Download or read book The Slightly True Story of Cedar B Hartley who Planned to Live an Unusual Life written by Martine Murray and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE and THE BEAN TREES comes a novel that charms and amazes, with a voice that draws you in like a warm-hearted charismatic friend. Cedar B. Hartley is exasperating and potentially infamous. She steps on cracks. She plans to live an unusual life. She is the winner of her school's Bat Pole Championship, (which she made up). She misses her brother Barnaby, who ran away, and who sends her postcards from all over the country. And she's definitely a hopeless winker -- both eyes go at once, like a blink. But Cedar B. Hartley has potential. She knows the d ifference between touching and touching on a couch. She knows the long distance between an idea and the real thing. And she has a green thumb for people, like Ricci, the
Download or read book The Slightly True Story of Cedar B Hartley written by Martine Murray and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2002 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A funny, tender and wise story about nearly-13-year-old Cedar B. Hartley - 'exasperating and potentially infamous' - who loses her dog, finds a new friend, becomes an acrobat, and learns some bitter-sweet truths about family, community and herself. A captivating debut novel by a distinctive new writer.
Download or read book Slightly True Story of Cedar B Hartley written by Martine Murray and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When twelve-year-old Cedar loses her dog, it sets off a chain of events leading her to find a new friend, become an acrobat, and learn some bitter-sweet truths about family, community, and herself.
Download or read book The Slightly Bruised Glory of Cedar B Hartley written by Martine Murray and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2005 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second funny, touching chapter in the life of Cedar B. Hartley, who plans to be infamous. Cedar's world turns upside down when her almost-boyfriend, Kite, moves to Albury to join a professional circus.
Download or read book The Slightly True Story of Cedar B Hartley written by Martine Murray and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cedar hangs out on the edges of the neighbourhood social circuit with Stinky, her dog and best friend. Things start to change when she meets a boy called Kite and finds they have a lot in common - both have single parents, both are loners with colourful inner lives, both like beanies, dogs and acrobatics. Together they form a circus troupe and put on a dazzling performance that helps to unite their inner-city community. Along the way, Cedar gains some understanding of her missing brother, her hard-working mother, her less-than-perfect father - and herself. More reviews: 'vibrates with authenticity', School Library Journal, USA 'Cedar's witty, wry voice will seduce even the most cynical', Bulletin with Newsweek
Download or read book The Slightly Bruised Glory of Cedar B Hartley written by Martine Murray and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once I was a skinny redhead with a dog called Stinky and a lot of things to find out. Then I met Kite. Kite showed me how to be an acrobat, and I showed him some stuff too. Because I'm always having ideas. I can't help it. Like it was my idea to make a circus with all the others, but, to tell you the truth, I don't know whose idea the kiss was. Some things just happen. Some things are glorious and make you feel like you might just fall in love and some things are terrible, like what happened at the rehearsal. Kite looked at me and I knew a terrible terrible thing was about to happen. I'd better tell you the whole story Cedar B. Hartley - the original, irrepressible, and potentially infamous - is pulled between a glamorous high-flying dream and her own circus of friends, in this funny, wise, exhilarating story. Praise for The Slightly True Story of Cedar B. Hartley (who planned to live an unusual life): Once in a while you read a book so perfect you can't imagine it being written any other way (it) is very funny, deeply moving and just about all you could ask for in a novel for children, or adults come to that ' Philip Ardagh in the Guardian UK
Download or read book Cedar B Hartley written by Martine Murray and published by MacMillan UK. This book was released on 2007-03-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One minute Cedar’s life is perfect - she, her best friends and her almost-boyfriend, Kite, are having the greatest time performing with their own little circus, The Acrobats - the next, Kite announces he’s leaving town with his dad to join a real circus with professional acrobats. Cedar is furious. How could Kite abandon The Acrobats - and her? Then long-lost Aunt Squeezy arrives and introduces Cedar to Shakira and the other refugee kids at the Neighbourhood Network. Running a circus class for them, Cedar soon realises that the best way to stop feeling sorry for yourself is to stop thinking about yourself. So when Cedar is offered her own place at Kite’s circus, she has to decide - should she follow her own high-flying dream or stick with her friends.
