A Solitary Blue

Author : Cynthia Voigt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0689847998
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Solitary Blue written by Cynthia Voigt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-12-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Newbery Honor–winning installment of the Cynthia Voigt’s classic Tillerman series. Jeff Greene was only seven when he came home from school to find a note from his mother. She felt that the world needed her more than her “grown up” son did. For someone who believed she could see the world’s problems so clearly, she was blind to the heartache and difficulties she pushed upon her son, leaving him with his reserved, undemonstrative father. So when, years later, she invites Jeff to spend summers with her in Charleston, Jeff is captivated by her free spirit and warmth, and a happiness he’s been missing fills him. But Jeff's second visit ends with a devastating betrayal and an aching feeling of loneliness. In life, there can be emotional pits so deep that seemingly nothing will grow—but if he digs a little deeper, Jeff might just come out on the other side.

Author : Cynthia Voigt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0689310080
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Solitary Blue written by Cynthia Voigt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1983 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeff's mother, who deserted the family years before, reenters his life and widens the gap between Jeff and his father, a gap that only truth, love, and friendship can heal.

Author : Cynthia Voigt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442489251
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tell Me If the Lovers Are Losers written by Cynthia Voigt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life had always been predictable for Ann…until she met her college roommates, Niki and Hildy. Niki is always in motion, brash, often vulgar, with a philosophy of “win at any cost.” And Hildy’s aura of serene wisdom cloaks a most unusual way of looking at things. The trio becomes inseparable—until something happens that changes their lives forever.

Author : Cynthia Voigt
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780590467155
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When She Hollers written by Cynthia Voigt and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: YA. Powerful tale of sexual abuse.

Author : Cynthia Voigt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439132070
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homecoming written by Cynthia Voigt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The iconic start to the timeless, Newbery-winning series from Cynthia Voigt. “It’s still true.” That’s the first thing James Tillerman says to his older sister, Dicey, every morning. It’s still true that their mother has abandoned the four Tillermans in a mall parking lot somewhere in the middle of Connecticut. It’s still true that they have to find their own way to Great-aunt Cilla’s house in Bridgeport. It’s still true that they need to spend as little as possible on food and seek shelter anywhere that is out of view of the authorities. It’s still true that the only way they can hope to all stay together is to just keep moving forward. Deep down, Dicey hopes they can find someone to trust, someone who will take them in and love them. But she’s afraid it’s just too much to hope for....

Author : Albert Woodfox
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802146902
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Solitary written by Albert Woodfox and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An uncommonly powerful memoir about four decades in confinement . . . A profound book about friendship [and] solitary confinement in the United States.” —New York Times Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award Solitary is the unforgettable life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinement—in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell, twenty-three hours a day, in Louisiana’s notorious Angola prison—all for a crime he did not commit. That Albert Woodfox survived at all was a feat of extraordinary endurance. That he emerged whole from his odyssey within America’s prison and judicial systems is a triumph of the human spirit. While behind bars in his early twenties, Albert was inspired to join the Black Panther Party because of its social commitment and code of living. He was serving a fifty-year sentence in Angola for armed robbery when, on April 17, 1972, a white guard was killed. Albert and another member of the Panthers were accused of the crime and immediately put in solitary confinement. Without a shred of evidence against them, their trial was a sham of justice. Decades passed before Albert was finally released in February 2016. Sustained by the solidarity of two fellow Panthers, Albert turned his anger into activism and resistance. The Angola 3, as they became known, resolved never to be broken by the corruption that effectively held them for decades as political prisoners. Solitary is a clarion call to reform the inhumanity of solitary confinement in the United States and around the world.

Author : Cynthia Voigt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439105677
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Izzy, Willy-Nilly written by Cynthia Voigt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One moment can change a life forever. Fifteen-year-old Izzy has it all -- a loving family, terrific friends, a place on the cheerleading squad. But her comfortable world crumbles when a date with a senior ends in a car crash and she loses her right leg. Suddenly nothing is the same. The simplest tasks become enormous challenges. Her friends don't seem to know how to act around her. Her family is supportive, but they don't really want to deal with how much she's hurting. Then Rosamunde extends a prickly offer of friendship. Rosamunde definitely isn't the kind of girl Izzy would have been friends with in her old life. But Rosamunde may be the only person who can help Izzy face her new one.

Author : Cynthia Voigt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442489189
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sons from Afar written by Cynthia Voigt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will a common cause unite two brothers—or drive them further apart? Find out in the sixth installment of Cynthia Voigt’s Tillerman cycle. If James and Sammy Tillerman agree on anything, it’s that they have nothing in common. Sammy is a tough jock, while James is an intellectual who has begun to question his identity. Then James enlists his brother’s help to find Francis Verricker, who may be the father who deserted them long ago. Through this quest, the brothers learn more about themselves than they thought possible. Cynthia Voigt writes realistically of human failure—and triumph—in this poignant novel from her acclaimed Tillerman cycle.

Author : Cynthia Voigt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442489162
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Runner written by Cynthia Voigt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can run from something, or toward something—but can you do both at the same time? Book four in the Newbery-winning cycle from Cynthia Voigt. Bullet Tillerman runs. He runs to escape the criticism of his harsh, unforgiving father. He runs to numb the pain of his mother’s inability to express her love. He is the star of the school track team, but he isn’t a team man and doesn’t want to be. Bullet runs for himself. So Bullet doesn’t understand why he’s been asked to train a new team member, and he’s not looking forward to the task. But in coaching Tamer Shipp, Bullet learns some things about himself—who he is, and who he can perhaps become.

Author : Cynthia Voigt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442450606
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dicey's Song written by Cynthia Voigt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage.