Lucy The Giant

Author : Sherri L. Smith
Publisher : Delacorte Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lucy the Giant written by Sherri L. Smith and published by Delacorte Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen-year-old Lucy, the largest girl in her school, leaves her small Alaska town and her alcoholic father and discovers hardship -- and friendship -- posing as an adult aboard a commercial fishing boat.

Author : Sherri L. Smith
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
ISBN 13 : 9780440229278
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lucy the Giant written by Sherri L. Smith and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucy Otswego is a big girl who towers over just about everyone and everything in her small Alaskan town, except for her father’s horrible reputation as a mean drunk. At 15, she runs away from the cruel classmates who see her only as “the Giant,” the embarrassed adults who pity her, and the abusive father whose fleeting attentiveness is worse than his indifference. When the crew of a crabbing boat assumes she’s much older than she is and invites her to join them for the season, she thrills at the possibility of escaping her teenaged life. Buoyed by the camaraderie and support of her new shipmates, Lucy quickly masters the mind-numbing cold and backbreaking work. But when her masquerade is threatened, she learns that there are no shortcuts to growing up. From the Hardcover edition.

Author : Katy Kelly
Publisher : Delacorte Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 038573204X
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lucy Rose written by Katy Kelly and published by Delacorte Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucy Rose records in her diary her special summer plans--to make a keychain for her mother, to help decorate the living room, to prevent her parents' divorce, to vanquish some squirrels, and to enjoy a ninth birthday adventure with her father.

Author : Carolyn Ashbaugh
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608462137
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lucy Parsons written by Carolyn Ashbaugh and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman ahead of her time, Lucy Parsons was an early American radical who defied all the conventions of her turbulent era. Born in 1853 in Texas, she was an outspoken black woman, radical writer and labour organiser. Parsons led the defence campaign for the 'Haymarket martyrs,' which included her husband Albert Parsons and remained active in the struggles of the oppressed throughout her life. This is the unique and inspiring story of a woman described in the 1920s by the Chicago police as 'more dangerous than a thousand rioters'.

Author : Lucy Dahl
Publisher : Random House Disney
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book James and the Giant Peach written by Lucy Dahl and published by Random House Disney. This book was released on 1996 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a glimpse into the life of Roald Dahl, author of "James and the Giant Peach, " and tells the story of how the book was made into a movie.

Author : Kevin Cornell
Publisher : Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 0374306087
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lucy Fell Down the Mountain written by Kevin Cornell and published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucy is having a terrible day. She's falling down a mountain. As she passes various characters--a mountain man, a bungeeing duck, and a pile of shuffling bears--she tries to ask for help. But everyone misinterprets her requests. As Lucy gains velocity, the story grows in silliness. Ending eventually in a giant, rolling snowball that lands Lucy safely at a hot-chocolate chalet. No harm done!With a perfect blend of Looney Tunes-style comedy and breezy short text, Lucy Fell Down the Mountain offers a simple solution to bad days: Just roll with it! In the tradition of When Sophie Gets Angry and Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible . . . Very Bad Day, Lucy's ability to face the day head-on--and then move on--will prove itself a new classic.

Author : Kate Bernheimer
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 1573661597
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Tales of Lucy Gold written by Kate Bernheimer and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2011-03-07 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a child, Lucy dreams of talking fairies and lives contentedly in the wooded suburbs of Boston; she grows up to be a successful animator of fairy-tale films. Or does she? She claims at moments to be a witch in the woods. Like her sisters, who appeared in Bernheimer’s first two novels (The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold and The Complete Tales of Merry Gold), Lucy has a secret, but she is unable to fasten onto anything but brightness. Novelist Donna Tartt writes, “Lucy’s particular brand of optimism, blind to its own shadow, is very American—she is innocence holding itself apart so fastidiously that it becomes its opposite.” This novel is a perfect end to the Gold family series, and the perfect introduction, for new readers, to Bernheimer’s enchanting body of work.

Author : Sherri L. Smith
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0142417254
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flygirl written by Sherri L. Smith and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Unbroken and Ruta Sepetys. All Ida Mae Jones wants to do is fly. Her daddy was a pilot, and years after his death she feels closest to him when she's in the air. But as a young black woman in 1940s Louisiana, she knows the sky is off limits to her, until America enters World War II, and the Army forms the WASP-Women Airforce Service Pilots. Ida has a chance to fulfill her dream if she's willing to use her light skin to pass as a white girl. She wants to fly more than anything, but Ida soon learns that denying one's self and family is a heavy burden, and ultimately it's not what you do but who you are that's most important. Read Sherri L. Smith's posts on the Penguin Blog

Author : Benjamin Elkin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lucky and the Giant written by Benjamin Elkin and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It may have been cleverness, it may have been luck, but Lucky outwits the giant and rescues his parents from enslavement.

Author : Gillian Rose
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590174119
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love's Work written by Gillian Rose and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love’s Work is at once a memoir and a book of philosophy. Written by the English philosopher Gillian Rose as she was dying of cancer, it is a book about both the fallibility and endurance of love, love that becomes real and endures through an ongoing reckoning with its own limitations. Rose looks back on her childhood, the complications of her parents’ divorce and her dyslexia, and her deep and divided feelings about what it means to be Jewish. She tells the stories of several friends also laboring under the sentence of death. From the sometimes conflicting vantage points of her own and her friends’ tales, she seeks to work out (seeks, because the work can never be complete—to be alive means to be incomplete) a distinctive outlook on life, one that will do justice to our yearning both for autonomy and for connection to others. With droll self knowledge (“I am highly qualified in unhappy love affairs,” Rose writes, “My earliest unhappy love affair was with Roy Rogers”) and with unsettling wisdom (“To live, to love, is to be failed”), Rose has written a beautiful, tender, tough, and intricately wrought survival kit packed with necessary but unanswerable questions.