Under the Watsons' Porch

Under the Watsons' Porch PDF

Author: Susan Shreve

Publisher: Yearling

Published: 2009-04-23

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0307548546

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Twelve-year-old Ellie Tremont is b-o-r-e-d, bored, and she wishes something, anything, would happen. So when 14-year-old Tommy Bowers moves in next door, with his lanky swagger and his troubled past, Ellie knows her summer is about to get interesting. When Tommy suggests they start a camp for the kids on their street under their elderly neighbors’(the Watsons’) porch, Ellie quickly agrees to that, and everything else Tommy suggests. And when Tommy gives her a diamond necklace that he says he bought, she’s suspicious, though smitten. But by the time her parents forbid her from seeing him, she’s given him her heart. Soon, though, Tommy goes too far and even Ellie isn’t sure what to make of him.

Under the Watsons' Porch

Under the Watsons' Porch PDF

Author: Susan Richards Shreve

Publisher: Follettbound

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 9781415670200

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Twelve-year-old Ellie's boring summer becomes exciting when she develops a crush on her new next-door neighbor, an older boy with a troubled past, whom her parents have forbidden her to see.

Mad Maudlin

Mad Maudlin PDF

Author: Mercedes Lackey

Publisher: Baen Publishing Enterprises

Published: 2003-08-01

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 1618243969

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Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary ¾and Quite Deadly . . . Eric Banyon, better known as Bedlam's Bard, is finally about to graduate from Julliard and enter the Real World and so, with the help of a psychiatrist who specializes in the problems of magicians, he's finally coming to terms with his past. But a spur-of-the-moment trip home to Boston to visit his parents brings him more trouble than even Eric thought possible. Meanwhile, his Bardic apprentice Hosea has discovered that the young homeless children in New York's shelters have created a bizarre mythology about a demon called Bloody Mary who preys on young children¾and somehow Bloody Mary has taken on an independent life and now stalks the streets of the city. And for some reason, she's after Eric as well. . . . At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). Praise for the Bedlam's Bard Series: "[Spirits White as Lightning is] fast, furious, and completely absorbing . . . make no mistake, this is a good series." ¾Booklist "Lively and original, rich in clever ideas . . . Lackey is one of the best storytellers in the field, and this is among her best." ¾Locus "This is a fast-paced, suspenseful, action-packed page turner." ¾VOYA "[Lackey] shows a sure touch with the wonder and adventure that characterize the best fantasy writers." ¾Romantic Times

The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963

The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 PDF

Author: Christopher Paul Curtis

Publisher: Yearling

Published: 2013-08-06

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0385382952

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Celebrate the 25th anniversary of this Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree about a hilarious family on a road-trip at one of the most important times in America's history. This special edition makes a perfect gift and includes bonus content! Enter the hilarious world of ten-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. There's Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, and brother Byron, who's thirteen and an "official juvenile delinquent." When Byron gets to be too much trouble, they head South to Birmingham to visit Grandma, the one person who can shape him up. And they'll be in Birmingham during one of the darkest moments in America's history. "Every so often a book becomes a modern classic almost as soon as it arrives on bookshelves. That happened in the mid-'90s when Christopher Paul Curtis released his first book, The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963." --NPR "One of the best novels EVER." --Jacqueline Woodson, Newbery Honor and National Book Award–winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming

Mercy Watson to the Rescue

Mercy Watson to the Rescue PDF

Author: Kate DiCamillo

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2013-10-08

Total Pages: 79

ISBN-13: 0763668176

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The first adventure of this NEW YORK TIMES best-selling porcine wonder is now available as an e-book. (Ages 6 - 8) Features an audio read-along! To Mr. and Mrs. Watson, Mercy is not just a pig – she's a porcine wonder. And to the portly and good-natured Mercy, the Watsons are an excellent source of buttered toast, not to mention that buttery-toasty feeling she gets when she snuggles into bed with them. This is not, however, so good for the Watsons' bed. BOOM! CRACK! As the bed and its occupants slowly sink through the floor, Mercy escapes in a flash – "to alert the fire department," her owners assure themselves. But could Mercy possibly have another emergency in mind – like a sudden craving for their neighbors' sugar cookies? Welcome to the wry and endearing world of Mercy Watson – an ebullient new character for early chapter-book readers in a series that's destined to be a classic.

Better to Wish (Family Tree #1)

Better to Wish (Family Tree #1) PDF

Author: Ann M. Martin

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2013-04-30

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 0545539269

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Four generations. Four girls. One family.An amazing new four-book series from Ann M. Martin. This first book in an all-new quartet from the phenomenal Ann M. Martin follows Abby Nichols in the 1930s in Maine. After her mother's death, Abby is largely responsible for raising her siblings, but she longs to write and live in New York City, far away from the tiny Maine town where she lives now. Once her father remarries and Abby has a stepmother she doesn't get along with, she finally makes her escape to the city and life she's always dreamed of.

The Search for Baby Ruby

The Search for Baby Ruby PDF

Author: Susan Shreve

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2015-05-26

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 0545825725

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The search for a missing baby drives this heart-pounding page turner, from Edgar Award Winner Susan Shreve (Lucy Forever and Miss Rosetree, Shrinks). It was just a few minutes. Stuck in a hotel room babysitting while the rest of her family celebrated downstairs in the hotel, Jess thought she'd try on her sister's wedding dress in the large bathroom while the baby slept. But when Jess opens the door again the baby is gone. Fighting guilt and terror, Jess and her kleptomaniac sister Teddy evade the swirl of police and hotel staff in their own desperate effort to get Baby Ruby back before it's too late.

Snowbone

Snowbone PDF

Author: Cat Weatherill

Publisher: Yearling Books

Published: 2008-11-11

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0440420784

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A wooden girl and her gang of wooden friends set out on a journey to save their people from a dark destiny.

Hey 13!

Hey 13! PDF

Author: Gary Soto

Publisher: Holiday House

Published: 2012-05-15

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 0823426882

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Being thirteen is happy, sad, humiliating, surprising, wonderful, awful, exciting, boring -- in other words, full of ups and downs. The thirteen-year-olds in Gary Soto's thirteen stories experience all this and more. In one story, a girl's world is turned upside down when she visits a college campus where she expects to find a rarified atmosphere of intellectual pursuit, only to meet a tour guide who is tattooed, overly pierced, hungover, and not at all focused on academics. In another, two girls test the attraction of their new bodies by flirting with boys at a mall and then find themselves in an uncomfortable and somewhat frightening situation. The stories in this book are about family relationships, friendships, self-worth, and questions of integrity.