Author: Suzanne Freeman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780807278826
Category : Children's audiobooks.
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
When her parents disappear while on a sailing vacation, Mia must move from Beirut back to America. She and her sisters are sent to live with their eccentric aunt in Tennessee, and Mia begins to long for Beirut while awaiting the return of her parents whose absence she cannot accept. An eclectic group of friends and family helps Mia to accept the inevitable about her parents and to accept herself as well. October 1997 publication date.
The Cuckoo's Child
Author: Margaret Thompson
Publisher: Brindle and Glass
ISBN: 1927366305
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
In her forties, Livvy Alvarsson hopes to be a bone marrow donor for her much-loved younger brother, Stephen. Instead, she discovers she has no idea who she is. This is the second great loss she has suffered, for eleven years earlier her four-year-old son, Daniel, disappeared. Armed with a few clues from wartime England, she embarks on a search for her birth family. The narrative takes the reader from small-town British Columbia to London, the English countryside, and back. It is a story about loss and grief, and secrets and guilt, but it is also about restoration and balance. As Livvy confides her story to her dying brother, she reveals not only an identity enriched by experience, but also the transcendent importance of family and love. The Cuckoo’s Child is a compelling and remarkable evocation of a woman’s search for her family history.
Publisher: Brindle and Glass
ISBN: 1927366305
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
In her forties, Livvy Alvarsson hopes to be a bone marrow donor for her much-loved younger brother, Stephen. Instead, she discovers she has no idea who she is. This is the second great loss she has suffered, for eleven years earlier her four-year-old son, Daniel, disappeared. Armed with a few clues from wartime England, she embarks on a search for her birth family. The narrative takes the reader from small-town British Columbia to London, the English countryside, and back. It is a story about loss and grief, and secrets and guilt, but it is also about restoration and balance. As Livvy confides her story to her dying brother, she reveals not only an identity enriched by experience, but also the transcendent importance of family and love. The Cuckoo’s Child is a compelling and remarkable evocation of a woman’s search for her family history.
The Cuckoo Child
Author: Dick King-smith
Publisher: Hyperion
ISBN: 9780786813513
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
With the unknowing help of his pet geese, eight-year-old Jack Daw decides to raise an ostrich on his father's farm.
Publisher: Hyperion
ISBN: 9780786813513
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
With the unknowing help of his pet geese, eight-year-old Jack Daw decides to raise an ostrich on his father's farm.
Cuckoo!
Author: Fiona Roberton
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698149750
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Hilarious and heartwarming read-aloud from IRA Children’s Book Award winner Cuckoo hatches. And all is well. But when his brothers and sisters sing out Too-too-weet! Too-too-weet! Cuckoo instead chirps Cuckoo! and no one can understand him. When he leaves his nest, Cuckoo still can’t find anyone who speaks his language. He tries to communicate with the other animals—coomooing and buckooing and cabooing along the way—but he doesn’t sound like anyone else out there! Just when he thinks all is lost, Cuckoo finds an unlikely friend who understands him perfectly. IRA Children’s Book Award winner Fiona Roberton has created an utterly charming read-aloud about a little bird that will win fans over with his hilarious attempts at communication and determination to go to any length to find a friend.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698149750
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Hilarious and heartwarming read-aloud from IRA Children’s Book Award winner Cuckoo hatches. And all is well. But when his brothers and sisters sing out Too-too-weet! Too-too-weet! Cuckoo instead chirps Cuckoo! and no one can understand him. When he leaves his nest, Cuckoo still can’t find anyone who speaks his language. He tries to communicate with the other animals—coomooing and buckooing and cabooing along the way—but he doesn’t sound like anyone else out there! Just when he thinks all is lost, Cuckoo finds an unlikely friend who understands him perfectly. IRA Children’s Book Award winner Fiona Roberton has created an utterly charming read-aloud about a little bird that will win fans over with his hilarious attempts at communication and determination to go to any length to find a friend.
The Cuckoo's Child
Author: Suzanne Freeman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780807278826
Category : Children's audiobooks.
