Geography & Cultures
epub |eng | 2013-09-24 | Author:Paula Harrison [Harrison, Paula]

When Lottie reached the palace, lunch was being served in the dining room. The large glass doors of the room opened out into the garden. Waiters brought around platters of ...
( Category: Geography & Cultures August 16,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stacy DeKeyser

14 They continued up the slope, through a bleak and barren landscape of gray snowfields scattered with slabs of black rock and bent fir trees. The wind blew colder here, ...
( Category: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths August 16,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Dan Gutman

The McDonalds had a quick dinner and checked into the Econo Lodge West for the night. It was just a few blocks from Coronado Freeway—also known as I-40—which was the ...
( Category: Action & Adventure August 16,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jo Whittemore

Chapter Nine Angel didn’t share my opinion. We talked over breakfast, since I was in no mood to eat with Mom. Two cows had licked me during the night. “Honestly, ...
( Category: Humor August 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-14 | Author:Veera Hiranandani

CHAPTER FOUR The next morning, Mémé set out homemade baguettes with butter and strawberry jam. “If breakfast in France is this good, I can’t wait to see what the rest ...
( Category: Geography & Cultures August 16,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Elana K. Arnold

That night, as Iris and her parents were doing the dishes after dinner, Boris called. “It’s me,” he said in a spy-whisper, even though Iris’s dad had already announced, “It’s ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction August 16,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Boyne

CHAPTER 8 ARE WE DOWNHEARTED? No other passengers left the train at Ipswich, and Alfie looked around, surprised by the station, which didn’t seem like a station at all; there ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction August 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2005-08-16 | Author:Joseph Bruchac

But, I told Roger, that was not the end of what my dad shared with me. “What your Grama Delia didn’t tell you,” my father said, “is that the Whisperer ...
( Category: Geography & Cultures August 16,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Isaiah Campbell

CHAPTER SEVEN ALL BLOOD NO BODY It was funny, what with the news of Tommy dying, that whole Bay of Pigs thing stopped seeming so important to me or Pa. ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction August 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-27 | Author:Dee Brown

An Indian mounted on a gray horse forced his way through the ranks of warriors gathered around the canvas shelter. He was Crazy Horse’s envoy, Little Big Man, stripped for ...
( Category: History August 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-06 | Author:Virginia Hamilton [Hamilton, Virginia]

He raised his arms, holding them out to her. “Kum…yali, kum buba tambe,” and more magic words, said so quickly, they sounded like whispers and sighs. The young woman lifted ...
( Category: Geography & Cultures August 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-08-16 | Author:Philana Marie Boles [Boles, Philana Marie]

August 20 Dear Mom, I have a new friend and her name is Golden. Her family just moved in next to Daddy, and she is the same age as me ...
( Category: Geography & Cultures August 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-13 | Author:Mary Pope Osborne [Osborne, Mary Pope]

Night was falling as Charles led Jack and Annie across the street to an old inn. Candles twinkled in the paned windows. Charles ushered them through the door and into ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy August 15,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-03-11 | Author:Angie Sage [Sage, Angie]

"Be not afraid, child," said the ExtraOrdinary Wizard kindly, noticing Septimus's sudden gray pallor. "You are newly come, are you not?" The ExtraOrdinary Wizard looked Septimus up and down, taking ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy August 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-05 | Author:Rob Lloyd Jones [Jones, Rob Lloyd]

24 I gripped the wire tighter as the extraction drone carried us over the edge of the desert. My arms trembled on the line, not from the effort of holding ...
( Category: Action & Adventure August 15,2017 )