Ava and Star

Ava and Star
Author: Julie Sykes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2019-05-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781536455595

Ava and Star love their beautiful garden at Unicorn Academy. It's where they grow their very own magical plants! When the sky berries that the unicorns need to survive disappear, Ava and Star will need all their skills and courage to help their frien

Sophia and Rainbow

Sophia and Rainbow
Author: Julie Sykes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2019-08
Genre: JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN: 9781646970834

Sophia is sure she and her unicorn, Rainbow will be great partners. Sparkle Lake gives unicorns their magic, and when it starts turning a funny color, everything goes wrong! Can Sophia and Rainbow brave the dangerous woods to save the unicorns' magic?

In Search of Us

In Search of Us
Author: Ava Dellaira
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2018-03-06
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0374305331

Ava Dellaira's In Search of Us is a sweeping multi-generational love story. To seventeen-year-old Angie, who is mixed-race, Marilyn is her hardworking, devoted white single mother. But Marilyn was once young, too. When Marilyn was seventeen, she fell in love with Angie's father, James, who was African-American. But Angie's never met him, and Marilyn has always told her he died before she was born. When Angie discovers evidence of an uncle she's never met she starts to wonder: What if her dad is still alive, too? So she sets off on a journey to find him, hitching a ride to LA from her home in New Mexico with her ex-boyfriend, Sam. Along the way, she uncovers some hard truths about herself, her mother, and what truly happened to her father. "A rare and special book. Part mother-daughter love story, part road trip journey, part compelling mystery, and one hundred percent beautiful, spellbinding tearjerker. I’m in love with every page." —Jennifer Niven, New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places and Holding Up the Universe

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
Author: Leslye Walton
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2014-03-25
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0763670340

A 2015 William C. Morris YA Debut Award Finalist Magical realism, lyrical prose, and the pain and passion of human love haunt this hypnotic generational saga. Foolish love appears to be the Roux family birthright, an ominous forecast for its most recent progeny, Ava Lavender. Ava — in all other ways a normal girl — is born with the wings of a bird. In a quest to understand her peculiar disposition and a growing desire to fit in with her peers, sixteen-year old Ava ventures into the wider world, ill-prepared for what she might discover and naive to the twisted motives of others. Others like the pious Nathaniel Sorrows, who mistakes Ava for an angel and whose obsession with her grows until the night of the summer solstice celebration. That night, the skies open up, rain and feathers fill the air, and Ava’s quest and her family’s saga build to a devastating crescendo. First-time author Leslye Walton has constructed a layered and unforgettable mythology of what it means to be born with hearts that are tragically, exquisitely human.

Ava Gardner

Ava Gardner
Author: Ava Gardner
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2013-07-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1471101169

Ava Gardner was one of the most glamorous and famous stars in Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s. Her list of films includes The Killers, Showboat and Mogambo, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for best actress, and her co-stars included Clark Gable, Gregory Peck, Burt Lancaster, Humphrey Bogart, Charlton Heston, and Richard Burton - the A-list of male Hollywood stars. Married three times - to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, and Frank Sinatra - the first two lasted only about a year each whilst her marriage to Sinatra lasted several. She had a long-running affair with Howard Hughes, and a briefer one with George C. Scott, among others. In Ava Gardner, she has much to say about her husbands and lovers, and some of her co-stars,all of whom get Gardner's unflinchingly honest treatment. Ava Gardner is irresistibly candid and surprising. She began the book because, as she told Evans, 'it's either write the book or sell the jewels and I'm kinda fond of the jewels.' At the time of their collaboration Gardner was living in London, where she had lived for decades, smoking and drinking heavily. Having suffered a stroke that damaged the left side of her face and her left arm she had trouble sleeping and was often depressed - the glamorous wardrobes replaced by grey. Her story could itself have been depressing except for her wit and wickedness, which are on full display in this book. This book tells the story of her life as she wanted to tell it. Ava Gardner is the autobiography that Ava Gardner began with writer Peter Evans in 1988. She never finished it and decided against publishing it because of its frankness. She later collaborated on a tamer autobiography, which was published at her death in 1990. After Gardner's death, her estate authorised the book to be published much as she and Evans had originally conceived it.

