Download or read book Letters to Grandma Grace written by Victoria Francis and published by MacMillan Education, Limited. This book was released on 1999-12-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Secret Hum of a Daisy written by Tracy Holczer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Grace and her mother have always been their own family, traveling from place to place like gypsies. But Grace wants to finally have a home all their own. Just when she thinks she's found it her mother says it's time to move again. Grace summons the courage to tell her mother how she really feels and will always regret that her last words to her were angry ones. After her mother's sudden death, Grace is forced to live with a grandmother she's never met. She can't imagine her mother would want her to stay with this stranger. Then Grace finds clues in a mysterious treasure hunt, just like the ones her mother used to send her on. Maybe it is her mother, showing her the way to her true home. Lyrical, poignant and fresh, The Secret Hum of a Daisy is a beautifully told middle grade tale with a great deal of heart.
Download or read book Grace Mothers written by Georgie Abay and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book When 2 A M Goes Bang Bang Bang written by S. Everingham and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My first book is a murder mystery that has several adventures with twists and turns that are based on things I know to be true or could have happened or maybe this all happened in my mind. When 2 a.m. Goes BANG! BANG! BANG! gets started you will wonder what does 2 a.m. have to do with it.
Download or read book The Juliet Stories written by Carrie Snyder and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2012-02-03 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award: Fiction and selected as a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book Juliet Friesen is ten years old when her family moves to Nicaragua. It is 1984, the height of Nicaragua's post-revolutionary war, and the peace-activist Friesens have come to protest American involvement. In the midst of this tumult, Juliet's family lives outside of the boundaries of ordinary life. They've escaped, and the ordinary rules don't apply. Threat is pervasive, danger is real, but the extremity of the situation also produces a kind of euphoria, protecting Juliet's family from its own cracks and conflicts. When Juliet's younger brother becomes sick with cancer, their adventure ends abruptly. The Friesens return to Canada only to find that their lives beyond Nicaragua have become the war zone. One by one, they drift from each other, and Juliet grows to adulthood, pulled between her desire to live a free life like the one she remembers in Nicaragua, and her desire to build for her own children a life more settled than her parents could provide. With laser-sharp prose and breathtaking insight, these stories herald Carrie Snyder as one of Canada's most prodigiously talented writers. Now featuring a a preview of Carrie Snyder's new novel, Girl Runner.
Download or read book Donald s World written by Donald Upham Reed and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 1999-11 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DONALDS WORLD leads on a young boys trip to the top of the tallest building between San Francisco and Los Angeles during the 1930s When he returned home he climbed a 60-feet tree in his back yard to see from a distance where he had been. Who is this boy? The answer comes in chapter 2 -- from birth to his mothers commitment to a state insane asylum. Thirty years would pass before she is released under his care and gardianship. Chapter 3 explores the family tree and adventures by those who made the Oklahoma land rush of 1888 and their departure later because of crop failure. It took Donalds great great grandfather 65 days in all kinds of weather to return to Tennesee from Oklahoma. One can take the same trip today in less than 100 hours! Mrs. C. Jackson arrives on the scene in Chapter 4 to take care of Donald and his older brother, Stanley. Donald didnt know until she died many years later that her middle name was Charity. The headline for Chapter 6 is The White Avenue Gang. Donald recalls being only a bystander when the rich kid was tied to a church tree on White Avenue and one of his captures rode the boys red and white motor-bike around the block. He and his brother looked like the Balkan who assassinated Archduke Ferdinand to start World War I. Elsewere the book involves Donalds school days, summer work in the Sierra before joining the Navy and being saved by bombs that crushed two Japanese cities. He cast his first vote for Harry Truman. After that his presidential votes went only to Republicans. During college Marcia and Don where married before their sophomore year. After graduation Don joined UP and 34 year career followed by 10 years as a journalism professor at Oklahoma State University. He retired in 1994 and now lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. 7543 S. 70th East Ave, Tulsa, Ok 74133 918 494-3634 E-mail [email protected]
