The White Bird Passes

The White Bird Passes PDF Author: Jessie Kesson
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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"Set in the backstreets of a Scottish city in the 1920's, this is the story of a young girl growing up in 'the Lane.' Poor, crowded and dirty--but full of life and excitement--the Lane is the only home Janie MacVean has ever known. It is a place where, despite everything, Janie is happy. But when the Cruelty Man arrives, bringing with him the threat of the dreaded 'home'--the orphanage that is every child's nightmare--Janie's contented childhood seems to be at an end."--

The White Bird Passes

The White Bird Passes PDF Author: Jessie Kesson
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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"Set in the backstreets of a Scottish city in the 1920's, this is the story of a young girl growing up in 'the Lane.' Poor, crowded and dirty--but full of life and excitement--the Lane is the only home Janie MacVean has ever known. It is a place where, despite everything, Janie is happy. But when the Cruelty Man arrives, bringing with him the threat of the dreaded 'home'--the orphanage that is every child's nightmare--Janie's contented childhood seems to be at an end."--

The White Bird Passes

The White Bird Passes PDF Author: Anne Downie
Publisher: Capercaillie Books
ISBN: 9780955124679
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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An adaptation of Jessie Kesson's novel of the same name.

The White Bird Passes

The White Bird Passes PDF Author: Elisabeth Kyle
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Languages : en
Pages : 158

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A White Bird Flying

A White Bird Flying PDF Author: Bess Streeter Aldrich
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207

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Published in 1931, Bess Streeter Aldrich's novel 'A White Bird Flying' is about Abbie Deal, the matriarch of a pioneer Nebraska family, who has died at the beginning of the story. She left her china and heavy furniture to others, and to her granddaughter Laura - the secret of her dream of finer things. Grandma Deal's literary aspirations had been thwarted by the hard circumstances of her life, but Laura vows that nothing, no one, will deter her from a successful writing career. Childhood passes, and the more she repeats her vow the more life intervenes.

The White Bird Passes

The White Bird Passes PDF Author: Jessie Kesson
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Languages : en
Pages : 158

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White Bird

White Bird PDF Author: R J Palacio
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 024139970X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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From the bestselling author of Wonder comes the graphic novel White Bird: soon to be a major film starring Ariella Glaser, Orlando Schwerdt, Bryce Gheisar, Helen Mirren and Gillian Anderson. To the millions of readers who fell in love with R J Palacio's Wonder, Julian is best-known as Auggie Pullman's classroom bully. White Bird reveals a new side to Julian's story, as Julian discovers the moving and powerful tale of his grandmother, who was hidden from the Nazis as a young Jewish girl in occupied France during the Second World War. An unforgettable, unputdownable story about strength, courage and the power of kindness to change hearts, build bridges, and even save lives, from the globally bestselling author of Wonder. A full-colour graphic novel, brilliantly illustrated throughout by R. J. Palacio

Boy, Snow, Bird

Boy, Snow, Bird PDF Author: Helen Oyeyemi
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 1743519591
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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BOY Novak turns twenty and decides to try for a brand-new life. Flax Hill, Massachusetts, isn't exactly a welcoming town, but it does have the virtue of being the last stop on the bus route she took from New York. Flax Hill is also the hometown of Arturo Whitman - craftsman, widower, and father of Snow. SNOW is mild-mannered, radiant and deeply cherished - exactly the sort of little girl Boy never was, and Boy is utterly beguiled by her. If Snow displays a certain inscrutability at times, that's simply a characteristic she shares with her father, harmless until Boy gives birth to Snow's sister, Bird. When BIRD is born Boy is forced to re-evaluate the image Arturo's family have presented to her, and Boy, Snow and Bird are broken apart.

A Lantern in Her Hand

A Lantern in Her Hand PDF Author: Bess Streeter Aldrich
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Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Birds Without Wings

Birds Without Wings PDF Author: Louis de Bernieres
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307368874
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 578

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Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in southwest Turkey (Anatolia) in the early part of the last century—a quirky community in which Christian and Muslim lives and traditions have co-existed peacefully over the centuries and where friendship, even love, has transcended religious differences. But with the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and the onset of the Great War, the sweep of history has a cataclysmic effect on this peaceful place: The great love of Philothei, a Christian girl of legendary beauty, and Ibrahim, a Muslim shepherd who courts her from near infancy, culminates in tragedy and madness; Two inseparable childhood friends who grow up playing in the hills above the town suddenly find themselves on opposite sides of the bloody struggle; and Rustem Bey, a wealthy landlord, who has an enchanting mistress who is not what she seems. Far away from these small lives, a man of destiny who will come to be known as Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is emerging to create a country from the ruins of an empire. Victory at Gallipoli fails to save the Ottomans from ultimate defeat and, as a new conflict arises, Muslims and Christians struggle to survive, let alone understand, their part in the great tragedy that will reshape the whole region forever.

Falcon in the Glass

Falcon in the Glass PDF Author: Susan Fletcher
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442429917
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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"Eleven-year-old Renzo must teach himself to blow glass with the help of a girl who has a mysterious connection to her falcon"--