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Author : Philippa Pearce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0192717774
"Tom is not prepared for what is about to happen when he hears the grandfather clock strike thirteen. Outside the back door is a garden, which everyone tells him does not exist."--Page 4 de la couverture.
Author : Polly Horvath
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780374304546
From Newbery Honor and National Book Award–winning author Polly Horvath is this magical middle-grade novel about a garden that grants wishes. It is World War II, and Franny and her parents, Sina and Old Tom, enjoy a quiet life on a farm on Vancouver Island. Franny writes, Sina sculpts, and Old Tom tends to their many gardens—including the ancient, mysterious night garden. Their peaceful life is interrupted when their neighbor, Crying Alice, begs Sina to watch her children while she goes to visit her husband at the military base because she suspects he’s up to no good. Soon after the children move in, letters arrive from their father that suggest he's about to do something to change their lives; and appearances from a stubborn young cook, UFOs, hermits, and ghosts only make life stranger. Can the forbidden night garden that supposedly grants everyone one wish help them all out of trouble? And if so, at what cost? The Night Garden is a poignant and hilarious story from acclaimed children's author Polly Horvath.
Author : Debbie Ridgard,Sally Burt
Publisher : Read & Respond
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1407175076
Read & Respond has been fully updated with new content. Itprovi teachers with a wealth of resources to teach Tom's Midnight Garden. Notes and activities reflect the Curriculum and include shared texts, guided reading notes, reading activities, speaking and listening activities, writing projects and assessment guidance.
Author : Philippa Pearce
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0192751484
Two English boys, David and Adam, spend the summer canoeing on the River Say and, with just an old riddle for a clue, try to find a treasure hidden along its banks by one of Adam's ancestors.
Author : Philippa Pearce
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780141930398
When Bet is first asked to go into the meadow and read a passage aloud from a book - apparently to no-one - she wonders why. But then she realises that her audience is a little mole, who listens attentively. This isn't just any mole. This mole can speak, he is more than 300 years old and he has an amazing tale to tell. So begins an extraordinary friendship between a lonely little girl and The Little Gentleman in Black Velvet.
Author : Darrel J. McLeod
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781571317292
As a small boy in remote Alberta, Darrel J. McLeod is immersed in his Cree family’s history, passed down in the stories of his mother, Bertha. There he is surrounded by her tales of joy and horror—of the strong men in their family, of her love for Darrel, and of the cruelty she and her sisters endured in residential school—as well as his many siblings and cousins, and the smells of moose stew and wild peppermint tea. And there young Darrel learns to be fiercely proud of his heritage and to listen to the birds that will guide him throughout his life. But after a series of tragic losses, Bertha turns wild and unstable, and their home life becomes chaotic. Sweet and eager to please, Darrel struggles to maintain his grades and pursue interests in music and science while changing homes, witnessing domestic violence, caring for his younger siblings, and suffering abuse at the hands of his brother-in-law. Meanwhile, he begins to question and grapple with his sexual identity—a reckoning complicated by the repercussions of his abuse and his sibling’s own gender transition. Thrillingly written in a series of fractured vignettes, and unflinchingly honest, Mamaskatch—“It’s a wonder!” in Cree—is a heartbreaking account of how traumas are passed down from one generation to the next, and an uplifting story of one individual who overcame enormous obstacles in pursuit of a fulfilling and adventurous life.
Author : John Berendt
Publisher : Random House
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1994-01-13
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780679429227
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic of true crime, set in a most beguiling Southern city—now in a 30th anniversary edition with a new afterword by the author “Elegant and wicked . . . might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime.”—The New York Times Book Review Shots rang out in Savannah’s grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. In this sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative, John Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case. It is a spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman’s Card Club; the turbulent young gigolo; the hapless recluse who owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern belle who is the “soul of pampered self-absorption”; the uproariously funny drag queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer; the sweet-talking, piano-playing con artist; young people dancing the minuet at the black debutante ball; and Minerva, the voodoo priestess who works her magic in the graveyard at midnight. These and other Savannahians act as a Greek chorus, with Berendt revealing the alliances, hostilities, and intrigues that thrive in a town where everyone knows everyone else. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a sublime and seductive reading experience.
