Waiting for High Tide

Waiting for High Tide
Author: Nikki McClure
Publisher: ABRAMS
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2016-04-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1613129289

For one young boy, it’s a perfect summer day to spend at the beach with his family. He scours the high tide line for treasures, listens to the swizzling sound of barnacles, and practices walking the plank. But mostly he waits for high tide. Then he’ll be able to swim and dive off the log raft his family is building. While he waits, sea birds and other creatures mirror the family’s behaviors: building and hunting, wading and eating. At long last the tide arrives, and human and animal alike savor the water. Another beautiful ode to life lived in harmony with nature, and by the labor of one’s own hands, from an artist of great warmth and clarity.

The Tide Pool Waits

The Tide Pool Waits
Author: Candace Fleming
Publisher: Holiday House
Total Pages: 43
Release: 2022-04-05
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0823449157

Dive into the rich ecology of tide pools and watch a hidden world spring in this masterful nonfiction picture book for very young readers. Twice a day when the tide goes out, an astonishing world is revealed in the tide pools that form along the Pacific Coast. Some of the creatures that live here look like stone. Others look like plants. Some move so slowly it’s hard to tell if they’re moving at all, while others are so fast you’re not sure you really saw them. The biggest animals in the pool are smaller than your hand, while the smallest can’t be seen at all without a microscope. During low tide, all these creatures – big, small, fast, slow – are exposed to air and the sun’s drying heat. And so they have developed ways to survive the wait until the ocean’s return. Candace Fleming is the author of Honeybee, which received an Orbis Pictus Honor and 7 starred reviews. She brings her knack for making science and nature appealing to the very young in The Tidepool Waits with detailed accounts of dozens of species of sea life, culminating in a perfect primer for students and nature lovers taking their first trip to the shore. Her text is accompanied by effervescent artwork by Amy Hevron and substantial backmatter. A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection A Charlotte Zolotow Highly Commended Book

Go Home

Go Home
Author: Terry Farish
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2024-08-06
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 177306911X

In a world beset by anger and fear, what does it mean to protect one’s home and family? Olive and Gabe — her older brother’s best friend — are deeply in love. They want nothing more than to make a home and family together, especially after the overdose death of Olive’s brother, Chris. It won’t be easy. Gabe works three jobs, and Olive still needs to finish high school, but their future together feels certain and right. But when Samir Paudel moves into the house across the street, Olive's and Gabe’s lives are disrupted. The Paudel house is overfull with family and friends, and they play loud music at all hours. Yet Olive is drawn to them, particularly to Samir’s little nephew, Bhim, and his grandfather, Hajurba. Yet Samir’s very presence seems to awaken in Gabe an intense anger — toward immigrants he believes are taking resources from White Americans — resources that would have saved Chris and his own father, who has lost his job and is now struggling with ill health and alcoholism. When Olive realizes that Gabe and his family are the source of escalating aggressions toward the Paudels, she no longer recognizes the loyal, loving boy she fell in love with. Key Text Features author’s note alternating narratives/points of view chapters

A Murderous Affair?

A Murderous Affair?
Author: Stacey Whatling
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2024-06-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1805149334

Set in London, Norfolk’s Blakeney, and Suffolk’s Southwold, Orford and Aldeburgh, A Murderous Affair? is a scandalous, thrilling, and humorous tale written from a mistress’s perspective which recounts her relationship, the changes in social and sexual habits around her and so much more. The protagonist describes her relationship with the man she has fallen in love with, who cheats on her as well as his Tory MP wife, over twenty years in the eighties into the noughties. The mistress offers ridiculous, funny, painful anecdotes and vignettes as she recounts the start of their relationship and how it blossomed even as she was being betrayed. Along the way, she muses on the loneliness of being a mistress, what it is like to be the third person in a marriage and in turn what it feels like to be cheated on, as well as aging and other musings about life in general. As the years push her to the edge, does she casually and unwittingly take what she might think is her revenge, only to discover her lover or even his wife has been one step ahead of her…?

Agriculture Cannot Wait

Agriculture Cannot Wait
Author: Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan
Publisher: Academic Foundation
Total Pages: 562
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9788171886258

Contents: Sustainable Livlihood and Nutrition Security - Soil Health Enhancement and Fertiliser Use - Water Resource Management - Agrobiodiversity and Biosafety - Agricultural Research and Education.

Until We Find Home

Until We Find Home
Author: Cathy Gohlke
Publisher: NavPress
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2018-01-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 149642767X

For American Claire Stewart, joining the French Resistance sounded as romantic as the storylines she hopes will one day grace the novels she wants to write. But when she finds herself stranded on English shores, with five French Jewish children she smuggled across the channel before Nazis stormed Paris, reality feels more akin to fear. With nowhere to go, Claire throws herself on the mercy of an estranged aunt, begging Lady Miranda Langford to take the children into her magnificent estate. Heavily weighted with grief of her own, Miranda reluctantly agrees . . . if Claire will stay to help. Though desperate to return to France and the man she loves, Claire has few options. But her tumultuous upbringing—spent in the refuge of novels with fictional friends—has ill-prepared her for the daily dramas of raising children, or for the way David Campbell, a fellow American boarder, challenges her notions of love. Nor could she foresee how the tentacles of war will invade their quiet haven, threatening all who have come to call Bluebell Wood home and risking the only family she’s ever known. Set in England’s lush and storied Lake District in the early days of World War II, and featuring cameos from beloved literary icons Beatrix Potter and C. S. Lewis, Until We Find Home is an unforgettable portrait of life on the British home front, challenging us to remember that bravery and family come in many forms.

Hearings

Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House
Publisher:
Total Pages: 2630
Release: 1960
Genre:
ISBN:

My Shortness Is My Tallness

My Shortness Is My Tallness
Author: Jose K. C.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 65
Release: 2011-10-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1456796305

This is an excellent resource book of school and college essays, speeches, effective value education lessons, and simple readings for inspired living. It has anecdotes from great lives, references to world classics, and a fountain of quotes.

Native American Stories

Native American Stories
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1991
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781555910945

A collection of Native American tales and myths focusing on the relationship between man and nature.