Download or read book Because of Anya written by Margaret Peterson Haddix and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten-year-old girls don't wear wigs. So why is Anya wearing one? That's what Keely wants to know. But when Anya's wig falls off in front of the whole class, Keely realizes what she really wants is to help Anya, even though she's not sure how--and even though it means she'll have to do something she's afraid of: stand up to her friends. As for Anya, she just wants her hair to grow back, but no one can tell her whether it ever will. How can she learn to accept her disease when she can't even look in the mirror?
Download or read book Anya written by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-01-27 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before she goes to America, the Polish Jew Anya who has escaped several times during World War II, always searches for her little girl, given to Gentiles at the start of the war.
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: In an alternate ninth century, twelve-year-old Anya and a new friend face a Viking and a Tsar to protect the water dragon that saved her life, putting her family's home at risk.
Download or read book Anya s Ghost written by Vera Brosgol and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features main character smoking, possessing pills; contains references to sexual harassment and violence.
Download or read book Dexter the Tough written by Margaret Peterson Haddix and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I’m the new kid. I am tuf. This morning I beat up a kid. It’s only the first day of school for Dexter, but he’s already mad at the principal, and the secretary, and the janitor, and the kids who laugh at him. When his teacher tells the class to write a story, Dexter writes about how tough he is—and how he’s already gotten into a fight. Is any of Dexter’s story true? Why was the other boy crying before Dexter hit him? And why would the other boy still want to be Dexter’s friend? Even Dexter doesn’t know the answers to some of those questions. But as he deals with family problems, a persistent teacher, and a boy who’s strangely interested in floor wax, he discovers many surprises hidden in his own tale.
Download or read book Among the Hidden written by Margaret Peterson Haddix and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-06-12 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke, an illegal third child, has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm in this start to the Shadow Children series from Margaret Peterson Haddix. Luke has never been to school. He's never had a birthday party, or gone to a friend's house for an overnight. In fact, Luke has never had a friend. Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child forbidden by the Population Police. He's lived his entire life in hiding, and now, with a new housing development replacing the woods next to his family's farm, he is no longer even allowed to go outside. Then, one day Luke sees a girl's face in the window of a house where he knows two other children already live. Finally, he's met a shadow child like himself. Jen is willing to risk everything to come out of the shadows—does Luke dare to become involved in her dangerous plan? Can he afford not to?
Download or read book Say What written by Margaret Peterson Haddix and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sukie is worried -- her parents are acting strange. When she runs in the house, her dad asks, "If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you jump off a bridge too?" When she eats peas with her fingers, Mom yells, "You'll put an eye out with that thing!" What is going on? Have her parents been replaced by aliens? Are they robots with broken circuits? She and her older brothers decide to investigate. And what they discover leads to a kids-against-parents WAR! This very funny book casts a new light on family rules.
Download or read book Double Identity written by Margaret Peterson Haddix and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So my only protection is a kindergarten teacher and a ninety-eight-pound female minister....And they don't even believe I'm in danger. As Bethany approaches her thirteenth birthday, her parents begin acting more oddly than usual: Her mother cries constantly, and her father barely lets Bethany out of his sight. Then one morning he hustles the entire family into the car, drives across several state lines -- and leaves Bethany with an aunt she never knew existed. Bethany has no idea what's going on. She's worried that her mom and dad are running from some kind of trouble, but she can't find out because they won't tell her where they are going. Bethany's only clue is a few words she overheard her father tell her aunt Myrlie: "She doesn't know anything about Elizabeth." But Aunt Myrlie won't tell Bethany who Elizabeth is, and she won't explain why people in her small town react to Bethany as if they've seen a ghost. The mystery intensifies when Bethany gets a package from her father containing four different birth certificates from four states, with four different last names -- and thousands of dollars in cash. And when a strange man shows up asking questions, Bethany realizes she's not the only one who's desperate to unravel the secrets of her past. In this exhilarating thriller, Margaret Peterson Haddix crafts a taut story so full of twists and turns, readers will be gripped until the startling conclusion.
Download or read book If in Doubt Wash Your Hair written by Anya Hindmarch and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Waiting for Anya written by Michael Morpurgo and published by . This book was released on 2024-01-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping World War II adventure from War Horse author and former Children's Laureate, Michael Morpurgo. Jo did not stop until he'd shut the door behind him and even then his heart could not stop pounding in his ears. Jo finds out that Jewish children are being smuggled away from the Nazis over the mountains near his village. All goes to plan until German soldiers start patrolling the mountains, and Jo realises the children are trapped. Jo's slightest mistake could have devastating consequences ... Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and Guardian Fiction award Waiting for Anya is a novel that takes children to the heart of a tumultuous period in history, providing a wider context for children who have studied the Holocaust and The Diary of Anne Frank.
Download or read book Damage written by Anya Parrish and published by Flux. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It took years of therapy to convince Dani that Rachel, the childhood "imaginary" friend that pushed her from a building, wasn't real. Now fifteen, Dani wants to make it as a dancer. But a deadly freak accident sends Dani a terrifying message: Rachel is real and she's trying to kill her.
Download or read book Anya the Cuddly Creatures Fairy written by Daisy Meadows and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairies and princesses-a magical combination! Something is wrong with the animals at the petting zoo and royal stables! Could it be because Anya the Cuddly Creatures Fairy's tiara is missing?
Download or read book Under Their Skin written by Margaret Peterson Haddix and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix comes the first book in a “crisp, intriguing, and thought-provoking” (Booklist, starred review) new series about twins who are on a quest to discover the secrets being kept by their new family. Nick and Eryn’s mom is getting remarried, and the twelve-year-old twins are skeptical when she tells them their lives won’t change much. Well, yes, they will have to move. And they will have a new stepfather, stepbrother, and stepsister. But Mom tells them not to worry. They won’t ever have to meet their stepsiblings. This news puzzles Nick and Eryn, so the twins set out on a mission to find out who these kids are—and why they’re being kept hidden.
Download or read book Saint Agnostica written by Anya Krugovoy Silver and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saint Agnostica is the final work of Anya Krugovoy Silver, a poet celebrated for her incisive writing about illness, motherhood, and Christian faith. The poems in this collection dance between opposite poles of joy and grief, community and isolation, humor and anger, belief and doubt, in moving and devastating witness to a life lived with strength and resolve.
Download or read book Rescued written by Margaret Peterson Haddix and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return to the world of The Missing with an original e-short story! Katherine and Jonah have just saved the Grand Duchesses Anastasia and Maria, as well as their brother the tsarevitch Alexei Romanov. Although the Romanovs are devastated that they lost the rest of their family, they are happy that they still have each other and are safe. But they weren't the only ones saved: Leonid, Alexei’s faithful servant and friend, was also whisked away to the time hollow. Will he be able to accept his fate?
Download or read book Among the Free written by Margaret Peterson Haddix and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-07-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexandrea has just moved to Harlem and her mother is pushing her into ballet and she has stage fright.
Download or read book Jeweled written by Anya Bast and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
