Author: Sally Grindley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books
ISBN: 9780747561200
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Boris the vulture sulks because he doesn't like the food his parents eat or the games his friends play, and even a cuddle from his mother gives him a reason to complain. Suggested level: junior.
Author: Jenny Zhang
Publisher: Lenny
ISBN: 0399589392
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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A sly debut story collection that conjures the experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese American girls growing up in New York City—for readers of Zadie Smith and Helen Oyeyemi. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction • Finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • NPR • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Guardian • Esquire • New York • BuzzFeed A fresh new voice emerges with the arrival of Sour Heart, establishing Jenny Zhang as a frank and subversive interpreter of the immigrant experience in America. Her stories cut across generations and continents, moving from the fraught halls of a public school in Flushing, Queens, to the tumultuous streets of Shanghai, China, during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s. In the absence of grown-ups, latchkey kids experiment on each other until one day the experiments turn violent; an overbearing mother abandons her artistic aspirations to come to America but relives her glory days through karaoke; and a shy loner struggles to master English so she can speak to God. Narrated by the daughters of Chinese immigrants who fled imperiled lives as artists back home only to struggle to stay afloat—dumpster diving for food and scamming Atlantic City casino buses to make a buck—these seven stories showcase Zhang’s compassion, moral courage, and a perverse sense of humor reminiscent of Portnoy’s Complaint. A darkly funny and intimate rendering of girlhood, Sour Heart examines what it means to belong to a family, to find your home, leave it, reject it, and return again. Praise for Sour Heart “[Jenny Zhang’s] coming-of-age tales are coarse and funny, sweet and sour, told in language that’s rough-hewn yet pulsating with energy.”—USA Today “One of the knockout fiction debuts of the year.”—New York “Compelling writing about what it means to be a teenager . . . It’s brilliant, it’s dark, but it’s also humorous and filled with love.”—Isaac Fitzgerald, Today “[A] combustible collection . . . in a class of its own.”—Booklist (starred review) “Gorgeous and grotesque . . . [a] tremendous debut.”—Slate
Author: Allan Baillie
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763666173
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Questing to fight the world's last dragon, a noble Dragon Fighter navigates formidable perils through shifting sands, a tangled forest and a whispering abyss without spotting the dragon, which readers are invited to discover by reading subtle clues in the landscape and shadows before a whimsical surprise ending.
Author: Michael Terry
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781845064044
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Children will love following the trails of animal footprints through the pages of this bright and funny lift-the-flap book. On each page there is a hidden cheeky creature to discover.
Author: Michael Terry
Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780747555346
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Rhino hates his horns, especially when he compares them to the curly, twisted and spiralled horns of the impalas, gnus and other animals around him. So his best friend Baboon comes up with a plan - a plan that makes Rhino realize just how perfect his horns really are.
Author: Michael Terry
Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books
ISBN: 9780747588955
Category : Cats
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Captain Wag the pirate dog has been a bit down on his luck. Until, shiver me timbers, he finds a treasure map! Captain Wag wastes no time in getting his friends One-Eye Jack and Old Scratch to help find the treasure. They set sail and overcome terrible storms and ferocious sea monsters. They are nearly at their destination when they are attacked and boarded by Pirate Ginger Tom and his crew, the fiercest cats on the seas. Pirate Ginger Tom has heard about Captain Wag's treasure and wants it all for himself. But treasure fit to gladden the heart of any dog just might not find favour with a pirate cat . . .
Author: Charles Franklin Wimberly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Author: Coco Mellors
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1635576822
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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The smash National bestseller and Goodreads Choice Award finalist--perfect for readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends. An addictive, humorous, and poignant debut novel about the shock waves caused by one couple's impulsive marriage. Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city when, a few months before her student visa ends, she meets Frank. Twenty years older and a self-made success, Frank's life is full of all the excesses Cleo's lacks. He offers her the chance to be happy, the freedom to paint, and the opportunity to apply for a Green Card. But their impulsive marriage irreversibly changes both their lives, and the lives of those close to them, in ways they never could've predicted. Each compulsively readable chapter explores the lives of Cleo, Frank, and an unforgettable cast of their closest friends and family as they grow up and grow older. Whether it's Cleo's best friend struggling to embrace his gender queerness in the wake of Cleo's marriage, or Frank's financially dependent sister arranging sugar daddy dates to support herself after being cut off, or Cleo and Frank themselves as they discover the trials of marriage and mental illness, each character is as absorbing, and painfully relatable, as the last. As hilarious as it is heartbreaking, entertaining as it is deeply moving, Cleopatra and Frankenstein marks the entry of a brilliant and bold new talent.
Author: Anne Miranda
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547351380
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
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Anne Miranda’s inventive twist on a classic rhyme tells what happens after a shopper goes “to market, to market, to buy a fat pig.” Back home the pig promptly escapes, and soon the pig’s in the kitchen, the lamb’s on the bed, the cow’s on the couch--and the rest of the animals are wreaking havoc throughout the house.
Author: Peter Blight
Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780747571445
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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When a giraffe feels left out because the other animals can barely hear him or are afraid of him, an unexpected flood and an innovative idea by the giraffe changes the other animals' perspective.
