Melusine
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| Author | Aliki |
| ISBN | 0064461890 |
Long, long ago in ancient Greece, people began telling wonderful stories to explain the mysteries of life. These myths featured gods and goddesses, mighty beings who look human but have amazing powers and live forever. Now you can meet these extraordinary characters and hear their legends, brought...
Strongbow: The Story of Richard and Aoife
| Author | Morgan Llywelyn |
| ISBN | 0812544625 |
In a desperate attempt to reclaim his lost kingdom, Aoife's father offers her in marriage to Strongbow, son of the Anglo-Norman conqueror Lord Pembroke. This dramatic portrait of a fierce warrior who sought glory in a hostile foreign land and his wild Irish princess is an epic saga of love, war, and survival...
| Author | Cynthia D. Grant |
| ISBN | 0679867260 |
I'm really surprised the summary at the top of Goodreads lays it all about the sexual abuse...I'm sure the metaphoric descriptions throughout the book would be obvious to an adult, but for me, a sheltered 11 year old reading it in 1995, it was a HUGE plot twist (but not the only plot twist) when it was finally...
| Author | Suzanne Fisher Staples |
| ISBN | 0064409791 |
This is an Indian story, a magical story, about a girl named Parvati who is born with the fire of music inside her. As she grows, the strangest things seem to happen in her presence and soon it is clear that her heart is full of the dance - classical Indian dance and her destiny leads her to a school that can develop...
| Author | Norma Fox Mazer |
| ISBN | 0380750260 |
My mother is determined that I will have a wonderful life -- better than her own. I guess she can't imagine what it is like for me, a kid from a trailer park, to transfer to the junior high school where all the rich kids go -- the kind of kids who come from homes where my mother works as a cleaning woman....
But...
| Author | Sook Nyul Choi |
| ISBN | 0440409705 |
The protaganist of this book, a little girl, is a refugee of the Korean war. She was living with her family in Seoul before the war started. Then one day, planes bombed the city of Seoul and they were forced to leave her house and move to another place. The family got seperated when they were trying to escape,...
| Author | Eve Bunting |
| ISBN | 0152413588 |
At seventeen, Dru gets involved with the latest high school stunt-leaping between deadly cliffs into the ocean far below. Things get out of hand as manipulative relationships and resulting jealousies cause more students to risk their lives. “It’s Bunting’s acknowledgment of the allure of...
| Author | Bruce Brooks |
| ISBN | 0064470210 |
On the Road
Sibilance T. Spooner thinks she's one of the world's more promising cellists. The world thinks so too. Given up by her mother on the day she was born, she believes she has almost raised herself--with just a bit of guidance from her unconventional father, Taxi. When Sib finally asks...
| Author | Sheila Cole |
| ISBN | 0380725754 |
In a flash, Valerie's world comes tumbling down. Talented pretty and popular. She was enjoying life and planing her future. She and Peter, the love of her life, were sharing their dreams. Now she and Peter share a problem...
Except it turns out to be Val's problem. Peter says he loves her, but...
| Author | Ruth White |
| ISBN | 0374482802 |
The only thing that bothers me about this book is the summery given on the back. I went so far that I put a sticker on the back of my copy, so when I lend it to friends they can read it without bias.
I personally think this book is NOT about a girl being raped by her stepfather. Of course that happens, too, but...
| Author | James Herriot |
| ISBN | 0312065671 |
The art is ugly! But the story is so good! It's a real life situation, sad things happen to animals and sometimes there's a happy ending and sometimes there's not. It's never too early to introduce and teach children about animals, life, and things that they will encounter in their own lives. It's an emotional...
| Author | Ellen Conford |
| ISBN | 0590438212 |
Well. I loved this book when I was about 10. Loved it a little too much, I think. For a stretch, I took it out from the library every other week or so.
It's pure fluff: a teenage girl who lives in Nowhere, America is informed that a dying nurse in some far off (fictional) European country - where she...
| Author | Frank Asch |
| ISBN | 0448043335 |
Sam Bear had no idea what would "pop-up" when he invited his pals over for a costume party on Halloween night. Mama and Papa Bear have left him alone to attend their own party and he has the whole house to himself, what could go wrong? A simple request of his pals to “bring a treat” turns into a hilarious...
| Author | Liz Berry |
| ISBN | 0140365346 |
This is kind of a weird book. On the one hand, it's a Cinderella romance story between poor, abused, untrusting Mel and rich, glamorous, rock star Mitch. On the other hand, it's also the story of how Mel takes charge of her life after her mother's breakdown. And on the third hand, there's a hefty dose of social...
| Author | Paul Zindel |
| ISBN | 0553243950 |
Bobby Perkins knew the minute he saw Mr. Hulka, his sinister new neighbor, that the man was evil. Then one morning, while spying on the man, who works as an undertaker, Bobby thinks he witnesses a violent crime. Bobby is determined to expose Mr. Hulka, and he asks his best friend, Lauri, to help him. The...
| Author | Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
| ISBN | 0440409152 |
My kids are loving the continued adventures of the Stanley family, and I have to say: So am I.
This one was really interesting because, having read it as a kid originally, what I remember is Blair and the dog. As an adult what stuck in my mind is David's struggle with bullies, with self confidence....
| Author | Tim Winton |
| ISBN | 0330340689 |
I really enjoyed the characterization on Egg. I thought the way that Lockie's parents handled his depression and teenaged sulking were funny. There's a lot of funny with this book. I also enjoyed that it didn't wrap up in a perfectly happy ending.
I read the book first. Now I know there was a book...
| Author | Amy Ehrlich |
| ISBN | 0763613460 |
A daughter discovers her mother's mysterious, shocking secret.
From Montpelier, Vermont, across the country to Venice, California, Nina Lewis and her mother Joyce are always on the move. They own nothing that can't fit in the back of a van, and they never stay very long in any one place. Home...
I recently saw the movie version of this book and switched it off half way through, not because it was bad but because I was so excited by the style and content that I simply had to read the book first. It arrived today and I devoured it in no time.
It's a light, fun, read; an enjoyable update of the hard-boiled...
| Author | William Corlett |
| ISBN | 0099482185 |
It is summer and the long holidays at Golden House stretch before William, Mary and Alice Constant. Hot lazy days of swimming and picnics . . . until a new and terrible shadow steals over the valley and the children are plunged into a desperate adventure to save it from greedy developers. Once more they...
| Author | Caitlin Sweet |
| ISBN | 1771481919 |
My thanks to NetGalley and Diamond Book Distributors ChiZine Publications for an eARC of this book to read and review.
This was a DNF at 20% for me. Not because it was a bad book, in fact, I found it to be interesting and written well. But because it is loosely based off of Greek mythology and it was...
