Author: Michelle Houts
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763674249
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
An ordinary Danish Christmas turns extraordinary when a family overlooks an important folkloric tradition. Christmas has come, and with it a sparkling white winterfrost over the countryside. But twelve-year-old Bettina’s parents have been called away unexpectedly, leaving her in charge of the house, the farm, and baby Pia. In all the confusion, Bettina’s family neglects to set out the traditional bowl of Christmas rice pudding for the tiny nisse who are rumored to look after the family and their livestock. No one besides her grandfather ever believed the nisse were real, so what harm could there be in forgetting this silly custom? But when baby Pia disappears during a nap, the magic of the nisse makes itself known. To find her sister and set things right, Bettina must venture into the miniature world of these usually helpful, but sometimes mischievous folk. A delightful winter adventure for lovers of the legendary and miraculous.
Winterfrost
Author: Michelle Houts
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763674249
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
An ordinary Danish Christmas turns extraordinary when a family overlooks an important folkloric tradition. Christmas has come, and with it a sparkling white winterfrost over the countryside. But twelve-year-old Bettina’s parents have been called away unexpectedly, leaving her in charge of the house, the farm, and baby Pia. In all the confusion, Bettina’s family neglects to set out the traditional bowl of Christmas rice pudding for the tiny nisse who are rumored to look after the family and their livestock. No one besides her grandfather ever believed the nisse were real, so what harm could there be in forgetting this silly custom? But when baby Pia disappears during a nap, the magic of the nisse makes itself known. To find her sister and set things right, Bettina must venture into the miniature world of these usually helpful, but sometimes mischievous folk. A delightful winter adventure for lovers of the legendary and miraculous.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763674249
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
An ordinary Danish Christmas turns extraordinary when a family overlooks an important folkloric tradition. Christmas has come, and with it a sparkling white winterfrost over the countryside. But twelve-year-old Bettina’s parents have been called away unexpectedly, leaving her in charge of the house, the farm, and baby Pia. In all the confusion, Bettina’s family neglects to set out the traditional bowl of Christmas rice pudding for the tiny nisse who are rumored to look after the family and their livestock. No one besides her grandfather ever believed the nisse were real, so what harm could there be in forgetting this silly custom? But when baby Pia disappears during a nap, the magic of the nisse makes itself known. To find her sister and set things right, Bettina must venture into the miniature world of these usually helpful, but sometimes mischievous folk. A delightful winter adventure for lovers of the legendary and miraculous.
Blossom in Winter - Frost in Spring
Author: Lucidus Smith
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 145208162X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
It is April 1948 and the Second World War had been over for two and a half years. Britain was trying to get back to normal, but food and clothes were still being rationed and almost every street in London had its own bomb site, added to which, everything was in short supply, unemployment was high and life was still very difficult and hard for everyone. One ex-serviceman’s life was much like another’s; glad to be alive and free, but beset by guilt and sadness for everything that happened to them in the war and filled with bitterness about the way they had been treated since it ended. Arnold Smith is typical of a soldier who eventually came home, but could not settle back into the old routine, although he had tried hard to, for the last two years. When his sweetheart gave him the bad news that she had found someone else, it was the final straw, so he packed a few things in a bag, got a bus to London's, Paddington railway station and bought a ticket for the next train out. He was not even too sure of where it was going, but he was just pleased that it was going somewhere new! The book follows Arnold to a new life with new people, but the past keeps catching up with him. Whilst romance and adventure are present, they simply give Arnold and his friends the opportunity to live life to the full and put the past behind them, or to allow grief and self pity to blind them to whatever new opportunities it had in store for them.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 145208162X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
It is April 1948 and the Second World War had been over for two and a half years. Britain was trying to get back to normal, but food and clothes were still being rationed and almost every street in London had its own bomb site, added to which, everything was in short supply, unemployment was high and life was still very difficult and hard for everyone. One ex-serviceman’s life was much like another’s; glad to be alive and free, but beset by guilt and sadness for everything that happened to them in the war and filled with bitterness about the way they had been treated since it ended. Arnold Smith is typical of a soldier who eventually came home, but could not settle back into the old routine, although he had tried hard to, for the last two years. When his sweetheart gave him the bad news that she had found someone else, it was the final straw, so he packed a few things in a bag, got a bus to London's, Paddington railway station and bought a ticket for the next train out. He was not even too sure of where it was going, but he was just pleased that it was going somewhere new! The book follows Arnold to a new life with new people, but the past keeps catching up with him. Whilst romance and adventure are present, they simply give Arnold and his friends the opportunity to live life to the full and put the past behind them, or to allow grief and self pity to blind them to whatever new opportunities it had in store for them.
