Sapphire The Great And The Meaning Of Life

Author : Beverley Brenna
Publisher : Pajama Press Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1772780693
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sapphire the Great and the Meaning of Life written by Beverley Brenna and published by Pajama Press Inc.. This book was released on 2019-02-22 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s not every day you encounter a hamster experiencing an existential crisis, but Sapphire has spent her short pet-store life convinced that she’s waiting for…something. At first she thinks it’s to be FREE, but it may be possible that life has a greater purpose in store—a purpose Sapphire will discover thanks to a nine-year-old girl whose family is changing in ways she doesn’t quite understand. Jeannie’s dad has moved out, her mom is always tired and snappish, and her older brother just wants to play video games in his room all day. Jeannie doesn’t understand what’s going on, but she knows one thing: she really, REALLY wants a hamster. Her mom promised she could buy one with her Christmas money, but it’s been WEEKS since the holidays and Jeannie’s beginning to worry she’ll never get her pet. But maybe if she does, her dad will come to visit. Maybe a hamster will make everything better. Narrated by Jeannie and Sapphire in alternating chapters, Sapphire the Great and the Meaning of Life is a touching middle-grade novel by award-winning author Beverley Brenna that explores themes of family, friendship, togetherness, and self-identity. With a cast that includes a transgender neighbor, a father finally accepting his homosexuality, and a realistic protagonist who will appeal to fans of Ramona Quimby, Brenna’s latest offering is an age-appropriate introduction to some difficult subjects that also abounds with humor and poignancy.

Author : Douglas E. Christie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199812322
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blue Sapphire of the Mind written by Douglas E. Christie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Blue Sapphire of the Mind, Douglas E.

Author : Devin Scillian
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN 13 : 1627530088
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a Hamster written by Devin Scillian and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Night 1 / My life is perfect. / I have a bowl full of seeds, a cozy pile of wood shavings, and room to run. / I'm never leaving here. / Question: Who's the luckiest hamster in the world? / Answer: ME! Seymour the hamster has the perfect life. He has a spacious cage, a constant food supply, and a FuzzyBoy 360 exercise wheel that lets him run to his heart's content. Life could not be better. Or could it? When Pearl the cat tells Seymour of the goodies beyond the safe confines of his cage, he starts to think he's missing out. And out is the new in! It's only after Seymour is out of his cage that he begins to fully appreciate his safe and cozy home.

Author : Jenny Manzer
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1459818334
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Life as a Diamond written by Jenny Manzer and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartwarming, funny, fast-paced story about the bravery it takes to live as your true self, no matter the cost. Ten-year-old Caspar "Caz" Cadman loves baseball and has a great arm. He loves the sounds, the smells, the stats. When his family moves from Toronto to a suburb of Seattle, the first thing he does is try out for the local summer team, the Redburn Ravens. Even though Caz is thrilled when he makes the team, he worries because he has a big secret. No one in this city knows that before Caz told his parents he was a boy, he lived a very different life. It's nobody's business. Caz will tell his new friends when he's ready. But when a player on a rival team starts snooping around, Caz's past is revealed, and Caz worries it will be Toronto all over again. Will Caz's teammates rally behind their star pitcher? Or will Caz be betrayed once more?

Author : Sapphire
Publisher : Vintage Books
ISBN 13 : 9780307474841
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Push written by Sapphire and published by Vintage Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A courageous and determined young teacher opens up a new world of hope and redemption for sixteen-year-old Precious Jones, an abused young African American girl living in Harlem who was raped and left pregnant by her father.

