Author: Nancy Grossman Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers ISBN: 1423178092 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 400
Book Description
A summer of firsts Sixteen-year-old Eliza Miller has never made a phone call, never tried on a pair of jeans, never sat in a darkened theater waiting for a movie to start. She's never even talked to someone her age who isn't Amish, like her. A summer of good-byes When she leaves her close-knit family to spend the summer as a nanny in suburban Chicago, a part of her can't wait to leave behind everything she knows. She can't imagine the secrets she will uncover, the friends she will make, the surprises and temptations of a way of life so different from her own. A summer of impossible choices Every minute Eliza spends with her new friend Josh feels as good as listening to music for the first time, and she wonders whether there might be a place for her in his world. But as summer wanes, she misses the people she has left behind, and the Plain life she once took for granted. Eliza will have to decide for herself where she belongs. Whichever choice she makes, she knows she will lose someone she loves.
Author: Erin McCloskey Publisher: Teachers College Press ISBN: 0807766720 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 129
Book Description
Step outside of the IEPs and behavioral paperwork currently generated in schools, go where disabled people are thriving today, and see the results in learning, growth, and expression. This authoritative book offers readers alternative ways to think about learning and behavior in special education. Through illustrative case studies and a disability studies lens, author Erin McCloskey uses the voices of people with disabilities to show how these students progress creatively outside the classroom and school building--at the dojo, the riding arena, the theater stage, the music studio, and other community-centered spaces where disabled students can make choices about their learning, their bodies, and their goals. Balancing theory and practice, the book describes alternative learning spaces, demonstrates how disabled students learn there, and passes on the important lessons learned in each space. The ideas apply to students of all ages with a wide variety of disabilities. Book Features: Uses the voices of people with disabilities to promote alternative ways to think about learning and behavior in special education. Presents rich case studies and briefer interludes to illustrate how disabled students are learning and thriving in surprising ways outside of school where they have opportunities to explore. Distills important key takeaways from each case study through chapter sections of "lessons learned." Promotes informed discussion of the concepts in the book with questions at the end of each chapter. Combines theory and practice to help readers put the concepts into action in a variety of settings with a variety of disabled students.
Author: Patrick Carman Publisher: ISBN: 9781407110691 Category : Emigration and immigration Languages : en Pages : 40
Book Description
Amy and Louis are the best of friends. They do everything together and go everywhere together. But when Amy and her family move far away, to the other side of the world, these best friends wish more than ever that they could see each other... until they learn that the best friendships can last over any distance.
Author: T. J. Smith Publisher: Tate Publishing ISBN: 1602473250 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 332
Book Description
To avert a potential underworld mutiny of horrific proportions, these fifty insurrectionists were relocated through a portal from the pit of hell to the dark Eldritch Forest of another world, parallel to our own. Upon their banishment, the condemned were transformed into half-man and half-serpent creatures. Thirteen years ago, William Clay-then a mere child-disappeared from a nearby forest, never to be seen again. Only recently, his younger brother, Dan, acquired information on the forest fables from a questionable source. After analyzing fact and legend, Dan suspects that his brother may have fallen through the portal into the parallel world and is being held captive by the fifty fiends. Join Dan and three friends as they embark on an out-of-this-world journey where they are hunted by savage beasts along the footpath to a demonic castle. Smith's pages within are your passport to A World Away, where the unimaginable becomes reality, the unnatural becomes the norm, and the uninvited become fitting prey.
Author: Stewart O'Nan Publisher: Macmillan + ORM ISBN: 1429900784 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 402
Book Description
A major novel by the award-winning author named by Granta as one of America's best young writers. Set at a remote beachfront cottage in the Hamptons one summer during the Second World War, A World Away follows the fortunes of the Langer family, whose oldest son, Rennie, is missing in action in the Pacific theater. As we are soon aware, there is another battle raging at the same time, this one on the domestic front, as Anne and James Langer's marriage begins to unravel. In part to repay her husband for his affair with a student, Anne begins a clandestine romance with a soldier stationed at a nearby base. Yet all the passion and tenderness she finds with her lover is unable to ease Anne's empty ache from having her family torn apart. Thousands of miles away, Rennie is wounded in the effort to drive the Japanese from the island of Attu in the Aleutians, as Dorothy, his young wife, gives birth alone in San Diego. When Rennie comes home, his spirit as wounded as his body, it's clear that James and Anne must repair their own broken lives if they're going to help their son heal and bring their family back together. A World Away is a rich, romantic story that has all the depth and generosity of spirit Stewart O'Nan's work is known for.
Author: Lisa Krämer Publisher: novum premium Verlag ISBN: 3991301679 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 266
Book Description
You don't need to tell Olivia Jones that running away from her problems will not solve them. That is exactly what she does when she moves into her own apartment in London as far away from her father as possible. She has lost her mother the centre of her world who has been murdered and Olivia does not know why. She desperately needs an answer but her father won't give her the answer she needs. Bumping accidently into Jacob she is invited to join the band when he realises she is a musician. She meets the handsome Ethan the leader of their band. It is not long before she opens her heart and her soul to him falling head over heels in love with him. He is the one she tells her secrets to as he is her calm in a stormy sea. Little does Olivia know that the people she loves the most will betray her.
Author: Sean Body Publisher: SAF Publishing Ltd ISBN: 9780946719204 Category : Alternative rock musicians Languages : en Pages : 270
Book Description
Through unrestricted access to Mark Eitzel himself, former band members, associates and friends, Sean Body has built up a portrait of an artist tortured by his own demons, yet redeemed by the aching beauty of his songs."Wish The World Away is an insightful quote-drenched post-mortem on a band who recorded a slew of unbearably moving records before getting chewed up by the music biz machine."-Uncut Magazine
Author: Donna Montalbano Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1483436268 Category : Languages : en Pages : 319
Book Description
Is there Love After Death? When you leave your body, where do you go? Star-crossed young lovers meet in an ethereal borderland between life and death, called Someplace Else. One of them is alive, and the other is not; but they soon discover that there are fates worse than death. Unimaginable danger surrounds them: a lethal Garden of Eden; ghost towns inhabited by real ghosts; a bottomless blue hole of drowned spirits. Inside Someplace Else, desperate souls prey on the living. The Sun is a god, and Light and Dark rule their own kingdoms. The real-life setting is the otherworldly wilderness of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, home to the infamous Jersey Devil. Someplace Else is a supernatural love story more chilling, heartbreaking and purely romantic than any you have ever read. ForeWord Clarion Book Review
Author: Shelley Russell Nolan Publisher: Shelley Nolan ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 192
Book Description
When freedom comes with a cost, would you pay the price? Imprisoned by the mage guild and cut off from her friends and her magic, Merry’s hope of returning to her own world seems impossible. With hidden adversaries ready to strike, a desperate escape attempt could land her in even more trouble. But she will not give up on her quest to stop witch hunters from entering Tirana. Her allies are scattered and time is running out, so Merry must do the unthinkable; journey into enemy territory in search of aid. Danger looms at every turn, and she will be pushed to the brink to have any hope of success. The alternative is to lose control of her magic forever. Will Merry find the help she needs to save Tirana? Or will her search lead to the downfall of everyone she cares about? Find out in this magical portal fantasy adventure!
Author: Nancy Grossman
Author: Erin McCloskey
Author: Patrick Carman
Author: T. J. Smith
Author: Stewart O'Nan
Author: Lisa Krämer
Author: Anna Caroline Steele
Author: Sean Body
Author: Donna Montalbano
Author: Shelley Russell Nolan