Mr Oliver's Diary

Mr Oliver's Diary
Author: Ruskin Bond
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 119
Release: 2016-10-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 818475387X

A gun-toting, violin-playing headmaster A homicidal barber A hungry leopard and about a hundred frogs on the loose Boys with a talent for pranks and jokes Mr Oliver, a history teacher, arrives in Simla with a trainload of hungry boys to start a new term at the prep school. As he records the antics of the amazing characters there, and all that they get up to, we quickly realize that there is never a dull moment. A fire, a missing Headmaster and runaway students make sure that not a day goes by when Mr Oliver has nothing to report in his diary. He writes about the eccentric teachers, the girls’ school next door and the lovely Anjali Ramola, whom he secretly admires. Laugh-out-loud funny, with a core of old-world charm that is trademark Bond, Mr Oliver’s Diary has stories and characters that have never appeared anywhere before. With his runaway wig, pet shrew and endearing dry wit, Mr Oliver is sure to become as well-loved as those other vintage Ruskin Bond characters, Uncle Ken and Rusty.

Mr Oliver's Diary

Mr Oliver's Diary
Author: Ruskin Bond
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2011-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0143331140

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Mr Oliver's Diary

Mr Oliver's Diary
Author: Ruskin Bond
Publisher: Puffin Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Preparatory school students
ISBN: 9780143334798

"First published in Puffin Books by Penguin Books India 2010"--Title page verso.

Oliver Twist Illustrated

Oliver Twist Illustrated
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
Total Pages: 558
Release: 2020-10-14
Genre:
ISBN:

The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was published. After running away from the workhouse and pompous beadle Mr Bumble, Oliver finds himself lured into a den of thieves peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the Artful Dodger, vicious burglar Bill Sikes, his dog Bull's Eye, and prostitute Nancy, all watched over by cunning master-thief Fagin. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery.

Dear Mr. Henshaw

Dear Mr. Henshaw
Author: Beverly Cleary
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2009-10-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0061972150

Newbery Medal Winner * Teachers’ Top 100 Books for Children * ALA Notable Children’s Book Beverly Cleary’s timeless Newbery Medal-winning book explores difficult topics like divorce, insecurity, and bullying through the thoughts and emotions of a sixth-grade boy as he writes to his favorite author, Boyd Henshaw. After his parents separate, Leigh Botts moves to a new town with his mother. Struggling to make friends and deal with his anger toward his absent father, Leigh loses himself in a class assignment in which he must write to his favorite author. When Mr. Henshaw responds, the two form an unexpected friendship that will change Leigh’s life forever. From the beloved author of the Henry Huggins, Ramona Quimby, and Ralph S. Mouse series comes an epistolary novel about how to navigate and heal from life’s growing pains.

Full Cicada Moon

Full Cicada Moon
Author: Marilyn Hilton
Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2015
Genre: Astronomy
ISBN: 0525428755

In 1969 twelve-year-old Mimi and her family move to an all-white town in Vermont, where Mimi's mixed-race background and interest in "boyish" topics like astronomy make her feel like an outsider.

Pop

Pop
Author: Gordon Korman
Publisher: Scholastic Canada
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1443124605

Gordon Korman's acclaimed and timely YA novel explores the dangerous side of high school contact sports. Marcus is new in town and is hoping to make the championship high school football team, but it seems like a closed club, run by current star quarterback Troy. One day, while tossing the ball around in a park one day, Marcus meets Charlie, a man in his fifties who can play football like an old pro, which is exactly what he happens to be — a former NFL player and local celebrity. Charlie has boundless energy and coaches Marcus on his fear of being tackled, but as Marcus becomes more involved in this friendship with Charlie, it becomes painfully obvious to him, through the simplicity of Charlie's thoughts, that the long-term effects of the violent plays he suffered during his football glory days have taken their toll on Charlie. With wit and sensitivity, Gordon Korman tackles truths about high school sports, while delivering a poignant story about an unlikely friendship.

The Body of Christopher Creed

The Body of Christopher Creed
Author: Carol Plum-Ucci
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2008
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0152063862

The often-tortured class weirdo has disappeared, leaving an enigmatic note on the school library computer. Is he a runaway, a suicide, or a murder victim?

An Anthropologist on Mars

An Anthropologist on Mars
Author: Oliver Sacks
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2012-11-14
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0345805887

From the bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat • Fascinating portraits of neurological disorder in which men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly adaptive personalities, whose conditions have not so much debilitated them as ushered them into another reality. Here are seven detailed narratives of neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds a new sensibility and creative power in black and white; and an autistic professor who cannot decipher the simplest social exchange between humans, but has built a career out of her intuitive understanding of animal behavior. Sacks combines the well honed mind of an academician with the verve of a true storyteller.

Love Story

Love Story
Author: Erich Segal
Publisher: Bantam
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1988
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780553275285

The Phenomenal National Bestseller and Enduring Classic He is Oliver Barett IV, a rich jock from a stuffy WASP family on his way to a Harvard degree and a career in law. She is Jenny Cavilleri, a wisecracking working-class beauty studying music at Radcliffe. Opposites in nearly every way, Oliver and Jenny immediately attract, sharing a love that defies everything ... yet will end too soon. Here is a love that will linger in your heart now and forever.