Download or read book Flip Flop Girl written by Katherine Paterson and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 1996-02-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by Newbery Medalist, National Book Award winner, and Laura Ingalls Wilder Award recipient, and author of Bridge to Terabithia. Vinnie Matthews needs a real lifesaver--on that will bring her father back to life and let her family go home. Living with Grandma means having to be responsible for her little brother, Mason, who refuses to speak, and ignoring the kids who ask why he's so crazy. Then Vinnie meets Lupe, the mysterious "flip-flop girl" who only wears orange flip-flops on her feet. Lupe is strong, confisent, and even more of an outsact than Vinnie. She's just teh type of friends Vinnie needs, if only Vinnie can ignore the rumora about Lupe's past.

Download or read book Life in Flip Flops written by Sonja B. DeChene and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cool! Youre reading the back of my book which means the front caught your eye. Now youre just about ready to open it up and, well, since I still have your attention... So this is my first book, a lifetime in the making. And you wont find any fancy reviews by important people written here. What you will see is my invitation especially for you. Between the covers is an eclectic collection of true stories extracted from my life and imaginati on. Its not a how-to book or a dramatic tale of triumph. Its simply thoughts about everyday life that most anyone can relate to yet spend little time putting much thought into. This compilation of short stories wont change your life. But Im pretty sure it will warm your heart, make you smile and make you think; you might even shed a tear or two. And it just might inspire you to tweak your outlook on life just a little bit. That, my friend, is up to you. So, steal a few moments for yourself and curl up with Life in Flip Flops. And if a bon fire with smores breaks out halfway through, then youre right where you need to be. Enjoy!

Download or read book Flip Flop Girl written by Katherine Paterson and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uprooted following the death of their father, nine-year-old Vinnie and her five-year-old brother, Mason, cope in different ways--one in silence--but both with the help of Lupe, the flip-flop girl.

Download or read book The Flip Flop Family written by Colleen Vance and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Flip Flop written by John Bloomfiel and published by Fish on Company, Limited. This book was released on 1999-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lyddie written by Katherine Paterson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From two-time Newbery award-winning author Katherine Paterson. When Lyddie and her younger brother are hired out as servants to help pay off their family farm's debts, Lyddie is determined to find a way to reunite her family once again. Hearing about all the money a girl can make working in the textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts, she makes her way there, only to find that her dreams of returning home may never come true. Includes an all-new common core aligned educator's guide. "Rich in historical detail...a superb story of grit, determination, and personal growth." —The Horn Book, starred review "Lyddie is full of life, full of lives, full of reality." —The New York Times Book Review An ALA Notable Book An ALA Best Book for Young Adults A Booklist Editor's Choice American Bookseller "Pick of the Lists" School Library Journal Best Book Parents magazine Best Book

Download or read book Millionaire in Flip Flops written by Sue Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The millionaire lifestyle isn't about your bank balance. In the revised and expanded second edition of Millionaire in Flip Flops, The Lifestyle Edition, Sue gives you concrete action steps to follow to create your own life the way you dream of living it. With Sue's guidance, it's well within reach.

Download or read book The Flip Flop Club Star Struck written by Ellen Richardson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stage is set, the crowds are gathering, and the microphones are on . . . It's time for the Sunday Island Music Festival! Elly, Tash, and Sierra have formed a band and are entering a competition to perform onstage with the top-secret headline act. But the girls discover that the festival is in big trouble - and it's up to them to save it!

Download or read book A Mile in My Flip Flops written by Melody Carlson and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2010-06-23 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-something Gretchen Hanover is stuck. Seeking solace from a broken heart, she traded her wedding plans for home improvement shows and ice cream—but she knows she can’t live on Ben and Jerry’s forever. She also knows that her enthusiastic Lab puppy has outgrown her tiny apartment. The perfect patch for Gretchen’s dilapidated plans? She’ll become a first-time house-flipper. As ideas go, it’s daring and genius. She’ll take out a short-term loan, buy a fixer-upper, renovate it, resell it, and use the profit for an adorable house of her own. What could be easier? But Gretchen’s plans to flip quickly flop when the house turns out to be in worse shape than she expected. She is relying on her retired contractor-father, but he wants to draw in his carpenter friend Noah Campbell. And although Noah is handy with tools, Gretchen isn’t so sure about the baggage he brings with him. Will she be able to loosen her grip on the tools when it seems Noah may be her only help? A whimsical look at color swatches, mismatched curtain rods, and the building of relationships, A Mile in My Flip-Flops reminds us that it takes faith to renovate the heart, as well as the home.

Download or read book The Pirate Who Loved Flip Flops written by Dana Macc Fikes and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mackenzie, a young free-spirited girl, sets out on an adventure to a special pirate gathering where she encounters unruly pirates set in their old pirate ways. Through bravery and can-do-it-ness Mackenzie, as Black Mack the flip flop loving pirate, takes on a leadership role to teach the pirates that embracing differences and including others is the new code of pirate kindness.In her colorfully creative debut Dana (Macc) Fikes spotlights the concepts of anti-bullying and diversity. She reimagines these tough topics in a simple way to motivate young readers to stand up for what they believe and build relationships to effect change in their communities and the world. Read it twice, read it thrice and ask yourself what are the special treasures that make your heart sing? It's a swashbuckling tale for all readers and pirates too!

