Download or read book The Backyard Secrets of Danny Wexler written by Karen Pokras and published by Kar-Ben Publishing ®. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven-year-old Danny Wexler, the only Jewish boy in his blue-collar town during the late 1970s, is obsessed with the Bermuda Triangle. When a local child goes missing, Danny's convinced it's connected to an old Bermuda Triangle theory involving UFOs. With his two best friends and their Spacetron telescope, Danny heads to his backyard to investigate. But hunting for extraterrestrials is complicated, and it doesn't help that his friend Nicholas's mom doesn't want her son hanging out with a Jewish boy. Equipped with his super-secret spy notebook, Danny sets out to fight both the aliens and the growing anti-Semitism in the town, in hopes of mending his divided community.
Download or read book This Is Just a Test written by Wendy Wan-Long Shang and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosenberg and Wan-Long Shang tell the story of a boy caught in the middle of cultures, friends, and growing up Chinese-Jewish-American in this hilariously witty and heartwarming coming-of-age. David Da-Wei Horowitz has a lot on his plate. Preparing for his upcoming bar mitzvah would be enough work even if it didn't involve trying to please his Jewish and Chinese grandmothers, who argue about everything. But David just wants everyone to be happy.That includes his friend Scott, who is determined to win their upcoming trivia tournament but doesn't like their teammate -- and David's best friend -- Hector. Scott and David begin digging a fallout shelter just in case this Cold War stuff with the Soviets turns south... but David's not so convinced he wants to spend forever in an underground bunker with Scott. Maybe it would be better if Hector and Kelli Ann came with them. But that would mean David has to figure out how to stand up for Hector and talk to Kelli Ann. Some days, surviving nuclear war feels like the least of David's problems.
Download or read book Mi Mariposa written by Tammy Lovell and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-23 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Jasmine's parents die in a house fire, she is forced to live in an orphanage in Macon, Georgia. One day she discovers a mysterious black hole that takes her time traveling around the globe. She is part of a group of children from London traveling to the country to escape the dangers of WWII. She meets Dr. Martin Luther King and survives the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. She learns what it's like to be a girl in the SWAT Valley under the Taliban's rule. She travels with the Choctaw tribe on the Trail of Tears, and she lives with refugees waiting to cross the border into America. Will Jasmine find her way to a forever home? This story visits some difficult times in history and gently asks us what it means to be a friend and what it truly means to be at home.
Download or read book Beni s War written by Tammar Stein and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's Yom Kippur Eve in 1973, and twelve-year-old Beni thinks his biggest problem is settling in at his new school in the Golan, where his family moved at the end of the Six-Day War. But on Yom Kippur, shocking news comes over the radio: a stunning strike on Israel has begun, led by a coalition of Arab states. In the blink of an eye, Beni's older brother Motti is off to war, leaving Beni behind with his mother and father. As bombs drop around Beni and his family, they flee to safety, every day hoping for news of Motti and the developments of the war. Beni must find a way to aid the war effort in his own way, proving that he too can be a hero, even as he learns along the way that there is dignity in every person, including the people he considers the enemy.
Download or read book The Midnight Brigade written by Adam Borba and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harkening to classics such as Roald Dahl's The BFG, this heartwarming story highlights the power of friendship and the importance of finding your voice. Carl Chesterfield wishes he could speak up—whether that means being honest with his father about the family's new (and failing) food truck, reaching out to a potential friend, or alerting others to the fact that monsters might be secretly overrunning his hometown of Pittsburgh. There's plenty to fret over. And plenty to question. When a flyer about a mysterious monster-seeking group called the Midnight Brigade catches his eye, Carl sees an opportunity to find answers. Little does he know, his curiosity will lead him to find an incredible discovery under one of his city's magnificent bridges and to be bolder than he ever imagined. Chock-full of humor and heart, this is the quirky tale of three unexpected friends and the crankiest troll with a heart of gold.
Download or read book Alone written by Megan E. Freeman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in hardcover in 2021 by Aladdin.
Download or read book Where the Stork Flies written by Linda C Wisniewski and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distraught after her marriage falls apart, Kat finds a lost time traveler in her kitchen. Grasping at this chance to give her life meaning, she helps the woman go home, and follows her back to the land of her own ancestors, where she finds a path to heal her family.
Download or read book A Play for the End of the World written by Jai Chakrabarti and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling novel—set in early 1970's New York and rural India—the story of a turbulent, unlikely romance, a harrowing account of the lasting horrors of World War II, and a searing examination of one man's search for forgiveness and acceptance. “Looks deeply at the echoes and overlaps among art, resistance, love, and history ... an impressive debut.” —Meg Wolitzer, best-selling author of The Female Persuasion New York City, 1972. Jaryk Smith, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, and Lucy Gardner, a southerner, newly arrived in the city, are in the first bloom of love when they receive word that Jaryk's oldest friend has died under mysterious circumstances in a rural village in eastern India. Travelling there alone to collect his friend's ashes, Jaryk soon finds himself enmeshed in the chaos of local politics and efforts to stage a play in protest against the government—the same play that he performed as a child in Warsaw as an act of resistance against the Nazis. Torn between the survivor's guilt he has carried for decades and his feelings for Lucy (who, unbeknownst to him, is pregnant with his child), Jaryk must decide how to honor both the past and the present, and how to accept a happiness he is not sure he deserves. An unforgettable love story, a provocative exploration of the role of art in times of political upheaval, and a deeply moving reminder of the power of the past to shape the present, A Play for the End of the World is a remarkable debut from an exciting new voice in fiction.
