The Death Defying Pepper Roux

Author : Geraldine McCaughrean
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9780061836657
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death-Defying Pepper Roux written by Geraldine McCaughrean and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2010-01-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pepper's fourteenth birthday is a momentous one. It's the day he's supposed to die. Everyone seems resigned to it—even Pepper, although he would much prefer to live. But can you sidestep Fate? Jump sideways into a different life? NaÏve and trusting, Pepper sets a course through dangerous waters, inviting disaster and mayhem at every turn, one eye on the sky for fear of angels, one on the magnificent possibilities of being alive. New York Times bestselling and Printz Award-winning author Geraldine McCaughrean has created a gripping tale filled with dark humor and daring escapades, where the key to a boy's life lies in facing his own death. Join him on the run—if you can keep up.

Author : Gary Paulsen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0027702219
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Woodsong written by Gary Paulsen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1990 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a rugged outdoor man and his family, life in northern Minnesota is a wild experience involving wolves, deer, and the sled dogs that make their way of life possible. Includes an account of the author's first Iditarod, a dogsled race across Alaska.

Author : Geraldine McCaughrean
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192751577
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kite Rider written by Geraldine McCaughrean and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up and up the wind drew him. Haoyou looked about him and saw the wholeworld beneath him. And it was his. The Great Miao, master of the Jade Circus, offers Haoyou the amazing chance to escape his family's poverty -- by becoming a kite rider. Strapped onto a beautiful scarlet-and-gold kite, Haoyou is sent into the sky, earning money, freedom, and unexpected fame. Miao even plans for Haoyou to perform before Kublai Khan himself. From Carnegie Medalist Geraldine McCaughrean comes a dazzling story of adventure, betrayal, family, and sacrifice set in the dramatic world of thirteenth-century China.

Author : Vikki Wakefield
Publisher : Hot Key Books
ISBN 13 : 1471401367
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Friday Brown written by Vikki Wakefield and published by Hot Key Books. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They call me Friday. It has been foretold that on a Saturday I will drown ... Friday Brown was saved by Silence. Brought up travelling the endless roads of the Australian wilds, Friday's past was shaped by stories, told dreamily by her mother around glowing campfires and on the edge of endless plains. But her mother's death left Friday lost, and running from a family curse that may or may not be real. Desperate and alone in the middle of a strange city, a voiceless boy with white-blond hair and silver eyes appeared from nowhere, stole her heart and took her home. Friday is welcomed by a strange gang of lost kids and runaways. Led by the beautiful but fearsome Arden, the group live an underground life in the city, begging, stealing and performing to keep themselves alive. But when Silence returns to the house covered in someone else's blood and terrified, the gang escape to an outback ghost town, leaving everything behind. Murungal Creek is abandoned, desolate and full of empty promises. Life in Arden's gang starts to unravel, and the anger, lies and deceit that have been hidden for so long start to float to the surface. Having been swept along by the currents of life for as long as she can remember, Friday suddenly finds herself struggling to stay afloat, and alive. As devastation threatens, Friday must face up to her past, and fight, for the first time in her life. From the winner of the Adelaide Festival Award for Literature, 2012, FRIDAY BROWN is a remarkable story, described by the Weekend Australian as a story with 'characters so palpable you can imagine passing them in the street.'

Author : Geraldine McCaughrean
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192752666
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stop the Train written by Geraldine McCaughrean and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1893 and for Cissy and her family, a new life beckons on the prairies of Oklahoma. Along with other settlers, they travel to Florence - a town yet to be built - and prepare for business alongside the Red Rock Railroad track. But the railroad company has other ideas. It wants to buy the land for itself - and when the settlers refuse to sell, the railroad boss swears his trains will never stop in Florence again. Without the train, there is no way the town can survive. So Cissy, her friends, family, and neighbours resolve to stop that train, come what may - by fair means or foul...

Author : Cynthia Levinson
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1561458449
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We've Got a Job written by Cynthia Levinson and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiring story of the 1963 Birmingham Children's March as seen through the eyes of four young people at the center of the action. The 1963 Birmingham Children's March was a turning point in American civil rights history. Black Americans had had enough of segregation and police brutality, but with their lives and jobs at stake, most adults were hesitant to protest the city's racist culture. So the fight for civil rights lay in the hands of children like Audrey Hendricks, Wash Booker, James Stewart, and Arnetta Streeter. We've Got a Job tells the little-known story of the four thousand Black elementary, middle, and high school students who answered Dr. Martin Luther King's call to "fill the jails." Between May 2 and May 11, 1963, these young people voluntarily went to jail, drawing national attention to the cause, helping bring about the repeal of segregation laws, and inspiring thousands of other young people to demand their rights. Drawing on her extensive research and in-depth interviews with participants, award-winning author Cynthia Levinson recreates the events of the Birmingham Children's March from a new and very personal perspective. Archival photography and informational sidebars throughout. Back matter includes an afterword, author's note, timeline, map, and bibliography.

Author : Geraldine McCaughrean
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416958169
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peter Pan in Scarlet written by Geraldine McCaughrean and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first-ever authorized sequel to J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan! In August 2004 the Special Trustees of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, who hold the copyright in Peter Pan, launched a worldwide search for a writer to create a sequel to J. M. Barrie's timeless masterpiece. Renowned and multi award-winning English author Geraldine McCaughrean won the honor to write this official sequel, Peter Pan in Scarlet. Illustrated by Scott M. Fischer and set in the 1930s, Peter Pan in Scarlet takes readers flying back to Neverland in an adventure filled with tension, danger, and swashbuckling derring-do!

Author : Louis Sachar
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 140880851X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cardturner written by Louis Sachar and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Alton's ageing, blind uncle asks him to attend bridge games with him, he agrees. After all, it's better than a crappy summer job in the local shopping mall, and Alton's mother thinks it might secure their way to a good inheritance sometime in the future. But, like all apparently casual choices in any of Louis Sachar's wonderful books, this choice soon turns out to be a lot more complex than Alton could ever have imagined. As his relationship with his uncle develops, and he meets the very attractive Toni, deeply buried secrets are uncovered and a romance that spans decades is finally brought to conclusion. Alton's mother is in for a surprise!

Author : Michael Winerip
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763654264
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adam Canfield of the Slash written by Michael Winerip and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Between laughs, readers will be prompted to think — about what constitutes truth, how the media massages it, and the importance of ethics, fairness, and getting the facts right." — Publishers Weekly (starred review) Adam Canfield has to be the most overprogrammed middle-school student in America. So when super-organized Jennifer coaxes him to be coeditor of their school newspaper, THE SLASH, he wonders if he’s made a big mistake. But when a third-grader’s article leads to a big scoop, Adam and his fellow junior journalists rise to the challenge of receiving their principal’s wrath to uncover some scandalous secrets. From a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and New York Times columnist comes a funny, inspiring debut that sneaks in some lessons on personal integrity — and captures the rush that’s connected to the breaking of a really great story.

Author : Paul De Kruif
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Microbe Hunters written by Paul De Kruif and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1927.