Cynthia Voigt3.7 This is the sequel to HOMECOMING and is the winner of the winner of the Newberry Award. Here Dicey (our courageous protagonist) and her siblings are adjusting to life on a farm with their grandmother. But Dicey has new conflicts--puberty and the longing for her dying mother. Of the 300 top selling mass market books Ballantine has published in the past year, DICEY'S SONG ranks as number 44. Free Teacher's Guide available (394-21872). --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Робин Маккинли4.0 Затерянное в горах королевство Дамар помнит и чтит леди Аэрин, королеву былых времен. Много веков назад благодаря ей в Дамар вернулась Корона Героев и в стране на долгие годы воцарился мир. Но теперь демоны с Севера вновь собирают силы, а дамарцев слишком мало, чтобы противостоять им… Надежды почти не осталось, однако древняя магия дамарской земли подсказала королю Корлату, что судьба его страны зависит от девушки с далеких Островов, где люди не верят в волшебство.
И вот Харри Крюи, приехавшей в далекую и дикую провинцию без приданого и каких-либо видов на будущее, предстоит покинуть дом, войти в походный шатер горного короля, стать лучшей среди его воинов, принять из его рук легендарный меч леди Аэрин и отправиться навстречу опасности. Но пока она еще не знает, что судьба не оставила ей выбора: в ее крови, ожидая своего часа, дремлет древняя магия, а в ее сердце — любовь...
William Steig4.0 "Doctor De Soto, the dentist, did very good work." With the aid of his able assistant, Mrs. De Soto, he copes with the toothaches of animals large and small. His expertise is so great that his fortunate patients never feel any pain.
Since he's a mouse, Doctor De Soto refuses to treat "dangerous" animals--that is, animals who have a taste for mice. But one day a fox shows up and begs for relief from the tooth that's killing him. How can the kindhearted De Sotos turn him away? But how can they make sure that the fox doesn't give in to his baser instincts once his tooth is fixed? Those clever De Sotos will find a way.
Virginia Hamilton0.0 Why had he come to her, with his dark secrets from a long-ago past? What was the purpose of their strange, haunting journeys back into her own childhood? Was it to help Dab, her retarded older brother, wracked with mysterious pain who sometimes took more care and love than Tree had to give? Was it for her mother, Vy, who loved them the best she knew how, but wasn't home enough to ease the terrible longing?
Whatever secrets his whispered message held, Tree knew she must follow. She must follow Brother Rush through the magic mirror, and find out the truth. About all of them
Пол Флейшман0.0 Paul Fleischman spins three engrossing stories about the unexpected ways an artist's creations reveal truths - tales whose intriguing plots and many moods will entertain readers and inspire future writers.
Can wood, copper, or marble communicate? They can if they are the graven images in Newbery Medalist Paul Fleischman's trio of eerie, beguiling short stories. If you whisper a secret into a wooden statue's ear, will anyone find out? Can a wobbly weathervane bearing the image of Saint Crispin, the patron saint of shoemakers, steer a love-struck apprentice toward the girl of his dreams? And if a ghost hires a sculptor to carve a likeness of him holding a drink to a baby's lips, what ghastly crime might lie behind his request? And, in a brand-new afterword, the acclaimed storyteller reveals how he found his own author's voice.
Жан Фриц0.0 This is the twenty-fifth anniversary of Jean Fritz's award-winning account of her life in China, and to honor this story, it is only fitting that it be added to our prestigious line of Puffin Modern Classics. This fictionalized autobiography tells the heartwarming story of a little girl growing up in an unfamiliar place. While other girls her age were enjoying their childhood in America, Jean Fritz was in China in the midst of political unrest. Jean Fritz tells her captivating story of the difficulties of living in a unfamiliar country at such a difficult time.
