Corey Martin, an eighth grader looking for her first boyfriend, is swept into a circle of powerful friends and must decide whether to conform to peer pressure or follow her own heart.
Fourteen-year-old Erin feels left behind when her best friend's attention turns to a boyfriend and a horse, so she tries learning to ride in order to win her friend back.
Three well-intentioned teenage classmates from a well-to-do Detroit suburb share their summer camp tent with an under-privileged inner city girl, resulting in unexpected turns of events.
In this fictional, but historically accurate account of a young girl's involvement in the Battle of Gettysburg, Tillie Pierce Alleman tells of her experiences helping wounded soldiers. A Child Study Children's Book Committee: Children's Book of the Year.
A creative young girl breathes new life into a cardboard box in this “gleeful little story of imaginative play” for fans of Harriet the Spy and Harold and the Purple Crayon (School Library Journal) The day the refrigerator arrives in its large brown carton, Christina Katerina and her mother are both excited, but for very different reasons. Christina quickly claims the box, where she creates a castle, a clubhouse, and other fantastic playthings with her sometimes-friend and neighbor, Fats Watson. Together, they embark on countless hours of adventure, swearing their undying friendship—and waging furious battles, too! “One of the classic characters of children’s literature,” the spunky and playful Christina Katerina has inspired young readers to embrace their creativity since 1971 (Kirkus Reviews). A staple in classrooms and libraries, this classic children’s book is a timeless ode to the power of a child’s imagination—and to the beauty that can be found in even the most ordinary of objects.
A biography of the man who gained fame as the leader of the bold "Rogers' Rangers" in the French and Indian War but whose later life was marred by a ruined reputation, imprisonment, and poverty.
Poppy creates magical puppets whose personalities are determined by what Poppy 'hears' in the wood before he carves it. When he takes his puppets on the road, their show becomes famous throughout the land. But one day Poppy impatiently shapes a ballerina puppet, Clarinda, from a piece of wood without listening carefully to the wood's message. Clarinda will not perform--and almost ruins the show--until Poppy discovers her secret wish.
A private school English teacher divides his class into two competing teams, equips each with a map and five dollars, and sends them off on a two-hundred-mile bicycle journey to Washington, D.C.
Tanya loves to dance but has trouble integrating her steps with the clapping and counting of her ballet teacher, until she tries moving to the music and the sounds inside her head.
When Christina quits her family so she can do whatever she pleases, ignoring her brother and her parents, she finds total self-reliance can sometimes be lonely.
When Tanya and her mother arrive early to see a performance of "Coppelia," Tanya wanders off and meets an old woman who loves dance as much as she does.
Tanya loves ballet dancing, repeating the moves she sees her older sister using when practicing for class or a recital, and soon Tanya is big enough to go to ballet class herself.
Not happy that a new baby sister is coming home from the hospital, Christina Katerina takes her toy bears on a faraway train journey all over the neighborhood.
TANYA ESTÁ YA EN LA ACADEMIA. SIN EMBARGO, CUANDO LA SEÑORITA ALICIA MARCA EL RITMO EN VOZ Y CON PALMADAS, TANYA NO OYE MÚSICA ALGUNA, SE EQUIVOCA Y TROPIEZA A CADA PASO, NO PUEDE BAILAR. A TANYA LE GUSTA BAILAR EN LA PRADERA, JUNTO AL RÍO, SIGUIENDO SU PROPIA MÚSICA. Y ALLÍ, BAILANDO CON BÁRBARA, SU OSITA, DESCUBRE DE REPENTE LO QUE TIENE QUE HACER PARA CONVERTIRSE EN UNA VERDADERA BAILARINA. EN ESTE LIBRO, DE LA MISMA SERIE QUE BAILA, TANYA, DE PATRICIA LEE GAUCH, SATOMI ICHIKAWA VUELVE A CAPTAR LA ALEGRÍA Y LA PASIÓN DE LA PEQUEÑA TANYA CUANDO DANZA AL COMPÁS DE SU PROPIA MÚSICA INTERIOR. LA IMAGINACIÓN DE LA ESCRITORA E ILUSTRADORA SATOMI ICHIKAWA ES TAN FÉRTIL Y VARIADA COMO LAS AVENTURAS QUE SABE CREAR PARA SUS PERSONAJES. NACIDA EN JAPÓN, SE TRASLADÓ MUY JOVEN A PARÍS, DONDE LLEVA VIVIENDO CASI DIEZ AÑOS. SUS PERSONAJES ESTÁN LLENOS DE VIDA, ESPECIALMENTE LA PÍCARA TANYA, QUE MEDIANTE SU ANDADURA EN EL MUNDO DEL BALLET CONSIGUE DANZAR EN EL CORAZÓN DE LOS MÁS JÓVENES LECTORES. PATRICIA LEE GAUCH, QUE TAMBIÉN FUE EN SU TIEMPO UNA PEQUEÑA BAILARINA, QUERÍA CREAR UN PERSONAJE AL QUE CUALQUIER FUTURA BAILARINA O BAILARÍN PUDIERA AMAR. DIRECTORA EDITORIAL DE PHILOMEL BOOKS, ESCRIBIÓ ESTE CUENTO EXPRESAMENTE PARA ICHIKAWA, GRAN APASIONADA, COMO ELLA, DEL BALLET.
Miss Eula is back! In this heartwarming companion to Chicken Sunday, young Trisha is devastated when her grandmother passes away, but finds joy in bonds with a new friend, her new California neighborhood—and the invincible Miss Eula. There will never be anyone like her grandmother, Patricia Polacco thinks, when her grandmother passes away. But when she and her family move to California—in the middle of a drought—she meets a new friend, the irrepressible Stewart, and his amazing grandmother, Miss Eula, who not only takes Trisha under her wing, but, with Trisha and Stewart, steps up to lead their entire extraordinarily diverse neighborhood to help a hurting neighbor—and her once lush garden—survive the drought. Trisha's grandmother's old saying about the stars being Holes in the Sky turns out to be Miss Eula's, too, convincing Trisha that she has miraculously discovered another unforgettable grandmother.
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