Download or read book Clara and the Bossy written by Ruth Ohi and published by . This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clara the guinea pig loves purple. She also loves triangles, tuna, and making new friends. That’s why she’s thrilled when a classmate says to her, “Let’s be best friends!” Madison is bold and glamorous and soon the girls are inseparable. Madison even lets Clara clean up all her toys after they play together. But Madison’s demands begin piling up. Why, she asks, does Clara wear the same purple dress every day? And why does she always eat triangle-shaped tuna sandwiches? It’s not long before Clara’s lunches aren’t nearly as much fun, and her favorite outfit stays in the closet. When Clara loses a treasured stone because she lacks pockets (the purple dress had big ones), she decides to go back to the things she likes. Back to her true self, Clara is amazed to discover that being her own guinea pig not only makes her a new friend, but also helps her to keep an old one: Madison. Through words and full-page pictures and vignettes, author/artist Ruth Ohi creates a charming world full of rich details and memorable characters. Children will recognize the experience of having a bossy friend, and will glean important knowledge from Clara’s gently learned wisdom.
Download or read book The Haytorns Collection written by J.K. Jael and published by Joshua Ku. This book was released on 2021-05-12 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachell Carton is beginning a year in her new school, Haytorns. However, her friends soon discover that she has a BIG secret. Rachell struggles with her hot temper and her two lives as a girl and a lion. With her hand, only Rachell can open a door that leads to the past and future. How can Rachell not only turn back to a girl, but be a girl FOREVER?
Download or read book A to Zoo written by Rebecca L. Thomas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 3583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.
Download or read book Dancing with the Boss written by Clare Gutierrez and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2012 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the American Southwest, criminal organizations from all over the world conspire to control everything from human trafficking to drug running and gun smuggling. Caught in the midst of all of this is the smart and sassy Annie, the owner of a rare-art dealership in Arizona. In a chance encounter, Annie meets Tony, a veritable gangster and mafioso who finds himself at odds with the brutal nature of his work and his growing feelings for Annie. When Annie learns that her brother Allen, a former special ops agent for the FBI, has gotten himself into some deep trouble, she finds an unexpected ally in Tony. The two of them--along with Annie's other two siblings--set out to help Allen, maneuvering through mysterious data files and dead bodies as they travel from coast to coast and abroad in their search. As the tension builds, so does the number of casualties.
Download or read book The Case of the Lady in the Luggage written by Cheri Baker and published by Adventurous Ink LLC. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How many Tappets does it take to solve a murder? When Ellie’s kids surprise her by coming aboard the S.V. Adventurous Spirit she couldn’t be more thrilled. She’s missed them so much, especially her sweet granddaughter Clara. And finally, it's time to introduce the family to the new man in her life. That is, if she can stop chickening out long enough to spill the beans. Meanwhile, Ellie's friend Violet is having a reunion of her own. Violet’s long-lost love has come aboard the ship on the arm of a new beau, and the resulting drama is raising eyebrows all over the ship. But emotional baggage takes second place to murder when a dead body is found on Violet’s ex's doorstep! Does her old flame harbor the heart of a killer? Ellie's on the hunt, but her prey proves elusive. Between the dead woman’s unusual past, an unorthodox murder weapon gone missing, and the involvement of a visiting magician and his parrot, this mystery is starting to feel like a three-ring circus! Make yourself some popcorn and settle in for the show, because Ellie Tappet, along with her family and friends, are about to perform some crime-solving magic of their own.
Download or read book Like a Fox to a Swallow written by Ella Voss and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helen Kings and Alma Carneggio couldn’t be more different: Helen makes a living as a single-mum and partner in a London law firm, while Alma lives a privileged life as the wife of a Milanese industrial aristocrat. Yet, their lives are haunted by the same tragedy: the mysterious death of Luca Carneggio, Alma’s son and Helen’s lover- and the father of Helen’s teenage daughter Emmy, an illegitimate child and therefore a disgrace to the Carneggio family. While Alma drifts through her days on painkillers and tranquillizers, hiding in her family’s estate, Helen is keeping up the façade of a tough self-made woman. But in her quiet moments, only a ghost Luca keeps her company – and her resentment towards the Carneggios alive. She blames them for the dreams she had to give up. But as Emmy turns into a young adult, this truth is being challenged - until it finally falls apart. The reader follows Alma and Helen on their winded - and sometimes funny - ways to come to terms with their past, finding a new way of being after having lost what they loved the most. When Alma is suddenly stripped of her family corset, she begins to long for meeting her only granddaughter. But is it too late for a new beginning?
