Author : C Géraldine
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 34,76 MB
Release : 2021-06-13
Category :
ISBN : 9780998423111
Lilipearl and Earl are the happiest fish in the world. They couldn't be happier! They live in a tranquil and most beautiful pond all by themselves. All they want is peace and quiet but they are in for a surprise... A tale with a twist! As the story unfolds, young children can follow the wonderful life cycle of a frog.
Author : Annika Thor
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 37,39 MB
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0385740409
A Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Book and an ALA-ALSC Notable Children’s Book, The Lily Pond continues the story of two Jewish sisters who left Austria during WWII/Holocaust and found refuge in Sweden. A year after Stephie Steiner and her younger sister, Nellie, left Nazi-occupied Vienna, Stephie has finally adapted to life on the rugged Swedish island where her she now lives. But more change awaits Stephie: her foster parents have allowed her to enroll in school on the mainland, in Goteberg. Stephie is eager to go. Not only will she be pursuing her studies, she'll be living in a cultured city again--under the same roof as Sven, the son of the lodgers who rented her foster parents' cottage for the summer. Five years her senior, Sven dazzles Stephie with his charm, his talk of equality, and his anti-Hitler sentiments. Stephie can't help herself--she's falling in love. As she navigates a sea of new emotions, she also grapples with what it means to be beholden to others, with her constant worry about what her parents are enduring back in Vienna, and with the menacing spread of Nazi idealogy, even in Sweden. In these troubled times, her true friends, Stephie discovers, are the ones she least expected.
Author :
Publisher : Lyons Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,98 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Beavers
ISBN : 9781558214552
Over a span of four years, the author studied the activities of one family of beavers as it went about its business.
Author : Shelley Daniels Lekven
Publisher : Claytown Press
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 16,89 MB
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0998866636
Costumed frogs in an enchanting world, all delicately crafted from colored modeling clay, populate the illustrations in LILY POND. The story follows the vivid imagination of a little frog named Lily Pond, as she lies in bed one night daydreaming about her future with all its possibilities and promise of adventure. Lily considers travels to distant lands, saving lives, fame, acclaim and several possible careers, all from the safety of her cozy bedroom. Note: One career possibility Lily considers for her future is being the head of state. This is the “premier” version.
Author : Annika Thor
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 18,8 MB
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0375844953
Two Jewish sister leave Austria during WWII/Holocaust and find refuge in Sweden. It's the summer of 1939. Two Jewish sisters from Vienna—12-year-old Stephie Steiner and seven-year-old Nellie—are sent to Sweden to escape the Nazis. They expect to stay there six months, until their parents can flee to Amsterdam; then all four will go to America. But as the world war intensifies, the girls remain, each with her own host family, on a rugged island off the western coast of Sweden. Nellie quickly settles in to her new surroundings. Not so for Stephie, who finds it hard to adapt; she feels stranded at the end of the world, with a foster mother who's as unforgiving as the island itself. It's no wonder Stephie doesn't let on that the most popular girl at school becomes her bitter enemy, or that she endures the wounding slights of certain villagers. Her main worry, though, is her parents—and whether she will ever see them again.
Author : James Mayhew
Publisher : Orchard Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,89 MB
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Art appreciation
ISBN : 9781408304648
Can Katie capture the magic of the Monet masterpieces? There's an art competition at the gallery and Katie is desperate to win. All she has to do is paint a picture in the style of Claude Monet. Surely Katie can manage that ... can't she?
Author : Randolph R. Harrison
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 32,84 MB
Release : 2002-05-17
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0595224806
Pull the kids or grandkids up on your lap and open this totally entertaining children's book of short stories and poems. They are written for both the young and old. Be thrilled by "My Great Adventure" amazed at "I Can Talk To Animals" touched by the poem "Our African American Princess" find the positive message in "Can't is a Bad Word". Woven into many of the writings are positive-life-lessons that you can use as teaching points or to augment your own message to the young.
Author : Annika Thor
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 20,72 MB
Release : 2011-10-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0375899146
A Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Book and an ALA-ALSC Notable Children’s Book, The Lily Pond continues the story of two Jewish sisters who left Austria during WWII/Holocaust and found refuge in Sweden. A year after Stephie Steiner and her younger sister, Nellie, left Nazi-occupied Vienna, Stephie has finally adapted to life on the rugged Swedish island where she now lives. But more change awaits Stephie: her foster parents have allowed her to enroll in school on the mainland, in Goteberg. Stephie is eager to go. Not only will she be pursuing her studies, she'll be living in a cultured city again—under the same roof as Sven, the son of the lodgers who rented her foster parents' cottage for the summer. Five years her senior, Sven dazzles Stephie with his charm, his talk of equality, and his anti-Hitler sentiments. Stephie can't help herself—she's falling in love. As she navigates a sea of new emotions, she also grapples with what it means to be beholden to others, with her constant worry about what her parents are enduring back in Vienna, and with the menacing spread of Nazi ideology, even in Sweden. In these troubled times, her true friends, Stephie discovers, are the ones she least expected.
Author : Reva S. Luxenberg
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 24,28 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0595179983
Murder at the Second Lily Pond is an entertaining read on a coast-to-coast flight. Sadie Weinstein, cute, zany, and the most unlikely sleuth imaginable gets a call in her grocery in Brooklyn from her son, Jeffrey, a student at Oxford, that he has been arrested for the murder of his archaeology don. After she shlepps to Oxford, along with her husband, Nathan, to free her son, she gets involved in a flirtation with Sir Donald Ward, Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard, is accused of murder, adopts a cat she names Inspector Ebony, and sets a fire, all in the name of the investigative process.
Author : Han Z. Li
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,61 MB
Release : 2009-10-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1554587328
This evocative narrative draws us into the inner life of a young Chinese peasant girl, May-ping, and her first glimmerings of youthful love and idealism under the Maoist regime in China. As she grows into a mature woman, she becomes increasingly aware of the strife around her. An intelligent girl born into a Poor-Class family in a small village in rural China, she is, because of the Maoist policy towards such families, able to pursue her dream of going to university. To her surprise, urban snobbery and “student thought-spying” at university make it essential for her to hide her real thoughts. Such self-protection becomes especially necessary once her idealistic boyfriend Dan — a secret boyfriend because young people were forbidden to be romantically involved — is sent to a labour camp for his outspoken ways. In her village, she learns that everything has value except the lives of girls and women. One of her childhood friends, a landowner’s daughter who because of her family’s Landlord Class, is not allowed to go to university drowns herself when forced to face an arranged marriage. Hua-Hua, a shy and gentle neighbour, hangs herself after her husband beats her brutally for not bearing him a son. May-ping manages to survive the Cultural Revolution as a member of the Communist party who feels outside the system and keeps her inner self intact. Her story reveals how political change during the Maoist regime left its mark on ordinary people. Employing stories within stories, the narrator carries the reader to a mythological realm to images of the resilient water lilies and the nurturing lily pond.
