Author: Nina Bawden
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9780140384475
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Originally abandoned by her actor parents who later attempt to gain custody, Cat wages a spirited campaign to decide her own fate and remain with her grandmother.
Granny the Pag
Author: Nina Bawden
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9780140384475
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Originally abandoned by her actor parents who later attempt to gain custody, Cat wages a spirited campaign to decide her own fate and remain with her grandmother.
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9780140384475
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Originally abandoned by her actor parents who later attempt to gain custody, Cat wages a spirited campaign to decide her own fate and remain with her grandmother.
Granny Torrelli Makes Soup
Author: Sharon Creech
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061972460
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
“A heartfelt novel celebrating friendship and family ties.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) Twelve-year-old Rosie and her best friend, Bailey, don’t always get along, that’s true. But Granny Torrelli seems to know just how to make things right again with her interesting stories and family recipes. She understands from experience that life's twist and turns can't rattle the unique bond between two lifelong pals. Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech cooks up a delightfully tender novel filled with homemade dishes and secret recipes. It’s easier to remember what’s important about love, life, and friendship while Granny Torrelli makes soup. Celebrate a special connection to a parent or grandparent by sharing this empathetic, funny book. “A tasty treat.” –ALA Booklist (starred review) “This is a meal that should not be missed.” –School Library Journal (starred review) An ALA Notable Children’s Book and ALA Booklist Editors’ Choice
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061972460
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
“A heartfelt novel celebrating friendship and family ties.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) Twelve-year-old Rosie and her best friend, Bailey, don’t always get along, that’s true. But Granny Torrelli seems to know just how to make things right again with her interesting stories and family recipes. She understands from experience that life's twist and turns can't rattle the unique bond between two lifelong pals. Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech cooks up a delightfully tender novel filled with homemade dishes and secret recipes. It’s easier to remember what’s important about love, life, and friendship while Granny Torrelli makes soup. Celebrate a special connection to a parent or grandparent by sharing this empathetic, funny book. “A tasty treat.” –ALA Booklist (starred review) “This is a meal that should not be missed.” –School Library Journal (starred review) An ALA Notable Children’s Book and ALA Booklist Editors’ Choice
Off the Road
Author: Nina Bawden
Publisher: Chivers Press
ISBN: 9780754061724
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In 2040, eleven-year-old Tom follows his grandfather through the Wall and into the forbidden Wild, where they seek to find his grandfather's boyhood home.
Publisher: Chivers Press
ISBN: 9780754061724
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In 2040, eleven-year-old Tom follows his grandfather through the Wall and into the forbidden Wild, where they seek to find his grandfather's boyhood home.
My Papi Has a Motorcycle
Author: Isabel Quintero
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 052555341X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
A celebration of the love between a father and daughter, and of a vibrant immigrant neighborhood, by an award-winning author and illustrator duo. When Daisy Ramona zooms around her neighborhood with her papi on his motorcycle, she sees the people and places she's always known. She also sees a community that is rapidly changing around her. But as the sun sets purple-blue-gold behind Daisy Ramona and her papi, she knows that the love she feels will always be there. With vivid illustrations and text bursting with heart, My Papi Has a Motorcycle is a young girl's love letter to her hardworking dad and to memories of home that we hold close in the midst of change.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 052555341X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
A celebration of the love between a father and daughter, and of a vibrant immigrant neighborhood, by an award-winning author and illustrator duo. When Daisy Ramona zooms around her neighborhood with her papi on his motorcycle, she sees the people and places she's always known. She also sees a community that is rapidly changing around her. But as the sun sets purple-blue-gold behind Daisy Ramona and her papi, she knows that the love she feels will always be there. With vivid illustrations and text bursting with heart, My Papi Has a Motorcycle is a young girl's love letter to her hardworking dad and to memories of home that we hold close in the midst of change.
The Finding
Author: Nina Bawden
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0140320237
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Since nobody knows Alex's birthday, he celebrates his finding day every year. On his eleventh finding day, Alex's gran takes him to visit old Mrs Angel, her neighbour, who gives him a photo of a girl in an old photograph frame. The girl in the photo, Mrs Angel's daughter who disappeared years ago, looks a bit like Alex.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0140320237
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Since nobody knows Alex's birthday, he celebrates his finding day every year. On his eleventh finding day, Alex's gran takes him to visit old Mrs Angel, her neighbour, who gives him a photo of a girl in an old photograph frame. The girl in the photo, Mrs Angel's daughter who disappeared years ago, looks a bit like Alex.
Great Books for Girls
Author: Kathleen Odean
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN: 0345450213
Category : Children's stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Evaluates fiction and nonfiction books featuring girls and women in positive roles, ranking each entry by reading level.
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN: 0345450213
Category : Children's stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Evaluates fiction and nonfiction books featuring girls and women in positive roles, ranking each entry by reading level.
The Real Plato Jones
Author: Nina Bawden
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9780140379471
Category : Grandfathers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
While visiting Greece, thirteen-year-old Plato Jones tries to come to terms with his mixed heritage as he finds out more about his two grandfathers, the Welsh one, a World War II hero, and the Greek one, a supposed traitor.
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9780140379471
Category : Grandfathers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
While visiting Greece, thirteen-year-old Plato Jones tries to come to terms with his mixed heritage as he finds out more about his two grandfathers, the Welsh one, a World War II hero, and the Greek one, a supposed traitor.
