Download or read book Front Desk Front Desk 1 Scholastic Gold written by Kelly Yang and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside Out and Back Again meets Millicent Min, Girl Genius in this timely, hopeful middle-grade novel with a contemporary Chinese twist. Winner of the Asian / Pacific American Award for Children's Literature!* "Many readers will recognize themselves or their neighbors in these pages." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewMia Tang has a lot of secrets.Number 1: She lives in a motel, not a big house. Every day, while her immigrant parents clean the rooms, ten-year-old Mia manages the front desk of the Calivista Motel and tends to its guests.Number 2: Her parents hide immigrants. And if the mean motel owner, Mr. Yao, finds out they've been letting them stay in the empty rooms for free, the Tangs will be doomed.Number 3: She wants to be a writer. But how can she when her mom thinks she should stick to math because English is not her first language?It will take all of Mia's courage, kindness, and hard work to get through this year. Will she be able to hold on to her job, help the immigrants and guests, escape Mr. Yao, and go for her dreams?Front Desk joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!
Download or read book Hold Fast written by Blue Balliett and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From NYT bestselling author Blue Balliett, the story of a girl who falls into Chicago's shelter system, and from there must solve the mystery of her father's strange disappearance. Where is Early's father? He's not the kind of father who would disappear. But he's gone . . . and he's left a whole lot of trouble behind.As danger closes in, Early, her mom, and her brother have to flee their apartment. With nowhere else to go, they are forced to move into a city shelter. Once there, Early starts asking questions and looking for answers. Because her father hasn't disappeared without a trace. There are patterns and rhythms to what's happened, and Early might be the only one who can use them to track him down and make her way out of a very tough place.With her signature, singular love of language and sense of mystery, Blue Balliett weaves a story that takes readers from the cold, snowy Chicago streets to the darkest corner of the public library, on an unforgettable hunt for deep truths and a reunited family.
Download or read book PEOPLE Olympics 2016 The Best of the Games written by The Editors of PEOPLE and published by Time Inc. Books. This book was released on 2016-07-08 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let the games begin! From Berlin to Barcelona, Beijing to Brazil, the Olympics celebrate the dedication, perseverance, drive and talent of athletes around the world. Whether it's swimming, gymnastics, basketball, volleyball, rowing or archery, all sports fans fall in love with the electric spirit of the Games that unites cultures and countries around the world every four years.PEOPLE Olympics 2016: The Best of the Games brings you inside the Olympics, both past and present: Featuring profiles of familiar faces such as 22-time Olympic medalist Michael Phelps and 2-time Olympic medalist Gabby Douglas as well as introducing the new wave of talent such as gymnast Simone Biles and track star English Gardner, The Best of the Games chronicles the best of the best over the years. Complete with beautiful, full-color photography, this special edition invites you to relive some of the most memorable Olympic moments - Muhammad Ali's torch lighting at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, the US Women's Soccer Olympic title in the first-ever Women's Soccer Olympic competition, and Michael Johnston's golden finish, just to name a few. From their pre-Olympics path to the podium to post-Olympics life, The Best of the Games showcases the inspiring passion of athletes around the world and how they gave everything for the love of their fans, family, country, and above all: their sport.
Download or read book Sheltered in His Arms written by Correna Wilson Pickens and published by Grannys Books Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheltered in His Arms is the authorized biography of Ms. Wilma Norris Knight, mother of Carlos (Chuck), Wieland, and Aaron Norris. Sheltered in His Arms begins with the personal struggles of Porter and Agnes Scarberry, maternal grandparents of Chuck, Aaron, and the late Wieland Norris, as they endeavor to raise their seven children during the Oklahoma Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. For the first time, the daughter of migrant cotton pickers, Ms. Knight, personally shares childhood memories, reveals intimate details of her romance and roller coaster chaotic marriage with Ray Norris, and revels in the blissful years of her second marriage to George Knight with lifelong friend and author, Ms. Correna Wilson Pickens. We guarantee this inspirational Christian story of an authentic Oklahoma pioneer family living the American dream will make you laugh and move you to cry. Once and for all, you will feel as if you personally know the Norris family. They could be your neighbors. They are real. Ms. Wilma Scarberry Norris Knight holds nothing back. You will finally know the untold Chuck Norris story and what makes him tick.
