Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
Title | Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy PDF eBook |
Author | Gary D. Schmidt |
Publisher | Yearling |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Clergy |
ISBN | 0553494953 |
Turner Buckminster is purely miserable. Not only is he the son of the new minister in a small Maine town, but he is shunned for playing baseball differently from the local boys.
Just Like That
Title | Just Like That PDF eBook |
Author | Gary D. Schmidt |
Publisher | Clarion Books |
Pages | 403 |
Release | 2021-01-05 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0544084772 |
In this poignant, perceptive, witty novel, Gary D. Schmidt brings authenticity and emotion to multiple plot strands, weaving in themes of grief, loss, redemption, achievement, and love. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students from wealthy backgrounds. In a parallel story, Matt Coffin has wound up on the Maine coast near St. Elene's with a pillowcase full of money lifted from the leader of a criminal gang, fearing the gang's relentless, destructive pursuit. Both young people gradually dispel their loneliness, finding a way to be hopeful and also finding each other.
The Wednesday Wars
Title | The Wednesday Wars PDF eBook |
Author | Gary D. Schmidt |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0618724834 |
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns muchof value about the world he lives in.
Trouble
Title | Trouble PDF eBook |
Author | Gary D. Schmidt |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2010-04-12 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0547487738 |
“Henry Smith’s father told him that if you build your house far enough away from Trouble, then Trouble will never find you.” But Trouble comes careening down the road one night in the form of a pickup truck that strikes Henry’s older brother, Franklin. In the truck is Chay Chouan, a young Cambodian from Franklin’s preparatory school, and the accident sparks racial tensions in the school—and in the well-established town where Henry’s family has lived for generations. Caught between anger and grief, Henry sets out to do the only thing he can think of: climb Mt. Katahdin, the highest mountain in Maine, which he and Franklin were going to climb together. Along with Black Dog, whom Henry has rescued from drowning, and a friend, Henry leaves without his parents’ knowledge. The journey, both exhilarating and dangerous, turns into an odyssey of discovery about himself, his older sister, Louisa, his ancestry, and why one can never escape from Trouble.
Orbiting Jupiter
Title | Orbiting Jupiter PDF eBook |
Author | Gary D. Schmidt |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 197 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 054446222X |
The two-time Newbery Honor winner Gary D. Schmidt delivers the shattering story of Joseph, a father at thirteen, who has never seen his daughter, Jupiter. After spending time in a juvenile facility, he's placed with a foster family on a farm in rural Maine. Here Joseph, damaged and withdrawn, meets twelve-year-old Jack, who narrates the account of the troubled, passionate teen who wants to find his baby at any cost. In this riveting novel, two boys discover the true meaning of family and the sacrifices it requires.
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
Title | Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy PDF eBook |
Author | Gary D. Schmidt |
Publisher | Everbind |
Pages | |
Release | 2009-07-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780784826287 |
Great middle greats fiction.
What Came from the Stars
Title | What Came from the Stars PDF eBook |
Author | Gary D. Schmidt |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0547612133 |
In a desperate attempt for survival, a peaceful civilization on a faraway planet besieged by a dark lord sends its most precious gift across the cosmos into the lunchbox of Tommy Pepper, sixth grader, of Plymouth, Massachusetts.