Book Description
Written by Sally Hopgood, this picture book tells the heart-warming story about emotions and the magic of nature.
Author : Sally Hopgood
Publisher :
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 49,17 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781782445388
Written by Sally Hopgood, this picture book tells the heart-warming story about emotions and the magic of nature.
Author : Satoshi Kitamura
Publisher : Candlewick Press (MA)
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 22,79 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :
When a modern young boy is transported back in time to a Stone Age village, he learns all about a new way of life.
Author : Tanya Lee Stone
Publisher : Wendy Lamb Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 35,32 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0307433056
Josie, Nicolette, and Aviva all get mixed up with a senior boy–a cool, slick, sexy boy who can talk them into doing almost anything he wants. In a blur of high school hormones and personal doubt, each girl struggles with how much to give up and what ultimately to keep for herself. How do girls handle themselves? How much can a boy get away with? And in the end, who comes out on top? A bad boy may always be a bad boy. But this bad boy is about to meet three girls who won’t back down.
Author : Alyssa Sheinmel
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 10,54 MB
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0307974626
She feels like a creature out of a fairy tale; a girl who discovers that her bones are really made out of stone, that her skin is really as thin as glass, that her hair is brittle as straw, that her tears have dried up so that she cries only salt. Maybe that's why it doesn't hurt when she presses hard enough to begin bleeding: it doesn't hurt, because she's not real anymore. Sethie Weiss is hungry, a mean, angry kind of hunger that feels like a piece of glass in her belly. She’s managed to get down to 111 pounds and knows that with a little more hard work—a few more meals skipped, a few more snacks vomited away—she can force the number on the scale even lower. She will work on her body the same way she worked to get her perfect grades, to finish her college applications early, to get her first kiss from Shaw, the boy she loves, the boy who isn’t quite her boyfriend. Sethie will not allow herself one slip, not one bad day, not one break in concentration. Her body is there for her to work on when everything and everyone else—her best friend, her schoolwork, and Shaw—are gone. From critically acclaimed writer Alyssa B. Sheinmel comes an unflinching and unparalleled portrayal of one girl’s withdrawal, until she is sinking like a stone into her own illness, her own loneliness—her own self.
Author : Sophie Loubière
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,81 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1455547603
The bestselling French phenomenon, winner of the Prix Lion Noir, now available in English for the first time... When Madame Préau returns to her own house outside Paris after several years spent in a convalescent home, she immediately notices that the neighborhood has changed. Now, instead of a beautiful garden next door there is a new house. And she can see directly into her new neighbors' windows. Madame Préau quickly feels that something isn't right. Her neighbors have two perfectly healthy children who play in the yard after school. But there is also a third child: a young boy who looks malnourished and abused, and tosses small stones at her window in an apparent call for help. The family denies his existence. But is the little boy real, or merely a hallucination of a lonely, mentally unstable old woman cut off from her own beloved grandson? When the police refuse to listen to her, Madame Préau decides to take matters into her own hands. She's determined to help the little boy, and she'll do anything to make sure he's safe...
Author : Dirk Wittenborn
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,43 MB
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1324005815
The Stone Girl is a riveting tale of deception, vengeance, and power set against the haunting beauty of the Adirondack wilderness. Deep in the Adirondack Mountains lies a speck of a town called Rangeley. There isn’t much to this tiny town, but it is at the crossroads of serene fishing streams off the Mink River, pristine hunting grounds in the surrounding mountains, and vast estates of the extremely rich. It is also the gateway to the Mohawk Club, which houses the Lost Boys, an exclusive group of wealthy and powerful men with global influence and a taste for depravity. Raised wild and poor in the shadows of the Mohawk Club, Evie Quimby was a teenager when she first fell victim to the Lost Boys. Seventeen years later, she is now a world-renowned art restorer famous for repairing even the most-broken statues. After spending half her life in Paris, establishing her reputation and raising her daughter Chloé, Evie has come a long way from the girl who left Rangeley behind. But when Chloé receives a visit from an elegant stranger who claims to be an old friend of her mother’s, the ghosts of Evie’s past return in full force, pulling her back to the North Country of her girlhood and into the tangled, intricate web of the Lost Boys. Evie bands together with her formidable mother and an embattled heiress, both victims of the Lost Boys, in pursuit of an unusual and heart-stopping vengeance.
Author : Eleni Hale
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,93 MB
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1760146692
An unspeakable event changes everything for Sophie. No more Mum, school or bed of her own. She’s made a ward of the state and grows up in a volatile world where kids make their own rules, adults don’t count and the only constant is change. Until one day she meets Gwen, Matty and Spiral. Spiral is the most furious, beautiful boy Sophie has ever known. And as their bond tightens she finally begins to confront what happened in her past. I’m at the police station. There’s blood splattered across my face and clothes. In this tiny room with walls the colour of winter sky I hug a black backpack full of treasures. Only one thing is certain . . . no one can ever forgive me for what I’ve done. Winner of the Readings YA Book Prize, 2019 Voted the Best Young Adult Book of the year by Readings customers Voted Favourite YA Read of the year by Kids’ Book Review Voted in the top 100 great reads by Australian women Shortlisted for New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature, 2019 Contains mature content. Suitable for older readers.
Author : Irvin Morris
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 20,67 MB
Release : 2013-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0806172851
The Diné, or Navajo, creation story says there were four worlds before this, the Glittering World. For the present-day Diné this is a world of glittering technology and influences from outside the sacred land entrusted to them by the Holy People. From the Glittering World conveys in vivid language how a contemporary Diné writer experiences this world as a mingling of the profoundly traditional with the sometimes jarringly, sometimes alluringly new. "Throughout the book, Morris’s command of a crisp unpretentious prose is most impressive...His style is so low-key that he hardly seems to be trying to be ’artistic,’ yet the cumulative effect of these pieces is quite powerful. For Morris’s beautiful descriptions of the remote Navajo reservation this book deserves to be on the shelf of anyone tracking the literature of the Southwest."-Western American Literature "Beginning with the Navajo creation story and ending with the summation of everything in between, Morris shows an incredible agility in jumping from truth to myth, from now to then, and from what is to what might have been."-The Sunday Oklahoman "In From the Glittering World, Irvin Morris has woven a wondrous and sometimes terrifying weave of stories centered in the Navajo experience. . . . Irvin Morris’ strong style, his vivid imagery, his deft handling of complex structures, and his deep knowledge of Navajo tradition combine to produce a work as powerful and enduring as Leslie Marmon Silko’s Storyteller and N. Scott Momaday’s The Names. With From the Glittering World, Irvin Morris has joined the ranks of great contemporary authors."-Telluride Times-Journal
Author :
Publisher : Classic Books Company
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 33,58 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 0742698017
Author : Vipin Suren
Publisher : Vipin Suren
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,23 MB
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
This magical fantasy adventure, is a fast paced story that takes the reader through a roller coaster ride of mystical powers, motives of vengeance, moves and counter-moves, violent battles, camaraderie and at times simple adolescent fun as narrated by the key characters in the story from their respective perspectives. Being a pre-teen himself when the author started on this project, the target readers are primarily from that age group (11-15). The protagonists here are the incredible siblings, each blessed with unique powers that have been paternally obtained and their relentless quest to fulfill their destiny. On learning that the Dark King, their evil grandfather from a distant planet, has malicious designs to subjugate planet earth under his control and is also the one responsible for their father’s demise, they embark on a journey to not just seek revenge but to also save the earth from eventual anarchy and destruction. They quickly realize that despite their supernatural abilities, they are set against not just one formidable enemy, but another even more powerful entity, making their endeavor a fearsome challenge with terrifying consequences.