本书以一个更为生动与黑暗的故事重新诠释了格林童话经典篇章《雪白与玫瑰红》(Snow-White andRed-Rose)。 故事围绕着两个世界的边界展开,一个是犯罪频发的村庄,一个是属于女孩林嘉的避风港。林嘉有两个女儿,安静的布伦泽和热情的乌达儿,小小避风港保护着她们免受林嘉曾经遭受的暴力与苦难。但是现实世界是你无法永远躲避的,巫师和野熊先后闯过了边界。林嘉和两个女儿能够守住原有的平静,适应这个美丽与残酷共生的世界么? "Tender Morsels "is a dark and vivid story, set in two worldsand worrying at the border between them. Liga lives modestly in herown personal heaven, a world given to her in exchange for herearthly life. Her two daughters grow up in this soft place,protected from the violence that once harmed their mother. But thereal world cannot be denied forever--magicked men and wild bearsbreak down the borders of Liga's refuge. Now, having know
Twelve-year-old Matt is left on his own in the Mainewilderness while his father leaves to bring the rest of the familyto their new settlement. When he befriends Attean, an Indianchief's grandson, he is invited to join the Beaver tribe and movenorth. Should Matt abandon his hopes of ever seeing his familyagain and go on to a new life?
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.
Orphaned Kit Tyler knows, as she gazes for the first time at thecold, bleak shores of Connecticut Colony, that her new home willnever be like the shimmering Caribbean island she left behind. Inher relatives' stern Puritan community, she feels like a tropicalbird that has flown to the wrong part of the world, a bird that isnow caged and lonely. The only place where Kit feels completelyfree is in the meadows, where she enjoys the company of the oldQuaker woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond, and on occasion,her young sailor friend Nat. But when Kit's friendship with theandquot; witchandquot; is discovered, Kit is faced with suspicion,fear, and anger. She herself is accused of witchcraft
The story of the training of a carrier pigeon and its serviceduring the First World War, revealing the bird's courageous andspirited adventures over the housetops of an Indian village, in theHimalayan Mountains, and on the French battlefield.
Latelyeverybody'smessingwithJamal.Histeachers,thekidsatschool,evenhisdad.AndnowthatJamal'sbrotherRandy'sintheslam,CrazyMackhasacrazyidea.HewantsJamaltotakecontroloftheScorpionsandruncrack. Allthegangjive--Jamalhasnouseforit.Unless,likesomesay,it'stheonlywaytocopthebreadforRandy'sappeal... Thestoryoftwelve-year-oldJamal,whoselifechangesdrasticallywhenheacquiresagun.Thoughhesurvivestheexperience,it'snotwithoutsacrificinghisinnocenceandpossiblyhisrelationshipwithhisbestfriend.