Geography & Cultures
epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Mahtab Narsimhan [Narsimhan, Mahtab]

THE HEAD OFFICE OF the Dabbawalla Association was a twenty-minute walk from the station on the first floor of a dilapidated structure that seemed to be standing only because it ...
( Category: Geography & Cultures September 10,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-03 | Author:Celia Lottridge

THE FAMILIES WERE FORMED. But they didn’t really feel like families. As Anna said to Samira, “There are people in this family I barely know. What kind of family is ...
( Category: Geography & Cultures September 10,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-09 | Author:Eve Bunting

CHAPTER 10 The next morning, in the bus on the way to Yellowstone National Park, I told Geneva, “He seemed okay, close up and talking like that. He sounded cool. ...
( Category: Mysteries & Detectives September 9,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jean Ferris

12 I KNOW THEY CAME THIS way!” Chris called back as he ran. “I didn’t spend my childhood in these woods without knowing how to track.” They had had to ...
( Category: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths September 9,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Adeline Yen Mah [Mah, Adeline Yen]

“My relationship with Niang never recovered after this. Nor did the toes in my foot. The fractures healed, but my toes remained crooked, summoning up my ordeal each time I ...
( Category: Historical Fiction September 9,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jeffery L Schatzer

The Irish in Michigan Mackinac Island—August 1840 When we got back to the professor’s office, he had to take a phone call. “Yes, Sweetie Pie,” said the professor. “Everything’s just ...
( Category: Geography & Cultures September 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-09 | Author:Gloria Whelan [Whelan, Gloria]

The wagon jogged along a trail so narrow that the tree branches scraped its sides. Ahead of us the Indian men were silent. They rode with closed, angry faces. I ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction September 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-28 | Author:Bruce Pascoe

He drifted in and out of consciousness as the heat of the afternoon gave way to evening. Fog sat by him while he slept but when Albert woke and repeated ...
( Category: Animals September 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-26 | Author:Marie-Louise Gay & David Homel

SIX Tumbling tumbleweeds nearly crush us in an Arizona sandstorm Our travels had taken us east and west, but now my parents were eager for something new. Something completely crazy, ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction September 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 1999-09-09 | Author:Robert Cormier [Cormier, Robert]

“Arthur Colraine has Saint Vims' dance,” Alyrc Tournier announced. I pictured Arthur dancing madly, as a Gypsy violinist blazed the air with music near a campfire like in the movies. ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction September 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Laban Carrick Hill [HILL, LABAN CARRICK]

Above, Carl Van Vechten. Right, a caricature of Van Vechten by Miguel Covarrubias as an African American. “What Mr. Van Vechten has written is just what those who do not ...
( Category: History September 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-02 | Author:Kathleen Krull [Krull, Kathleen]

(art credit 15) He found it—a tiny apartment in Greenwich Village—and that Monday, Ted Geisel got busy at his old wooden drawing board. He had his colored pencils, his paints, ...
( Category: Biographies September 9,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Lauren St. John

14 The combination of Alex’s bizarre behavior and the bone-crushing snares Tendai had destroyed in the valley had unnerved Martine so much that rather than waiting for the white giraffe ...
( Category: Geography & Cultures September 9,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-14 | Author:Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Then one day a different awful thought struck him. “Mama,” he said, “what if Beverly gets caught like James Hubbard, when he’s out free? What if Harriet gets caught? Would ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction September 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-06 | Author:Gertrude Chandler Warner

“I’ll try,” Violet promised. The three girls moved swiftly through the forest, with Amy in the lead. Suddenly she came to a dead stop and started to laugh. “What in ...
( Category: Mysteries & Detectives September 9,2017 )