Author: Genevieve Fox
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : High schools
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Bonnie, Island Girl
Author: Genevieve Fox
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : High schools
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : High schools
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Kedzie
Author: Bonnie Stanard
Publisher: Fairview News Publishing
ISBN: 9780578087528
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
St. Helena Island slaves speak English, but African drums still throb in their veins; they hear the whispers of their ancestors. From this arises a girl of unusual strength, whose pampered life ends when her kindly mistress dies, and she moves to a shanty in the quarters. Kedzie soon learns that the punishing fields aren't nearly as grim as her master's abuse. Enter Rio, a young man without a family and at a loss for a heritage. He loves Kedzie, but he can't rescue her. Kedzie alone can save herself. How a people survives adversity is a story that never grows old. This is a bold look at slavery. No explanations. No apologies. If you like historical fiction, Kedzie is a must-read. Don't miss it!
Publisher: Fairview News Publishing
ISBN: 9780578087528
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
St. Helena Island slaves speak English, but African drums still throb in their veins; they hear the whispers of their ancestors. From this arises a girl of unusual strength, whose pampered life ends when her kindly mistress dies, and she moves to a shanty in the quarters. Kedzie soon learns that the punishing fields aren't nearly as grim as her master's abuse. Enter Rio, a young man without a family and at a loss for a heritage. He loves Kedzie, but he can't rescue her. Kedzie alone can save herself. How a people survives adversity is a story that never grows old. This is a bold look at slavery. No explanations. No apologies. If you like historical fiction, Kedzie is a must-read. Don't miss it!
Mommy's Hometown
Author: Hope Lim
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 1536226785
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
When a young boy and his mother travel overseas to her childhood home in Korea, the town is not as he imagined. Will he be able to see it the way Mommy does? This gentle, contemplative picture book about family origins invites us to ponder the meaning of home. A young boy loves listening to his mother describe the place where she grew up, a world of tall mountains and friends splashing together in the river. Mommy’s stories have let the boy visit her homeland in his thoughts and dreams, and now he’s old enough to travel with her to see it for himself. But when mother and son arrive, the town is not as he imagined. Skyscrapers block the mountains, and crowds hurry past. The boy feels like an outsider—until they visit the river where his mother used to play, and he sees that the spirit and happiness of those days remain. Sensitively pitched to a child’s-eye view, this vivid story honors the immigrant experience and the timeless bond between parent and child, past and present.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 1536226785
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
When a young boy and his mother travel overseas to her childhood home in Korea, the town is not as he imagined. Will he be able to see it the way Mommy does? This gentle, contemplative picture book about family origins invites us to ponder the meaning of home. A young boy loves listening to his mother describe the place where she grew up, a world of tall mountains and friends splashing together in the river. Mommy’s stories have let the boy visit her homeland in his thoughts and dreams, and now he’s old enough to travel with her to see it for himself. But when mother and son arrive, the town is not as he imagined. Skyscrapers block the mountains, and crowds hurry past. The boy feels like an outsider—until they visit the river where his mother used to play, and he sees that the spirit and happiness of those days remain. Sensitively pitched to a child’s-eye view, this vivid story honors the immigrant experience and the timeless bond between parent and child, past and present.
Lost Girls
Author: Ann Kelley
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316201782
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
No parents. No rules. No way home. Fourteen-year-old Bonnie MacDonald couldn't be more excited for a camping trip on an island off the coast of Thailand. But when a strong current sweeps Bonnie and her friends past their appointed campsite, depositing them instead on what the boatman calls a "forbidden island," they're just happy to have reached dry land. Overnight, things take a turn for the worse. Three torturous days pass, but the boatman doesn't return, and what once seemed like a vacation in paradise becomes a battle against the elements. Peppered with short, frantic entries from Bonnie's journal as she struggles to survive, Lost Girls tells the page-turning, heart-pounding story of a group of teen girls fighting for their lives.
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316201782
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
No parents. No rules. No way home. Fourteen-year-old Bonnie MacDonald couldn't be more excited for a camping trip on an island off the coast of Thailand. But when a strong current sweeps Bonnie and her friends past their appointed campsite, depositing them instead on what the boatman calls a "forbidden island," they're just happy to have reached dry land. Overnight, things take a turn for the worse. Three torturous days pass, but the boatman doesn't return, and what once seemed like a vacation in paradise becomes a battle against the elements. Peppered with short, frantic entries from Bonnie's journal as she struggles to survive, Lost Girls tells the page-turning, heart-pounding story of a group of teen girls fighting for their lives.
The Book that Made Me
Author: Judith Ridge
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763696714
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Essays by popular children's authors reveal the books that shaped their personal and literary lives, explaining how the stories they loved influenced them creatively, politically, and intellectually.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763696714
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Essays by popular children's authors reveal the books that shaped their personal and literary lives, explaining how the stories they loved influenced them creatively, politically, and intellectually.
Mystery Women, Volume Two (Revised)
Author: Colleen Barnett
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1615950095
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Many bibliographers focus on women who write. Lawyer Barnett looks at women who detect, at women as sleuths and at the evolving roles of women in professions and in society. Excellent for all women's studies programs as well as for the mystery hound. Look at the popularity of such reading guides as Willetta Heising's Detecting Women (3rd ed. 0-9644593-7-X) or Amanda Cross' fiction (Honest Doubt 0-345-44011-0 11/00).
