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.

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.

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Author: Khaled Hosseini
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 074758589X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380

Book Description
A riveting and powerful story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship and an indestructible love

Big Nate: Pray for a Fire Drill

Author: Lincoln Peirce
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 1449448348
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
Big Nate, who is always notoriously unprepared for class, turns to divine intervention to spare him! Aspiring cartoonist Nate Wright is the star of Big Nate, the daily and Sunday comic strip. As a popular middle-grade book character, Nate is 11 years old, four-and-a-half feet tall, and the all-time record holder for detentions in school history. He's a self-described genius and sixth grade Renaissance Man. Nate, who lives with his dad and older sister, enjoys pestering his family and teachers with his sarcasm.

Click Go the Shears

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

Book Description

Wonderlands

Author: Robert Ingpen
Publisher: Welbeck Editions
ISBN: 9781913519711
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Robert Ingpen's astonishing creative vision, expressed in well over 100 books, has enchanted countless families around the world. Like a keeper of our collective imagination, he has led us on wide-ranging journeys into the wondrous landscapes of the classics he has so famously illustrated: Neverland, the Riverbank, Oz and Alice's Wonderland - as well as into the magical scenes of his own invention and the more real but no less captivating scenery of his beloved Australia. Wonderlands is a glorious celebration of Robert Ingpen's work as an illustrator and storyteller, told through his own illustrator's notes, original sketches and abundant illustrations from his award-winning publications - and revealing the places, stories and people that inspired him along the way.