The Case of the Ruby Slippers
Title | The Case of the Ruby Slippers PDF eBook |
Author | Martha Freeman |
Publisher | Holiday House |
Pages | 109 |
Release | 2013-09-03 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0823430375 |
Aunt Jen, the official White House hostess, is being thrown a surprise party with a Wizard of Oz theme. A dog that looks just like Toto will be there -- and so will the famous ruby slippers that Judy Garland wore in the movie. But when the box arrives from the Smithsonian Museum, the slippers aren't in it! Never fear, First Kids Cammie and Tessa are on the case. White House dog Hooligan finds one slipper, but no one know where or how. A surprising revelation reveals the thief's identity. Filled with humor and White House inside information, this third First Kids Mystery is exciting from start to finish.
Ruby's Slippers
Title | Ruby's Slippers PDF eBook |
Author | Tricia Rayburn |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2010-07-20 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1439155925 |
Ruby Lee has never downloaded an iTune, heard of Facebook, nor seen a video on YouTube. Raised in rural Kansas with her mom as her best friend, she’s cozy and content. But everything changes when she and her mom move to Florida to care for her grandmother, Nana Dottie. Ruby quickly realizes she’s definitely not in Kansas anymore—the kids in her huge school are totally different…but her new life is not so bad. What is bad is the fifteen-year-feud between Ruby’s mother and grandmother that shows no signs of ending. Will Ruby have to choose between her mom and her new life, which isn’t looking so awful after all?
Ruby Slippers
Title | Ruby Slippers PDF eBook |
Author | Jonalyn Grace Fincher |
Publisher | Zondervan |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2008-08 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0310289521 |
In Ruby Slippers, Jonalyn Grace Fincher explores the essence of femininity. She examines what a soul is, what is meant by "feminine," and how those two things unite into a picture of God on Earth that is both similar and distinctive from men.
The Case of the Missing Dinosaur Egg
Title | The Case of the Missing Dinosaur Egg PDF eBook |
Author | Martha Freeman |
Publisher | Holiday House |
Pages | 102 |
Release | 2013-03-13 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0823427811 |
A week before the annual Easter Egg Roll on the White House lawn, First Kids Cammie and Tessa, daughters of the first female president, and their cousin Nate attend the opening of a new dinosaur exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History. As the prize display, a seventy-million-year-old dinosaur egg is being presented, it cracks, and a tiny hatchling emerges! This is no dinosaur, but an ostrich. But where is the real dinosaur egg? The First Kids and, of course, First Dog Hooligan are on a new case as their investigation leads them behind the scenes at the museum, to an ostrich farm, and to a foreign embassy. This is the fifth book in the First Kids Mystery series.
Snow White, Blood Red
Title | Snow White, Blood Red PDF eBook |
Author | Ellen Datlow |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2019-01-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1504055764 |
Fairy tales retold—with a twist—from “some of our best storytellers” including Neil Gaiman, Gahan Wilson, Tanith Lee, and others (The Washington Post). In this “no holds barred . . . nightmarish . . . provocative” collection, bestselling and award-winning fantasy masters put a dark, disturbing, and erotic spin on your favorite bedtime stories—and give you something entirely new to trouble your dreams (The New York Times Book Review). A boy is haunted through adulthood by a soul-eating creature that lies forever in wait under Neil Gaiman’s “Troll Bridge”; a melancholy amphibian shares his most private fantasies with a therapist in Gahan Wilson’s “The Frog Prince”; in Tanith Lee’s “Snow-Drop,” a lonely artist invites seven circus performers into her home to satisfy an obsession; in Steve Rasnic Tem’s “Little Poucet,” a band of lost brothers find refuge and terror with a hungry family in the woods; and Wendy Wheeler delves into the deviant psyche of the predatory male in “Little Red.” Also featuring Nancy Kress, Charles de Lint, Melanie Tem, Patricia A. McKillip, Jack Dann, and others, all paying a revisit to our favorite fairy tales in ways you’ve never dared to imagine.
The Case of the Bug on the Run
Title | The Case of the Bug on the Run PDF eBook |
Author | Martha Freeman |
Publisher | Holiday House |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 2013-08-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0823429970 |
First Kid Tessa loves pets, so when she finds out that a hissing cockroach at the National Zoo might meet a terrible fate, how can she resist adopting it? The rest of her family are not so thrilled, especially when the giant cockroach turns up missing. Did it escape? Or was it stolen? Who besides Tessa would want a cockroach? There is more to this bug than meets the eye in the sixth book about three mystery-loving kids (and one too-energetic dog) who live in the White House.
East, West
Title | East, West PDF eBook |
Author | Salman Rushdie |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 161 |
Release | 2014-01-08 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0804152330 |
From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses comes nine stories that reveal the oceanic distances and the unexpected intimacies between East and West. Daring, extravagant, comical and humane, this book renews Rushdie's stature as a storyteller who can enthrall and instruct us with the same sentence. "Richly nuanced, full or humor, bitter anger, an embracing tenderness, and a buyancy of language." —Boston Globe