The day D Foster enters Neeka and her best friend’s lives, the world opens up for them. Suddenly they’re keenly aware of things beyond their block in Queens, things that are happening in the world—like the shooting of Tupac Shakur—and in search of their Big Purpose in life. When—all too soon—D’s mom swoops in to reclaim her, and Tupac dies, they are left with a sense of how quickly things can change and how even all-too-brief connections can touch deeply.

This is a breath-taking adventure story, set in reimaginedeighteenth-century England. As the realm struggles to maintain anuneasy peace after years of cival war and tyranny, atwelve-year-old orphan and her loyal companion, a grumpy goose, areabout to become the unlikely heroes of a radical revolution. MoscaMye has spent her childhood in a miserable hamlet, after her fatherwas banished there for writing inflammatory books about freedom.Now he is dead and Mosca is on the run, heading for the city ofMandelion. There she finds herself living by her wits amongcut-throat highwaymen, spies and smugglers. With peril at everyturn, Mosca uncovers a dark plot to terrorize the people ofMandelion, and soon merry mayhem leads to murder ...With anunforgettable cast of characters and an inspiring message at itsheart - sometimes the power of words can change the world!

“Some pig.” These are the words in Charlotte’s web, high in thebarn. Her spiderweb tells of her feelings for a little pig namedWilbur, as well as the feelings of a little girl named Fern...wholoves Wilbur, too. Their love has been shared by millions ofreade

When she is caught in the backseat of a car with her olderbrother's best friend--Deanna Lambert's teenage life is changedforever. Struggling to overcome the lasting repercussions and thestifling role of "school slut," she longs to escape a life definedby her past. With subtle grace, complicated wisdom and strikingemotion, Story of a Girl reminds us of our human capacityfor resilience, epiphany and redemption.

《偷书贼》是本相当推荐一看的小说，故事讲述的是9岁小女孩莉赛尔和弟弟在战乱中被迫送到寄养家庭，但弟弟不幸死在旅途中，莉赛尔在弟弟冷清的丧礼后偷了一本掘墓工人的手册，为的是要纪念自己永远失去的家庭。寄养家庭位在慕尼黑凋蔽贫困的区域，大人彼此仇恨咒骂，老师狠毒无情，战火时时威胁人命。莉赛尔每晚抱着掘墓工人手册入睡，恶梦不断。养父为了让她安眠，于是为她朗诵手册内容，并开始教她识字。 学会认字进而开始读书的莉赛尔，尽管生活艰苦，吃不饱穿不暖，却发现了一项比食物更让她难以抗拒的东西 书，她忍不住开始偷书，用偷来的书继续学习认字。从此莉赛尔进入了文字的奇妙世界，让她熬过了现实的苦难，也不可思议地帮助了周围同样承受苦难的人：读书给躲在养父家地下室的犹太人听，在空袭时为躲入防空洞中

The stories of West Africa are aboutmen and animals, about kings, warriors, and hunters. They tellabout clever people and stupid people, about good ones and badones, about how things and animals got to be how they are.Sometimes they are just tall tales. There are stories about Frog,Rabbit, Turtle, Guinea Fowl, and all the other animals that WestAfricans know. Some of the storiesmake you think. Some makeyou laugh. Here are some of the stories of the peopleof the forests, the seacoast, the hills, and the plains. The people of West Africa give them toyou.?

Smoky knows only one way of life: freedom. Living on the openrange, he is free to go where he wants and to do what he wants. Andhe knows what he has to do to survive. He can beat any enemy,whether it be a rattlesnake or a hungry wolf. He is as much a partof the Wild West as it is of him, and Smoky can't imagine anythingelse. But then he comes across a new enemy, one that walks on twolegs and makes funny sounds. Smoky can't beat this enemy the way hehas all the others. But does he really want to? Or could giving upsome of his freedom mean getting something in return that's evenmore valuable?

The story of a young German girl who steals books, of her family and the Jewish boxer hidden in their basement as they struggle to survive in Nazi Germany when the bombs begin to fall. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. 9 岁小女孩莉赛尔和弟弟在战乱中被迫送到寄养家庭，但弟弟不幸死在旅途中，莉赛尔在弟弟冷清的丧礼后偷了一本掘墓工人的手册，为的是要纪念自己永远失去的家庭。 寄养家庭位在慕尼黑凋蔽贫困的区域，大人彼此仇恨咒骂，老师狠毒无情，战火时时威胁人命。莉赛尔每晚抱着掘墓工人手册入睡，恶梦不断。养父为了让她安眠，于是为她朗诵手册内容，并开始教她识字。 学会认字进而开始读书的莉赛尔，尽管生活艰苦，吃不饱穿不暖，却发现了一项比食物更让她难以抗拒的东西——书，她忍不住开始偷书，用偷来的书继续学习认字。从此莉赛尔进入了文字

Two bothers, Damian and Anthony, are unwittingly caught up in atrain robbery during Britain's countdown to join the Euro. Suddenlyfinding themselves with a vast amount of cash, the boys have justone glorious, appalling dilemma how to spend it in the few daysbefore it becomes worthless. Torn between the vices of buying amillion pizzas and the virtues of ending world poverty, the boyssoon discover that being rich is a mug's game. For not only is theclock ticking the bungling bank robbers are closing in. Pizzas orWorld Peace, what would you choose?

Eleven-year-old Elijah lives in Buxton, Canada, a settlement of runaway slaves near the American border. He's the first child in town to be born free, and he ought to be famous just for that. Unfortunately, all that most people see is a "fra-gile" boy who's scared of snakes and talks too much. But everything changes when a former slave steals money from Elijah's friend, who has been saving to buy his family out of captivity in the South. Now it's up to Elijah to track down the thief--and his dangerous journey just might make a hero out of him, if only he can find the courage to get back home.

Kit Tyler is marked by suspicion and disapproval from themoment she arrives on the unfamiliar shores of colonial Connecticutin 1867. Alone and desperate, she has been forced to leave herbeloved home on the island of Barbados and join a family she hasnever met. Torn between her quest for belonging and her desire tobe true to herself, Kit struggles to survive in a hostile place.Just when it seems she must give up, she finds a kindred spirit.But Kit’s friendship with Hannah Tupper, believed by the coloniststo be a witch, proves more taboo than she could have imagined andultimately forces Kit to choose between her heart and her duty.Elizabeth George Speare’s Newbery Award–winning novel portrays aheroine whom readers will admire for her unwavering sense of truthas well as her infinite capacity to love. In 1687 in Connecticut,Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of heraunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the communityand suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchc

Ten-year-old Tae Kwon Do blue belt and budding rock houndBrendan Buckley keeps a "Confidential" notebook for his top-secretscientific discoveries. And he's found something totally topsecret. The grandpa he's never met, who his mom refuses to talkabout or see, is an expert mineral collector and lives nearbySecretly, Brendan visits Ed DeBose, whose skin is pink, not brownlike Brendan's, his dad's, or that of Grampa Clem's, who recentlydied. Brendan sets out to find the reason behind Ed's absence, butwhat he discovers can't be explained by science, and now he wisheshe'd never found him at all. . . . "From the Hardcoveredition."