Stanley Yelnats' family has a history of bad luck, so when a miscarriage of justice sends him to Camp Green Lake Juvenile Detention Centre (which isn't green and doesn't have a lake), it's not exactly a surprise. Every day he and the other inmates are told to dig a hole each, five foot wide by five foot deep, reporting anything they find. Why? The evil warden claims that it builds character,…
Awalnya Enola hanya berniat untuk menemui Lady Cecily, tetapi tanpa disangka-sangka, Lady Cecily malah meminta bantuan Enola agar bisa pergi dari kediaman Alistair. Akhirnya Enola membawa Lady Cecily ke tempat persembunyiannya dan membiarkan sahabatnya yang hanya memakai piama itu beristirahat di sana. Sherlock yang mendapat perintah dari Lady Theodora, ibu Lady Cecily, mendatangi tempat tin…
Orang miskin bilang : besok makan apa? Orang biasa bilang : besok makan dimana? Orang kaya bilang : besok makan siapa? Buku ini mengantarkan kita ke masa di mana Indonesia yang tadinya sedang menghadapi krisis ekonomi menuju lompatan ekonomi paling besar dalam sejarahnya. Para pengusaha mengenang masa itu sebagai masa paling indah, di mana mendapatkan uang semudah memintanya saja. "Just…
Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
Everyone knows that when Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. But what happened after?
'In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop... There, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth, stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white' The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter becomes embroiled in the…
Jim the chimpanzee is in a terrible mood for no good reason. His friends can't understand it--how can he be in a bad mood when it's SUCH a beautiful day? They have lots of suggestions for how to make him feel better. But Jim can't take all the advice...and has a BIT of a meltdown. Could it be that he just needs a day to feel grumpy?
Although little Penguin has the soul of an eagle, his body wasn’t built to soar. But Penguin has an irrepressible spirit, and he adamantly follows his dreams to flip, flap, fly! Even if he needs a little help with the technical parts, this penguin is ready to live on the wind.
Grace loves stories, whether they're from books, movies, or the kind her grandmother tells. So when she gets a chance to play a part in Peter Pan, she knows exactly who she wants to be. Remarkable watercolor illustrations give full expression to Grace's high-flying imagination.
When David Shannon was five years old, he wrote and illustrated his first book. On every page were these words: NO, DAVID!... and a picture of David doing things he was not supposed to do. Now David is all grown up. But some things never change...