Ziba Came on a Boat

Author: Liz Lofthouse
Publisher: Kane/Miller Book Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1933605529
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 21

Book Description
Based on real events is the moving story of a little girl whose family has lost almost everything. This beautiful picture book takes us on her brave journey to make a new life far from home.

The London Eye Mystery

Author: Siobhan Dowd
Publisher: David Fickling Books
ISBN: 0375849351
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
Ted and Kat watched their cousin Salim board the London Eye. But after half an hour it landed and everyone trooped off–except Salim. Where could he have gone? How on earth could he have disappeared into thin air? Ted and his older sister, Kat, become sleuthing partners, since the police are having no luck. Despite their prickly relationship, they overcome their differences to follow a trail of clues across London in a desperate bid to find their cousin. And ultimately it comes down to Ted, whose brain works in its own very unique way, to find the key to the mystery. This is an unput-downable spine-tingling thriller–a race against time.

The Little Refugee

Author: Anh Do
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
ISBN: 9781742378329
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
The story of one Vietnamese family's survival against the odds, and the healing power of hope.

Out PB

Author: Angela May George
Publisher: Scholastic Press
ISBN: 9781743629017
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
A little girl and her mother have fled their homeland, making the long and treacherous journey by boat to seek asylum. Timely, powerful and moving, Out celebrates the triumph of the human spirit in the darkest times, and the many paths people take to build a new life.

Lost & Found

Author: Brooke Davis
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 0147517737
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
The #1 international bestselling debut novel about the wisdom of the very young, the mischief of the very old, and the magic that happens along the way Millie Bird, seven years old and ever hopeful, always wears red gumboots to match her curly hair. Her struggling mother, grieving the death of Millie's father, leaves her in the big ladies' underwear department of a local store and never returns. United at this fateful moment with two octogenarians seekers, she embarks with them upon a road trip to find Millie's mother. Together they will discover that old age is not the same as death, that the young can be wise, and that letting yourself feel sad once in a while just might be the key to a happy life.

The Lion in Me

Author: Andrew Jordan Nance
Publisher: Parallax Press
ISBN: 1946764426
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 19

Book Description
"When I feel anger start to roar, I take a deep breath and count to four..." In the latest picture book from educator Andrew Nance, author of the bestselling Puppy Mind, a young boy learns to calm his ferocious anger. Using deep breaths, the lion inside—his growling anger—can be tamed. Written in a rhyming style that will be fun for the whole family, this is the perfect book to introduce basic mindfulness practices for emotional regulation to children. With illustrations by Jim Durk, whose work includes Puppy Mind and many of the Clifford the Big Red Dog and Thomas the Steam Engine books.

Map of Dreams

Author: Uri Shulevitz
Publisher: Andersen Press (UK)
ISBN: 9781842707609
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
When war devastates their country, a boy and his parents are forced to flee to another country far east, where they must live in a small room shared with another couple. Food is scarce. But one day, when father goes to the bazaar to buy bread, he comes home with a map instead. The boy and his mother are furious, they are so hungry! But the map floods their cheerless room with colour. The boy becomes fascinated by it and is transported far away without ever leaving the room. Father was right to buy it, after all.

Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie

Author: David Lubar
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101554894
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
Starting high school is never easy. Seniors take your lunch money. Girls you’ve known forever are suddenly beautiful and unattainable.The guys you grew up with are drifting away.And you can never get enough sleep. Could there be a worse time for Scott’s mother to announce she’s pregnant? Scott decides high school would be a lot less overwhelming if it came with a survival manual, so he begins to write down tips for his new sibling. Scott’s chronicle of his first year of bullies, romance, honors classes, and brotherhood is both laugh-out-loud funny and touchingly wise.

Click Go the Shears

Author: Robert R. Ingpen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780006623267
Category : Ballads, Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 27

Book Description

Mallee Sky

Author: Jodi Toering
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781760652166
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
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