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
When her parents disappear while on a sailing vacation, Mia must move from Beirut back to America. She and her sisters are sent to live with their eccentric aunt in Tennessee, and Mia begins to long for Beirut while awaiting the return of her parents whose absence she cannot accept. An eclectic group of friends and family helps Mia to accept the inevitable about her parents and to accept herself as well. October 1997 publication date.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780807278826
Category : Children's audiobooks.
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
When her parents disappear while on a sailing vacation, Mia must move from Beirut back to America. She and her sisters are sent to live with their eccentric aunt in Tennessee, and Mia begins to long for Beirut while awaiting the return of her parents whose absence she cannot accept. An eclectic group of friends and family helps Mia to accept the inevitable about her parents and to accept herself as well. October 1997 publication date.
The Cuckoo's Parting Cry
Author: Anthea Halliwell
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448110777
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
For Fidgie, living in pre-war Wales, the long school holiday stretched blissfully ahead. With her new friend Chaz as companion for idyllic summer days by the sea, she was able frequently to escape her edgy mother and her malicious older sister, Cly. Her father, mercifully, was away from home ... Through Fidgie's clear eyes the events of a brief hot spell in August unfold: her family and neighbours become involved in adultery, deception, and other, darker, misdemeanours. The eight-year-old child is an engaging and lively narrator; swept along by her extraordinarily compelling tale, the reader will realise that underlying Fidgie's innocent accounts of family meals, fishing trips round the bay, tree-climbing and playing at May Queens, a very adult sub-text is developing. Its conclusion is both tragic and inevitable. Anthea Halliwell's novel marks the emergence of a delightfully individual voice and a most original storytelling talent.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448110777
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
For Fidgie, living in pre-war Wales, the long school holiday stretched blissfully ahead. With her new friend Chaz as companion for idyllic summer days by the sea, she was able frequently to escape her edgy mother and her malicious older sister, Cly. Her father, mercifully, was away from home ... Through Fidgie's clear eyes the events of a brief hot spell in August unfold: her family and neighbours become involved in adultery, deception, and other, darker, misdemeanours. The eight-year-old child is an engaging and lively narrator; swept along by her extraordinarily compelling tale, the reader will realise that underlying Fidgie's innocent accounts of family meals, fishing trips round the bay, tree-climbing and playing at May Queens, a very adult sub-text is developing. Its conclusion is both tragic and inevitable. Anthea Halliwell's novel marks the emergence of a delightfully individual voice and a most original storytelling talent.
The Midwich Cuckoos
Author: John Wyndham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Cuckoo's Egg
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780740808975
Category : Life on other planets
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
They told Thorn he was one of them, although he was different. To them, he was ugly: sleek-skinned, not furred, and clawless. But he was part of their power class, part of the elite: the fighters, the defenders. When the crunch came, when Thorn learned that on him might hang the future of two worlds, he had to stand alone to justify his very existence.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780740808975
Category : Life on other planets
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
They told Thorn he was one of them, although he was different. To them, he was ugly: sleek-skinned, not furred, and clawless. But he was part of their power class, part of the elite: the fighters, the defenders. When the crunch came, when Thorn learned that on him might hang the future of two worlds, he had to stand alone to justify his very existence.
Mr. Cuckoo's Clock Shop
Author: Arnold Shapiro
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clocks and watches
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Learning to tell time is fun.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clocks and watches
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Learning to tell time is fun.