Download or read book Close Enough to Touch written by Victoria Dahl and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartbroken LA makeup artist gets back on the horse with a sexy Wyoming cowboy in this romantic comedy by a USA Today–bestselling author. Can a city girl make it in the wild, wild West? For makeup artist Grace Barrett, Hollywood isn’t the land of golden opportunity. It’s the land of difficult divas, cheating boyfriends and unemployment. So when her great-aunt offers her a free place to stay in Jackson, Grace thinks she’ll spend a little time in the sticks to figure out her life, and then move somewhere exciting to live out her dreams. But it turns out that there are a few more thrills in this small town than Grace was expecting. . . . Cole Rawlins is a rugged Wyoming cowboy born and bred. Yet he can’t help but be drawn to the fascinating big-city girl who moves in across from him. He wants to get close enough to Grace to see past her tough facade, but if he does, she might see the real Cole. The one with a Hollywood history gone bad. As they discover a sizzling attraction, it becomes harder for him to keep his demons at bay—and those fires from long ago may burn them both. They’ll need more than scorching-hot passion to make this opposites-attract affair work. But if they can learn to trust one another enough to reveal their secrets, they just might have a chance at forever. Originally published in 2012. Praise for the novels of Victoria Dahl “Sassy and smokingly sexy . . . One delicious joyride of a book.” —New York Times–bestselling author Connie Brockway on Talk Me Down “A hot and funny story about a woman many of us can relate to.” —Salon.com on Crazy for Love “A hands-down winner, a sensual story filled with memorable characters.” —Booklist on Start Me Up
Download or read book Letters From Grace written by C.J. Carmichael and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding old love letters in her father’s closet inspires a teen to play matchmaker. Jessica Shanahan is off to college next year, but she’s worried about leaving her father, Levi Shanahan, alone. He’s been a single dad since his wife died when Jessica was only a toddler. He reassures her that he’s too busy running his family general store, taking care of his aging parents and volunteering in the community to be lonely. But Jessica has her doubts—especially when she finds old love letters from his high school sweetheart. Travel photographer Grace Hamilton is promoting her latest book when a student from her hometown reaches out about a research project. Curious, Grace meets with her and when the teen invites her to the Woodland Foliage Arts Festival, Grace accepts. Though her career’s been successful and fulfilling, she’s never met a man who touched her heart the way Levi Shanahan once did. Maybe a trip home will finally help her to move on and find the one thing that’s eluded her throughout her years of travel—love.
Download or read book Clark Collection I written by Tiffany Belle Clark and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AUNT EDIE’S TALL SHORT TALES Twin nieces try to catch their Aunt Edie in a tall tale. CHANDLER Christian hearts start new traditions of praise and worship. THE DIXIES A Dixie savors the sweet gentleness of Southern life and family. THE GUMSHOES Three friends see a light in the sky. COUSINS, TOO 2nd cousins Pearl and Pepper are happiest when they are working on a project.
Download or read book Letters for the Literate written by Mary Ellen Goodenberger and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-04-24 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume purports to be a book of writing examples. Even more important, it is a book about love: man and wife, parent and child, sibling and sibling, grandparent and grandchild, family member and family member, friend and friend, teacher and student, citizen and state. Both the writing and the relationships are worthy of your investigation.
Download or read book The Color of My Heart written by Judith A. McGee and published by Author House. This book was released on 2006-01-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty six years hadnt wiped away the memories of 1955 and 1956. I still was fearful someone from the past would harm me. Time stood still and I pictured the people exactly as they were then. As I looked around things were even more dismal now than they were fifty years ago. As we drove past the High School my mind drifted back to the morning I was summoned to the Principals office and I could hear his voice and feel the viciousness that spewed from his mouth We dont want your kind here, and if your Momma and your Daddy will agree well be glad to send you to reform school at Chilacothe.And I can guarantee you well lynch that nigger if he shows up at the Homecoming next week! I was scared to death. I had to warn Andy. That night I found out his parents had whisked him out of town. What was I going to do? The bus ride to Denver seemed endless. This would be the farthest I had ever been from home and I had NEVER been this far by myself. My life as I had known it was over. Why had my parents kept the real ugly truth hidden from me? Could I, a fifteen year old girl, survive the hatred in America that I was just learning about. Thank God I would be safe with Andy. We could conquer racism with love, couldnt we? Although the U.S. Supreme Court decision to legalize Interracial Marriages in Amercia with the Loving v. Virginia case was establisted in 1967, Andy and I were the first Black/White Interracial Couple to legally be married in Colorado ten years earlier in 1957.
