Arnold Spirit, a goofy-looking dork with a decent jumpshot, spends his time lamenting life on the "poor-ass" Spokane Indian reservation, drawing cartoons (which accompany, and often provide more insight than, the narrative), and, along with his aptly named pal Rowdy, laughing those laughs over anything and nothing that affix best friends so intricately together. When a teacher pleads with Arnold to want more, to escape the hopelessness of the rez, Arnold switches to a rich white school and immediately becomes as much an outcast in his own community as he is a curiosity in his new one. He weathers the typical teenage indignations and triumphs like a champ but soon faces far more trying ordeals as his home life begins to crumble and decay amidst the suffocating mire of alcoholism on the reservation. Alexie's humor and prose are easygoing and well suited to his young audience, and he doesn't pull many punches as he levels his eye at stereotypes both warranted and inapt. A few of the plotlines fade to gray by the

Caddie Woodlawn is a real adventurer. She'd rather hunt thansew and plow than bake, and tries to beat her brother's dares everychance she gets. Caddie is friends with Indians, who scare most ofthe neighbors -- neighbors who, like her mother and sisters, don'tunderstand her at all. Caddie is brave, and her story is special because it's based onthe life and memories of Carol Ryrie Brink's grandmother, the realCaddie Woodlawn. Her spirit and sense of fun have made this book aclassic that readers have taken to their hearts for more thanseventy years.

In 1707, young Sarah Noble and her father traveled through the wilderness to build a new home for their family. "Keep up your courage, Sarah Noble," her mother had said, but Sarah found that it was not always easy to feel brave inside. The dark woods were full of animals and Indians, too, and Sarah was only eight! The true story of Sarah's journey is inspiring. And as she cares for her father and befriends her Indian neighbors, she learns that to be afraid and to be brave is the greatest courage of all.

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

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.

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.

Mafatu has been afraid of the sea for as long as he canremember. Though his father is the Great Chief of Hikueru - anisland whose seafaring people worship courage - Mafatu feels likean outsider. All his life he has been teased, taunted, and evenblamed for storms on the sea. Then at age fifteen, no longer willing to put up with theridicule and jibes, Mafatu decides to take his fate into his ownhands. With his dog, Uri, as his companion, Mafatu paddles out tosea, ready to face his fears. What he learns on his lonesomeadventure will change him forever and make him a hero in the eyesof his people.

After his motherdivorces his father and remarries, Asa's sharp intellect andcapacity for forgiveness help him deal with the instabilities ofhis new world. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailableedition of this title.

Around 5:00 a.m. on a warm Sunday morning on October 1953, my Aunt Belle left her bed and vanished from the face of the earth. Everyone in Coal Station, Virginia, has a theory about what happened to Belle Prater, but twelve-year-old Gypsy wants the facts, and when her cousin Woodrow, Aunt Belle's son moves next door, she has her chance. Woodrow isn't as forthcoming as Gypsy hopes, yet he becomes more than just a curiosity to her-- during their sixth-grade year she finds that they have enough in common to be best friends. Even so, Gypsy is puzzled by Woodrow's calm acceptance of his mother's disappearance, especially since she herself has never gotten over her father's death. When Woodrow finally reveals that he's been keeping a secret about his mother, Gypsy begins to understand that there are different ways of finding the strength to face the truth, no matter how painful it is. Belle Prater's Boy is a 1996 Boston Globe - Horn Book Awards Honor Book for Fiction and a 1997 Newbery Honor Book

There is a Welsh legend about a harp of gold, hidden within acertain hill, that will be found by a boy and a white dog withsilver eyes -- a dog that can see the wind. Will Stanton knewnothing of this when he came to Wales to recover from a severeillness. But when he met Bran, a strange boy who owned a white dog,he began to remember. For Will is the last-born of the Old Ones,immortals dedicated to saving the world from the forces of evil,the Dark. And it is Will's task to wake-with the golden harp -- thesix who must be roused from their long slumber in the Welsh hillsto prepare for the last battle between the Dark and the Light. 《灰国王》是美国著名儿童文学作家苏珊·库珀的力作《黑暗蔓延》魔幻系列的第四部。该系列深受各国小读者欢迎，被誉为媲美哈利·波特的魔幻大作。而本书更是获得了美国纽伯瑞文学奖金奖。 故事发生在威尔士。患了一场大病后，威尔被母亲送到威尔士乡下亲戚家去休养。他在

After their baby sister dies, Willa Jo and Little Sister'sfamily falls apart. Their mother sinks deep into an unshakabledepression, so the two older girls are sent to live with theirstrict Aunt Patty and her husband. Since Little Sister refuses totalk, Willa Jo has to try and make things right in their new home,but she can't stop missing her mother or the life the four of themhad before Baby died. Aunt Patty is trying as hard as she can, butshe doesn't really understand what Willa Jo and Little Sister aretrying to deal with-until the morning the two girls climb up to theroof of her house, and stay there. Audrey Couloumbis's masterfuldebut novel brings to mind Karen Hesse, Katherine Paterson, andBetsy Byars's The Summer of the Swans -it is a story you willnever forget.

