Author: Marci Peschke
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 9781616411145
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Ten-year-old Daisy and her best friend Blanca are excited to be in Ms. Lilly's fourth grade class, and when they are assigned to write essays about their summer vacations, Daisy is determined to impress her teacher with her project.
Daisy's Summer Essay: Book 1
Author: Marci Peschke
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 1616415134
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Daisy tries to write an essay to impress her wonderful new teacher Ms. Lilly after Ms. Lilly calls her class super smart superstars, and Daisy want to prove she is both.
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 1616415134
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Daisy tries to write an essay to impress her wonderful new teacher Ms. Lilly after Ms. Lilly calls her class super smart superstars, and Daisy want to prove she is both.
Daisy's Summer Essay
Author: Marci Peschke
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 9781616411145
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Ten-year-old Daisy and her best friend Blanca are excited to be in Ms. Lilly's fourth grade class, and when they are assigned to write essays about their summer vacations, Daisy is determined to impress her teacher with her project.
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 9781616411145
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Ten-year-old Daisy and her best friend Blanca are excited to be in Ms. Lilly's fourth grade class, and when they are assigned to write essays about their summer vacations, Daisy is determined to impress her teacher with her project.
Obsession
Author: Georgina Hannan
Publisher: Georgina Hannan
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
There's a fine line between Obsession and Madness. After a strange and exciting holiday, Daisy is looking forward to the new start University life will bring. A life changing assignment makes her question the fine line between Obsession and Madness. Can she tell the difference? Can you?
Publisher: Georgina Hannan
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
There's a fine line between Obsession and Madness. After a strange and exciting holiday, Daisy is looking forward to the new start University life will bring. A life changing assignment makes her question the fine line between Obsession and Madness. Can she tell the difference? Can you?
Growing Up Daisy
Author: Marci Peschke
Publisher: Calico Chapter Books
ISBN: 9781616411138
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ten-year-old Daisy Martinez is excited to begin fourth grade! Daisy and her BFF Blanca are both in room 210 with the wonderful new teacher, Ms. Lilly. When Ms. Lilly calls her class super smart superstars, Daisy decides she's going to prove that she's both. Join Daisy, Blanca, Raymond and all their friends for an exciting year in fourth grade!
Publisher: Calico Chapter Books
ISBN: 9781616411138
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ten-year-old Daisy Martinez is excited to begin fourth grade! Daisy and her BFF Blanca are both in room 210 with the wonderful new teacher, Ms. Lilly. When Ms. Lilly calls her class super smart superstars, Daisy decides she's going to prove that she's both. Join Daisy, Blanca, Raymond and all their friends for an exciting year in fourth grade!
Teenage Wasteland
Author: Anne Tyler
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 059331395X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
First appearing in the pages of Seventeen Magazine, “Teenage Wasteland” has become one of Anne Tyler’s most widely beloved short stories—an affecting and masterful portrait of a life interrupted and a family come undone. Daisy Coble had been a good mother, and so she was ashamed to find out from Donny’s teacher that he had been misbehaving. He was noisy, lazy, disruptive, and he was caught smoking. At night, she lay awake wondering where she had gone wrong, and how she could have failed as a parent. Unsure of herself, Daisy follows the advice of professionals, and hires Donny a tutor with some unusual ideas to set the boy straight. But, has the gap between them grown too wide to bridge? A Vintage Short.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 059331395X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
First appearing in the pages of Seventeen Magazine, “Teenage Wasteland” has become one of Anne Tyler’s most widely beloved short stories—an affecting and masterful portrait of a life interrupted and a family come undone. Daisy Coble had been a good mother, and so she was ashamed to find out from Donny’s teacher that he had been misbehaving. He was noisy, lazy, disruptive, and he was caught smoking. At night, she lay awake wondering where she had gone wrong, and how she could have failed as a parent. Unsure of herself, Daisy follows the advice of professionals, and hires Donny a tutor with some unusual ideas to set the boy straight. But, has the gap between them grown too wide to bridge? A Vintage Short.
