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I Rode A Horse Of Milk White Jade
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Book Synopsis I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade by : Diane Wilson
Download or read book I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade written by Diane Wilson and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving and heartfelt story about the lengths one would go to help their family When Oyuna was a baby, a horse accidentally crushed her foot, cursing her family with bad luck. Oyuna vows to restore good fortune to her family...but how? One fateful day, soldiers from the great Khan's army invade her village to steal horses and gather new soldiers. In hopes of bringing honor to her family, Oyuna courageously disguises herself as a boy and joins the soldiers on their quest. With only her horse and her cat to keep her company, Oyuna sets off on an amazing journey across deserts and mountains—a journey that will change her life forever. "No ordinary horse story...Horse lovers or not, readers will be riveted."—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "Ambitious and fast-moving."—New York Times
Book Synopsis Seven Daughters and Seven Sons by : Barbara Cohen
Download or read book Seven Daughters and Seven Sons written by Barbara Cohen and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1994-10-19 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an ancient Arab nation, one woman dares to be different.Buran cannot -- Buran will not-sit quietly at home and wait to be married to the man her father chooses. Determined to use her skills and earn a fortune, she instead disguises herself as a boy and travels by camel caravan to a distant city. There, she maintains her masculine disguise and establishes a successful business. The city's crown prince comes often to her shop, and soon Buran finds herself falling in love. But if she reveals to Mahmud that she is a woman, she will lose everything she has worked for.
Book Synopsis Black Storm Comin' by : DIANE LEE WILSON
Download or read book Black Storm Comin' written by DIANE LEE WILSON and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WANTED: Young, skinny, wiry fellows not over eighteen. Must be expert riders. Willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred. When Colton Wescott sees this sign for the Pony Express, he thinks he has the solution to his problems. He's stuck with his ma and two younger sisters on the wrong side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, with no way to get across. They were on the wagon train heading to California when Pa accidentally shot Colton and then galloped away. Ma is sick, and Colton needs money to pay the doctor. He'd make good money as a Pony rider. he also needs to get to California to deliver freedom papers to Ma's sister, a runaway slave. The Pony Express could get him there too... Does Colton have what it takes to be a Pony Express rider? And if so, will traveling the dangerous route over the mountains bring him closer to family, freedom, and everything he holds dear?
Book Synopsis Twice Upon a Marigold by : Jean Ferris
Download or read book Twice Upon a Marigold written by Jean Ferris and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009-04-06 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of zany humor, this sequel to "Once Upon a Marigold" continues the story of Christian and Marigold, who are living happily ever after now that Queen Olympia has gone--or has she?
Download or read book Shadow Spinner written by Susan Fletcher and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every night, Shahrazad begins a story. And every morning, the Sultan lets her live another day -- providing the story is interesting enough to capture his attention. After almost one thousand nights, Shahrazad is running out of tales. And that is how Marjan's story begins.... It falls to Marjan to help Shahrazad find new stories -- ones the Sultan has never heard before. To do that, the girl is forced to undertake a dangerous and forbidden mission: sneak from the harem and travel the city, pulling tales from strangers and bringing them back to Shahrazad. But as she searches the city, a wonderful thing happens. From a quiet spinner of tales, Marjan suddenly becomes the center of a more surprising story than she ever could have imagined.
Book Synopsis The Revenge of the Forty-Seven Samurai by : Erik Christian Haugaard
Download or read book The Revenge of the Forty-Seven Samurai written by Erik Christian Haugaard and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1995 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fourteen-year-old serving boy finds himself surrounded by suspicion and betrayal as his master gathers a group of samurai to avenge Lord Asano's death.
Book Synopsis Becoming Ben Franklin by : Russell Freedman
Download or read book Becoming Ben Franklin written by Russell Freedman and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1723 Ben Franklin arrived in Philadelphia as a poor and friendless seventeen-year-old who had run away from his family and an apprenticeship in Boston. Sixty-two years later he stepped ashore in nearly the same spot but was greeted by cannons, bells, and a cheering crowd, now a distinguished statesman, renowned author, and world-famous scientist. Freedman's riveting story of how a rebellious apprentice became an American icon comes in an elegantly designed book filled with art and includes a timeline, source notes, bibliography, and index
Book Synopsis Ali and the Golden Eagle by : Wayne Grover
Download or read book Ali and the Golden Eagle written by Wayne Grover and published by Greenwillow. This book was released on 1993 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American working in Saudi Arabia befriends a boy from a remote village and helps him train an eagle to hunt.
Download or read book Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum written by and published by Aladdin Books. This book was released on 1987-05-31 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are five Nigerian folktales, retold in language as rhythmic as the beat of the story-drum, and illustrated with vibrant, evocative woodcuts.
