A Family Apart

Author : Joan Lowery Nixon
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780307827555

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A Family Apart by Joan Lowery Nixon Pdf

FOR LOVERS OF HISTORICAL ADVENTURE, A FAMILY APART IS THE MIDDLE-GRADE ANSWER TO CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE'S NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING ORPHAN TRAIN. Imagine being taken from your home. Imagine your mother is the one who lets it happen. This is the fate that befalls the Kelly children. It’s 1856, and their widowed mother has sent them west from New York City because she’s convinced that she can’t give them the life they deserve. The Kellys board an “orphan train” and are taken to St. Joseph, Missouri, where their problems only grow worse. It was bad enough that they had to say goodbye to their mother, but now they’re forced to part ways with their fellow siblings as well. Thirteen-year-old Frances won’t stand for it. She’s going to protect her brothers and sisters, even if it means dressing up like a boy and putting herself in danger. Will Frances be able to save her siblings? And what about her mom—was splitting up their family really her greatest act of love? Ride the rails with Frances and her siblings to find out! “This is as close to a perfect book as you’ll buy this year.” –VOYA

Author : Joan Lowery Nixon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 083682637X

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The Orphan Train Adventures by Joan Lowery Nixon Pdf

Author : Geraldine Pratt
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780816669981

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Families Apart by Geraldine Pratt Pdf

How temporary migration programs haunt the lives of families long after they have reunited

Author : Becky Birtha
Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780807512760

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Far Apart, Close in Heart by Becky Birtha Pdf

Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2017 - Best Picture Books to Give Readers Strength STARRED REVIEW! "This book is a necessary one."—Kirkus Reviews starred review STARRED REVIEW! "A highly recommended title that serves as an excellent entry to discuss incarceration in an age-appropriate way."—School Library Journal starred review Millions of children worldwide have a parent in jail or prison. Kids can have all kinds of feelings and questions when a parent is incarcerated. Rafael is embarrassed. Rashid is angry. Yen wonders if it's her fault. This sensitive story illustrates a range of situations children may face with moms or dads behind bars, while reassuring them they are not alone.

Author : J.T. Ellison
Publisher : MIRA
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460396711

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Tear Me Apart by J.T. Ellison Pdf

The follow-up to her critically acclaimed Lie to Me, J.T. Ellison’s Tear Me Apart is the powerful story of a mother willing to do anything to protect her daughter even as their carefully constructed world unravels around them. One moment will change their lives forever… Competitive skier Mindy Wright is a superstar in the making until a spectacular downhill crash threatens not just her racing career but her life. During surgery, doctors discover she’s suffering from a severe form of leukemia, and a stem cell transplant is her only hope. But when her parents are tested, a frightening truth emerges. Mindy is not their daughter. Who knows the answers? The race to save Mindy’s life means unraveling years of lies. Was she accidentally switched at birth or is there something more sinister at play? The search for the truth will tear a family apart…and someone is going to deadly extremes to protect the family’s deepest secrets. With vivid movement through time, Tear Me Apart examines the impact layer after layer of lies and betrayal has on two families, the secrets they guard, and the desperate fight to hide the darkness within. Don’t miss It's One of Us, the next page-turning thriller from New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison!

Author : G. D. Wright
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008702410

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After the Storm by G. D. Wright Pdf

Don't miss the gripping and emotional debut crime novel in which a child’s tragic drowning rips a small community apart with devastating consequences.

Author : Joan Lowery Nixon
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996-05-21
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780440226963

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A Place to Belong by Joan Lowery Nixon Pdf

Danny and his younger sister, Peg, are placed in St. Joseph, Missouri, with kind Alfrid and Olga Swenson. Danny is thrilled to have a "real" father again, but when Olga suddenly dies, he is devastated—until he thinks of an ingenious plan to find Alfrid a new wife.

Author : Jeffery Tracey Sr.
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-07
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781640821323

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A Family Torn Apart by Jeffery Tracey Sr. Pdf

A Family Torn Apart is a heart-wrenching true story of an eleven-year-old boy seeing and experiencing his family being torn apart. The mother and father had four children, all of them boys. The family definitely had its ups and downs. The parents separated in 1954, and three of the boys were sent to foster homes. The youngest boy lived with his mother.The family reunited in 1958, and lived for four years on a farm in Montezuma, Kansas. After a horrible accident, the family spiraled dow

Author : Joan Lowery Nixon
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780307827586

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In The Face of Danger by Joan Lowery Nixon Pdf

Shy Megan Kelly cannot forget the day a gypsy read her palm announcing to all that she would bring trouble to those around her. Afterward, trouble does follow her, until she takes the necessary steps to free herself from the burdens of fear, loneliness, and superstition

Author : Joan Lowery Nixon
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780307827531

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A Dangerous Promise by Joan Lowery Nixon Pdf

It's 1861, and although Mike Kelly is far younger than the legal age of 16, he and his best friend Todd secretly join up with the Second Kansas Infantry and become army drummer boys. Mike's dreams of glory end when he's wounded at the bloody Battle of Wilson's Creek and must begin a dangerous adventure behind enemy lines.