Author : Penelope Farmer
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781681371115
A time-travel story that is both a poignant exploration of human identity and an absorbing tale of suspense. It’s natural to feel a little out of place when you’re the new girl, but when Charlotte Makepeace wakes up after her first night at boarding school, she’s baffled: everyone thinks she’s a girl called Clare Mobley, and even more shockingly, it seems she has traveled forty years back in time to 1918. In the months to follow, Charlotte wakes alternately in her own time and in Clare’s. And instead of having only one new set of rules to learn, she also has to contend with the unprecedented strangeness of being an entirely new person in an era she knows nothing about. Her teachers think she’s slow, the other girls find her odd, and, as she spends more and more time in 1918, Charlotte starts to wonder if she remembers how to be Charlotte at all. If she doesn’t figure out some way to get back to the world she knows before the end of the term, she might never have another chance.
Author : Philippa Pearce
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780141929514
Sid, Peggy and Amy adore the two gerbils, Bubble and Squeak, but their mother detests them. A major family battle results, and it's clear life is never going to be quite the same again. But after a near fatal encounter between Bubble and Ginger the cat, Mrs Sparrow begins to see that life with a pair of gerbils might not be so bad after all.
Author : Michelle Magorian
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1986-11-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780064401746
London is poised on the brink of World War 11. Timid, scrawny Willie Beech -- the abused child of a single mother -- is evacuated to the English countryside. At first, he is terrified of everything, of the country sounds and sights, even of Mr. Tom, the gruff, kindly old man who has taken him in. But gradually Willie forgets the hate and despair of his past. He learns to love a world he never knew existed, a world of friendship and affection in which harsh words and daily beatings have no place. Then a telegram comes. Willie must return to his mother in London. When weeks pass by with no word from Willie, Mr. Tom sets out for London to look for the young boy he has come to love as a son.
Author : Lucy M. Boston
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780571303489
The Children of Green Knowe Collection brings the Lucy Boston classics The Children of Green Knowe and River at Green Knowe together in one beautifully packaged edition. These enchanting, haunting stories from Carnegie winner Lucy M. Boston have become modern classics, beautifully evoking all the magic and wonder of childhood. Now The Children of Green Knowe and River at Green Knowe are available in one edition. Children of Green Knowe Tolly's great grandmother isn't a witch, but both she and her old house, Green Knowe, are full of a very special kind of magic. There are other children in the house - children who were happy there centuries before. Running around Green Knowe's moat, gardens and mysterious rooms, Tolly slowly discovers them, their toys and animals, and their wonderful stories . . . River at Green Knowe 'What a lot of islands the river makes,' said Ida. 'We must go exploring and sail around them all.' And so begins a wonderful, magical summer. Ida, Oscar and Ping are staying with Ida's great-aunt at the ancient, river-encircled house of Green Knowe. They set out to chart the river in the canoe, and soon discover that it has some surprising and mysterious secrets. 'An award-winning classic story of a friendship.' LoveReading4Kids 'Magic, mystery and fun will bring listeners along for an entertaining ride.' Publishers Weekly
Author : Philippa Pearce,Brian Fairfax-Lucy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-06-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0192751808
Set before the first First World War, this book tells the story of Tom, Laura, Hugh, and Margaret, whose home is the great house, Charlecote, set in the Warwickshire countryside. Despite their privileged background, the children are not always happy - their parents are stern and Tom is sent away to boarding school. But when the holidays come, everything changes and the four of them have many adventures together in the vast grounds of the house. BLOriginally published in 1968, this is a welcome reissue of a book which 'movingly shows the close bond between the "upper class" children and servants in a great house, when both feared and suffered the hand of authority.' (20th Century Children's Writers)
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:893039533
Author : Kirsty Applebaum
Publisher : Nosy Crow
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781788005258
Lonny is a lifeling. He has the power to heal any living creature and bring it back from the dead. But he pays a price for this gift - by lengthening the creature's life, he shortens his own. So Lonny has to be careful, has to stay hidden in the forest. Because if people knew what he could do, Lonny would be left with no life at all... A brilliant novel from the author of The Middler about family, secrets and a terrible power.
Author : Joy Kogawa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Japanese
ISBN : OCLC:1011706656
Naomi's Road tells the story of Naomi Nakane--a little girl with "black hair and lovely Japanese eyes and a face like a valentine"--And her Japanese-Canadian family during the 1940s, when Canada was at war with Japan. We folllow Naomi and her older brother Stepeh from their home in Vancouver to an internment camp in the interior of British Columbia, and then to a farm in Albert, seeing the effect of war through the eyes of a child growing up with the hardship and prejudice. Yet Naomi's adventures lead her to see the world with hope and understanding.