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Monkey Island

Author : Paula Fox
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504037413
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Monkey Island written by Paula Fox and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven-year-old Clay must find a home on the streets of New York City in this award-winning, heartbreakingly honest novel. He was eleven years old, and he had never felt so alone in his life. Clay Garrity lived a normal life until his father lost his job and abandoned the family. Now his pregnant mother has deserted him too, leaving Clay alone in a welfare hotel with a jar of peanut butter and half a loaf of bread. Fearing being placed in foster care, Clay runs away. Alone in the city, Clay wanders down streets with boarded-up buildings and through dark alleys, until he comes to a small triangular park that looks like an island in a stream. In the light of a street lamp, he sees cardboard boxes, blankets, bundles—and people. Some are lying on benches, others inside boxes. Two of the men, Calvin and Buddy, offer to share their shelter, and Clay is grateful to have a place to stay during the bitter November cold. Before long, Calvin, Buddy, and Clay form a family amid the threatening dangers and despair of the streets. Clay knows that leaving the streets and going into foster care means that he may never see his parents again. But if he stays, he may not survive at all. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults, this acclaimed novel offers an intensely moving and candid look at the all-too-real lives of homeless teens.

Monkey Island

Author : Paula Fox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781852138530
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book Monkey Island written by Paula Fox and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story about the tough and frightening world of New York's homeless seen through the eyes of Clay, an 11-year-old boy abandoned by his mother. the author won the American Book Award for A Place Apart and the Newberry Medal for The Slave Dancer.

Monkey Island

Author : Paula Fox
Publisher : Scholastic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Monkey Island written by Paula Fox and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 1991 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forced to live on the streets of New York after his mother disappears from their hotel room, eleven-year-old Clay is befriended by two men who help him survive.

Monkey Island by Paula Fox

Author : Anne Troy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monkey Island by Paula Fox written by Anne Troy and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes suggested activities to accompany the reading of Monkey Island.

The Slave Dancer

Author : Paula Fox
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504037405
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Slave Dancer written by Paula Fox and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newbery Medal Winner: A young Louisiana boy faces the horrors of slavery when he is kidnapped and forced to work on a slave ship in this iconic novel. Thirteen-year-old Jessie Bollier earns a few pennies playing his fife on the docks of New Orleans. One night, on his way home, a canvas is thrown over his head and he’s knocked unconscious. When he wakes up, Jessie finds himself aboard a slave ship, bound for Africa. There, the Moonlight picks up ninety-eight black prisoners, and the men, women, and children, chained hand and foot, are methodically crammed into the ship’s hold. Jessie’s job is to provide music for the slaves to dance to on the ship’s deck—not for amusement but for exercise, as a way to to keep their muscles strong and their bodies profitable. Over the course of the long voyage, Jessie grows more and more sickened by the greed of the sailors and the cruelty with which the slaves are treated. But it’s one final horror, when the Moonlight nears her destination, that will change Jessie forever. Set during the middle of the nineteenth century, when the illegal slave trade was at its height, The Slave Dancer not only tells a vivid and shocking story of adventure and survival, but depicts the brutality of slavery with unflinching historical accuracy.

Homebird

Author : C. Blacker
Publisher : Macmillan Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 9780330397988
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (979 download)

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Download or read book Homebird written by C. Blacker and published by Macmillan Children's Books. This book was released on 2001-09-07 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Nicky Moms is sent to boarding school, his parents hope that he will make a success of his life. But a few weeks later he is on the run, his life in tatters. He meets sympathetic Carla, who agrees to let him stay in the squat she shares with a prostitute, thief and drug-dealer. The others worry that Nicky will attract police attention, but they are forced to tolerate him by Scag. Carla's boyfriend, who has other, more sinister plans for Nicky... A compelling teenage story with the appeal of bestselling, controversial novels like Melvyn Burgess' JUNK

Monkey Island [by] Paula Fox

Author : Anne Troy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (778 download)

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Download or read book Monkey Island [by] Paula Fox written by Anne Troy and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes suggested activities to accompany the reading of Monkey Island.