The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature
Author: Daniel Hahn
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191057266
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
The last thirty years have witnessed one of the most fertile periods in the history of children's books: the flowering of imaginative illustration and writing, the Harry Potter phenomenon, the rise of young adult and crossover fiction, and books that tackle extraordinarily difficult subjects. The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature provides an indispensable and fascinating reference guide to the world of children's literature. Its 3,500 entries cover every genre from fairy tales to chapbooks; school stories to science fiction; comics to children's hymns. Originally published in 1983, the Companion has been comprehensively revised and updated by Daniel Hahn. Over 900 new entries bring the book right up to date. A whole generation of new authors and illustrators are showcased, with books like Dogger, The Hunger Games, and Twilight making their first appearance. There are articles on developments such as manga, fan fiction, and non-print publishing, and there is additional information on prizes and prizewinners. This accessible A to Z is the first place to look for information about the authors, illustrators, printers, publishers, educationalists, and others who have influenced the development of children's literature, as well as the stories and characters at their centre. Written both to entertain and to instruct, the highly acclaimed Oxford Companion to Children's Literature is a reference work that no one interested in the world of children's books should be without.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191057266
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
The last thirty years have witnessed one of the most fertile periods in the history of children's books: the flowering of imaginative illustration and writing, the Harry Potter phenomenon, the rise of young adult and crossover fiction, and books that tackle extraordinarily difficult subjects. The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature provides an indispensable and fascinating reference guide to the world of children's literature. Its 3,500 entries cover every genre from fairy tales to chapbooks; school stories to science fiction; comics to children's hymns. Originally published in 1983, the Companion has been comprehensively revised and updated by Daniel Hahn. Over 900 new entries bring the book right up to date. A whole generation of new authors and illustrators are showcased, with books like Dogger, The Hunger Games, and Twilight making their first appearance. There are articles on developments such as manga, fan fiction, and non-print publishing, and there is additional information on prizes and prizewinners. This accessible A to Z is the first place to look for information about the authors, illustrators, printers, publishers, educationalists, and others who have influenced the development of children's literature, as well as the stories and characters at their centre. Written both to entertain and to instruct, the highly acclaimed Oxford Companion to Children's Literature is a reference work that no one interested in the world of children's books should be without.
The White Horse Gang
Author: Nina Bawden
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780395587096
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Sam, his cousin Rose, and lonely Abe Turner explore the haunted Gibbet Wood and get into mischief and adventure.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780395587096
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Sam, his cousin Rose, and lonely Abe Turner explore the haunted Gibbet Wood and get into mischief and adventure.
Language and Woman's Place
Author: Robin Tolmach Lakoff
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199883300
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
The 1975 publication of Robin Tolmach Lakoff's Language and Woman's Place, is widely recognized as having inaugurated feminist research on the relationship between language and gender, touching off a remarkable response among language scholars, feminists, and general readers. For the past thirty years, scholars of language and gender have been debating and developing Lakoff's initial observations. Arguing that language is fundamental to gender inequality, Lakoff pointed to two areas in which inequalities can be found: Language used about women, such as the asymmetries between seemingly parallel terms like master and mistress, and language used by women, which places women in a double bind between being appropriately feminine and being fully human. Lakoff's central argument that "women's language" expresses powerlessness triggered a controversy that continues to this day. The revised and expanded edition presents the full text of the original first edition, along with an introduction and annotations by Lakoff in which she reflects on the text a quarter century later and expands on some of the most widely discussed issues it raises. The volume also brings together commentaries from twenty-six leading scholars of language, gender, and sexuality, within linguistics, anthropology, modern languages, education, information sciences, and other disciplines. The commentaries discuss the book's contribution to feminist research on language and explore its ongoing relevance for scholarship in the field. This new edition of Language and Woman's Place not only makes available once again the pioneering text of feminist linguistics; just as important, it places the text in the context of contemporary feminist and gender theory for a new generation of readers.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199883300
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
The 1975 publication of Robin Tolmach Lakoff's Language and Woman's Place, is widely recognized as having inaugurated feminist research on the relationship between language and gender, touching off a remarkable response among language scholars, feminists, and general readers. For the past thirty years, scholars of language and gender have been debating and developing Lakoff's initial observations. Arguing that language is fundamental to gender inequality, Lakoff pointed to two areas in which inequalities can be found: Language used about women, such as the asymmetries between seemingly parallel terms like master and mistress, and language used by women, which places women in a double bind between being appropriately feminine and being fully human. Lakoff's central argument that "women's language" expresses powerlessness triggered a controversy that continues to this day. The revised and expanded edition presents the full text of the original first edition, along with an introduction and annotations by Lakoff in which she reflects on the text a quarter century later and expands on some of the most widely discussed issues it raises. The volume also brings together commentaries from twenty-six leading scholars of language, gender, and sexuality, within linguistics, anthropology, modern languages, education, information sciences, and other disciplines. The commentaries discuss the book's contribution to feminist research on language and explore its ongoing relevance for scholarship in the field. This new edition of Language and Woman's Place not only makes available once again the pioneering text of feminist linguistics; just as important, it places the text in the context of contemporary feminist and gender theory for a new generation of readers.