The Chalk Box Kid

The Chalk Box Kid PDF Author: Clyde Robert Bulla
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 1101939184
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66

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Book Description
A classroom favorite about the power of art and creativity. A new neighborhood. A new school. A lonely birthday. Life isn’t easy for nine-year-old Gregory. Then he finds an abandoned chalk factory behind his house. It’s a secret place, just for him! Now he can draw anything he imagines on the dark brick walls. What amazing thing will Gregory draw first? Two beloved classics—The Chalk Box Kid and The Paint Brush Kid—get a vibrant new look!

The Chalk Box Kid

The Chalk Box Kid PDF Author: Clyde Robert Bulla
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 1101939184
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66

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Book Description
A classroom favorite about the power of art and creativity. A new neighborhood. A new school. A lonely birthday. Life isn’t easy for nine-year-old Gregory. Then he finds an abandoned chalk factory behind his house. It’s a secret place, just for him! Now he can draw anything he imagines on the dark brick walls. What amazing thing will Gregory draw first? Two beloved classics—The Chalk Box Kid and The Paint Brush Kid—get a vibrant new look!

The Secret Valley

The Secret Valley PDF Author: Clyde Robert Bulla
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122

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Book Description
A family that moves to California to look for gold fails to find it, but instead discovers a beautiful valley in which to build a farm.

Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims

Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims PDF Author: Clyde Robert Bulla
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780590440554
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Book Description
For use in schools and libraries only. An Indian goes to London with some of the first English explorers, is sold into slavery in Spain, and finally returns to America where he befriends the Pilgrims when they land.

The Poppy Seeds

The Poppy Seeds PDF Author: Clyde Robert Bulla
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9780140367317
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Book Description
A young boy's attempts to grow poppies in his drought parched village soften the heart of the grouchy old man who has the village's only spring in his back yard.

Wanted . . . Mud Blossom

Wanted . . . Mud Blossom PDF Author: Betsy Byars
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1480402710
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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Book Description
What happened to the class hamster? Find out in this Edgar Award–winning mystery story with some “delightfully comic twists” (Kirkus Reviews). When Junior brings home the classroom hamster, Scooty, he decides to build the best hamster tunnel ever. But when Scooty goes missing, all evidence points to Mud. Meanwhile, Mad Mary is missing, too—although her bag and walking stick were found near the highway. When Mary later wakes up in the hospital, she realizes that the Blossoms might just have provided her with the strength she needs to pull her life back together. It’s anything but an ordinary weekend with the Blossoms! Perfect for young dog lovers, this Edgar Award–winning Blossom Family title is a mysterious and touching finale to the bestselling series by Newbery Medal-winning author Betsy Byars.

The Chalk Artist

The Chalk Artist PDF Author: Allegra Goodman
Publisher: Dial Press
ISBN: 0679605045
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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A tender affair and the redemptive power of art are at the core of this compelling novel from National Book Award finalist Allegra Goodman, “a romantic realist who dazzles with wit [and] compassion” (The Wall Street Journal). Collin James is young, creative, and unhappy. A college dropout, he waits tables and spends his free time beautifying the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his medium of choice: chalk. Collin’s art captivates passersby with its vibrant colors and intricate lines—until the moment he wipes it all away. Nothing in Collin’s life is meant to last. Then he meets Nina. . . . The daughter of a tech mogul who is revolutionizing virtual reality, Nina Lazare is trying to give back as a high school teacher—but her students won’t listen to her. When Collin enters her world, he inspires her to think bigger. Nina wants to return the favor—even if it means losing him. Against this poignant backdrop, Allegra Goodman paints a tableau of students, neighbors, and colleagues: Diana, a teenage girl trying to make herself invisible; her twin brother, Aidan, who’s addicted to the games produced by Nina’s father; and Daphne, a viral-marketing trickster who unites them all, for better or worse. Wise, warm, and enchanting, The Chalk Artist is both a finely rendered portrait of modern love and a celebration of all the realms we inhabit: real and imagined, visual and virtual, seemingly independent yet hopelessly tangled. Praise for The Chalk Artist “The virtual world Goodman conjures is as feverishly vivid as it is mysterious and alluring. Not since I pushed my way through C. S. Lewis’s fusty mothballed wardrobe and stepped out into the frozen, pine-scented forests of Narnia can I remember being so effectively transported into a viscerally, sometimes terrifyingly plausible alternate universe. . . . This is a novel full of wit and spark. . . . Irresistible and arresting.”—The New York Times Book Review “Enjoyably sharp dialogue and convincing portraits of multiple mindsets and terrains . . . One can’t help but marvel at how Goodman has captured the atmosphere of this virtual fantasy land so effectively in words.”—NPR “Mesmerizing depictions of virtual-reality landscapes of ‘Neverwhen’ and ‘Underworld’ make the games’ dangerous power over one of Nina’s students very real.”—People “Goodman’s latest combines fantastical flourishes (an imagined video game called ‘Underworld’) and realistic Cambridge details . . . in a narrative about art and ambition.”—The Boston Globe “Allegra Goodman creates suspense where you might least expect to find it.”—The Atlantic

Charlie's House

Charlie's House PDF Author: Clyde Robert Bulla
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Book Description
Charlie Brig is shipped as an indentured servant from England to Colonial America.

Clara and the Bookwagon

Clara and the Bookwagon PDF Author: Nancy Smiler Levinson
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0064441342
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Book Description
Papa will not allow Clara to learn to read—he says that ‘Farm people like us do not have time to read." But when the traveling bookwagon, with persuasive Miss Mary at the reins, arrives at their farm, Papa realizes he must change his mind. Based on the true story of America’s first ‘bookmobile.’

A Dog on His Own

A Dog on His Own PDF Author: Mary Jane Auch
Publisher: Holiday House
ISBN: 9780823422432
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
A funny and moving middle-grade novel for dog lovers by popular author Mary Jane Auch. Other dogs are K-9s. But K-10 is a cut above other dogs, and his mother gave hime the name to prove it when he was a puppy. Now K-10 is grown up and all on his own, because K-10 doesn't need friends--canine or human. He spends his time running away from owners and doing time in dog shelters, and that's just fine with him. But after K-10 escapes from a shelter with some other dogs, everything changes. These new dogs aren't so easy to forget, and all they can bark about is finding old and new owners. Will K-10 go back to being a loner, or can this not-so-old dog learn a new trick--friendship?

Daniel's Duck

Daniel's Duck PDF Author: Clyde Robert Bulla
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0064440311
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Book Description
Daniel is hurt when others laugh at his wood carving, until he learns that giving people pleasure takes a very special gift. ‘Good, warm feelings result from reading this gentle tale set in rural Tennessee during pioneer days.' 'CS. ‘A lovely book on all counts.' 'NYT. Notable Children's Books of 1979 (ALA)