Hachiko Waits
Author: Lesléa Newman
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2004-10
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9780805073362
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Hachiko
Author: Pamela S. Turner
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2009-04-06
Total Pages: 37
ISBN-13: 054753096X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImagine walking to the same place every day, to meet your best friend. Imagine watching hundreds of people pass by every morning and every afternoon. Imagine waiting, and waiting, and waiting. For ten years. This is what Hachiko did. Hachiko was a real dog who lived in Tokyo, a dog who faithfully waited for his owner at the Shibuya train station long after his owner could not come to meet him. He became famous for his loyalty and was adored by scores of people who passed through the station every day. This is Hachiko’s story through the eyes of Kentaro, a young boy whose life is changed forever by his friendship with this very special dog. Simply told, and illustrated with Yan Nascimbene’s lush watercolors, the legend of Hachiko will touch your heart and inspire you as it has inspired thousands all over the world.
Hachiko
Author: Nicole Taylor
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781906861964
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExtensive reading is essential for improving fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for contemporary, low-level reading material for younger learners. The reader is based on the true story of Hachiko, the dog who kept a vigil for his owner at a train station in Tokyo for many years after his owner's death.
Skunk's Spring Surprise
Author: Lesléa Newman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 9780152056834
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter waking from her winter nap, Skunk worries that her friends have forgotten her but it turns out they have planned a spring surprise.
The Boy Who Cried Fabulous
Author: Leslea Newman
Publisher: Tricycle Press
Published: 2024-10-29
Total Pages: 20
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe only thing Roger likes better than exploring the world around him is describing it. And Roger describes most things as fabulous! But his parents have a different view. They want Roger to see things the way they do, so they ban "fabulous" from his vocabulary. Fabulously illustrated by Peter Ferguson, this cheerful tale will have children rejoicing along with Roger at all the fabulous--no, marvelous! no, dazzling!--things that await him when he steps outside.
Fat Chance
Author: Lesléa Newman
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780704349346
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a series of diary entries, thirteen-year-old Judi recounts her struggles to lose weight, hide her bulimia from her mother, find a boy friend, and decide on a profession. Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary.
Ember (Rescue Dogs #1)
Author: Sarah Hines-Stephens
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2020-01-07
Total Pages: 141
ISBN-13: 1338362046
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAction and adventure with high stakes and a happy ending -- and dogs! After Ember is rescued from a devastating house fire, she longs for a forever home. But every family that adopts the yellow Lab puppy brings her back, saying she is untrainable, has too much energy, or is just plain destructive. After three failed placements, young Ember is out of options.The Sterling family runs a ranch that turns rescued dogs into rescue dogs. They're willing to take a chance on the young Lab, not knowing that Ember's first rescue will test her skills and strength beyond imagination...
The Deadlies: Felix Takes the Stage
Author: Kathryn Lasky
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2011-04
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 0545117305
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHaving been discovered, a family of poisonous but friendly brown recluse spiders must flee their cozy home in a symphony hall and go searching for a new place to live.
Good Dog (Scholastic Gold)
Author: Dan Gemeinhart
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2018-03-27
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1338053906
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe acclaimed author of The Honest Truth delivers his most emotionally powerful novel yet. Brodie was a good dog. And good dogs go to heaven.Except Brodie can't move on. Not just yet. As wonderful as his glimpse of the afterlife is, he can't forget the boy he left behind. The boy he loved, and who loved him in return.The boy who's still in danger.So Brodie breaks the rules of heaven. He returns to Earth as a spirit. With the help of two other lost souls -- lovable pitbull Tuck and surly housecat Patsy -- he is determined to find his boy and to save him. Even if it costs him paradise. Even if he loses his eternal soul.Because it's what a good dog would do.
Runaway Dreidel!
Author: Lesléa Newman
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2002-10-11
Total Pages: 42
ISBN-13: 9780805062373
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this rhyming tale in the style of "The Night before Christmas, " a family's preparations for Chanukah are disrupted by a wildly spinning dreidel.
