Download or read book Dreamsleeves written by Coleen Murtagh Paratore and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful, radiant story about a girl who wears her dreams on her sleeve . . .Aislinn is a girl with a lot of dreams, but due to family issues (caused mostly by her hard-drinking father), there's a lot standing in her way. While she should be enjoying the summer with friends, Aislinn is kept under lock and key and put in charge of her younger siblings. The average girl might give up, but not Aislinn. A person, she says, should write their dreams on their sleeve, putting them out there for the world to see, because there's a good chance that someone might come along and help you make your dream come true. What begins as a plea for help for her father to stop drinking, turns into a spark that has the whole community making their own dreamsleeves. At times heartbreaking, DREAMSLEEVES is also surprising, powerful, and luminously hopeful. Everyone will see a little of themselves in Aislinn, a girl with talent, ambition, and big dreams.

Download or read book The Book of Koli written by M. R. Carey and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a beautiful book. Gripping, engaging, and absolutely worth the time it takes to burrow yourself into its reality. I can't recommend it highly enough." —Seanan McGuire The first in a masterful new trilogy from acclaimed author M. R. Carey, The Book of Koli begins the story of a young boy on a journey through a strange and deadly world of our making. Everything that lives hates us... Beyond the walls of the small village of Mythen Rood lies an unrecognizable landscape. A place where overgrown forests are filled with choker trees and deadly seeds that will kill you where you stand. And if they don't get you, one of the dangerous shunned men will. Koli has lived in Mythen Rood his entire life. He believes the first rule of survival is that you don't venture too far beyond the walls. He's wrong. "A captivating start to what promises to be an epic post-apocalyptic fable." —Kirkus "Enthralling...Koli embarks upon a journey as perilous as it is enlightening." —Guardian "The best thing I've read in a long time. I loved it." —Joanne Harris "Carey hefts astonishing storytelling power with plainspoken language, heartbreaking choices, and sincerity like an arrow to the heart." —Locus Look out for the next novels in the trilogy: The Trials of Koli and The Fall of Koli

Download or read book The Wedding Planner s Daughter written by Coleen Paratore and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of "How Prudence Proovit Proved the Truth About Fairy Tales" married the hilarious and the heartwarming in this enchanting novel about a 12-year-old girl, the daughter of a single-mom wedding planner, who wishes for a stepdad.

Download or read book The Fall of Koli written by M. R. Carey and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: M. R. Carey's Rampart trilogy is "an epic post-apocalyptic fable" (Kirkus) like no other, set in a world where nature has turned against us. Now, in the unforgettable final chapter, the world that was lost comes back to haunt those who have survived–and Koli's journey comes to its astonishing close. "A gorgeous, borderline flawless trilogy." –Seanan McGuire What will the future hold for those who are left? Koli has come a long way since being exiled from his small village of Mythen Rood. In his search for the fabled tech of the Old Times, he knew he'd be battling shunned men, strange beasts and trees that move as fast as whips. But he has already encountered so much more than he bargained for. Now that Koli and his companions have found the source of the signal they've been following - the mysterious "Sword of Albion"—there is hope that their perilous journey will finally be worth something. They're searching for a way to help humanity fight back against nature. But what they'll find is an ancient war that never ended . . . The Rampart Trilogy The Book of Koli The Trials of Koli The Fall of Koli For more from M. R. Carey, check out: The Girl With All the Gifts Fellside The Boy on the Bridge Someone Like Me By the same author, writing as Mike Carey: The Devil You Know Vicious Circle Dead Men's Boots Thicker Than Water The Naming of the Beasts

Download or read book From Willa With Love written by Coleen Murtagh Paratore and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a surprising, sparkling summer for Willa!It's August on Cape Cod and Willa has a lot to look forward to. Soon, JFK will return home from baseball camp, and Willa has an idea for an exciting new project that will challenge her to dream big! But life throws Willa some unexpected twists and turns: Ruby has bad news, a beloved friend leaves, a dear friend returns, her brother Will has something he does't want to talk about, and of course, there's a wedding to plan! There's also a cute boy who likes Willa . . . a lot, and Willa thinks she might like him too. It's a summer full of romance and surprises!

Download or read book Willa by Heart written by Coleen Murtagh Paratore and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-16 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's almost summer on Cape Cod, where Willa Havisham and Joey Kennelly are finally enjoying their status as the most compatible couple at Bramble Academy. When the community theater advertises auditions for Our Town, Willa and Joey seem fated to play the romantic leads. But when Marielle, the dazzling new girl, offers up some dramatic competition, Willa turns greener than the lawn at her parents' inn. With two inn weddings the same weekend in June, Willa, who is now the official assistant wedding planner, has enough to do just helping Chef Rosie bake the wedding cakes of the century, and keeping sixteen beauty pageant bridesmaids in check. When a dance with a Southern gentleman sends her spinning under the stars, there's no telling what is destined for Willa and Joey.

Download or read book 26 Big Things Small Hands Do written by Coleen Paratore and published by Free Spirit Pub. This book was released on 2008 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goes through the letters from A to Z to describe things small hands can do.

