Download or read book Tumbleweed Skies written by Valerie Sherrard and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellie's grandmother doesn't want her around the farm, but times are tough, and her salesman father can't take her on the road. Ellie's challenge is to break through her grandmother's isolation and find kinship among strangers.
Download or read book Tumbleweed Skies written by Valerie Sherrard and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellie's grandmother doesn't want her around the farm, but times are tough, and her salesman father can't take her on the road. Ellie's challenge is to break through her grandmother's isolation and find kinship among strangers.
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Derek Cowell written by Valerie Sherrard and published by DCB. This book was released on 2020-04-04 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derek didn’t mean to become popular. His accidental photo bomb — the one that made him internet-famous — took him from invisibility to middle-school fame overnight. And you know what? He’s not sure if he likes it. But his best friend Steve does, and schemes to find other ways to help Derek to remain the talk of the school. But what goes up must come down, and Derek’s reluctant rise is followed by a regrettable crash. Funny, emotionally rich, and inspiring, The Rise and Fall of Derek Cowell is the latest book by award-winning, bestselling author Valerie Sherrard.
Download or read book Accomplice written by Valerie Sherrard and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short-listed for the 2012 SYRCA Snow Willow Award Lexie Malton is an average Vancouver teen with fairly typical issues. Her stepmother is far from her favourite person, she has a sister with special needs, and life outside the home is the usual mix of school, friends, and social events. But Lexie has a secret. Her ex-boyfriend, Devlin Mather, is now a heroin addict living on the street, and only Lexie knows that shes the one who put him there. Guilt makes her give in to Devlins demands for money time and time again, even though she knows how dangerous his drug use is. Lexie finally gathers the strength to stop enabling Devlin. But when he seeks treatment for his addiction, Lexie finds herself drawn back to him, never guessing what a dark and deadly path she has just chosen. Devlin relapses, and his desperation leads to an act that will change both of their lives forever.
Download or read book Standing on Neptune written by Valerie Sherrard and published by DCB Young Readers. This book was released on 2023-04-15 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Am I pregnant? This question shatters the peace of seventeen-year-old Brooke Palinder’s life one Monday morning when she realizes her period is late. Although shaken, she’s determined to hide her feelings and go about her daily routine as though nothing is wrong. Brooke’s boyfriend Ryan handles the news poorly, and she can’t bring herself to confide in anyone else, not even her best friend. In an effort to distract herself, Brooke throws herself into a school project about Neptune, which leads her to some startling discoveries and a surprising sense of connection to the distant planet. But by Saturday, she knows she must face the answer to the question that began her week. Standing on Neptune is a novel in verse from the celebrated author of Counting Back from Nine, The Glory Wind, and Birdspell.
Download or read book Testify written by Valerie Sherrard and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Shana helps bring Carrie's molester, Joe, to justice, she uncovers evidence that may prove his innocence.
Download or read book Watcher written by Valerie Sherrard and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2009-09-21 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I knew one thing -- I wasn't going to be rotting in that place for the rest of my life. I was getting out of there. That place turned people into the living dead. In that neighbourhood, it was hard to hear anything that didn't carry the sound of defeat." Sixteen-year-old Porter Delaney has his future figured out, but his nice, neat plans are shaken when a man he believes may be his father suddenly appears in his Toronto neighbourhood. Porter knows that he wants nothing to do with the deadbeat dad who abandoned him and his sister twelve years earlier, but curiosity causes him to re-examine the past. Unfortunately, actual memories are scarce and confusing, and much of what he knows is based on things his mother told him. As Porter looks for answers, it begins to seem that all he's ever going to find are more questions.
Download or read book Birdspell written by Valerie Sherrard and published by DCB. This book was released on 2021-03-13 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corbin Hayes has felt alone for as long as he can remember. His mom’s illness means lost jobs, constant moves, new schools and friendships that never get to grow. There’s a gap in his life that’s been waiting to be filled. So, when a classmate offers Corbin the talking bird she can no longer keep, he’s stoked. But when things begin to spiral out of control, Corbin can no longer get his mom – or himself – through the dark period. At his lowest moment, he’s forced to do the one thing he fears the most.
Download or read book First Bargain written by Billy Guajardo and published by XinXii. This book was released on 2023-06-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Bargain. Gunfighter's Graveyard. This is the story that began the series. Each with 100,000 words, more or less. In return, you'll receive a Novel worth the time, dollar amount, and chill. A Team of Entrepreneurs will end up in the hands of a Monster that the Dead call the Bargainer. In return, he will unleash a horde of ghosts. Like pretty boy billy, Jesse Cricket James, and the most feared yet forgotten Will Bunny. A band of lawmen will vow to gather. They will gather for what an evil clown would call the greatest showdown that any gunfighter would look forward to. An old wooden Indian will talk back to the living through a fortune teller's mixed messages. This team of men and women in the year today will encounter unlimited ghosts. Children left behind eaten by inmates left here as ghosts in the town. Love sweet candy and, of course, granola bars. Scarecrows and Men Blanketed in Salt Starved and Inhuman will reach for the living for a bite to eat. Evil Gold Miner, Cannibals, Gunfighters, and Lawmen Will Grace the pages.
