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Author: Cornelia Meigs Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1631584863 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 145
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Will these two siblings help solve a family mystery? Find out in one of the earliest Newbery Honor Award winners! Brother and sister, Oliver and Janet, are excited to spend their summer with their cousin Jasper, who has always been cheerful and fun to be around. However, when the children arrive at his home, Jasper is despondent and distracted—nothing like the cousin they know. Eventually, the children discover that their cousin has been having trouble with a neighbor but is doing nothing to fix the problem! The siblings want to help . . . but how? Enter in The Beeman, a neighbor who regales Oliver and Janet with enchanting stories of local history. The two siblings visit the friendly neighbor more and more to hear his amazing stories but continue to wonder how they can help their cousin. As it turns out, The Beeman’s tales of their family history just so happen to contain the secret to helping Jasper with his villainous neighbor! With beautiful, descriptive prose, this classic award-winner is perfect for young readers eager for a good, wholesome mystery. Whether you read it alone or as a family, get ready to be swept away by The Windy Hill!
Author: Cornelia Meigs Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1631584863 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 145
Book Description
Will these two siblings help solve a family mystery? Find out in one of the earliest Newbery Honor Award winners! Brother and sister, Oliver and Janet, are excited to spend their summer with their cousin Jasper, who has always been cheerful and fun to be around. However, when the children arrive at his home, Jasper is despondent and distracted—nothing like the cousin they know. Eventually, the children discover that their cousin has been having trouble with a neighbor but is doing nothing to fix the problem! The siblings want to help . . . but how? Enter in The Beeman, a neighbor who regales Oliver and Janet with enchanting stories of local history. The two siblings visit the friendly neighbor more and more to hear his amazing stories but continue to wonder how they can help their cousin. As it turns out, The Beeman’s tales of their family history just so happen to contain the secret to helping Jasper with his villainous neighbor! With beautiful, descriptive prose, this classic award-winner is perfect for young readers eager for a good, wholesome mystery. Whether you read it alone or as a family, get ready to be swept away by The Windy Hill!
Author: Cornelia Meigs Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781717481788 Category : Languages : en Pages : 282
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This premium quality large print edition includes the complete, unabridged text of Cornelia Meigs' classic tale in a freshly edited and newly typeset edition. With a large 6" x 9" page size, this edition is printed on heavyweight 55# bright white paper with a fully laminated cover featuring an original full color design. The first of three Newbery Honor Books by Cornelia Meigs, The Windy Hill, published in 1921, represents an early example of a fully developed and well-written mystery adventure story intended for younger readers. Cornelia Meigs Cornelia Meigs (1884-1973) was an American writer, teacher, historian and critic of children's literature. The fifth of six daughters, the family moved from Rock Island, Illinois to Keokuk, Iowa when she was one month old. She graduated from Keokuk High School in 1901 and then attended Bryn Mawr College, earning a B.A. degree in 1907. Meigs began writing children's books while teaching English at St. Katherine's School in Davenport, Iowa. Her first book, The Kingdom of the Winding Road, was published in 1915. In 1922 The Windy Hill was a runner-up for the first Newbery Medal, awarded by the American Library Association for the previous year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children". She was again runner-up in 1929 for Clearing Weather and in 1933 for Swift Rivers. Runner-up works from the early years of the Newbery Award are now called Newbery Honor Books, and are authorized to be designated as such. Meigs won a prize competition sponsored by publisher Little, Brown and Co., and her winning submission, The Trade Wind, was published in 1927. Subsequently Little, Brown and Co. published more of her works, including children's biographies of Louisa May Alcott and Jane Addams. The Alcott biography, Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women, won the Newbery Medal in 1934. In 1932, she became a professor of English at her alma mater, Bryn Mawr. During World War II she took a leave of absence, working for the War Department for three years and then returning to Bryn Mawr, where she remained until she retired in 1950. After leaving Bryn Mawr Meigs taught writing at the New School of Social Research in New York City and served as the lead editor and a contributing writer for A Critical History of Children's Literature, published in 1953, which has been called "a landmark in the field of children's literature". Meigs also supervised a revision re-issued in 1969. In her long career as a writer, Meigs produced over 30 fiction works for children, two plays, two biographies, and several books and articles for adults, and championed the cause of a more serious approach to literature intended for younger readers. Cornelia Meigs died at Havre de Grace, Maryland, on September 10, 1973. The Windy Hill... Oliver and Janet, teens visiting a wealthy cousin in a quiet seaside town, quickly realize that something is not right. Their cousin Jasper barely acknowledges their arrival and is obviously nervous and preoccupied. They soon realize that they have stumbled upon a family mystery that not only involves their cousin, but has somehow spread a gloomy quiet, like the stillness before a thunder storm, throughout the hills and farms of the Medford Valley. Befriending a mysterious local beekeeper and his daughter, they listen to the beekeeper's tales of the Medford Valley's past and accounts of incidents from the lives of earlier generations of their own family. From the beekeeper's stories and scattered clues they discover the secret behind the sullen depression and suppressed anger that hangs over the valley, and set out to correct the consequences of greed, resentment and jealousy that have been festering for three generations.
