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Loretta Mason Potts

Author : Mary Chase
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590177584
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Loretta Mason Potts written by Mary Chase and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine how shocked you would be if, like ten-year-old Colin Mason, you were the oldest (smartest, best) kid in a family of four, and then you found out that all these years, without knowing it, you’ve had an older sister, an “awful, awful, bad, bad, girl—Loretta Mason Potts.” Who? What? Wait! ... But this is only the first of many surprises that lie in store for Colin, as things get curiouser and curiouser very fast. Loretta (a glum gangly girl and so very very rude!) comes home and before you know it, Colin is secretly following her down a hidden tunnel that leads from a bedroom closet to an astonishing castle, where a charming and beautiful countess keeps court attended by a dapper and ever-obliging general, and in this world everybody loves Loretta (especially when she’s rude), so much so that they’re begging her to stay with them forever. What is the secret behind this mysterious other world and how does it connect to the many secrets in the Mason family? It’ll take a spellbinding, hair-raising adventure, involving not just Colin and Loretta but their mother and the rest of the family, to work that out.

Charlotte Sometimes

Author : Penelope Farmer
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681371111
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Charlotte Sometimes written by Penelope Farmer and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2016-07-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A time-travel story that is both a poignant exploration of human identity and an absorbing tale of suspense. It’s natural to feel a little out of place when you’re the new girl, but when Charlotte Makepeace wakes up after her first night at boarding school, she’s baffled: everyone thinks she’s a girl called Clare Mobley, and even more shockingly, it seems she has traveled forty years back in time to 1918. In the months to follow, Charlotte wakes alternately in her own time and in Clare’s. And instead of having only one new set of rules to learn, she also has to contend with the unprecedented strangeness of being an entirely new person in an era she knows nothing about. Her teachers think she’s slow, the other girls find her odd, and, as she spends more and more time in 1918, Charlotte starts to wonder if she remembers how to be Charlotte at all. If she doesn’t figure out some way to get back to the world she knows before the end of the term, she might never have another chance.

The Wind on the Moon

Author : Eric Linklater
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 159017433X
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Wind on the Moon written by Eric Linklater and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL Major Palfrey is leaving for the wars, and he tells his two girls, Dinah and Dorinda, to be good while he is gone. But the sisters aren’t sure they can be. As Dorinda explains, “When we think we are behaving well, some grown-up person says we are really quite bad. It’s difficult to tell which is which.” Sure enough, the sisters are soon up to their usual mischief. They convince a judge that minds must be changed as often as socks, stage an escape from the local zoo (thanks to a witch’s potion which turns them into kangaroos), and—in the company of a golden puma and silver falcon—set off to rescue their father from the wicked tyrant of Bombardy. Penned at the height of World War II, this tale of hilarity and great adventure is also a work of high seriousness; after all, “life without freedom,” as the valiant puma makes clear, “is a poor, poor thing.”

The Wicked Pigeon Ladies in the Garden

Author : Mary Chase
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Wicked Pigeon Ladies in the Garden written by Mary Chase and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1968 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine-year-old Maureen is the terror of her neighborhood until the day she begins to explore an old deserted estate and encounters a leprechaun and seven strange ladies.

Bel Ria

Author : Sheila Burnford
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681374471
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Bel Ria written by Sheila Burnford and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheila Burnford, the author of The Incredible Journey, offers the spellbinding tale of a small dog caught up in the Second World War, and of the extraordinary life-transforming attachments he forms with the people he encounters in the course of a perilous passage from occupied France to besieged England.Nameless, Burnford’s hero first turns up as a performing dog, a poodle mix earning his keep as part of a gypsy caravan that is desperately fleeing the Nazi advance. Taken on ship by the Royal Navy, he is given the name of Ria and serves as the scruffy mascot to a boatload of sailors. Marooned in England in the midst of the Blitz, Ria rescues an old woman from the rubble of her bombed house, and finds himself unexpectedly transformed into Bel, the coiffed and pampered companion of her old age.Bel Ria is an exciting story about a compellingly real, completely believable dog. Readers of all sorts and ages will find in Bel Ria a companion to take to heart.

