Pay Attention, Carter Jones

Pay Attention, Carter Jones PDF Author: Gary D. Schmidt
Publisher:
ISBN: 0544790855
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229

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Sixth-grader Carter must adjust to the unwelcome presence of a know-it-all butler who is determined to help him become a gentleman, and also to deal with burdens from the past.

Buzz Books 2018: Young Adult Fall/Winter

Buzz Books 2018: Young Adult Fall/Winter PDF Author:
Publisher: Publishers Lunch
ISBN: 1948586088
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :

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Our tenth Buzz Books: Young Adult gives readers the special excitement of being among the first to sample the best in forthcoming young adult novels months ahead of their actual publication. These substantial pre-publication excerpts include several titles based on historical figures: Joan of Arc (Voices by David Elliott); King Arthur (Once & Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy); Romanov by Nadine Brandes; as well as history-based stories such as Christelle Dabos’s The Missing of Clairedelune and William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Mean Girls by Ian Doescher. Mary Weber’s To Best the Boys is a new fantasy from the bestselling author of the Storm Siren trilogy, while Please Send Help by Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin is a follow-up to their New York Times bestseller I Hate Everyone But You. You will discover three debut writers to keep an eye on as well. Kosoko Jackson writes about war in A Place for Wolves, Joan He’s Descendant of the Crane is based on Chinese epics, and Crystal Smith offers a romantic fantasy in Bloodleaf. For broader reading, check out Buzz Books 2019: Spring/Summer, also available now, for 44 excerpts from top forthcoming adult fiction and nonfiction titles. Visit buzz.publishersmarketplace.com.

Almost Time

Almost Time PDF Author: Gary D. Schmidt
Publisher: Clarion Books
ISBN: 0544785819
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 37

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Ethan eagerly anticipates making maple syrup with his father, but it will not be time until the days are warmer, the nights shorter, and Ethan's loose tooth falls out.

Just Like That

Just Like That PDF Author: Gary D. Schmidt
Publisher: Clarion Books
ISBN: 0544084772
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 403

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In this poignant, perceptive, witty novel, Gary D. Schmidt brings authenticity and emotion to multiple plot strands, weaving in themes of grief, loss, redemption, achievement, and love. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students from wealthy backgrounds. In a parallel story, Matt Coffin has wound up on the Maine coast near St. Elene's with a pillowcase full of money lifted from the leader of a criminal gang, fearing the gang's relentless, destructive pursuit. Both young people gradually dispel their loneliness, finding a way to be hopeful and also finding each other.

Orbiting Jupiter

Orbiting Jupiter PDF Author: Gary D. Schmidt
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 054446222X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197

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"Jack, 12, tells the gripping story of Joseph, 14, who joins his family as a foster child. Damaged in prison, Joseph wants nothing more than to find his baby daughter, Jupiter, whom he has never seen. When Joseph has begun to believe he'll have a future,he is confronted by demons from his past that force a tragic sacrifice"--

Straw Into Gold

Straw Into Gold PDF Author: Gary D. Schmidt
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547237766
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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As they are pursued by greedy villains, two boys on a quest to save innocent lives meet the banished queen whose son was stolen by Rumpelstiltskin eleven years earlier, and she provides much more than the answer they seek.

One Smart Sheep

One Smart Sheep PDF Author: Gary D. Schmidt
Publisher: Clarion Books
ISBN: 0544888359
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 85

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It takes one smart sheep to escape from a piano movers' van and find his way home in this humorous friendship story for emerging and newly independent readers by beloved, award-winning author Gary D. Schmidt and coauthor Elizabeth Stickney. Wilson is a curious sheep, and after he foolishly climbs into the back of a piano movers' truck, he ends up alone in the big city, far from the farm. But Wilson is also one smart sheep, and soon enough he's finding his way home to his worried owner by recognizing the sounds that he heard while he was trapped in the truck--a jackhammer, a calliope, a hotdog man. And could that be the excited barking of his friend Tippy, the border collie? This lighthearted story about loyalty, problem solving, friendship, and independence is divided into short, action-packed chapters and has the cozy feel of a modern classic.

A Long Road on a Short Day

A Long Road on a Short Day PDF Author: Gary D. Schmidt
Publisher: Clarion Books
ISBN: 0544888367
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 69

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On a short winter day, Samuel and his father enter into a series of trades with neighbors and strangers until they come home with a brown-eyed milk cow for Mama.

What Came from the Stars

What Came from the Stars PDF Author: Gary D. Schmidt
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547612133
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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In a desperate attempt for survival, a peaceful civilization on a faraway planet besieged by a dark lord sends its most precious gift across the cosmos into the lunchbox of Tommy Pepper, sixth grader, of Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Trouble

Trouble PDF Author: Gary D. Schmidt
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547487738
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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“Henry Smith’s father told him that if you build your house far enough away from Trouble, then Trouble will never find you.” But Trouble comes careening down the road one night in the form of a pickup truck that strikes Henry’s older brother, Franklin. In the truck is Chay Chouan, a young Cambodian from Franklin’s preparatory school, and the accident sparks racial tensions in the school—and in the well-established town where Henry’s family has lived for generations. Caught between anger and grief, Henry sets out to do the only thing he can think of: climb Mt. Katahdin, the highest mountain in Maine, which he and Franklin were going to climb together. Along with Black Dog, whom Henry has rescued from drowning, and a friend, Henry leaves without his parents’ knowledge. The journey, both exhilarating and dangerous, turns into an odyssey of discovery about himself, his older sister, Louisa, his ancestry, and why one can never escape from Trouble.