Sunny: Diary 3
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| Author | Marilyn Sachs |
| ISBN | 0595175902 |
We really enjoyed this account of Laura's 8 week stay at a summer camp. Nothing out of the ordinary happens, but we get to see 12 yr old Laura come from the city, get used to the outdoors, trying things outside her comfort zone, make friends and experience nature.
Laura likes reading and finds it...
| Author | Anne Lindbergh |
| ISBN | 0316526282 |
I FOUND IT!
For years, I have thought about this book from time to time. I vividly recalled reading a really good book, narrated by a girl living with her grandmother and involving time travel down a laundry chute. I had no idea what the title was or who the author was, so I despaired of ever finding...
| Author | Gordon Korman |
| ISBN | 0590462318 |
Forget about winning, they're just trying to score!
Corey Johnson never dreamed Little League could be so humiliating. But that was before he joined the Feather Soft Tigers.
It's bad enough that the team uniforms have pictures of toilet paper on them-thanks to their sponsor. But...
| Author | Mary Downing Hahn |
| ISBN | 0380716356 |
I thought becoming a teenager was going to be fun. Instead, the summer I turned thirteen my life turned upside-down. Dad lost his job and we moved into my aunt and uncle's beach house. Sounded great-but not When I had to share a room with my boy-crazy cousin Fay. Fay was having plenty of fun, but I just got...
| Author | Paula Danziger |
| ISBN | 0698117883 |
I haven't read this book in a really long time. But I was privileged enough to get this book autographed by Paula Danziger herself. She came to visit my elementary school in the 4th grade. Her Amber Brown series was the first set up books I ever picked up on my own and read. I couldn't read until the 4th grade,...
| Author | Ida Vos |
| ISBN | 0395564700 |
Ein tolles Buch über das Leben von Juden im 2.Weltkrieg.
Das Buch ist zwar nicht sehr dick, bringt aber doch die Gefühle der Protagonistin Rachel seht gut rüber. Leider ist das Buch nicht aus der Ich-Perspektive von Rachel geschrieben, sondern objektiv von einem Erzähler, sodass man nicht...
| Author | Caroline B. Cooney |
| ISBN | 0553296728 |
Scottie-Anne's older sister is a 'professional' participant in beauty contests, and after watching so many of them, Scottie-Anne's conclusion is that brains don't count much. she wants nothing to do with what she considers the shallow, egotistical world of pageants-until her school holds one....
Over the weeks that Clay Garrity had slept in the park with others of New York's 'homeless, ' Buddy and Calvin had become his family. Somewhere in the vast city, Clay's real father wandered, jobless and unable to bear it; his mother, too, was gone now from the welfare hotel that had been their shelter. Desperation...
| Author | Gloria Whelan |
| ISBN | 0061255459 |
Kate Tapert sees her life in paintings. She makes sense of the world around her by relating it to what she adores—art. Armed with a suitcase, some canvases, and a scholarship to art school in Detroit, Kate is ready to leave home and fully immerse herself in painting. Sounds like heaven. All Kate needs...
| Author | Rachel Vail |
| ISBN | 0439087627 |
Cornelia Jane Hurley, or CJ, as she's more commonly knowsn, loves ballet. She lives, breathes, and eats ballet. But now that she's in seventh grade, she stupidly questions her hobbies. She wants to be normal. She wants to play soccer like everybody else and eat pizza and junk food like all her friends....
| Author | Brad Strickland |
| ISBN | 1570641951 |
Horrible monsters are taking a bite out of the kingdom! Who you gonna call!?When Joe Talbot's backpack is confiscated, Wishbone and Joe Talbot must confront a scary neighbor with a Big mean dog to get it back.
This reminds Wishbone of the old English tale Beowulf. Imagining himself as the great...
| Author | Joanne Mattern |
| ISBN | 0061064149 |
Robert Louis Stevenson originally wrote "Dr. Jekyll And Mr Hyde" as a "chilling shocker." He then burned the draft and, upon his wife's advice, rewrote it as the darkly complex tale it is today. Stark, skillfully woven, this fascinating novel explores the curious turnings of human character through...
| Author | Caroline Leavitt |
| ISBN | 0613102622 |
Wishbone was watching Tom play his baseball game. Tom's team lost and Tom said it was because their coach wasn't coaching them right. The coach asked if Tom wanted to coach his own team. Tom said yes and this reminded Wishbone of the Prince and the Pauper. All of his life the Pauper wanted to see prince Edward....
| Author | Jerry Spinelli |
| ISBN | 0316806625 |
Jason & Marceline by Jerry Spinelli is a wonderful Young Adult book about the life of a teenager. It's 228 pages long and it keeps you engaged from start to finish. The book involves Jason and Marceline who have been good friends since seventh grade and they are now Freshman in high school. They have...
| Author | Ruth White |
| ISBN | 0374410038 |
Finding a way to cope through poetry
The days seem carefree for Piper Berry in her hometown of Buttermilk Hill, North Carolina -- days filled with fishing with her daddy and ten-year-old aunt/best friend Lindy and listening to her grandmother's stories. But then Mama, Tiny Lambert (whom readers...
| Author | Allan Stratton |
| ISBN | 1550376640 |
A gripping story about the dark side of a first love.
Awards for the previous edition:
American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults
American Library Association Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
American Library Association Popular Paperbacks for...
Flowers for Algernon: A One-Act Play
| Author | David Rogers |
| ISBN | 0871295377 |
"It's lonely at the top" seems like a trite cliche, but this book pretty much proves it.
Charlie, a retarded adult, becomes an experimental subject in an intelligence-augmenting experiment and records his ever-changing impressions of the world in diary format. With promising initial results...
| Author | Linda S. Godfrey |
| ISBN | 1402739079 |
Is it weird that the Wolverine State may never have had any wolverines in it? We think so, and that suits us fine. The weirder the better, we say, and Michigan falls perfectly into that category. Oh, sure, big-time heroes like Charles Lindbergh and Madonna hail from here, and so does President Gerald Ford,...
| Author | Laurence Yep |
| ISBN | 0688093655 |
"This poignant, gently humorous novel is about prejudice and acceptance....15-year-old Joan Lee is a child of two worlds. As a Chinese American, she has never felt her separateness more than now, in 1927, in this new place in West Virginia. Only Miss Lucy, their landlord and neighbor, seems welcoming....There's...
| Author | R.L. Stine |
| ISBN | 0590939440 |
4.5 stars. R.L. Stine is one of my favourite writers, and so when I heard about this book I just knew I had to have it.
The book isn't written by R.L. Stine, but by a ghostwriter/a friend of his. On the one hand I wasn't entirely happy about it when I found out, but as I started reading I didn't mind it...