Summer of the Monkeys
Author: Wilson Rawls
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0307781550
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
From the author of the beloved classic Where the Red Fern Grows comes a timeless adventure about a boy who discovers a tree full of monkeys. The last thing fourteen-year-old Jay Berry Lee expects to find while trekking through the Ozark Mountains of Oklahoma is a tree full of monkeys. But then Jay learns from his grandpa that the monkeys have escaped from a traveling circus, and there’s a big reward for the person who finds and returns them. His family could really use the money, so Jay sets off, determined to catch them. But by the end of the summer, Jay will have learned a lot more than he bargained for—and not just about monkeys. From the beloved author of Where the Red Fern Grows comes another memorable adventure novel filled with heart, humor, and excitement. Honors and Praise for Wilson Rawls’ Where the Red Fern Grows: A School Library Journal Top 100 Children’s Novel An NPR Must-Read for Kids Ages 9 to 14 Winner of 4 State Awards Over 7 million copies in print! “A rewarding book . . . [with] careful, precise observation, all of it rightly phrased.” —The New York Times Book Review “One of the great classics of children’s literature . . . Any child who doesn’t get to read this beloved and powerfully emotional book has missed out on an important piece of childhood for the last 40-plus years.” —Common Sense Media “An exciting tale of love and adventure you’ll never forget.” —School Library Journal
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0307781550
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
From the author of the beloved classic Where the Red Fern Grows comes a timeless adventure about a boy who discovers a tree full of monkeys. The last thing fourteen-year-old Jay Berry Lee expects to find while trekking through the Ozark Mountains of Oklahoma is a tree full of monkeys. But then Jay learns from his grandpa that the monkeys have escaped from a traveling circus, and there’s a big reward for the person who finds and returns them. His family could really use the money, so Jay sets off, determined to catch them. But by the end of the summer, Jay will have learned a lot more than he bargained for—and not just about monkeys. From the beloved author of Where the Red Fern Grows comes another memorable adventure novel filled with heart, humor, and excitement. Honors and Praise for Wilson Rawls’ Where the Red Fern Grows: A School Library Journal Top 100 Children’s Novel An NPR Must-Read for Kids Ages 9 to 14 Winner of 4 State Awards Over 7 million copies in print! “A rewarding book . . . [with] careful, precise observation, all of it rightly phrased.” —The New York Times Book Review “One of the great classics of children’s literature . . . Any child who doesn’t get to read this beloved and powerfully emotional book has missed out on an important piece of childhood for the last 40-plus years.” —Common Sense Media “An exciting tale of love and adventure you’ll never forget.” —School Library Journal
Daisy Saves the Day
Author: Shirley Hughes
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
ISBN: 0763673234
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Working in a big house owned by two refined ladies to support her mother and brothers, a young scullery maid in early-twentieth-century England borrows books and dreams of a better life before saving her employers from a kitchen fire.
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
ISBN: 0763673234
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Working in a big house owned by two refined ladies to support her mother and brothers, a young scullery maid in early-twentieth-century England borrows books and dreams of a better life before saving her employers from a kitchen fire.
Baby with the Bathwater, And, Laughing Wild
Author: Christopher Durang
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802131300
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
In 'Laughing Wild, ' two comic monologues evolve into a man's and an woman's shared nightmare of modern life and the isolation it creates.
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802131300
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
In 'Laughing Wild, ' two comic monologues evolve into a man's and an woman's shared nightmare of modern life and the isolation it creates.
