Author: Alexandra Day
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374310851
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Carl and Madeleine are supposed to be napping while Mom and Dad get the summer cabin ready for company but escape from the hammock to do some exploring on the lake.
Carl's Summer Vacation
Author: Alexandra Day
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374310851
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Carl and Madeleine are supposed to be napping while Mom and Dad get the summer cabin ready for company but escape from the hammock to do some exploring on the lake.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374310851
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Carl and Madeleine are supposed to be napping while Mom and Dad get the summer cabin ready for company but escape from the hammock to do some exploring on the lake.
Vacation
Author: Deb Olin Unferth
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802144720
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
The story of a wife, a husband, and a stranger with problems.
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802144720
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
The story of a wife, a husband, and a stranger with problems.
How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Author: Mark Teague
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 030779248X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
This wildly funny twist on the "How I spent my summer vacation" school-essay ritual details one child's imaginary adventures over the summer and is perfect for back-to-school reading! Most kids go to camp over the summer, or to Grandma's house, or maybe they're stuck at home. Not Wallace Bleff. He was supposed to visit his Aunt Fern. Instead, Wallace insists, he was carried off by cowboys and taught the ways of the West--from riding buckin' broncos to roping cattle. Lucky for Aunt Fern, he showed up at her house just in time to divert a stampede from her barbecue party! Perfect for back-to-school read-alouds, here's a western fantasy with sparkling illustrations and enough action to knock kids' boots off!
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 030779248X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
This wildly funny twist on the "How I spent my summer vacation" school-essay ritual details one child's imaginary adventures over the summer and is perfect for back-to-school reading! Most kids go to camp over the summer, or to Grandma's house, or maybe they're stuck at home. Not Wallace Bleff. He was supposed to visit his Aunt Fern. Instead, Wallace insists, he was carried off by cowboys and taught the ways of the West--from riding buckin' broncos to roping cattle. Lucky for Aunt Fern, he showed up at her house just in time to divert a stampede from her barbecue party! Perfect for back-to-school read-alouds, here's a western fantasy with sparkling illustrations and enough action to knock kids' boots off!
People We Meet on Vacation
Author: Emily Henry
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1984806750
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers and Beach Read comes a sparkling novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations. Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love. Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together. Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven't spoken since. Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees. Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong? Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Newsweek ∙ Oprah Magazine ∙ The Skimm ∙ Marie Claire ∙ Parade ∙ The Wall Street Journal ∙ Chicago Tribune ∙ PopSugar ∙ BookPage ∙ BookBub ∙ Betches ∙ SheReads ∙ Good Housekeeping ∙ BuzzFeed ∙ Business Insider ∙ Real Simple ∙ Frolic ∙ and more!
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1984806750
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers and Beach Read comes a sparkling novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations. Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love. Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together. Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven't spoken since. Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees. Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong? Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Newsweek ∙ Oprah Magazine ∙ The Skimm ∙ Marie Claire ∙ Parade ∙ The Wall Street Journal ∙ Chicago Tribune ∙ PopSugar ∙ BookPage ∙ BookBub ∙ Betches ∙ SheReads ∙ Good Housekeeping ∙ BuzzFeed ∙ Business Insider ∙ Real Simple ∙ Frolic ∙ and more!
Imagination Vacation
Author: Jami Gigot
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 080753613X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
From Paris to Antarctica, a family finds that a little imagination can go a long way! Sam has a very busy family. Mom works late; Dad's projects pile up. Even Sam's younger sister Marla is always doing something. Everyone in Sam’s family has their own idea of what the perfect vacation would look like. But there’s one thing they all agree on: they just can’t get away right now. So Sam comes up with a different kind of getaway. With a little planning, a few supplies, and a touch of creativity, she finds that her family’s dream vacation wasn’t so far away after all.
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 080753613X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
From Paris to Antarctica, a family finds that a little imagination can go a long way! Sam has a very busy family. Mom works late; Dad's projects pile up. Even Sam's younger sister Marla is always doing something. Everyone in Sam’s family has their own idea of what the perfect vacation would look like. But there’s one thing they all agree on: they just can’t get away right now. So Sam comes up with a different kind of getaway. With a little planning, a few supplies, and a touch of creativity, she finds that her family’s dream vacation wasn’t so far away after all.
