Biographies
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Yona Zeldis McDonough

In the spring of 1885, Laura agreed to teach one more term of school. Since married women were not allowed to teach, she would have to give up her career ...
( Category: 1800s October 16,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-15 | Author:Michael O. Tunnell [Tunnell, Michael O.]

Mercedes Simon wrote to Lt. Halvorsen about her chickens that stopped laying eggs because of the noisy C-54s flying overhead. In this picture, taken the year before the Airlift began, ...
( Category: Europe October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ana Veciana-Suarez

Saturday, 6th of January Jane loved the gift. We do not have a record player, so we could not listen to it, but she said that as soon as she ...
( Category: Hispanic & Latino October 16,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-12 | Author:Tracy Barrett [Barrett, Tracy]

CHAPTER THIRTEEN fter Anna Dalassena left, there was silence in the throne room. I sat frozen to my stool, breathless at the chance I had taken in provoking my grandmother, ...
( Category: Medieval October 16,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Catherine Reef

Catherine calls into a storm for Heathcliff in this early illustration. So much has happened, but Emily Brontë has told only half her story. In the second part of her ...
( Category: Literary October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Gary Paulsen [Paulsen, Gary]

CHAPTER 5 EATING EYEBALLS AND GUTS OR STARVING: THE FINE ART OF WILDERNESS NUTRITION He looked out across the lake and brought the egg to his mouth and closed his ...
( Category: Literary Criticism & Collections October 15,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-04-30 | Author:Janet Albert [Albert, Janet]

JAMIE ALMOST RAN back to her cabin. Alicia was nowhere in sight and the room was dark. Thinking she was alone, she threw herself on her bed and sobbed. "I ...
( Category: Biographies October 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Yoko Kawashima Watkins

SIX THE TRACKS SEPARATED, HEADING IN two directions. Hideyo stood there. Which way? He looked at the sun, which was going down, and using the sun as his guide, he ...
( Category: Asia October 9,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-23 | Author:Anne Frank [Frank, Anne]

Bien à toi, Anne SAMEDI 12 FÉVRIER 1944 Chère Kitty, Le soleil brille, le ciel est d’un bleu profond, il souffle un vent délicieux et j’ai une telle envie – ...
( Category: Arts & Literature October 1,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-09-01 | Author:Roald Dahl; Quentin Blake [Blake, Roald Dahl; Quentin]

Nanny, who in my eyes was filled with more wisdom than Solomon, replied, ‘Whenever a bristle comes out of your toothbrush and you swallow it, it sticks in your appendix ...
( Category: Literary September 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:Drury, Bob & Clavin, Tom [Drury, Bob]

21 BURN THE BODIES; EAT THE HORSES Sitting Bull was angry. A month earlier, about when Red Cloud fell on Bridge Station, Sitting Bull’s Hunkpapas had tried to pick a ...
( Category: Native American & Aboriginal September 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-08-12 | Author:Jacqueline Woodson

Down south, there was always someplace else to go you could step out into the rain and Grandma would let you lift your head and stick out your tongue be ...
( Category: Women September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-28 | Author:Ralph Moody [Moody, Ralph]

I didn’t have a chance to get the horses away easily on the next run. The moment we turned, Hazel yiped and started them off at a gallop. I didn’t ...
( Category: Westerns September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-09-24 | Author:James Bruchac

KEEWAHKWEE (PENOBSCOT) The story of the cannibal ogre who hides its face from the child it had stolen to fatten up can be found throughout Algonquin traditions. Unlike the giants, ...
( Category: Multicultural September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Carolyn Meyer [Meyer, Carolyn]

The days grew warm, though not so hot as a summer in Spain, and frequent rain showers kept Durham's gardens green and fragrant. In fair weather I strolled in those ...
( Category: Europe September 16,2014 )