The Big Play Journal

The Big Play Journal
Author: Jordan Ford
Publisher: Forever Love Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 83
Release:
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN:

A special addition to the Big Play Novel series... This journal is filled with images, quotes and special moments from the books. Jordan has written some personal notes of thoughts she had while writing the series, plus (because so many readers asked for it) she's included a snapshot of each couple one year after the Big Play Novels finished. If you finished the Big Play Novels and weren't quite ready to say goodbye to the Nelson High characters, then this journal is made for you.

Tori's Little Big Journal

Tori's Little Big Journal
Author: Estelle Salata
Publisher:
Total Pages: 101
Release: 2011-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9780987793058

At their summer cottage, Michael tells Tori she is ready to wind surf again. After her close call the year before, she is still afraid. Michael teaches her how to use small steps to attain her goal. Tori meets new boy Sonny. They go to an amusement park at the town fair. Tori and Sonny climb into a car on the Ferris wheel. When a power outage shuts the park down, Tori performs a daring rescue of a boy in the car below who climbed out of his car and is hanging onto the bar, suspended in air. During a volley ball game on the beach, Party crashers appear, set fire to their golf cart and cause mayhem. Tori conquers her fears of wind surfing with Michael as her guide. The bullies who wrecked their party turn up on sailboards and try to crash them in the choppy water. Michael and Tori fight back for their very survival. Award winning Canadian author Estelle Salata lives in Hamilton on the shores of Lake Ontario. She has published four children's books and four young adult novels. Her best selling novel "Mice at Centre Ice" became an animated film, "Tales of the Mouse Hockey League" which aired on CBC Television. www.estellesalata.ca A review of "Blue Ice," the author's young adult hockey novel states: "An extremely well written book on all levels-style, appeal, characterization, reality, moral choices and consequences." Resource Links, the Year's Best 2001.

Just Pretend

Just Pretend
Author: Tori Sharp
Publisher: Little, Brown Ink
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2021-05-18
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0316538868

Fans of Real Friends and Be Prepared will love this energetic, affecting graphic memoir, in which a young girl uses her active imagination to navigate middle school as well as the fallout from her parents' divorce. Tori has never lived in just one world. Since her parents' divorce, she's lived in both her mom's house and her dad's new apartment. And in both places, no matter how hard she tries, her family still treats her like a little kid. Then there's school, where friendships old and new are starting to feel more and more out of her hands. Thankfully, she has books-and writing. And now the stories she makes up in her head just might save her when everything else around her—friendships, school, family—is falling apart. Author Tori Sharp takes us with her on a journey through the many commonplace but complex issues of fractured families, as well as the beautiful fantasy narrative that helps her cope, gorgeously illustrated and full of magic, fairies, witches and lost and found friendships.