Download or read book How to make a bird written by Martine Murray and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mannie is escaping - from small town life, from family mysteries, from grief, from her fragile former self; she's heading for the city in search of an elusive 'something' to make herself feel right. A YA novel of rare sensitivity, whimsical humour and revelation. WINNER: 2002 QLD Premier's Literary Awards. I'm not a bad person. I've simply come out of left field. I'm a stray and, anyway, whatever I am, I'm not it yet. I'm still becoming. In fact, I'd always believed that I was once a horse, because I loved to run down a hill. And Eddie was a fish. He was a swaggerer, if you know what I mean. Flimsy but loveable. Mannie is searching for the thing she doesn't yet know, but it's like a runaway kite pulling her heart forward. So she's leaving home. She's heading for the city with nothing but a long red dress, a strong hunch, and an unknown address in her pocket. As the day turns to night, Mannie makes a lot of discoveries and not exactly the ones she planned to make. With rare sensitivity, wisdom and humour, and a voice that's entirely her own, Martine Murray tells a bittersweet story about longing and losing and finding again.
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Download or read book Cedar B Hartley written by Martine Murray and published by MacMillan UK. This book was released on 2007 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flame-haired Cedar's dog Stinky has gone missing and the house feels thuddingly empty. But when a mysterious boy called Kite finds the dog, Cedar discovers through him a new and liberating world of daring acrobatics. Kite is about to turn Cedar - and her life - upside down.
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Download or read book Essentials of Young Adult Literature written by Carl M. Tomlinson and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 2007 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Essentials of Young Adult Literature" Based on a genre approach to literature, this long-awaited book offers a comprehensive, clear, and succinct overview of adolescent literature. It includes recommended books listed by genre and topic, and engages readers by offering a thorough discussion of the major trends and issues affecting young adult literature such as censorship, the literary canon, and accountability. It provides clearly stated positions on the current issues affecting schools and literature. Written by well-known authors Carl Tomlinson and Carol Lynch-Brown, "Essentials of Young Adult Literature" places emphasis on reading a wide variety of young adult literature and addresses all types and formats of literature including novels, short stories, graphic novels, and picture books for older readers. In addition, notable authors are featured in each genre chapter and multicultural and international literature is integrated throughout the book and then treated more fully in its own chapter. Current and future teachers will appreciate the authors' practical strategies for connecting secondary school students with young adult books, such as how to select books that students will read and enjoy, how to motivate resistant readers to read, and how to develop text sets for classroom study across the curriculum. Readers will be equipped with the knowledge to use trade books as excellent teaching and learning materials and will not be limited to using textbooks alone. Key Features "Literature Across the Curriculum" features found in all genre chapters give examples of how young adult literature can help students and teachers in the content areas learn or present course content in a more interesting, memorable way. Extensive lists of recommended books briefly annotated with topics and age levels follow each genre chapter. One full chapter devoted to addressing the specific needs of resistant readers give middle and high school teachers much-needed strategies for addressing common obstacles to reading and for motivating students to read. Every chapter presents one to three charts with information about milestone books, history of specific genres, and research. Appendices feature Young Adult Book Award lists and YA Magazines, organized by content area and include ordering information. By the same authors Essentials of Children's Literature, Fifth Edition (c)2005, Allyn & Bacon, ISBN 0-205-42015-X For more information, please visit www.ablongman.com
Download or read book The Last Summer of Ada Bloom written by Martine Murray and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A big-hearted story of a family filled with secrets, and the ways they grow up—and apart—over the course of a single, life-altering summer. In a small country town during one long, hot summer, the Bloom family is beginning to unravel. Martha is straining against the confines of her life, lost in regret for what might have been, when an old flame shows up. In turn, her husband Mike becomes frustrated with his increasingly distant wife. Marital secrets, new and long-hidden, start to surface—with devastating effect. And while teenagers Tilly and Ben are about to step out into the world, nine-year-old Ada is holding onto a childhood that might soon be lost to her. When Ada discovers an abandoned well beneath a rusting windmill, she is drawn to its darkness and danger. And when she witnesses a shocking and confusing event, the well’s foreboding looms large in her mind—a driving force, pushing the family to the brink of tragedy. For each family member, it’s a summer of searching—in books and trees, at parties, in relationships new and old—for the answer to one of life’s most difficult questions: how to grow up? The Last Summer of Ada Bloom is an honest and tender accounting of what it means to come of age as a teen, or as an adult. With a keen eye for summer’s languor and danger, and a sharp ear for the wonder, doubt, and longing in each of her characters’ voices, Martine Murray has written a beguiling story about the fragility of family relationships, about the secrets we keep, the power they hold to shape our lives, and about the power of love to somehow hold it all together.
Download or read book Marsh Me written by Martine Murray and published by Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2019 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Joey, a loner whose life consists of home, school, and the hill where he plays guitar, meets Marsh, she opens his eyes to a new world.
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