Author: Ann Bryant
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1474917445
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Katy is nervous about going to boarding school for the first time, especially as she's got a big secret to hide. The girls in her dorm seem really nice, but when someone sets Katy up for a fall, how will her new friends react? "Refreshing, fun and really re-readable!" - CITV
First Term at Silver Spires
Author: Ann Bryant
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1474917445
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Katy is nervous about going to boarding school for the first time, especially as she's got a big secret to hide. The girls in her dorm seem really nice, but when someone sets Katy up for a fall, how will her new friends react? "Refreshing, fun and really re-readable!" - CITV
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1474917445
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Katy is nervous about going to boarding school for the first time, especially as she's got a big secret to hide. The girls in her dorm seem really nice, but when someone sets Katy up for a fall, how will her new friends react? "Refreshing, fun and really re-readable!" - CITV
Welcome to Silver Spires
Author: Ann Bryant
Publisher: Usborne Books
ISBN: 9780794531461
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
"Starting at Silver Spires boarding school was really scary, especially sharing a dorm with five girls I'd never met. But now it's like having a sleepover with my best friends every day! There is one girl who's horrible to me though. She'd be different if she knew my secret, but there's no way I'm going to tell her--or anyone else. Because if I did, my nice fresh start here would be ruined before the first semester is even over! Katy x"--P. [4] of cover.
Publisher: Usborne Books
ISBN: 9780794531461
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
"Starting at Silver Spires boarding school was really scary, especially sharing a dorm with five girls I'd never met. But now it's like having a sleepover with my best friends every day! There is one girl who's horrible to me though. She'd be different if she knew my secret, but there's no way I'm going to tell her--or anyone else. Because if I did, my nice fresh start here would be ruined before the first semester is even over! Katy x"--P. [4] of cover.
Rivalry at Silver Spires
Author: Ann Bryant
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1474917488
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Grace is at Silver Spires on a sports scholarship and feels the pressure to do well in competitions. But when someone starts writing hurtful messages saying she's just a show-off, she loses her nerve. Can she still come out on top? "Refreshing, fun and really re-readable!" - CITV
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1474917488
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Grace is at Silver Spires on a sports scholarship and feels the pressure to do well in competitions. But when someone starts writing hurtful messages saying she's just a show-off, she loses her nerve. Can she still come out on top? "Refreshing, fun and really re-readable!" - CITV
Seraphina
Author: Rachel Hartman
Publisher: Ember
ISBN: 0375896589
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Lyrical, imaginative, and wholly original, this New York Times bestseller with 8 starred reviews is not to be missed. Rachel Hartman’s award-winning debut will have you looking at dragons as you’ve never imagined them before… In the kingdom of Goredd, dragons and humans live and work side by side – while below the surface, tensions and hostility simmer. The newest member of the royal court, a uniquely gifted musician named Seraphina, holds a deep secret of her own. One that she guards with all of her being. When a member of the royal family is brutally murdered, Seraphina is drawn into the investigation alongside the dangerously perceptive—and dashing—Prince Lucien. But as the two uncover a sinister plot to destroy the wavering peace of the kingdom, Seraphina’s struggle to protect her secret becomes increasingly difficult… while its discovery could mean her very life. "Will appeal to both fans of Christopher Paolini’s Eragon series and Robin McKinley’s The Hero and the Crown." —Entertainment Weekly “[A] lush, intricately plotted fantasy.” —The Washington Post "Beautifully written. Some of the most interesting dragons I've read." —Christopher Paolini, New York Times bestselling author of Eragon
Publisher: Ember
ISBN: 0375896589
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Lyrical, imaginative, and wholly original, this New York Times bestseller with 8 starred reviews is not to be missed. Rachel Hartman’s award-winning debut will have you looking at dragons as you’ve never imagined them before… In the kingdom of Goredd, dragons and humans live and work side by side – while below the surface, tensions and hostility simmer. The newest member of the royal court, a uniquely gifted musician named Seraphina, holds a deep secret of her own. One that she guards with all of her being. When a member of the royal family is brutally murdered, Seraphina is drawn into the investigation alongside the dangerously perceptive—and dashing—Prince Lucien. But as the two uncover a sinister plot to destroy the wavering peace of the kingdom, Seraphina’s struggle to protect her secret becomes increasingly difficult… while its discovery could mean her very life. "Will appeal to both fans of Christopher Paolini’s Eragon series and Robin McKinley’s The Hero and the Crown." —Entertainment Weekly “[A] lush, intricately plotted fantasy.” —The Washington Post "Beautifully written. Some of the most interesting dragons I've read." —Christopher Paolini, New York Times bestselling author of Eragon
Secrets of the Temple
Author: William Greider
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671675567
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Reveals how the Federal Reserve under Paul Volcker engineered changes in America's economy.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671675567
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Reveals how the Federal Reserve under Paul Volcker engineered changes in America's economy.
This Side of Paradise
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775414833
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
This Side of Paradise is a novel about post-World War I youth and their morality. Amory Blaine is a young Princeton University student with an attractive face and an interest in literature. His greed and desire for social status warp the theme of love weaving through the story.
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775414833
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
This Side of Paradise is a novel about post-World War I youth and their morality. Amory Blaine is a young Princeton University student with an attractive face and an interest in literature. His greed and desire for social status warp the theme of love weaving through the story.