Download or read book Rhinestones on My Flip Flops written by Jane Jenkins Herlong and published by FaithWords. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Gold Indie Winner, Silver Medalist in the Illumination Awards, and Selah Finalist RHINESTONES ON MY FLIP FLOPS offers the message Jane lives by: prove people wrong and laugh while living your dreams. Has your life ever flipped? The challenge is to not become a flop! Strap on your sandals and let RHINESTONES ON MY FLIP-FLOPS deliver joy and laughter in the midst of everyday mess-ups. Professional Southern humorist and award-winning author Jane Jenkins Herlong uses humor, wisdom, and life stories from iconic biblical women to guide you through the inevitable blunders of life. Learn from the flip-flops of Deceived Eve, Domestic Diva Martha and Whiny Naomi. Laugh and be inspired by honest (ouch) stories delivered with Jane's sparkling sense of humor. Add in some "rhinestoned" advice from modern Women of Wisdom (WOW). And you will learn how to keep the sparkle and shine on your God-given talents even as you experience life's inevitable flops!

Download or read book The Flip Flop CEO written by Janine Finney and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Flip Flops Fiestas and Flamenco written by Donna Hepburn and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flip Flops, Fiestas, and Flamenco is the first in a series of three books about two best friends, their lives, loves, and adventures after moving to a small village in the Andalusian hills Abby and Lou have been BFF's since the first day at Uni. Despite being opposites in both looks and personality they were drawn to each other sharing a flat, dreams and a love of animals. Through the ensuing years despite heartache and divorce, they remain as close as ever. Abby would be the first to admit her life needs an injection of fun. Middle-aged, divorced and slightly overweight she's a mother/general dogsbody to two layabout sons, a pink-haired Amazonian on-off girlfriend and an incorrigible British Bulldog named Chester, her lifelong dream of living in Spain's glorious sunshine has been long forgotten or has it? Lou was stuck in her own rut, never fully recovered from a tragedy in her past a long list of online dating disasters had left her wondering if she will ever find love again. Her cool ice-maiden persona is shattered along with her cat's eardrums when she wins £400,000 on an online bingo site. Could this be the answer to both their prayers? Flip-Flops packed, they embark on their adventure but it isn't all sun and sangria. Warring pets, new neighbours, Cooking experiments, scary wildlife and an escapee Donkey named Santos combine to make it an unforgettable Summer. Can their friendship survive or will the Mediterranean dream become a nightmare?

Download or read book Stories of My Life written by Katherine Paterson and published by Presbyterian Publishing Corp. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved author of Bridge to Terabithia and other classics of children’s literature reveals the fascinating personal stories that have shaped her creative life. For nearly fifty years, Katherine Paterson’s stories have captured readers young and old. From Bridge to Terabithia’s Leslie Burke to the unforgettable Gilly Hopkins to countless others, her characters are woven into the memories of several generations. Paterson’s writing has always explored the rich emotional landscape of childhood, for she has never forgotten how she felt as a child herself. The writer she became grew from her own fascinating life, told here in a collection of stories that reach from earlier generations of her family to the present day. Born in China to Presbyterian missionary parents from the American South, her young adulthood led her to Japan and then back to the East Coast, where she began to raise her family and put stories on paper. Each of these experiences influenced the books that were to come. Through Paterson’s memories, we learn the origins of her characters and storylines and share in her unexpected literary acclaim. We see the intimate moments of family, creativity, and faith that come together for a life well lived. With snapshots from her family albums and introductory remarks from fellow writers Kate DiCamillo and Nancy Price Graff, this is more than a behind-the-scenes look at favorite children’s books. It’s the story of a life infused with humor, joy, and gratitude; inspiring new stories embraced by readers everywhere.

Download or read book Flip Flop Flo the Know It All written by Gloria Barone Rosanio and published by . This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Flip Flop Club Charmed Summer written by Ellen Richardson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Elly makes two new friends at a super-secret midnight meeting in a tree house, her summer suddenly gets a whole lot sunnier. Along with Tash's cheeky dog, Mojo, the girls explore Sunday Island-uncovering a mystery that links their pasts, but threatens their friendship . . .

Download or read book Girling Up written by Mayim Bialik and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mayim Bialik, Jeopardy! host and star of The Big Bang Theory, puts her Ph.D. to work as she talks to teens about the science of growing up and getting ahead. A must-have book for all teenage girls. Growing up as a girl in today’s world is no easy task. Juggling family, friends, romantic relationships, social interests and school…sometimes it feels like you might need to be a superhero to get through it all! But really, all you need is little information. Want to know why your stomach does a flip-flop when you run into your crush in the hallway? Or how the food you put in your body now will affect you in the future? What about the best ways to stop freaking out about your next math test? Using scientific facts, personal anecdotes, and wisdom gained from the world around us, Mayim Bialik, the star of The Big Bang Theory, shares what she has learned from her life and her many years studying neuroscience to tell you how you grow from a girl to a woman biologically, psychologically and sociologically. And as an added bonus, Girling Up is chock-full of charts, graphs and illustrations -- all designed in a soft gray to set them apart from the main text and make them easy to find and read. Want to be strong? Want to be smart? Want to be spectacular? You can! Start by reading this book. Praise for Girling Up: "Bialik is encouraging without being preachy . . . many teens will be drawn to this engaging and useful book." --Booklist "Ultimately, the author stresses that 'Girling Up' does not end with adulthood—it is a lifelong journey. Thanks to Bialik, readers have a road map to make this trip memorable." --School Library Journal "Written in conversational style . . . the tone remains understanding, supportive, and respectful of the reader’s individuality throughout the text." --VOYA