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1615950095
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Many bibliographers focus on women who write. Lawyer Barnett looks at women who detect, at women as sleuths and at the evolving roles of women in professions and in society. Excellent for all women's studies programs as well as for the mystery hound. Look at the popularity of such reading guides as Willetta Heising's Detecting Women (3rd ed. 0-9644593-7-X) or Amanda Cross' fiction (Honest Doubt 0-345-44011-0 11/00).
Island Girls
Author: Blair Northen Williamson
Publisher: The Island Writer Press
ISBN: 1662932499
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Inspired by a true story, Island Girls: Free the Sea of Plastic empowers children to help their under-the-sea friends and use their voices to fight against plastic in our oceans. When sisters Sadie and Josie discover their turtle friends think plastic bags are tasty jellyfish, they take a stand to spread awareness about plastics polluting our precious oceans. Island Girls: Free the Sea of Plastic is a masterfully-illustrated celebration of the beautiful underwater world and a call for all of us to make a change. Book Review 1: "Island Girls: Free the Sea of Plastic by Blair Northen Williamson could serve as a marker in time that helps shift plastic pollution back to a time when there was no such thing." -- Plastic Ocean Project, Inc. Book Review 2: "A great illustration of how young children can develop environmental stewardship." -- Global Expeditions Group Book Review 3: "Island Girls: Free the Sea of Plastic by Blair Williamson is critical for the younger generation to read. We need future generations who will protect our oceans and this book and its message is the first step towards a different future." -- Animal Ocean Book Review 4: "ISLAND GIRLS: FREE THE SEA OF PLASTIC by Blair Williamson is a good way to convey how plastics harm turtles and our shared ocean." -- The Ocean Project
Publisher: The Island Writer Press
ISBN: 1662932499
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Inspired by a true story, Island Girls: Free the Sea of Plastic empowers children to help their under-the-sea friends and use their voices to fight against plastic in our oceans. When sisters Sadie and Josie discover their turtle friends think plastic bags are tasty jellyfish, they take a stand to spread awareness about plastics polluting our precious oceans. Island Girls: Free the Sea of Plastic is a masterfully-illustrated celebration of the beautiful underwater world and a call for all of us to make a change. Book Review 1: "Island Girls: Free the Sea of Plastic by Blair Northen Williamson could serve as a marker in time that helps shift plastic pollution back to a time when there was no such thing." -- Plastic Ocean Project, Inc. Book Review 2: "A great illustration of how young children can develop environmental stewardship." -- Global Expeditions Group Book Review 3: "Island Girls: Free the Sea of Plastic by Blair Williamson is critical for the younger generation to read. We need future generations who will protect our oceans and this book and its message is the first step towards a different future." -- Animal Ocean Book Review 4: "ISLAND GIRLS: FREE THE SEA OF PLASTIC by Blair Williamson is a good way to convey how plastics harm turtles and our shared ocean." -- The Ocean Project
Some Feet Not Meant for Shoes
Author: Pamela Klein
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1462018505
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
A defiant young white woman embarks upon a mystical journey through greed, racism and intolerance to find that in a previous lifetime she was a black slave girl. Caught in the midst of a spiritual metamorphosis she is hardly aware of, Norah is torn between two worlds: the one she expects and the one she suspects. She marries a scientist who scoff s at her peculiar feelings in just the way that science can. While Norah attempts to suppress what her spirit is trying to teach her, angels appear and challenge her to look deeper within for the elusive truth. She is a reckless and undisciplined young white woman, desperate for answers to questions she is only now learning and daring to ask. For reasons she barely understands, she finds herself drawn to a wise metaphysician. Norah becomes his student and, through his illuminations, begins to feel her mystical consciousness break free and birth. As her grasp of the world around her is refined, she turns to her West Indian friends, who for Norah become the creation that slavery left behind. Told from multiple characters points of view and in the first person, Norahs unconventional tale progresses toward the awakening of her past life as an African slave, through which racism, intolerance and greed echo still. Split between cultures, colors, beliefs and even lifetimes, Norahs perspective on race and the history of hate is the ultimate catalyst for her transformation. Hers is a magical journey of loss, discovery and love that meanders naturally like a river across space and time, drifting from Los Angeles to the Caribbean islands of St. Lucia, Martinique, Guadeloupe and Dominica.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1462018505
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
A defiant young white woman embarks upon a mystical journey through greed, racism and intolerance to find that in a previous lifetime she was a black slave girl. Caught in the midst of a spiritual metamorphosis she is hardly aware of, Norah is torn between two worlds: the one she expects and the one she suspects. She marries a scientist who scoff s at her peculiar feelings in just the way that science can. While Norah attempts to suppress what her spirit is trying to teach her, angels appear and challenge her to look deeper within for the elusive truth. She is a reckless and undisciplined young white woman, desperate for answers to questions she is only now learning and daring to ask. For reasons she barely understands, she finds herself drawn to a wise metaphysician. Norah becomes his student and, through his illuminations, begins to feel her mystical consciousness break free and birth. As her grasp of the world around her is refined, she turns to her West Indian friends, who for Norah become the creation that slavery left behind. Told from multiple characters points of view and in the first person, Norahs unconventional tale progresses toward the awakening of her past life as an African slave, through which racism, intolerance and greed echo still. Split between cultures, colors, beliefs and even lifetimes, Norahs perspective on race and the history of hate is the ultimate catalyst for her transformation. Hers is a magical journey of loss, discovery and love that meanders naturally like a river across space and time, drifting from Los Angeles to the Caribbean islands of St. Lucia, Martinique, Guadeloupe and Dominica.
Young Wings
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Merchant Vessels of the United States
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 2152
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 2152
Book Description