Violet Makes a Splash

Violet Makes a Splash PDF Author: Anne Mazer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781428750258
Category : High interest-low vocabulary books
Languages : en
Pages : 93

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When Violet conjures a pool for their yard and refuses to make it disappear, Mabel, who is not magical, does not know how to explain this to their parents.

Violet Makes a Splash

Violet Makes a Splash PDF Author: Anne Mazer
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780439872478
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Mabel's starting to think that Violet's magic has possibilities. She can use it to enchant toys, but her magic eventually goes too far.

Violet Makes a Splash

Violet Makes a Splash PDF Author: Anne Mazer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781428750258
Category : High interest-low vocabulary books
Languages : en
Pages : 93

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When Violet conjures a pool for their yard and refuses to make it disappear, Mabel, who is not magical, does not know how to explain this to their parents.

Mabel on the Move

Mabel on the Move PDF Author: Anne Mazer
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0439872510
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 131

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After a long car trip to the beach town where her cousins live, Mabel finds out that Zoe and Mya can see Violet for what she really is. But her biggest worry is what they see in her!

Trouble with Violet

Trouble with Violet PDF Author: Anne Mazer
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9781417791545
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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For use in schools and libraries only. When strange things start happening and eight-year-old Mabel, who is very sensible, cannot figure them out, she discovers a family secret that affects her younger sister Violet.

The Violet Hour

The Violet Hour PDF Author: Katherine Hill
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476710341
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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A pitch-perfect, emotionally riveting novel about the fracturing of a marriage and a family: “A gripping debut” (People) from an award-winning young writer with superb storytelling instincts. Life hasn’t always been perfect for Abe and Cassandra Green, but an afternoon on the San Francisco Bay might be as good as it gets. Abe is a rheumatologist, piloting his coveted new boat. Cassandra is a sculptor, finally gaining modest attention for her art. Their beautiful daughter Elizabeth is heading to Harvard in the fall. Somehow, they’ve made things work. But then, tensions overflow, and they plunge into a terrible fight. In a fit of fury, Abe throws himself off the boat. “A bittersweet tale of breakup and forgiveness” (O, The Oprah Magazine), The Violet Hour follows a modern family through past and present. As Cassandra, Abe, and Elizabeth navigate the passage of time—the expectations of youth, the concessions of middle age, the headiness of desire, the bitterness of loss—they must come to terms with the fragility of their intimacy, the strange legacies they inherit from their parents, and the kind of people they want to be. Exquisitely written, The Violet Hour is “a rewarding family saga reminiscent of Anne Tyler’s novels...Hill’s story unfurls from the kind of sensational marital spat that makes you feel better about your own imperfect union…wonderfully witty and assured” (The Washington Post Book World).

Mabel Makes the Grade

Mabel Makes the Grade PDF Author: Anne Mazer
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780439872485
Category : High interest-low vocabulary books
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The first day of school is always Mabel's moment to shine. Nobody's ever more prepared than she is! But this year, things are going to be different. Her little sister, Violet, is starting kindergarten right down the hall. Mabel's pretty sure she can keep Violet's magic under wraps on the way to school. But what will happen during the school day? And how will Mabel stay a straight-A student if she's always keeping one eye on her sister?

Shrinking Violets

Shrinking Violets PDF Author: Joe Moran
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300227957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319

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The author of Armchair Nation and On Roads examines shyness in a“sparkling cultural history rang[ing]from Jane Austen to Silicon Valley” (The Guardian). Shyness is a pervasive human trait: even most extroverts know what it is like to stand tongue-tied at the fringe of an unfamiliar group or flush with embarrassment at being the unwelcome center of attention. And yet the cultural history of shyness has remained largely unwritten—until now. With incisiveness, passion, and humor, Joe Moran offers an eclectic and original exploration of what it means to be a “shrinking violet.” Along the way, he provides a collective biography of shyness through portraits of such shy individuals as Charles Darwin, Charles Schulz, Garrison Keillor, and Agatha Christie, among many others. In their stories often both heartbreaking and inspiring and through the myriad ways scientists and thinkers have tried to explain and “cure” shyness, Moran finds hope. To be shy, he decides, is not simply a burden; it is also a gift, a different way of seeing the world that can be both enriching and inspiring. “Fantastic and involving . . . [A] feat of empathy. Every page radiates understanding; every paragraph, its (shy) author’s gentle wit.”—The Observer “Whether you’re boldly outgoing or reticent and self-effacing, you’ll find something to inspire, inform, or surprise in this thoughtful, beautifully written, and vividly detailed cultural history.”—Susan Cain, New York Times bestselling author of Quiet

Red Sings from Treetops

Red Sings from Treetops PDF Author: Joyce Sidman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547562136
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37

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Includes a reader's guide and an author's note.

Arnie, the Doughnut

Arnie, the Doughnut PDF Author: Laurie Keller
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1250239311
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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This ebook includes audio narration. A deliciously imaginative story about friendship—from the author / illustrator of The Scrambled States of America. Arnie was fascinated as he watched the customers stream into the bakery. One by one, doughnuts were chosen, placed in paper bags, and whisked away with their new owners. Some went by the dozen in giant boxes. "Good-bye!" Arnie yelled to each doughnut. "Have a good trip!" "This is so exciting!" Arnie beamed. "I wonder who will choose ME?" At first glance, Arnie looks like an average doughnut—round, cakey, with a hole in the middle, iced and sprinkled. He was made by one of the best bakeries in town, and admittedly his sprinkles are candy-colored. Still, a doughnut is just a doughnut, right? WRONG! Not if Arnie has anything to say about it. And, for a doughnut, he sure seems to have an awful lot to say. Can Arnie change the fate of all doughnuts—or at least have a hand in his own future? Well, you'll just have to read this funny story and find out for yourself. This title has Common Core connections Arnie, the Doughnut is a 2004 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Ruby Flips for Attention

Ruby Flips for Attention PDF Author: Derrick D. Barnes
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545017637
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 147

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Ruby and Teresa want to start their own dancing drill team, and Ruby is hoping her big brother Marcellus can help.