Download or read book Clara Humble and the Not So Super Powers written by Anna Humphrey and published by Owlkids. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clara Humble may seem like your average fourth-grader who doesn't look before she leaps, but she has a secret: she thinks she might have superpowers. Which is convenient, because things aren't going so well for Clara. Students from rival R. R. Reginald are moving into her school for the term, and Clara's favorite neighbor is moving to a faraway retirement home. Together with her best friend, Bradley, Clara becomes convinced that her knack for making liquids spill, overhearing her parents' conversations, communicating with her pet chinchilla, and maybe even mind-controlling teachers could be used to put a stop to these injustices. Told in Clara's clever, funny, and strikingly authentic voice, this novel, annotated with Clara's comic sketches, kicks off a new series by inviting readers into this memorable character's inventive mind to share in her misadventures.
Download or read book A Rancher Worth Remembering written by Anna Grace and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-12-27 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could this unforgettable rancher… Be her perfect match? Matchmaker Clara Wallace keeps her anxiety in check by avoiding messy complications—including gorgeous and stubborn rancher Jet Broughman, her teenage crush. That’s not so easy in small-town Oregon, especially when Clara starts matchmaking for Jet’s best friend. Fully prepared to clash with a skeptical Jet, Clara is shocked at his kind, steady help with her work… Could Clara be ready for a second chance match of her own? From Harlequin Heartwarming: Wholesome stories of love, compassion and belonging. Love, Oregon Book 1: A Rancher Worth Remembering Book 2: The Firefighter's Rescue
Download or read book The Tender Years Prairie Legacy Book 1 written by Janette Oke and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing the story from Love Comes Softly, the granddaughter of the Davis's experiences a tragedy, she has a crisis of faith.
Download or read book A Trip with Grandma written by Ruth Ohi and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sprout goes on an overnight trip with his grandmother and is nervous because he's never slept away from his mom and dad before.
Download or read book Highland Avenger written by Julie Johnstone and published by Darbyshire Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duty drove him to possess her, but love will drive him to his knees. Eight years ago, savage Scots invaded Eve Decres’s home, murdering her family and plunging her into a nightmare. As sole heir to a strategically located castle on the border between Scotland and England, Eve became a prize to be wedded and bedded, and she fled into hiding. She survived by clinging to two dreams: one day reclaiming her inheritance, and finding love to build a new family from the ashes of her loss. But on the verge of beginning her journey to make her dreams reality, she makes a fatal error that alerts her enemies to her whereabouts. Now, Eve is catapulted into a world of feuding clans and warring kingdoms where she’s forced to make a choice that threatens to destroy her chance at freedom and shatter her heart. Amid treachery and violence, she soon discovers her only hope dwells in tying herself to Grant Fraser, a noble, fierce Highland warrior. Though passion smolders between them, Grant is bent on vengeance and sworn to a duty that would thwart her own plans. Bound by desperation but separated by conflicting desires, the spitfire lass and the determined laird must relinquish what they’ve long held sacred in order to overcome their foes and claim a glorious, unconquerable love.
Download or read book Clara s Heart written by Joseph Olshan and published by Delphinium Books. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published to international acclaim and the basis for the beloved film starring Whoopi Goldberg, Joseph Olshan’s prize-winning novel charts the profound, rare friendship between a wise Jamaican woman named Clara and David, a twelve-year-old boy adrift in the wake of his parents’ broken marriage. As the two grow closer, she brings him into her special world of patois and Jamaican beauty parlors and shadowy alliances, and he comes to realize that in her native country Clara has left behind a mystery, which he grows determined to unveil. Heralded as a classic, Clara’s Heart is at once a moving and comical tribute to unconventional love.
Download or read book Learning Tree written by Gordon Parks and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 1987-06-12 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fine novel." THE BOSTON HERALD Photographer, writer, and composer, Gordon Parks has written a moving, true-to-life novel of growing up as a black man in this country in this century. Hailed by critics and readers alike, THE LEARNING TREE tells the extraordinary journey of a family as they struggle to understand the world around them and leave their mark a world that is better for their having been in it.
