这是一部描写家人亲情和姐妹情深的感人至深的力作，也是吐露漂泊异乡的追梦者孤独和寂寞之感的代表作。 姐姐林恩教会凯蒂说的个词是“基拉-基拉”，它在日语中是“亮晶晶”的意思。凯蒂喜欢这个词！长大一些后，她就用“亮晶晶”来形容自己喜欢的所有东西：蔚蓝的天空啊，皑皑的白雪啊，可爱的小猫小狗啊，美丽的蝴蝶啊，还有那五颜六色的餐巾纸啊，等等。 十岁那年，凯蒂全家从美国艾奥瓦搬到东南部佐治亚的一个小镇，日常生活的艰辛和周围人的对他们一家的歧视，像阴山一样笼罩在凯帝的心头，是姐姐教会了她如何勇敢地面对一切的不如意，努力去发掘和欣赏生命中各种各样美好的事物，而维系家庭成员的浓浓的亲情，更是为她增添了无比的勇气和力量。不幸的是，姐姐后来得了重病，凯蒂无微不至地照顾她，直到她生命的后一刻
Epic. Bestselling. Award-winning. The complete Dark Is Rising Sequence is now available as one keepsake collection. Will Stanton’s ordinary life is shattered with the dreadful revelation that the Dark—the source of all evil—is rising in its last and greatest bid to control the world. He finds that he is no ordinary boy, but the last-born of the Old Ones, immortals dedicated to keeping mankind free from the Dark. Soon Will is swept up in the great battle, along with his ageless master, Merriman; the three Drew children, who are mortal but have their own vital part to play; and a strange boy named Bran. These six fight fear and death in a quest through time and space interwoven with the most ancient myths of the islands of Britain—until, at last, Will and Bran find the weapon that will ultimately vanquish the Dark. One of the most celebrated fantasy sequences of all time, The Dark Is Rising is a searing, epic rendering of the eternal conflict between good and evil. This complete collec
《The HundredDresses(一百条裙子)》荣获纽伯德儿童文学奖银奖。旺达?佩特罗斯基是一个有着奇怪名家的女孩。也正是因为她的怪名字和旧裙子，所有的女生都喜欢捉弄她。直到有一天，旺达突然声称她家里有一百条各式各样的裙子，随之而来的却是更多的嘲笑。根本没有人会相信她，而且大家都会拿这件事捉弄她，旺达都默默地忍受着。有一天，旺达终于因为受不了这些嘲笑而转学了，她给大家留下了她那一百条“裙子”。捉弄过她的那些女生发现原来旺达是多么爱她们，而且旺达是一个非常可爱、非常聪明的女孩，于是她们决定写信向她道歉，并且去把她找回来。可是旺达再也不会回来了……旺达到底有没有原谅大家呢？Neverout of print since its 1944 publication, this tender story offersreaders of all ages a timeless message of compassion andunderstanding. At its heart is Wanda Petronski, an immigrant
Three award-winning classics, one treasured set: "The E.L. Konigsburg Newbery Collection" is a must-have for every bookshelf. Trouble brews and friendship bubbles when Elizabeth meets an honest-to-goodness witch in "Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth." "The View from Saturday "assembles the Souls: an unlikely team of even unlikelier sixth-grade Academic Bowl champions. And who could ever forget Claudia and Jamie's adventures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" Three of E. L. Konigsburg's most beloved, celebrated, and timeless works are now together in one collectable paperback set--a must-have foundation for building any young reader's library.
Join Joey and his sister Mary Alice as they spend nineunforgettable summers with the worst influence imaginable—theirgrandmother!
“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
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
My name is Eleanor Kerchner. You can call me the Queen. I died in 1895. Now it's time to play. A chilling ghost story by the bestselling author of The Spiderwick Chronicles, Holly Black.
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.
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!
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.?
