The Last Safe Place on Earth
10 best books like The Last Safe Place on Earth (Richard Peck): Carlos Is Gonna Get It, The Swarm, Memoirs of a Bookbat, Last Seen After Midnight, Day of the Iguana, Pocket Dictionary of Signing, Revised and Expanded, The Mystery of the Laughing Shadow, Confidential Confessions, Volume 1, Electra and Other Plays, Mental Floss: Genius Instruction Manual
| Author | Kevin Emerson |
| ISBN | 0439935253 |
Your friends on one side. This weird kid on the other. A great plan in the making. A new friendship growing.
What would *you* do?
How strange is Carlos? REALLY strange. He scratches himself all the time, and he talks about aliens in this weird shaky voice, and he breaks up the class and gets...
| Author | Arthur Herzog III |
| ISBN | 0595253415 |
FAMILY ATTACKED BY BEES--TWO KILLED
MARYVILLE, N.Y. Sept. 26 (AP)--A family of five on an outing in an isolated spot by a stream were attacked by bees here.
Mr. and Mrs. William Peterson died as the result of bee bites. Their three children were also attacked, one, Karen, age 12, severely.
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| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0152012591 |
Harper Jessup is an avid reader, and when her parents become “migrants for God” she must keep her books secret. As Harper grows older and realizes how valuable reading is to her, she comes to understand that her parents’ radical efforts in favor of educational censorship are related to a quest...
| Author | Budjette Tan |
| ISBN | 9710545078 |
Cadena de Amor 1 star – I just did not get this. The story is about an old woman who can spread vines (that reminded me of a recent read The Ruins that I really liked) like spreading dust at Sahara Desert. There is a scene when the responding police said: “I should’ve brought the lawn mower!” Hello,...
| Author | Henry Winkler |
| ISBN | 0448432129 |
Inspired by the true life experiences of Henry Winkler, whose undiagnosed dyslexia made him a classic childhood underachiever, the Hank Zipzer series is about the high-spirited and funny adventures of a boy with learning differences.
It's science project time in Ms. Adolf's class. This...
The Mystery of the Laughing Shadow
| Author | William Arden |
| ISBN | 0394914929 |
Die Geschichte fand ich schon als Hörspiel verwirrend und wenig spannend. Als vegetarisches Kind hat mich auch die ganze Vegetarierverband-Geschichte geärgert, die ich jetzt einfach nur etwas an den Haaren herbei gezogen gefunden fand. Und das ganze "indianer sind alle klein", "Es waren dunkle...
Confidential Confessions, Volume 1
| Author | Reiko Momochi |
| ISBN | 1591823935 |
Confidential Confessions is a shocking new manga series that deals with many of the hard-hitting issues that teens face today. Using emotionally moving storylines and multi-dimensional characters, each groundbreaking volume tackles such topics as teen prostitution, rape, HIV, stalkers, suicide,...
alternate cover for ISBN: 0140446680
Euripides, wrote Aristotle, ‘is the most intensely tragic of all the poets’. In his questioning attitude to traditional pieties, disconcerting shifts of sympathy, disturbingly eloquent evil characters & acute insight into destructive passion,...
Mental Floss: Genius Instruction Manual
| Author | Mental Floss |
| ISBN | 0060882530 |
Remember that time you bumped into Stephen Hawking at the clambake and his monologue on string theory went completely over your head? Man, was that awkward. Or remember the time you were at a party and someone asked, "Who knows how to perform open-heart surgery?" and you were the only one who didn't raise...
Jessica and the Earthquake
| Author | Francine Pascal |
| ISBN | 0553480618 |
There's a small earthquake in town and Jessica seems to be the only one who felt it. As she tells what happens her story tends to grow and take on life of its own and soon some people think she can actually predict an earthquake. Lila challenges her on that, though
The B-plot involves Stephen becoming...
True Philippine Ghost Stories Book 2
| Author | Gianna Maniego |
| ISBN | 9718995900 |
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Flunk Punk Rumble, Vol. 1
Daichi Shinagawa was just a Yankee (Japanese term for delinquent) who wanted nothing to do with his high school life. Hana Adachi, the dedicated class representative, however would not allow it and constantly bothers him to be involved in school life. Shinagawa is first confused on why she keeps pestering...
Book Review: Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson is a book which discusses about the life of a boy, “David” and his adventures on the ship “Convenant” and with his friend Alan Stewart on the land of Campbells.
This story teaches us a lesson that one...
| Author | Rona Jaffe |
| ISBN | 0440156998 |
This thing was sooooo noticed in it's day. They did a TV movie with a young Tom Hanks.
The warning here? Mommas don't let your babies grow up to play Dungeons and Dragons. Oh the game in the book is Mazes and Monsters but I doubt anyone missed the point. The poor sap in the book completely loses himself...
| Author | Carolyn Keene |
| ISBN | 0671881949 |
Carolyn Keene is a writer pen name that was used by many different people- both men and women- over the years. The company that was the creator of the Nancy Drew series, the Stratemeyer Syndicate, hired a variety of writers. For Nancy Drew, the writers used the pseudonym Carolyn Keene to assure anonymity...
In the Still of the Night
| Author | Jill Churchill |
| ISBN | 0380802457 |
Lily Brewster and her brother Robert have all the appearances of being filthy rich, even though the family fortune went out the window with the crash of 1929. But thanks to great-uncle Horatio, who left them Grace and Favor Cottage, a huge mansion on the Hudson not far from Franklin Roosevelt's Hyde Park,...
Lord Of The High Lonesome
| Author | Janet Dailey |
| ISBN | 0373219342 |
"Why doesn't he leave us alone? "
Kit and her grandfather managed the Flying Eagle Ranch. For years they'd been doing it without interference from its long line of mostly absentee owners.
Now the newest heir, Baron Reese Talbot, had come to look over his inheritance. He had some different...
| Author | Mary Daheim |
| ISBN | 0380800799 |
The off-season blahs, a pyromaniacal mom, and a recently retired husband who is constantly underfoot have poor Judith McMonigle Flynn going stir crazy at Hillside Manor. So the harried R&B hostess leaps at cousin Renie's suggestion that Judith accompany her to Creepers—the stately estate...
| Author | George E. Simpson |
| ISBN | 0440187095 |
At the war's end, the men of the USS Sturman were ordered to join hands on the ship's deck, ignorant pawns in a top-secret Navy experiment.
An alarm sounded. A humming began. Moments later a common surge of desperate, disoriented terror was felt by every crewman as they watched the ship beneath...
| Author | Barbara Delinsky |
| ISBN | 0373251173 |
Sasha Blake and Doug Donohue meet when her motorcycle skids into his Maserati on a rainy road on Martha's Vineyard. Doug moved to the island 2 weeks earlier to get away from his frustrating personal life in NYC. As head of a major clothing firm and a rich bachelor he finds himself the focus of a lifestyle...
It's beyond my understanding how this novel was never optioned for a television mini-series. Throw in Lisa Hartman Black, Lindsay Wagner, maybe Pamela Sue Anderson and you've got the ingredients for a sudsy soaper of a three night event. At 691 pages, nowhere did this chunky feast of 80s yumminess disappoint....
Ang Alamat ng Ibong Adarna
| Author | Grace Aresa |
| ISBN | 2002010765 |
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| Author | Peter Danielson |
| ISBN | 0553142496 |
Bold men of destiny, marked by the sign of the lion, and women of beauty and courage sprang from nameless oblivion to command the power of kings. A slave since birth...a man without a tribe...an innocent virgin sacrificed to the lusts of godless men.
Across the vast, burning expanse between...
