Author: Barbara Smucker
Publisher: MennoMedia, Inc.
ISBN: 0836197526
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Barbara Smucker relates the dramatic and courageous story of refugees from Russia following World War II. This is a story of suspense—American soldiers, Russian officers, and a midnight train ride in darkened boxcars. Here is danger, escape, and deliverance. An actual event that happened in Berlin in 1946. Easily read by ages 11 and up—but can be read to children of all ages!
Henry's Red Sea
Author: Barbara Smucker
Publisher: MennoMedia, Inc.
ISBN: 0836197526
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Barbara Smucker relates the dramatic and courageous story of refugees from Russia following World War II. This is a story of suspense—American soldiers, Russian officers, and a midnight train ride in darkened boxcars. Here is danger, escape, and deliverance. An actual event that happened in Berlin in 1946. Easily read by ages 11 and up—but can be read to children of all ages!
Publisher: MennoMedia, Inc.
ISBN: 0836197526
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Barbara Smucker relates the dramatic and courageous story of refugees from Russia following World War II. This is a story of suspense—American soldiers, Russian officers, and a midnight train ride in darkened boxcars. Here is danger, escape, and deliverance. An actual event that happened in Berlin in 1946. Easily read by ages 11 and up—but can be read to children of all ages!
Henry's Red Sea
Author: Barbara Claassen Smucker
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Languages : en
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Henry's Freedom Box
Author: Ellen Levine
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338082655
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist. Henry Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream seems farther away than ever when he is torn from his family and put to work in a warehouse. Henry grows up and marries, but he is again devastated when his family is sold at the slave market. Then one day, as he lifts a crate at the warehouse, he knows exactly what he must do: He will mail himself to the North. After an arduous journey in the crate, Henry finally has a birthday -- his first day of freedom.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338082655
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist. Henry Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream seems farther away than ever when he is torn from his family and put to work in a warehouse. Henry grows up and marries, but he is again devastated when his family is sold at the slave market. Then one day, as he lifts a crate at the warehouse, he knows exactly what he must do: He will mail himself to the North. After an arduous journey in the crate, Henry finally has a birthday -- his first day of freedom.
Around the World
Author: Henry S. McLean
Publisher:
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Category : Voyages around the world
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
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Category : Voyages around the world
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Henry's Wrong Turn
Author: Harriet Ziefert
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402721076
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
In this story based on a true incident, a humpback whale tries to find its way home after mistakenly swimming into New York Harbor.
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402721076
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
In this story based on a true incident, a humpback whale tries to find its way home after mistakenly swimming into New York Harbor.
A Memoir, Letters, and Diary of the Rev. Henry S. Polehampton
Author: Henry Stedman Polehampton
Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Andrew Henry's Meadow
Author: Doris Burn
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101644079
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
A classic reissued for a new generation Andrew Henry has two younger brothers, who are always together, and two older sisters, who are always together. But Andrew Henry is in the middle--and he's always with himself. He doesn't mind this very much, because he's an inventor. But when Andrew Henry's family doesn't appreciate him or his inventions, he decides it's time to run away. Many children in the neighborhood feel the same way and follow him to his meadow, where he builds each of his friends a unique house of their very own. But in town the families miss their children and do everything they can to find them. And the kids realize that it feels a little lonely out in the meadow without their parents. Just as relevant today as it was in 1967, this is a heart-warming story about children who want to feel special and appreciated for who they are. With a new jacket and expanded trim size, Andrew Henry is ready to enchant the next generation of kids.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101644079
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
A classic reissued for a new generation Andrew Henry has two younger brothers, who are always together, and two older sisters, who are always together. But Andrew Henry is in the middle--and he's always with himself. He doesn't mind this very much, because he's an inventor. But when Andrew Henry's family doesn't appreciate him or his inventions, he decides it's time to run away. Many children in the neighborhood feel the same way and follow him to his meadow, where he builds each of his friends a unique house of their very own. But in town the families miss their children and do everything they can to find them. And the kids realize that it feels a little lonely out in the meadow without their parents. Just as relevant today as it was in 1967, this is a heart-warming story about children who want to feel special and appreciated for who they are. With a new jacket and expanded trim size, Andrew Henry is ready to enchant the next generation of kids.
The Pilgrim in the Holy Land
Author: Henry S. Osborn
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Category : Palestine
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Category : Palestine
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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A memoir, letters, and diary of ... Henry S. Polehampton, ed. by E. and T.S. Polehampton
Author: Henry Stedman Polehampton
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Pages : 480
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Henry's Sisters
Author: Cathy Lamb
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN: 0758244800
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
An emergency homecoming forces three sisters to deal with issues they’d rather ignore in this touching novel by the author of All About Evie. Ever since the Bommarito sisters were little girls, their mother, River, has written them a letter on pink paper when she has something especially important to impart. This time, the message is urgent—River requires open-heart surgery, and Isabelle and her sisters are needed at home to run the family bakery and care for their brother and ailing grandmother. Isabelle has worked hard to leave Trillium River, Oregon, behind as she travels the globe taking award-winning photographs. Still, she and her sisters, Cecilia, an outspoken kindergarten teacher, and Janie, a bestselling author, share a deep, loving bond. And all of them adore their brother, Henry, whose disabilities haven’t stopped him from helping at the bakery and bringing good cheer to everyone in town. But going home again forces open the secrets and hurts the Bommaritos would rather keep tightly closed—Isabelle’s fleeting relationships, Janie’s obsessive compulsive disorder, and Cecilia’s plans to get even with her cheating ex-husband. Now, working together, Isabelle and her sisters begin to find answers to questions they never knew existed, unexpected ways to salve their childhood wounds, and the courage to grasp surprising new chances at happiness. As irresistible as one of the Bommaritos’ giant cupcakes, Henry’s Sisters is a novel about family and forgiveness, mothers and daughters—and gaining the wisdom to look ahead while still holding onto everything that matters most. “This finely pitched family melodrama is balanced with enough gallows humor and idiosyncratic characters to make it positively irresistible.” —Publishers Weekly
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN: 0758244800
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
An emergency homecoming forces three sisters to deal with issues they’d rather ignore in this touching novel by the author of All About Evie. Ever since the Bommarito sisters were little girls, their mother, River, has written them a letter on pink paper when she has something especially important to impart. This time, the message is urgent—River requires open-heart surgery, and Isabelle and her sisters are needed at home to run the family bakery and care for their brother and ailing grandmother. Isabelle has worked hard to leave Trillium River, Oregon, behind as she travels the globe taking award-winning photographs. Still, she and her sisters, Cecilia, an outspoken kindergarten teacher, and Janie, a bestselling author, share a deep, loving bond. And all of them adore their brother, Henry, whose disabilities haven’t stopped him from helping at the bakery and bringing good cheer to everyone in town. But going home again forces open the secrets and hurts the Bommaritos would rather keep tightly closed—Isabelle’s fleeting relationships, Janie’s obsessive compulsive disorder, and Cecilia’s plans to get even with her cheating ex-husband. Now, working together, Isabelle and her sisters begin to find answers to questions they never knew existed, unexpected ways to salve their childhood wounds, and the courage to grasp surprising new chances at happiness. As irresistible as one of the Bommaritos’ giant cupcakes, Henry’s Sisters is a novel about family and forgiveness, mothers and daughters—and gaining the wisdom to look ahead while still holding onto everything that matters most. “This finely pitched family melodrama is balanced with enough gallows humor and idiosyncratic characters to make it positively irresistible.” —Publishers Weekly