No Ordinary Boy

No Ordinary Boy
Author: Jennifer Johannesen
Publisher: Low to the Ground
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2011-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780987736703

Twelve-year-old Owen Turney died on October 24th, 2010, of unknown causes. No Ordinary Boy is Jennifer Johannesen's extraordinary story of her profoundly disabled son, his family, his caregivers and his doctors. It is a sharply evocative, sometimes humorous, never sentimental chronicle-not only of perpetual crisis management, crushing disappointments and dashed hopes, but also one of love, spiritual growth, self-understanding, acceptance and maturity.

The Legends of King Arthur: No Ordinary Boy

The Legends of King Arthur: No Ordinary Boy
Author: Tracey Mayhew
Publisher: Legends of King Arthur: Merlin
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-09-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781782267324

A retelling of the Arthurian legends, adapted and illustrated to introduce children aged 7+ to classic folklore.

The Legends of King Arthur: The Sword in the Stone

The Legends of King Arthur: The Sword in the Stone
Author: Tracey Mayhew
Publisher: Legends of King Arthur: Merlin
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-11-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781782267348

When two boys save an old man from robbers, they learn of a competition in Londinium to decide the next king of Britain. The elder, Kay, is determined to prove himself worthy as a knight or a king. The younger is Arthur, a farm boy through and through - until he sees the sword in the stone.

Hero

Hero
Author: Mike Lupica
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2010-11-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1101198370

From the #1 New York Times bestseller Mike Lupica comes the story of one unsuspecting boy poised to follow in his superhero father’s footsteps Fourteen-year-old Billy Harriman can feel the changes. The sharpening of his senses. The incredible strength. The speed, as though he can textmessage himself across miles. The confidence and the strange need to patrol Central Park at night. His dad had been a hero, a savior to America and a confidante of the president. Then he died, and the changes began in Billy. What Billy never knew was that his father was no ordinary man-he was a superhero, battling the world's evil. This is a battle that has been waged for generations and that knows no boundaries. And now it's Billy's turn to take on the fight. It's Billy's turn to become a hero. “[N]othing Mike Lupica has written will thrill you like this.” –William Goldman, author of The Princess Bride “Sportswriter and novelist Lupica offers a change of pace from his previous sports stories for younger readers, deftly reworking the traditional superhero origin story into a moving tale of adolescent growth.” –Publisher’s Weekly “[T]he stage is set for a sequel to what looks like a surefire hit.” –School Library Journal

No Ordinary Thing

No Ordinary Thing
Author: G. Z. Schmidt
Publisher: Holiday House
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2020-10-13
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0823444228

An imaginative time travel mystery about a boy whose life is upeneded with the arrival of a stranger and a magical promise. Twelve-year-old Adam doesn't mind living at his uncle's bakery, the Biscuit Basket, on the Lower East Side in New York City. The warm, delicious smells of freshly baked breads and chocolate croissants make every day feel cozy, even if Adam doesn't have many friends and he misses his long dead parents very much. When a mysterious but cheerful customer tells Adam that adventures await him, it's too strange to be true. But days later, an unbelievable, incredible thing happens. Adam travels back in time, first to Times Square in 1935, then a candle factory fire in 1967. But how are these moments related? What do they have to do with his parents' death? And why is a tall man with long eyebrows and a thin mustache following Adam's every move? In her debut novel G. Z. Schmidt has crafted a world filled with serendipity, mystery, and adventure for readers of Roald Dahl and Lemony Snicket.

No Ordinary Boy

No Ordinary Boy
Author: Jack Jacobson
Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2003-04
Genre:
ISBN: 1587361655

NO ORDINARY BOY is the suspense-filled story of twelve-year-old Yeshua in first-century Palestine as he faces a ferocious wild beast and thwarts two notorious bandits' plans to kidnap the rabbi's young sons.

No Ordinary Time

No Ordinary Time
Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 790
Release: 2008-06-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1439126194

Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic about the relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, and how it shaped the nation while steering it through the Great Depression and the outset of World War II. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking number of story lines—Eleanor and Franklin’s marriage and remarkable partnership, Eleanor’s life as First Lady, and FDR’s White House and its impact on America as well as on a world at war. Goodwin effectively melds these details and stories into an unforgettable and intimate portrait of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt and of the time during which a new, modern America was born.

An Ordinary Boy

An Ordinary Boy
Author: Brian Centrone
Publisher:
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2013-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780988231092

Tom Grove's family is rich, his grandparents are famous, and he's beautiful. He can have anything he wants, but all Tom really wants is to be an ordinary boy. Like his best friend, Marissa, Tom wants to fit in, make friends and date sexy boys. It would also help if he could be free of his father's weighty expectations, his mother's insane demands, and his older brother's snide remarks. When Tom begins his first year of college, he believes he's going to come out and start a new life. But Tom's plan to come out of the closet and meet hot college boys isn't exactly foolproof. His new roommate is a straight jock, the gay club at school is made up of outcasts, and the lines between going out to dinner and a date are blurry at best. If that wasn't a challenge enough, Tom has to learn how to navigate drunken college parties, the campus social hierarchy, and the attentions of the wrong sort of boys. What begins as a journey to independence turns into a series of mishaps, love, heartache, soul searching, awkward situations and the realization that life is less like an Abercrombie & Fitch catalog and more like the everyday low prices of Wal-Mart. And to make matters worse, he still has to make it through freshman year.

No Ordinary Love Song

No Ordinary Love Song
Author: Alison Prince
Publisher: Walker
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: First loves
ISBN: 9781406306637

Cal would rather avoid reality. He hates school, his teachers are badgering him to decide on a career and his sister Jess has moved away from the Scottish island where they live. Then he meets Kerry, an Australian girl new to the island, and over the course of a long summer they begin to fall in love.

No Ordinary Shepherd

No Ordinary Shepherd
Author: Toni Sorenson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Shepherds in the Bible
ISBN: 9781621085621

"As the sun beams brightly on the hills surrounding Palestine, one young shepherd boy thoughtfully considers the significance of the day. The child, crippled in a terrible accident, has always treasured his shepherd father's tale of that starlit night so many years before--a night filled with the wonder of angelic heralds, and a tiny Bethlehem stable sheltering the chosen Messiah. Now, years since that sacred event, tales of Jesus of Nazareth's miraculous birth touch the young boy's faith. When he meets the gentle stranger in the hills--a man strangely familiar to him--the faithful young shepherd encounters a miracle of his own."--Page 4 of cover.