Radiance descending

Author : Paula Fox
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780613230261
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Radiance descending written by Paula Fox and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Newbery Award-winning author tells the story of a boy who feels angry and rejected because his younger brother has Down's syndrome and how, through a series of surprising events, he begins to wonder if his brother is indeed worth loving.

The Eagle Kite

Author : Paula Fox
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
ISBN 13 : 9780440219729
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book The Eagle Kite written by Paula Fox and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Liam finds out that his father has AIDS, he refuses to believe that it was transmitted by a blood transfusion. Although he never told a soul, three years before, during a family vacation, Liam saw his father on the beach with another man. As time passes and the disease takes its toll, Liam desperately searches for the meaning of life in his father's gaunt face. Text copyright 2004 Lectorum Publications, Inc.

A Place Apart

Author : Paula Fox
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504037472
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book A Place Apart written by Paula Fox and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award Winner: A grieving teenager wonders if she’ll ever understand anything—especially the big things—in life. Time passed, and all the minutes hurt . . . After her father’s death, Victoria Finch’s life changes completely. To save money, she and her mother move from Boston to a small house in the town of New Oxford. There, Victoria attends school in a building that resembles a train station, where no one pays her much attention. Then she meets Hugh Todd, the rich kid who runs the school’s theater club. He’s charming, adventurous, and encouraging, and he takes particular interest in Victoria’s writing. Hugh’s presence reinvigorates Victoria’s life. But he needs something as well, and as the months pass, Victoria realizes that his friendship comes at a high price. A New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year, A Place Apart is a lyrical novel of loss, friendship, and moving on.

The Village by the Sea

Author : Paula Fox
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504037456
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Village by the Sea written by Paula Fox and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award:A young girl learns some hard truths about human nature in this thought-provoking, beautifully crafted novel. Tomorrow, Emma’s uncle is coming to take her to his house on Long Island while her father undergoes surgery and her mother stays with him in hospital. For two whole weeks, Emma will be stuck with her father’s half-sister: the strange, bossy Aunt Bea. Luckily, Emma makes a friend at the beach, Bertie, and the two girls begin building a village made entirely of shells. There’s the mayor’s house, constructed of sand dollars and with a roof of pinecones, and the main street with white bubble shells. Every day the girls add to their village by the sea. Then, just before Emma is to return home, something awful happens. In this thoughtful novel, Newbery Medal and Hans Christian Andersen Award winner Paula Fox offers an unflinching and candid depiction of forgiveness and unconditional love.

Let's Pretend This Never Happened

Author : Jenny Lawson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0425261018
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Let's Pretend This Never Happened written by Jenny Lawson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestselling (mostly true) memoir from the hilarious author of Furiously Happy. “Gaspingly funny and wonderfully inappropriate.”—O, The Oprah Magazine When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it. In the irreverent Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson’s long-suffering husband and sweet daughter help her uncover the surprising discovery that the most terribly human moments—the ones we want to pretend never happened—are the very same moments that make us the people we are today. For every intellectual misfit who thought they were the only ones to think the things that Lawson dares to say out loud, this is a poignant and hysterical look at the dark, disturbing, yet wonderful moments of our lives. Readers Guide Inside

Western Wind

Author : Paula Fox
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504037464
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Western Wind written by Paula Fox and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Newbery Medal–winning author Paula Fox,an isolated young girl discovers surprising revelations about her grandmother—and herself. Eleven-and-a-half-year-old Elizabeth Benedict is furious when she finds out she’ll be spending a month with her grandmother in Maine. She’s sure she’s being packed off to a remote island to live in a cottage without electricity or plumbing so that her parents can be alone with her new baby brother. While her grandmother spends her days painting, Elizabeth explores the island. She is drawn to Aaron, the strange son of their only neighbors. One day, something happens that changes everything—and reveals the real reason she was sent to Pring Island. A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, this incandescent novel takes on themes of isolation, creativity, and family as an elderly woman confronts her own mortality with acceptance and dignity.

