Starbird Murphy And The World Outside

Author : Karen Finneyfrock
Publisher : Viking
ISBN 13 : 0670012769
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Starbird Murphy and the World Outside written by Karen Finneyfrock and published by Viking. This book was released on 2014 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Starbird has spent the first sixteen years of her life on a commune in the woods of Washington State. When she gets her Calling to become a waitress at the farm's satellite restaurant in Seattle, it means leaving behind the only place she's ever known and entering the World Outside"--

Author : Lucy Schall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Promoting Great Reads to Improve Teen Reading written by Lucy Schall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Support current educational initiatives with a ready-to-use tool that will help you with selection, motivation, and skill building relative to titles published within the last five years. New demands by Common Core and other national and state standards mean teachers and librarians need support in pairing high-interest content with skill building that speaks to those standards. This hands-on, research-based resource will help. Covering 100 titles, it guides you to topics, themes, values, and activities that meet national and state standards. The book's organization—by genres, topics, and themes—will enable librarians to serve customers with specific requests and help teachers build thematic units. Focusing on recent young adult fiction and nonfiction (2010–2014), the guide offers a succinct plot summary, links to popular themes and genres, indication of reading levels, and an engaging booktalk for each title. It also includes guidelines for further promoting each book and extending knowledge through discussion. The author, a former middle and high school teacher, demonstrates how you can foster close reading through paraphrasing, comparison, and response and explains how to strengthen critical thinking among teens. Lists of related titles and notes on gender appeal can be used for readers' advisory.

Author : Karen Finneyfrock
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101594047
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sweet Revenge of Celia Door written by Karen Finneyfrock and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That's the day the trouble started. The trouble that nearly ruined my life. The trouble that turned me Dark. The trouble that begs me for revenge. Celia Door enters her freshman year of high school with giant boots, dark eyeliner, and a thirst for revenge against Sandy Firestone, the girl who did something unspeakable to Celia last year. But then Celia meets Drake, the cool new kid from New York City who entrusts her with his deepest, darkest secret. When Celia's quest for justice threatens her relationship with Drake, she's forced to decide which is sweeter: revenge or friendship. This debut novel from Karen Finneyfrock establishes her as a bright, bold, razor-sharp new voice for teens, perfect for fans of The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Will Grayson, Will Grayson.

Author : Leo Hunt
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763692174
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eight Rivers of Shadow written by Leo Hunt and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a high-stakes sequel, reluctant necromancer Luke Manchett must call upon the most wicked and eerie ghosts of his dispelled Host to save two innocent souls. It’s been a few months since Luke Manchett inherited a Host of eight hostile spirits from his dead father and made a deal with the devil to banish them. Luke’s doing his best to blend in to the background of high school, to ignore the haunting dreams spawned by his father’s Book of Eight, and to enjoy the one good thing to come from the whole mess: his girlfriend, Elza. And then it all begins again. Ash, a strange new girl with stark white hair, requests his help—and his Book of Eight—to save her twin sister, who was attacked by a demon. Ash knows a lot more about necromancy than Luke and seems to know what she’s doing, but can she be trusted? As Luke is drawn into a spiral of ever more dangerous favors, he finds himself not only summoning the deadliest members of his father’s Host, but returning to Deadside in a terrifying quest to save what he holds dearest—or die trying.

Author : Karen Finneyfrock
Publisher : Speak
ISBN 13 : 0147509955
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sweet Revenge of Celia Door written by Karen Finneyfrock and published by Speak. This book was released on 2014 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ORevenge may be sweet, but the joys of friendship and following your own star prove even sweeter in this engaging, low-key novel about a creative, rebellious youngster.ON"Kirkus Reviews."

Author : Rachel Hawkins
Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons
ISBN 13 : 0399256946
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miss Mayhem written by Rachel Hawkins and published by G.P. Putnam's Sons. This book was released on 2015 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins is sassier than ever in this page-turning follow up to Rebel Belle, perfect for fans of Buffy and Veronica Mars. Life is almost back to normal for Harper Price. The Ephors have been silent after their deadly attack at Cotillion months ago, and best friend Bee has returned after a mysterious disappearance. Now Harper can return her focus to the important things in life: school, canoodling with David, her nemesis-turned-ward-slash-boyfie, and even competing in the Miss Pine Grove pageant. Unfortunately, supernatural chores are never done. The Ephors have decided they'd rather train David than kill him. The catch: Harper has to come along for the ride, but she can't stay David's Paladin unless she undergoes an an ancient trial that will either kill her . . . or make her more powerful than ever.

Author : Coleen Paratore
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101133791
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Pearl Among Princes written by Coleen Paratore and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-09-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gracepearl Coal is the cook’s daughter on Miramore, the island all princes visit for their summer program in the Charming Arts. Each year, the princes-in-training arrive on gallant seacraft, guided by captains trained to navigate the island’s treacherous waters. Passage on one of these boats is the only method to leave the island—thus betrothal to a royal is the only way for Pearl to find her far-off destiny, the one that’s started haunting her dreams. but how will Pearl leave behind her ailing father or—hardest of all—marry a boy other than her long-time beloved, Mackree . . . who now finds it too painful to even speak to her?

Author : Kim Ablon Whitney
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
ISBN 13 : 0375844228
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Other Half of Life written by Kim Ablon Whitney and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartbreaking novel based on the true story of a World War II voyage. In May of 1939, the SS St. Francis sets sail from Germany, carrying German Jews and other refugees away from Hitler’s regime. The passengers believe they are bound for freedom in Cuba and eventually the United States, but not all of them are celebrating. Fifteen-year-old Thomas is anxious about his parents and didn’t want to leave Germany: his father, a Jew, has been imprisoned and his mother, a Christian, is left behind, alone. Fourteen-yearold Priska has her family with her, and she’s determined to enjoy the voyage, looking forward to their new lives. Based on the true story of the MS St. Louis, this historical young adult novel imagines two travelers and the lives they may have lived until events, and immigration laws, conspired to change their fates. Kim Ablon Whitney did meticulous research on the voyage of the St. Louis to craft her compelling and moving story about this little-known event in history.

Author : Cara Haycak
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101032871
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living on Impulse written by Cara Haycak and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-08-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mia Morrow is impulsive, plain and simple. While her friends are concerned with grades and colleges, Mia would rather focus on the things that make her happy— like chasing boys or snatching something off a department store shelf. No big deal, right? But then Mia gets caught shoplifting, and her thoughtless behavior doesn’t just push her friends away, it gets her into a lot of trouble, too. In this eye-opening tale of friendships, family, and negative impulses, Cara Haycak subtly shows that the power to heal is within all of us, and it almost always starts with forgiveness.

Author : Seattle7Writers
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453212310
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hotel Angeline written by Seattle7Writers and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVThirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage. The result? Hotel Angeline, a truly inventive novel that surprises at every turn of the page./divDIV /div DIV /divDIVSomething is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mortuary perched atop Capitol Hill in rain-soaked Seattle. Fourteen-year-old Alexis Austin is fixing the plumbing, the tea, and all the problems of the world, it seems, in her landlady mother’s absence./divDIV /divDIVThe quirky tenants—a hilarious mix of misfits and rabble-rousers from days gone by—rely on Alexis all the more when they discover a plot to sell the Hotel. Can Alexis save their home? Find her real father? Deal with her surrogate dad’s dicey past? Find true love? Perhaps only their feisty pet crow, Habib, truly knows./divDIV /divDIVProvoking interesting questions about the creative process, this novel is by turns funny, scary, witty, suspenseful, beautiful, thrilling, and unexpected./div