Author : Angela Johnson
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 17,41 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780590481427
Spanning three generations of African-American women, each holding on to a separate truth, this Coretta Scott King Award-winning novel details the struggle these women face in finding a common ground upon which to share their love, friendship, and hardships.
Author : Angela Johnson
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 37,38 MB
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1338325779
Winner of the Coretta Scott King AwardA School Library Journal Best BookA Booklist Editor's Choice One Last LookEmmie and her mother are headed for the desert to help Grandmama Ola pack up her life. Box by box, the pieces of Ola's past are neatly tucked away, and a collection of memories is opened. As the end of their final visit draws closer, Emmie, Mama, and Ola come to terms with the history they share. Each holds on to a separate truth -- a truth about life, about death, and about themselves.
Author : Angela Johnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 13,71 MB
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1439106584
Bobby's a classic urban teenager. He's restless. He's impulsive. But the thing that makes him different is this: He's going to be a father. His girlfriend, Nia, is pregnant, and their lives are about to change forever. Instead of spending time with friends, they'll be spending time with doctors, and next, diapers. They have options: keeping the baby, adoption. They want to do the right thing. If only it was clear what the right thing was.
Author : Angela Johnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 26,30 MB
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0689873786
Lottie Paris goes to the library, her favorite place in the world, and makes a new friend for whom the library is also a special place. Full color.
Author : Angela Johnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,3 MB
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1442417269
From three-time Coretta Scott King Award–winner Angela Johnson, a wrenching, honest book about surviving the unimaginable and finding a way to go on. Scotty compares herself to tofu: no flavor unless you add something. And it’s true that Scotty’s friends, Misha and Falcone, and her brother, Keone, make life delicious. But when a terrible accident occurs, Scotty feels responsible for the loss of someone she hardly knew, and the world goes wrong. She cannot tell what is a dream and what is real. Her friends are having a hard time getting through to her and her family is preoccupied with their own trauma. But the prospect of a boy, a dance, and the possibility that everything can fall back into place soon helps Scotty realize that she is capable of adding her own flavor to life. With artfully spare prose, acclaimed and award-winning author Angela Johnson explores the ramifications of unexpected death in this compelling coming-of-age story. An ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults pick.
Author : Angela Johnson
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 16,35 MB
Release : 2003
Category : African American families
ISBN : 9780439440820
Author : Angela Johnson
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 34,14 MB
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1338898353
A humorous and joyful celebration of love and sharing by the award-winning and bestselling duo, Angela Johnson and Dav Pilkey. When Maya's grandfather comes to visit from Alaska, he brings a surprise in a crate -- something, he says, to teach her "fun and sharing." Maya hopes it's a horse or a big brother. But instead, it's a huge, pink pig named Julius! Maya's parents see Julius as a slob, but Maya feels differently. She sees a playmate, a protector, and a sharer in all that's magical and wild. This brand-new edition of the classic picture book by award-winning author Angela Johnson and illustrator Dav Pilkey will teach a new generation of readers about friendship, affection, and sharing, with lots of laughs along the way.
Author : Angela Johnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 16,74 MB
Release : 2008-09-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1439136793
Twelve-year-old Mike -- short for Michaela -- loves the ocean. The sights, sounds, and smells of her coastal home are embedded in her very soul. But Michaela loves her brother, Red, even more. Then one day Red disappears. One minute he's there, the next...gone. No warning. No time to prepare. And Mike must come to terms with that loss or risk never finding comfort in what remains of the life she and her brother once shared.
Author : Angela Johnson
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,19 MB
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0307487946
Welcome to Magnolia Street, where Charlie has just moved into her new home. It isn't long before Charlie's exploring, meeting all of her new neighbors, and getting herself into trouble. Her adventures with her bound-to-be best friend Billy--tricking Charlie's older brother, making a racket on a bus trip to the museum, or digging up a box of buried treasure--make even ordinary exciting. This collection of interrelated short stories is a true delight, perfect for newly emerging independent readers. Both girls and boys will cheer for this spunky girl as she takes on Magnolia Street and blossoms day by day.
Author : Angela Johnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 31,96 MB
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0689848285
Coretta Scott King Award–winning author Angela Johnson writes a poignant young adult novel of deception, self-discovery, and knowing what to do when truth is at hand. You never know what’s gonna come down—in Heaven.At fourteen, Marley knows she has Momma’s hands and Pops’s love for ice cream, that her brother doesn’t get on her nerves too much, and that Uncle Jack is a big mystery. But Marley doesn’t know all she thinks she does, because she doesn’t know the truth. And when the truth comes down with the rain one stormy summer afternoon, it changes everything. It turns Momma and Pops into liars. It makes her brother a stranger and Uncle Jack an even bigger mystery. All of a sudden, Marley doesn’t know who she is anymore and can only turn to the family she no longer trusts to find out. Truth often brings change. Sometimes that change is for the good. Sometimes it isn’t.
