Download or read book Sofia and Sundance written by Laura Holt-Haslam and published by Laura Holt-Haslam. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A Journey of Trust, Friendship, and Finding Home.” Eleven-year-old Sofia Ruiz believes her dreams have come true when she’s reunited with her beloved horse, Sundance, but reality has its own plans. The bickering and bossy demands of her friends, Olivia and Ryan, leave her little time alone with Sundance, but how can she stand up to them? Being the new kid at Maplewood Middle School is hard enough without worrying about losing her only two friends. After an accident shakes Sundance’s confidence, the once-perfect partnership between girl and horse unravels, leaving Sofia questioning her abilities and unsure of how to regain her horse’s trust. Sofia’s world takes another unexpected turn when a mysterious letter arrives, unearthing secrets about the father who abandoned her as a young child. Fearful of her mom’s likely reaction, Sofia hides the letter and wrestles with how to respond. Does she want to discover more about her father and the family she never knew she had? Should she forgive him and welcome him back into her life? Can Sofia summon the strength to repair broken trust with her horse and the courage to mend the fragile bonds holding her friendships and family together? Join Sofia as she discovers that from life’s challenges spring remarkable growth—of self, family, and friendship. This captivating ride will linger in your heart well beyond the final page.

Download or read book Sofia s Choice written by Laura Holt-Haslam and published by River Pony Press. This book was released on 2024-06-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of tough choices, true friendship, and the courage to follow your heart. As autumn leaves paint the landscape, 11-year-old Sofia faces a crossroads. An opportunity to visit Acadia National Park presents a thrilling chance to explore the carriage trails with her horse, Sundance. Her mother's boyfriend invites her to bring a friend to ride his sister's horse. The catch? Sofia must choose between her best friends, Olivia and Anika. While Sofia wrestles with a decision she fears will jeopardize her friendships, the reappearance of her estranged father and the prospect of becoming a big sister further complicates her already tumultuous world. Will she find the strength to forge her own path, or will the expectations of others hold her back? Readers of all ages will be captivated by Sofia’s journey of self-discovery, the powerful bonds of friendship and family, and the joy of finding one's place in an ever-changing world.

Download or read book A Place for Sofia written by Laura Holt-Haslam and published by Laura Holt-Haslam. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sofia Ruiz adores her horse, Sundance, a gift from Gramma Lisa who has cared for her during her mother's absence. Weeks before her eleventh birthday, Sofia's mother unexpectedly returns, demanding she pack and leave Sundance behind. Anxious, lonely, and determined to reunite with Sundance, Sofia searches for a way to return to Gramma Lisa. After meeting the neighbor's miniature horses, Sofia is invited to join the Mini Whinnies Horse Club. As her horse and human friendships grow, Sofia wrestles with where she belongs. Will she ever see Sundance again? A heart-warming story to inspire horse lovers of all ages.

Download or read book Sofia s Surprise written by Laura Holt-Haslam and published by Laura Holt-Haslam. This book was released on 2021-05-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine-year-old Sofia Ruiz has just one Christmas wish—a horse of her own. But without winter boots or fuel to heat her run-down trailer, she would settle for just being warm. With Christmas only days away, Mom arranges for Sofia to spend two weeks alone with her grandmother, a stranger she hasn't seen in six years. A painful rift separates Mom from Gramma Lisa, but neither will talk about what happened. Sofia's dread turns into delight when she discovers Gramma Lisa owns a Morgan horse named Delilah. Sofia learns about caring for Delilah and eagerly volunteers to do the chores, hoping Gramma Lisa will allow her to ride. As Sofia and Gramma Lisa pursue their shared passion for horses, Sofia feels increasingly conflicted. She wishes she and Mom could move in with her grandmother, but Mom's strained relationship with Gramma Lisa stands in the way. If they cannot forgive, will they force Sofia to choose between them? Winnie Award winner, Young Adult Overall Runner-up, Equus Film and Arts Festival

Download or read book Emily Edwards to the Rescue written by Laura Holt-Haslam and published by Laura Holt-Haslam. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartwarming tale of a girl's unwavering love for a horse After a week spent at horseback camp making friends and bonding with her favorite horse, Calypso, twelve-year-old Emily Edwards must say goodbye. But what will happen to Calypso when the summer ends and the camp returns the fiery chestnut to the horse dealer Emily suspects abused her? Emily refuses to abandon Calypso to an uncertain future. She must rescue her, but how? With a mysteriously absent mother and a father whose Multiple Sclerosis is getting worse, she has no money—or place—to keep a horse. Her plan will require hard work and help from her camp friends Katie and Ash, but with luck, Emily might just pull it off. If only she could work up the nerve to tell her family, which might need even more rescuing than Calypso. Emily Edwards to the Rescue is must-read for horse lovers and anyone who believes in the power of friendship and determination.