Author : Joan Lowery Nixon
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780307827609

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Circle of Love by Joan Lowery Nixon Pdf

The Civil War has officially ended and Frances Mary Kelly's true love, Johnny, is back from the war. But to Frances's dismay, Johnny is hesitant to marry her. Attempting to ease her aching heart, Frances accepts an offer to go to New York City and escort a group of orphans out West to new homes. Along the way, she must deal with a flood of painful memories and a threatening stranger. Will Frances be able to complete her mission... and return home to find out what her future will be?

Author : A.S. King
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781101994924

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Dig by A.S. King Pdf

Winner of the Michael L. Printz Medal ★“King’s narrative concerns are racism, patriarchy, colonialism, white privilege, and the ingrained systems that perpetuate them. . . . [Dig] will speak profoundly to a generation of young people who are waking up to the societal sins of the past and working toward a more equitable future.”—Horn Book, starred review “I’ve never understood white people who can’t admit they’re white. I mean, white isn’t just a color. And maybe that’s the problem for them. White is a passport. It’s a ticket.” Five estranged cousins are lost in a maze of their family’s tangled secrets. Their grandparents, former potato farmers Gottfried and Marla Hemmings, managed to trade digging spuds for developing subdivisions and now they sit atop a million-dollar bank account—wealth they’ve refused to pass on to their adult children or their five teenage grandchildren. “Because we want them to thrive,” Marla always says. But for the Hemmings cousins, “thriving” feels a lot like slowly dying of a poison they started taking the moment they were born. As the rot beneath the surface of the Hemmings’ white suburban respectability destroys the family from within, the cousins find their ways back to one another, just in time to uncover the terrible cost of maintaining the family name. With her inimitable surrealism, award winner A.S. King exposes how a toxic culture of polite white supremacy tears a family apart and how one determined generation can dig its way out.

Author : Lisa Jewell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476703015

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The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell Pdf

From the New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone… OUR HOUSE. OUR FAMILY. OUR SECRETS. Meet the picture-perfect Bird family: pragmatic Meg, dreamy Beth, and towheaded twins Rory and Rhys, one an adventurous troublemaker, the other his slighter, more sensitive counterpart. Their father is a sweet, gangly man, but it’s their beautiful, free-spirited mother Lorelei who spins at the center. In those early years, Lorelei tries to freeze time by filling their simple brick house with precious mementos. Easter egg foils are her favorite. Craft supplies, too. She hangs all of the children’s art, to her husband’s chagrin. Then one Easter weekend, a tragedy so devastating occurs that, almost imperceptibly, it begins to tear the family apart. Years pass and the children have become adults, while Lorelei has become the county’s worst hoarder. She has alienated her husband and children and has been living as a recluse. But then something happens that beckons the Bird family back to the house they grew up in—to finally understand the events of that long-ago Easter weekend and to unearth the many secrets hidden within the nooks and crannies of home.

Author : Kevin Leman
Publisher : Dell
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1993-02
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 044050516X

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Keeping Your Family Together by Kevin Leman Pdf

From one of today's best-known authorities on relationships and the host of CBN's "Parent Talk Radio" comes this bestselling guide to overcoming the troubles facing modern families. Dr. Leman is the bestselling author of The Birth Order Book and Making Children Mind Without Losing Yours.

Author : Kristen Lavallee,Silvia Schneider
Publisher : American Psychological Association
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781433839023

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What to Do When You Don't Want to Be Apart by Kristen Lavallee,Silvia Schneider Pdf

Imagine you are a hot air balloon pilot flying high in the sky. Where would you want to go? What do you think the view would be like from up high? Hot air balloon pilots have wonderful adventures, where they get to see things they have never seen before and learn all about the world outside. Flying a hot air balloon sounds like a lot of fun to some kids. But for other kids, the idea of flying off on their own, away from their parents or homes, doesn’t sound like fun at all. What to Do When You Don’t Want to Be Apart guides children and their parents through the emotions underlying separation anxiety using strategies and techniques based on cognitive-behavioral principles. This interactive self-help book is the complete resource for educating, motivating, and empowering children to overcome separation anxiety—so they can become the confident pilots of their very own hot air balloons! Includes an Introduction to Parents and Caregivers. This book is part of the Magination Press What-to-Do Guides for Kids® series and includes an “Introduction to Parents and Caregivers.” What-to-Guides for Kids® are interactive self-help books designed to guide 6–12 year olds and their parents through the cognitive-behavioral techniques most often used in the treatment of various psychological concerns. Engaging, encouraging, and easy to follow, these books educate, motivate, and empower children to work towards change.