Author: Linda Crew
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 9780440410997
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Robby Hummer loves everything about Christmas except the school play. He dreads being an elf in green tights. But the joyful season wins him over to the play, as well as to the idea that while some people in Nekomah Creek have different beliefs than his family, the holiday spirit is universal.
Nekomah Creek Christmas
Author: Linda Crew
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 9780440410997
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Robby Hummer loves everything about Christmas except the school play. He dreads being an elf in green tights. But the joyful season wins him over to the play, as well as to the idea that while some people in Nekomah Creek have different beliefs than his family, the holiday spirit is universal.
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 9780440410997
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Robby Hummer loves everything about Christmas except the school play. He dreads being an elf in green tights. But the joyful season wins him over to the play, as well as to the idea that while some people in Nekomah Creek have different beliefs than his family, the holiday spirit is universal.
Nekomah Creek Christmas
Author: Linda Crew
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780606079402
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Robby and his boisterous family spend the Christmas season preparing for Robby's reluctant debut in the school play and his parents' income tax audit.
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780606079402
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Robby and his boisterous family spend the Christmas season preparing for Robby's reluctant debut in the school play and his parents' income tax audit.
Nekomah Creek
Author: Linda Crew
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0307538869
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Life at Robby Hummer's house is wild, fun, and a big mess since his twin brother and sister were born. At school, he'd rather read quietly than play games at recess of watch a filmstrip. But his teacher thinks he reads too much and sends him to Mrs. Van Gent, the schol counselor. Sheesh! Since when is liking books a problem? Meanwhile, some kids at school think it's weired that Robby's father stays home to take care of the twins while his mother works. Robby worries that, if his family is not like everybody else's, the authorities could take him away from them. When he learns that Mrs. Van Gent is coming to dinner, he knows she plans to spy. He's got to turn the Hummers into a normal family-now!
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0307538869
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Life at Robby Hummer's house is wild, fun, and a big mess since his twin brother and sister were born. At school, he'd rather read quietly than play games at recess of watch a filmstrip. But his teacher thinks he reads too much and sends him to Mrs. Van Gent, the schol counselor. Sheesh! Since when is liking books a problem? Meanwhile, some kids at school think it's weired that Robby's father stays home to take care of the twins while his mother works. Robby worries that, if his family is not like everybody else's, the authorities could take him away from them. When he learns that Mrs. Van Gent is coming to dinner, he knows she plans to spy. He's got to turn the Hummers into a normal family-now!
Join In
Author: Donald R. Gallo
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
ISBN: 0307779394
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Here are seventeen original short stories that reflect young adults' views on friendships and prejudice, expectations and disappointments, and connections and confrontations.
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
ISBN: 0307779394
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Here are seventeen original short stories that reflect young adults' views on friendships and prejudice, expectations and disappointments, and connections and confrontations.
A Heart for Any Fate
Author: Linda Crew
Publisher: Ooligan Press
ISBN: 1932010262
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Lovisa King, 17, comes of age on the Oregon Trail and finds the strength to help her family survive a deadly shortcut on their journey to the Willamette Valley.
Publisher: Ooligan Press
ISBN: 1932010262
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Lovisa King, 17, comes of age on the Oregon Trail and finds the strength to help her family survive a deadly shortcut on their journey to the Willamette Valley.
Dictionary of American Children's Fiction, 1990-1994
Author: Agnes Regan Perkins
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1567507905
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Written for librarians, teachers, and researchers, this is the second five-year supplement to the authors' Dictionary of American Children's Fiction, 1960-1984 (Greenwood, 1986). Its 567 entries cover 189 award-winning children's books by 136 authors published from 1990 to 1994. Included are concise critical reviews of novels, biographical profiles of authors, and descriptions of memorable characters. An appendix lists books by the awards they have won, and an extensive index allows complete access to the wealth of material contained within this reference work. Included are alphabetically arranged entries for those works that critics have singled out to receive awards or have placed on citation lists during the five years covered by the volume. The reference also contains biographical entries for leading authors of children's fiction, with entries focusing on how the author's life relates to children's literature and to particular works in this dictionary. The volume provides a list of awards, along with an appendix classifying individual works by the awards they have won. An extensive index provides full access to the wealth of information in this book.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1567507905
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Written for librarians, teachers, and researchers, this is the second five-year supplement to the authors' Dictionary of American Children's Fiction, 1960-1984 (Greenwood, 1986). Its 567 entries cover 189 award-winning children's books by 136 authors published from 1990 to 1994. Included are concise critical reviews of novels, biographical profiles of authors, and descriptions of memorable characters. An appendix lists books by the awards they have won, and an extensive index allows complete access to the wealth of material contained within this reference work. Included are alphabetically arranged entries for those works that critics have singled out to receive awards or have placed on citation lists during the five years covered by the volume. The reference also contains biographical entries for leading authors of children's fiction, with entries focusing on how the author's life relates to children's literature and to particular works in this dictionary. The volume provides a list of awards, along with an appendix classifying individual works by the awards they have won. An extensive index provides full access to the wealth of information in this book.
Your Reading
Author: National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, IL.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
An annotated listing of books of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama recommended for junior high and middle school students.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
An annotated listing of books of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama recommended for junior high and middle school students.
Children's Catalog
Author: Anne Price
Publisher: New York : H.W. Wilson
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1402
Book Description
Publisher: New York : H.W. Wilson
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1402
Book Description
Children of the River
Author: Linda Crew
Publisher: Perfection Learning
ISBN: 9780780709072
Category : Minorities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Having fled Cambodia four years earlier to escape the Khmer Rouge Army, 17-year-old Sundara is torn between remaining faithful to the customs of her own people while enjoying life in her Oregon high school as a regular American.
Publisher: Perfection Learning
ISBN: 9780780709072
Category : Minorities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Having fled Cambodia four years earlier to escape the Khmer Rouge Army, 17-year-old Sundara is torn between remaining faithful to the customs of her own people while enjoying life in her Oregon high school as a regular American.
The Cumulative Book Index
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2166
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2166
Book Description