Download or read book Emily Edwards Equestrian Extraordinaire written by Laura Holt-Haslam and published by Laura Holt-Haslam. This book was released on 2022-05-07 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Emily Edwards is confident she has what it takes to become an accomplished equestrian. She’s read every horse book in the library, watched countless how-to videos, and can name every Kentucky Derby winner since 1875. There’s only one obstacle standing in the way of her success. She’s never ridden a horse. When Emily wins an essay contest and is awarded a full scholarship to a week of horse camp, she’s ready to impress the staff with her knowledge and skills. Unfortunately, the no-nonsense head instructor doesn’t recognize the brilliance Emily knows she possesses. But that isn’t Emily’s only struggle. Learning how to make friends and be a friend may prove an even greater challenge than becoming an equestrian extraordinaire.

Download or read book Lights in Asphalt written by Leon Daneko and published by Christian Leonard Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lights in Asphalt: The Pacific Lightshow, is the first installment in a new Dystopian series. The year is 2040, a whole year has passed since Milo Palamonde has returned from sea, since everyone returned from sea. Only a few soldiers who returned know why they did so - alive and not in a post apocalyptic world following the decisions made by the leaders of nations. Now, someone is trying to eliminate all the personnel who were there that day. Silence and eliminate all the information about the Pacific confrontation in French Polynesia and uphold the narrative that the world dropped their arms and agreed to get along... even after farmers and rural folk watched giant holes open under their pastures and wheat fields. Follow a group of twenty somethings as they traverse land, sea and sky looking for answer as too what is so damning about that pink light that intervened that day and a reason for them to keep going.

Download or read book The Sundance Kids written by James Mottram and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-05-15 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Mottram traces the roots of this generation of American film-makers to Steven Soderbergh's 'Sex, Lies and Videotape' and looks at how many kickstarted their careers and made their mark at Robert Redford's Sundance Institute in Utah or at his film festival.

Download or read book A Place for Sofia written by Laura Holt-Haslam and published by . This book was released on 2019-11 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sofia Ruiz adores her horse, Sundance, a gift from the grandmother who has cared for her during her mother's absence. Weeks before her eleventh birthday, her mother demands that she pack her things, forcing Sofia to leave Sundance behind. She's sent to live with the great-grandfather she barely knows. Anxious, lonely, and determined to be reunited with Sundance, Sofia searches for a way to return to her grandmother. After meeting the neighbor's miniature horses, Sofia is invited to join the Mini Whinnies Horse Club with quick-tempered Olivia, who uses crutches to walk, and her twin brother, Ryan, who's afraid of horses. As her horse and human friendships grow, Sofia wrestles with where she belongs. Will she ever see Sundance again? This heart-warming story about friendship and discovering family in unexpected places will inspire horse-lovers of all ages.

Download or read book Sofia Coppola written by Susan Dudley Gold and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Director of Somewhere, The Virgin Suicides, Marie Antoinette, and more.

Download or read book Sundance Kids written by James Mottram and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A formidable new generation of American film-makers are currently in their prime: Paul Thomas Anderson, Alexander Payne, Sofia Coppola, David Fincher, Spike Jonze, Wes Anderson, to name but six. Call them 'The Sundance Kids'. . . A conspicuous number of these talents first kick-started their careers in the workshops of Robert Redford's Sundance Institute in Utah, or made the big time after screening their work at the Sundance Film Festival. Nowadays, acclaimed movies such as Payne's Sideways, Jonze's Being John Malkovich and Coppola's Lost in Translation have reminded people of that great peri.

Download or read book Time written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Social Trauma and Telecinematic Memory written by Pelin Başcı and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores responses to authoritarianism in Turkish society through popular culture by examining feature films and television serials produced between 1980 and 2010 about the 1980 coup. Envisioned as an interdisciplinary study in cultural studies rather than a disciplinary work on cinema, the book advocates for an understanding of popular culture in discerning emerging narratives of nationhood. Through feature films and television serials directly dealing with the coup of 1980, the book exposes tropes and discursive continuities such as “childhood” and “the child”. It argues that these conventional tropes enable popular debates on the modern nation’s history and its myths of identity.

