Girls in Tears

Author: Jacqueline Wilson
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
ISBN: 0307433455
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
In the final volume of the fresh and funny Girls Quartet, Ellie’s best friends do the unthinkable—bond without her—until the girls realize how to really be friends. Ellie knows the rule: Best friends always come before boys. But Russell isn’t just any old boy. He and Ellie are in love. They’re going to go out forever and ever . . . at least, that’s what she thinks until everything goes wrong. Now Ellie feels like crying all the time and—to make matters worse—she can’t even count on Magda and Nadine anymore! The three of them were supposed to be inseparable. They couldn’t really be splitting up for good. Could they?

Girls in Love

Author: Jacqueline Wilson
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0375890114
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
Ellie’s starting ninth grade and she’s got some very definite goals. She’ll stay best friends with Magda and Nadine. She’ll go on a diet and stick to it. She’ll get a glamorous hairstyle. And she’ll get a boyfriend. Even if she has to settle for one who likes her more than she likes him. Any guy will do, right?

Girls Out Late

Author: Jacqueline Wilson
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1407043080
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37

Book Description
Ellie has a boyfriend! And he's really, truly interested in her - not in her best friends, Magda and Nadine! She and oh-so-gorgeous Russell have so much in common - Ellie knows they're made for each other. If only Dad thought so too . . . While Ellie tries her best to cope with Dad's totally unreasonable curfew, Magda's dealing with her crush on a teacher - and Nadine's falling for slimy Liam again. What they need is a girls' night out - but they might get a little more than they bargained for . . .

Girls Under Pressure

Author: Jacqueline Wilson
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0375890238
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
Ellie thinks she looks awful. Horrible. FAT. Her best friends are both drop-dead gorgeous and Ellie’s sick of being the ugly duckling. So she goes on a diet. And she even starts to exercise, much to her friends’ and her gym teacher’s amazement. Ellie’s hungry all the time, she works out every spare second, and she’s turned into a grouchy meanie. But if her friends don’t want to deal with the new and improved Ellie, that’s their problem. It’s better to be thin than happy. Isn’t it?

Highway of Tears

Author: Jessica McDiarmid
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 150116029X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
In the vein of the astonishing and eye-opening bestsellers I'll Be Gone in the Dark and The Line Becomes a River, this stunning work of investigative journalism follows a series of unsolved disappearances and murders of Indigenous women in rural British Columbia.

Girls in Tears

Author: Jacqueline Wilson
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613722537
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Ellie is left feeling very alone when her relationship ends with Russell and her two best friends have formed a bond without her

Mary and the Trail of Tears

Author: Andrea L. Rogers
Publisher: Stone Arch Books
ISBN: 1496587146
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113

Book Description
It is June first and twelve-year-old Mary does not really understand what is happening: she does not understand the hatred and greed of the white men who are forcing her Cherokee family out of their home in New Echota, Georgia, capital of the Cherokee Nation, and trying to steal what few things they are allowed to take with them, she does not understand why a soldier killed her grandfather--and she certainly does not understand how she, her sister, and her mother, are going to survive the 1000 mile trip to the lands west of the Mississippi.

The Girls Collection

Author: Jacqueline Wilson
Publisher: Corgi Childrens
ISBN: 9780552555357
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Literature Circles Year 8.

The Girl with the Louding Voice

Author: Abi Daré
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1524746096
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401

Book Description
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK! “Brave, fresh . . . unforgettable.”—The New York Times Book Review “A celebration of girls who dare to dream.”—Imbolo Mbue, author of Behold the Dreamers (Oprah’s Book Club pick) Shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and recommended by The New York Times, Marie Claire, Vogue, Essence, PopSugar, Daily Mail, Electric Literature, Red, Stylist, Daily Kos, Library Journal, The Everygirl, and Read It Forward! The unforgettable, inspiring story of a teenage girl growing up in a rural Nigerian village who longs to get an education so that she can find her “louding voice” and speak up for herself, The Girl with the Louding Voice is a simultaneously heartbreaking and triumphant tale about the power of fighting for your dreams. Despite the seemingly insurmountable obstacles in her path, Adunni never loses sight of her goal of escaping the life of poverty she was born into so that she can build the future she chooses for herself – and help other girls like her do the same. Her spirited determination to find joy and hope in even the most difficult circumstances imaginable will “break your heart and then put it back together again” (Jenna Bush Hager on The Today Show) even as Adunni shows us how one courageous young girl can inspire us all to reach for our dreams…and maybe even change the world.

Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie

Author: Jordan Sonnenblick
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545231167
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165

Book Description
A brave and beautiful story that will make readers laugh, and break their hearts at the same time. Now with a special note from the author! Steven has a totally normal life (well, almost).He plays drums in the All-City Jazz Band (whose members call him the Peasant), has a crush on the hottest girl in school (who doesn't even know he's alive), and is constantly annoyed by his younger brother, Jeffrey (who is cuter than cute - which is also pretty annoying). But when Jeffrey gets sick, Steven's world is turned upside down, and he is forced to deal with his brother's illness, his parents' attempts to keep the family in one piece, his homework, the band, girls, and Dangerous Pie (yes, you'll have to read the book to find out what that is!).