The Mozart Season
10 best books like The Mozart Season (Virginia Euwer Wolff): Dragonwings, The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts, Flygirl, Rainbow Boys, Red: The Heroic Rescue, A Brazen Curiosity, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, The Walking Dead, Vol. 5: The Best Defense, A Boy No More, Grim Lovelies
Author | Laurence Yep |
ISBN | 0064400859 |
Moon Shadow was eight when he sailed from China to join his father Windrider in America. Windrider lived in San Francisco's Chinatown and worked in a laundry. Moon Shadow had never seen him.But he soon loved and respected this father, a man of genius, a man with a fabulous dream. And with Moon Shadow's...
The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts
Author | Richard Peck |
ISBN | 0803727364 |
If there's one thing you can't see at the age of fifteen, it's ahead.
Russell wants nothing more than to leave his tiny hometown in Indiana, and start working on a threshing crew in the Dakotas. Only one thing stands in the way of his dream . . . school. BUT, in a stroke of luck, his horrid teacher,...
Author | Sherri L. Smith |
ISBN | 0399247092 |
Ida Mae Jones dreams of flight. Her daddy was a pilot and being black didn't stop him from fulfilling his dreams. But her daddy's gone now, and being a woman, and being black, are two strikes against her.
When America enters the war with Germany and Japan, the Army creates the WASP, the Women Airforce...
Author | Alex Sanchez |
ISBN | 0689857705 |
Jason Carrillo is a jock with a steady girlfriend, but he can't stop dreaming about sex...with other guys. Kyle Meeks doesn't look gay, but he is. And he hopes he never has to tell anyone -- especially his parents. Nelson Glassman is "out" to the entire world, but he can't tell the boy he loves that he wants...
Author | Ted Dekker |
ISBN | 1595540342 |
"We have stepped off the cliff and are falling into madness."
The mind-bending pace of Black accelerates in Red, Book Two of Ted Dekker's groundbreaking Circle trilogy.
Less than a month ago, Thomas Hunter was a failed writer selling coffee at the Java Hut in Denver. Now he finds himself...
“A feisty heroine hiding behind a mousy facade…”
England 1816
Twenty-six-year-old Beatrice Hyde-Clare is far too shy to investigate the suspicious death of a fellow guest in the Lake District. A spinster who lives on the sufferance of her relatives, she would certainly not...
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Author | Paul Galdone |
ISBN | 0899190359 |
The Three Billy Goats have found that their current abode is devoid of much in the way of scrumptious grass and other grazing options. When they locate a field across the way, all they need do is cross a bridge to find fresh options. This bridge is guarded by a troll, whose main interest is to devour the goats....
The Walking Dead, Vol. 5: The Best Defense
The Governor is here!!!
This is the fifth volume of the softcover editions of "The Walking Dead", collecting the comic book issues from #25 to #30.
Creative Team:
Writer: Robert Kirkman
Illustrators: Charlie Adlard
Additional gray tones...
Author | Harry Mazer |
ISBN | 0439699460 |
"WHAT ABOUT WHAT THEY DID TO MY FATHER?...
THE JAPS KILLED HIM "
Adam Pelko witnessed something horrible: the sinking of the USS "Arizona" during the attack on Pearl Harbor -- with his father aboard. Since then, Adam and his mother and sister have moved to California, where they are trying...
Author | Megan Shepherd |
ISBN | 1328809188 |
Seventeen-year-old Anouk envies the human world, where people known as Pretties lavish themselves in fast cars, high fashion, and have the freedom to fall in love. But Anouk can never have those things, because she is not really human. Enchanted from animal to human girl and forbidden to venture beyond...
Newbery Honor–winner Joan Bauer's newest protagonist always sees the positive side of any situation—and readers will cheer him on!
Jeremiah is the world’s biggest baseball fan. He really loves baseball and he knows just about everything there is to know about his favorite sport....
Angelique’s spirit is almost broken.
She has sacrificed, she has trained, and she has driven herself to exhaustion while battling her way across the continent. But all her efforts have led to nothing. She still hasn’t uncovered Evariste’s location, or the identity of his captors....
Author | Donald P. Ladew |
ISBN | 0595464726 |
An inspirational story of young love and the transforming power of music, Stradivarius is a novel that will engage and delight everyone who believes that wonderful things can happen to good people.
On the Korean peninsula during the freezing winter of 1951, a wounded American soldier finds...
'Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno' di Italo Calvino. Una favola neorealista
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Romance Languages - Italian and Sardinian Studies, grade: 1,0, Free University of Berlin (Institut für Romanische Philologie), course: Il Neorealismo e gli anni sessanta, language: Italian, abstract: Pavese (1951: 273) lo definiva “il più bel...
Author | Paola Mastrocola |
ISBN | 8860880114 |
Questa è la storia di Gaspare Torrente, figlio di pescatore e aspirante latinista, approdato a Torino da una piccola isola del Sud Italia. Un ragazzo come lui, che a tredici anni traduce Orazio e legge Verlaine, deve volare alto, deve fare il liceo e dimenticare il piccolo mondo senza tempo dell'isola....
Author | Thomas Tryon |
ISBN | 0517067684 |
Bummer. The Other is arguably my favorite horror novel, and Thomas Tryon was certainly a talented writer. But this book just didn’t do it for me.
The synopsis sounds promising: this story takes place at a boys’ camp in 1938. Part coming of age, part horror (though this is Tryon, so most of...
Invasion of the Appleheads
Author | A.G. Cascone |
ISBN | 0816741360 |
This is definitely a great book for kids that love getting spooked. Though I have to correct the blurb, it's Kate and Andy Lawrence that have moved to Appleton, not Robin and Andy.
Regardless of that the book has a thriller aspect to it almost, the kids are constantly running away or to something,...
Author | Sarah Domet |
ISBN | 1250086612 |
To four girls who have nothing, their friendship is everything: they are each other's confidants, teachers, and family. The girls are all named Guinevere - Vere, Gwen, Ginny, and Win - and it is the surprise of finding another Guinevere in their midst that first brings them together.
They come...