A Day No Pigs Would Die
Title | A Day No Pigs Would Die PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Newton Peck |
Publisher | Laurel Leaf |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 2010-01-13 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0307574512 |
Originally published in hardcover in 1972, A Day No Pigs Would Die was one of the first young adult books, along with titles like The Outsiders and The Chocolate War. In it, author Robert Newton Peck weaves a story of a Vermont boyhood that is part fiction, part memoir. The result is a moving coming-of-age story that still resonates with teens today.
A Year Down Yonder
Title | A Year Down Yonder PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Peck |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2002-12-30 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1440672725 |
A Newbery Medal Winner Richard Peck's Newbery Medal-winning sequel to A Long Way from Chicago Mary Alice's childhood summers in Grandma Dowdel's sleepy Illinois town were packed with enough drama to fill the double bill of any picture show. But now she is fifteen, and faces a whole long year with Grandma, a woman well known for shaking up her neighbors-and everyone else! All Mary Alice can know for certain is this: when trying to predict how life with Grandma might turn out . . . better not. This wry, delightful sequel to the Newbery Honor Book A Long Way from Chicago has already taken its place among the classics of children's literature. "Hilarious and poignant." —Publishers Weekly, starred review A Newbery Medal Winner A New York Times Bestseller An ALA Notable Book An ALA Best Book for Young Adults A Booklist Best Book of the Year A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
Peck's Bad Boy Abroad
Title | Peck's Bad Boy Abroad PDF eBook |
Author | George Wilbur Peck |
Publisher | |
Pages | 502 |
Release | 1905 |
Genre | Adventure stories |
ISBN |
Barbarian Alien
Title | Barbarian Alien PDF eBook |
Author | Ruby Dixon |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2022-01-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0593546032 |
The second novel in the Ice Planet Barbarians series, the international publishing phenomenon—now in a special print edition with bonus materials and an exclusive epilogue! Liz Cramer swears she’ll find a way off of this alien planet she’s stuck on—then she meets Raahosh, the surliest and stubbornest alien, who won’t leave her alone, and she just might be okay with that... Twelve humans are left stranded on a wintry alien planet. I’m one of them. Yay, me. In order to survive, we have to take on a symbiont that wants to rewire our bodies to live in this brutal place. I like to call it a “cootie.” And my cootie’s a jerk, because it also thinks I’m the mate to the biggest, grumpiest alien of the bunch. Raahosh believes the cootie’s right, so he steals me away from the group, determined to make me fall for him—or else. He has no idea who he’s up against. And if I didn’t want his insufferable self so much (thanks, cootie), I’d let him know exactly what I’m thinking. As it is, I’m doing my best to fight this instant attraction. Just because the symbiont thinks we’re supposed to be together doesn’t mean I have to go along with it. And if we fool around a little, it’s merely biology. It doesn’t mean I’m in love—or that I’m destined to be his.
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Title | Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day PDF eBook |
Author | Judith Viorst |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 2009-09-22 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1416985956 |
Recounts the events of a day when everything goes wrong for Alexander. Suggested level: junior, primary.
How I Learned to Drive
Title | How I Learned to Drive PDF eBook |
Author | Paula Vogel |
Publisher | Dramatists Play Service, Inc. |
Pages | 68 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780822216230 |
Chronicles the relationship between Li'l Bit and Uncle Peck through a series of flashbacks as it progresses from friendship to something darker during a series of driving lessons.
The Teacher's Funeral
Title | The Teacher's Funeral PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Peck |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2006-04-20 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1101200480 |
If your teacher has to die, August isn't a bad time of year for it," begins Richard Peck's latest novel, a book full of his signature wit and sass. Russell Culver is fifteen in 1904, and he's raring to leave his tiny Indiana farm town for the endless sky of the Dakotas. To him, school has been nothing but a chain holding him back from his dreams. Maybe now that his teacher has passed on, they'll shut the school down entirely and leave him free to roam. No such luck. Russell has a particularly eventful season of schooling ahead of him, led by a teacher he never could have predicted-perhaps the only teacher equipped to control the likes of him: his sister Tansy. Despite stolen supplies, a privy fire, and more than any classroom's share of snakes, Tansy will manage to keep that school alive and maybe, just maybe, set her brother on a new, wiser course.