Christmas in Exeter Street

Christmas in Exeter Street PDF Author: Diana Hendry
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406343038
Category : Beds
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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This atmospheric picture book about a house packed full of guests over Christmas captures the sense of excitement and sharing that embodies the Christmas spirit.

Christmas in Exeter Street

Christmas in Exeter Street PDF Author: Diana Hendry
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406343038
Category : Beds
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Book Description
This atmospheric picture book about a house packed full of guests over Christmas captures the sense of excitement and sharing that embodies the Christmas spirit.

Christmas on Jane Street

Christmas on Jane Street PDF Author: Billy Romp
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062296213
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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This “sweet tale” of a Vermont family’s annual trek to New York City to sell trees is “a cross between It’s a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Carol” (USA Today). Every holiday season for nearly twenty years, Billy Romp, his wife, and their three children have spent nearly a month living in a tiny camper and selling Christmas trees on Jane Street in New York City. They arrive from Vermont the day after Thanksgiving and leave just in time to make it home for Christmas morning—and for a few weeks they transform a corner of the Big Apple into a Frank Capra-esque small town alive with heartwarming holiday spirit. A lovely, lovingly illustrated little gem of a book, this delightful tenth anniversary edition of a beloved Christmas classic tells the poignant, inspiring story of an unforgettable family that brings the Christmas spirit to life on a street corner in Manhattan and the warm, wide circle of friends who have welcomed them to the neighborhood. Christmas on Jane Street is about the transformative power of love—love of parent and child, of merchant and customer, of stranger and neighbor. The ideal Christmas story, it is about the lasting and profound difference that one person can make to a family and one family can make to a community. “A heartwarming story”—Newsday “A touching tale fragrant with the season . . . a special treat for those who love Christmas trees.” —Tampa Tribune

The Christmas Mouse

The Christmas Mouse PDF Author: Toby Forward
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781842705834
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Based upon Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, this is the story of Ben, a greedy mouse to whom Christmas means nothing. Then, on Christmas Eve a stranger offers him the challenge of a night-time quest and the chance to discover the true meaning of Christmas and friendship. As the night wears on, Ben starts to realise that perhaps his view of Christmas requires an adjustment.

Harvey Angell

Harvey Angell PDF Author: Diana Hendry
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446452735
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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There's a mysterious, magical new lodger at gloomy 131 Ballantyre Road: Harvey Angell, whose bright beaming, thousand-watt smile can somehow cheer the most miserable people - even cross, penny-pinching Aunt Agatha! From the moment Harvey walks through the front door, Henry knows there's something very strange and special about his new friend. But where does he disappear to late at night? And why does he have an unusual clock, that tells the time in centuries and years, rather than hours and minutes? Henry's determined to find out Harvey Angell's marvellous secret . . .

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ISBN: 1536200425
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Never Caught

Never Caught PDF Author: Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501126431
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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A startling and eye-opening look into America’s First Family, Never Caught is the powerful story about a daring woman of “extraordinary grit” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). When George Washington was elected president, he reluctantly left behind his beloved Mount Vernon to serve in Philadelphia, the temporary seat of the nation’s capital. In setting up his household he brought along nine slaves, including Ona Judge. As the President grew accustomed to Northern ways, there was one change he couldn’t abide: Pennsylvania law required enslaved people be set free after six months of residency in the state. Rather than comply, Washington decided to circumvent the law. Every six months he sent the slaves back down south just as the clock was about to expire. Though Ona Judge lived a life of relative comfort, she was denied freedom. So, when the opportunity presented itself one clear and pleasant spring day in Philadelphia, Judge left everything she knew to escape to New England. Yet freedom would not come without its costs. At just twenty-two-years-old, Ona became the subject of an intense manhunt led by George Washington, who used his political and personal contacts to recapture his property. “A crisp and compulsively readable feat of research and storytelling” (USA TODAY), historian and National Book Award finalist Erica Armstrong Dunbar weaves a powerful tale and offers fascinating new scholarship on how one young woman risked everything to gain freedom from the famous founding father and most powerful man in the United States at the time.

Dear Father Christmas

Dear Father Christmas PDF Author: Alan Durant
Publisher: 제이와이북스
ISBN: 9780744583403
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Holly carries out a correspondance with Santa Claus in Lapland.

Angel Mae

Angel Mae PDF Author: Shirley Hughes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780744563771
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 25

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Book Description
Christmas is coming, and Mae Morgan's mother is expecting a baby. At school, Mae is delighted to be given the part of the Angel Gabriel in the nativity play. But will the new baby steal her glory?

The Exeter Book Riddles

The Exeter Book Riddles PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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Book Description
"The ninety-six Anglo-Saxon riddles in the eleventh-century Exeter Book are poems of great charm, zest, and subtlety. Ranging from natural phenomena (such as icebergs and storms at sea) to animal and bird life, from the Christian concept of the creation to prosaic domestic objects (such as a rake and a pair of bellows), and from weaponry to the peaceful pursuits of music and writing, they are full of sharp observation, earthly humour and, above all, a sense of wonder. The main text of this volume contains Kevin Crossley-Holland's newly-revised translations of seventy-five fascinating and discursive riddles - all those not very badly damaged or impenetrably obscure - while a further sixteen are translated in the notes. These translations are very widely anthologised in Britain and the USA. Sir Arthur Bliss and William Mathias set some of them to music, Ralph Steadman has illustrated them and Michael Fairfax has incorporated them in his Riddle Sculpture."--BOOK JACKET.

Harvey Slumfenburger's Christmas Present

Harvey Slumfenburger's Christmas Present PDF Author: John Burningham
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780744543230
Category : Christmas stories
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Book Description
Father Christmas travels over increasingly difficult terrain in an ever increasingly uncomfortable manner in order to deliver Harvey Slumfenburger's one and only Christmas present.