The Yellow House
Title | The Yellow House PDF eBook |
Author | Blake Morrison |
Publisher | Candlewick Press |
Pages | 31 |
Release | 2011-04-26 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0763649597 |
A little girl's fascination with the yellow house she passes each day leads her into its garden which is full of fantastic surprises.
Evie's Ghost
Title | Evie's Ghost PDF eBook |
Author | Helen Peters |
Publisher | Nosy Crow |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2017-04-06 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0857638416 |
Compelling period fiction for 9+ readers from the Waterstones Children's Prize shortlisted Helen Peters. Evie couldn't be angrier with her mother. She's only gone and got married again and has flown off on honeymoon, sending Evie to stay with a godmother she's never even met in an old, creaky house in the middle of nowhere. It is all monumentally unfair. But on the first night, Evie sees a strange, ghostly figure at the window. Spooked, she flees from the room, feeling oddly disembodied as she does so. Out in the corridor, it's 1814 and Evie finds herself dressed as a housemaid. She's certain she's gone back in time for a reason. A terrible injustice needs to be fixed. But there's a housekeeper barking orders, a bad-tempered master to avoid, and the chamber pots won't empty themselves. It's going to take all Evie's cunning to fix things in the past so that nothing will break apart in the future... Absorbing, brilliant storytelling from the author of The Secret Hen House Theatre, The Farm Beneath the Water, Anna at War and The Jasmine Green Series for younger readers.
Helen’s Birds
Title | Helen’s Birds PDF eBook |
Author | Sara Cassidy |
Publisher | Groundwood Books Ltd |
Pages | 46 |
Release | 2019-09-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1773060392 |
From Sara Cassidy, acclaimed author of A Boy Named Queen, comes a stunning wordless graphic novel about friendship, loss and hope. For as long as Saanvi can remember, she has been friends with her elderly neighbor Helen. They play cards and garden together and, especially, care for the wild birds that visit Helen’s yard. When Helen dies suddenly, a “For Sale” sign goes up, and movers arrive, emptying the house of its furniture and stripping the yard of its birdfeeders. The sparrows and hummingbirds disappear. Soon a bulldozer tears down Helen’s house. All winter, Saanvi walks numbly past the property as developers begin to build condos. Then one spring day, amid the dust and turmoil of construction, she finds a weathered playing card wedged between two rocks. She holds it to her chest, and finally sobs. After a tearful night, Saanvi wakes inspired. She slathers peanut butter on pinecones to hang from tree branches, hammers together a birdhouse from scrap wood and drags a kitchen stool outside to hold a bowl of water. Finally, she retrieves a nest that has been unraveling on Helen’s old property and places it in a tree in her own yard. Saanvi’s yard soon fills with Helen’s birds. They have a home again. This beautifully illustrated, wordless graphic novel shows Saanvi’s journey through close friendship, then hollowing loss and change, until she finally finds hope. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.1 Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
Eclipse
Title | Eclipse PDF eBook |
Author | Stephenie Meyer |
Publisher | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 478 |
Release | 2007-08-07 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0316008184 |
As the love triangle heats up in the third book, Bella must choose between her friendship with Jacob and her romance with Edward -- and her decision could change the fate of vampires and werewolves forever. As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob -- knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which? It's here! #1 bestselling author Stephenie Meyer makes a triumphant return to the world of Twilight with the highly anticipated companion, Midnight Sun: the iconic love story of Bella and Edward told from the vampire's point of view. "People do not want to just read Meyer's books; they want to climb inside them and live there." -- Time "A literary phenomenon." -- The New York Times
Good Time Party Girl
Title | Good Time Party Girl PDF eBook |
Author | Helen Cromwell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2019-08-08 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781627310789 |
Dirty Helen lived life by her rules. This irascible and defiant woman chucked tradition behind her as she fought for her independence the only way she knew how-on her back.
Heap House (Iremonger #1)
Title | Heap House (Iremonger #1) PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Carey |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2014-04-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1443424242 |
Part one of an unusual and astonishing new fantasy trilogy that blends fine literary fare with a terrific romp through the reimagined outskirts of Victorian-era London In the imaginary borough of Filching, the extensive Iremonger family (“kings of mildew, moguls of mould”) have made a fortune from junk, building a dark and sprawling mansion from salvage scrap. Heap House is surrounded by the dangerous, noxious, shifting Heaps that stretch beyond its bounds. And within its walls, certain objects begin to display strange signs of life. Young Clod Iremonger is about to be "trousered" and betrothed (unwillingly) to his cousin Pinalippy when he meets the plucky orphan servant Lucy Pennant, with whose help he begins to uncover the dark secrets of his family’s empire. Mystery, romance and the perils of the Heaps await! Gorgeously (and ghoulishly) illustrated by the author, Heap House is peopled with unforgettable characters with delightfully skewed names--anxious, animal-loving Tummis with his pet seagull; menacing cousin Moorcus; dreadful Aunt Rosamud and more. As Carey writes, “Every life is thick with rubbish, but the Iremongers did it with a difference.”
Helens 2nd Hundred Years
Title | Helens 2nd Hundred Years PDF eBook |
Author | Helen Cassity |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 121 |
Release | 2008-02-01 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1435709691 |
A Women life spaning over 100 years chronicled in verse. The successes, failures, celebrations and defeats. Life as it was, and as it is today.