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The Winter Frost (School for Unusual Magic #2)
Author: Liz Montague
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338792555
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Three friends discover magic and mayhem around every corner of their school in this illustrated series from New Yorkercartoonist and NAACP Image Award nominee Liz Montague that's perfect for fans of Witchlings and The Wizards of Waverly Place. After a chaotic semester of Elementary Magic, Rose, Amethyst, and Lav have found themselves with new magical skills up their sleeves which will come in handy when they begin Middle Magic next year. But school is the last thing on their minds over winter break. Tensions are high between the Land Walkers and the Merfolk's mysterious leader Frost. Worse, Amethyst's mom has gone missing with an extremely illegal wand, and everyone--their classmates, Principal Ivy, the Committee--thinks she's somehow involved in the disappearance of Rose's cousin Heather. But Amethyst is determined to find her mother and set everything right. Her mom just has to be innocent! When a secret about Amethyst's identity is revealed, her whole world comes crashing down. She doesn't understand how her mom could keep something so important from her. Is her mom actually the villain or is something even darker at work here? She'll have to trust that Rose and Lav can keep the peace above ground while she ventures underwater for answers...
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338792555
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Three friends discover magic and mayhem around every corner of their school in this illustrated series from New Yorkercartoonist and NAACP Image Award nominee Liz Montague that's perfect for fans of Witchlings and The Wizards of Waverly Place. After a chaotic semester of Elementary Magic, Rose, Amethyst, and Lav have found themselves with new magical skills up their sleeves which will come in handy when they begin Middle Magic next year. But school is the last thing on their minds over winter break. Tensions are high between the Land Walkers and the Merfolk's mysterious leader Frost. Worse, Amethyst's mom has gone missing with an extremely illegal wand, and everyone--their classmates, Principal Ivy, the Committee--thinks she's somehow involved in the disappearance of Rose's cousin Heather. But Amethyst is determined to find her mother and set everything right. Her mom just has to be innocent! When a secret about Amethyst's identity is revealed, her whole world comes crashing down. She doesn't understand how her mom could keep something so important from her. Is her mom actually the villain or is something even darker at work here? She'll have to trust that Rose and Lav can keep the peace above ground while she ventures underwater for answers...
The Modern Language Review
A. Douai's Series of Rational Readers
Author: Adolf Douai
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Readers and speakers
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Readers and speakers
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Michael Cavendish. Madrigals to 5. Voices
Author: Michael Cavendish
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Madrigals
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Madrigals
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Wet Coastal Ecosystems
Author: Valentine Jackson Chapman
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
This volume reviews coastal wetlands, which comprse marine and brackish salt marshes of temperate regions and mangrove swamps in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. It includes information on the general nature of wetlands; the physiographic conditions under which they develop; the climatic conditions and soils associated with wetlands; the fauna found in them; and the uses to which wetlands have been put and the changes such uses involve.
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
This volume reviews coastal wetlands, which comprse marine and brackish salt marshes of temperate regions and mangrove swamps in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. It includes information on the general nature of wetlands; the physiographic conditions under which they develop; the climatic conditions and soils associated with wetlands; the fauna found in them; and the uses to which wetlands have been put and the changes such uses involve.
The Coastline
Author: Richard Stephen Kent Barnes
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
London ; New York : Wiley, c1977.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
London ; New York : Wiley, c1977.
Selected Agricultural Proverbs of the Panjab
Author: James Robert Maconachie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description