Author : Ruth McNally Barshaw
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,23 MB
Release : 2013-05-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1599909049
Ellie captures all the excruciating and funny details of a dreaded camping trip in her secret journal. Complete with games, songs, weird facts, and more, Ellie's sketch diary soon reveals she's actually having fun! Perfect for sleep-away campers, vacationers, and any kid looking for a great summer read. "Reminiscent of Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid... Humorous and realistic." --SLJ on Ellie McDoodle New Kid in School
Author : Ruth McNally Barshaw
Publisher : Paw Prints
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,79 MB
Release : 2009-07-10
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ISBN : 9781439599990
Eleven-year-old Ellie McDoodle illustrates her sketchbook with chronicles of her adventures and mishaps while camping with her cousins, aunt, and uncle, of which she is determined to hate every single minute. Reprint.
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,79 MB
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1599906570
Ellie pet sits for her neighbor's African grey parrot Alix, while her family argues over whether to get a cat or a dog, and her little brother accidentally lets Alix out of his cage, all of which is chronicled in Ellie's sketchbook.
Author : Ruth McNally Barshaw
Publisher : Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,59 MB
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781599907161
When Ellie's family moves to a new town, she's sure she won't fit in. Nobody else likes to read as much as she does, the other kids tease her, and even the teachers can't seem to get her name right. But when the students need someone to help them rally against unfair lunch lines, it's Ellie to the rescue! Ellie McDoodle takes pen in hand again as she chronicles the woes-and happy surprises-of being a new kid. Chock-full of cartoons, diagrams, lists, games, and plenty of witty asides, this charming follow up to Ellie McDoodle: Have Pen,Will Travel will ease the new kid blues-and perhaps inspire some creative doodling, too. "Done in a style reminiscent of Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid, this sequel to Ellie McDoodle: Have Pen, Will Travel is a humorous and realistic look at moving." --SLJ
Author : Ruth McNally Barshaw
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 20,29 MB
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1408855976
One girl. One sketchbook. One week with the world's most annoying relatives. The first book in the brilliant Ellie McDoodle series!
Author : Ruth McNally Barshaw
Publisher : Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,18 MB
Release : 2009-07-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781599903613
When Ellie's family moves to a new town, she's sure she won't fit in. Nobody else likes to read as much as she does, and even the teachers can't get her name right. But when the students need someone to help them rally against unfair lunch lines, it's Ellie to the rescue—and if shorter lines and better food prevail, can friendship be far behind?
Author : Blue Balliett
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 39,10 MB
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0545279135
This new mystery from bestselling author Blue Balliett is now available in After Words paperback!When Calder Pillay travels with his father to a remote village in England, he finds a mix of mazes and mystery . . . including an unexpected Alexander Calder sculpture in the town square. Calder is strangely drawn to the sculpture, while other people have less-than-friendly feelings towards it. Both the boy and the sculpture seem to be out of place . . . and then, on the same night, they disappear! Calder's friends Petra and Tommy must fly out to help his father find him. But this mystery has more twists and turns than a Calder mobile . . . with more at stake than first meets the eye.
Author : Claire Keegan
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 49,77 MB
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802160158
An international bestseller and one of The Times’ “Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century,” Claire Keegan’s piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love; now released as a standalone book for the first time ever in the US It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas’ house, she finds an affection and warmth she has not known and slowly, in their care, begins to blossom. But there is something unspoken in this new household—where everything is so well tended to—and this summer must soon come to an end. Winner of the prestigious Davy Byrnes Award and published in an abridged version in the New Yorker, this internationally bestselling contemporary classic is now available for the first time in the US in a full, standalone edition. A story of astonishing emotional depth, Foster showcases Claire Keegan’s great talent and secures her reputation as one of our most important storytellers.
Author : Jennifer Egan
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 13,65 MB
Release : 2010-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307593622
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • With music pulsing on every page, this startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption “features characters about whom you come to care deeply as you watch them doing things they shouldn't, acting gloriously, infuriatingly human” (The Chicago Tribune). One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. “Pitch perfect.... Darkly, rippingly funny.... Egan possesses a satirist’s eye and a romance novelist’s heart.” —The New York Times Book Review
Author : Dean Pitchford
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 36,25 MB
Release : 2009-07-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1101024844
When Newt Newman's football-star brother, Chris, is knocked into a coma during the biggest game of the season, Newt's two best friends keep his mind off of the accident by helping him create the ultimate Halloween costume: Captain Nobody. Newt feels strong and confident in his new getup, so he keeps wearing it after Halloween is over. Soon Newt assumes the role of a hero in a string of exploits that include foiling a robbery and saving a planeload of passengers. But will Captain Nobody be able to save the one person he cares about most?
