Author: David Patneaude
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807531855
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Nelson just wants to play baseball and maybe, one day, realize his dream of pitching. Then his manager is suspended and two players leave the team. On top of that, it seems that the park where the team practices may be haunted.
Haunting at Home Plate
Author: David Patneaude
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807531855
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Nelson just wants to play baseball and maybe, one day, realize his dream of pitching. Then his manager is suspended and two players leave the team. On top of that, it seems that the park where the team practices may be haunted.
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807531855
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Nelson just wants to play baseball and maybe, one day, realize his dream of pitching. Then his manager is suspended and two players leave the team. On top of that, it seems that the park where the team practices may be haunted.
Fast Backward
Author: David Patneaude
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781633936164
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Fifteen-year-old Bobby Hastings witnesses an atomic explosion near a top secret New Mexico army base in July of 1945. Terrified, he soon heads off on his bike for home, only to encounter something that rivals the blast for drama. A girl his age stands naked at the side of the lonely desert road: underweight, unwell, and speaking with a German accent. In the coming days, she unveils an impossible story about time travel and a heartbreaking outcome of the war. She begs people to believe her warning and prevent the awful future she claims to know too well. But even if they do believe her, and the story is true, the biggest question remains: can history be undone?
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781633936164
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Fifteen-year-old Bobby Hastings witnesses an atomic explosion near a top secret New Mexico army base in July of 1945. Terrified, he soon heads off on his bike for home, only to encounter something that rivals the blast for drama. A girl his age stands naked at the side of the lonely desert road: underweight, unwell, and speaking with a German accent. In the coming days, she unveils an impossible story about time travel and a heartbreaking outcome of the war. She begs people to believe her warning and prevent the awful future she claims to know too well. But even if they do believe her, and the story is true, the biggest question remains: can history be undone?
The Last Man's Reward
Author: David Patneaude
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807543721
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
1997 Books for the Teen Age, New York Public Library 1999-2000 Volunteer State Book Award Master List (Tennessee) 1999-2000 Iowa Children's Choice Awards Master List 1999 Sasquatch Reading Award Master List (Washington) 1999 Utah Children's Book Award Master List 2001 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Master List (Illinois) When a chance yard-sale purchase nets five boys a Willie Mays rookie card worth $4,000, their lives seem to narrow and intensify. The boys devise a "last man" contest—the winner gets the Mays card, and the losers get zip. Twelve-year-old Albert has a life-and-death reason for winning the card—and his own very special terrors aobut the abandoned mine where the boys have hidden it for safekeeping. Just how far is Albert willing to go to be the last man?
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807543721
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
1997 Books for the Teen Age, New York Public Library 1999-2000 Volunteer State Book Award Master List (Tennessee) 1999-2000 Iowa Children's Choice Awards Master List 1999 Sasquatch Reading Award Master List (Washington) 1999 Utah Children's Book Award Master List 2001 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Master List (Illinois) When a chance yard-sale purchase nets five boys a Willie Mays rookie card worth $4,000, their lives seem to narrow and intensify. The boys devise a "last man" contest—the winner gets the Mays card, and the losers get zip. Twelve-year-old Albert has a life-and-death reason for winning the card—and his own very special terrors aobut the abandoned mine where the boys have hidden it for safekeeping. Just how far is Albert willing to go to be the last man?
Someone Was Watching
Author: David Patneaude
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807575402
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
1995-1996 South Dakota Prairie Pasque Award 1997-1998 Utah Children's Book Award 1995-1996 Texas Lone Star Reading List 1997-1998 Young Hoosier Book Award Master List (Indiana) 1995-1996 Nebraska Golden Sower Young Adult Award Runner-Up 1996 Sunshine State Young Reader's Award Master List (Florida) Runner-up for Rebecca Caudill Award (Illinois) Best of the Texas Lone Star Reading Lists When his baby sister disappears from the river near their summer home, eighth grader Chris fights the assumption that she has drowned and sets off on a journey to discover the truth. It's been three miserable months since 13-year-old Chris Barton lost his little sister, Molly. "Missing, presumed drowned" was what the paper said, and surely that is what everyone believes. After all, the Bartons had been picnicking by the river when Molly disappeared. One night, Chris views a video he made the day Molly was lost. There doesn't seem to be anything unusual here: a rest stop, lunch by the river, a hungry squirrel, a familiar ice cream van. But the video harbors an awful secret. In the middle of the night, Christ Barton wakes from fitful sleep—and begins a journey filled with fear, doubt, and impossible hopes.
