Download or read book Ellen Outside the Lines written by A. J. Sass and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a Sydney Taylor Book Award Honor! A heartfelt novel about a neurodivergent thirteen-year-old navigating changing friendships, a school trip, and expanding horizons for fans of Rain Reign and Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World. Thirteen-year-old Ellen Katz feels most comfortable when her life is well planned out and people fit neatly into her predefined categories. She attends temple with Abba and Mom every Friday and Saturday. Ellen only gets crushes on girls, never boys, and she knows she can always rely on her best-and-only friend, Laurel, to help navigate social situations at their private Georgia middle school. Laurel has always made Ellen feel like being autistic is no big deal. But lately, Laurel has started making more friends, and cancelling more weekend plans with Ellen than she keeps. A school trip to Barcelona seems like the perfect place for Ellen to get their friendship back on track. Except it doesn't. Toss in a new nonbinary classmate whose identity has Ellen questioning her very binary way of seeing the world, homesickness, a scavenger hunt-style team project that takes the students through Barcelona to learn about Spanish culture and this trip is anything but what Ellen planned. Making new friends and letting go of old ones is never easy, but Ellen might just find a comfortable new place for herself if she can learn to embrace the fact that life doesn't always stick to a planned itinerary.
Download or read book Two Dogs on a Trike written by Gabi Snyder and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Count up to 10 and back down again in this picture book starring 10 traveling dogs and one very tenacious cat! One by one, each dog escapes its yard and joins the adventure in this hilarious counting story. Vehicle-obsessed readers will love seeing all the modes of transportation that the pups use—until the family cat decides to round them all up to go back home. Gabi Snyder’s charming text and Robin Rosenthal’s delightful illustrations are a surefire combination in this winning picture book.
Download or read book Ana on the Edge written by A. J. Sass and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for fans of George and Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World: a heartfelt coming of age story about a nonbinary character navigating a binary world. Twelve-year-old Ana-Marie Jin, the reigning US Juvenile figure skating champion, is not a frilly dress kind of kid. So, when Ana learns that next season's program will be princess themed, doubt forms fast. Still, Ana tries to focus on training and putting together a stellar routine worthy of national success. Once Ana meets Hayden, a transgender boy new to the rink, thoughts about the princess program and gender identity begin to take center stage. And when Hayden mistakes Ana for a boy, Ana doesn't correct him and finds comfort in this boyish identity when he's around. As their friendship develops, Ana realizes that it's tricky juggling two different identities on one slippery sheet of ice. And with a major competition approaching, Ana must decide whether telling everyone the truth is worth risking years of hard work and sacrifice.
Download or read book Planting Friendship written by Callie Metler and published by Spork. This book was released on 2021-10-16 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When they meet on the first day of school, three girls realize they are different from each other - Molly is Christian, Savera is Muslim, and Hannah is Jewish. As the seasons pass, the girls' friendship blossoms through a planting project in Peace Park. Written by three women authors from the same faith traditions as the girls in the story, this book brings more kindness and understanding into the world. PEACE, SALAAM, SHALOM.
Download or read book Coloring Outside the Lines written by Roger Schank and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2001-08-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So begins this controversial and enlightened book by Roger Schank, Ph.D., a world-renowned expert on teaming, who believes that every day of the school year our children are being failed by an academic system that does nothing to stir a lifelong passion for learning. In this lively, sometimes alarming book, Schank shatters the myths about how children learn and offers candid advice for parents who want to raise kids with gumption, ambition, creativity, inquisitiveness, and analytic and verbal proficiency.
Download or read book White Lines written by Jennifer Banash and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I don’t want to be this person anymore, but I’ve been running for so long, I don’t know how to stop, how to stand still, how to begin again. Seventeen-year-old Cat is club kid royalty, with the power to decide who gets past the velvet rope at some of the hottest clubs in the city. She lives for the night with its high-inducing energy, pulsing music and those seductive white lines that can ease all pain. Her days are something else entirely. Having spent years enduring her mother’s emotional and physical abuse, and abandoned by her father, Cat is terrified and alone. But when someone comes along who makes her want to truly live, she’ll need to summon the courage to confront her demons. Both poignant and raw, White Lines is a gripping, coming-of-age tale for readers of Willow.