Download or read book The Winner s Game written by Kevin Alan Milne and published by Center Street. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since seventeen-year-old Ann Bennett was diagnosed with a life-threatening heart condition two years ago, her family has been pulling apart. Ann and her two younger siblings fight constantly, as do their parents. When the doctors announce that Ann's only hope of survival is a heart transplant by the end of the summer, the Bennetts decide to wait for news of a donor at a family vacation home on the Oregon coast, near Haystack Rock. But rather than healing their differences, the time away only widens the rifts between them. That is, until they learn about The Winner's Game, a game their great grandparents invented to save their marriage decades ago. It doesn't work immediately, it takes some time to figure out the right way to play, but little by little things start to change. It seems everything might be okay, until the day tragedy strikes, and they are confronted with what it really means to love -- and to be a family.
Download or read book The Grace Trilogy written by Dale Cusack and published by Dale Cusack. This book was released on 2010-12-02 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grace Trilogy - all three electrifying volumes in one book. The Drawl, horrifying creatures from a higher dimension have started feeding on humans. Grace has seen them, but she is the only one who can. Grace soon learns she is not alone in the fight against evil; cats also have the ability to see them. Follow Grace, and her feline companion Boot, as they face their greatest fears!
Download or read book Curly Grandma s Letters written by Anita Bryce and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communicating is fun and easy. Find out how simple it is in this easy-to-understand guide to penning your life story. A great gift for grandparents!
Download or read book Upper Room Diaries written by Dean And Tammie Carter and published by Dean W Carter. This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine getting a certified letter dated 1919 from your great, great, grandmother that said you were named by an angel four generations earlier.
Download or read book Grandmother s Visit written by Betty Quan and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grace says goodbye to Grandmother in this touching book about love and loss. Grandmother lives with Grace’s family. She teaches her how to measure water for rice. She tells her stories about growing up in China and together they savor the flavors of her childhood. Grandmother says goodbye when she drops Grace off at school every morning and hello when she picks her up at the end of the day. Suddenly, Grandmother stops walking Grace to and from school, and the door to her room stays closed. Father comes home early to make dinner, but the rice bowls stay full. One day, Grandmother’s room is empty. And soon after, she is buried. After the funeral, Grace’s mom turns on all the outside lights so that Grandmother’s spirit can find its way home for one final goodbye. Carmen Mok’s gentle illustrations show the love between a child and her grandmother in this story that will resonate with anyone who has lost a loved one. Betty Quan’s picture-book debut is haunting yet hopeful. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.6 Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.1 Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.3 Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.7 Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.7 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.2 Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.
Download or read book The Agitator s Daughter written by Sheryll Cashin and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2008-07-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During Reconstruction, Herschel V. Cashin was a radical republican legislator who championed black political enfranchisement throughout the South. His grandson, Dr. John L. Cashin, Jr., inherited that passion for social justice and formed an independent Democratic party to counter George Wallace's Dixiecrats, electing more blacks to office than in any Southern state. His "uppity" ways attracted many enemies. Twice the private plane Cashin owned and piloted was sabotaged. His dental office and boyhood home were taken by eminent domain. The IRS pursued him, as did the FBI. Ultimately his passions would lead to ruin and leave his daughter, Sheryll, wondering why he would risk so much. In following generations of Cashins through the eras of slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, civil rights, and post-civil rights political struggles, Sheryll Cashin conveys how she came to embrace being an agitator's daughter with humor, honesty, and love.
