A Stranger Comes to Town
Title | A Stranger Comes to Town PDF eBook |
Author | Maria Kristjansdottir |
Publisher | Starfish Bay Children's Books |
Pages | |
Release | 2021-12 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781760361242 |
A boy tries to help a hungry polar bear stranded in his island village but needs his grandpa's help to get the bear home.
A Stranger in Town
Title | A Stranger in Town PDF eBook |
Author | Kelley Armstrong |
Publisher | Minotaur Books |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2021-02-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1250786592 |
In the next riveting thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong, the paranoia increases – along with the stakes – as the town of Rockton tries to solve the latest mystery at their door. Detective Casey Duncan has noticed fewer and fewer residents coming in to the hidden town of Rockton, and no extensions being granted. Her boyfriend, Sheriff Eric Dalton, presumes it’s the natural flux of things, but Casey’s not so sure. It seems like something bigger is happening in the small town they call home. When an injured hiker stumbles from the woods, someone who seems to have come to the Yukon for a wilderness vacation but instead is now fighting for her life, it’s all hands on deck. What – or who – attacked this woman, and why? With the woman unconscious, and no leads, Casey and Eric don’t know where the threat is coming from. Plus, the residents of their deeply secretive town are uneasy with this stranger in their midst. Everyone in Rockton wants this mystery solved – and fast.
The Farmer and the Clown
Title | The Farmer and the Clown PDF eBook |
Author | Marla Frazee |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2014-09-23 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1442497459 |
Whimsical and touching images tell the story of an unexpected friendship and the revelations it inspires in this moving, wordless picture book from two-time Caldecott Honor medalist Marla Frazee. A baby clown is separated from his family when he accidentally bounces off their circus train and lands in a lonely farmer’s vast, empty field. The farmer reluctantly rescues the little clown, and over the course of one day together, the two of them make some surprising discoveries about themselves—and about life! Sweet, funny, and moving, this wordless picture book from a master of the form and the creator of The Boss Baby speaks volumes and will delight story lovers of all ages.
Seeking Fortune Elsewhere
Title | Seeking Fortune Elsewhere PDF eBook |
Author | Sindya Bhanoo |
Publisher | Catapult |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2023-05-16 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1646221737 |
These intimate stories of South Indian immigrants and the families they left behind center women’s lives and ask how women both claim and surrender power—a stunning debut collection from an O. Henry Prize winner Traveling from Pittsburgh to Eastern Washington to Tamil Nadu, these stories about dislocation and dissonance see immigrants and their families confront the costs of leaving and staying, identifying sublime symmetries in lives growing apart. In “Malliga Homes,” selected by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for an O. Henry Prize, a widow in a retirement community glimpses her future while waiting for her daughter to visit from America. In "No. 16 Model House Road," a woman long subordinate to her husband makes a choice of her own after she inherits a house. In "Nature Exchange," a mother grieving in the wake of a school shooting finds an unusual obsession. In "A Life in America," a professor finds himself accused of having exploited his graduate students. Sindya Bhanoo’s haunting stories show us how immigrants’ paths, and the paths of those they leave behind, are never simple. Bhanoo takes us along on their complicated journeys where regret, hope, and triumph appear in disguise.
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
Title | When Zachary Beaver Came to Town PDF eBook |
Author | Kimberly Willis Holt |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2011-07-19 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1429957859 |
National Book Award Winner The red words painted on the trailer caused quite a buzz around town and before an hour was up, half of Antler was standing in line with two dollars clutched in hand to see the fattest boy in the world. Toby Wilson is having the toughest summer of his life. It's the summer his mother leaves for good; the summer his best friend's brother returns from Vietnam in a coffin. And the summer that Zachary Beaver, the fattest boy in the world, arrives in their sleepy Texas town. While it's a summer filled with heartache of every kind, it's also a summer of new friendships gained and old friendships renewed. And it's Zachary Beaver who turns the town of Antler upside down and leaves everyone, especially Toby, changed forever. With understated elegance, Kimberly Willis Holt tells a compelling coming-of-age story about a thirteen-year-old boy struggling to find himself in an imperfect world. At turns passionate and humorous, this extraordinary novel deals sensitively and candidly with obesity, war, and the true power of friendship. When Zachary Beaver Came to Town is the winner of the 1999 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. This title has Common Core connections.
Postville
Title | Postville PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen G. Bloom |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780156013369 |
A portrait of cultural conflict in action visits a small Iowa community where Lubavitcher Jews opened a successful slaughterhouse and found themselves in conflict with gentile neighbors.
The Jumbies
Title | The Jumbies PDF eBook |
Author | Tracey Baptiste |
Publisher | Algonquin Books |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2016-04-26 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 161620592X |
Corinne La Mer claims she isn’t afraid of anything. Not scorpions, not the boys who tease her, and certainly not jumbies. They’re just tricksters made up by parents to frighten their children. Then one night Corinne chases an agouti all the way into the forbidden forest, and shining yellow eyes follow her to the edge of the trees. They couldn’t belong to a jumbie. Or could they? When Corinne spots a beautiful stranger at the market the very next day, she knows something extraordinary is about to happen. When this same beauty, called Severine, turns up at Corinne’s house, danger is in the air. Severine plans to claim the entire island for the jumbies. Corinne must call on her courage and her friends and learn to use ancient magic she didn’t know she possessed to stop Severine and to save her island home.