Book Synopsis The Horse and his Boy by : C. S. Lewis
Download or read book The Horse and his Boy written by C. S. Lewis and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Horse and his Boy" by C. S. Lewis. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Book Synopsis The Ghost of Fossil Glen by : Cynthia DeFelice
Download or read book The Ghost of Fossil Glen written by Cynthia DeFelice and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ghost of Fossil Glen gripping ghost story and murder mystery by a popular and highly regarded author. Allie Nichols knows she's being pursued by a ghost. But her friend Karen calls her a liar and doesn't want to hear "stuff like that." It is Allie's old pal Dub who listens eagerly as Allie tells him about a voice that guides her safely down a steep cliff side, the face in her mind's eye of a girl who begs "Help me," and a terrible nightmare in which that girl falls to her death. Who is the girl? Is she the ghost? And what does the ghost want from Allie? As Allie discovers that her role is to avenge a murder, she also learns something about friendship, false and true, in the latest chilling tale from best selling author Cynthia DeFelice.
Download or read book The Turning written by Gloria Whelan and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Soviet Union crumbles, one ballerina dreams of Paris It is 1991, and revolution is coming to the Soviet Union, but in Leningrad, life goes on as it always has. Food is scarce and luxuries are few, but for a young dancer named Tanya, life is a beautiful dream. She dances all day and all night, performing on the stage of the greatest theater in Russia. Her family has sacrificed everything for her dream, and their efforts are finally paying off. Soon the company will tour Europe, and Tanya will see Paris—a city so beautiful that she has begun to contemplate the unthinkable: leaving the Soviet Union forever. Paris offers a chance for defection, which would mean saying good-bye to her family. But as the group prepares for the trip, politics and romance tempt her to stay in Leningrad. Soon Tanya must choose her path. Does her future lie in Paris—or in a new Russia?
Download or read book Firehorse written by Diane Lee Wilson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen-year-old Rachel is furious and lonely when her father moves the family to Boston in 1872—especially since she had to sell her beloved horse. But in Boston she finds the Governor’s Girl, an injured firehorse, and begins caring for her and thinking about becoming a veterinarian. Then an outbreak of fires causes Rachel to question the ethics of her journalist father, and when the horses who pull the fire engines fall ill, the danger escalates. In a dramatic climax, the Great Boston Fire of 1872 is brought to life with cinematic vividness, and Rachel proves her grit and determination to make something of herself.
Download or read book Raven Speak written by Diane Lee Wilson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-04-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asa is the daughter of a Viking chief whose clan is struggling to survive a never-ending winter. All the able-bodied men head to sea in search of food, leaving behind the children, the elderly, the sick—and Jorgen the skald, the wise man who will stop at nothing to take over the clan. When Asa learns the skald wants to kill and eat her beloved horse, she runs away. But then she meets a strange woman who talks to her two pet ravens, and who warns Asa she’ll have to make a great sacrifice to save her clan. Now Asa must face the biggest challenge of her life in this eerie, absorbing adventure tale.
Book Synopsis The Voyage of Patience Goodspeed by : Heather Vogel Frederick
Download or read book The Voyage of Patience Goodspeed written by Heather Vogel Frederick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: October 1835. Patience Goodspeed, almost thirteen years old, departs from Nantucket aboard her father's whaling ship. Between kitchen duty and whale blubber stench, this voyage is far from a pleasure cruise. At least Papa lets Patience assist the ship's navigator since she's so good at calculations. But the smooth sailing doesn't last long. Mutinous mates maroon most of the crew, including Patience's father and brother, on a deserted island. Can Patience rescue everyone before it's too late?
Book Synopsis To Ride the Gods' Own Stallion by : Diane Wilson
Download or read book To Ride the Gods' Own Stallion written by Diane Wilson and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Better that you'd never been born," his father had said. Soulai is not brave like his sister. Nor is he a skilled craftsman like his father. And when Soulai accidentally burns down his family's home, his father gives up. He sells Soulai into slavery for five years to pay off the debt. While working in the royal stables, Soulai meets a horse unlike any other-a stallion named Ti. Like Soulai, the stallion is owned by the spoiled young Prince Habasle. But unlike Soulai, the stallion is respected by all and thought to be marked for glory by the gods. Soulai realizes what he must do to escape his enslavement-befriend the stallion to prove that he's bound for his own land of greatness. "It's gripping, vivid storytelling." -Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review "A plot full of...action...and intrigue." -School Library Journal "[Readers] will be rewarded with an exciting adventure." - Voya
Book Synopsis The Dream Coach ... by : Anne Parrish
Download or read book The Dream Coach ... written by Anne Parrish and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five stories set in the Land of Dreams.
