Author: Lenora Mattingly Lenora Mattingly Weber
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The introductory book of the Beany Malone series. Mary Fred spends the fifteen dollars that is intended for a new formal to buy her beloved Mr. Chips, a lame horse. Elizabeth's husband, Don, is sent overseas, and a weak and wan Elizabeth arrives at the Malones' with her two-week-old son, Martie. When Mr. Malone is called away on business for the Call, the children's step-grandmother, Nonna, arrives to "run" the household and shower them with gifts. It is quickly evident that Nonna has earned her title as "the iron hand in the velvet glove." When Nonna provides Mary Fred expensive new clothes and relieves her of her household responsibilities, will Mary Fred be able to manage her confused priorities?
Meet the Malones
Author: Lenora Mattingly Lenora Mattingly Weber
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The introductory book of the Beany Malone series. Mary Fred spends the fifteen dollars that is intended for a new formal to buy her beloved Mr. Chips, a lame horse. Elizabeth's husband, Don, is sent overseas, and a weak and wan Elizabeth arrives at the Malones' with her two-week-old son, Martie. When Mr. Malone is called away on business for the Call, the children's step-grandmother, Nonna, arrives to "run" the household and shower them with gifts. It is quickly evident that Nonna has earned her title as "the iron hand in the velvet glove." When Nonna provides Mary Fred expensive new clothes and relieves her of her household responsibilities, will Mary Fred be able to manage her confused priorities?
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The introductory book of the Beany Malone series. Mary Fred spends the fifteen dollars that is intended for a new formal to buy her beloved Mr. Chips, a lame horse. Elizabeth's husband, Don, is sent overseas, and a weak and wan Elizabeth arrives at the Malones' with her two-week-old son, Martie. When Mr. Malone is called away on business for the Call, the children's step-grandmother, Nonna, arrives to "run" the household and shower them with gifts. It is quickly evident that Nonna has earned her title as "the iron hand in the velvet glove." When Nonna provides Mary Fred expensive new clothes and relieves her of her household responsibilities, will Mary Fred be able to manage her confused priorities?
Beany Malone
Author: Lenora Mattingly Weber
Publisher: Image Cascade Publishing
ISBN: 9780963960740
Category : Denver (Colo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Further adventures of the Malone family in 1940s Denver, as sixteen-year-old Beany falls head over heels for a senior, Mary Fred tries to get into a sorority, and Don finally comes home from the war.
Publisher: Image Cascade Publishing
ISBN: 9780963960740
Category : Denver (Colo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Further adventures of the Malone family in 1940s Denver, as sixteen-year-old Beany falls head over heels for a senior, Mary Fred tries to get into a sorority, and Don finally comes home from the war.
The Mighty Miss Malone
Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0440422140
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
"We are a family on a journey to a place called wonderful" is the motto of Deza Malone's family. Deza is the smartest girl in her class in Gary, Indiana, singled out by teachers for a special path in life. But it's 1936 and the Great Depression has hit Gary hard, and there are no jobs for black men. When her beloved father leaves to find work, Deza, Mother, and her older brother, Jimmie, go in search of him, and end up in a Hooverville outside Flint, Michigan. Jimmie's beautiful voice inspires him to leave the camp to be a performer, while Deza and Mother find a new home, and cling to the hope that they will find Father. The twists and turns of their story reveal the devastation of the Depression and prove that Deza truly is the Mighty Miss Malone.
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0440422140
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
"We are a family on a journey to a place called wonderful" is the motto of Deza Malone's family. Deza is the smartest girl in her class in Gary, Indiana, singled out by teachers for a special path in life. But it's 1936 and the Great Depression has hit Gary hard, and there are no jobs for black men. When her beloved father leaves to find work, Deza, Mother, and her older brother, Jimmie, go in search of him, and end up in a Hooverville outside Flint, Michigan. Jimmie's beautiful voice inspires him to leave the camp to be a performer, while Deza and Mother find a new home, and cling to the hope that they will find Father. The twists and turns of their story reveal the devastation of the Depression and prove that Deza truly is the Mighty Miss Malone.
Catalyst
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
Publisher: Scholastic UK
ISBN: 1407145223
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Thoughtful teen fiction at its finest. Kate Malone: popular straight A student, long-distance runner, pillar of strength to her single-parent dad. She thinks she can she can handle anything. Until it all goes wrong. Kate's life is spiraling out of control - and Kate's about to find out how exhilarating that can be.
Publisher: Scholastic UK
ISBN: 1407145223
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Thoughtful teen fiction at its finest. Kate Malone: popular straight A student, long-distance runner, pillar of strength to her single-parent dad. She thinks she can she can handle anything. Until it all goes wrong. Kate's life is spiraling out of control - and Kate's about to find out how exhilarating that can be.