The Fallen Children
Author: David Owen
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0349002681
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
One cover. 360 different colours. Which one will you get? 'A powerful and disturbing new take on an original classic' Tim Bowler, author of Carnegie Medal-winner River Boy 'I loved this book . . . Pacy, gripping, intriguing [and] poignant' Alice Oseman, author of Solitaire and Radio Silence Young people on the Midwich Estate don't have much hope for their futures. Keisha has lived there her whole life, and has been working hard to escape it; others have just accepted their lot. But change is coming . . . One night, everyone inside Midwich Tower falls mysteriously unconscious in one inexplicable 'Nightout'. No one can explain what happened during those lost hours, but soon afterwards Keisha and three other girls find they're pregnant - and the babies are growing at an alarming rate. As the news spreads around the tower, its residents turns against them and the situation spirals toward violence. Keisha's life unravels as she realises that the pregnancy may not have just ruined her hopes for the future: she might be mother to the end of the world. The Fallen Children is a story of violation, of judgment and of young people who must fight to defy what is expected of them. The Fallen Children has one cover design but 360 different colourways. Each one is numbered from 1 to 360 on the spine. The colour you receive will be completely random. 'THE FALLEN CHILDREN is ATTACK THE BLOCK meets VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED and feels like the London I know. It's very cool' - Juno Dawson 'An ingenious twist on a classic. Surprisingly tender and moving, completely convincing and gripping' - Kiran Millwood Hargrave 'Read THE FALLEN CHILDREN if you'd like less middle-class kidlit, allegorical commentary on society and teens, and dead good books' - Non Pratt
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0349002681
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
One cover. 360 different colours. Which one will you get? 'A powerful and disturbing new take on an original classic' Tim Bowler, author of Carnegie Medal-winner River Boy 'I loved this book . . . Pacy, gripping, intriguing [and] poignant' Alice Oseman, author of Solitaire and Radio Silence Young people on the Midwich Estate don't have much hope for their futures. Keisha has lived there her whole life, and has been working hard to escape it; others have just accepted their lot. But change is coming . . . One night, everyone inside Midwich Tower falls mysteriously unconscious in one inexplicable 'Nightout'. No one can explain what happened during those lost hours, but soon afterwards Keisha and three other girls find they're pregnant - and the babies are growing at an alarming rate. As the news spreads around the tower, its residents turns against them and the situation spirals toward violence. Keisha's life unravels as she realises that the pregnancy may not have just ruined her hopes for the future: she might be mother to the end of the world. The Fallen Children is a story of violation, of judgment and of young people who must fight to defy what is expected of them. The Fallen Children has one cover design but 360 different colourways. Each one is numbered from 1 to 360 on the spine. The colour you receive will be completely random. 'THE FALLEN CHILDREN is ATTACK THE BLOCK meets VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED and feels like the London I know. It's very cool' - Juno Dawson 'An ingenious twist on a classic. Surprisingly tender and moving, completely convincing and gripping' - Kiran Millwood Hargrave 'Read THE FALLEN CHILDREN if you'd like less middle-class kidlit, allegorical commentary on society and teens, and dead good books' - Non Pratt
Hard Candy
Author: Charles A. Carroll
Publisher: Rj Communications
ISBN: 9780985749903
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Hard Candy is an American tragedy. It is a human portrayal of an uncommon nature, and no one thing contributes more to its value than its authenticity, It gives you a glimpse into the protected world of institutional"bad players,"administrators, monitors, and teachers who stood side by side with idiots and madmen and committed atrocities that caused many children to flee into an unconventional brand of protection because there was no legitimate protection for them. It also shines a light on children forced to remain in darkened basements, drained of their childhood vigor, rocking on sore tailbones alone and afraid, who were later released into the community to carry their emotional wounds for the rest of their lives, which was the coup de grAcentsce of the state's final blow. This true story is about human triumph and courage; how two brothers cared for each other when no one else would; how they understood each other when no one else did; and how they desperately clung to the needed components of love and friendship to survive, together, their ultimate victory from systemic governmental and bureaucratic misconduct
Publisher: Rj Communications
ISBN: 9780985749903
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Hard Candy is an American tragedy. It is a human portrayal of an uncommon nature, and no one thing contributes more to its value than its authenticity, It gives you a glimpse into the protected world of institutional"bad players,"administrators, monitors, and teachers who stood side by side with idiots and madmen and committed atrocities that caused many children to flee into an unconventional brand of protection because there was no legitimate protection for them. It also shines a light on children forced to remain in darkened basements, drained of their childhood vigor, rocking on sore tailbones alone and afraid, who were later released into the community to carry their emotional wounds for the rest of their lives, which was the coup de grAcentsce of the state's final blow. This true story is about human triumph and courage; how two brothers cared for each other when no one else would; how they understood each other when no one else did; and how they desperately clung to the needed components of love and friendship to survive, together, their ultimate victory from systemic governmental and bureaucratic misconduct