Author: Dana Wall
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524692824
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27

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Emma feels really uncool in summer school because all of her friends are spending the summer by the pool or at the beach. She has fallen behind in her easy grammar lessons and has to go to summer school to catch up. Her first assignment is adverbs versus adjectives. What’s the difference? Wizard Jake will get Emma into shape as she learns to embrace the subtle yet essential differences. And eventually, Emma will get to have some fun this summer.

Author: Dana Wall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Emma's discontent with Summer School is palpable; all she yearns for is the carefree days spent at the beach with her friends. Wizard Jake, perceptive to her frustration, gently reprimands Emma for her reluctance but remains steadfast in his commitment to help her. Despite Emma's initial resistance, Wizard Jake's magical teaching transforms her perspective as he introduces her to the enchanting world of Adjectives and Adverbs. With patience and creativity, he brings these parts of speech to life, illustrating how adjectives enhance descriptions and adverbs modify actions. Through interactive lessons and practical examples tailored to Emma's interests, Wizard Jake fosters a newfound appreciation for language within her. As Emma begins to grasp the nuances of adjectives and adverbs, her demeanor shifts from reluctance to curiosity. By the end of their session, Emma not only learns about the power of descriptive language but also realizes the value of perseverance and open-mindedness. Wizard Jake's blend of stern guidance and educational magic not only aids Emma in her studies but also instills in her a deeper understanding of self-improvement and the rewards of embracing new challenges.

Author: Emma Shevah
Publisher: Chicken House
ISBN: 1760272582
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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Amber Alessandra Leola Kimiko Miyamoto. As if her name made up for being tiny, half Japanese and half Italian, and starting a new school with a caveman phone. Dream on! But the hardest bit about being Amber is that a part of her is missing. Her dad. He left when she was little and if he isn’t coming back, she’ll have to sort things out another way. And Amber has a big imagination …

Author: Wendy Godding
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 0857991485
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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She has died countless times before, and she is not going to let it happen again. Abbie Harper dies just before her eighteenth birthday. It has happened before, more times than she can remember – and always at the hands of the same man. Her dreams are plagued with past lives, cut short. But this latest dream feels different. Her past life as Penelope Broadhurst – an English pastor's daughter in 1806 – keeps bleeding into her present life in ways both sinister and familiar. As Penelope meets and falls in love with the dashing Heath Lockwood, so too does Abbie meet the brothers Marcus and Rem Knight. One wants to love her; the other to kill her. Time is running out for Penelope, but as Abbie mourns her inability to change the past, she chases the slim chance to save her future. To survive, she must solve the puzzle of an ancient love story...and Penelope just might be able to help.

Author: Kate Greathead
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501156632
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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“Masterly deftness, funny sentence by funny sentence...a moving and intricately braided story of two mothers.” —Jonathan Franzen, The Guardian This “beguiling, addictive read” (People, Book of the Week) and Belletrist Book Club pick about a blue-blooded single mother raising her daughter in rarefied New York City is a “carefully observed family story [that] rings true to life” (The New York Times Book Review). Laura hails from the Upper East Side of Manhattan, born into old money, drifting aimlessly into her early thirties. One weekend in 1981 she meets a man. The two sleep together. He vanishes. And Laura realizes she’s pregnant. Enter: Emma. “Unputdownable” (Library Journal) and “wryly observed” (Vogue), Laura & Emma follows Laura as she raises Emma in New York City over the next fifteen years. With wit and compassion, Kate Greathead explores the many flaws and quirks that make us human. Laura’s story hosts a cast of effervescent and original characters, including her eccentric mother, who informs her society friends and Emma herself that she was fathered by a Swedish sperm donor; her brother, whose childhood stutter reappears in the presence of their forbidding father; an exceptionally kind male pediatrician; and her overbearing best friend, whose life has followed the Park Avenue script in every way except for childbearing. “Kate Greathead’s debut novel gamely takes on class conflict, single motherhood, and the discreet pretension of the 1980s Upper East Side” (New York magazine) and is a “layered story about mothers and daughters and identity” (Entertainment Weekly). Told in vignettes whose every “restrained and understated sentence has been polished to glittering brightness” (Vox), Laura & Emma is “an incisive comedy of manners about class divides and the ‘burdens’ of being born privileged” (Esquire) and “a thoughtful novel of trying to find oneself despite an assigned place in the world” (Publishers Weekly).

