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Author: Barbara Park
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2000-09
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 068983912X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFourteen-year-old Jake recalls how he has spent the last four years of his life watching his grandfather descend slowly but surely into the horrors of Alzheimer's disease.
Author: Barbara Park
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 33
ISBN-13: 030798219X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA baby still waiting to be born describes the boredom of living in a small, cramped space where there are no toys and no one else can be "it" during a game of tag, then considers how life will change when Baby joins Pop and Ma in the outside world.
Author: K. L. Going
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2007-03-01
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 0142407666
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGabriel King was a born chicken. He’s afraid of spiders, corpses, loose cows, and just about everything related to the fifth grade. Gabe’s best friend, Frita Wilson, thinks Gabe needs some liberating from his fears. Frita knows something about being brave— she’s the only black kid in school in a town with an active Ku Klux Klan. Together Gabe and Frita are going to spend the summer of 1976 facing down the fears on Gabe’s list. But it turns out that Frita has her own list, and while she’s helping Gabe confront his fears, she’s avoiding the thing that scares her the most.
Author: Priscilla Cummings
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2006-04-06
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1101200502
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrady loves life on the Chesapeake Bay with his friends J.T. and Digger. But developers and rich families are moving into the area, and while Brady befriends some of them, like the DiAngelos, his parents and friends are bitter about the changes. Tragedy strikes when the DiAngelos’ kayak overturns in the bay, and Brady wonders if it was more than an accident. Soon, Brady discovers the terrible truth behind the kayak’s sinking, and it will change the lives of those he loves forever. Priscilla Cummings deftly weaves a suspenseful tale of three teenagers caught in a wicked web of deception.
Author: Barbara Park
Publisher: Random House Australia
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 1740519795
DOWNLOAD EBOOKABOUT THE SERIES Meet Junie B. Jones, the lovable, mischievous kindergartener and star of this hysterical series by Barbara Park. Follow Junie B. from her first day of kindergarten to her last as she gets into one scrape after another. Readers will laugh along with Junie B. and her friends in Room Nine, as she attempts to escape 'punishment' from her teacher, and drives her parents to distraction! ABOUT THE BOOK It's kindergarten graduation! All the children in Room Nine are excited when they get their bright white graduation gowns. Mrs. says to keep them in their boxes until the big day. But Junie B. Jones can't help herself. Then- uh- oh- an accident happens! Can Junie B. find a way to fix things? Or will graduation be a spotty dotty disaster?
Author: Barbara Park
Publisher:
Published: 2000-01
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ISBN-13: 9780605000209
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Barbara O'Connor
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2008-03-18
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0374399379
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn North Carolina's Great Smoky Mountains, a troubled boy and his mother, a happy family seeking adventure, a man and his lonely daughter, and the widow who must sell the run-down motel that has been her home for decades, meet and are transformed by their shared experiences.
Author: Piotr Parda
Publisher: Chicago Review Press-Ripple Grove Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9780991386673
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn an dilapidated urban school, the children are getting ready for their commencement to the next level. One little girl, bullied and alone, manages to make a positive change in their environment as she prepares to leave.
Author: Wai Chim
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2020-11-10
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1338656120
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn authentic novel about growing up in an Asian immigrant family with a mother who is suffering from a debilitating mental illness. Anna Chiu has her hands full. When she's not looking after her brother and sister or helping out at her father's restaurant, she's taking care of her mother, whose debilitating mental illness keeps her in bed most days. Her father's new delivery boy, Rory, is a welcome distraction and even though she knows that things aren't right at home, she's starting to feel like she could be a normal teen.But when her mother finally gets out of bed, things go from bad to worse. And as her mother's condition worsens, Anna and her family question everything they understand about themselves and each other.The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling is a heart-wrenching, true-to-life exploration through the often neglected crevices of culture, mental illness, and family. Its strong themes are balanced by a beautiful romance making it a feel-good, yet important read.
Author: Barbara Park
Publisher: Yearling
Published: 2011-01-26
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 030778682X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow could someone like Mick die? He was the kid who freaked out his mom by putting a ceramic eye in a defrosted chicken, the kid who did a wild dance in front of the whole school--and the kid who, if only he had worn his bicycle helmet, would still be alive today. But now Phoebe Harte's twelve-year-old brother is gone, and Phoebe's world has turned upside down. With her trademark candor and compassion, beloved middle-grade writer Barbara Park tells how Phoebe copes with her painful loss in this story filled with sadness, humor--and hope. Chosen by Publishers Weekly as one of their Best Books of 1996. "A full-fledged and fully convincing drama" (Publishers Weekly).
