Download or read book An Ordinary Boy written by Brian Centrone and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Grove's family is rich, his grandparents are famous, and he's beautiful. He can have anything he wants, but all Tom really wants is to be an ordinary boy. Like his best friend, Marissa, Tom wants to fit in, make friends and date sexy boys. It would also help if he could be free of his father's weighty expectations, his mother's insane demands, and his older brother's snide remarks. When Tom begins his first year of college, he believes he's going to come out and start a new life. But Tom's plan to come out of the closet and meet hot college boys isn't exactly foolproof. His new roommate is a straight jock, the gay club at school is made up of outcasts, and the lines between going out to dinner and a date are blurry at best. If that wasn't a challenge enough, Tom has to learn how to navigate drunken college parties, the campus social hierarchy, and the attentions of the wrong sort of boys. What begins as a journey to independence turns into a series of mishaps, love, heartache, soul searching, awkward situations and the realization that life is less like an Abercrombie & Fitch catalog and more like the everyday low prices of Wal-Mart. And to make matters worse, he still has to make it through freshman year.
Download or read book No Ordinary Boy written by Jennifer Johannesen and published by Low to the Ground. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Owen Turney died on October 24th, 2010, of unknown causes. No Ordinary Boy is Jennifer Johannesen's extraordinary story of her profoundly disabled son, his family, his caregivers and his doctors. It is a sharply evocative, sometimes humorous, never sentimental chronicle-not only of perpetual crisis management, crushing disappointments and dashed hopes, but also one of love, spiritual growth, self-understanding, acceptance and maturity.
Download or read book An Ordinary Wonder written by Buki Papillon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary literary debut about a Nigerian boy's secret intersex identity and his desire to live as a girl. Oto leaves for boarding school with one plan: excel and escape his cruel home. Falling in love with his roommate was certainly not on the agenda, but fear and shame force him to hide his love and true self. Back home, weighed down by the expectations of their wealthy and powerful family, the love of Oto's twin sister wavers and, as their world begins to crumble around them, Oto must make drastic choices that will alter the family's lives for ever. Richly imagined with art, proverbs and folk tales, this moving and modern novel follows Oto through life at home and at boarding school in Nigeria, through the heartbreak of living as a boy despite their profound belief they are a girl, and through a hunger for freedom that only a new life in the United States can offer. An Ordinary Wonder is a powerful coming-of-age story that explores complex desires as well as challenges of family, identity, gender, and culture, and what it means to feel whole.
Download or read book Once Upon an Ordinary School Day written by Colin McNaughton and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2005-03-10 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of extraordinary teachers! The boy's breakfast is ordinary, his walk to school is ordinary, even his thoughts are ordinary. But when he goes to his classroom and sits down at his desk, his day begins to change - a new teacher, Mr. Gee, bursts into the classroom with an extraordinary idea that challenges all the children to use their imagination. Suddenly an ordinary day is turned topsy-turvy, and the boy is inspired in a way that will change him forever. The rollicking words and pictures celebrate the unexpected in this tribute to great teachers and students everywhere. Once Upon an Ordinary School Day is a 2006 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Download or read book The Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy Book 3 The Great Powers Outage written by William Boniface and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-11-25 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crunch! There's something strange going on in Superopolis! The entire population has turned its back on its favorite potato chips of all time. Everyone has switched to the Amazing Indestructo's Amazing Pseudo-Chips. And all because someone named Comrade Crunch told them to. Look out! The weird thing is, no one has ever heard of Comrade Crunch. Who is he, and how is he getting the supercitizens to follow his every command? There's more! That's not the only mystery in town. The superheroes of Superopolis are losing their superpowers! Without their special gifts, they're just . . . ordinary! Luckily, there's one person in town who understands ordinary. In a city where everyone is—well, was— extraordinary, this might just be a job for ordinary boy!
Download or read book Hero written by Mike Lupica and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestseller Mike Lupica comes the story of one unsuspecting boy poised to follow in his superhero father’s footsteps Fourteen-year-old Billy Harriman can feel the changes. The sharpening of his senses. The incredible strength. The speed, as though he can textmessage himself across miles. The confidence and the strange need to patrol Central Park at night. His dad had been a hero, a savior to America and a confidante of the president. Then he died, and the changes began in Billy. What Billy never knew was that his father was no ordinary man-he was a superhero, battling the world's evil. This is a battle that has been waged for generations and that knows no boundaries. And now it's Billy's turn to take on the fight. It's Billy's turn to become a hero. “[N]othing Mike Lupica has written will thrill you like this.” –William Goldman, author of The Princess Bride “Sportswriter and novelist Lupica offers a change of pace from his previous sports stories for younger readers, deftly reworking the traditional superhero origin story into a moving tale of adolescent growth.” –Publisher’s Weekly “[T]he stage is set for a sequel to what looks like a surefire hit.” –School Library Journal
Download or read book Refugee 87 written by Ele Fountain and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young refugee crosses continents in this timely, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting novel of survival. Shif has a happy life, unfamiliar with the horrors of his country's regime. He is one of the smartest boys in school, and feels safe and loved in the home he shares with his mother and little sister, right next door to his best friend. But the day that soldiers arrive at his door, Shif knows that he will never be safe again--his only choice is to run. Facing both unthinkable cruelty and boundless kindness, Shif bravely makes his way towards a future he can barely imagine. Based on real experiences and written in spare, powerful prose, this gripping debut illustrates the realities faced by countless young refugees across the world today. Refugee 87 is a story of friendship, kindness, hardship, survival, and -- above all -- hope.
