Geography & Cultures
epub |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Alexander McCall Smith

Five Precious thought a lot about Kosi over the next few days. Whenever she saw Pontsho at school she would ask him how the meerkat was, and he would tell ...
( Category: Africa December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Alexander McCall Smith

Darkness came down like a curtain. Now it was too late to search any more, and they all had to go to bed hoping that in the morning he would ...
( Category: Africa December 8,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Meg Cabot [Meg Cabot]

Past Midnight, Sunday, October 12 She still hasn’t called. Sunday, October 12 Oh my God. I am so embarrassed. I wish I could disappear. You will never believe what just ...
( Category: Being a Teen November 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel Pinkwater

Chapter 34 Wise Woman “I assume you have a space here,” I said to Molly. “What is it you do?” “Come along, and I’ll show you,” Molly said. Molly took ...
( Category: United States November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Harper Paris

A boy and a girl about Ethan and Ella’s age hung back in a doorway. The twins waved to them. The boy and girl waved back. “Habari!” Ella called out. ...
( Category: Chapter Books November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-14 | Author:Albert Marrin [Marrin, Albert]

An illustration of the workhouse on Blackwell’s Island, 1866. (picture credit 4.12) Enter the Mink Coat Brigade Still others saw the Uprising of the Twenty Thousand as more than a ...
( Category: 1900s November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-15 | Author:Sally Warner [Warner, Sally]

10 OFFICIALLY BROWN “Knock, knock,” I say, pausing outside Alfie’s room. Her door is open, but I’m trying to teach her not to barge into my room without knocking. See, ...
( Category: African-American November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Andrew Clements

She reached out quickly and took both his hands in hers, and when he tried to pull away, she held on. “Ted, listen to me. I’m so sorry. But you ...
( Category: Country Life November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-25 | Author:Patricia McKissack [McKissack, Patricia]

Following the creek downstream, Mirandy come to Mis Poinsettia’s whitewashed cottage. Talk had it that Mis Poinsettia wasn’t a for-real conjure woman like the ones in New Orleans. But didn’t ...
( Category: Country Life November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hadley Higginson

Chapter 5 Keeker raced back the way she’d come, found the trail and hurried up it. She burst onto the clearing, and there was Plum, standing in a blackberry bramble. ...
( Category: Chapter Books November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ebony Joy Wilkins [Ebony Joy Wilkins]

CHAPTER ELEVEN SHAUNDA MUST HAVE seen me heading for the ladies’ room, because she was hot on my heels just as I shut myself into a stall. I could hear ...
( Category: African-American November 23,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-14 | Author:M.A. Larson

BEYOND THE GREEN RIPPLE of ferns, beyond the stand of bristlecone pines that marked the forest mouth, the towering shoulders of a mountain range loomed in the near distance. The ...
( Category: Fantasy & Magic November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-22 | Author:Tamora Pierce [Pierce, Tamora]

Spring, in the 18th year of the reign of Jonathan IV and Thayet, his Queen, 457 ten THE GREAT PROGRESS BEGINS Third Company took to the road just two days ...
( Category: Fantasy November 23,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Jason Reynolds

10 A MoMo party. I was at a freakin’ MoMo party. At fifteen. What more could anyone ask for? The party was set up pretty simple. A big open space ...
( Category: African-American November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-20 | Author:Alexander McCall Smith [Smith, Alexander McCall]

“Lions,” he whispered. “A whole pride of them.” “Sit down,” whispered Precious. “We don’t want them to see us.” They remained quite still as the pride of lions made its ...
( Category: Africa November 23,2014 )