Borrowed Finery

Author : Paula Fox
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1466850140
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Borrowed Finery written by Paula Fox and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exotic, heartbreaking memoir that should finally earn Paula Fox, a distinguished novelist and children's book writer, the audience she has for decades deserved Paula Fox has long been acclaimed as one of America's most brilliant fiction writers. Borrowed Finery, her first book in nearly a decade, is an astonishing memoir of her highly unusual beginnings. Born in the twenties to nomadic, bohemian parents, Fox is left at birth in a Manhattan orphanage, then cared for by a poor yet cultivated minister in upstate New York. Her parents, however, soon resurface. Her handsome father is a hard-drinking screenwriter who is, for young Paula, "part ally, part betrayer." Her mother is given to icy bursts of temper that punctuate a deep indifference. How, Fox wonder, is this woman "enough of an organic being to have carried me in her belly"? Never sharing more than a few moments with his daughter, Fox's father allows her to be shunted from New York City, where she lives with her passive Spanish grandmother, to Cuba, where she roams freely on a relative's sugar-cane plantation, to California, where she finds herself cast upon Hollywood's grubby margins. The thread binding these wanderings is the "borrowed finery" of the title-a few pieces of clothing, almost always lent by kind-hearted strangers, that offer Fox a rare glimpse of permanency. Vivid and poetic, Borrowed Finery is an unforgettable book which will swell the legions of Paula Fox's devoted admiriers.

Gorgeous Beasts

Author : Joan B. Landes
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271061405
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Gorgeous Beasts written by Joan B. Landes and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gorgeous Beasts takes a fresh look at the place of animals in history and art. Refusing the traditional subordination of animals to humans, the essays gathered here examine a rich variety of ways animals contribute to culture: as living things, as scientific specimens, as food, weapons, tropes, and occasions for thought and creativity. History and culture set the terms for this inquiry. As history changes, so do the ways animals participate in culture. Gorgeous Beasts offers a series of discontinuous but probing studies of the forms their participation takes. This collection presents the work of a wide range of scholars, critics, and thinkers from diverse disciplines: philosophy, literature, history, geography, economics, art history, cultural studies, and the visual arts. By approaching animals from such different perspectives, these essays broaden the scope of animal studies to include specialists and nonspecialists alike, inviting readers from all backgrounds to consider the place of animals in history and art. Combining provocative critical insights with arresting visual imagery, Gorgeous Beasts advances a challenging new appreciation of animals as co-inhabitants and co-creators of culture. Aside from the editors, the contributors are Dean Bavington, Ron Broglio, Mark Dion, Erica Fudge, Cecilia Novero, Harriet Ritvo, Nigel Rothfels, Sajay Samuel, and Pierre Serna.

A Break with Charity

Author : Ann Rinaldi
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0152003533
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book A Break with Charity written by Ann Rinaldi and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1992 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While waiting for a church meeting in 1706, Susanna English, daughter of a wealthy Salem merchant, recalls the malice, fear, and accusations of witchcraft that tore her village apart in 1692.

I Remember You

Author : Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1466840668
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book I Remember You written by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International superstar Yrsa Sigurdardottir has captivated the attention of readers around the world with her mystery series featuring attorney Thora Gudmundsdottir. Now, Yrsa will stun readers once again with this out-of-this-world ghost story that will leave you shivering. In an isolated village in the Icelandic Westfjords, three friends set to work renovating a rundown house. But soon, they realize they are not as alone as they thought. Something wants them to leave, and it's making its presence felt. Meanwhile, in a town across the fjord, a young doctor investigating the suicide of an elderly woman discovers that she was obsessed with his vanished son. When the two stories collide, the terrifying truth is uncovered. In the vein of John Ajvide Lindqvist, this horrifying thriller, partly based on a true story, is the scariest novel yet from Yrsa Sigurdardottir, who has taken the international crime fiction world by storm. The film rights have been sold to Sigurjon Sighvatsson, a Hollywood-based Icelandic film producer who has produced such films as Brothers and Arlington Road.