Reverse spin, triple pump, reverse dribble, stutter step withtwist to the left, stutter into jumper, blind pass. These are me.The moves make the man.The moves make me.Jerome foxworthy -- theJayfox to his friends -- likes to think he can handle anything. Hehandled growing up without a father. He handled being the firstblack kid in school. And he sure can handle a basketball. Then Jerome meets bix Rivers -- mysterious and moody, but a greatathlete. So Jerome decides to teach bix his game. He can tell thatbix has the talent. All he's got to do is learn the rightmoves....
Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashionedkind of running away...so she decided not to run FROM somewhere,but TO somewhere. And so, after some careful planning, she and heryounger brother, Jamie, escaped -- right into a mystery that madeheadlines!
“Engle writes her new book in clear, short lines of stirringfree verse. Caught by the compelling narrative voices, many readerswill want to find out more.”—Booklist, Starred Review “A powerful narrative in free verse . . . haunting.”—The HornBook “Hauntingly beautiful, revealing pieces of Cuba’s troubled pastthrough the poetry of hidden moments.”—School Library Journal “Young readers will come away inspired by these portraits ofcourageous ordinary people.” —Kirkus Reviews “The poems are short but incredibly evocative.”—Voice of YouthAdvocates
Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee might have lived a normal life ifa trolley accident hadn't made him an orphan. After living with hisunhappy and uptight aunt and uncle for eight years, he decides torun-and not just run away, but run. And this is where the myth ofManiac Magee begins, as he changes the lives of a racially dividedsmall town with his amazing and legendary feats.
HowtoBeanEarthling(《外星小子来地球》)系列讲述了外星人Spork登陆地球,与一群三年级小学生一起完成获得星系徽章任务的故事。为了获得徽章,Spork需要了解地球人的行为,他们是否诚实、尊重他人、有责任感?如何才能成为一名地球人? 每个故事关注一种正能量好品德,包括勇气、耐心、自控力等,让孩子跳出自己的生活框架,从外星人的角度思考,获得成长所需的情商教育。 每册故事后是精心设计的趣味题目,用选择、判断、补充句子等多种形式,帮助孩子复习故事中的主题,引导孩子举一反三,学会处理问题,同时锻炼想象力、观察力、思考能力、阅读能力等。 本册ParksandWrecks(《公园大改造》)的主题是 慷慨 ,讲的是:嗖!外星人Spork把球踢过了墙头,Trixie爬上那堵旧砖墙,意外地发现了一个被遗忘的花园。喷泉坏了,长椅也倒了。不过,如果Trixie
Summer has a magic all its own in Elizabeth Enright's belovedstories about two children and their discovery of a ghostlylakeside resort. These two modern classics are once again availablein Odyssey/Harcourt Young Classic editions, but now with handsomenew cover art by Mary GrandPre to complement Beth and Joe Krush'soriginal interior illustrations.
Half moorfolk and half human, and unable to shape-shift ordisappear at will, Moql threatens the safety of the Band. So theFolk banish her and send her to live among humans as a changeling.Named Saaski by the couple for whose real baby she was swapped, shegrows up taunted and feared by the villagers for being different,and is comfortable only on the moor, playing strange music on herbagpipes. As Saaski grows up, memories from her forgotten past with theFolks slowly emerge. But so do emotions from her human side, andshe begins to realize the terrible wrong the Folk have done to thehumans she calls Da and Mumma. She is determined to restore theirchild to them, even if it means a dangerous return to the worldthat has already rejected her once.
Rising sixth grader Miss Moses LoBeau lives in the small town of Tupelo Landing, NC, where everyone's business is fair game and no secret is sacred. She washed ashore in a hurricane eleven years ago, and she's been making waves ever since. Although Mo hopes someday to find her "upstream mother," she's found a home with the Colonel--a café owner with a forgotten past of his own--and Miss Lana, the fabulous café hostess. She will protect those she loves with every bit of her strong will and tough attitude. So when a lawman comes to town asking about a murder, Mo and her best friend, Dale Earnhardt Johnson III, set out to uncover the truth in hopes of saving the only family Mo has ever known. 《长青藤小说:从天而降的幸运》讲述了一个勇敢机智的11岁女孩,与好的朋友组建侦探所,侦破小镇长达11年的谜案的故事。过完这个暑假,女孩摩就要上6年级了。11年前,她在一场飓风中被大水冲到了图珀洛镇,由镇上咖啡馆的店
Readers today are still fascinated by "Nat," aneighteenth-century nautical wonder and mathematical wizard.Nathaniel Bowditch grew up in a sailor"s world—Salem in the earlydays, when tall-masted ships from foreign ports crowded thewharves. But Nat didn"t promise to have the makings of a sailor; hewas too physically small. Nat may have been slight of build, but noone guessed that he had the persistence and determination to mastersea navigation in the days when men sailed only by "log, lead, andlookout." Nat"s long hours of study and observation, collected inhis famous work, The American Practical Navigator (also known asthe "Sailors" Bible"), stunned the sailing community and made him aNew England hero.
The 1938 classic tells the story of Mr. Popper, the small-townhousepainter who dreamed of exploring Antarctic regions, andCaptain Cook, the redoubtable penguin who turned Mr. Popper's worldupside down. Reprint. Newbery Honor Book. H. SLJ. NYT. AB.
13世纪在克拉科夫有一位吹号手,他尽忠职守,为他所爱的国家牺牲生命,被敌人射死在《海那圣歌》结束前。到了15世纪,有一家忠贞爱国的人,冒着生命危险,千里迢迢地为国王送来了稀世珍宝——塔尔努夫水晶球。 这家人躲过了坏人钮扣脸彼得的追赶,化名寄居在一位炼金学者的楼下,继承了吹号手的职位,然而却未能逃过钮扣脸彼得三番五次的骚扰。在一次因塔尔努夫水晶球引起的城市大火后,这家人终于如愿地将它送到国王手中。出乎意料,炼金学者却将它夺过来丢进了河里,结束了因它惹来的长久灾难。 透过作者精心的描述,读者更能知道当时一个吹号手的职责,不仅是每个小时尽忠报时而已,还包括利用居高临下的位置,注意城外敌人的偷袭以及城内不幸发生的天窭人祸。透过这种巨细靡遗的笔触,读者才能够清易地融入五百年前的道