Barking Up the Wrong Tree
Author: Eric Barker
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062416170
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Wall Street Journal Bestseller Much of the advice we’ve been told about achievement is logical, earnest…and downright wrong. In Barking Up the Wrong Tree, Eric Barker reveals the extraordinary science behind what actually determines success and most importantly, how anyone can achieve it. You’ll learn: • Why valedictorians rarely become millionaires, and how your biggest weakness might actually be your greatest strength • Whether nice guys finish last and why the best lessons about cooperation come from gang members, pirates, and serial killers • Why trying to increase confidence fails and how Buddhist philosophy holds a superior solution • The secret ingredient to “grit” that Navy SEALs and disaster survivors leverage to keep going • How to find work-life balance using the strategy of Genghis Khan, the errors of Albert Einstein, and a little lesson from Spider-Man By looking at what separates the extremely successful from the rest of us, we learn what we can do to be more like them—and find out in some cases why it’s good that we aren’t. Barking Up the Wrong Tree draws on startling statistics and surprising anecdotes to help you understand what works and what doesn’t so you can stop guessing at success and start living the life you want.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062416170
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Wall Street Journal Bestseller Much of the advice we’ve been told about achievement is logical, earnest…and downright wrong. In Barking Up the Wrong Tree, Eric Barker reveals the extraordinary science behind what actually determines success and most importantly, how anyone can achieve it. You’ll learn: • Why valedictorians rarely become millionaires, and how your biggest weakness might actually be your greatest strength • Whether nice guys finish last and why the best lessons about cooperation come from gang members, pirates, and serial killers • Why trying to increase confidence fails and how Buddhist philosophy holds a superior solution • The secret ingredient to “grit” that Navy SEALs and disaster survivors leverage to keep going • How to find work-life balance using the strategy of Genghis Khan, the errors of Albert Einstein, and a little lesson from Spider-Man By looking at what separates the extremely successful from the rest of us, we learn what we can do to be more like them—and find out in some cases why it’s good that we aren’t. Barking Up the Wrong Tree draws on startling statistics and surprising anecdotes to help you understand what works and what doesn’t so you can stop guessing at success and start living the life you want.
Davy's Summer Vacation
Author: Brigitte Weninger
Publisher: NorthSouth Books
ISBN: 9780735842786
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
When Davy hears about his friend Wendy Wildgoose’s wonderful vacation at the beach, he wants to go too. But he and his family can’t fly like geese and their wagon is too weak to carry their luggage, so the beach is out. But Davy takes the family on a wonderful trip that is just as fun!
Publisher: NorthSouth Books
ISBN: 9780735842786
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
When Davy hears about his friend Wendy Wildgoose’s wonderful vacation at the beach, he wants to go too. But he and his family can’t fly like geese and their wagon is too weak to carry their luggage, so the beach is out. But Davy takes the family on a wonderful trip that is just as fun!
The Amazing Vacation
Author: Dan Wickenden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fantasy fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
When Ricky and Joanna left to spent the summer with Uncle Hubert and his family, they'd never heard about his amazing window which led to the Country Without a Name. There was no question that they'd want to go there, but before they left, they were warned that they must come back with everything they'd taken with them or they could never again quite rejoin their world. That's what happened to Emmeline, just ten years ago, who'd left a turquoise there. Now only Ricky and Joanna were young enough to retrieve it, if they could.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fantasy fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
When Ricky and Joanna left to spent the summer with Uncle Hubert and his family, they'd never heard about his amazing window which led to the Country Without a Name. There was no question that they'd want to go there, but before they left, they were warned that they must come back with everything they'd taken with them or they could never again quite rejoin their world. That's what happened to Emmeline, just ten years ago, who'd left a turquoise there. Now only Ricky and Joanna were young enough to retrieve it, if they could.
1001 Things to Spot on Vacation
Author: Hazel Maskell
Publisher: Usborne Books
ISBN: 9780794530877
Category : Picture puzzles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This puzzlebook is packed full of things to find and count. Spot sea stars on a coral reef, snowmen on a ski trip, and lion cubs on safari. From the plane trip to the gift shop, there's lots of fun to be had.
Publisher: Usborne Books
ISBN: 9780794530877
Category : Picture puzzles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This puzzlebook is packed full of things to find and count. Spot sea stars on a coral reef, snowmen on a ski trip, and lion cubs on safari. From the plane trip to the gift shop, there's lots of fun to be had.
The Gateway
Author: Robert Sidell
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN: 1608320677
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
"The Gateway" is dedicated to awakening within the reader optimism, hope and often forgotten dreams of success. The book reminds the reader that there is always opportunity surrounding us if we can just learn to see it. It contains summaries at the end of each chapter, as well as exercises to move the reader towards the fulfilment of these dreams. Quite simply, the book is a road map to success and inner peace that is designed to be accessible to anyone, regardless of their background. It is an antidote to the discouragement and difficulties that people often encounter in the world today.
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN: 1608320677
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
"The Gateway" is dedicated to awakening within the reader optimism, hope and often forgotten dreams of success. The book reminds the reader that there is always opportunity surrounding us if we can just learn to see it. It contains summaries at the end of each chapter, as well as exercises to move the reader towards the fulfilment of these dreams. Quite simply, the book is a road map to success and inner peace that is designed to be accessible to anyone, regardless of their background. It is an antidote to the discouragement and difficulties that people often encounter in the world today.