epub, mobi |eng | 2014-02-18 | Author:Patrick Lee [Lee, Patrick]

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Leland Hager had been in a good mood until thirty seconds before. He had been standing in his office, at the inward-facing window, looking down over the work ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-04 | Author:William Joyce [Joyce, William]

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Do Be Afraid of the Dark KATHERINE WAS SURROUNDED BY total darkness. She could see nothing. She couldn’t tell if her eyes were open or shut. She tried ...

epub |eng | 2012-06-26 | Author:Lisa McClatchy [McClatchy, Lisa]

If you come to my party, we’ll play pirates on my play set! Your tail will make a great slide! If you come to my party, we’ll play pin the ...

epub |eng | 2013-11-26 | Author:Gale Wiersum [Wiersum, Gale]

Four brown horses in their stalls, Snug within the stable walls, Tell of his birth:“’Twas long foretold By chosen men in days of old.” Five gray donkeys speak with pride, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-24 | Author:Dan Gutman & Dan Santat

WISH #9: I WISH WE COULD HAVE PERMANENT PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. Sophia raised her hand and said she chose that wish because she has relatives in Egypt. “Excellent!” ...

epub |eng | | Author:Joyce Sidman [Sidman, Joyce]

Cricket Speaks All day I wandered through the quiet, napping and gnawing. Waiting for the first chirp, the quickening voices, the raucous scrape of wing against wing. Now it is ...

epub |eng | 2013-08-05 | Author:Ilene Cooper [Cooper, Ilene]

Bobby lay in bed, looking up at the ceiling. He was wide-awake. Lucy was at his feet. Soft little snores meant that she was sleeping. Spending the afternoon with Cam ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-04-27 | Author:Roddy Doyle

hey sat in the kitchen. “Do ghosts drink tea?” “They don’t,” said Tansey. “But this ghost would love to see a cup of tea in front of her. It’d be ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-23 | Author:Kate Klimo [Klimo, Kate]

CHAPTER SIX THE VORTEX INTERCEPTOR When Emmy greeted Jesse and Daisy at the door to her room, they saw that her eyes burned feverishly. She was in desperate need of ...

epub |eng | 2009-03-24 | Author:Patricia MacLachlan

Chapter Six All through dinner there is no talk of White Cow. There is talk of Christmas and the town and books. “Do you want to make Christmas cookies tomorrow, ...

epub |eng | 2008-03-24 | Author:Dan Gutman

un-re-lent-ing Not easing or slackening, as in intensity, speed, or vigor. un-sta-ble Liable to change or fluctuate quickly, marked by emotional instability. un-u-su-al Not usual or ordinary, uncommon. V vi-cious ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:L. Frank Baum

* * * 7. The Great Battle Between Good and Evil Ak listened gravely to the recital of Claus, stroking his beard the while with the slow, graceful motion that ...

epub |eng | 2010-11-29 | Author:Wendy Mass [MASS, WENDY]

I find Lizzy on the top step, her face tilted up to the sun. Little Bobby and his mother are there, too, sitting in the shady part. “Jeremy,” Lizzy says, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2002-07-04 | Author:Coraline [Coraline]

IX. OUTSIDE, THE WORLD HAD become a formless, swirling mist with no shapes or shadows behind it, while the house itself seemed to have twisted and stretched. It seemed to ...

epub |eng | 2011-08-08 | Author:Rev. W. Awdry [Awdry, Rev W]

Percy found Kevin, and together they rolled to the Dieselworks. They stayed there all night—something no Steamie had ever done before. Back at the Steamworks the next day, Percy told ...