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The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker

Author : Cynthia DeFelice

Publisher : Macmillan + ORM

Page : 160 pages

File Size : 19,82 MB

Release : 2007-02-20

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 0374706727

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After his family dies of consumption in 1849, twelve-year-old Lucas becomes a doctor's apprentice in this award-winning chapter book from beloved author Cynthia DeFelice, The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker. It's 1849, and twelve-year-old, Lucas Whitaker is all alone after his whole family dies of a disease called consumption which has swept through the community. Lucas is grief-stricken and filled with guilt. He might have saved his mother, who was the last to die, if only he had listened to news of a strange cure for this deadly disease. Unable to manage the family farm by himself, Lucas finds work as an apprentice to Doc Beecher, doctor, dentist, barber and undertaker. Doc amputates a leg as easily as he pulls a tooth, yet when it comes to consumption, he remains powerless, unwilling to try the cure he calls nonsense. Lucas can't accept Doc's disbelief, and he joins others in the dark ritual they believe is their only hope. The startling results teach Lucas a great deal about fear, desperation, and the scientific reasoning that offers hope for a true cure. The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker is a Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.





The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker

Author : Cynthia C. DeFelice

Publisher : Everbind

Page : pages

File Size : 18,46 MB

Release : 2009-07-01

Category :

ISBN : 9780784820063

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Great middle greats fiction.



Bringing Ezra Back

Author : Cynthia DeFelice

Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Page : 159 pages

File Size : 37,95 MB

Release : 2015-04-21

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1466893583

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In Bringing Ezra Back, Nathan Fowler returns to rescue his friend who helped him escape danger in this action-packed sequel to Cynthia DeFelice's beloved Weasel. September 1840 marks five months since twelve-year-old Nathan Fowler's life-threatening encounter with Weasel, the heartless man who stalked Nathan like a wild animal through the forest. Nathan hasn't been the same since, wary of every new person he meets - including the visiting peddler Orrin Beckwith. When Beckwith shows Nate and his family a handbill advertising a show with a "white Injun," a man without a tongue, Nathan is sure the man is his friend Ezra, who lost his tongue to Weasel's knife. Determined to save Ezra from this traveling show of "human oddities," Nathan sets out with Beckwith from Ohio to Pennsylvania. On the way, Nathan encounters more people than he's ever met before, and he begins to learn a thing or two about human nature. The biggest shock, however, is Ezra himself, and it will take more than Nathan bargained for to bring him back home.



Nowhere to Call Home

Author : Cynthia C. DeFelice

Publisher : Harper Collins

Page : 215 pages

File Size : 22,49 MB

Release : 2001-05-22

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 0380733064

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When her father kills himself after losing his money in the stock market crash of 1929, twelve-year-old Frances, now a penniless orphan decides to hop abroad a freight train and live the life of a hobo.



Gateway to Reading

Author : Nancy J. Polette

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Page : 270 pages

File Size : 22,37 MB

Release : 2013-04-08

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1610694244

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Book Description

Get young readers hooked on some of the best titles in juvenile literature, ranging from humor to mystery to fantasy, with unusual and effective methods like games. Getting students to want to read is one of the greatest challenges facing middle school teachers and librarians. Determining which are the "right books" that can spark a child's mental awakening is also difficult. This book from prolific author Nancy Polette furnishes interesting and fun games to pique students' interest in junior novels that are worth reading—carefully selected titles that will contribute to their educational and emotional growth. Gateway to Reading: 250+ Author Games and Booktalks to Motivate Middle Readers is a powerful tool for luring middle-school students away from the distractions of 21st-century media and introducing them to junior or 'tween novels that they won't be able to put down. By presenting children with a challenge to engage their minds—racing to decode book titles, or using their creativity to come up with titles of their own, for example—students are naturally drawn towards reading these books from well-known children's authors.



More Rip-Roaring Reads for Reluctant Teen Readers

Author : Bette D. Ammon

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Page : 174 pages

File Size : 47,59 MB

Release : 1998-12-15

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 0313077584

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Show reluctant teens that reading is not only fundamental-it's also fun! In this companion book to Rip-Roaring Reads for Reluctant Teen Readers, Ammon and Sherman describe 40 exciting, contemporary titles (20 for middle school, 20 for high school) written by outstanding authors. These are books your students won't want to put down. Designed to make the matching process between student and books easy and successful, this volume also includes genre and theme indexes, curriculum activities, interest and readability levels, and reproducible bookmarks for each entry.



The Ghost of Fossil Glen

Author : Cynthia DeFelice

Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Page : 181 pages

File Size : 20,80 MB

Release : 2010-03-30

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1429930535

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From beloved author Cynthia DeFelice, The Ghost of Fossil Glen marks the first installment in this gripping middle grade series featuring sixth-grader and ghost magnet Allie Nichols, who solves mysteries with the help of her friend Dub. Allie Nichols knows she's being pursued by a ghost. But her friend Karen calls her a liar and doesn't want to hear "stuff like that." It is Allie's old pal Dub who listens eagerly as Allie tells him about a voice that guides her safely down a steep cliff side, the face in her mind's eye of a girl who begs "Help me," and a terrible nightmare in which that girl falls to her death. Who is the girl? Is she the ghost? And what does the ghost want from Allie? As Allie discovers that her role is to avenge a murder, she also learns something about friendship, false and true, in this chilling tale from bestselling author Cynthia DeFelice.



Finest Kind

Author : Lea Wait

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 264 pages

File Size : 11,80 MB

Release : 2006-10-10

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1416909524

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When his father's Boston bank fails in 1838, causing his family to relocate to a small Maine town, twelve-year-old Jake Webber works to prepare the family for the harsh winter while also keeping the existence of his disabled younger brother a secret.



The Missing Manatee

Author : Cynthia DeFelice

Publisher : Macmillan + ORM

Page : 125 pages

File Size : 29,18 MB

Release : 2015-04-21

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1466893591

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A tribute to Florida, fishing, and family, Cynthia DeFelice's The Missing Manatee is "Sure to hook readers." -Booklist All Skeet Waters wants is to catch a big, beautiful tarpon on his fly rod - and to keep everything else in his life in Florida the way it's always been. But on his spring break from school, Skeet overhears his mother telling his father to move out permanently. Then, while riding in his boat to escape his parents' troubles, he discovers a manatee that's been shot in the head. Skeet puts aside his search for the manatee and its killer when Dirty Dan the Tarpon Man offers to take him out to catch his first tarpon on a fly. Because of Dan, Skeet begins to unravel the mysteries surrounding the manatee's apparent murder and his parents' dissolving marriage. Skeet discovers that life is a lot like tarpon fishing, in which you can't look just at the surface of the water - you have to look through it, at what lies beneath. The Missing Manatee was nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery