less than an hour to read, but it could change your life for good. Since it was first published, Lucid Living has come to be seen by many as a modern spiritual classic. In this new edition Tim Freke reworks adds an eighth principle to account for the profound developments in his own understanding of awakening.
Author : Lisa Graff
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 27,75 MB
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 006191259X
Annie Richards knows there are a million things to look out for—bicycle accidents, food poisoning, chicken pox, smallpox, typhoid fever, runaway zoo animals, and poison oak. That's why being careful is so important, even if it does mean giving up some of her favorite things, like bike races with her best friend, Rebecca, and hot dogs on the Fourth of July. Everyone keeps telling Annie not to worry so much, that she's just fine. But they thought her brother, Jared, was just fine too, and Jared died. It takes a new neighbor, who looks as plain as a box of toothpicks but has some surprising secrets of her own, to make Annie realize that her plans for being careful aren't working out as well as she had hoped. And with a lot of help from those around her—and a book about a pig, too—Annie just may find a way to close her umbrella of sadness and step back into the sunshine. With winsome humor and a dash of small-town charm, Lisa Graff's third novel is a touching look at rising above grief and the healing power of community.
Author : Virginia Hamilton
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 38,68 MB
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1453246711
All of the kids at school stay away from “Bluish,” but when Dreenie and Tuli learn to see beyond her differences, they discover a true friend Ten-year-old Natalie is different from the other kids at her New York City magnet school: She is often absent, wears a knit cap, and uses a wheelchair. Her classmates have nicknamed her “Bluish” because her pale skin is tinted blue from chemotherapy. Dreenie is fascinated by and a bit frightened of Bluish—she watches her from afar and writes about her in her journal. As the school year progresses, Dreenie and her friend Tuli learn to see beyond Bluish’s differences and discover a fiercely independent, spirited girl who isn’t so different from them after all. But it’s not easy being friends with someone who’s sick, and Dreenie doesn’t always know how to act. Hamilton delivers a lesson of compassion and demonstrates the power of friendship to overcome even the most trying of situations.
Author : Maria Edgeworth
Publisher :
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 23,90 MB
Release : 1811
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Author : Joan Hiatt Harlow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 35,49 MB
Release : 2008-06-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1439107807
It's 1775 and the American colonies are on the brink of revolution. Boston is swarming with soldiers, spies, and secrets. Tempers are flaring between the Whigs and the Tories. Fourteen-year-old Hannah Andrews is thrown into the middle of it all when she is driven out of her home by her guardian aunt to work as an indentured servant in the Boston household of Thomas Gage, governor of the colonies and general of the British armies. Soon after Hannah's arrival, the stable boy, Caleb, befriends her and alerts her to the issues faced by Americans under British rule. Hannah dreams of freedom and begins to sympathize with Americans who desire independence from Britain. On the other hand, Hannah has deep respect for the Gage family and affection for her rebellious young mistress, Meg. Hannah soon realizes that Meg is as trapped in her aristocratic life as Hannah is in her own bondage as a servant. Hannah relies on her beloved horse, Promise, to help her through the difficult times. Disguised as a boy on her midnight rides with Promise, Hannah learns on which side her heart belongs. Then, when Hannah overhears a British plot to march on her hometown, she and Promise risk their lives to carry the warning to the town of Salem. Packed with fascinating historical details, real events, and memorable characters, Midnight Rider is historical fiction at its best--guaranteed to thrill Joan Hiatt Harlow's loyal fans as well as those lucky readers who are discovering her for the first time.
Author : Walter Dean Myers
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 45,41 MB
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0062069578
For the very first time in his decades-long career writing for teens, acclaimed and beloved author Walter Dean Myers writes with a teen, Ross Workman. Kevin Johnson is thirteen years old. And heading for juvie. He's a good kid, a great friend, and a star striker for his Highland, New Jersey, soccer team. His team is competing for the State Cup, and he wants to prove he has more than just star-player potential. Kevin's never been in any serious trouble . . . until the night he ends up in jail. Enter Sergeant Brown, a cop assigned to be Kevin's mentor. If Kevin and Brown can learn to trust each other, they might be able to turn things around before it's too late.