Author: Tamara Ireland Stone
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 1423168402
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Anna and Bennett were never supposed to meet: she lives in 1995 Chicago and he lives in 2012 San Francisco. But Bennett's unique ability to travel through time and space brings him into Anna's life, and with him, a new world of adventure and possibility. As their relationship deepens, they face the reality that time might knock Bennett back where he belongs, even as a devastating crisis throws everything they believe into question. Against a ticking clock, Anna and Bennett are forced to ask themselves how far they can push the bounds of fate-and what consequences they can bear in order to stay together. Fresh, exciting, and deeply romantic, Time Between Us is a stunning and spellbinding debut from an extraordinary new talent in YA fiction. "A beautifully written, unique love story." --Melissa Marr, New York Times best-selling author of The Wicked Lovelyseries "The story will hold readers with its twists and turns, present and future; its love, sadness, and anger; and especially, its surprising secrets." -- Booklist "A warm, time-bending romance [that] will have readersrooting for the couple that keeps daring fate." -- Publishers Weekly "Time Between Us is the very best kind of love story --heart-pounding, intense, and unputdownable!" -- Elizabeth Scott, author ofBloom and Perfect You

Author: Eric Haven
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1683962788
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 74

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This is a literary collection of interconnected comics stories about monsters ― giant monsters, tiny monsters, robot monsters, cosmic monsters ― some of whom work for the benefit of humankind, others as agents of chaos. Taking place over different planes of existence, trippy and deadpan, the stories share a perspective seen from a world gone horribly wrong. Worlds behind worlds are revealed ― including our own.

Author: Amanda Maciel
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062305328
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198

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If you gulped through reading or streaming 13 Reasons Why, Tease is the book for you. Provocative, unforgettable, and inspired by real-life incidents, Amanda Maciel's highly acclaimed debut novel Tease is the story of a teenage girl who faces criminal charges for bullying after a classmate commits suicide. With its powerful narrative, unconventional point of view, and strong anti-bullying theme, this coming-of-age story offers smart, insightful, and nuanced views on high school society, toxic friendships, and family relationships. Emma Putnam is dead, and it's all Sara Wharton's fault. At least, that's what everyone seems to think. Sara, along with her best friend and three other classmates, has been criminally charged for the bullying and harassment that led to Emma's shocking suicide. Now Sara is the one who's ostracized, already guilty according to her peers, the community, and the media. In the summer before her senior year, in between meetings with lawyers and a court-recommended therapist, Sara is forced to reflect on the events that brought her to this moment—and ultimately consider her own role in an undeniable tragedy. And she'll have to find a way to move forward, even when it feels like her own life is over.

Author: Rachel Yoder
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385546823
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING AMY ADAMS • In this blazingly smart and voracious debut novel, an artist turned stay-at-home mom becomes convinced she's turning into a dog. • "A must-read for anyone who can’t get enough of the ever-blurring line between the psychological and supernatural that Yellowjackets exemplifies." —Vulture One day, the mother was a mother, but then one night, she was quite suddenly something else... An ambitious mother puts her art career on hold to stay at home with her newborn son, but the experience does not match her imagination. Two years later, she steps into the bathroom for a break from her toddler's demands, only to discover a dense patch of hair on the back of her neck. In the mirror, her canines suddenly look sharper than she remembers. Her husband, who travels for work five days a week, casually dismisses her fears from faraway hotel rooms. As the mother's symptoms intensify, and her temptation to give in to her new dog impulses peak, she struggles to keep her alter-canine-identity secret. Seeking a cure at the library, she discovers the mysterious academic tome which becomes her bible, A Field Guide to Magical Women: A Mythical Ethnography, and meets a group of mommies involved in a multilevel-marketing scheme who may also be more than what they seem. An outrageously original novel of ideas about art, power, and womanhood wrapped in a satirical fairy tale, Nightbitch will make you want to howl in laughter and recognition. And you should. You should howl as much as you want.

Author: Meryl Wilsner
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1250841011
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 303

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"This blazing-hot forbidden romance manages to sensibly, and compassionately, capture the complexities of starting adult life after college and finding love and your identity in middle age. Cassie and Erin’s romance is by turns delightfully raunchy and deeply emotional. This reader hopes Wilsner keeps these scorchers coming." - The Washington Post “[Wilsner writes] erotic yearning in a class all their own.” - Entertainment Weekly From Meryl Wilsner, the acclaimed author of Something to Talk About, comes Mistakes Were Made, a sharp and sexy rom-com about a college senior who accidentally hooks up with her best friend’s mom. When Cassie Klein goes to an off-campus bar to escape her school’s Family Weekend, she isn’t looking for a hookup—it just happens. Buying a drink for a stranger turns into what should be an uncomplicated, amazing one-night stand. But then the next morning rolls around and her friend drags her along to meet her mom—the hot, older woman Cassie slept with. Erin Bennett came to Family Weekend to get closer to her daughter, not have a one-night stand with a college senior. In her defense, she hadn’t known Cassie was a student when they'd met. To make things worse, Erin’s daughter brings Cassie to breakfast the next morning. And despite Erin's better judgement—how could sleeping with your daughter’s friend be anything but bad?—she and Cassie get along in the day just as well as they did last night. What should have been a one-time fling quickly proves impossible to ignore, and soon Cassie and Erin are sneaking around. Worst of all, they start to realize they have something real. But is being honest about the love between them worth the cost? "Wilsner proves their serious romance range with a sophomore novel that laughs in the slow-burning face of their debut by kicking off with a hookup that'll have you fanning your face for days." - Buzzfeed “A steaming hot, thoughtful story about all kinds of love, featuring a firecracker of a couple that’s impossible not to root for.” - Women's Health