12岁的男孩马修，因为父亲的关系到了囚禁着许多重刑犯的恶魔岛——阿卡拉岛。来到恶魔岛之后，马修不仅必须遵从典狱长严厉的规矩，还要忍受典狱长女儿派佩儿的指使，还得照顾永远长不大的姐姐……种种错综复杂的事情交织在一起，使他竟然和黑帮老大卡彭打起了交道，并因此惹出了许多麻烦，但也带来了令全家人为快乐的消息……作者以幽默有趣的叙事笔调，扣人心弦的情节设计，以及对于成长和特殊教育的理解，给读者留下了耐人寻味的思索。 Murderers, mob bosses, and convicts . . . these guys are notyour average neighbors. Unless you live on Alcatraz. It’s 1935 andtwelve-year-old Moose Flanagan and his family have just moved tothe infamous island that’s home to criminals like notorious escapeeRoy Gardner, Machine Gun Kelly, and of course, Al Capone. Now Moosehas to try to fit in at his new school, avoid getting caught up inone of the warden

出版社: Amulet Books (2014年9月1日) 平装: 248页 读者对象: 8 - 12 岁 语种： 英语 商品尺寸: 15.2 x 1.3 x 22.9 cm

One day, thirteen-year-old jessie Bollier is earning penniesplaying his fife on the docks of New Orleans; the next, he iskidnapped and thrown aboard a slave ship, where his job is toprovide music while shackled slaves "dance" to keep their musclesstrong and their bodies profitable. As the endless voyagecontinues, Jessie grows increasingly sickened by the greed,brutality, and inhumanity of the slave trade, but nothing prepareshim for the ultimate horror he will witness before his nightmareends -- a horror that will change his life forever.

Did Mrs. Olinsky choose the four members of the sixth gradeAcademic Bowl Team, or did they choose her--and one another? Fourstories-within-in-a-story, interspersed with the ongoing narrativeof the team's triumphant march to the state championship, introduceeach member of the team in his own her own voice, and bring thedynamics of the group into focus . 这是一部非常优秀的当代儿童小说。书中讲述的故事非常简单，一位身体残疾的女教师带领她挑选出来的六年级代表队经过一次又一次的努力，后打败了七年级和八年级，一举夺得了竞赛的桂冠，取得该地区、该学校史无前例的胜利。 简单的故事，平常的情节。因为笔底潜藏的激情而变得极富吸引力。书中四位学生轮流讲述发生在竞赛背后的一连串故事与正在进行的比赛穿插进行，现场的热闹、紧张和背后故事的安静、舒缓构成了鲜明的对比，增加了故事的深度和张力，也为智力竞赛的理

When an eccentric millionaire dies mysteriously, sixteen veryunlikely people are gathered together for the reading of the will .. . and what a will it is!

在穷困、土地贫瘠的无果山村，一个名叫敏俐的女孩和父母住在快要倒塌的小屋里。每天傍晚在餐桌上，父亲总会告诉她翡翠龙、虎县令和月下老人的故事。传说中，悲痛的翡翠龙让无果山上寸草不生；想方设法攀权附贵的虎县令既贪婪又残酷；住在无穷山的月下老人拥有一本《生死簿》，可以改变每个人的命运。敏俐受到这些故事的启发，并从一只金鱼口中得知前往无穷山的路，从此展开一趟奇异的旅程，想去寻找月下老人，改变自己和家人的命运。这一路上，她遇见了各种各样的人物和神奇生物，包括不会飞的祥龙、跟织女是好朋友的牧童、明月光城的郡王、寻找龙门的橘色大鱼、发明龙井茶的村庄、砍伐桂树的吴刚……他们接连说出了更多小故事，提供了更多奇妙的线索，让敏俐的追寻之旅愈加丰富曲折、更加发人深省。 这是一本不可思议的奇妙小说

Mayo Cornelius Higgins sits on his gleaming, forty-foot steelpole, towering over his home on Sarah's Mountain. Stretched beforehim are rolling hills and shady valleys. But behind him lie thewounds of strip mining, including a mountain of rubble that may oneday fall and bury his home. M.C. dreams of escape for himself and his family. And, oneday, atop his pole, he thinks he sees it -- two strangers aremaking their way toward Sarah's Mountain. One has the ability tomake M.C.'s mother famous. And the other has the kind of freedomthat M.C. has never even considered.

Now in a digest-sized paperback, DiCamillo's beloved NewberyHonor book is the story of 10-year-old India Opal Buloni, whodescribes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and allthe good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog,Winn-Dixie.