Author: Kirsten Alexander
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1538700573
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Perfect for fans of the NYT bestseller Sold on a Monday, this Southern historical novel based on the true story of a boy's mysterious disappearance examines despair, loyalty, and the nature of truth. In 1913, on a summer's day at Half Moon Lake, Louisiana, four-year-old Sonny Davenport walks into the woods and never returns. The boy's mysterious disappearance from the family's lake house makes front-page news in their home town of Opelousas. John Henry and Mary Davenport are wealthy and influential, and will do anything to find their son. For two years, the Davenports search across the South, offer increasingly large rewards and struggle not to give in to despair. Then, at the moment when all hope seems lost, the boy is found in the company of a tramp. But is he truly Sonny Davenport? The circumstances of his discovery raise more questions than answers. And when Grace Mill, an unwed farm worker, travels from Alabama to lay claim to the child, newspapers, townsfolk, even the Davenports' own friends, take sides. As the tramp's kidnapping trial begins, and two desperate mothers fight for ownership of the boy, the people of Opelousas discover that truth is more complicated than they'd ever dreamed.
Author: Oliver Jeffers
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698148789
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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From the illustrator of the #1 smash hit The Day The Crayons Quit comes a humorously warm tale of friendship. Now also an animated TV special! What is a boy to do when a lost penguin shows up at his door? Find out where it comes from, of course, and return it. But the journey to the South Pole is long and difficult in the boy’s rowboat. There are storms to brave and deep, dark nights.To pass the time, the boy tells the penguin stories. Finally, they arrive. Yet instead of being happy, both are sad. That’s when the boy realizes: The penguin hadn’t been lost, it had merely been lonely. A poignant, funny, and child-friendly story about friendship lost . . . and then found again.
Author: Ethan Hunt
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781530313488
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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In Ethan's book, you will experience the pain of a lost boy searching for love and acceptance in a world where neither can be found. You will take a harrowing journey through the foster parent system that so radically failed him. You will watch him stumble into adulthood, ill-equipped to handle the pressures of life and then you will rejoice as Ethan experiences God and what it means to be truly loved and accepted.
Author: Lauren Persons
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781615995493
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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"Based on the author's experience of trying to explain to a 3-year-old boy that his father was not coming home from the hospital, this book explores the confusion that a young child experiences around bereavement. Ultimately, the boy discovers his father lives on within his heart"--
Author: Desmond Edmond
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1665750235
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 213
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Desmond Edmond decided to present his talent for writing in a form rarely seen in poetry books. he presents an autobiographical storyline in A LOST BOY TO A FOUND MAN. With firm grabse of his talent he meticulously shows the reader his development of emotional stability and a belief in God that hitched a ride along the way. for this, any reader who loves books, especially ones of poetry, gets a rare read of his first poems and pieces of prose. Most writers, of any kind, can only share memories of what they wrote when first starting out. Uniquely, Desmond is able to spoon feed the reader with poems and pieces of prose that date back to 1996, such as STRIFE and 1997, such as AFRIKA/AMERICA. another poem titled JUST SOME WORDS gives visceral feelings when reading it, written in 2005. Viewing Desmond through this progressive lens like his poem YOU AND US, and then looking at poems such as NIKKI GIOVANNI, LION, MAROONS, SUNSHINE and surely to be a favorite THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM, the reader can actually witness the development of a writing style that is meant for the world to read. Rare indeed.
Author: Story Adapted by
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781320843010
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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A true story of one of the Lost Boys of Sudan, Arok Garang.
Author: John Mayen Deng
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 9781498473750
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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An African Proverb says"it takes a village to raise a child,"In this story, it takes two countries.
Author: J. D. Trafford
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781503943940
Category : FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"Attorney Justin Glass's practice, housed in a shabby office on the north side of Saint Louis, isn't doing so well that he can afford to work for free. But when eight-year-old Tanisha Walker offers him a jar full of change to find her missing brother, he doesn't have the heart to turn her away. Justin had hoped to find the boy alive and well. But all that was found of Devon Walker was his brutally murdered body--and the bodies of twelve other African American teenagers, all discarded like trash in a mass grave. Each had been reported missing. And none had been investigated. As simmering racial tensions explode into violence Justin...vows to search for the killer..."--P. [4] of cover.
Author: Francesco Sedita
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593206193
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
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The action-packed Pathfinders Society saga comes to a thrilling climax in this can't-miss installment! Perfect for fans of the Last Kids on Earth and Lumberjanes series. In their newest adventure, the Pathfinders are in for a wild time--literally! Unwittingly transported fifty years into the past, Kyle, Vic, Harry, Beth, and Nate desperately try to find a way back to their own time while attempting to avoid questions about who--and from when--they are. A mysterious map and a reckless river journey takes them straight into danger and beyond, where the present and the past collide in otherworldly ways. Will the Pathfinders find their way home, or will they be trapped in this not-so-groovy era forever? Electrifying artwork by Eisner-Award-winning artist Steve Hamaker brings the action, friendships, and intrigue to life in this exciting graphic novel series.
Author: Tammy Ryan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781583428061
Category : Refugee camps
Languages : en
Pages : 85
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