Author: Elvira Woodruff
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0679885587
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In 1851, 12-year-old orphan Austin Ives joins a wagon train headed for California. As he makes his way across the country, Austin writes home to his brother Levi, describing life on the rugged Overland Trail. Extensively researched, with episodes based on true incidents, "the epistolary format and character development offer solid reading."--Booklist An IRA Teachers' Choice
Dear Levi: Letters from the Overland Trail
Author: Elvira Woodruff
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0679885587
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In 1851, 12-year-old orphan Austin Ives joins a wagon train headed for California. As he makes his way across the country, Austin writes home to his brother Levi, describing life on the rugged Overland Trail. Extensively researched, with episodes based on true incidents, "the epistolary format and character development offer solid reading."--Booklist An IRA Teachers' Choice
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0679885587
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In 1851, 12-year-old orphan Austin Ives joins a wagon train headed for California. As he makes his way across the country, Austin writes home to his brother Levi, describing life on the rugged Overland Trail. Extensively researched, with episodes based on true incidents, "the epistolary format and character development offer solid reading."--Booklist An IRA Teachers' Choice
Dear Napoleon, I Know You're Dead, But. .
Author: Elvira Woodruff
Publisher: Perfection Learning
ISBN: 9780780740914
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When Marty Belucci chooses to write to Napoleon for a class project, his grandfather tells him how to get the letter delivered. His classmates are stunned when Marty receives a surprising reply.
Publisher: Perfection Learning
ISBN: 9780780740914
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When Marty Belucci chooses to write to Napoleon for a class project, his grandfather tells him how to get the letter delivered. His classmates are stunned when Marty receives a surprising reply.
Dear Austin: Letters from the Underground Railroad
Author: Elvira Woodruff
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0375803564
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Now in paperback! In this companion novel to Dear Levi, told in letters,11-year-old Levi helps a young African American in a harrowing flight for freedom along the Underground Railroad.
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0375803564
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Now in paperback! In this companion novel to Dear Levi, told in letters,11-year-old Levi helps a young African American in a harrowing flight for freedom along the Underground Railroad.
Dear Levi
Author: Elvira Woodruff
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780679846413
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Twelve-year-old Austin Ives writes letters to his younger brother describing his three-thousand-mile journey from their home in Pennsylvania to Oregon in 1851.
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780679846413
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Twelve-year-old Austin Ives writes letters to his younger brother describing his three-thousand-mile journey from their home in Pennsylvania to Oregon in 1851.
Small Beauties
Author: Elvira Woodruff
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0307546705
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
"One day this child shall hold the very heart of our family in the palm of her hand," predicts Granny on the day Darcy Heart O'Hara is born in a cottage on Derry Lane, in the town of Pobble O'Keefe, in County Kerry, Ireland. Darcy grows up to be a noticer, delighting in the small beauties all around her: a dew-covered spider web, castles in the clouds, a shiny wooden rosary bead. Life is simple but sweet in Pobble O'Keefe, with her family gathered round the hearth in the evenings while Granddad's voice fills the small room with stories. But in 1845, a blight strikes the land, the potatoes turn rotten, and Darcy and her family must leave Ireland forever. How will Darcy ever find a way to to bring the small beauties of home across the sea to America? Elvira Woodruff's story of emigration, heartbreak, and hope is vividly illustrated with the warm, evocative oil paintings of Adam Rex.
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0307546705
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
"One day this child shall hold the very heart of our family in the palm of her hand," predicts Granny on the day Darcy Heart O'Hara is born in a cottage on Derry Lane, in the town of Pobble O'Keefe, in County Kerry, Ireland. Darcy grows up to be a noticer, delighting in the small beauties all around her: a dew-covered spider web, castles in the clouds, a shiny wooden rosary bead. Life is simple but sweet in Pobble O'Keefe, with her family gathered round the hearth in the evenings while Granddad's voice fills the small room with stories. But in 1845, a blight strikes the land, the potatoes turn rotten, and Darcy and her family must leave Ireland forever. How will Darcy ever find a way to to bring the small beauties of home across the sea to America? Elvira Woodruff's story of emigration, heartbreak, and hope is vividly illustrated with the warm, evocative oil paintings of Adam Rex.
The Always War
Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689873808
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
While playing in the championship softball game, star pitcher KT Sutton blacks out and awakes to a changed world where the roles of academics and sports at her middle school have flipped, making talented athletes, such as KT, outcasts and brainy nerds popular.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689873808
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
While playing in the championship softball game, star pitcher KT Sutton blacks out and awakes to a changed world where the roles of academics and sports at her middle school have flipped, making talented athletes, such as KT, outcasts and brainy nerds popular.
The Ballad of the Harp-weaver
Author: Edna St. Vincent Millay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's poetry, American
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's poetry, American
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
George Washington's Socks
Author: Elvira Woodruff
Publisher: Perfection Learning
ISBN: 9780780727045
Category : Space and time
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the midst of an innocent lakeside campout, five modern-day children are transported back into the time of George Washington. Humorous, historical fiction that middle graders will enjoy.
Publisher: Perfection Learning
ISBN: 9780780727045
Category : Space and time
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the midst of an innocent lakeside campout, five modern-day children are transported back into the time of George Washington. Humorous, historical fiction that middle graders will enjoy.
Gabe & Izzy
Author: Gabrielle Ford
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 080374062X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Relates the author's personal experiences with bullying, describing how she was harassed as a child because of her degenerative muscle disease and eventually appeared with her similarly disabled dog, Izzy, on Animal Planet before launching a public speaking career.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 080374062X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Relates the author's personal experiences with bullying, describing how she was harassed as a child because of her degenerative muscle disease and eventually appeared with her similarly disabled dog, Izzy, on Animal Planet before launching a public speaking career.
George Washington's Spy
Author: Elvira Woodruff
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545415160
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This historic time-travel fantasy is a riveting sequel to a bestselling classic.Ten-year-old Matt Carlton and six friends are accidentally swept back in time--to Boston in 1776! The British now occupy the city, and redcoat guards are everywhere! While the boys are being held captive by a den of Patriot spies, the girls have been taken in by a wealthy Tory family.The pox is rampant; danger lies around every corner--and there's no hope for returning home to their own time. How will these seven children survive?Readers will relish the nonstop action and humorous dialogue in this riveting sequel to Woodruff's bestselling novel, GEORGE WASHINGTON'S SOCKS.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545415160
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This historic time-travel fantasy is a riveting sequel to a bestselling classic.Ten-year-old Matt Carlton and six friends are accidentally swept back in time--to Boston in 1776! The British now occupy the city, and redcoat guards are everywhere! While the boys are being held captive by a den of Patriot spies, the girls have been taken in by a wealthy Tory family.The pox is rampant; danger lies around every corner--and there's no hope for returning home to their own time. How will these seven children survive?Readers will relish the nonstop action and humorous dialogue in this riveting sequel to Woodruff's bestselling novel, GEORGE WASHINGTON'S SOCKS.