Download or read book The Wedding Planner s Daughter From the Heart written by Coleen Murtagh Paratore and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2009 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After years of being the Wedding Planner's Daughter, at last Willa Havisham has the chance to plan a wedding all by herself, and she can hardly wait! But when her boyfriend's behaving strangely, the whole town is arguing about birds and there's some serious matchmaking to be done first, will she really be able to whip up the perfect wedding - in just a week?!

Download or read book Dreamsleeves written by Coleen Murtagh Paratore and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a momentous summer, thirteen-year-old Aislinn's dreams include that her father will stop drinking and give her more freedom, that her fifth sibling will be born safely, that she will not lose her best friend or her potential boyfriend, and that she can teach members of her community both to express their dreams and to help others' dreams come true.

Download or read book Go the F k to Sleep written by Adam Mansbach and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times Bestseller: “A hilarious take on that age-old problem: getting the beloved child to go to sleep” (NPR). “Hell no, you can’t go to the bathroom. You know where you can go? The f**k to sleep.” Go the Fuck to Sleep is a book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, it captures the familiar—and unspoken—tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night. Read by a host of celebrities, from Samuel L. Jackson to Jennifer Garner, this subversively funny bestselling storybook will not actually put your kids to sleep, but it will leave you laughing so hard you won’t care.

Download or read book The Secret School written by Avi and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story about a headstrong fourteen-year-old girl determined to control her own destiny and become a young teacher.

Download or read book The Infernal City An Elder Scrolls Novel written by Greg Keyes and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the award-winning The Elder Scrolls, The Infernal City is the first of two exhilarating novels following events that continue the story from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, named 2006 Game of the Year. Four decades after the Oblivion Crisis, Tamriel is threatened anew by an ancient and all-consuming evil. It is Umbriel, a floating city that casts a terrifying shadow—for wherever it falls, people die and rise again. And it is in Umbriel’s shadow that a great adventure begins, and a group of unlikely heroes meet. A legendary prince with a secret. A spy on the trail of a vast conspiracy. A mage obsessed with his desire for revenge. And Annaig, a young girl in whose hands the fate of Tamriel may rest . . . .

Download or read book Fireflies A Writer s Notebook written by Coleen Murtagh Paratore and published by Little Pickle Press. This book was released on 2014-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journals do more than remind us--they inspire us! Follow the trail of your own imagination in this vibrant journal as you learn to catch the "fireflies" of creativity. Award-winning author Coleen Paratore shows would be writers how to turn those little sparks of thought into brightly-burning ideas.

Download or read book Roar Like a Girl written by Coleen Murtagh Paratore and published by Little Pickle Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a stunning turn of events, Willa Havisham has to leave the comfort of her beloved Cape Cod and move to Troy, New York. She is fourteen-years-old and everything seems new, but through it all, she is Always Willa."--

Download or read book Wish I Might written by Coleen Murtagh Paratore and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a sparkling, magical summer for Willa!It's July on Cape Cod, and Willa Havisham isn't so happy about her boyfriend, JFK, being away all summer at baseball training camp. With best-friend Tina and Ruby edging her out lately, Willa wonders what the summer will bring. It turns out there are plenty of surprises in store! For one, there's been a mermaid sighting. There's also a boy named Will who claims to be her long-lost brother. He shares Willa's sea-blue eyes, but Willa wonders what secrets he's hiding and what this news will mean for her famous wedding planner mother. It's going to be a summer filled with fireworks for sure!

Download or read book Revision written by David Michael Kaplan and published by Writer's Digest Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With rousing enthusiasm, David Michael Kaplan introduces you to his unique brand of revision: a process of discovery in which your story's words, structure, even its very meaning may change as it grows stronger. He takes you through every stage of the writing process, providing strategies and criteria to help pinpoint the problems in your work and fix them. In addition to illustrating his points with examples from contemporary writers, Kaplan traces the evolution of three of his own stories from journal entries to first (and subsequent) drafts to finished pieces. He shows the changes he made - from single words to entire characters and story lines - and explains why he made them.

Download or read book The Other Half of My Heart written by Sundee T. Frazier and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of biracial twin sisters—one black, one white—and the summer that tests their strong bond, from the author of Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award-winner Brendan Buckley’s Universe and Everything in It. When Minerva and Keira King were born, they made headlines: Keira is black like Mama, but Minni is white like Daddy. Together the family might look like part of a chessboard row, but they are first and foremost the close-knit Kings. Then Grandmother Johnson calls, to invite the twins down South to compete for the title of Miss Black Pearl Preteen of America. Minni dreads the spotlight, but Keira assures her that together they'll get through their stay with Grandmother Johnson. But when their grandmother's bias against Keira reveals itself, Keira pulls away from her twin. Minni has always believed that no matter how different she and Keira are, they share a deep bond of the heart. Now she'll find out whether that’s really true. "One luminous pearl of a sister story."--RITA WILLIAMS-GARCIA, author of the Newbery Honor Award-winner One Crazy Summer Winner of the Skipping Stone Honor Award *"Frazier highlights the contradictions, absurdities, humor, and pain that accompany life as a mixed-race tween. Never didactic, this is the richest portrait of multiracial identity and family since Virginia Hamilton's 1976 novel Arilla Sun Down. An outstanding achievement."—Kirkus Reviews, Starred *"Not only does Frazier raise questions worth pondering, but her ability to round out each character, looking past easy explanations for attitude, is impressive. . . . A novel with a great deal of heart indeed."—Booklist, Starred