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807575402
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
1995-1996 South Dakota Prairie Pasque Award 1997-1998 Utah Children's Book Award 1995-1996 Texas Lone Star Reading List 1997-1998 Young Hoosier Book Award Master List (Indiana) 1995-1996 Nebraska Golden Sower Young Adult Award Runner-Up 1996 Sunshine State Young Reader's Award Master List (Florida) Runner-up for Rebecca Caudill Award (Illinois) Best of the Texas Lone Star Reading Lists When his baby sister disappears from the river near their summer home, eighth grader Chris fights the assumption that she has drowned and sets off on a journey to discover the truth. It's been three miserable months since 13-year-old Chris Barton lost his little sister, Molly. "Missing, presumed drowned" was what the paper said, and surely that is what everyone believes. After all, the Bartons had been picnicking by the river when Molly disappeared. One night, Chris views a video he made the day Molly was lost. There doesn't seem to be anything unusual here: a rest stop, lunch by the river, a hungry squirrel, a familiar ice cream van. But the video harbors an awful secret. In the middle of the night, Christ Barton wakes from fitful sleep—and begins a journey filled with fear, doubt, and impossible hopes.
The Haunting
Author: Rodman Philbrick
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497685354
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
A vacation house has a terrifying past—one that only the children know about Jason, his little sister, Sally, and his parents plan to spend the summer in the perfect seaside vacation home. But as soon as Jason steps onto the porch, icy air grips him, and he feels the stare of an invisible being. Although he can’t explain it, he knows that in this house, children are not welcome. Jason soon meets Steve, a friendly kid who teases him about the so-called haunted house and the witch who used to live there. Jason tries to ignore him, but he’s pretty sure there’s truth to the spooky tale. Especially when he meets the pale figure of a child in the house . . . The Haunting is the first book of the chilling House on Cherry Street trilogy from prolific wife-and-husband coauthors Lynn Harnett and Rodman Philbrick, the Newbery Honor Award–winning author of Freak the Mighty.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497685354
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
A vacation house has a terrifying past—one that only the children know about Jason, his little sister, Sally, and his parents plan to spend the summer in the perfect seaside vacation home. But as soon as Jason steps onto the porch, icy air grips him, and he feels the stare of an invisible being. Although he can’t explain it, he knows that in this house, children are not welcome. Jason soon meets Steve, a friendly kid who teases him about the so-called haunted house and the witch who used to live there. Jason tries to ignore him, but he’s pretty sure there’s truth to the spooky tale. Especially when he meets the pale figure of a child in the house . . . The Haunting is the first book of the chilling House on Cherry Street trilogy from prolific wife-and-husband coauthors Lynn Harnett and Rodman Philbrick, the Newbery Honor Award–winning author of Freak the Mighty.
Deadly Drive
Author: David Patneaude
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807508462
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Nine years ago, a hit-and-run driver killed Casey's mother. Casey swears revenge if she ever finds out the driver's identity. Every year Casey receives an anonymous envelope full of money. Is it blood money—from her mother's killer?
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807508462
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Nine years ago, a hit-and-run driver killed Casey's mother. Casey swears revenge if she ever finds out the driver's identity. Every year Casey receives an anonymous envelope full of money. Is it blood money—from her mother's killer?
Framed in Fire
Author: David Patneaude
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807590959
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
2002 Mark Twain Award 1999 Society of School Librarians Honor Book Award Peter's been sent to Resthaven Hospital because his stepfather thinks Peter is emotionally disturbed and wants to harm his younger half-brother, Lincoln. But Peter loves Lincoln, and Peter is the only one who knows about Lincoln's unusual dreams.
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807590959
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
2002 Mark Twain Award 1999 Society of School Librarians Honor Book Award Peter's been sent to Resthaven Hospital because his stepfather thinks Peter is emotionally disturbed and wants to harm his younger half-brother, Lincoln. But Peter loves Lincoln, and Peter is the only one who knows about Lincoln's unusual dreams.
