The Remarkable Journey of Charlie Price
The Remarkable Journey of Charlie Price

Author: Jennifer Maschari

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2016-02-23

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0062380125

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A heartfelt, beautifully written novel of love, loss, and math—perfect for fans of Rebecca Stead and Sharon M. Draper. This "tangible allegory of grief through the eyes of a struggling 12-year-old boy" has been cited by Brightly.com as a book about sadness and grief that will help support kids and foster conversation. Ever since twelve-year-old Charlie Price's mom died, he feels like his world has been split into two parts. Before included stargazing and Mathletes and Saturday scavenger hunts with his family. After means a dad who's completely checked out, comically bad dinners, and grief group that's anything but helpful. It seems like losing Mom meant losing everything else he loved, too. Just when Charlie thinks things can't get any worse, his sister, Imogen, starts acting erratically—missing school and making up lies about their mother. But everything changes when one day he follows her down a secret passageway in the middle of her bedroom and sees for himself. Imogen has found a parallel world where Mom is alive! There's hot cocoa and Scrabble and scavenger hunts again and everything is perfect . . . at first. But something doesn't feel right. Whenever Charlie returns to the real world, things are different, and not in a good way. And Imogen wants to spend more and more time on the other side. It's almost as if she wants to leave the real world for good. If Charlie doesn't uncover the truth, he could lose himself, the true memory of their mother, and Imogen . . . forever.

Remarkable Journey of Charlie Price
Remarkable Journey of Charlie Price

Author: Jennifer Maschari

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

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A boy must rescue his sister after she finds--and wants to stay--in an almost-world beneath her bed, where their mother is still alive.

Things That Surprise You
Things That Surprise You

Author: Jennifer Maschari

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2017-08-22

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 0062438948

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A poignant, charming middle grade novel, perfect for fans of The Thing About Jellyfish and Fish in a Tree. A beautifully layered story about navigating the often shifting bonds of family and friendship, and learning how to put the pieces back together when things fall apart. Emily Murphy is about to enter middle school. She's sort of excited…though not nearly as much as her best friend Hazel, who is ready for everything to be new. Emily wishes she and Hazel could just continue on as they always have, being the biggest fans ever of the Unicorn Chronicles, making up dance moves, and getting their regular order at The Slice. But things are changing. At home, Emily and her mom are learning to move on after her parents' divorce. Hardest of all, her beloved sister Mina has been in a treatment facility to deal with her anorexia. Emily is eager to have her back, but anxious about her sister getting sick again. Hazel is changing too. She has new friends from the field hockey team, is starting to wear makeup, and have crushes on boys. Emily is trying to keep up, but she keeps doing and saying the wrong thing. She wants to be the perfect new Emily. But who is that really?

In the Footsteps of Marco Polo
In the Footsteps of Marco Polo

Author: Denis Belliveau

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2008-10-07

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0742557375

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Did Marco Polo reach China? This richly illustrated companion volume to the public television film chronicles the remarkable two-year expedition of explorers Denis Belliveau and Francis O'Donnell as they sought the answer to this controversial 700-year-old question. With Polo's book, The Travels of Marco Polo, as their guide, they journeyed over 25,000 miles becoming the first to retrace his entire path by land and sea without resorting to helicopters or airplanes. Surviving deadly skirmishes and capture in Afghanistan, they were the first Westerners in a generation to cross its ancient forgotten passageway to China, the Wakhan Corridor. Their camel caravan on the southern Silk Road encountered the deadly singing sands of the Taklamakan and Gobi deserts. In Sumatra, where Polo was stranded waiting for trade winds, they lived with the Mentawai tribes, whose culture has remained unchanged since the Bronze Age. They became among the first Americans granted visas to enter Iran, where Polo fulfilled an important mission for Kublai Khan. Accompanied by 200 stunning full-color photographs, the text provides a fascinating account of the lands and peoples the two hardy adventurers encountered during their perilous journey. The authors' experiences are remarkably similar to descriptions from Polo's account of his own travels and life. Laden with adventure, humor, diplomacy, history, and art, this book is compelling proof that travel is the enemy of bigotry—a truth that resonates from Marco Polo's time to our own.