Download or read book The Sundance Kid written by Donna B. Ernst and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He gained renown as the sidekick of Butch Cassidy, but the Sundance Kid—whose real name was Harry Alonzo Longabaugh—led a fuller life than history or Hollywood has allowed. A relative of Longabaugh through marriage, Donna B. Ernst has spent more than a quarter century researching his life. She now brings to print the most thorough account ever of one of the West’s most infamous outlaws, tracing his life from his childhood in Pennsylvania to his involvement with the Wild Bunch and, in 1908, to his reputed death by gunshot in Bolivia. Combining genealogical research, access to family records, and explorations in historical archives, Ernst details the Sundance Kid’s movements to paint a complete picture of the man. She recounts his homesteading days in Colorado, offers new information on his years as a cowboy in Wyoming and Canada, and cites newly uncovered records that substantiate both his outlaw activities and his attempts at self-reform. While taking readers on the wild chase that became Longabaugh’s life, outracing posses and Pinkertons, Ernst corrects inaccuracies in the historical record. She demonstrates that he could not have participated in the Belle Fourche bank heist or the Tipton train robbery and refutes speculations that Butch and Sundance managed to escape their fate in Bolivia. The Sundance Kid is enlivened by more than three dozen photographs, including family photos never before seen.

Download or read book Fairyland written by Alysia Abbott and published by WW Norton. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful, vibrant memoir about growing up motherless in 1970s and ’80s San Francisco with an openly gay father. After his wife dies in a car accident, bisexual writer and activist Steve Abbott moves with his two-year-old daughter to San Francisco. There they discover a city in the midst of revolution, bustling with gay men in search of liberation—few of whom are raising a child. Steve throws himself into San Francisco’s vibrant cultural scene. He takes Alysia to raucous parties, pushes her in front of the microphone at poetry readings, and introduces her to a world of artists, thinkers, and writers. But the pair live like nomads, moving from apartment to apartment, with a revolving cast of roommates and little structure. As a child Alysia views her father as a loving playmate who can transform the ordinary into magic, but as she gets older Alysia wants more than anything to fit in. The world, she learns, is hostile to difference. In Alysia’s teens, Steve’s friends—several of whom she has befriended—fall ill as AIDS starts its rampage through their community. While Alysia is studying in New York and then in France, her father tells her it’s time to come home; he’s sick with AIDS. Alysia must choose whether to take on the responsibility of caring for her father or continue the independent life she has worked so hard to create. Reconstructing their life together from a remarkable cache of her father’s journals, letters, and writings, Alysia Abbott gives us an unforgettable portrait of a tumultuous, historic time in San Francisco as well as an exquisitely moving account of a father’s legacy and a daughter’s love.

Download or read book You Are Enough A Book About Inclusion written by Margaret O'Hair and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful and inclusive picture book all about celebrating being yourself from Down syndrome advocate and viral sensation Sofia Sanchez! It can be hard to be different -- whether because of how you look, where you live, or what you can or can't do. But wouldn't it be boring if we were all the same? Being different is great! Being different is what makes you YOU. This inclusive and empowering picture book from Sofia Sanchez -- an 11-year-old model and actress with Down syndrome -- reminds readers how important it is to embrace your differences, be confident, and be proud of who you are. Imagine all of the wonderful things you can do if you don't let anyone stop you! You are enough just how you are. Sofia is unique, but her message is universal: We all belong. So each spread will feature beautiful, full-color illustrations of a full cast of kid characters with all kinds of backgrounds, experiences, and abilities. This book will also include back matter with a brief bio of Sofia and her journey so far, as well as additional information about Down syndrome and how we can all be more accepting, more inclusive, and more kind.

Download or read book Sophie and the Rising Sun written by Augusta Trobaugh and published by BelleBooks. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unforgettable story of an extraordinary love and a town's prejudice during World War II. Sophie and the Rising Sun "suggests the small but heartwarming triumphs made possible by human dignity and courage." -Publisher's Weekly. In sleepy Salty Creek, Georgia, strangers are rare. When a quiet, unassuming stranger arrives--a Japanese man with a secret history of his own--he becomes the talk of the town and a new beginning for lonely Sophie, who lost her first love during World War I. Middle-aged Sophie had resigned herself to a passionless existence. That all begins to change as she finds herself drawn to the mysterious Mr. Oto. When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Mr. Oto's newfound life comes under siege; his safety, even in Salty Creek, is no longer certain. Sophie must decide how much she is willing to risk for a future with the man who has brought such joy into her life. Visit the author at: www.AugustaTrobaugh.com