Download or read book Three Keys Front Desk 2 written by Kelly Yang and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Mia and her family and friends at the Calivista Motel continues in this powerful, hilarious, and resonant sequel to the award-winning novel Front Desk. Mia Tang thinks she's going to have the best year ever.She and her parents are the proud owners of the Calivista Motel, Mia gets to run the front desk with her best friend, Lupe, and she's finally getting somewhere with her writing!But as it turns out, sixth grade is no picnic...1. Mia's new teacher doesn't think her writing is all that great. And her entire class finds out she lives and works in a motel! 2. The motel is struggling, and Mia has to answer to the Calivista's many, many worried investors.3. A new immigration law is looming and if it passes, it will threaten everything -- and everyone -- in Mia's life.It's a roller coaster of challenges, and Mia needs all of her determination to hang on tight. But if anyone can find the key to getting through turbulent times, it's Mia Tang!
Download or read book Today Is a Good Day for Marshmallows A Mother s Memoir written by Kristi Hellenbrand, DC and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an intimate look at a perfectionist mother who learned to live her best life by giving up the reins. Rather than continuing to practice control and conquer parenting she strives to honor the uniqueness of each of her children, accept her own innate mothering style and by slowing down, appreciate the beauty that surrounds her. This books speaks to the masses of mothers who feel uncertain at times and offers a new approach, a new calm and ultimately a new happy place.
Download or read book Miss Predictable written by Kelly Ethan and published by Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD). This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's the next step when a girl is forced to tell the truth and deal with crazy Greek gods? Have mind-blowing sex with a hunky god, of course. Cassandra Troy comes from a long line of fortune-tellers and her mother is no exception. But having sworn off the business when her mother goes missing, Cassandra's not impressed. She has to track her mother down before the family business drives her round the bend. But with strange accidents, an inability to tell a lie, a hunky hotel manager named Hermes and a host of people who swear they're gods of mythology, the task might be harder than she thought. It's time for a girl to lay down the law.
Download or read book Skid Road written by Murray Morgan and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skid Road tells the story of Seattle “from the bottom up,” offering an informal and engaging portrait of the Emerald City’s first century, as seen through the lives of some of its most colorful citizens. With his trademark combination of deep local knowledge, precision, and wit, Murray Morgan traces the city’s history from its earliest days as a hacked-from-the-wilderness timber town, touching on local tribes, settlers, the lumber and railroad industries, the great fire of 1889, the Alaska gold rush, flourishing dens of vice, the 1919 general strike, the 1962 World’s Fair, and the stuttering growth of the 1970s and ’80s. Through it all, Morgan shows us that Seattle’s one constant is change and that its penchant for reinvention has always been fueled by creative, if sometimes unorthodox, residents. With a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Mary Ann Gwinn, this redesigned edition of Murray Morgan’s classic work is a must for those interested in how Seattle got to where it is today.
Download or read book Even So written by Maralee Mason and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “No matter how high the flames, even so I will serve my God.” Life never seemed to be kind to the Nielsen family. They battled many things over the span of thirteen years. Depression, suicide attempts, accidents, deaths of loved ones, and the biggest one of all, cancer; they walked through the hottest flames and crawled through the longest valleys, but even so. Through stories, Scriptures, songs, and letters from the mother’s journals, this book tells the story of a family’s struggle to cope with heartbreak and pain and of an amazing woman who deeply loved God from her first breath to her last. “If you throw us in the fire, the God we serve can rescue us from your roaring furnace and anything else you might cook up, O king. But even if he doesn’t, it wouldn’t make a bit of difference” (Daniel 3:17–18a).
Download or read book The Ten Best Days of My Life written by Adena Halpern and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-nine-year-old Alexandra Dorenfield suddenly finds herself in heaven after an unfortunate encounter with a MINI Cooper. The seventh—and highest—level of heaven to be exact. Her dog, Peaches, is with her; she is reunited with her beloved grandparents; she has the wardrobe of a movie star; and she lives in the house of her dreams next door to a handsome guy. This is heaven! But there’s a catch. Alex must prove she led a fulfilling existence by writing an essay on the ten best days of her life—or she will be demoted to a lower level of heaven, where the clothes are last year’s styles, the men aren’t quite as handsome, and, worst of all, Peaches and her family won’t be nearby. Witty and inspiring, this divine debut novel dares to ask a material girl—and the rest of us—what makes life precious.