Mosquitoland
Author: David Arnold
Publisher: Speak
ISBN: 0147513650
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
"First published in the United States of America by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, 2015"--Title page verso.
Publisher: Speak
ISBN: 0147513650
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
"First published in the United States of America by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, 2015"--Title page verso.
Come Back, Wherever You Are
Author: Lenora Mattingly Weber
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781930009066
Category : Malone, Beany (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When her long-time childhood friend dies, Beany Malone Buell, young wife and mother of two children, takes in the now motherless four-year-old boy, an emotionally disturbed child who greatly changes the lives of all who meet him.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781930009066
Category : Malone, Beany (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When her long-time childhood friend dies, Beany Malone Buell, young wife and mother of two children, takes in the now motherless four-year-old boy, an emotionally disturbed child who greatly changes the lives of all who meet him.
The Book of Bright Ideas
Author: Sandra Kring
Publisher: Delta
ISBN: 0440336147
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Sandra Kring's A Life of Bright Ideas. Wisconsin, 1961. Evelyn “Button” Peters is nine the summer Winnalee and her fiery-spirited older sister, Freeda, blow into her small town–and from the moment she sees them, Button knows this will be a summer unlike any other. Much to her mother’s dismay, Button is fascinated by the Malone sisters, especially Winnalee, a feisty scrap of a thing who carries around a shiny silver urn containing her mother’s ashes and a tome she calls “The Book of Bright Ideas.” It is here, Winnalee tells Button, that she records everything she learns: her answers to the mysteries of life. But sometimes those mysteries conceal a truth better left buried. And when a devastating secret is suddenly revealed, dividing loyalties and uprooting lives, no one–from Winnalee and her sister to Button and her family–will ever be the same.
Publisher: Delta
ISBN: 0440336147
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Sandra Kring's A Life of Bright Ideas. Wisconsin, 1961. Evelyn “Button” Peters is nine the summer Winnalee and her fiery-spirited older sister, Freeda, blow into her small town–and from the moment she sees them, Button knows this will be a summer unlike any other. Much to her mother’s dismay, Button is fascinated by the Malone sisters, especially Winnalee, a feisty scrap of a thing who carries around a shiny silver urn containing her mother’s ashes and a tome she calls “The Book of Bright Ideas.” It is here, Winnalee tells Button, that she records everything she learns: her answers to the mysteries of life. But sometimes those mysteries conceal a truth better left buried. And when a devastating secret is suddenly revealed, dividing loyalties and uprooting lives, no one–from Winnalee and her sister to Button and her family–will ever be the same.
The Sixty-Eight Rooms
Author: Marianne Malone
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375893245
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Almost everybody who has grown up in Chicago knows about the Thorne Rooms. Housed in the Children’s Galleries of the Chicago Art Institute, they are a collection of 68 exquisitely crafted miniature rooms made in the 1930s by Mrs. James Ward Thorne. Each of the 68 rooms is designed in the style of a different historic period, and every detail is perfect, from the knobs on the doors to the candles in the candlesticks. Some might even say, the rooms are magic. Imagine—what if you discovered a key that allowed you to shrink so that you were small enough to sneak inside and explore the rooms’ secrets? What if you discovered that others had done so before you? And that someone had left something important behind? Fans of Chasing Vermeer, The Doll People, and From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler will be swept up in the magic of this exciting art adventure!
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375893245
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Almost everybody who has grown up in Chicago knows about the Thorne Rooms. Housed in the Children’s Galleries of the Chicago Art Institute, they are a collection of 68 exquisitely crafted miniature rooms made in the 1930s by Mrs. James Ward Thorne. Each of the 68 rooms is designed in the style of a different historic period, and every detail is perfect, from the knobs on the doors to the candles in the candlesticks. Some might even say, the rooms are magic. Imagine—what if you discovered a key that allowed you to shrink so that you were small enough to sneak inside and explore the rooms’ secrets? What if you discovered that others had done so before you? And that someone had left something important behind? Fans of Chasing Vermeer, The Doll People, and From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler will be swept up in the magic of this exciting art adventure!
Leave it to Beany!
Author: Lenora Mattingly Weber
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Advice columns
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Beany has her hands full dispensing advice to the lovelorn through a newspaper column and helping her Irish cousin adjust to the hectic life of the Malone family.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Advice columns
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Beany has her hands full dispensing advice to the lovelorn through a newspaper column and helping her Irish cousin adjust to the hectic life of the Malone family.
The Beany Malone Cookbook
Author: Lenora Mattingly Weber
Publisher: Image Cascade Publishing
ISBN: 9781930009073
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Helpful hints and directions for making Beany Malone's favorite dishes, from hors d'oeuvres to main dishes to foods for festive occasions.
Publisher: Image Cascade Publishing
ISBN: 9781930009073
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Helpful hints and directions for making Beany Malone's favorite dishes, from hors d'oeuvres to main dishes to foods for festive occasions.