Author: Mary Tannen
Publisher: Avon Books
ISBN: 9780380576616
Category : Celts
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Lured by a magical whistle, Fiona and Bran encounter a wizard-like person named Finn, who takes them on a fantasy journey across ancient Ireland and back to another time.
The Wizard Children of Finn
Author: Mary Tannen
Publisher: Avon Books
ISBN: 9780380576616
Category : Celts
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Lured by a magical whistle, Fiona and Bran encounter a wizard-like person named Finn, who takes them on a fantasy journey across ancient Ireland and back to another time.
Publisher: Avon Books
ISBN: 9780380576616
Category : Celts
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Lured by a magical whistle, Fiona and Bran encounter a wizard-like person named Finn, who takes them on a fantasy journey across ancient Ireland and back to another time.
The Lost Legend of Finn
Author: Mary Tannen
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780394852119
Category : Brothers and sisters
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Determined to find out the truth about their father, Bran and Fiona use their uncle's magic book and go back in time to ninth-century Ireland. Sequel to "The Wizard Children of Finn."
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780394852119
Category : Brothers and sisters
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Determined to find out the truth about their father, Bran and Fiona use their uncle's magic book and go back in time to ninth-century Ireland. Sequel to "The Wizard Children of Finn."
The Wizard in My Shed
Author: Simon Farnaby
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
ISBN: 9781444954388
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Merdyn the Wild is from the Dark Ages. He's the world's greatest Warlock (don't call him a wizard), banished to the 21st century for bad behaviour, and he's about to create a whole load of trouble for Rose, aged 12. Rose is a totally ordinary girl, on a mission to mend her broken family. Bubbles is Rose's guinea pig. He just poos a lot. When Rose bumps into Merdyn and discovers what he is, she quickly realises that he could be just what she needs. Rose agrees to help Merdyn navigate the confusing ways of the modern world (things like: the lidded bowl in the bathroom is NOT a sink, it's a TOILET, so definitely DON'T wash your face in it) if Merdyn gives her a spell to fix her family in return. Now they just need to hide him in the shed without Rose's mum noticing, track down Merdyn's magic staff and find a way to send Merdyn back through time to the Dark Ages. What could possibly go wrong...?
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
ISBN: 9781444954388
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Merdyn the Wild is from the Dark Ages. He's the world's greatest Warlock (don't call him a wizard), banished to the 21st century for bad behaviour, and he's about to create a whole load of trouble for Rose, aged 12. Rose is a totally ordinary girl, on a mission to mend her broken family. Bubbles is Rose's guinea pig. He just poos a lot. When Rose bumps into Merdyn and discovers what he is, she quickly realises that he could be just what she needs. Rose agrees to help Merdyn navigate the confusing ways of the modern world (things like: the lidded bowl in the bathroom is NOT a sink, it's a TOILET, so definitely DON'T wash your face in it) if Merdyn gives her a spell to fix her family in return. Now they just need to hide him in the shed without Rose's mum noticing, track down Merdyn's magic staff and find a way to send Merdyn back through time to the Dark Ages. What could possibly go wrong...?
Gena/Finn
Author: Hannah Moskowitz
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1452143854
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Gena and Finn would have never met but for their mutual love for the popular show Up Below. Regardless of their differences—Gena is a recent high school graduate whose social life largely takes place online, while Finn is in her early twenties, job hunting and contemplating marriage with her longtime boyfriend—the two girls realize that the bond between them transcends fanfiction. When disaster strikes and Gena's world turns upside down, only Finn can save her, and that, too, comes with a price. Told through emails, text messages, journal entries, and blog posts, Gena/Finn is a story of friendship and love in the digital age.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1452143854
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Gena and Finn would have never met but for their mutual love for the popular show Up Below. Regardless of their differences—Gena is a recent high school graduate whose social life largely takes place online, while Finn is in her early twenties, job hunting and contemplating marriage with her longtime boyfriend—the two girls realize that the bond between them transcends fanfiction. When disaster strikes and Gena's world turns upside down, only Finn can save her, and that, too, comes with a price. Told through emails, text messages, journal entries, and blog posts, Gena/Finn is a story of friendship and love in the digital age.
No Passengers Beyond This Point
Author: Gennifer Choldenko
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408850419
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
After losing their house to foreclosure, three siblings - India, Finn and Mouse - have less than twenty-four hours to pack their belongings and fly, without their mother, to stay with an uncle in Colorado. But when they land, a mysterious driver meets them at the airport in a pink car adorned with feathers. He has never heard of their Uncle Red. Like Dorothy in Oz, they find themselves in an unknown place, with no idea of how to get home. Time is running out . . .
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408850419
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
After losing their house to foreclosure, three siblings - India, Finn and Mouse - have less than twenty-four hours to pack their belongings and fly, without their mother, to stay with an uncle in Colorado. But when they land, a mysterious driver meets them at the airport in a pink car adorned with feathers. He has never heard of their Uncle Red. Like Dorothy in Oz, they find themselves in an unknown place, with no idea of how to get home. Time is running out . . .
An Unusual Island
Author: D. L. Finn
Publisher: Denise Massaglia
ISBN: 9780996258234
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When Janine's parents win a vacation to a private island, it's the same week as her and her twin brother's 16th birthday. Cool! They leave to go sightseeing on a boat. Then a storm crashes their boat onto an island-- and they aren't alone.
