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Author: Margaret Buffie Publisher: Kids Can Press ISBN: 9781554532292 Category : Ghost stories Languages : en Pages : 184
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As a young girl gathers clues about a ghost's identity, she finds ways to help her family. This compelling novel by Margaret Buffie returns in a deluxe 20th-anniversary edition.
Author: Margaret Buffie Publisher: Kids Can Press ISBN: 9781554532292 Category : Ghost stories Languages : en Pages : 184
Book Description
As a young girl gathers clues about a ghost's identity, she finds ways to help her family. This compelling novel by Margaret Buffie returns in a deluxe 20th-anniversary edition.
Author: Margaret Buffie Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd ISBN: 9781553379560 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 244
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In this novel by Margaret Buffie, a family struggles to get back on their feet at an inherited lodge in cottage country, while 16-year-old Bernice learns to get a handle on her rage.
Author: Margaret Buffie Publisher: Tundra Books ISBN: 1770492283 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 338
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Cass feels the long winter shadows on her heart. Her mother died of cancer and her father has remarried a woman who has moved into their old Manitoba house with her nasty, babyish daughter and an attitude that's very hard to take. Christmas promises to be a miserable time. More than a century earlier, Christmas is proving to be difficult for Beatrice, too, for she has shadows of her own. Some are cast by her circumstances. She sees the growing prejudice against people like her who are of mixed Cree and Scottish backgrounds. And like Cass, she has a stepmother. Her father's new wife is threatened by Beatrice and is driving a wedge into the family. Beatrice can only be sure of her beloved Cree grandmother, relegated to a room upstairs. When a way of escape presents itself to Beatrice by way of an eligible bachelor, she is torn by the choice it offers her. Should she settle for a man she doesn't love or address the problems at home? Through her journal, she explores the answer and, at the same time, inspires Cass to find the strength she needs to face her own situation. Margaret Buffie's great skill as a storyteller creates a splendid, engaging novel that offers readers a rich combination of fine history, suspenseful shifts in time, and unforgettable characters.
Author: David Conway Publisher: Frances Lincoln Childrens Books ISBN: 1845074076 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 32
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With the sun baking their Kenyan village for months and no rain sight, Lila learns the trick for making the rains come from her wise grandfather and so heads out to confront the sky in the hopes of saving everyone and everything in the land she loves.
Author: Frances Hardinge Publisher: Abrams ISBN: 1683350790 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 314
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The award-winning author of The Lie Tree “has created a distinctly imaginative world full of engaging characters, robust humor, and true suspense” (School Library Journal, starred review). Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad, wicked mad. Mosca Mye’s father insisted on teaching her to read—even in a world where books are dangerous, regulated things. Eight years later, Quillam Mye died, leaving behind an orphaned daughter with an inauspicious name and an all-consuming hunger for words. Trapped for years in the care of her cruel uncle and aunt, Mosca leaps at the opportunity for escape, though it comes in the form of sneaky swindler Eponymous Clent. As she travels the land with Clent and her pet goose, Mosca begins to discover complicated truths about the world she inhabits and the power of words. “Intricate plotting, well-developed and fascinating characters, delicious humor, and exquisite wordcraft envelop readers fully into this richly imagined world.” ?The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (starred review) “Hardinge’s stylish way with prose gives her sprawling debut fantasy a literate yet often silly tone that calls to mind Monty Python.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Mosca’s ferocity and authentic inner turmoil [are] both reminiscent of Philip Pullman’s Lyra Belacqua.” ?Booklist “Incredibly well written.” ?The Seattle Times
Author: Amelie Nothomb Publisher: St. Martin's Press ISBN: 1429978961 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 148
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The Japanese believe that until the age of three, children, whether Japanese or not, are gods, each one an okosama, or "lord child." On their third birthday they fall from grace and join the rest of the human race. In Amelie Nothomb's new novel, The Character of Rain, we learn that divinity is a difficult thing from which to recover, particularly if, like the child in this story, you have spent the first tow and a half years of life in a nearly vegetative state. "I remember everything that happened to me after the age of two and one-half," the narrator tells us. She means this literally. Once jolted out of her plant-like , tube-like trance (to the ecstatic relief of her concerned parents), the child bursts into existence, absorbing everything that Japan, where her father works as a diplomat, has to offer. Life is an unfolding pageant of delight and danger, a ceaseless exploration of pleasure and the limits of power. Most wondrous of all is the discovery of water: oceans, seas, pools, puddles, streams, ponds, and, perhaps most of all, rain-one meaning of the Japanese character for her name. Hers is an amphibious life. The Character of Rain evokes the hilarity, terror, and sanctity of childhood. As she did in the award-winning, international bestesller Fear and Trembling, Nothomb grounds the novel in the outlines of her experiences in Japan, but the self-portrait that emerges from these pages is hauntingly universal. Amelie Nothomb's novels are unforgettable immersion experiences, leaving you both holding your breath with admiration, your lungs aching, and longing for more.
Author: Tatyana Feeney Publisher: ISBN: 9781788492881 Category : Languages : en Pages : 32
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Eva wakes up to find that it's raining - again! She is thrilled because she can't wait to use her new umbrella but after breakfast the rain is too soft for an umbrella. The rain is lovely but it's just not perfect umbrella rain! Eva spends the day searching and hoping for the perfect umbrella rain that's not too windy, too thundery or too drizzly. Finally, she finds it in a sun shower and a rainbow shines making it the most perfect rain of all. Embrace rainy Ireland with Eva in this beautiful and delightful picture book!
Author: Margaret Buffie Publisher: ISBN: 9781550741148 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 222
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When her family moves to a guest ranch in Alberta after the death of her younger brother, sixteen year old Jessica slowly becomes aware of a ghostly link between her mother's grief and a long-ago tragedy at Willow Creek Ranch.
Author: Margaret Buffie
Author: Margaret Buffie
Author: Margaret Buffie
Author: Margaret Buffie
Author: Margaret Buffie
Author: David Conway
Author: Margaret Buffie
Author: Frances Hardinge
Author: Amelie Nothomb
Author: Tatyana Feeney
Author: Margaret Buffie