Download or read book Seducing the Beast written by Tina Donahue and published by Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD). This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She's pure heaven... He's a whole lot of hell. Ursula's had it with being a good angel. Where's the fun? Determined to snag a bad boy, she's in treatment at From Crud to Stud to drop her goody-goody image and release her inner temptress, no matter what it takes. Like hooking up with sinfully virile Farron? He's one badass demon who's hired the service to tame his beast so he won't scare off mortal babes. A few tweaks and he figures he'll be good to go. As far as Ursula's concerned, ain't nothing wrong with him now. He's the one. Talk about meeting his match. She's sweet, lush, smells crazy good and won't give up her nutty notion that they belong together, despite him trying to protect her virtue. Ha. Determined to seduce the hell out of him, she encourages his darkest desires. Poor guy doesn't have a prayer. Warning— A shocking romance that tests the boundaries of good and bad. Flaunts outrageous displays of affection, spanking, fetish wear and a legendary trip to Hell not found on any travel site. Best enjoyed with doors locked and curtains drawn.
Download or read book Conflict The Inner Struggle of Parentin written by and published by Craig Wolters. This book was released on with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Team of Destiny written by Thurl Bailey and published by Big T Productions. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thurl Bailey knows what it takes to have a "Championship Mindset". With Thurl in the driver's seat, this book takes readers on a journey that started with a dreamer, Coach Jim Valvano. Jimmy V's ability to manifest his dream through a willing group of young players, culminated into winning the 1983 NCAA Championship against all odds. Sports Illustrated pinned the championship game as, "The greatest upset in sports in the 20th century." Thurl invites you to learn the secret of how you and your team can choose to have that championship mindset. Success does leave clues, and this book challenges you and the rest of today's dreamers to understand the importance of your own unique set of skills to help put you and your team in a position to win!
Download or read book In Too Deep written by Stacey Weeks and published by Pelican Ventures Book Group. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like an anchor wedged in the lake floor, Grace Stone's heart is submerged in the past. Drowning in guilt over the role she played in her father's and sister's deaths, Grace prays that launching her water survival program at Camp Moshe will properly honor their memory and enable her to move on. But success depends on Grace risking everything on the man hired to rebrand the Christian camp.Kye Campton's usual confidence wavers when his extreme sports campaign lands him in hot water with the cautious instructor and it becomes increasingly evident that Camp Moshe's fight for survival is against more than a declining economy. Will Kye be able to save the camp—and Grace—from a saboteur determined to close the camp at any cost?
Download or read book Fading Shadows written by Susan C. Finelli and published by PublishAmerica. This book was released on 2012-06-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mourning the death of her grandfather, Nick Straga, and the loss of her love, Daniel Torrelle, Kay Straga buries her sadness deep within her guilt ridden, broken heart. Although Kay marries Jake Crane, her heart retains its love for Daniel. More than twenty years later, Kay's daughter, Sydney, becomes the target of an elaborate plan by Reid Jeffries to seek revenge on Kay for a sin long ago committed, but not forgotten. Daniel Torrelle returns to Kay to protect her and her family, only to destroy family harmony and unlock the secret of his and Kay's past. A secret, that once divulged, keeps her locked in its clutches, from which there is no escape."
Download or read book Every Young Man s Battle written by Stephen Arterburn and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2009-08-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can any young man escape the lure of sexual temptation in today's world? You're surrounded by sex constantly--in movies, on TV, video games, music, the Internet. Is it any wonder that it feels impossible to stay sexually pure? How do men survive the relentless battle against the onslaught of lust? With powerful ammunition. The authors of the hard-hitting mega-bestseller Every Man’s Battle know the temptations young men face every day. The fact is, you can achieve victory over sexual compromise. Every Young Man’s Battle shows you how to rise above today's debased, self-seeking culture by examining God's standard, training your eyes and mind, cleaning up your thought life, and developing a plan. With extensive updates for a new generation of men, this is the award-winning guide to practical resistance. Bottom line: these strategies are biblical and they have worked for millions of men. Experience real hope for living the way God designed. Enter the battle. Includes comprehensive workbook for individual and group study.
