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A Bone from a Dry Sea by Peter Dickinson
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Dickinson

Now: Tuesday Afternoon By lunchtime there was a large awning erected at the bottom of the hill, and a little one a few yards along from where Dad was working, ...
( Category: Africa May 27,2015 )
The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste
epub |eng | 2015-02-19 | Author:Tracey Baptiste

23 The Call Pierre remained trapped inside himself, unmoving and unthinking. Severine rushed around preparing another pot of stew for him. Until the magic took full hold, she had to ...
( Category: Central & South America May 27,2015 )
Bayou Magic by Jewell Parker Rhodes
epub |eng | 2015-05-11 | Author:Jewell Parker Rhodes

All day, I think and think on the porch. Grandmère offers me food, but I turn it down. Sweet Pea pecks dirt at my feet. Beyond Grandmère’s yard, there are ...
( Category: Country Life May 27,2015 )
When the Cherry Blossoms Fell by Jennifer Maruno
epub |eng | 2009-05-26 | Author:Jennifer Maruno

At home Michiko talked about her day at school. “A boy in my class called me a Dirty Jap,” she said to her mother’s back as she prepared dinner. “And ...
( Category: Canada May 27,2015 )
Julia and the Art of Practical Travel by Lesley M. M. Blume
epub |eng | 2015-03-09 | Author:Lesley M. M. Blume [Blume, Lesley M. M.]

Second of all: Madame looked nothing like the phony voodoo queens who’d rooked Aunt Constance out of all that money. Instead, she wore a housedress with little flowers on it ...
( Category: City Life May 27,2015 )
Kitchen Science Lab for Kids by Liz Lee Heinecke
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-05-26 | Author:Liz Lee Heinecke

CREATIVE ENRICHMENT Use the remaining cabbage juice for another experiment, such as Lab 1 “Color-Changing Magic Potion,” Lab 26 “Gelatinous Diffusion” enrichment, or Lab 30 “Ocean Acidification Experiment.” USE RED ...
( Category: House & Home May 27,2015 )
Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer by Kelly Jones
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-05-11 | Author:Kelly Jones

June 23, 2014 Mariposa García González Land of the Dead Querida Abuelita, I guess I never really was afraid of a chicken before. I mean, I didn’t want to get ...
( Category: Farm Life May 25,2015 )
Hidden Like Anne Frank by Marcel Prins
epub |eng | 2014-05-24 | Author:Marcel Prins [Prins and Peter Henk Steenhuis, Marcel]

We had nothing left after the war. I had to wear what we called kleppers, a kind of wooden sandal. Then my uncle took us to a cobbler in the ...
( Category: Education & Reference May 25,2015 )
Dead Man's Gold and Other Stories by Paul Yee
epub |eng | 2013-09-05 | Author:Paul Yee

SEVEN The Brothers IN CHINA THERE once lived a poor widow who had two young sons but neither land nor family to support her. Though frail in health, she solicited ...
( Category: Asian & Asian American May 25,2015 )
From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess by Meg Cabot
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Meg Cabot [Cabot, Meg]

“You’d have to switch schools,” Dad said, speaking as if Grandma hadn’t said anything. “But—” “But the Royal Genovian Academy is right down the street from the palace,” Grandma interrupted. ...
( Category: Royalty May 24,2015 )
Deadweather and Sunrise by Geoff Rodkey
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-05-28 | Author:Geoff Rodkey

PIGS My first impression of being dead was that it was awfully loud. There were screams and shrieks and great blasts of noise and chaos, and when I opened my ...
( Category: Central & South America April 5,2015 )
The International Kissing Club by Ivy Adams
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-05 | Author:Ivy Adams

The morning would have gone a lot smoother if Tanner had kept his hands to himself. Last spring, Jake Robinsky had taken Izzy to the Valentine social. The guy had ...
( Category: Friendship April 5,2015 )
The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-17 | Author:Gail Carson Levine

Chapter Eighteen * * * BELLA HAD TAUGHT US about dragons, and Meryl used to pore over the tomes in Father’s library for dragon lore. They were known to hunt ...
( Category: Fantasy & Magic April 5,2015 )
Walker of Time by Helen Hughes Vick
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-10-16 | Author:Helen Hughes Vick

The sun’s rays were beginning to fade by the time they had climbed back up the long, steep trail to Great Owl’s home. Leading the group, Walker saw Great Owl ...
( Category: Native North & South Americans April 5,2015 )
Savvy by Ingrid Law
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-11-12 | Author:Ingrid Law

20 Rushing out into the spring night, the air was crisp and cool, laced with the smell of diesel fumes and chicken fingers. After the noisy babble and bedlam inside ...
( Category: Farm Life April 5,2015 )

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