Download or read book Ordinary Grace written by William Kent Krueger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking back at a tragic event that occurred during his thirteenth year, Frank Drum explores how a complicated web of secrets, adultery, and betrayal shattered his Methodist family and their small 1961 Minnesota community.
Download or read book The Boy With Wings written by Sir Lenny Henry and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's Tunde's twelfth birthday and he's in for a surprise . . . he sprouts wings! Along with his friends, Tunde must save the world. Readers will adore Lenny Henry's first middle grade book, The Boy with Wings, that's packed with captivating illustrations by Keenon Ferrell. Plus, it includes an exclusive comic book adventure illustrated by Mark Buckingham! An ordinary kid is about to become an EXTRAORDINARY hero! Wings? Check. A super-cool, super-secret past? Check. An impossible mission to save the world from a fur-ocious enemy? Check. When Tunde sprouts wings and learns he’s all that stands between Earth and total destruction, suddenly school is the least of his problems. Luckily, his rag-tag group of pals have got his back, and with his new powers, Tunde is ready to fly in the face of danger. So what if he can’t even stand up to the school bully? He’s the boy with wings – this is his destiny. No pressure then. . . This illustrated book also includes an exclusive comic in the back!
Download or read book Henry the Boy written by Molly Felder and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry, a boy with cerebral palsy, goes to school and plays with his friend Joel.
Download or read book The Story of an Ordinary Boy written by Karun Kris and published by Karun Kris. This book was released on 2020-01-04 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The boy already knew that his life was somewhat different, and rather boring. There was not much for him to do besides wandering around and talking to strangers. The protagonist, a teenage boy, realises that he underestimated his somewhat different life. The incident at the park exposes him to a new side of the world thus changing his life forever. Or does it really? Is the boy even aware that his life has changed? This is a story that covers a small part about the life of an ordinary teenage boy.
Download or read book Ordinary Boy written by Stacey Longo and published by Dark Alley Press. This book was released on 2015-02-06 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Curtis Price. Until my extraordinary death, I live an ordinary life in the poor side of town in Osprey Falls, Maine, with my mother and older sister. I am the boy that nobody sees, ignored in the shadows of the hallway. I am the kid that is picked last in gym. I am the student that is never called on in class to answer the question, and, after a while, I stop bothering to raise my hand. It is not until my stepfather shoots me that I am finally—finally—noticed. Before I meet my untimely end, let me start at the beginning.
Download or read book The Boy in the Dress written by David Walliams and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sparkling debut children’s novel from David Walliams, number one bestseller and fastest growing children’s author in the country.
Download or read book Hector written by Adrienne Wright and published by Page Street Kids. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Junior Library Guild Selection! On June 16, 1976, Hector Pieterson, an ordinary boy, lost his life after getting caught up in what was supposed to be a peaceful protest. Black South African students were marching against a new law requiring that they be taught half of their subjects in Afrikaans, the language of the White government. The story’s events unfold from the perspectives of Hector, his sister, and the photographer who captured their photo in the chaos. This book can serve as a pertinent tool for adults discussing global history and race relations with children. Its graphic novel style and mixed media art portray the vibrancy and grit of Hector’s daily life and untimely death. Heartbreaking yet relevant, this powerful story gives voice to an ordinary boy and sheds light on events that helped lead to the end of apartheid.
Download or read book The Boy With One Name written by J.R. Wallis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Delightfully magical and brilliantly told' Abi Elphinstone, author of Sky Song Twelve-year-old Jones is an orphan, training as an apprentice hunter alongside his mentor, Maitland, tackling ogres, trolls and all manner of creatures that live in the Badlands – a hidden part of our own world, and which most people think exist only in fairytales and nightmares. But all Jones secretly wants to be is an ordinary boy and to leave the magical world forever... When an ogre hunt goes wrong and Maitland is killed, Jones finally has a chance to find out where he came from. But the truth he uncovers isn’t what he’s expecting and it seems that if Jones is going to make his dream come true he’ll have to defeat a creature not even Maitland had dared take on and he won’t be able to do it alone… He’s going to need help from Ruby, the first girl he’s ever met. She’s outspoken, fearless and determined to prove she’s as good as any boy, and unlike Jones, being ordinary is the last thing on her mind. Ruby’s desperate to find her place in the world and thinks the Badlands could be it. So, working together isn’t going to be straightforward. In fact, it could be downright dangerous. But who said getting what you want is supposed to easy, even if it is just wanting to be ordinary?
Download or read book The Boy with His Head Stuck in a Book written by Frankie O'Reilly and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Extraordinary Boy in an Ordinary World written by Jason Instrell and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although he grows up in a normal family, it is apparent from the start that Ryan is very different than other boys. Ryan has amazing, vivid dreams that take him to an alternate world - The Crystal Kingdom. There, he meets a friend, Paul, who guides Ryan and transforms him into Superboy. As Ryan's ability in the dream world builds, his life experiences grow and develop in the real world. He faces new, and sometimes challenging, situations with schoolmates and teachers. When Ryan meets Mr. Cooke, he must defeat an evil plot. Will Paul be able to help Ryan? Can Ryan's new view of the world bring him powers beyond his wildest dreams? Follow the riveting, engaging story in Extraordinary Boy in an Ordinary World: The Beginning. Jason Instrell lives in Leicester, England, where he is the Managing Director of an electrical company. He is currently working on his next book, the sequel to Extraordinary Boy in an Ordinary World, called The Dark Kingdom. Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/JasonInstrel
