Close to the Wind

Close to the Wind PDF Author: Jon Walter
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 054582298X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Book Description
A simple, resonant, and utterly heart-shattering debut about greed, love, trust and what matters most when your world falls apart. A war-torn country... only one way out.Ten-year-old Malik's world is falling apart. Soldiers have invaded town, and his mother is missing, leaving Malik with his grandfather, Papa. Along with a thousand other refugees, their hope for escape to a new life lies in gaining passage aboard one ship -- but the demand for tickets is high, and so is the cost. Can they make it on? And will they find Mama before the ship departs? When things don't go as planned, Malik must summon all of his courage and resourcefulness to survive.A heart-wrenching and suspenseful story of sacrifice and resilience, Close to the Wind confronts the realities of war in a timeless and accessible way.

Close to the Wind

Close to the Wind PDF Author: Pete Goss
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0755361229
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
Pete Goss became a national and international hero when he rescued French yachtsman Raphael Dinelli as his boat sank beneath him in the round-the-world single-handed sailing race, the Vendee Globe, on Christmas Day 1996. In doing so Pete scuppered his own chances in the race but was awarded theLegion d'Honneur by France's president and made a friend for life in Dinelli.Close to the Wind is his own story of the race and its dramas, his revolutionary boat,Aqua Quorum, his thoughts and emotions during four months of solitude at sea, the extraordinary surgery that he had to perform on his own elbow and the aftermath of the rescue in the Southern Ocean.

Getaway

Getaway PDF Author: John Harris
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755127714
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
An Italian fisherman and his wife, Rosa, live in Sydney. Hard times are ahead. Their mortgaged boat may be lost and with it, their livelihood. But Rosa has a plan to reach the coast of America sailing on a beleaguered little houseboat. The plan seems almost perfect, especially when Willie appears and has his own reasons for embarking.

The Shadow of the Wind

The Shadow of the Wind PDF Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101147067
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 512

Book Description
The New York Times bestseller “The Shadow of the Wind is ultimately a love letter to literature, intended for readers as passionate about storytelling as its young hero.” —Entertainment Weekly (Editor's Choice) “One gorgeous read.” —Stephen King Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer’s son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julián Carax. But when he sets out to find the author’s other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written. In fact, Daniel may have the last of Carax’s books in existence. Soon Daniel’s seemingly innocent quest opens a door into one of Barcelona’s darkest secrets--an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love.

Close to the Wind

Close to the Wind PDF Author: Zana Bell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781471250828
Category : Brothers and sisters
Languages : en
Pages : 390

Book Description
'We are not going any further until you tell me why yet another fiancé seems intent on wringing your neck.' Georgiana da Silva is catapulted out of the Victorian drawing rooms and into a world of danger when she escapes her fiendish fiancé to engage in a mad dash across the world to save her brother before an unknown assassin can find him. Meanwhile, Captain Harry Trent is setting sail for New Zealand. Thrown together, unable to trust anyone, Georgiana and Harry are intent on fulfilling their missions despite the distractions of the other. But liberty comes at a price and the closer they get, the more they must question the true cost of being free. Masquerades, deceptions and subterfuge in this exciting historical romance from Zana Bell

Walking with the Wind

Walking with the Wind PDF Author: John Lewis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476797714
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 544

Book Description
Forty years ago, a teenaged boy stepped off a cotton farm in Alabama and into the epicenter of the struggle for civil rights in America, where he has remained to this day, committed still to the nonviolent ideals of his mentor Martin Luther King and the movement they both served. of photos.

My Name is Not Friday

My Name is Not Friday PDF Author: Jon Walter
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545863716
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 331

Book Description
A gorgeously written account of a freeborn black boy sold into slavery during the Civil War; think 12 Years a Slave for young adults. Well-mannered Samuel and his mischievous younger brother Joshua are free black boys living in an orphanage during the end of the Civil War. Samuel takes the blame for Joshua's latest prank, and the consequence is worse than he could ever imagine. He's taken from the orphanage to the South, given a new name -- Friday -- and sold into slavery. What follows is a heartbreaking but hopeful account of Samuel's journey from freedom, to captivity, and back again.

Into the Wind

Into the Wind PDF Author: William Loizeaux
Publisher: One Elm Books
ISBN: 1947159461
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157

Book Description
A character-driven novel about the unlikely friendship between a 10-year-old boy and an elderly woman. The old woman badgers the boy into taking her sailing, but when the weather turns bad, it becomes a wild sail. It becomes the last trip before she goes into the hospital where she dies: but not before the two of them share memories of their last sail together. Hazel helps build the boy's confidence during a tough time in his home life. Both moving and joyful, Into the Wind is a poignant story about loss and love in a boy's life, and the surprising and sustaining bonds that can grow between the old and young.
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