Holiday poems

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9780199167470

Collation

16p; col; ill; pbk

Series Title

Oxford Reading Tree Stage 5-6

Call Number

821 FOS h

Odysseus and the Cyclops and other plays

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9780435096984

Collation

64 p. ; ill. ; 22 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

822 YAT o

The perfect score

No one likes or wants to take the statewide assessment tests. Not the students in Mrs. Woods’s sixth-grade class. Not even Mrs. Woods. It’s not as if the kids don’t already have things to worry about. . . . Under pressure to be the top gymnast her mother expects her to be, RANDI starts to wonder what her destiny truly holds. Football-crazy GAVIN has always struggled with reading and f…

Save me a seat

oe and Ravi might be from very different places, but they're both stuck in the same school. Joe's lived in the same town all his life, and was doing just fine until his best friends moved away and left him on his own. Ravi's family just moved to America from India, and he's finding it pretty hard to figure out where he fits in. Joe and Ravi don't think they have anything in common -- but soon e…

Midnight at the Barclay Hotel

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9780593202913

Collation

-

Series Title

-

Call Number

823 BRA m

When You Reach Me

This remarkable novel holds a fantastic puzzle at its heart. By sixth grade, Miranda and her best friend, Sal, know how to navigate their New York City neighborhood. They know where it's safe to go, and they know who to avoid. Like the crazy guy on the corner. But things start to unravel. Sal gets punched by a kid on the street for what seems like no reason, and he shuts Miranda out of hi…

A work in progress

A young boy struggles with body image in this poignant and “perceptive” ( Publishers Weekly , starred review) middle grade journey to self-acceptance told through prose, verse, and illustration. Will is the only round kid in a school full of thin ones. So he hides…in baggy jeans and oversized hoodies, in the back row during class, and anywhere but the cafeteria during lunch. But shame …

Not quite a ghost

The house seemed to sit apart from the others on Katydid Street, silent and alone, like it didn’t fit among them. For Violet Hart—whose family is about to move into the house on Katydid Street—very little felt like it fit anymore. Like their old home, suddenly too small since her mother remarried and the new baby arrived. Or Violet’s group of friends, which, since they started middle sc…

The cursed moon

One two, the Caretaker’s coming for you. Three-four, you’ll breathe no more. Five-six, you’ll float like sticks. Seven, eight, you’ll meet your fate. Rafael Fuentes isn’t easily scared. He loves writing ghost stories, reading scary books, and entertaining his friends with terrifying tales he creates on the spot. Rafa has come up against enough real-life scary situations that fictional…

Tarian Bumi

Tarian Bumi menjadi fenomena sekaligus kontroversi. Novel ini dengan sangat terbuka menghantam keadaan yang melingkupi kehidupan perempuan di kalangan bangsawan Bali yang masih sangat feodal. Dalam konteks adat-istiadat Bali, Tarian Bumi dipandang sebagai sebuah pemberontakan kepada adat. -Tempo, 9 Mei 2004 Rather than contesting established stereotypes, another recent text creates its own m…