Author: Karen McCombie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781407117850
Category : Ally (Fictitious character : McCombie)
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
There are days when Ally just doesn't "get" the male species. Take Billy, her so-called best mate, who's being even more annoying than usual - so how come she's having slushy love-type feelings for him? And then there's little brother Tor, and his habit of asking embarrassing questions ("Ally, where do baby mice come from?"). But right now, Ally's got more pressing concerns - like how to get rid of her love handles...
Boys, Brothers and Jelly-belly Dancing
Author: Karen McCombie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781407117850
Category : Ally (Fictitious character : McCombie)
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
There are days when Ally just doesn't "get" the male species. Take Billy, her so-called best mate, who's being even more annoying than usual - so how come she's having slushy love-type feelings for him? And then there's little brother Tor, and his habit of asking embarrassing questions ("Ally, where do baby mice come from?"). But right now, Ally's got more pressing concerns - like how to get rid of her love handles...
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781407117850
Category : Ally (Fictitious character : McCombie)
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
There are days when Ally just doesn't "get" the male species. Take Billy, her so-called best mate, who's being even more annoying than usual - so how come she's having slushy love-type feelings for him? And then there's little brother Tor, and his habit of asking embarrassing questions ("Ally, where do baby mice come from?"). But right now, Ally's got more pressing concerns - like how to get rid of her love handles...
Visitors, Vanishings and Va-va-va Voom
Author: Karen McCombie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780439982047
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Ally and her mates are most chuffed when a bunch of French boys turn up at Palace Gates school because of a French exchange. Only Jen seems a bit distracted, but Ally doesn't have time to get to the bottom of it before it's too late - Jen's pulled a vanishing act
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780439982047
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Ally and her mates are most chuffed when a bunch of French boys turn up at Palace Gates school because of a French exchange. Only Jen seems a bit distracted, but Ally doesn't have time to get to the bottom of it before it's too late - Jen's pulled a vanishing act
The Boys in the Bunkhouse
Author: Dan Barry
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062372157
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
With this Dickensian tale from America’s heartland, New York Times writer and columnist Dan Barry tells the harrowing yet uplifting story of the exploitation and abuse of a resilient group of men with intellectual disability, and the heroic efforts of those who helped them to find justice and reclaim their lives. In the tiny Iowa farm town of Atalissa, dozens of men, all with intellectual disability and all from Texas, lived in an old schoolhouse. Before dawn each morning, they were bussed to a nearby processing plant, where they eviscerated turkeys in return for food, lodging, and $65 a month. They lived in near servitude for more than thirty years, enduring increasing neglect, exploitation, and physical and emotional abuse—until state social workers, local journalists, and one tenacious labor lawyer helped these men achieve freedom. Drawing on exhaustive interviews, Dan Barry dives deeply into the lives of the men, recording their memories of suffering, loneliness and fleeting joy, as well as the undying hope they maintained despite their traumatic circumstances. Barry explores how a small Iowa town remained oblivious to the plight of these men, analyzes the many causes for such profound and chronic negligence, and lays out the impact of the men’s dramatic court case, which has spurred advocates—including President Obama—to push for just pay and improved working conditions for people living with disabilities. A luminous work of social justice, told with compassion and compelling detail, The Boys in the Bunkhouse is more than just inspired storytelling. It is a clarion call for a vigilance that ensures inclusion and dignity for all.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062372157
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
With this Dickensian tale from America’s heartland, New York Times writer and columnist Dan Barry tells the harrowing yet uplifting story of the exploitation and abuse of a resilient group of men with intellectual disability, and the heroic efforts of those who helped them to find justice and reclaim their lives. In the tiny Iowa farm town of Atalissa, dozens of men, all with intellectual disability and all from Texas, lived in an old schoolhouse. Before dawn each morning, they were bussed to a nearby processing plant, where they eviscerated turkeys in return for food, lodging, and $65 a month. They lived in near servitude for more than thirty years, enduring increasing neglect, exploitation, and physical and emotional abuse—until state social workers, local journalists, and one tenacious labor lawyer helped these men achieve freedom. Drawing on exhaustive interviews, Dan Barry dives deeply into the lives of the men, recording their memories of suffering, loneliness and fleeting joy, as well as the undying hope they maintained despite their traumatic circumstances. Barry explores how a small Iowa town remained oblivious to the plight of these men, analyzes the many causes for such profound and chronic negligence, and lays out the impact of the men’s dramatic court case, which has spurred advocates—including President Obama—to push for just pay and improved working conditions for people living with disabilities. A luminous work of social justice, told with compassion and compelling detail, The Boys in the Bunkhouse is more than just inspired storytelling. It is a clarion call for a vigilance that ensures inclusion and dignity for all.
