Download or read book The Annenbergs written by John E. Cooney and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1982 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the colorful and dramatic biography of two of America's most controversial entrepreneurs: Moses Louis Annenberg, 'the racing wire king, ' who built his fortune in racketeering, invested it in publishing, and lost much of it in the biggest tax evasion case in United States history; and his son, Walter, launcher of TV Guide and Seventeen magazines and former ambassador to Great Britain."--Jacket.

Download or read book The In Between Days written by Eve Bunting and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1996-03-07 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reluctant to see any changes in his life on Dove Island, eleven-year-old George tries to get rid of his father's new girlfriend.

Download or read book The Name of the Game Was Murder written by Joan Lowery Nixon and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novelist Augustus Trevor has written a manuscript that reveals the darkest secrets of his guests. Whoever can solve Trevor's clues can have his story removed from the book. But when Trevor is bludgeoned to death, the survivors (along with the reader) are challenged to find both the manuscript and the murderer.

Download or read book The Other Side of Dark written by Joan Lowery Nixon and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2008-12-24 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EDGAR AWARD WINNER For fans of Gillian Flynn, Caroline Cooney, and R.L. Stine comes The Other Side of Dark from four-time Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Mystery Award winner Joan Lowery Nixon. Stacy wakes up in a hospital room, in a body she doesn’t recognize. Her mother is dead—murdered—and Stacy is recovering from a gunshot wound. She is the sole eyewitness to the crime, but she has only a shadowy memory of the killer’s face. Will Stacy be able to regain a clear memory of that fateful day before the killer reaches her? The Other Side of Dark is one of Joan Lowery Nixon’s most intriguing, suspenseful, and dramatic mysteries. “The compelling premise…and Nixon’s mastery of suspense are gripping.” –Publishers Weekly “Tense and dramatic…[The Other Side of Dark has a] quick pace, and the determined protagonist should attract and hold readers.” –School Library Journal

Download or read book Life Riddles written by Melrose Cooper and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At twelve, Janelle wants nothing more than to be a writer. "Write what you know," advises her aunt Barbara. That seems like a riddle to Janelle: all she knows is her mama and her two little sisters, playing Pioneers when the electricity gets cut off, waiting and hoping for Daddy to find a job and come back home. Who'd want to read about a life like that? But as Janelle starts putting it all on paper, she finds she does have something to say–about friendship, about getting through, and most of all, about what makes a family rich. Melrose Cooper writes from the heart about a young girl who, step by step, makes her dream come true.

Download or read book The Best Christmas Pageant Ever written by Barbara Robinson and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1983 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The six mean Herdman kids lie, steal, smoke cigars (even the girls) and then become involved in the community Christmas pageant.

Download or read book No Boys Allowed written by Marilyn Levinson and published by StarWalk Kids Media. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After her father remarries and moves to another state, eleven-year-old Cassie declares war on all males, including her best friend Bobby. To make matters worse, Great-Uncle Harry moves in with them and soon discovers her secret. What's a girl to do?

Download or read book For the Love of Pete written by Jan Marino and published by Avon Books. This book was released on 1994-11 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her grandmother moves into a nursing home, twelve-year-old Phoebe sets out in the old family car with three of Gram's servants, on a search for the father who abandoned her at birth.

Download or read book What Daddy Did written by Neal Shusterman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1993 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fourteen-year-old living with his grandparents learns his father is to be released from prison after killing his mother and feels apprehensive about renewing the relationship. Based on true events.

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Download or read book A Question of Trust written by Marion Dane Bauer and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 1995 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his mother leaves the family, Brad involves his younger brother in a plan to get her to come home and deals with his feelings of rejection by taking care of a newborn kitten.

Download or read book Hero of Lesser Causes written by Julie Johnston and published by Orchard Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keely and her elder brother are inseparable until Patrick becomes paralysed by polio. She knows she must overcome her despair and self-pity if Patrick is to regain his will to live. Readership level: 12+ years.

Download or read book One More River written by Lynne Reid Banks and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lesley lives in Canada and thinks life is just great, she has got friends, she likes school and they are very comfortably off. But then her father makes a fateful decision, the whole family is going to emigrate to Israel and lead a more fully Jewish life. Lesley is horrified and very resistant. However, once she gets to her new country and a very different life, she begins to find it stimulating and enjoyable. A strange relationship with Palestinian boy Mustafa, who lives on the other side of the Jordan river, is a big part of the new Lesley. A very exciting book, set in the 1960s about life in a pioneering new country.

Download or read book For the Life of Laetitia written by Merle Hodge and published by Farrar Straus & Giroux. This book was released on 1994 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first in her family to go to secondary school, twelve-year-old Lacey struggles with a variety of problems including a cruel teacher and a difficult home life with her father and stepmother.

Download or read book Dove Dream written by Hendle Rumbaut and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1994 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1963, having come to live with her young aunt in the Kansas countryside while her parents sort out their problems, a thirteen-year-old Chickasaw Indian girl nicknamed Dovey ponders her past and her future.

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Download or read book April and the Dragon Lady written by Lensey Namioka and published by HMH Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feeling confined by the traditional family attitudes of her strong-willed, manipulative grandmother, sixteen-year-old April Chen fights for her independence.