Along the Way
Along the Way

Author: Martin Sheen

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-05-10

Total Pages: 510

ISBN-13: 1849836981

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Spanning nearly 50 years of family history, the book chronicles the remarkable lives of two creative talents, Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez. It's a story of father and son set against the backdrop of Hollywood; this narrative is organized around their physical and spiritual journey along the Camino de Santiago, Spain, the thousand-year-old pilgrimage path which traverses Galicia. It is the area from which Sheen's father emigrated to the U.S. and to which Estevez's own son has returned. Along the Waywill focus not just on the lives these men have chosen as artists, but also (and most importantly) on the one they have lived together. It is a story of family bonds and artistic advances and setbacks; of good choices and hard choices; of opportunities lost and opportunities found. Sheen and Estevez will share what they have experienced and learned from each other in their forty eight years as father and son, as fathers of sons, as actors and director, as spiritual seekers, and as concerned citizens of the world. Readers will meet them as real people rather than icons, as two men who have accumulated decades of wisdom and insight they are now ready to share.

A Journey Round My Skull
A Journey Round My Skull

Author: Frigyes Karinthy

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2008-03-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1590172582

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The distinguished Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy was sitting in a Budapest café, wondering whether to write a long-planned monograph on modern man or a new play, when he was disturbed by the roaring—so loud as to drown out all other noises—of a passing train. Soon it was gone, only to be succeeded by another. And another. Strange, Karinthy thought, it had been years since Budapest had streetcars. Only then did he realize he was suffering from an auditory hallucination of extraordinary intensity. What in fact Karinthy was suffering from was a brain tumor, not cancerous but hardly benign, though it was only much later—after spells of giddiness, fainting fits, friends remarking that his handwriting had altered, and books going blank before his eyes—that he consulted a doctor and embarked on a series of examinations that would lead to brain surgery. Karinthy’s description of his descent into illness and his observations of his symptoms, thoughts, and feelings, as well as of his friends’ and doctors’ varied responses to his predicament, are exact and engrossing and entirely free of self-pity. A Journey Round My Skull is not only an extraordinary piece of medical testimony, but a powerful work of literature—one that dances brilliantly on the edge of extinction.

Flowers for Algernon
Flowers for Algernon

Author: Daniel Keyes

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 015603008X

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A mentally retarded adult has a brain operation that turns him into a genius.

Charlie's Money Choices
Charlie's Money Choices

Author: Karly Doble

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2021-12-04

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13:

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Parents; remember when you got your first credit card? What did you use it for? Did you know how the interest worked? What about your first car or your first paycheck - did you have a plan? Many adults find themselves digging out of a hole when it comes to early finances. What if you could change that for your loved ones? What if we could empower the next generation to make the financial system work for them instead of the other way around? This is the heart behind Charlie's Money Choices. Our financial legacies are either by design or by default and these conversations about money can set your children up for success. In Charlie's Money Choices we follow a high school student, Charlie, through his early financial journey - how should he pay for homecoming? Should he get a credit card? How will he pay for his first car or for college? What is this Cryptocurrency his cousin keeps talking about? As the reader, we will have a chance to put ourselves in his shoes. What would YOU do? Join us on a quest to financial literacy and see what Charlie decides. This book is ideal for any young person aged 12-18.

Running Man
Running Man

Author: Charlie Engle

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-09-05

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1476785791

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"After a decade-long addiction to crack cocaine and alcohol, Charlie Engle hit rock bottom after a near-fatal six-day binge ended in a hail of bullets. Then he found running, and it has helped keep him sober, focused and alive. He began to take on the most extreme endurance races, such as the 155-mile Gobi March, and developed a reputation as an inspirational speaker. However, after he made the documentary Running the Sahara, narrated by Matt Damon, which followed him on a 4500-mile crossing of the desert and helped raise $6 million, he was sent to prison after failing to complete his mortgage application properly. It was while he was in jail that he became known as 'The Running Man' as he pounded the prison yard, and soon his fellow inmates were joining him, finding new hope through running. Now, in his brilliantly written and powerful account, Engle tells the story of his life and how running has brought him so much pleasure and peace. Like such classics as Born to Runor Running with the Kenyans, this is a book that anyone who has ever found solace in the freedom of running will enjoy"--Google Books.