On My Way to School

Author : Sarah Maizes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802737080
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book On My Way to School written by Sarah Maizes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Livi imagines herself as an elephant, then a Sherpa leading an expedition up Mount Everest, then a movie star signing autographs as she tries to avoid going to school.

The Wicked, Wicked Ladies in the Haunted House

Author : Mary Chase
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1101934964
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Wicked, Wicked Ladies in the Haunted House written by Mary Chase and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maureen Swanson is the scourge of the neighborhood. At age nine, she already has a reputation as a hard slapper, a loud laugher, a liar, and a stay-after-schooler. The other kids call her Stinky. So sometimes when Maureen passes the crumbling (and haunted?) Messerman mansion, she imagines that she is Maureen Messerman–rich, privileged, and powerful. Then she finds a way into the forbidden, boarded-up house. In the hall are portraits of seven young women wearing elaborate gowns and haughty expressions. Maureen has something scathing to say to each one, but then she notices that the figures seem to have shifted in their frames. So she reaches out her finger to touch the paint–just to make sure–and touches . . . silk! These seven daughters of privilege are colder and meaner than Maureen ever thought to be. They are wicked, wicked ladies, and Maureen has something they want. . . .

Windswept

Author : Mary Ellen Chase
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Windswept written by Mary Ellen Chase and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pulling Harvey Out of Her Hat: The Amazing Story of Mary Coyle Chase

Author : Mimi Pockross
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538131692
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Pulling Harvey Out of Her Hat: The Amazing Story of Mary Coyle Chase written by Mimi Pockross and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talk about working from home. . . . Pulling Harvey Out of Her Hat chronicles the story of how Mary Chase—a housewife with three children from a working-class Irish community in Denver, Colorado—became a Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright for Harvey, a Broadway comedy about a gentle soul and his invisible six-foot-and-one-half-inch-tall rabbit friend. This entertaining and inspiring account traces how Chase achieved her dream of becoming a famous playwright while remaining in Denver—where she worked for the Rocky Mountain News, married an editor, and raised a family. Pulling Harvey Out of Her Hat includes many vignettes and unforgettable stories about the theater industry. It brings to life the history of Franklin Roosevelt’s Federal Theatre Project; provides readers with an insider’s view of the Broadway scene in the 1940s; and highlights the importance of theater personalities, including Brock Pemberton (Harvey’s producer), Antoinette Perry (Harvey’s director and namesake for the Tony Awards), and Frank Fay and Jimmy Stewart (actors who played Elwood Dowd, the amiable, slightly tipsy gentleman lead character). The author of fourteen plays, three screenplays, and two award-winning children’s books, Mary Chase created Harvey to counter sadness during the height of World War II. It would win the 1945 Pulitzer Prize (beating out Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie) and remain to this day one of the most beloved and underappreciated works of the twentieth century.

High Altitude Attitudes

Author : Marilyn Griggs Riley
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781555663759
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (637 download)

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Download or read book High Altitude Attitudes written by Marilyn Griggs Riley and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do Louise Sneed Hill, May Bonfils Stanton, Justina L. Ford, Helen Bonfils, Mary Coyle Chase, and Caroline Bancroft have in common? They are all a vital part of Colorado's history--and no one has ever written a book-length biography about any of them. While some of the names will be more familiar than others to Colorado residents, all of the women will come to live for the readers of this exciting book. Whether you are interested in the first black female physician licensed in Colorado, the ruler of Denver's social elite, the battling Bonfils sisters, the woman who brought the first Pulitzer Prize for drama to Colorado, or the self-proclaimed grande dame of Colorado history, you will find it all here. Marilyn Riley has combined some of the most fascinating (and sometimes lesser known) of Colorado's women. This is a must read for those interested in Colorado history, women's history, and in reading stories about interesting and dynamic individuals.

