Look Out For The Fitzgerald Trouts

Author : Esta Spalding
Publisher : Tundra Books
ISBN 13 : 177049877X
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Look Out for the Fitzgerald-Trouts written by Esta Spalding and published by Tundra Books. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kim Fitzgerald-Trout took to driving with ease--as most children would if their parents would ever let them try. She had to. After all, she and her siblings live in a car. Meet the Fitzgerald-Trouts, a band of four loosely related children living together on a lush tropical island. They take care of themselves. They sleep in their car, bathe in the ocean, eat fish they catch and fruit they pick, and can drive anywhere they need to go--to the school, the laundromat, or the drive-in. If they put their minds to it, the Fitzgerald-Trouts can do anything. Even, they hope, find a real home. Award-winning poet and screenwriter Esta Spalding's exciting middle grade debut establishes a marvelous place where children fend for themselves, and adults only seem to ruin everything. This extraordinary world is brought to vibrant life by Sydney Smith, the celebrated artist behind Sidewalk Flowers.

Author : Esta Spalding
Publisher : Tundra Books
ISBN 13 : 0735264538
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shout Out for the Fitzgerald-Trouts written by Esta Spalding and published by Tundra Books. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third book in a Dahl-esque middle-grade series by award-winning poet and screenwriter Esta Spalding. The plucky Fitzgerald-Trout siblings (who live on a tropical island where the grown-ups are useless but the kids can drive) are back! After losing the boat that had become their home, oldest Fitzgerald-Trout, Kim, has put finding a home back on her to-do list. When her sixth-grade history assignment offers a clue about the ruins of a volcanic house built by an explorer on Mount Muldoon, she and her siblings set out to find it. The castle they discover surpasses their wildest dreams. But having a permanent home offers more challenges than the Fitzgerald-Trouts expect, especially when they begin to suspect their home is haunted. The siblings must figure out how to fix the cracks in their family foundation before one of them is lost for good.

Author : Esta Spalding
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 1443402400
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mere written by Esta Spalding and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mere’s young life is confined to the wind and water, the boat that she lives on docking only long enough to stop at the grocery store or visit the library, but never long enough to take out any books. That would mean having a library card, and a library card would mean revealing your name on a government form. Mere, her mother, Faye, and Mark, the mysterious teenage runaway who shares their boat, seem destined to sail around the Great Lakes forever, navigating the Persephone through the deep waters, stopping in Toronto twice a year to pick up envelopes of cash left with the dockmaster. Faye is a fugitive, still pursued for her part in the violent one-year anniversary events marking Chicago’s 1968 “Days of Rage”—a seminal student protest against the Vietnam war. Now Merril, Mere’s father, has suddenly appeared on the boat after many years. The authorities are looking for him and Faye is his ticket to freedom. But, in a desperate bid for her own adolescent freedom, Mere makes a choice that will change everything. Mere is a wonderfully electric novel about the inexorable bond between mothers and daughters, written by two of Canada’s most talented writers—themselves mother and daughter. Rich in its allegorical and sociological strands, it reaches into the Greek myth of Persephone; it explores a woman’s primeval need to protect her child; and it lays bare the explosive events of a touchstone period in our history. A novel of choices and consequences, betrayal and atonement, Mere builds lyrically to a shattering climax, an ending that haunts long after the last page is turned.

Author : Dave Eggers
Publisher : Pushkin Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 1782692088
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Captain Nemo written by Dave Eggers and published by Pushkin Children's Books. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Don't you worry, son. Whatever it is that's been killing the sailors, I will kill it." In this science-fiction classic - reimagined by Dave Eggers in modern times, and from the point of view of the fourteen-year-old Consuelo - the famous oceanographer Pierre Arronax sets sail from New York to hunt down a mysterious sea-monster which has been terrorizing the oceans, wrecking ship after ship and causing countless deaths. But they discover an even stranger truth: the "sea-monster" is in fact a submarine, captained by Nemo, who is living in self-imposed exile in international waters. Consuelo and Arronax join Nemo on the submarine, and so begin their exciting adventures ... Dave Eggers says, of the series: "I couldn't be prouder to be a part of it. Ever since Alessandro conceived this idea I thought it was brilliant. The editions that they've complied have been lushly illustrated and elegantly designed."

Author : Sally Murphy
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763659215
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toppling written by Sally Murphy and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his best friend falls ill, John learns poignant lessons about loyalty, silliness and loss when he is challenged to discover new ways to spend time with those closest to him.

Author : Diane Stanley
Publisher : Hyperion
ISBN 13 : 9780786802562
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elena written by Diane Stanley and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 1996 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Mexican American girl recounts how her mother moved the family to America during the Mexican Revolution.

Author : Liz Pichon
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
ISBN 13 : 1443124397
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Excellent Excuses (and Other Good Stuff) (Tom Gates #2) written by Liz Pichon and published by Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Gates, master of excuses, expert doodler and hilarious story writer is back -- and making the most of his holiday! No school for two whole weeks leaves Tom with tons of time for the important things in life. He can forget all about school and the irritating Marcus Meldrew, and save his energy for the good stuff! Stuff like: inventing new ways to annoy his sister Delia (so many); band practice for the Dogzombies (rock stars in the making!); watching TV and eating caramel wafers; eating caramel wafers and watching TV. Excellent. Of course, he still has to do his book report for Mr. Keen... Full of Tom's honest, silly, laugh-out-loud funny scribbles and stories -- and a doodle-filled glossary to help Canadian kids make sense of British terms (what IS a caramel wafer, anyway?) -- this follow-up to the Roald Dahl Funny Prize winner The Brilliant World of Tom Gates is guaranteed to have readers in stitches!

Author : Michael Ondaatje
Publisher : Bloomsbury Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780747561750
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Classics written by Michael Ondaatje and published by Bloomsbury Paperbacks. This book was released on 2003 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a compendium of short essays by some of the world's finest writers on books that have inspired and influenced them, but are no longer available, or are hard to find, or under-appreciated.

Author : Sara Cassidy
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1459821653
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nevers written by Sara Cassidy and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resourceful fourteen-year-old Odette is on the move again, traveling as a stowaway on a cheese cart with her hapless mother, Anneline. They are in Burgundy, France, in 1799, fleeing yet another calamity caused by Anneline (who is prone to killing people accidentally). At dawn they find themselves in a town called Nevers, which is filled with eccentric characters, including a man who obsessively smells hands, another who dreams of becoming a chicken and a donkey that keeps the town awake at night, braying about his narrow life. As Odette establishes a home in an abandoned guardhouse, she makes a friend in the relaxed Nicois and finds work as a midwife's assistant. She and Nicois uncover a mystery that may lead to riches and, more important for Odette, a sense of belonging.

Author : Anne Nesbet
Publisher : Candlewick
ISBN 13 : 1536206199
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daring Darleen, Queen of the Screen written by Anne Nesbet and published by Candlewick. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a publicity stunt goes terribly wrong, twelve-year-old Darleen Darling, star of the silent film era, must defeat villains both on screen and off in this edge-of-your-seat adventure. Lights! Camera! Kidnapping? It’s 1914, and Darleen Darling’s film adventures collide with reality when a fake kidnapping set up by her studio becomes all too real. Suddenly Darleen finds herself in the hands of dastardly criminals who have just nabbed Miss Victorine Berryman, the poor-little-rich-girl heiress of one of America’s largest fortunes. Soon real life starts to seem like a bona fide adventure serial, complete with dramatic escapes, murderous plots, and a runaway air balloon. Will Darleen and Victorine be able to engineer their own happily-ever-after, or will the villains be victorious?