The Spy with the Red Balloon

The Spy with the Red Balloon PDF

Author: Katherine Locke

Publisher: Balloonmakers

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780807529348

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Sixteen-year-old Ilse and her older brother Wolf must hone their magical skills to sabotage Hitler's attempt to build an atom bomb and uncover a spy using dark magic to thwart them.

The Spy with the Red Balloon

The Spy with the Red Balloon PDF

Author: Katherine Locke

Publisher: Aw Teen

Published: 2019-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780807529386

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Magic meets the Manhattan Project in this prequel to the award-winning novel, The Girl with the Red Balloon.

The Girl with the Red Balloon

The Girl with the Red Balloon PDF

Author: Katherine Locke

Publisher: Aw Teen

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780807529331

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Sixteen-year-old Ellie Baum time-travels to 1988 East Berlin, where she meets members of an underground guild who use balloons and magic to help people escape over the wall, and learns that someone is using dark magic to change history.

My Red Balloon

My Red Balloon PDF

Author: Kazuaki Yamada

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2014-05-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9888240722

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A charming story about the power of friendship A little girl begins a happy bus outing with her beautiful red balloon. But when the balloon suddenly flies away, the bus driver and a passenger bear gallantly help follow the balloon. A wild chase begins and along the way a rabbit, a polar bear, a penguin, and a giraffe all join in to help as they follow the wayward balloon. And when a bird pecks the balloon with its beak, the result makes all their effort seem in vain, but the little girl’s new friends once again come to the rescue with just the right words of comfort.

This Rebel Heart

This Rebel Heart PDF

Author: Katherine Locke

Publisher: Ember

Published: 2023-11-14

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 0593381270

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A tumultuous tale of the student-led 1956 Hungarian revolution set in a colorless post-WWII Budapest—where the magical Danube river has plans of its own—from Sydney Taylor Honor winner Katherine Locke. “A haunting, beautiful read that centers queer Jewish characters.” —BuzzFeed In the middle of Budapest, there is a river. Csilla knows the river is magic. During WWII, the river kept her family safe when they needed it most--safe from the Holocaust. But that was before the Communists seized power. Before her parents were murdered by the Soviet police. Before Csilla knew things about her father's legacy that she wishes she could forget. Now Csilla keeps her head down, planning her escape from this country that has never loved her the way she loves it. But her carefully laid plans fall to pieces when her parents are unexpectedly, publicly exonerated. As the protests in other countries spur talk of a larger revolution in Hungary, Csilla must decide if she believes in the promise and magic of her deeply flawed country enough to risk her life to help save it, or if she should let it burn to the ground. With queer representation, fabulist elements, and a pivotal but little-known historical moment, This Rebel Heart is Katherine Locke's tour de force.

The Tragically True Adventures of Kit Donovan

The Tragically True Adventures of Kit Donovan PDF

Author: Patricia Bailey

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Published: 2017-05-15

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 0807581445

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2018 Oregon Book Award Winner—Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children's Literature 2018 WILLA Literary Award Winner—Children's/Young Adult Fiction and Nonfiction Category A plucky heroine's search for justice in the lawless West. Life in a Nevada mining town in 1905 is not easy for thirteen-year-old Kit Donovan, who is trying to do right by her deceased mother and become a proper lady. When Kit discovers Papa's boss at the gold mine is profiting from unsafe working conditions, she realizes being a lady is tougher than it looks. With a man's hat and a printing press, Kit puts her big mouth and all the life skills she's learned from reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to work, defying threats of violence, and finds that justice doesn’t always look like she imagined it would.

Spy in the Sky

Spy in the Sky PDF

Author: Kathleen Karr

Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children

Published: 1997-06-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780786822393

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When Northerner Thaddeus Lowe lands his huge balloon in South Carolina at the beginning of the Civil War, ten-year-old orphan Ridley Jones joins up with him and the two set out to find a way to use Lowe's balloon to help the North.

Under the Ashes

Under the Ashes PDF

Author: Cindy Rankin

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Published: 2016-11-01

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 0807536369

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Eleven-year-old Elizabeth "Littlebeth" Morgan is staying with her aunt in San Francisco when the Great Quake strikes. In a city that's broken and burning, she must find a way to survive. Eleven-year-old Elizabeth "Littlebeth" Morgan would rather race the boys, chase skunks, and read about bandits than act like a lady. So her parents send her to her maiden aunt in San Francisco to be tamed and refined. But when an earthquake hits and she's separated from her aunt, Littlebeth must use her fearless nature and quick-thinking to survive in a city that's broken and burning.

It's a Whole Spiel

It's a Whole Spiel PDF

Author: Katherine Locke

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Published: 2019-09-17

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0525646183

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Includes a special introduction by Mayim Bialik, star of The Big Bang Theory and author of the #1 bestseller Girling Up! Get ready to fall in love, experience heartbreak, and discover the true meaning of identity in this poignant collection of short stories about Jewish teens, including entries by David Levithan, Nova Ren Suma, and more! A Jewish boy falls in love with a fellow counselor at summer camp. A group of Jewish friends take the trip of a lifetime. A girl meets her new boyfriend's family over Shabbat dinner. Two best friends put their friendship to the test over the course of a Friday night. A Jewish girl feels pressure to date the only Jewish boy in her grade. Hilarious pranks and disaster ensue at a crush's Hanukkah party. From stories of confronting their relationships with Judaism to rom-coms with a side of bagels and lox, It's a Whole Spiel features one story after another that says yes, we are Jewish, but we are also queer, and disabled, and creative, and political, and adventurous, and anything we want to be. You will fall in love with this insightful, funny, and romantic Jewish anthology from a collection of diverse Jewish authors.

Three Magic Balloons

Three Magic Balloons PDF

Author: Julianna Margulies

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Published: 2016-05-10

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 1101935251

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Julianna Margulies presents this story her father wrote for her and her sisters when they were children. Saturdays at the Children’s Zoo with their father always end the same way for Ariel, Miranda, and Jane: he offers them money for a treat, but they instead choose to buy food for the animals. On this particular Saturday, a mysterious balloon man gives them a small reward for their kindness—one balloon each, to be tied to their bedposts that night. Soon they find that the balloons bring them more magic than they could ever have imagined. For readers who love the magic and wonder in Uni the Unicorn by Amy Krouse Rosenthal.