Download or read book Open up the Sky written by Heather Cardin and Rob O'Flanagan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open Up the Sky is a unique and beautiful correspondence between two poets. Each writer takes up the verses of the other as an inspiration and a provocation, as an invitation to recall and reimagine and recreate the Canadian landscapes that have become home to them. This exchange of language and memory produces a poetry of intimate insight that transcends any particular location and speaks to the broader experience of being human in the world.
Download or read book High Skies written by Tracy Daugherty and published by Red Hen Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1950s Texas small town reels from severe weather, Cold War paranoia, and school integration in this novella by the author of American Originals. High Skies recounts the collision of devastating weather, Cold War suspicion, tense race relations, and the unintended consequences of good intentions in a small west Texas town in the 1950s, changing the futures of the families there and altering their perceptions of America. At the center of this perfect storm is Raymond “Flyboy” Seaker, a respected military veteran, now the vice principal of a school in which Troy, who tells the story, and his disabled friend Stevie will have their lives upended forever. Through a combination of his own well-meaning ambitions and the political maneuverings of others, Flyboy, and the families he serves come to grasp the meaning of community and of individual fortitude. Written with a vivid economy recalling Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams and painting as indelible a portrait of small-town life as Larry McMurtry’s The Last Picture Show, High Skies is a perfectly distilled American epic. Praise for High Skies “Tracy Daugherty’s characters have a stubborn, wonderful realness to them, the sign of a writer absolutely alert to the complex world around us.” —Andrea Barrett, winner of the National Book Award “Daugherty’s writing is deeply rooted in time and place and the historical events that color the characters’ lives. The effect of this is not nostalgia but a perspective on the relationship between the private and the public, the personal and the political. His characters are wholly realized, the writing as clean as sheets on a summer line.” —Robert Boswell, PEN West Award finalist “Daugherty adeptly creates a toxic environment where people’s fears obscure their rationality and impair their judgment. The account of one man left out to dry makes for a stark, memorable outing.” —Publishers Weekly
Download or read book Beneath the Velvet Skies written by Rusty Van Reeves and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BENEATH THE VELVET SKIES is the story of four beleaguered children coming of age in a small Mississippi town in the early 1970s. On the surface, the town seems like any other rural town, but within its city limits lies a fair share of resident evil. Life in Good Hope is all about overcoming the deficits of oneâs birth and upbringing. A fast paced mystery that contains adult language and romance.
Download or read book The Restless Spirit written by Jessica Blair and published by Piatkus. This book was released on 2010-12-30 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Sam Harland returns a World War I hero to St Robin's Bay on the Yorkshire coast, he brings with him a French wife. He hopes that she will be accepted by the villagers, but one person, Mary Lawson, can never forgive what she sees as the ultimate betrayal. When Jean Lawson and Colin Harland fall in love, the match is opposed by both of their families because of a rift that began a generation ago. But as World War II casts a shadow over Britain and its people, Jean and Colin both strive towards their futures, as they volunteer to serve their country at war.
Download or read book The Kindergarten primary Magazine written by Bertha Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tumbleweed Christmas written by Ninie Hammon and published by Sterling & Stone LLC. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shell-shocked veteran. A shattered child. A Christmas miracle. It’s Christmas in 1953 on the dusty High Plains of West Texas. It was lonely enough out there before eleven-year-old Bonnie McGrath lost her mother. Now she aches for her daddy’s return from Korea to fill the emptiness that’s been carved out of her heart ever since Mama’s passing. But the father who left Muleshoe, Texas, three years before has come home as somebody else. After nineteen months in a North Korean prisoner-of-war camp, Beau McGrath has lost the ability to love. A New Mexican blizzard claims the county’s Christmas trees, and the loss is devastating. A symbol of all the good in Bonnie’s life that has been taken away and is now gone forever. Beau must replace the trees, but his only solution takes him even farther away from his daughter. Will the chasm between them grow wide enough that neither of them will ever be able to cross it again?
Download or read book The Man Who Fell from the Sky written by Margaret Coel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Margaret Coel returns to Wind River with Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O’Malley investigating a lethal link between legendary outlaw Butch Cassidy and a present-day murder… When Robert Walking Bear’s body is found in the Wind River mountains, his death appears to be accidental—except for the fact that he had been hunting for Butch Cassidy’s buried loot with a map he had gotten from his grandfather, a map believed to have been drawn by the leader of the Hole in the Wall gang himself. It isn’t long before rumors circulate that Robert was murdered by his own cousins to get the map and find the treasure themselves. Despite there being no evidence of foul play, the gossip gains credibility when both Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O’Malley are contacted by an anonymous Arapaho claiming to have witnessed Robert’s killing. When one of Robert’s cousins falls prey to another deadly accident, Vicky and Father John are convinced the victim is the witness who confided in them, and the hunt for the killer is on in earnest—before more die in search of Cassidy’s cache.
Download or read book Tumbleweed Baby written by Anna Myers and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long ago in Nowhere, Texas, Mama and Papa Upagainstit agree to take in the wild baby their five children find in a passing tumbleweed, despite the objections of the one who used to be "the littlest-of-all girl."
