Author: Vera BrosgolPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1596435526
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Features main character smoking, possessing pills; contains references to sexual harassment and violence.
Anya's Ghost
Author: Vera BrosgolPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1596435526
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Features main character smoking, possessing pills; contains references to sexual harassment and violence.
Anya’S Story
Author: Hilda JourneyPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532035853
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
Anya was a nurse in her late twenties when she moved from California to Wyoming and met a handsome pastor. But as they began seriously dating, it soon became evident that Frederick was battling personal demons. Despite several red flags, Anya shunned her misgivings, accepted Fredericks proposal, and settled into what she hoped would be blissful married life. Unfortunately, she couldnt have been more wrong. In a poignant memoir, Hilda Journey shares a glimpse into the complex and frightening aspects of an abusive marriage as Anya lived trapped in fear, grappled with feeling lost and alone, and wondered if God was hearing her pleas for help. While revealing her long and difficult journey through the next twenty-seven years, Hilda discloses how as angry confrontations developed into violent scenarios, hid her horrible secrets from her family, and searched for answers through prayer. Finally, as she divulges how she summoned the courage to leave the marriagewith help from counselors and friendsHilda provides inspiration to anyone suffering through abuse to escape the violence and find their true selves again. Anyas Story details one womans journey through and beyond an abusive marriage that provides hope to other victims to take the steps today to live happier, healthier lives.
Anya Goes to Jamaica
Author: Nikko M FungchungPublisher:
ISBN: 9780998149738
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Anya's World Adventures Book Series, takes young readers on a tour of the world through the eyes of a child. With the help of Anya's magic globe, readers will experience the joys of travel and adventure. The first stop in the series is Jamaica. Join Anya as she learns about the food, language and culture of this beautiful country.
Anya and the Dragon
Author: Sofiya PasternackPublisher: Versify
ISBN: 0358006074
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
In an alternate ninth century, twelve-year-old Anya and a new friend face a Viking and a Tsar to protect the water dragon that saved her life, putting her family's home at risk.
Luz Sees the Light
Author: Claudia DavilaPublisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1554537665
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
When the city starts to be hit by regular blackouts, and Luz's mother has trouble affording gas and groceries, Luz decides that she will do what she can do in her own neighborhood, with her friends and neighbors, to become less reliant on fossil fuels.
Anya's Secret Society
Author: Yevgenia NaybergPublisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN: 1632897091
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Left-handed Anya draws with great passion . . . but only when she's alone. In Russia, right-handedness is demanded--it is the right way. This cultural expectation stifles young Anya's creativity and artistic spirit as she draws the world around her in secret. Hiding away from family, teachers, and neighbors, Anya imagines a secret society of famous left-handed artists drawing alongside her. But once her family emigrates from Russia to America, her life becomes less clandestine, and she no longer feels she needs to conceal a piece of her identity.
Anya's Story
Author: Julia GoussevaPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781494942304
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
As the Soviet Union is changing in dramatic ways in the early 1990's, Anya clings to her desire for a stable and tranquil life. She's in love with Victor and is ready to overcome the challenges of their long-distance relationship. To follow her dreams, she leaves her comfortable life in Moscow and moves to a small northern town. She believes that her destiny is to be a wife of a Russian submarine officer, but her fate is much more complicated than that. Anya's Story is an insightful look into the dynamic and unstable period of recent Russian history, told from the perspective of a young Russian woman.
Anya
Author: Susan Fromberg SchaefferPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393325218
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Before she goes to America, the Polish Jew Anya who has escaped several times during World War II, always searches for her little girl, given to Gentiles at the start of the war.
Katherine
Author: Anya SetonPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544222881
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford, Chaucer's sister-in-law, fall in love in the 14th century.
Because of Anya
Author: Margaret Peterson HaddixPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442457783
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Ten-year-old girls don't wear wigs. So why is Anya wearing one? That's what Keely wants to know. But when Anya's wig falls off in front of the whole class, Keely realizes what she really wants is to help Anya, even though she's not sure how--and even though it means she'll have to do something she's afraid of: stand up to her friends. As for Anya, she just wants her hair to grow back, but no one can tell her whether it ever will. How can she learn to accept her disease when she can't even look in the mirror?