Download or read book Crossing the Blvd written by and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2003 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of first-person narratives and anecdotes, close-up portrait photographs, and the author's personal and historical reflections capture the rich ethnic diversity of the people and landscapes of the borough of Queens in New York City, in a volume that comes complete with an audio rendition of the oral histories and music by composer Scott Johnson. Original.
Download or read book Subject to Change written by Deirdre Boyle and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a history of "guerilla television", a form of TV which was part of an alternative media tide sweeping the United States in the 1960s. Inspired by the fracturing issues of the decade and the theories and writings of various exponents, guerilla television put forth "utopian" programming.
Download or read book Disney A to Z written by Dave Smith and published by Hyperion Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes full descriptions of all Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Pluto, and Goofy cartoons; the story of Mickey's birth; the Disney Channel Premiere films and Disney television shows; the Disney parks; Disney Academy Awards and Emmy Awards; the Mouseketeers throughout the years; and details of Disney company personnel and primary actors.
Download or read book Nate Rocks the World written by Karen Pokras Toz and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life as a fourth-grader can be a challenge for ten-year-old Nathan Rockledge as he copes with school, family, and friends-- but with sketchpad in hand, Nate navigates these perils to emerge as Nate Rocks, whose quirky and imaginative adventures come to life.
Download or read book In Your Room written by Jordanna Fraiberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-10-16 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Molly and Charlie have fallen head over heels in love?even though they?ve never met Molly is a fashion-conscious city girl in L.A. Charlie is an earthy, mountain-biking dude from Boulder, Colorado. Each of them has big plans with their respective friends for the summer?until they discover that their parents decided to swap houses! Luckily there?s no amount of homesickness that a bit of snooping can?t cure. Charlie and Molly begin crawling under beds and poking around in closets to find out a little more about each other?and they like what they find. Can Charlie and Molly?s long-distance romance survive jealousy, misunderstandings?and the thousand miles between them? MTV?s Room Raiders meets You?ve Got Mail in this sweet, old-fashioned love story for the digital age. . . .
Download or read book Don t Tell the Nazis written by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch (author of Making Bombs for Hitler) crafts a story of ultimate compassion and sacrifice based on true events during WWII. The year is 1941. Krystia lives in a small Ukrainian village under the cruel -- sometimes violent -- occupation of the Soviets. So when the Nazis march into town to liberate them, many of Krystia's neighbors welcome the troops with celebrations, hoping for a better life.But conditions don't improve as expected. Krystia's friend Dolik and the other Jewish people in town warn that their new occupiers may only bring darker days.The worst begins to happen when the Nazis blame the Jews for murders they didn't commit. As the Nazis force Jews into a ghetto, Krystia does what she can to help Dolik and his family. But what they really need is a place to hide. Faced with unimaginable tyranny and cruelty, will Krystia risk everything to protect her friends and neighbors?
Download or read book Cranky Chicken written by Katherine Battersby and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narwhal and Jelly meet The Bad Guys in this brightly illustrated, downright hilarious chapter book graphic novel full of “sweet, wholesome fun” (BCCB) about what happens when a very cranky chicken is befriended by a very cheerful worm. Cranky Chicken is, well, cranky. With one cranky eyebrow, cranky eyes, and even cranky, scratchy feet. But then one day, Cranky meets a very friendly worm named Speedy who wants nothing more than to be friends. Young readers will love seeing the mismatched friendship grow over the course of three charming and laugh-out-loud short adventures as Chicken and Speedy become BFFs (Best Feathered Friends) and Speedy shows Chicken how to look on the bright side.
Download or read book Anya and the Dragon written by Sofiya Pasternack and published by Versify. This book was released on 2019 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lush tale of magic and dragons is a gem for any adventure-seeking middle grader and perfect for fans of Aru Shah and the End of Time. Anya and the Dragon is the story of fantasy and mayhem in tenth century Eastern Europe, where headstrong eleven-year-old Anya is a daughter of the only Jewish family in her village. When her family's livelihood is threatened by a bigoted magistrate, Anya is lured in by a friendly family of fools, who promise her money in exchange for helping them capture the last dragon in Kievan Rus. This seems easy enough, until she finds out that the scary old dragon isn't as old--or as scary--as everyone thought. Now Anya is faced with a choice: save the dragon, or save her family.
Download or read book Off Kilter written by Linda C. Wisniewski and published by Pearlsong Press. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in the 1950s was not Ozzie & Harriet and Father Knows Best for Linda C. Wisniewski. Unlike the characters on her favorite TV shows, Linda learned to be quiet, atone for the sins of others, and just plain suffer as a way of life. Only when she came to terms with her Polish Catholic heritage, her physical deformity, and her widowed mother did she find inner peace and the keys to her own happiness. Readers of Angela's Ashes and The Joy Luck Club will enjoy this mother-daughter saga from sorrow to love. Author Susan Wittig Albert calls Off Kilter "a splendid first memoir about the difficult business of finding balance in our lives. Funny, honest, deeply moving, Off Kilter reminds us just how hard it is to adjust to the physical pain, the emotional loss, and even the surprising beauty of being fully who we are."
