As an elementary school librarian, I have been disappointed with many of the recent Newbery Medal winning books, mainly because it seemed like adults were selecting books that they thought young people SHOULD read. Many recent Newbery winning books just sit on our shelves.Therefore, when I added "Holes" to our collection, simply because it had received the medal, I expected to see yet another t…
The Herdmans are the most famous kids at Woodrow Wilson School. In fact, they are the most famous kids in the whole town-and they are worst kids in the history of the world.
A literary sensation when originally published fifty years ago,The Yearling has gone on to become a classic work of American literature. Fighting off a pack of starving wolves, wrestling alligators in the swamp, romping with bear cubs, drawing off the venom of a giant rattlesnake bite with the heart of a fresh-killed deer--it's all in a day's work for the Baxter family of the Florida scrublands…
from the back cover: Festival Cupcake Indonesia adalah festival cupcake bergengsi yang pernah ada di negeri ini! Segala hal yang berhubungan dengan cupcake ada di sana. Seru banget acaranya! Itu sebabnya Oca dan teman-temannya girang bukan main ketika mendapat undangan istimewa untuk menghadiri acara keren itu! Tapi, kira-kira siapa yang mengundang mereka, ya? Jangan-jangan .... ah, lebih …
Set in Greece of the 4th century BCE, The Mask of Apollo the actor Nikeratos. Thru the eyes of this warm, sympathetic & living character we experience the war-weary, self-searching world of his time. Always on his travels Niko, the tragedian, takes with him an antique mask of Apollo, a relic of the theater's golden age, which from being his mascot becomes by degrees his artistic conscience. He …
Declared outlaws by the Emperor, the Guild of Assassins strikes back hard in the second volume in the Imperial Trilogy. The Emperor must act fast. He needs someone to infiltrate the Guild. All attempts to locate the assassins' headquarters have failed and Femke is already known to the assassins. So Reynik, the young legionnaire, must penetrate their inner circle to discover the Guild's secrets.…
Gina can’t wait for her mom and friends to make the trip over to visit her from sunny California, but things don’t go exactly to plan and she’s stuck in the middle of them and her friends. Niffy is not happy about her best friend and her brother becoming a couple. Min wishes she had the confidence to finally kiss her new boyfriend, and poor Amy is starting to do anything to look thin. Wil…
As millions of readers of Hatchet, The River and Brian's Winter know, Brian Robeson survived alone in the wilderness by finding solutions to extraordinary challenges. But now that he's back in civilization, he can't find a way to make sense of high school life. He feels disconnected, more isolated that he did alone in the north woods. The answer is to return, to 'go back in' for only in the wil…