Download or read book Intelligent Love written by Marga Vicedo and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the History of Science Society's 2022 Davis Prize How one mother challenged the medical establishment and misconceptions about autistic children and their parents In the early 1960s, Massachusetts writer and homemaker Clara Park and her husband took their 3-year-old daughter, Jessy, to a specialist after noticing that she avoided connection with others. Following the conventional wisdom of the time, the psychiatrist diagnosed Jessy with autism and blamed Clara for Jessy’s isolation. Experts claimed Clara was the prototypical “refrigerator mother,” a cold, intellectual parent who starved her children of the natural affection they needed to develop properly. Refusing to accept this, Clara decided to document her daughter’s behaviors and the family’s engagement with her. In 1967, she published her groundbreaking memoir challenging the refrigerator mother theory and carefully documenting Jessy’s development. Clara’s insights and advocacy encouraged other parents to seek education and support for their autistic children. Meanwhile, Jessy would work hard to expand her mother’s world, and ours. Drawing on previously unexamined archival sources and firsthand interviews, science historian Marga Vicedo illuminates the story of how Clara Park and other parents fought against medical and popular attitudes toward autism while presenting a rich account of major scientific developments in the history of autism in the US. Intelligent Love is a fierce defense of a mother’s right to love intelligently, the value of parents’ firsthand knowledge about their children, and an individual’s right to be valued by society.
Download or read book Harrison S Way written by Mary Helen Farr and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the depression, the Richardsons enjoy a rewarding life on the Tasmanian coast in Harrisons Way a small, seaside community. Mary Richardson has to deal with the grief of her friend Lilys death in childbirth, but looking into the newborns eyes, she dares to hope that little Rowies life will be happier. Love and romance bless Lilys eldest daughter Kathryns life, when she meets Jim an itinerant worker. But her happiness is tainted when she becomes the first victim of a brutal predator. Marys daughter Frances also falls prey to these crimes. Can they find this man in time to spare the other young women in the community? Thirty years later, and Frances and her husband live in Hillcrest View, the Richardsons family home. It is here that a mothers worst nightmare occurs the unsolved disappearance of her child Steven. A series of bushfires that threaten Harrisons Way makes the hot summer of 1964 even hotter. Are these the natural by-product of the hot Tasmanian summers or is it an arsonist at work? In the days of a new millennium, Frances now faces life in a nursing home as she battles the scourge of dementia. Susanne, her widowed daughter, has challenges of her own with a new beau, who may not be all he seems. Frances, despite her fleeting grip on reality, cannot let the past hurts go. What happened to her son?
Download or read book Faith In Time written by David Ritz and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-07-21 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Cleveland in 1925, "Little" Jimmy Scott lost his mother at age thirteen, the same year he was diagnosed with Kallman's syndrome. The disease stunted his growth and earned him his nickname, but it also left him with a haunting voice, a mesmerizing voice. He soon built a following as a singer touring with Lionel Hampton's great orchestra in the '40s, then performed with many of the stars of the '50s, from Lester Young to Charlie Parker to Dinah Washington, and was signed by Savoy Records. He thought he had his big break when, in 1962, Ray Charles produced what was by all accounts Jimmy's best work, Falling in Love Is Wonderful. But when it was forced off the shelves by contract disputes, Scott worked as an orderly and clerk in Cleveland for almost two decades. Fans thought he was dead-until songwriter Doc Pomus's funeral in March of 1991.As Pomus had instructed in his will, Jimmy sang over his friend's coffin. High-pitched and androgynous, his voice seemed to come out of thin air, transcending gender and age, evoking pure heartbreak. No one knew who he was-heads turned, celebrities conferred, record executives were reduced to tears-until finally Lou Reed turned around and whispered, "He's Jimmy Scott, the greatest jazz singer in the world." And so he was. By the next morning, he had a record deal with Sire that relaunched his career with the masterpiece All the Way, and he has been performing to packed clubs ever since. With full cooperation from Jimmy, his siblings, spouses, and colleagues from Ray Charles to Ruth Brown, Faith in Time is at once an intimate biography, an invaluable history of a life that spanned big band to bebop to pop, and the poignant story of a man whose voice will live forever.
Download or read book Standing In The Shadows Of Love written by Nina Corbett and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ashley Taylor is determined to have a baby, whether she finds Mr. Right or not, while her best friend Maya finally breaks off her long-term relationship with her controlling boyfriend and revels in her newfound freedom.
