Small Wonder

The first essay is "Small Wonder," and Kingsolver tells the (true) story of a toddler that wandered off from his home in a small village in Iran and was found later, safe, in a bear's den, with the bear curled protectively around the child. Apparently, the bear had actually been nursing the baby. She calls it "an impossible act of grace." (5) She writes about hoping/insisting that the world is …

Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule

Maybe nobody gave freedom, and nobody could take it away like they could take away a family farm. Maybe freedom was something you claimed for yourself. Like other ex-slaves, Pascal and his older brother Gideon have been promised forty acres and maybe a mule. WIth the family of friends they have built along the way, they claim a place of their own. Green Gloryland is the most wonderful place on…

Shabanu : Daughter of the Winds

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9780440238560

Collation

240p; bw; pbk

Series Title

-

Call Number

823 STA s

Monkey Bridge

Hailed by critics and writers as powerful, important fiction, Monkey Bridge charts the unmapped territory of the Vietnamese American experience in the aftermath of war. Like navigating a monkey bridge—a bridge, built of spindly bamboo, used by peasants for centuries—the narrative traverses perilously between worlds past and present, East and West, in telling two interlocking stories: one…

Cannery Row

Henry the painter sorts through junk lots for pieces of wood to incorporate into the boat he is building, while the girls from Dora Flood’s bordello venture out now and then to enjoy a bit of sunshine. Lee Chong stocks his grocery with almost anything a man could want, and Doc, a young marine biologist who ministers to sick puppies and unhappy souls, unexpectedly finds true love Cannery Ro…

Slade House

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9781473626836

Collation

-

Series Title

-

Call Number

823 MIT s

Emma-Jean Lazarus : Fell Out of a Tree

That's Emma-Jean Lazarus, the smartest and definitely the strangest girl at William Gladstone Middle School. The kids at school don't understand her. But that all changes when she discovers Colleen Pomerantz sobbing in the girl's room. What happens when Emma-Jean decides to use her powers of logic to solve Colleen's problem? Emma-Jean's life gets messy, that's for sure, as she finds herself tum…

No Going Back

A moving contemporary tale of family, love and loss from the author of Last Chance Angel. Teenager Laura gets the shock of her life when she moves to rural Derbyshire and finds the ghost of her dead father in her grandmother's home. At first Laura is overjoyed to see him, but as time passes she begins to wonder why her dad is finding it so difficult to move on, and why her mother still refus…

Bursting Bubbles

Three over-privileged teens discover what life is like on the other side of the tracks. Marigold Liotta, Asher Grossman and Giorgiana Shiller have got it all - money, looks and good grades. Life couldn't get much better...until their principal, Dr Kilpaticky, decides it's time to burst their bubble of advantage by assigning them tough community service placements as part of their school curricu…

Light in August

Light in August, a novel about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, features some of Faulkner’s most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend Gail Hightower, who is plagued by visions of Confederate horsemen; and Joe Christmas, a desperate, enigmatic drifter consumed by his mixed ancestry.