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EllRay Jakes and the Beanstalk by Sally Warner
epub |eng | 2013-08-08 | Author:Sally Warner

That’s what Corey and I are doing right now. “BLAM-O!” Corey shouts, sinking his sneaker into a crumpled, faded red kickball. “Take that,” I say, blasting another one with the ...
( Category: African-American March 25,2014 )
Emily Goldberg Learns to Salsa by OSTOW MICOL
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:OSTOW, MICOL

When we get home, Marisa is sitting on the front steps of her house. She’s holding a coloring book but not actually coloring in it, more sort of staring off ...
( Category: Central & South America March 25,2014 )
The Awfully Angry Ogre by Suzanne Williams
epub |eng | | Author:Suzanne Williams

Tansy turned around, then froze in horror. So did the others. Still roaring, the ogre stood before them, spit flying from his mouth. His features were blurred by their blindfolds, ...
( Category: Royalty March 25,2014 )
Mustang by Marguerite Henry
epub |eng | | Author:Marguerite Henry

One night when we seemed to be getting nowhere, I sank exhausted on our couch and covered up with Mom’s warm afghan. Soon I fell asleep, and I dreamt that ...
( Category: Farm Life March 25,2014 )
Looks Like Daylight by Deborah Ellis
epub |eng | 2013-08-06 | Author:Deborah Ellis

I was part of the Freedom Train that went across the country to protest the pipeline. I loved being on the train with all the other people from other First ...
( Category: Canada March 25,2014 )
The Talent Show by Dan Gutman
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-24 | Author:Dan Gutman

Stacy’s mom has got it going on. Stacy’s mom has got it going on. Stacy’s mom has got it going on. Stacy’s mom has got it going on. The band ...
( Category: Country Life March 25,2014 )
Out of Bounds by Beverley Naidoo
epub |eng | 2001-03-24 | Author:Beverley Naidoo

Eight months later there was a small item in a national newspaper: GRANDMOTHER SENT TO JAIL A sixty-eight-year-old grandmother was sent to jail today for twelve months, after refusing to ...
( Category: Africa March 25,2014 )
Sleeping Beauty's Daughters by Diane Zahler
epub |eng | 2013-06-13 | Author:Diane Zahler [Zahler, Diane]

Like an eagle caged, I pine, On this dull, unchanging shore: Oh! give me the flashing brine, The spray and the tempest’s roar! A life on the ocean wave, A ...
( Category: Royalty March 25,2014 )
The Changeling Sea by Patricia A McKillip
epub |eng | 2013-12-01 | Author:Patricia A McKillip

Eight THEN THE SEA, missing its gold, perhaps, began to play tricks on the fishers. Enin told the first tale, coming in late on a spring evening with Tull Olney ...
( Category: Fantasy & Magic March 25,2014 )
Dragon Castle by Joseph Bruchac
epub |eng | 2011-05-12 | Author:Joseph Bruchac

PAVOL’S LEGEND Dvanast HE’D BEEN CLIMBING for a long time. It wasn’t bad enough that he had set himself a goal that might quite logically lead to his death. True, ...
( Category: Fantasy & Magic March 25,2014 )
The Mystery of Meerkat Hill by Alexander McCall Smith
epub |eng | 2013-10-21 | Author:Alexander McCall Smith [Smith, Alexander McCall]

Seeing Pontsho, Kosi straightaway jumped off the teacher’s head and scampered across the room to his owner. “Young man,” said the Principal sternly, “you have a lot of explaining to ...
( Category: Africa March 25,2014 )
A Medal for Leroy by Michael Morpurgo
epub |eng | 2012-05-31 | Author:Michael Morpurgo [Morpurgo, Michael]

Within a few months I was out in Belgium, not France as it turned out, posted to a hospital a few miles behind the lines. Here we heard for the ...
( Category: African-American March 25,2014 )
Web of Lies by Beverley Naidoo
epub |eng | 2010-03-24 | Author:Beverley Naidoo

Sade returned to the kitchen when it was time to prepare supper. Through the doorway she heard Papa ring the cab office and cancel his work for the night. Mrs. ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )
A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver by E.L. Konigsburg
epub |eng | | Author:E.L. Konigsburg

11 AND SO IT WAS. The world well knows the story of the feud that developed between my son, King Henry, and his Archbishop, Thomas Becket. Shortly after he was ...
( Category: Medieval March 25,2014 )
Parched by Melanie Crowder
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Melanie Crowder

21 Nandi Sarel-girl says, “Come.” Makes pile of water skins. “Nandi, come!” I turn away. I sit, eyes watching sun-up side. I do not come. Icibi, Thando sit, heads swing ...
( Category: Africa March 25,2014 )

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