Wait Till Helen Comes
Author: Mary Downing Hahn
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547346034
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Twelve-year-old Molly and her ten-year-old brother, Michael, have never liked their seven-year-old stepsister, Heather. Ever since their parents got married, she's made Molly and Michael's life miserable. Now their parents have moved them all to the country to live in a house that used to be a church, with a cemetery in the backyard. If that's not bad enough, Heather starts talking to a ghost named Helen and warning Molly and Michael that Helen is coming for them. Molly feels certain Heather is in some kind of danger, but every time she tries to help, Heather twists things around to get her into trouble. It seems as if things can't get any worse. But they do—when Helen comes.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547346034
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Twelve-year-old Molly and her ten-year-old brother, Michael, have never liked their seven-year-old stepsister, Heather. Ever since their parents got married, she's made Molly and Michael's life miserable. Now their parents have moved them all to the country to live in a house that used to be a church, with a cemetery in the backyard. If that's not bad enough, Heather starts talking to a ghost named Helen and warning Molly and Michael that Helen is coming for them. Molly feels certain Heather is in some kind of danger, but every time she tries to help, Heather twists things around to get her into trouble. It seems as if things can't get any worse. But they do—when Helen comes.
A Piece of the Sky
Author: David Patneaude
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807565407
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Russell's summer seems doomed. He's stuck in small-town Oregon without anything fun. Then a legend about an old meteorite envelops him and he makes a dangerous trip into the mountains to find the meteorite, rumored to be rare and valuable.
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807565407
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Russell's summer seems doomed. He's stuck in small-town Oregon without anything fun. Then a legend about an old meteorite envelops him and he makes a dangerous trip into the mountains to find the meteorite, rumored to be rare and valuable.
City of Ghosts
Author: Kelli Stanley
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1250018056
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Miranda Corbie's back. Noir will never be the same. And Kelli Stanley will once again mesmerize readers with the most thrilling novel yet in her award-winning series. June, 1940. For the United States, war is on the horizon. For Miranda Corbie, private investigator and erstwhile escort, there are debts to be paid and memories—long-suppressed and willfully forgotten—to be resurrected. Enter the U.S. State Department and the man who helped Miranda get her PI license. A man she owes. A man who asks her to track a chemistry professor here in San Francisco whom he suspects is a spy for the Nazis. Playing along may get Miranda a ticket to Blitz-bombed England and answers about her past...if she survives. Through sordid back alleys and art gallery halls, from drag dress nightclubs to a Nazi costume ball, Miranda's journey into fear takes her on the famed City of San Francisco streamliner and to Reno, Nevada, the Biggest Little City in the World...where she finds herself framed for a murder she never anticipated. Forced to go underground, Miranda soldiers on alone, determined to find the truth about a murder, a Nazi spy, and her own troubling past. But Miranda will have to learn the difference between reality and illusion, from despair to deceit and factual to fake, as she tries to get her life back...and navigates a City of Ghosts.
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1250018056
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Miranda Corbie's back. Noir will never be the same. And Kelli Stanley will once again mesmerize readers with the most thrilling novel yet in her award-winning series. June, 1940. For the United States, war is on the horizon. For Miranda Corbie, private investigator and erstwhile escort, there are debts to be paid and memories—long-suppressed and willfully forgotten—to be resurrected. Enter the U.S. State Department and the man who helped Miranda get her PI license. A man she owes. A man who asks her to track a chemistry professor here in San Francisco whom he suspects is a spy for the Nazis. Playing along may get Miranda a ticket to Blitz-bombed England and answers about her past...if she survives. Through sordid back alleys and art gallery halls, from drag dress nightclubs to a Nazi costume ball, Miranda's journey into fear takes her on the famed City of San Francisco streamliner and to Reno, Nevada, the Biggest Little City in the World...where she finds herself framed for a murder she never anticipated. Forced to go underground, Miranda soldiers on alone, determined to find the truth about a murder, a Nazi spy, and her own troubling past. But Miranda will have to learn the difference between reality and illusion, from despair to deceit and factual to fake, as she tries to get her life back...and navigates a City of Ghosts.