Author: Alice Pantermüller
Publisher: Union Square Kids
ISBN: 9781454936244
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Lotta has just started middle school--but life isn't going very smoothly. First of all, she has a teacher named Mrs. Crabbert--who is very, well, crabby. Then, her mom gives her a recorder that seems to make mysterious things happen. Lotta also wants to get her own pet . . . no matter what it takes. But her parents' refusal to consider her request, a fight with her best friend, and that weird recorder keep getting in the way. Can Lotta make it all work out?
Author: Alice Pantermüller
Publisher: My Life as Lotta
ISBN: 9781454936251
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"Now that Lotta is settling into middle school, her life appears to be calming down...somewhat. So she has more time to focus on the really important stuff like more outrageous, everyday adventures with Cheyenne!"--
Author: Alice Pantermüller
Publisher: My Life as Lotta
ISBN: 9781454936268
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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During spring break at an organic Oregon farm, days filled with goat cheese, mountain climbing, and her brothers' shenanigans interfere with Lotta's plan to learn snake--or worm--charming.
Author: Leslie Patricelli
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763644498
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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An imaginative young child has a wonderful time playing with a box he receives for his birthday. On board pages.
Author: Emily Neville
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486820696
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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"Superb. The best junior novel I've ever read about big-city life." — The New York Times. After another fight with Pop, 14-year-old Dave storms out of their apartment and nearly gets hit by a car. Kate, the local cat lady, comes to the rescue, and Dave returns home with an ally: Cat, the stray tom that becomes Dave's confidante and his key to new friendships and experiences. Cat inadvertently leads Dave to Tom, a troubled 19-year-old who needs help, and Mary, a shy girl who opens Dave's eyes and ears to music and theater. Even the Cat-related confrontations with Pop take on a new spirit, with less shouting and more understanding. It's Like This, Cat offers a vivid tour of New York City in the 1960s. From the genteel environs of Gramercy Park to a bohemian corner of Coney Island, the atmospheric journey is punctuated by stickball games, pastrami sandwiches, and a ride on the Staten Island Ferry. Recounted with humor, a remarkably realistic teenage voice, and Emil Weiss's pitch-perfect illustrations, this 1964 Newbery Award-winning tale recaptures the excitement and challenges of growing up in the big city.
Author: Sampson Davis
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780142406274
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Growing up on the rough streets of Newark, New Jersey, Rameck, George,and Sampson could easily have followed their childhood friends into drug dealing, gangs, and prison. But when a presentation at their school made the three boys aware of the opportunities available to them in the medical and dental professions, they made a pact among themselves that they would become doctors. It took a lot of determination—and a lot of support from one another—but despite all the hardships along the way, the three succeeded. Retold with the help of an award-winning author, this younger adaptation of the adult hit novel The Pact is a hard-hitting, powerful, and inspirational book that will speak to young readers everywhere.
Author: John Green
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 140884818X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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Quentin Jacobson has spent a lifetime loving Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life - dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge - he follows. After their all-nighter ends, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo has disappeared.
Author: Peter Orner
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 031619154X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 361
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Alexander Popper can't stop remembering. Four years old when his father tossed him into Lake Michigan, he was told, Sink or swim, kid. In his mind, he's still bobbing in that frigid water. The rest of this novel's vivid cast of characters also struggle to remain afloat: Popper's mother, stymied by an unhappy marriage, seeks solace in the relentless energy of Chicago; his brother, Leo, shadow boss of the family, retreats into books; paternal grandparents, Seymour and Bernice, once high fliers, now mourn for long lost days; his father, a lawyer and would-be politician obsessed with his own success, fails to see that the family is falling apart; and his college girlfriend, the fiercely independent Kat, wrestles with impossible choices. Covering four generations of the Popper family, Peter Orner illuminates the countless ways that love both makes us whole and completely unravels us. A comic and sorrowful tapestry of memory of connection and disconnection, Love and Shame and Love explores the universals with stunning originality and wisdom.
Author: Ralph Ellison
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781537141961
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the century. The nameless narrator of the novel describes growing up in a black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is expelled, moving to New York and becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of "the Brotherhood", and retreating amid violence and confusion to the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be. The book is a passionate and witty tour de force of style, strongly influenced by T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Joyce, and Dostoevsky.
Author: Mary Mapes Dodge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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