Publisher: Denise Massaglia
ISBN: 9780996258234
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When Janine's parents win a vacation to a private island, it's the same week as her and her twin brother's 16th birthday. Cool! They leave to go sightseeing on a boat. Then a storm crashes their boat onto an island-- and they aren't alone.
Finn Family Moomintroll
Author: Tove Jansson
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312608896
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
Moomintroll and his friends, Snufkin and Sniff, find a hat with magical powers.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312608896
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
Moomintroll and his friends, Snufkin and Sniff, find a hat with magical powers.
The Writings of Mark Twain: The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy
Author: Dimitra Fimi
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137552824
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Runner-up of the Katherine Briggs Folklore Award 2017 Winner of the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth & Fantasy Studies 2019 This book examines the creative uses of “Celtic” myth in contemporary fantasy written for children or young adults from the 1960s to the 2000s. Its scope ranges from classic children’s fantasies such as Lloyd Alexander’s The Chronicles of Prydain and Alan Garner’s The Owl Service, to some of the most recent, award-winning fantasy authors of the last decade, such as Kate Thompson (The New Policeman) and Catherine Fisher (Darkhenge). The book focuses on the ways these fantasy works have appropriated and adapted Irish and Welsh medieval literature in order to highlight different perceptions of “Celticity.” The term “Celtic” itself is interrogated in light of recent debates in Celtic studies, in order to explore a fictional representation of a national past that is often romanticized and political.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137552824
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Runner-up of the Katherine Briggs Folklore Award 2017 Winner of the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth & Fantasy Studies 2019 This book examines the creative uses of “Celtic” myth in contemporary fantasy written for children or young adults from the 1960s to the 2000s. Its scope ranges from classic children’s fantasies such as Lloyd Alexander’s The Chronicles of Prydain and Alan Garner’s The Owl Service, to some of the most recent, award-winning fantasy authors of the last decade, such as Kate Thompson (The New Policeman) and Catherine Fisher (Darkhenge). The book focuses on the ways these fantasy works have appropriated and adapted Irish and Welsh medieval literature in order to highlight different perceptions of “Celticity.” The term “Celtic” itself is interrogated in light of recent debates in Celtic studies, in order to explore a fictional representation of a national past that is often romanticized and political.
Kiddie Lit
Author: Beverly Lyon Clark
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801881701
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Honor Book for the 2005 Book Award given by the Children's Literature Association The popularity of the Harry Potter books among adults and the critical acclaim these young adult fantasies have received may seem like a novel literary phenomenon. In the nineteenth century, however, readers considered both Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as works of literature equally for children and adults; only later was the former relegated to the category of "boys' books" while the latter, even as it was canonized, came frequently to be regarded as unsuitable for young readers. Adults—women and men—wept over Little Women. And America's most prestigious literary journals regularly reviewed books written for both children and their parents. This egalitarian approach to children's literature changed with the emergence of literary studies as a scholarly discipline at the turn of the twentieth century. Academics considered children's books an inferior literature and beneath serious consideration. In Kiddie Lit, Beverly Lyon Clark explores the marginalization of children's literature in America—and its recent possible reintegration—both within the academy and by the mainstream critical establishment. Tracing the reception of works by Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Lewis Carroll, Frances Hodgson Burnett, L. Frank Baum, Walt Disney, and J. K. Rowling, Clark reveals fundamental shifts in the assessment of the literary worth of books beloved by both children and adults, whether written for boys or girls. While uncovering the institutional underpinnings of this transition, Clark also attributes it to changing American attitudes toward childhood itself, a cultural resistance to the intrinsic value of childhood expressed through sentimentality, condescension, and moralizing. Clark's engaging and enlightening study of the critical disregard for children's books since the end of the nineteenth century—which draws on recent scholarship in gender, cultural, and literary studies— offers provocative new insights into the history of both children's literature and American literature in general, and forcefully argues that the books our children read and love demand greater respect.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801881701
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Honor Book for the 2005 Book Award given by the Children's Literature Association The popularity of the Harry Potter books among adults and the critical acclaim these young adult fantasies have received may seem like a novel literary phenomenon. In the nineteenth century, however, readers considered both Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as works of literature equally for children and adults; only later was the former relegated to the category of "boys' books" while the latter, even as it was canonized, came frequently to be regarded as unsuitable for young readers. Adults—women and men—wept over Little Women. And America's most prestigious literary journals regularly reviewed books written for both children and their parents. This egalitarian approach to children's literature changed with the emergence of literary studies as a scholarly discipline at the turn of the twentieth century. Academics considered children's books an inferior literature and beneath serious consideration. In Kiddie Lit, Beverly Lyon Clark explores the marginalization of children's literature in America—and its recent possible reintegration—both within the academy and by the mainstream critical establishment. Tracing the reception of works by Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Lewis Carroll, Frances Hodgson Burnett, L. Frank Baum, Walt Disney, and J. K. Rowling, Clark reveals fundamental shifts in the assessment of the literary worth of books beloved by both children and adults, whether written for boys or girls. While uncovering the institutional underpinnings of this transition, Clark also attributes it to changing American attitudes toward childhood itself, a cultural resistance to the intrinsic value of childhood expressed through sentimentality, condescension, and moralizing. Clark's engaging and enlightening study of the critical disregard for children's books since the end of the nineteenth century—which draws on recent scholarship in gender, cultural, and literary studies— offers provocative new insights into the history of both children's literature and American literature in general, and forcefully argues that the books our children read and love demand greater respect.