Laughing Wild and Baby with the Bathwater
Author: Christopher Durang
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802188893
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
A pair of plays from the comic genius who gave us the Tony Award-winning Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Baby and the Bathwater follows its main character from infancy to adulthood, in a confusing search for identity after an unusual upbringing. In Laughing Wild, two comic monologues evolve into a man and a woman’s shared nightmare of modern life and the isolation it creates. From her turf battles at the supermarket to the desperate clichés of self-affirmation he learns at his “personality workshop,” they run the gamut of everyday life’s small brutalizations until they meet, with disastrous inevitability, at the Harmonic Convergence in Central Park. The fiercely ironic dark comedy of Christopher Durang can be perfectly described by the quotation—by Thomas Gray via Samuel Beckett—that inspired one of these play’s titles: “Laughing wild amid severest woe.” “One of the funniest dramatists alive, and one of the most sharply satiric.”—The New Yorker
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802188893
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
A pair of plays from the comic genius who gave us the Tony Award-winning Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Baby and the Bathwater follows its main character from infancy to adulthood, in a confusing search for identity after an unusual upbringing. In Laughing Wild, two comic monologues evolve into a man and a woman’s shared nightmare of modern life and the isolation it creates. From her turf battles at the supermarket to the desperate clichés of self-affirmation he learns at his “personality workshop,” they run the gamut of everyday life’s small brutalizations until they meet, with disastrous inevitability, at the Harmonic Convergence in Central Park. The fiercely ironic dark comedy of Christopher Durang can be perfectly described by the quotation—by Thomas Gray via Samuel Beckett—that inspired one of these play’s titles: “Laughing wild amid severest woe.” “One of the funniest dramatists alive, and one of the most sharply satiric.”—The New Yorker
A Cup of Water Under My Bed
Author: Daisy Hernández
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807062928
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
The PEN Literary Award–winning author “writes with honesty, intelligence, tenderness, and love” about her Colombian-Cuban heritage and queer identity in this poignant coming-of-age memoir (Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street). In this lyrical, coming-of-age memoir, Daisy Hernández chronicles what the women in her Cuban-Colombian family taught her about love, money, and race. Her mother warns her about envidia and men who seduce you with pastries, while one tía bemoans that her niece is turning out to be “una india” instead of an American. Another auntie instructs that when two people are close, they are bound to become like uña y mugre, fingernails and dirt, and that no, Daisy’s father is not godless. He’s simply praying to a candy dish that can be traced back to Africa. These lessons—rooted in women’s experiences of migration, colonization, y cariño—define in evocative detail what it means to grow up female in an immigrant home. In one story, Daisy sets out to defy the dictates of race and class that preoccupy her mother and tías, but dating women and transmen, and coming to identify as bisexual, leads her to unexpected questions. In another piece, NAFTA shuts local factories in her hometown on the outskirts of New York City, and she begins translating unemployment forms for her parents, moving between English and Spanish, as well as private and collective fears. In prose that is both memoir and commentary, Daisy reflects on reporting for the New York Times as the paper is rocked by the biggest plagiarism scandal in its history and plunged into debates about the role of race in the newsroom. A heartfelt exploration of family, identity, and language, A Cup of Water Under My Bed is ultimately a daughter’s story of finding herself and her community, and of creating a new, queer life.
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807062928
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
The PEN Literary Award–winning author “writes with honesty, intelligence, tenderness, and love” about her Colombian-Cuban heritage and queer identity in this poignant coming-of-age memoir (Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street). In this lyrical, coming-of-age memoir, Daisy Hernández chronicles what the women in her Cuban-Colombian family taught her about love, money, and race. Her mother warns her about envidia and men who seduce you with pastries, while one tía bemoans that her niece is turning out to be “una india” instead of an American. Another auntie instructs that when two people are close, they are bound to become like uña y mugre, fingernails and dirt, and that no, Daisy’s father is not godless. He’s simply praying to a candy dish that can be traced back to Africa. These lessons—rooted in women’s experiences of migration, colonization, y cariño—define in evocative detail what it means to grow up female in an immigrant home. In one story, Daisy sets out to defy the dictates of race and class that preoccupy her mother and tías, but dating women and transmen, and coming to identify as bisexual, leads her to unexpected questions. In another piece, NAFTA shuts local factories in her hometown on the outskirts of New York City, and she begins translating unemployment forms for her parents, moving between English and Spanish, as well as private and collective fears. In prose that is both memoir and commentary, Daisy reflects on reporting for the New York Times as the paper is rocked by the biggest plagiarism scandal in its history and plunged into debates about the role of race in the newsroom. A heartfelt exploration of family, identity, and language, A Cup of Water Under My Bed is ultimately a daughter’s story of finding herself and her community, and of creating a new, queer life.