The Past, the Present and the Loud, Loud Girl
Author: Karen McCombie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781407117614
Category : Ally (Fictitious character : McCombie)
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Meet the Love children: oh-so-perfect Linn, airy-fairy Rowan, animal-obsessed Tor - and Ally, trying to have a normal life somewhere in the middle of it all. Which isn't easy when you live in a house that's a cross between an animal hospital and something out of 'Changing Rooms'. And then there's school and the small matter of the forgotten history project and the obnoxious new girl that - oh joy! - Ally's been nominated to look after. It's going to be a fun couple of weeks... The first in the wildly successful, utterly loveable ALLY'S WORLD series.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781407117614
Category : Ally (Fictitious character : McCombie)
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Meet the Love children: oh-so-perfect Linn, airy-fairy Rowan, animal-obsessed Tor - and Ally, trying to have a normal life somewhere in the middle of it all. Which isn't easy when you live in a house that's a cross between an animal hospital and something out of 'Changing Rooms'. And then there's school and the small matter of the forgotten history project and the obnoxious new girl that - oh joy! - Ally's been nominated to look after. It's going to be a fun couple of weeks... The first in the wildly successful, utterly loveable ALLY'S WORLD series.
Beautiful Disaster Signed Limited Edition
Author: Jamie McGuire
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476719071
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Abby Abernathy is re-inventing herself as the good girl as she begins her freshman year at college, which is why she must resist lean, cut, and tattooed Travis Maddox, a classic bad boy.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476719071
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Abby Abernathy is re-inventing herself as the good girl as she begins her freshman year at college, which is why she must resist lean, cut, and tattooed Travis Maddox, a classic bad boy.
Daisy, Dad and the Huge, Small Surprise
Author: Karen McCombie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781407131825
Category : Ally (Fictitious character : McCombie)
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Ally knows love makes you do funny stuff... Maybe that explains Ally's little brother's strange behaviour. He has a crush on his new teacher - trouble is, so does her dad. Eek! Another warm and funny saga about the Love family and their friends.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781407131825
Category : Ally (Fictitious character : McCombie)
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Ally knows love makes you do funny stuff... Maybe that explains Ally's little brother's strange behaviour. He has a crush on his new teacher - trouble is, so does her dad. Eek! Another warm and funny saga about the Love family and their friends.
We'll Always Have Summer
Author: Jenny Han
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416995595
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The summer after her first year of college, Isobel "Belly" Conklin is faced with a choice between Jeremiah and Conrad Fisher, brothers she has always loved, when Jeremiah proposes marriage and Conrad confesses that he still loves her.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416995595
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The summer after her first year of college, Isobel "Belly" Conklin is faced with a choice between Jeremiah and Conrad Fisher, brothers she has always loved, when Jeremiah proposes marriage and Conrad confesses that he still loves her.
The Boys on the Rock
Author: John Fox
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312104337
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
A sixteen-year-old from the Bronx, popular at school and "sort of" going steady, falls in love for the first time with another boy one exuberant summer.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312104337
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
A sixteen-year-old from the Bronx, popular at school and "sort of" going steady, falls in love for the first time with another boy one exuberant summer.
Something to Remember Me by
Author: Saul Bellow
Publisher: New Amer Library
ISBN: 9780451168702
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Brings together three of Bellow's works of short fiction--"A theft," "The Bellarosa Connection," and "Something to Remember Me By."
Publisher: New Amer Library
ISBN: 9780451168702
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Brings together three of Bellow's works of short fiction--"A theft," "The Bellarosa Connection," and "Something to Remember Me By."
It's Not Summer Without You
Author: Jenny Han
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416995560
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In Jenny Han's follow-up to The Summer I Turned Pretty, Belly finds out what comes after falling in love. Now available in paperback!
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416995560
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In Jenny Han's follow-up to The Summer I Turned Pretty, Belly finds out what comes after falling in love. Now available in paperback!