The Island On Bird Street

Author : Uri Orlev
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395616239
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Island on Bird Street written by Uri Orlev and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1984 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel about the experiences of a Jewish boy and his father during the Holocaust in Poland.

Author : Uri Orlev
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0618957065
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Run, Boy, Run written by Uri Orlev and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Run, Boy, Run is the extraordinary account of one boy's survival of the Holocaust. Srulik is only eight years old when he finds himself all alone in the Warsaw ghetto. He escapes into the countryside where he spends the ensuing years hiding in the forest, dependent on the sympathies and generosity of the poor farmers in the surrounding area. Despite the seemingly insurmountable odds, several chases, captures, attempted executions, and even the loss of his arm, Srulik miraculously survives.

Author : Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Publisher : Chicken House
ISBN 13 : 1911077473
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Island at the End of Everything written by Kiran Millwood Hargrave and published by Chicken House. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ami lives on Culion, an island for people who have leprosy. Her mother is infected. She loves her home - but then islanders untouched by sickness are forced to leave. Ami's desperate to return before her mother's death. She finds a strange and fragile hope in a colony of butterflies. Can they lead her home before it's too late?

Author : John Berendt
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0679429220
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil written by John Berendt and published by Random House. This book was released on 1994-01-13 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic of true crime, set in a most beguiling Southern city—now in a 30th anniversary edition with a new afterword by the author “Elegant and wicked . . . might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime.”—The New York Times Book Review Shots rang out in Savannah’s grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. In this sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative, John Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case. It is a spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman’s Card Club; the turbulent young gigolo; the hapless recluse who owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern belle who is the “soul of pampered self-absorption”; the uproariously funny drag queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer; the sweet-talking, piano-playing con artist; young people dancing the minuet at the black debutante ball; and Minerva, the voodoo priestess who works her magic in the graveyard at midnight. These and other Savannahians act as a Greek chorus, with Berendt revealing the alliances, hostilities, and intrigues that thrive in a town where everyone knows everyone else. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a sublime and seductive reading experience.

Author : Uri Orlev
Publisher : Taplinger Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lead Soldiers written by Uri Orlev and published by Taplinger Publishing Company. This book was released on 1979 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this novel "the Nazi occupation of Poland is seen through the eyes of a samll boy, Yurik, who with his younger brother, Kazik, manages to survive by transmuting the horrors around them into an ingenious series of children's games."

Author : Pete Hautman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439107041
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Invisible written by Pete Hautman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You could say that my railroad, the Madham Line, is almost the most important thing in my life. Next to Andy Morrow, my best friend. Lots of people think Doug Hanson is a freak -- he gets beat up after school, and the girl of his dreams calls him a worm. Doug's only refuge is creating an elaborate bridge for the model railroad in his basement and hanging out with his best friend, Andy Morrow, a popular football star who could date any girl in school. Doug and Andy talk about everything -- except what happened at the Tuttle place a few years back. It does not matter to Andy that we live in completely different realities. I'm Andy's best friend. It does not matter to Andy that we hardly ever actually do anything together. As Doug retreats deeper and deeper into his own reality, long-buried secrets threaten to destroy both Doug and Andy -- and everything else in Doug's fragile world.

Author : Walter Dean Myers
Publisher : Carolrhoda Lab ®
ISBN 13 : 1606841963
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Riot written by Walter Dean Myers and published by Carolrhoda Lab ®. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Civil War rages, another battle breaks out behind the lines. During a long hot July in 1863, the worst race riots the United States has ever seen erupt in New York City. Earlier that year, desperate for more Union soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln instituted a draft—a draft that would allow the wealthy to escape serving in the army by paying a $300 waiver, more than a year's income for the recent immigrant Irish. And on July 11, as the first drawing takes place in Lower Manhattan, the city of New York explodes in rage and fire. Stores are looted; buildings, including the Colored Foundling Home, are burned down; and black Americans are attacked, beaten, and murdered. The police cannot hold out against the rioters, and finally, battle-hardened soldiers are ordered back from the fields of Gettysburg to put down the insurrection, which they do—brutally. Fifteen-year-old Claire, the beloved daughter of a black father and Irish mother, finds herself torn between the two warring sides. Faced with the breakdown of the city—the home—she has loved, Claire must discover the strength and resilience to address the new world in which she finds herself, and to begin the hard journey of remaking herself and her identity. Addressing such issues as race, bigotry, and class head-on, Walter Dean Myers has written another stirring and exciting novel that will shake up assumptions, and lift the spirit.

Author : Uri Orlev
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780395699577
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lady with the Hat written by Uri Orlev and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yulek, a Holocaust survivor, finds himself tragically alone at war's end. Hoping to begin again, he makes his way to Palestine, where he meets a Jewish girl named Theresa. Together they struggle to rediscover the joy of living.

Author : Tim Laman
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426209584
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birds of Paradise written by Tim Laman and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dazzling photo essay, Laman and Scholes present gorgeous full-color photographs of all 39 species of the Birds of Paradise that highlight their unique and extraordinary plumage and mating behavior.

Author : Uri Orlev
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780395656600
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lydia, Queen of Palestine written by Uri Orlev and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten-year-old Lydia describes her childhood escapades in pre-World War II Romania, her struggles to understand her parents' divorce amid the chaos of the war, and her life on a kibbutz in Palestine. Based on the life of the Israeli poet Arianna Haran.