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Author | : Marian Hurd McNeely |
Publisher | : Courier Dover Publications |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2017-05-17 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0486815684 |
This 1930 Newbery Honor Book relates an exciting tale of adventure in which four orphaned children head for the South Dakota prairie, where they battle drought, squatters, and other challenges.
Author | : White Kiser Dolores White Kiser |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2010-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1440198187 |
Maria lifted her hand to knock, but stopped when she heard a woman speaking. "Pastor, I met the most pathetic-looking girl yesterday," the voice said. "Where was that?" "Here at the church . . ." Maria felt her face burning with shame. She had fallen into disgrace, but not far enough to endure the term "pathetic." * * * "Did you come to the Ladies' Aid Meeting?" the woman asked. "Yeah. I came for aid," Maria answered, trying to control the bitterness in her voice. "I came for aid yesterday, but you asked me to eat and I did. I came again today to see if you needed a janitor to clean the church, but I know you don't, so I'll leave." * * * Maria Grant feels she at her wit's end-hungry, weary, and bedraggled-all for the love of a boy. Why did she leave her loving family to be near Orville? He didn't care one iota for her. She had sunk so low, all because of Orville.
Author | : Marian Hurd McNeely |
Publisher | : Courier Dover Publications |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2017-05-04 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0486821390 |
This 1930 Newbery Honor Book relates an exciting tale of adventure in which four orphaned children head for the South Dakota prairie, where they battle drought, squatters, and other challenges.
Author | : Patrick McGilligan |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 682 |
Release | : 1989-07-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780312304676 |
The most prodigal, prolific, and visionary director to emerge from post-sixties Hollywood, Robert Altman is a man whose mystique sometimes threatens to overshadow his many critically acclaimed films (including MASH).
Author | : Ethel Shackelford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Attitude change |
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Author | : David Gerrold |
Publisher | : BenBella Books |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2019-07-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1948836874 |
A trip to the Moon? Sounds like the perfect family vacation. Only, for 13-year-old Charles "Chigger" Dingillian, life is anything but perfect. His parents fight so much, they put the "dis" into dysfunctional. His brothers, Stinky and Weird, are impossible to get along with. And his neighborhood is a down-trodden tunnel community on Earth. It's supposed to be a short vacation—a trip up the Line, Earth's space elevator, and then home again. Halfway there, Chigger hits on a plan: if his parents can't find a way to work things out, why not just divorce them? The idea sounds crazy . . . until it works. But Chigger soon realizes he has much bigger problems: The people they meet on the Moon seem overly friendly and way too interested in his family. Suddenly, the quick pleasure trip takes a detour into danger as Chigger suspects they are targets of an interstellar manhunt. Their only hope may be to jump off the planet.
Author | : Jo Knowles |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2010-03-16 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0763651729 |
One pregnancy. Four friends. It all adds up to a profound time of change in this poignant, sensitively written YA novel. (Age 14 and up) Ellie remembers how the boys kissed her. Touched her. How they begged for more. And when she gave it to them, she felt loved. For a while anyway. So when Josh, an eager virgin with a troubled home life, leads her from a party to the backseat of his van, Ellie follows. But their "one-time thing" is far from perfect: Ellie gets pregnant. Josh reacts with shame and heartbreak, while their confidantes, Caleb and Corinne, deal with their own complex swirl of emotions. No matter what Ellie chooses, all four teenagers will be forced to grow up a little faster as a result. Told alternately from each character’s point of view, this deeply insightful novel explores the aftershocks of the biggest decision of one fragile girl’s life -- and the realities of leaving innocence behind.
Author | : Eve Bunting |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1993-05 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780152413583 |
YA. The jumping place was called the Nail and it was ninety feet from the top of the cliff to the water below.
Author | : Howard Mansfield |
Publisher | : Down East Books |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2010-08-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0892729724 |
Before Thomas Edison, light and fire were thought to be one and the same. Turns out, they were separate things altogether. This book takes a similar relationship, that of time and place, and shows how they, too, were once inseparable. Time keeping was once a local affair, when small towns set their own pace according to the rising and setting of the sun. Then, in 1883, the expanding railroads necessitated the creation of Standard Time zones, and communities became linked by a universal time. Here Howard Mansfield explores how our sudden interconnectedness, both physically, as through the railroad, and through inventions like the telegraph, changed our concept of time and place forever.
Author | : Dawn Ringling |
Publisher | : Multnomah |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1590522273 |
Her comfortable life and her faith shattered when her husband of twenty years announces he is divorcing her to marry another woman, Pamela Thornton finds herself reevaluating her perspective on God and finding His love in spite of divorce.