Pickle Puss

Author: Patricia Reilly Giff
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0307541991
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82

Book Description
It's August, and Emily has big plans at the library. She's going to read lots of books and tack a paper fish next to her name for each one. Then Dawn Bosco says she can read more books than Emily. Not only that, both Emily and Dawn want to keep Pickle Puss, a stray cat thay found. They decide that whoever reads the most books can keep cat. When Emily adds a fish for a book she read along time ago, she has one more fish than Dawn. She knows she's cheating, but she wants to keep the cat. What a pickle she's in.

Pickle Puss

Author: Patricia Reilly Giff
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0440468442
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82

The Picklepuss Man

Author: Thomas D. Kratzok
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 148171578X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33

Book Description
Once there was an old man who owned a small deli that was known for its sweet pickles. People came from all around to buy his pickles. One day the old man set out to make the best pickle the world had ever tasted. And that is when the fun began...The Picklepuss Man is a tasty version of the Gingerbread Man with a twist and a delicious ending. A lesson or two could also be learned along the way. Catch him if you can and taste for yourself....

The Sound of Guns

Author: Baka Imre
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1434992233
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description

When You're Up to Your Ass in Alligators

Author: Alan Dundes
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814318676
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
Office copier folklore that regularly circulate in office buildings everywhere-is the subject of this innovative study.

Seasons of Love

Author: Eleanor Sampeck
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809140992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
Twenty-five years ago an extended family made a "return to nature" move to the country. This magical book is the record of their struggles and growth. The book achieves its vividly realistic tone by covering the family's lived experience, from joy to sorrow, life and death, and lofty to such mundane details as manure for the garden. Its pages are populated by four generations--unusual in a time when the nuclear family is everything. Although the work is supported by sound theological and psychological theory, it never lingers too ling in these realms, but continues to continues the daily drama of one family's risky living of the gospel.

Lady Gypsy

Author: Pam Crooks
Publisher: Pam Crooks
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 156

Book Description
She belonged to no world of her own. Not the world of the Gypsy . . . Liza was born to roam the land with her mother’s people, but she is shamed by the sin that made her forever different. And not the world of the Gaje, the non-Gypsy . . . Reese has set down roots deep in the Nebraska prairie. His dreams are sure to come true with a new railroad and a proper wife and child. Until their worlds collide . . . But Liza is accused unfairly by Reese’s people, and she is forced to flee the security of her world to see safety in his. When Reese’s careful plans for success are threatened, he must fight to save all he’s ever worked for. Will it cost him the love he’s found with the beautiful, black-eyed woman with red-gold hair? His Lady Gypsy

The Return of the Bishop's Wife

Author: Dorothy Deane
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595433103
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265

Book Description
Not long after Mary Ranney pulls up at the entrance to the grounds of All Souls Cathedral and school, mysterious happenings begin to occur. In her attempt to make the school authorities change their minds about taking her ten-year-old son as a student, she barters with them, agreeing to refinish the floor in the pastor's study. It is then that Ranney discovers a strange-albeit revealing-message, left behind on one of the floorboards. The mysteries she encounters behind a secret room at the end of a tunnel are the workings of the paranormal, a confession from long ago yearning to be discovered. The question is-does the crypt reveal more than a one hundred-year-old corpse? Dorothy Deane's haunting tale offers a unique and accurate depiction of life in a farming community from the 1890s. Implementing exciting twists and turns, Deane brings a century-old ghost story to the present time.

Treason's Daughter

Author: Antonia Senior
Publisher: Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1782392653
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 436

Book Description
A stunning coming-of-age novel set against the backdrop of the English Civil War, as one extraordinarily loyal and headstrong girl battles to save the people she loves In 1640 London 15-year-old Henrietta Challoner dreams of adventure, of a life lived at the gallop, of the opportunities afforded to her brothers, Ned and Sam. She cannot know how devastatingly real these dreams will become, as the country slides towards vicious civil war. The crisis threatens to tear Henrietta's family apart. As religious and political tensions spill into the streets, they all must decide what comes first—their family, their country, or their desires. But while she strives to maintain the peace at home, Henrietta becomes embroiled in a deeper plot: to hand London over to the King.

Alandra's Lilacs

Author: Tressa Bowers
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
ISBN: 9781563680823
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
The hearing mother of a deaf child recounts her experiences and provides advice for other parents in a similar situation. Author tells of her 25-year struggle through divorce, poverty, & intractable physicians & educators to raise Alandra her deaf daughter, & the bond she now has with her deaf grandchildren.