Author : Caroline Stellings
Publisher : Second Story Press
ISBN 13 : 1772601748
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Cookie War written by Caroline Stellings and published by Second Story Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in her traditional Mennonite community is peaceful, if a little dull, for twelve-year-old Beth who dreams of being an artist. She goes to school, helps with the cooking and cleaning at home, and works with her parents at the local farmer’s market. One Saturday, however, excitement shows up in the form of a determined lawyer from New York City who insists she needs a family cookie recipe to win a multi-million-dollar lawsuit. Beth’s parents are bemused, but her grandmother is equally determined that the recipe will not leave her kitchen. As she tries to balance her love for her family and her faith with the promises of adventure New York could bring to her future, Beth learns that she is stronger than she believes. And sometimes, adventures happen close to home.

Author : Jeska Verstegen
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1646141180
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I'll Keep You Close written by Jeska Verstegen and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeska doesn't know why her mother keeps the curtains drawn so tightly every day. And what exactly is she trying to drown out when she floods the house with Mozart? What are they hiding from? When Jeska's grandmother accidentally calls her by a stranger's name, she seizes her first clue to uncovering her family's past, and hopefully to all that's gone unsaid. With the help of an old family photo album, her father's encyclopedia collection, and the unquestioning friendship of a stray cat, the silence begins to melt into frightening clarity: Jeska's family survived a terror that they’ve worked hard to keep secret all her life. And somehow, it has both nothing and everything to do with her, all at once. A true story of navigating generational trauma as a child, I'll Keep You Close is about what comes after disaster: how survivors move forward, what they bring with them when they do, and the promise of beginning again while always keeping the past close.

Author : Jessie Haas
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497662648
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Blue for Beware written by Jessie Haas and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named to the West Virginia Children’s Book Award Master List: In the first horse show with her new mare, Lily competes against her best friend for the blue ribbon Today’s the big day. Lily and her horse, Beware, are going to compete in the junior horse show. Lily’s best friend, Mandy, is also in the competition, riding her horse, Shane. When Lily and her mother and grandfather arrive, Mandy looks so grown up, like a rider in a magazine. And with his shining copper coat, Shane looks just like a show horse. Worried that Beware looks shaggy next to Shane, Lily brushes her until she’s sleek and polished. Then it’s time for Lily to get ready. She puts on her breeches and boots and tries to remember everything her grandfather taught her about riding. Will Lily and Beware walk away with the blue? And will Lily and Mandy still be best friends when it’s over?

Author : Pat Jacobs
Publisher : Pet Pals
ISBN 13 : 9780778735601
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hamster Pals written by Pat Jacobs and published by Pet Pals. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From where they sleep to what they eat and how you can make them feel safe and at home, this book gives you all the pet care advice you need to become a hamster's best pal. Learn the inside information on how hamsters communicate, what games they like to play, and how to understand their behavior, so you can build a bond with your pet that will last a lifetime.

Author : Hilda Gurley Highgate
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307419215
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sapphire's Grave written by Hilda Gurley Highgate and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debut of a major new talent, SAPPHIRE'S GRAVE tells the stories of several generations of African-American women, bringing their spirit and their sorrow to life with a power, sensitivity, and immediacy. In 1749 in Sierra Leone, a woman of fierce dignity is captured and forced onto a slave ship. On the harrowing voyage to the Americas, she is beaten for her unrelenting will and staunch pride. When she arrives, she gives birth to a daughter who is called Sapphire because of the "black-blue-black" complexion she shares with her mother. Sapphire has also inherited her mother's strength and defiant spirit, and despite a life of poverty and opression, she grows up to mother several daughters of her own. Even when tragedy strikes and part of Sapphire dies, her strength gives rise to a legend that will sustain the women who follow her, "each carrying something of her mother, her grandmother, her aunts; each passing on to her own daughters blessing and cursing, the consequences of her own choosing. Through the lives of Sapphire and her descendants, Hilda Gurley-Highgate not only creates a poignant and engrossing saga of black women in America, she brilliantly illuminates the meaning of roots and the links between women and their female ancestors, a tie that often appears tenuous, undefined, and distant, but is strong, palpable, and much closer than we imagine. Written in luminous prose, SAPPHIRE'S GRAVE is an astonishing work by an author poised to take the literary world by storm.