Unicorn Academy #4: Isabel and Cloud

Unicorn Academy #4: Isabel and Cloud
Author: Julie Sykes
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2019-05-14
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1984850938

Read the books that inspired the animated Netflix series! What if your best friend was a unicorn? Chapter book readers are flocking to this magical series, where everyone is paired with their very own unicorn! Imagine a school where you meet your own unicorn and have amazing adventures together! That's what happens for the girls at Unicorn Academy on beautiful Unicorn Island. Isabel and Cloud are finding it hard to get along. Isabel is adventurous and Cloud is more cautious and (Isabel thinks) dull. But when they go off on a thrilling adventure along the coast of Unicorn Island, the two become best friends in the face of terrible danger! The Unicorn Academy series is filled with special friendships! Which adventure will you read next? Be sure to read all the books in this magical series! Don't miss any books in the magical new spin-off series, Unicorn Academy Nature Magic and Unicorn Academy Treasure Hunt!

Ava Kane, In the Lane

Ava Kane, In the Lane
Author: Katy Duffield
Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2020-08-11
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1731640412

Book Features: • Ages 5-8, Grades K-3, Guided Reading Level I, Lexile 390L • 32 pages, 6 inches x 9 inches • Early reader chapter book • Large type with full-color illustrations • Glossary, post-reading activity, and discussion questions included Good Sportsmanship in Action: Ava Kane, In the Lane engages kids with a fun story about swimming. Ava is a good swimmer and a good teammate. Her teammate Alonso is afraid of the water. Ava jumps into action to help Alonso have fun in the pool. Entertaining and Educational: This 32-page book features an engaging story about friendship, and it includes an activity-based picture glossary, post-reading discussion questions, and a fun extension activity to encourage reading comprehension. Beginning Readers: This level 1 chapter book features high-frequency words, basic sentences, an engaging story, and colorful illustrations to help kindergarteners through third graders build reading fluency and confidence. Sports Books For Kids: Part of the Good Sports series, this book will help your kid learn about what it means to show good sportsmanship and be a true team player. Children are sure to be entertained throughout this engaging and humorous story. Why Rourke Educational Media: Since 1980, Rourke Publishing Company has specialized in publishing engaging and diverse non-fiction and fiction books for children in a wide range of subjects that support reading success on a level that has no limits.

Ava

Ava
Author: Carole Maso
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1993
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781564780744

From a hospital bed on this, her last day on earth, thirty-nine-year-old Ava Klein makes one final ecstatic voyage. People, places, offhand memories, and imaginary things drift in and out of her consciousness and weave their way through this beautiful, poetic novel. In this celebration of life, Carole Maso captures the poignancy of mortality, the extraordinary desire to live and the inevitability of death. Ava yearns and the reader yearns with her, struggling to hold on to all that slips away.--back cover

Unicorn Academy #3: Ava and Star

Unicorn Academy #3: Ava and Star
Author: Julie Sykes
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2019-05-14
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1984850881

What if your best friend was a unicorn? Chapter book readers are flocking to this magical series, where everyone is paired with their very own unicorn! Imagine a school where you meet your own unicorn and have amazing adventures together! That's what happens for the girls at Unicorn Academy on beautiful Unicorn Island. Ava and Star love their beautiful garden at Unicorn Academy. It's where they grow their very own magical plants! When the sky berries that the unicorns need to survive disappear, Ava and Star will need all their skills and courage to help their friends. Can they find more of the special berries before every unicorn's magic starts to fade? The Unicorn Academy series is going at full throttle! Which adventure will you read next? Be sure to read all the books in this magical series! Don't miss any books in the magical new spin-off series, Unicorn Academy Nature Magic!

Ava and the Little Folk

Ava and the Little Folk
Author: Neil Christopher
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781927095027

In the Arctic, orphaned Ava stumbles upon a group of magical dwarves who show him how it feels to have a home of his own.