1899年的德州夏天,白天气温高得吓人,一般人即使安安静静躺下来睡午觉,依然汗流浃背。11岁的卡莉喜欢在这时候一个人偷偷跑去游泳。她对报社刊登太阳下的气温不满意,写信去反应,报社从善如流,改报阴影下的气温,果然让人觉得凉爽了一点。大哥送她一本笔记,她用来观察纪录每天看到的生物,也聪明的想出号令蚯蚓的方法,销售给哥哥当鱼饵。她对达尔文的进化论感兴趣,偷偷设法去图书馆借书,却被禁止,让她很沮丧。后来她发现庭院里的绿色蝗虫体型比较小,动作迅速;黄色蝗虫虽然动作慢,个头却大,她跑去问爷爷,以为自己发现了新品种,但爷爷要她自己找答案。她从观察中发现黄色蝗虫因为有体色保护,所以即使动作迟缓,仍然可以活到比较老。她把这个发现告诉爷爷,老人家大为惊讶,将她视为志同道合的朋友。爷爷引领她进入科学世
Dear Mr. Henshaw, I wish somebody would stop stealing the goodstuff out of my lunchbag. I guess I wish a lot of other things,too. I wish someday Dad and Bandit would pull up in front in therig ... Dad would yell out of the cab, "Come on, Leigh. Hop in andI'll give you a lift to school."Leigh Botts has been author BoydHenshaw's number one fan ever since he was in second grade. Now insixth grade, Leigh lives with his mother and is the new kid atschool. He's lonely, troubled by the absence of his father, across-country trucker, and angry because a mysterious thief stealsfrom his lunchbag. Then Leigh's teacher assigns a letter-writingproject. Naturally Leigh chooses to write to Mr. Henshaw, whosesurprising answer changes Leigh's life.
"Vivid firsthand de*ions by persons who lived through the 1871 Chicago fire are woven into a gripping account... Absorbing and riveting reading." The Horn Book, starred review
这是一本充满勇气、趣味十足的小说。小主人公爱拉一出生即得到仙女的一份恐怖的礼物——服从,对任何人的话必须惟命是从,这让她随时随地陷入困扰、矛盾和痛苦之中。然而爱拉凭借她慧黠、勇敢和反叛的个性,在寻求自由和发现自我的路途中一一化险为夷。她机智地驯服了食人妖,与精灵结为朋友,并且与王子坠入爱河。在宫廷盛大的假面舞会上,她为了救心爱的王子,忍受身心痛苦,与咒语进行了激烈的抗争……小说情节生动曲折,悬念迭出,极富吸引力。 A fairy’s blessing—that Ella will always be obedient—turnsinto a curse when her mean stepsister finds out that Ella has to dowhatever she says
PW's starred review of the 1999 Newbery Medal winner described it as a "dazzling blend of social commentary, tall tale and magic realism." Ages 10-up. (May) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Bradley Chalkers IS the oldest kid in the fifth grade. Hetells enormous lies. He picks fights with girls. No one likeshim—except Carla, the new school counselor. She thinks Bradley issensitive and generous, and knows that Bradley could change, ifonly he weren’t afraid to try. But when you feel like themost-hated kid in the whole school, believing in yourself can bethe hardest thing in the world. . . . Winner of 19 Children’s Choice Awards
一个婴儿。一座坟场。一次刺杀的结束,一个传奇的开始。在墓园里。有幽灵。有食尸鬼。还有神秘的守护者。连死神也亲自出马。(不用担心。她是一位和蔼的女士。)在人世间,有骗子,有恶棍,也有普通的老百姓。还有一位天真烂漫的小姑娘。 成长故事,法术修炼。冒险经历,少年初恋。贯穿全书的是刺杀与复仇的较量。 墓地的阴森反衬出鬼魂的温情。喧嚣的人世却冷漠无情。但终,坟场里成长的少年仍将告别往昔。走向社会。走向成年…… Winner of the Newbery Medal When a babyescapes a murderer intent on killing the entire family, who wouldhave thought it would find safety and security in the localgraveyard? Brought up by the resident ghosts, ghouls and spectres,Bod has an eccentric childhood learning about life from the dead.But for Bod there is also the danger of the murderer still lookingfor him - after all, he is the last remaini
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
《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
There was a wild crashing sound, a ripping of metal, and theplane blew through the trees, out over the water and down, down toslam into the lake ...Brian is a city boy. Not used to livingrough. Until his plane crash-lands in the Canadian wilderness. Allhe has is a hatchet - and a desperate will to survive. Now Brianmust learn to live the hard way - or die.
"The well-known author retells 24 black American folk tales insure storytelling voice: animal tales, supernatural tales, fancifuland cautionary tales, and slave tales of freedom. All arebeautifully readable. With the added attraction of 40 wonderfullyexpressive paintings by the Dillons, this collection should besnapped up."--(starred) "School Library Journal."
Come feel the cool and shadowed breeze, come smell your way among the trees, come touch rough bark and leathered leaves: Welcome to the night. Welcome to the night, where mice stir and furry moths flutter.Where snails spiral into shells as orb spiders circle in silk.Where the roots of oak trees recover and repair from their time inthe light. Where the porcupette eats delicacies—raspberryleaves!—and coos and sings. Come out to the cool, night wood, and buzz and hoot and howl—butdo beware of the great horned owl—for it’s wild and it’s windy wayout in the woods! This Newbery Honor-winning picture book combines beautifullywritten poetry with facts of the forest and elaborate illustrationsto form a marvelously engaging collection.
LOST Brian Robertson, sole passenger on a Cessna 406, is on hisway to visit his father when the tiny bush plane crashes in theCanadian wilderness. With nothing but his clothing, a tatteredwindbreaker, and the hatchet his mother had given him as a present,Brian finds himself completely alone. Challenged by his fear anddespair -- and plagued with the weight of a dreadful secret he'sbeen keeping since his parent's divorce -- brian must tame hisinner demons in order to survive. It will take all his know-how anddetermination, and more courage than he knew he possessed.
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