Book Description
A high school football player has to face his collapsing world brought on by his drinking problem.
Author : Jan Cheripko
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 38,97 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781563977053
A high school football player has to face his collapsing world brought on by his drinking problem.
Author : Anushka Ravishankar
Publisher : Tara Publishing
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 24,99 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9788186211359
Tiger, tiger on a treeIs it true? Can it be?Did he fly? Did he flee?Did he fall and hurt his knee?Did he cry? Did he plead?If you want to know,Read.An award-winning combination of black, orange and whimsical poetry, this is the tale of a wild tiger cub that wanders into an Indian village. The art, verse and typography run and bounce off the page, drawing both the curious child and the quizzical adult into the book's ever-surprising world.
Author : Jan Cheripko
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : pages
File Size : 49,10 MB
Release : 1998-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780606251723
Chris Serbo knows and loves football and struggles to play it well, but when faced with pressure, he turns to alcohol and rebels against those who are the closest to him, including his aunt, coach, teachers, and friends.
Author : Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 26,11 MB
Release : 2001-06
Category : Pets
ISBN : 0743426894
The author who revealed the secret lives of dogs in the best-selling The Hidden Life of Dogs offers a journey into the hidden life of cats and reports that cats, surprisingly, are not solitary beings. Reissue.
Author : Aravind Adiga
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 35,7 MB
Release : 2008-04-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1416562737
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE The stunning Booker Prize–winning novel from the author of Amnesty and Selection Day that critics have likened to Richard Wright’s Native Son, The White Tiger follows a darkly comic Bangalore driver through the poverty and corruption of modern India’s caste society. “This is the authentic voice of the Third World, like you've never heard it before” (John Burdett, Bangkok 8). The white tiger of this novel is Balram Halwai, a poor Indian villager whose great ambition leads him to the zenith of Indian business culture, the world of the Bangalore entrepreneur. On the occasion of the president of China’s impending trip to Bangalore, Balram writes a letter to him describing his transformation and his experience as driver and servant to a wealthy Indian family, which he thinks exemplifies the contradictions and complications of Indian society. Recalling The Death of Vishnu and Bangkok 8 in ambition, scope, The White Tiger is narrative genius with a mischief and personality all its own. Amoral, irreverent, deeply endearing, and utterly contemporary, this novel is an international publishing sensation—and a startling, provocative debut.
Author : Sharon M. Draper
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 36,62 MB
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1439132062
The flame of love burns bright in the second book of Sharon M. Draper’s award-winning Hazelwood High trilogy. When Gerald was a child he was fascinated by fire. But fire is dangerous and powerful, and tragedy strikes. His substance-addicted mother is taken from him. Then he loses the loving generosity of a favorite aunt, and a brutal stepfather with a flaming temper and an evil secret makes his life miserable. The one bright light in Gerald's life is his little half sister, Angel, whom he struggles to protect from her father, who is abusing her. Somehow Gerald manages to finds success as a member of the Hazelwood Tigers basketball team, and Angel develops her talents as a dancer, despite the trouble that still haunts them. And Gerald learns, painfully, that young friends can die and old enemies must be faced. In the end he must stand up to his stepfather alone in a blazing confrontation. In this second book of the Hazelwood High trilogy, Sharon M. Draper has woven characters and events from Tears of a Tiger in an unflinchingly realistic portrayal of poverty and child abuse. It is an inspiring story of a young man who rises above the tragic circumstances of his life by drawing on the love and strength of family and friends.
Author : Joe Pedley
Publisher : Usborne Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,7 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Animal sounds
ISBN : 9780746041048
Different farm animals make different noises.
Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 14,70 MB
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1913724263
George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
Author : Sharon M. Draper
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 31,21 MB
Release : 2013-07-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1442489138
The death of high school basketball star Rob Washington in an automobile accident affects the lives of his close friend Andy, who was driving the car, and many others in the school.
Author : Valdemar Adolph Thisted
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 18,2 MB
Release : 1866
Category : Hell
ISBN :