Author: Graves Nelson Publisher: Images Publishing ISBN: 9781920744687 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 128
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Takes an in-depth look at one of Ken Tate's magnificent classical homes, located in 2,000 acres in a rare stretch of prairie in Northeast Mississippi.
Author: Cornelia Meigs Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 137
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'The Windy Hill' is a mystery novel penned by Cornelia Meigs. The story unfolds with a sense of foreboding, as a brother and sister find themselves thrust into a dark and twisted world of secrets and lies, upon moving in with their mysterious cousin. As they struggle to uncover the truth, they befriend a charismatic beekeeper, who regales them with mesmerizing tales of the past. But as the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur, they realize that the stories are not just legends, but hold the key to unlocking the family's dark and sinister secrets. Will they unravel the truth before it's too late, or will they be consumed by the very mystery they sought to solve?
Author: Mabel O'Donnell Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780259915102 Category : Languages : en Pages : 58
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Excerpt from High on a Hill Alice looked and looked. She looked in the house. She ran to the Window. She looked She ran to the film. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Horace Annesley Vachell Publisher: ISBN: 9781330564530 Category : Languages : en Pages : 336
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Excerpt from The Hill: A Romance of Friendship I dedicate this Romance of Friendship to you with the sincerest pleasure and affection. You were the first to suggest that I should write a book about contemporary life at Harrow; you gave me the principal idea; you have furnished me with notes innumerable; you have revised every page of the manuscript; and you are a peculiarly keen Harrovian. In making this public declaration of my obligations to you, I take the opportunity of stating that the characters in "The Hill," whether masters or boys, are not portraits, although they may be called, truthfully enough, composite photographs; and that the episodes of Drinking and Gambling are founded on isolated incidents, not on habitual practices. Moreover, in attempting to reproduce the curious admixture of "strenuousness and sentiment" - your own phrase - which animates so vitally Harrow life, I have been obliged to select the less common types of Harrovian. Only the elect are capable of such friendship as John Verney entertained for Henry Desmond; and few boys, happily, are possessed of such powers as Scaife is shown to exercise. But that there are such boys as Verney and Scaife, nobody knows better than yourself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Arthur Sherburne Hardy Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781527979666 Category : Languages : en Pages : 322
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Excerpt from The Wind of Destiny All the day long the corn had been yellowing in the summer's sun. The hills of Ashurst were barely visible through the haze; even the river seemed asleep. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Lyall Watson Publisher: New York Review of Books ISBN: 1681373696 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 401
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A “comprehensive and fascinating study” of how wind has shaped the world as we know it, affecting all aspects of human and natural life—from geography to political history, plant life to psychology, and biology to philosophy (The Observer) Wind is everywhere and nowhere. Wind is the circulatory system of the earth, and its nervous system, too. Energy and information flow through it. It brings warmth and water, enriches and strips away the soil, aerates the globe. Wind shapes the lives of animals, humans among them. Trade follows the path of the wind, as empire also does. Wind made the difference in wars between the Greeks and Persians, the Mongols and the Japanese. Wind helped to destroy the Spanish Armada. And wind is no less determining of our inner lives: the föhn, mistral, sirocco, Santa Ana, and other “ill winds” of the world are correlated with disease, suicide, and even murder. Heaven’s Breath is an encyclopedic and enchanting book that opens dazzling new perspectives on history, nature, and humanity.
Author: Margaret Parton Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780483264458 Category : Languages : en Pages : 258
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Excerpt from Laughter on the Hill I climbed up to the ship's bridge and, bracing myself in the icy wind, looked at the city where I was going to live. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Cornelia Meigs
Author: Cornelia Meigs
Author: Cornelia Meigs
Author: Graves Nelson
Author: Cornelia Meigs
Author: Mabel O'Donnell
Author: Horace Annesley Vachell
Author: Norman Howard
Author: Arthur Sherburne Hardy
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