Claiming Georgia Tate
Title | Claiming Georgia Tate PDF eBook |
Author | Gigi Amateau |
Publisher | Candlewick Press |
Pages | 201 |
Release | 2011-05-10 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0763654302 |
"It’s rare and exciting to discover a talented new writer like Gigi Amateau." — Judy Blume Twelve-year-old Georgia Tate wishes she could stay home in Mississippi forever with her preacher granddaddy and her best friend Ginger. After losing her nana to a heart attack, she desperately wishes she could tell her granddaddy why she can’t possibly move in with Daddy — about the things he does that make her feel so ashamed. With a vivid narrative voice, Gigi Amateau tells an unflinching tale of a sensitive girl caught in the trauma of incestuous abuse. But it is also a story of survival — an ode to the solace of family, the mercy of strangers, and the possibility of hope and healing.
Come August, Come Freedom
Title | Come August, Come Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Gigi Amateau |
Publisher | Candlewick Press |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2012-09-11 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0763647926 |
Imagines the childhood and youth of "Prosser's Gabriel", a courageous and intelligent blacksmith in post-Revolutionary Richmond, Virginia, who roused thousands of African-Americans slaves like himself to rebel.
A Certain Strain of Peculiar
Title | A Certain Strain of Peculiar PDF eBook |
Author | Gigi Amateau |
Publisher | Candlewick Press |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0763630098 |
Tired of the miserable life she lives, Mary Harold leaves her mother behind and moves back to Alabama and her grandmother, where she receives support and love and starts to gain confidence in herself and her abilities.
Dante: Horses of the Maury River Stables
Title | Dante: Horses of the Maury River Stables PDF eBook |
Author | Gigi Amateau |
Publisher | Candlewick Press |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2015-04-14 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0763673323 |
Handsome but headstrong, a retired racehorse finds a second chance in this affecting, fast-paced novel told straight from the horse’s mouth. When Dante’s Inferno is born early, on a February night, there are already great expectations for him. He may be the grandson of the greatest racehorse in modern times, but Dante’s start proves a rough one, both in life and on the track. When Dante fails as a racehorse, he ends up at a Thoroughbred rescue facility run by rehabilitating prisoners before being adopted as a project horse at the Maury River Stables. It’s not easy for Dante to make friends—horse or human—but slowly horses Daisy and Napoleon let him into the fold, and a student named Ashley begins to work with him to learn dressage and jumping in hopes that he’ll find redemption as an eventing horse. Can Dante put his fears aside and succeed on the cross-country course? Narrated from Dante’s point of view, this is a story that animal lovers will cherish.
Macadoo of the Maury River
Title | Macadoo of the Maury River PDF eBook |
Author | Gigi Amateau |
Publisher | Candlewick Press |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2013-08-06 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0763637661 |
Realizing that his purpose in life is to help others, Macadoo, a colt whose sire is a huge Belgian stallion, survives a kill auction and trains as a vault jumper before happily pursuing work as a therapeutic riding horse.
Where the Crawdads Sing
Title | Where the Crawdads Sing PDF eBook |
Author | Delia Owens |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2021-03-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0735219109 |
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE—The #1 New York Times bestselling worldwide sensation with more than 18 million copies sold, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as “a painfully beautiful first novel that is at once a murder mystery, a coming-of-age narrative and a celebration of nature.” For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life—until the unthinkable happens. Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder. Owens reminds us that we are forever shaped by the children we once were, and that we are all subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.
Bronxwood
Title | Bronxwood PDF eBook |
Author | Coe Booth |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2011-09-01 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 054533246X |
The acclaimed author of TYRELL and KENDRA returns to PUSH to continue Tyrell's astonishing story.Tyrell's father is just out of jail, and Tyrell doesn't know how to deal with that. It's bad enough that his brother Troy is in foster care and that his mother is no help whatsoever. Now there's another thing up in his face, just when he's trying to settle down. Tyrell's father has plans of his own, and doesn't seem to care whether or not Tyrell wants to go along with them. Tyrell can see the crash that's coming -- with his dad, with the rest of his family, with the girls he's seeing -- but he's not sure he can stop it. Or if he even wants to.