Furies of Calderon
Author: Jim Butcher
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780441012688
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
In this extraordinary fantasy epic, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Dresden Files leads readers into a world where the fate of the realm rests on the shoulders of a boy with no power to call his own... For a thousand years, the people of Alera have united against the aggressive and threatening races that inhabit the world, using their unique bond with the furies—elementals of earth, air, fire, water, wood, and metal. But in the remote Calderon Valley, the boy Tavi struggles with his lack of furycrafting. At fifteen, he has no wind fury to help him fly, no fire fury to light his lamps. Yet as the Alerans’ most savage enemy—the Marat horde—return to the Valley, Tavi’s courage and resourcefulness will be a power greater than any fury, one that could turn the tides of war...
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780441012688
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
In this extraordinary fantasy epic, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Dresden Files leads readers into a world where the fate of the realm rests on the shoulders of a boy with no power to call his own... For a thousand years, the people of Alera have united against the aggressive and threatening races that inhabit the world, using their unique bond with the furies—elementals of earth, air, fire, water, wood, and metal. But in the remote Calderon Valley, the boy Tavi struggles with his lack of furycrafting. At fifteen, he has no wind fury to help him fly, no fire fury to light his lamps. Yet as the Alerans’ most savage enemy—the Marat horde—return to the Valley, Tavi’s courage and resourcefulness will be a power greater than any fury, one that could turn the tides of war...
Heads of the Colored People
Author: Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501168010
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Winner of the PEN Open Book Award * Winner of the Whiting Award * Longlisted for the National Book Award and Aspen Words Literary Prize * Nominated for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize * Finalist for the Kirkus Prize and Los Angeles Times Book Prize Named a Best Book of the Year by Refinery29, NPR, The Root, HuffPost, Vanity Fair, Bustle, Chicago Tribune, PopSugar, and The Undefeated In one of the season’s most acclaimed works of fiction, Nafissa Thompson-Spires offers “a firecracker of a book...a triumph of storytelling: intelligent, acerbic, and ingenious” (Financial Times). Nafissa Thompson-Spires grapples with race, identity politics, and the contemporary middle class in this “vivid, fast, funny, way-smart, and verbally inventive” (George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo) collection. Each captivating story plunges headfirst into the lives of utterly original characters. Some are darkly humorous—two mothers exchanging snide remarks through notes in their kids’ backpacks—while others are devastatingly poignant. In the title story, when a cosplayer, dressed as his favorite anime character, is mistaken for a violent threat the consequences are dire; in another story, a teen struggles between her upper middle class upbringing and her desire to fully connect with so-called black culture. Thompson-Spires fearlessly shines a light on the simmering tensions and precariousness of black citizenship. Boldly resisting categorization and easy answers, Nafissa Thompson-Spires “has taken the best of what Toni Cade Bambara, Morgan Parker, and Junot Díaz do plus a whole lot of something we’ve never seen in American literature, blended it all together...giving us one of the finest short-story collections” (Kiese Laymon, author of Long Division).
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501168010
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Winner of the PEN Open Book Award * Winner of the Whiting Award * Longlisted for the National Book Award and Aspen Words Literary Prize * Nominated for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize * Finalist for the Kirkus Prize and Los Angeles Times Book Prize Named a Best Book of the Year by Refinery29, NPR, The Root, HuffPost, Vanity Fair, Bustle, Chicago Tribune, PopSugar, and The Undefeated In one of the season’s most acclaimed works of fiction, Nafissa Thompson-Spires offers “a firecracker of a book...a triumph of storytelling: intelligent, acerbic, and ingenious” (Financial Times). Nafissa Thompson-Spires grapples with race, identity politics, and the contemporary middle class in this “vivid, fast, funny, way-smart, and verbally inventive” (George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo) collection. Each captivating story plunges headfirst into the lives of utterly original characters. Some are darkly humorous—two mothers exchanging snide remarks through notes in their kids’ backpacks—while others are devastatingly poignant. In the title story, when a cosplayer, dressed as his favorite anime character, is mistaken for a violent threat the consequences are dire; in another story, a teen struggles between her upper middle class upbringing and her desire to fully connect with so-called black culture. Thompson-Spires fearlessly shines a light on the simmering tensions and precariousness of black citizenship. Boldly resisting categorization and easy answers, Nafissa Thompson-Spires “has taken the best of what Toni Cade Bambara, Morgan Parker, and Junot Díaz do plus a whole lot of something we’ve never seen in American literature, blended it all together...giving us one of the finest short-story collections” (Kiese Laymon, author of Long Division).
Beswitched
Author: Kate Saunders
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0385740751
Category : Boarding schools
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Originally published: London: Marion Lloyd Books, 2010.
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0385740751
Category : Boarding schools
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Originally published: London: Marion Lloyd Books, 2010.
Mystery at Silver Spires
Author: Ann Bryant
Publisher: Usborne Books
ISBN: 9780746098691
Category : Boarding school students
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Bryony & her best friend Emily have heard mysterious noises in the middle of the night. Concerned that there might be an intruder, the girls tell their housemistress, who assures them that it is most likely just a bird or mouse in the loft. Then, one night, as she struggles to get to sleep, Bryony sees a strange shape by the window.
Publisher: Usborne Books
ISBN: 9780746098691
Category : Boarding school students
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Bryony & her best friend Emily have heard mysterious noises in the middle of the night. Concerned that there might be an intruder, the girls tell their housemistress, who assures them that it is most likely just a bird or mouse in the loft. Then, one night, as she struggles to get to sleep, Bryony sees a strange shape by the window.