Author :
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 21,38 MB
Release : 2005-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780618585434
Willa knows exactly what she wants to be when she grows up--a fairy princess, complete with wings, wand, and fairy dust. But being a fairy princess is not as easy as it looks, and soon Willa's in trouble at school and in a fight with her best friend. Does Willa have what it takes to make good things happen and be a good fairy princess?
Author : Robert Beatty
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 30,34 MB
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1368010601
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Robert Beatty comes a spooky, thrilling new series set in the magical world of Serafina. Move without a sound. Steal without a trace. Willa, a young nightspirit of the Great Smoky Mountains, is her clan's best thief. She creeps into the homes of day-folk in the cover of darkness and takes what they won't miss. It's dangerous work—the day-folk kill whatever they do not understand. But when Willa's curiosity leaves her hurt and stranded in a day-folk man's home, everything she thought she knew about her people—and their greatest enemy—is forever changed.
Author : Melissa J. Homestead
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 36,35 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 019065287X
Drawing on newly uncovered archives, The Only Wonderful Things offers a groundbreaking look at American novelist Willa Cather's creative process by arguing that the writer's life partner, magazine editor Edith Lewis, had a crucial impact on Cather's literary work.
Author : Robert Beatty
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,90 MB
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 136801061X
This enchanting companion to Robert Beatty's instant #1 New York Times bestseller Willa of the Wood is perfect for any reader who cares deeply about the natural world. Willa and her clan are the last of the Faeran, an ancient race of forest people who have lived in the Great Smoky Mountains for as long as the trees have grown there. But as crews of newly arrived humans start cutting down great swaths of the forest she loves, she is helpless to stop them. How can she fight the destroyers of the forest and their powerful machines?When Willa discovers a mysterious dark hollow filled with strange and beautiful creatures, she comes to realize that it contains a terrifying force that seems to be hunting humans. Is unleashing these dangerous spirits the key to stopping the loggers? Willa must find a way to save the people and animals she loves and take a stand against a consuming darkness that threatens to destroy her world.Filled with a compelling mixture of history, mystery, and magic, Robert Beatty's books are loved by readers from 8 to 108.Grow your middle grade fantasy collection with these best-selling fan favorites:Serafina and the Black Cloak by Robert BeattyWilla of the Wood by Robert BeattyIf We Were Giants by Dave Matthews and Clete Barrett SmithThe Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick RiordanThe Fowl Twins by Eoin Colfer
Author : Coleen Murtagh Paratore
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 48,71 MB
Release : 2008-06-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1439103798
It's almost summer on Cape Cod, where Willa Havisham and Joey Kennelly are finally enjoying their status as the most compatible couple at Bramble Academy. When the community theater advertises auditions for Our Town, Willa and Joey seem fated to play the romantic leads. But when Marielle, the dazzling new girl, offers up some dramatic competition, Willa turns greener than the lawn at her parents' inn. With two inn weddings the same weekend in June, Willa, who is now the official assistant wedding planner, has enough to do just helping Chef Rosie bake the wedding cakes of the century, and keeping sixteen beauty pageant bridesmaids in check. When a dance with a Southern gentleman sends her spinning under the stars, there's no telling what is destined for Willa and Joey.
Author :
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 10,83 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :
Willa And The Wind is a Marshall Cavendish publication.
Author : Cecilia Galante
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 18,55 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0375869476
Willa Bean, who wants to master flying before starting school at Cupid Academy, celebrates her unconventional looks and unique personality, but struggles to accept that cupids learn how to fly at different times.
Author : Laura Munson
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 18,35 MB
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 198260526X
You are invited to the rest of your life. Three women, from coast to coast and in between, open their mailboxes to the same intriguing invitation. Although leading entirely different lives, each has found herself at a similar, jarring crossroads. Right when these women thought they’d be comfortably settling into middle age, their carefully curated futures have turned out to be dead ends. The sender of the invitation is Willa Silvester, who is reeling from the untimely death of her beloved husband and the reality that she must say goodbye to the small mountain town they founded together. Yet as Willa mourns her losses, an impossible question keeps staring her in the face: So now what? Struggling to find the answer alone, fiercely independent Willa eventually calls a childhood friend who happens to be in her own world of hurt—and that’s where the idea sparks. They decide to host a weeklong interlude from life, and invite two other friends facing their own quandaries. Soon the four women converge at Willa’s Montana homestead, a place where they can learn from nature and one another as they contemplate their second acts together in the rugged wilderness of big sky country.
Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,61 MB
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
My Antonia is a novel by an American writer Willa Cather. It is the final book of the "prairie trilogy" of novels, preceded by O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark. The novel tells the stories of an orphaned boy from Virginia, Jim Burden, and Antonia Shimerda, the daughter of Bohemian immigrants. They are both became pioneers and settled in Nebraska in the end of the 19th century. The first year in the very new place leaves strong impressions in both children, affecting them lifelong. The narrator and the main character of the novel My Antonia, Jim grows up in Black Hawk, Nebraska from age 10 Eventually, he becomes a successful lawyer and moves to New York City.
Author : Philomena O'Neill
Publisher : Sterling Children's Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,68 MB
Release : 2017
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN : 9781454925736
When Willa's ragdoll, Rosie, falls into the snow and disappears, Willa is inconsolable until Rosie mysteriously reappears on Grandma's doorstep.
