Matilda in the Middle

Matilda in the Middle
Author: Cori Doerrfeld
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2015-01-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0316257710

A sweet, timeless picture book about an adorable little ballerina bunny who feels overlooked until the day of her big ballet recital. Includes Read Aloud/Read to Me functionality where available. Book Description: Meet Matilda the bunny! She lives with her mother, her father, and...her many many brothers and sisters. Sometimes Matilda finds herself lost in the middle. But when her mother signs her up for bunny ballet, Matilda feels she has finally found a place to shine--if she can get her family to notice, that is.

Where Am I Now?

Where Am I Now?
Author: Mara Wilson
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2016-09-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0698407016

"Thoughtfully traces [Mara Wilson's] journey from child actress to Hollywood dropout...Who is she now? She's a writer." —NPR's "Guide To 2016’s Great Reads" “Growing up, I wanted to be Mara Wilson. Where Am I Now? is a delight.” —Ilana Glazer, cocreator and star of Broad City Named a best book of the month by GoodReads and Entertainment Weekly A former child actor best known for her starring roles in Matilda and Mrs. Doubtfire, Mara Wilson has always felt a little young and out of place: as the only kid on a film set full of adults, the first daughter in a house full of boys, a Valley girl in New York and a neurotic in California, and a grown-up the world still remembers as a little girl. Tackling everything from what she learned about sex on the set of Melrose Place, to discovering in adolescence that she was no longer “cute” enough for Hollywood, these essays chart her journey from accidental fame to relative (but happy) obscurity. They also illuminate universal struggles, like navigating love and loss, and figuring out who you are and where you belong. Candid, insightful, moving, and hilarious, Where Am I Now? introduces Mara Wilson as a brilliant new chronicler of the experience that is growing up female.

Mister Pip

Mister Pip
Author: Lloyd Jones
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2011-04-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459616359

Lloyd Jones' new novel is set mainly in a small village on Bougainville, a country torn apart by civil war. Matilda attends the school set up by Mr Watts, the only white man on the island. By his own admission he's not much of a teacher and proceeds to educate the children by reading them Great Expectations. Matilda falls in love with the novel, strongly identifying with Pip. The promise of the next chapter is what keeps her going; Pip's story protects her from the horror of what is happening around her - helicopters menacing the skies above the village and rebel raids on the ground. When the rebels visit the village searching for any remaining men to join their cause, they discover the name Pip written in the sand and instigate a search for him. When Pip can't be found the soldiers destroy the book. Mr Watts then encourages the children to retell the story from their memories. Then when the rebels invade the village, the teacher tells them a story which lasts seven nights, about a boy named Pip, and a convict . . .

The Expectant Secretary

The Expectant Secretary
Author: Leanna Wilson
Publisher: Silhouette
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2010-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1426873387

THE MERGER Brody Fortune got the surprise ofhis life when Jillian Tanner walked throughhis office door—pregnant with another man's child.She was the woman he had never forgotten, but timeand circumstances had torn them apart. Now the oncesmittencouple was forced to work together. Soon Brody realized that although this single mother-to-bewas no longer the shy gal he remembered, his body stillached for her. If only he knew why she'd broken hisheart and married another, perhaps Brody couldembrace Jillian, love her child—and accept thisready-made family as his own! Membership in this family has its privileges…and its price. But what a fortune can't buy,a true-bred Texas love is sure to bring!

Middle English Dictionary

Middle English Dictionary
Author: Robert E. Lewis
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1988-02-12
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780472011964

Considered by many to be the greatest achievement in medieval scholarship in America and the most important single project in English historical lexicography, this multi-volume work documents the English language from just after the Norman Conquest up tothe introduction of the printing press at the end of the 1400s.

Contemporary Hungarian Society

Contemporary Hungarian Society
Author: Tibor Valuch
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2024-08-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1040122477

This book examines social change in Hungary, commencing with the period of late-stage socialism, the country’s immediate post-communist transition, its subsequent consolidation, and the emergence of authoritarian leadership since 2010. The volume seeks to employ a longitudinal and comparative perspective and provides comparison to other central and East European states that emerged from state socialism. The Hungarian regime change of 1989–1990 led to previously unimaginable social and economic transition. In recent decades, regime change and socioeconomic transition in Central and Eastern Europe have produced a library of literature, and transition studies has periodically become a discipline in its own right. The author uses an interdisciplinary approach – drawing from social history, sociology, statistics, and contemporary history – in order to understand and analyse social change in all its complexity. The book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, social scientists, historians, experts, and those interested in Hungarian and Central and Eastern European history and social change.

It's a Wonderful Knife

It's a Wonderful Knife
Author: elise sax
Publisher: 13 Lakes Publishing
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2018-05-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Gladie is getting married! Everyone is consumed with last-minute plans for the town’s most anticipated wedding. It looks like Gladie and Spencer are finally going to get their happy ending. But a new friend is in trouble, and Gladie is determined to help her. Soon, love has to take a backseat to murder. With a murderer on the loose, will Gladie’s wedding get derailed, or will Gladie and Spencer finally say their vows? It’s a Wonderful Knife is the 10th installment of the hilarious Matchmaker Mysteries Series. Matchmaker Mysteries…Sometimes love comes with a few dead ends.

Matilda

Matilda
Author: Roald Dahl
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2020-10-13
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0593203372

The classic story from Roald Dahl, about an exceptional young girl with extraordinary powers. Adapted into a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical and a Netflix film! Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. She expects school to be different but there she has to face Miss Trunchbull, a menacing, kid-hating headmistress. When Matilda is attacked by the Trunchbull she suddenly discovers she has a remarkable power with which to fight back. It'll take a superhuman genius to give Miss Trunchbull what she deserves and Matilda may be just the one to do it! Here is Roald Dahl's original novel of a little girl with extraordinary powers. This much-loved story has recently been made into a wonderful new musical, adapted by Dennis Kelly with music and lyrics by Tim Minchin.