Download or read book Tilt written by Ellen Hopkins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love—good and bad—forces three teens’ worlds to tilt in a riveting novel from New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins. Three teens, three stories—all interconnected through their parents’ family relationships. As the adults pull away, caught up in their own dilemmas, the lives of the teens begin to tilt... Mikayla, almost eighteen, is over-the-top in love with Dylan, who loves her back. But what happens to that love when Mikayla gets pregnant the summer before their senior year—and decides to keep the baby? Shane turns sixteen that same summer and falls hard in love with his first boyfriend, Alex, who happens to be HIV positive. Shane has lived for four years with his little sister’s impending death. Can he accept Alex’s love, knowing that his life, too, will be shortened? Harley is fourteen—a good girl searching for new experiences, especially love from an older boy. She never expects to hurdle toward self-destructive extremes in order to define who she is and who she wants to be. Love, in all its forms, has crucial consequences in this standalone novel.
Download or read book Big Bear Was Not the Same written by Joanna Rowland and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2021 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Big Bear is caught in a forest fire, many things make him afraid but, with the love and support of his best friend, Little Bear, he begins to feel better.
Download or read book A Crowded Farmhouse Folktale written by Karen Rostoker-Gruber and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animal antics abound in this hilarious tale! Farmer Earl has had enough—his home is too crowded! So, he visits the wise woman in town for help. She tells him to bring all his ducks in the house. And then all his horses. And all his goats too! How will there be more room with all these animals? This updated folktale uses humor to explore what it takes to gain a new perspective.
Download or read book What s Silly Hair Day with No Hair written by Norene Paulson and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With no hair, Bea has to find a creative way to be part of silly hair day. Bea has alopecia areata—that means she doesn't have any hair. So when it's time for silly hair day at school, Bea doesn't know what to do. Her best friend, Shaleah, is determined to help. With silly hair day fast approaching, they're focused on finding a way for everyone to take part.
Download or read book Don t Eat the Bluebonnets written by Ellen Leventhal and published by Spork. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't Eat the Bluebonnets is the story of Sue Ellen, a cow with a mind of her own, who loves the taste of bluebonnets. When she gives into temptation and eats every yummy bluebonnet, she must figure out a way to get them back. After several humorous attempts to make things right, Sue Ellen learns the importance of responsibility and decision making.
Download or read book How to Return a Monster written by Charlotte Offsay and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If your grown-ups bring home a small monster, er, baby, don't panic. Just send it back! A young girl can't believe it when her parents bring home a drooling, screaming, grabbing monster.
Download or read book Someone Else s Shoes written by Ellen Wittlinger and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tackling divorce and suicide with a warmth and sensitive humor that refuses to be weighed down, Someone Else's Shoes chronicles a road trip that unites three young people in search of family and acceptance. Fans of Sharon Draper, Jo Knowles and Counting by Sevens will be moved by this tale of what brings us together when things fall apart. Twelve-year-old Izzy, a budding stand-up comic, is already miserable about her father's new marriage and the new baby on the way. Then ten-year-old cousin Oliver and his father, Uncle Henderson, move in with Izzy and her mom because Oliver's mother committed suicide only a few months ago. And to make matters worse, Ben, the rebellious 16-year-old son of Izzy's mother's boyfriend, winds up staying with them, too. But when Uncle Henderson--who has been struggling with depression after his wife's suicide--disappears, Ben, Izzy, and Oliver set aside their differences and hatch a plan to find him. As the threesome travels in search of Henderson, they find a surrogate family in each other.
Download or read book Painting Outside the Lines written by David W. Galenson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a work that brings new insights, and new dimensions, to the history of modern art, David Galenson examines the careers of more than 100 modern painters to disclose a fascinating relationship between age and artistic creativity.
Download or read book Battle of the Butts written by Jocelyn Rish and published by Running Press Kids. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know manatees swim using farts? Or that herrings communicate by passing gas? Butts are used for breathing, eating, swimming, talking, and even killing in the animal kingdom. Focusing on ten different animals and their derrières, and offering fun facts about their origin, habitat, and "posterior power," this hilarious book captures the wonder of our ecosystem. Which animal has the coolest butt power? That's up to you to decide!
Download or read book Lola Can t Leap written by Ellen Leventhal and published by Spork. This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lola comes from a long line of leapers. Can she carry on the family tradition? Join Lola as she trips, slips, and flips into a journey of self-discovery. In this newest book from Ellen Leventhal of Don't Eat the Bluebonnets Fame.
Download or read book Sadie s Shabbat Stories written by Melissa Stoller and published by Spork. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sadie loves listening to Nana's tales, especially about the traveling candlesticks, kiddush cup, and challah cover they use every Friday night. Will Sadie ever be able to tell her own special Shabbat stories, just like Nana? Based on true stories in the Author Melissa Stoller's family, this book celebrates family history and connections.
