![]() ![]() She'd rather hunt than sew and plow than bake, and tries to beat her brother's dares every chance she gets. Reading Level: 6.0 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 8.0Īn illustrated edition of the Newberry Medal-winning Caddie Woodlawn, which has been captivating young readers since 1935. Physical Information: 0.78" H x 5.19" W x 7.65" (0.42 lbs) 288 pagesįeatures: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product, Table of Contents ![]() Juvenile Fiction | Family - General (see Also Headings Under Social Themes) Juvenile Fiction | Historical - United States - 19th Century WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guaranteeīinding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & EditionsĪnnotation: The 1936 Newbery Medal winner-Carol Ryrie Brink's beloved tale of a tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin prairie in the 1860s-gets a stunning new look in this handsomely repackaged edition. Contributor(s): Brink, Carol Ryrie (Author) ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Evie tries to help Uncle Will and his assistant, Jericho, drum up publicity. She learns her uncle’s business, The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition and the Occult, is facing bankruptcy. When Evie arrives in New York, she’s wooed and pick-pocketed by a handsome young man named Sam Lloyd. She hopes the new surroundings will distract her from her vivid nightmares and her strange, disturbing ability to read people’s histories by touching their personal items. ![]() Her pen pal, Mabel, lives in Uncle Will’s building, so Evie will have a partner in crime. She can’t wait to take in the bustling city with its jazz, speakeasies and shows. When 17-year-old Evie’s gin-induced shenanigans threaten to disgrace the family name, her parents send her to stay with Uncle Will in New York. ![]() ![]() A second book, by Lawrence Jones, will discuss Gee's fiction for adult readers. This volume will appeal to students, teachers, readers and writers of New Zealand literature, children's literature and fantasy literature. Gee’s first novel, The Big Season, was published in 1962. Overview chapters explore the motivations, themes, contexts and reception of Gee's work, from the fantasy novels Under the Mountain, The World Around the Corner and the O and Salt trilogies, to the five realist and historical novels, including The Fat Man, The Champion and The Fire-Raiser. It argues that the depth and excitement of Gee's fiction for young readers makes for an impressive introduction to New Zealand culture, history and storytelling. ![]() This book is the first of two that pays tribute to Maurice Gee's distinctive contribution to New Zealand literature. Told through a range of genres, from fantasy to realism, adventure to science fiction, mysteries, psychological thrillers and gangster stories, they offer a distinctive body of work that shows New Zealand to children and young adults. ![]() OverviewMaurice Gee's fiction for younger readers blends exciting stories with serious issues. ![]() ![]() ![]() Very Good: Might have some creases on the spine no hard cracks maybe slight forward lean and short inscription inside perhaps very minor bumping on the corners of the book inside clean but the page edges might be slightly yellowed. We are very proud of the condition of the books we sell (please read our testimonials to find out more!)Īs New: Pretty much new but shows small signs of having been read inside it will be clean without any inscriptions or stamps might contain a remainder mark. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ryan is a solid guy, who is trying to cope to the best of his ability with his fame while Taryn, having recently caught her fiancé having sex with another woman, is not looking for another relationship. ![]() Ryan is harried and a little frightened which makes Taryn want to give him respite before she must open the bar to the public. She hasn’t seen his most recent popular film, or any of his movies at all for that matter, although she does recognize him. When Seaport, RI bar owner Taryn Mitchell opens her doors and gives shelter to super popular A-list movie star Ryan Christensen, he is being chased by fans and paparazzi. Reber takes the modern fairytale and using incredible detail shows how a dream come true might not be for everyone and might be much more work at greater cost than most of us want in our personal romances. Isn’t it a universal dream of most girls to grow up and have the handsome prince fall in love with them? And doesn’t the modern corollary change the prince into either a mega-popular film or rock star? ![]() ![]() A recent villain is a doctor in thrall to the Mafia, who provides them with human hearts, livers and kidneys. ![]() The crimes are nothing if not topical: illegal immigrants, drug-peddling, prostitution, fraud and money-laundering. It was never Camilleri's intention to write more than a couple of Montalbano books, and only when the second and most original story, Il cane di terracotta (The Terracotta Dog, 1996), was greeted with enthusiasm by critics and readers alike did Camilleri decide to put his middle-aged policeman through all sorts of increasingly complicated criminal hoops. In 1994, however, he had invented Detective Inspector Salvo Montalbano in the novel La forma dell'acqua (The Shape of Water), and now both he and his hero are household names. ![]() A ndrea Camilleri is the most successful author in Italy, yet little more than a decade ago he was a virtually unknown septuagenarian who had written a handful of historical novels, including the intriguing Il birraio di Preston (The Brewer from Preston, 1995), set in his native Sicily. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pursued by Maven, now a vindictive king, Mare sets out to find and recruit other Red-and-Silver fighters to join in the struggle against her oppressors.īut Mare finds herself on a deadly path, at risk of becoming exactly the kind of monster she is trying to defeat. ![]() The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from Maven, the prince-the friend-who betrayed her, Mare uncovers something startling: she is not the only one of her kind. Mare Barrow’s blood is red-the color of common folk-but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. If there’s one thing Mare Barrow knows, it’s that she’s different. ![]() Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Dystopia, RomanceĬover Love: Um of course I would love this cover!! Blood, beautiful glass diadem. Published February 9th 2016 by HarperTeen ![]() ![]() ![]() Along the way he meets some people who showed great hospitality, while others would rather have murdered him. about his travels hitchhiking the Silk Road is published in November. A fascination with the deeds of the early explorers, a history degree in the bag, an army career already planned and a shoestring budget of £750 - including for the flight home - he was determined to find out more about the countries of the Caucasus and beyond - and meet the people who lived and worked there.ĮASTERN HORIZONS is a true traveller's tale in the tradition of the best of the genre, populated by a cast of eccentric characters from mujahideen fighters to the Russian mafia. Walking With The Wounded Schools 100 Club Patron Levison Wood started his career. ![]() ![]() Levison Wood was only 22 when he decided to hitch-hike from England to India through Russia, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, but he wasn't the conventional follower of the hippy trail. ![]() Then read on a sun-lounger, between dozes, wishing you were doing those terribly adventurous things - which being secretly glad you're not.' Duncan Craig, Sunday Times 'Download Levison Wood's Silk Road odyssey, Eastern Horizons, onto your splash-proof kindle. Print Eastern Horizons: Hitchhiking the Silk RoadīY THE AUTHOR OF WALKING THE HIMALAYAS, WINNER OF THE 2016 EDWARD STANFORD ADVENTURE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD ![]() ![]() And what the hell was he doing parked in front of this decaying brownstone, thinking about rats anyway? / Five days ago, on June 14, he had been in sunny Southern California, home of hopheads, freak religions, the only c/w nightclubs in the world with gogo dancers, and Disneyland. ![]() And if he remembered his misspent youth well enough, not all the rats in New York City went on four legs. Didn’t they say that Paris had the biggest rat population in the world? All those old sewers. And, he supposed, killing the Z’s engine, if you believed in one you had to believe in the other. The rat was gone so fast from the sweep of his headlights that it really might not have been there. There was something unpleasant in the trash can and Larry tried to tell himself that he really hadn’t seen the stiffening dead cat and the rat gnawing at its white-furred belly. ![]() ![]() Sample: Larry Underwood pulled around the corner and found a parking space big enough for the Datsun Z between a fire hydrant and somebody’s trash can that had fallen into the litter. ![]() TL DR: Considered King’s best novel by many fans and critics, I abandoned it at Chapter 28 – a book which forced me to reconsider whether finishing it as a hate-read would be self-harming. ![]() ![]() The story begins at one of the numerous battles humanity fights against an enemy called the mimics. ![]() ![]() At the core of the book are questions of what it means to be a soldier and how ethical it is to destroy one civilization for the benefit of another one.Īll you need is kill is both a science fiction and dystopian story. The only solutions humanity has is to destroy the alien force themselves. This doesn’t mean the stories of a light novel are light themselves though! This story, for example, is an action-packed war story set in the future where bad-ass soldiers fight an alien force set on the complete destruction of earth and the human race. This makes the books accessible to a wide audience. ![]() The characteristics of a light novel are that they are short (around 50.000 words), aimed and young people and often illustrated with the manga art style. All you need is kill is described as a ‘light novel’ which is a genre in Japanese literature aimd at a young audience. ![]() |