The Russians in Germany

Author : Norman M. Naimark
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674784055
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Russians in Germany written by Norman M. Naimark and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1945, when the Red Army marched in, eastern Germany was not "occupied" but "liberated." This, until the recent collapse of the Soviet Bloc, is what passed for history in the German Democratic Republic. Now, making use of newly opened archives in Russia and Germany, Norman Naimark reveals what happened during the Soviet occupation of eastern Germany from 1945 through 1949. His book offers a comprehensive look at Soviet policies in the occupied zone and their practical consequences for Germans and Russians alike--and, ultimately, for postwar Europe. In rich and lucid detail, Naimark captures the mood and the daily reality of the occupation, the chaos and contradictions of a period marked by rape and repression, the plundering of factories, the exploitation of German science, and the rise of the East German police state. Never have these practices and their place in the overall Soviet strategy, particularly the political development of the zone, received such thorough treatment. Here we have our first clear view of how the Russians regarded the postwar settlement and the German question, how they made policy on issues from reparations to technology transfer to the acquisition of uranium, how they justified their goals, how they met them or failed, and how they changed eastern Germany in the process. The Russians in Germany also takes us deep into the politics of culture as Naimark explores the ways in which Soviet officers used film, theater, and education to foster the Bolshevization of the zone. Unique in its broad, comparative approach to the Soviet military government in Germany, this book fills in a missing--and ultimately fascinating--chapter in the history of modern Europe.

The Little Bookroom

Author : Eleanor Farjeon
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590175484
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Little Bookroom written by Eleanor Farjeon and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Little Bookroom, Eleanor Farjeon mischievously tilts our workaday world to reveal its wonders and follies. Her selection of her favorite stories describes powerful—and sometimes exceedingly silly—monarchs, and commoners who are every bit their match; musicians and dancers who live for aft rather than earthly reward; and a goldfish who wishes to “marry the Moon, surpass the Sun, and possess the World.”

Mouse House

Author : Rumer Godden
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590179986
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Mouse House written by Rumer Godden and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Once upon a time there was a little mouse house. It was like a doll’s house, but not for dolls, for mice.” Not proper mice, but a flannel He-Mouse and She-Mouse with beady eyes and bristle whiskers who stand quite still, propped on their hind legs in the sitting room. Mary knows real mice run and scamper, and disappointed with her new gift, she puts the mouse house away in her room. Meanwhile, down in the basement, a real mouse named Bonnie has been jostled out of her woefully inadequate flowerpot home by her older brothers and sisters. Overlooked by her harried parents and desperate for shelter, Bonnie ventures upstairs and finds the mouse house. And before too long what was a miniature make-believe house becomes a marvelously messy home for proper mice who know how to play, much to everyone’s delight.

Seacrow Island

Author : Astrid Lindgren
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590178688
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Seacrow Island written by Astrid Lindgren and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in their rented summer cottage on Seacrow Island is sometimes happy, sometimes exciting, and sometimes tragic, but never uneventful for a Swedish author, his three sons, and nineteen-year-old daughter.

Harrison Loved His Umbrella

Author : Rhoda Levine
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590179919
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Harrison Loved His Umbrella written by Rhoda Levine and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harrison liked to hold his umbrella in the rain. He also held it in the sun.He found it very helpful in the snow. But most of all he loved to hold it open in the house. In fact, Harrison was the only child on his block to hold an open umbrella in his hand all the time. How his friends admired him! Then one rainy day, after the rain was over, all the children held umbrellas, and they, too, continued to hold the umbrellas open. They all found them useful in the sun, helpful in the snow, and loved them in the house. Complications? Of course! But that’s all part of the story.

A Study Guide for Mary Chase's "Harvey"

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410347737
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Mary Chase's "Harvey" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Mary Chase's "Harvey," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

The Marzipan Pig

Author : Russell Hoban
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590179994
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Marzipan Pig written by Russell Hoban and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who but Russell Hoban could weave a tale of life’s pleasures and pain around a candy pig? And who but Quentin Blake could make the most poignant of stories so lighthearted and delightful? In this episodic picture book by an inimitable author-illustrator duo, a fantastic chain of events is triggered by the unacknowledged fall of a marzipan pig behind the sofa. We meet in quick succession a heartsick mouse, a lonely grandfather clock, an owl in love with a taxi meter, a worker bee, a fading hibiscus flower, a mouse who greets the dawn dancing, and finally a boy who guesses at the true relations between things. Appealing to the unsentimental yet sensitive nature of children, The Marzipan Pig is exquisitely attuned to the bittersweet wonder of life and to the sentience of all beings.