Rising sixth grader Miss Moses LoBeau lives in the small town of Tupelo Landing, NC, where everyone's business is fair game and no secret is sacred. She washed ashore in a hurricane eleven years ago, and she's been making waves ever since. Although Mo hopes someday to find her "upstream mother," she's found a home with the Colonel--a café owner with a forgotten past of his own--and Miss Lana, the fabulous café hostess. She will protect those she loves with every bit of her strong will and tough attitude. So when a lawman comes to town asking about a murder, Mo and her best friend, Dale Earnhardt Johnson III, set out to uncover the truth in hopes of saving the only family Mo has ever known. 《长青藤小说：从天而降的幸运》讲述了一个勇敢机智的11岁女孩，与好的朋友组建侦探所，侦破小镇长达11年的谜案的故事。过完这个暑假，女孩摩就要上6年级了。11年前，她在一场飓风中被大水冲到了图珀洛镇，由镇上咖啡馆的店
Discover the Newbery Honor winner Doll Bones, from Holly Black, the cocreator of the Spiderwick Chronicles. A Kirkus Reviews Best Book. A School Library Journal Best Book. A Booklist Editor’s Choice Books for Youth. A Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Book. A NYPL “100 Titles for Reading and Sharing.” A People Magazine “Best New Kids Book.” Six starred reviews! Zach, Poppy, and Alice have been friends forever. And for almost as long, they’ve been playing one continuous, ever-changing game of pirates and thieves, mermaids and warriors. Ruling over all is the Great Queen, a bone-china doll cursing those who displease her. But they are in middle school now. Zach’s father pushes him to give up make-believe, and Zach quits the game. Their friendship might be over, until Poppy declares she’s been having dreams about the Queen—and the ghost of a girl who will not rest until the bone-china doll is buried in her empty grave. Zach and Alice and Poppy set off on one last adven
Even after Davie had had the little black rabbit, Shadrach,for several weeks, it was still almost unbelievable. Every morningwhen Davie woke up it was a miracle all over again -- there in hisgrandfather's barn sat a wriggle black rabbit, and it was his.David had never been happier...until the day Shadrach slippedthrough the stats of his hutch and disappeared.
In this thought-provoking examination of freedom, patriotism, and respect, ninth-grader, Philip Malloy, is kept from joining the track team by his failing grades in English class. Convinced that the teacher just doesn't like him, Philip concocts a plan to get transferred out of her class. Breaking the school's policy of silence during the national anthem, he hums along, and ends up in a crisis at the center of the nation's attention.
Jeff Greene was only seven when Melody, his mother, left him with his reserved, undemonstrative father, the Professor. So when she reenters his life years later with an invitation to spend the summer with her in Charleston, Jeff is captivated by her free spirit and warmth, and he eagerly looks forward to returning for another visit the following year. But Jeff's second summer in Charleston ends with a devastating betrayal, and he returns to his father wounded almost beyond bearing. But out of Jeff's pain grows a deepening awareness of the unexpected and complicated ways of love and loss and of family and friendship -- and the strength to understand his father, his mother, and especially himself. Jeff's mother, who deserted the family years before, reenters his life and widens the gap between Jeff and his father, a gap that only truth, love, and friendship can heal.
Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with hisno-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and hassince followed generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has beenunjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, wherethe warden makes the boys "build character" by spending all day,every day, digging holes: five feet wide and five feet deep. Itdoesn't take long for Stanley to realize there's more thancharacter improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys aredigging holes because the warden is looking for something. Stanleytries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humoroustale of crime and punishment--and redemption.
Jin Wang starts at a new school where he’s the onlyChinese-American student. When a boy from Taiwan joins his class,Jin doesn’t want to be associated with an FOB like him. Jin justwants to be an all-American boy, because he’s in love with anall-American girl. Danny is an all-American boy: great atbasketball, popular with the girls. But his obnoxious Chinesecousin Chin-Kee’s annual visit is such a disaster that it ruinsDanny’s reputation at school, leaving him with no choice but totransfer somewhere he can start all over again. The Monkey King haslived for thousands of years and mastered the arts of kung fu andthe heavenly disciplines. He’s ready to join the ranks of theimmortal gods in heaven. But there’s no place in heaven for amonkey. Each of these characters cannot help himself alone, but howcan they possibly help each other? They’re going to have to find away—if they want fix the disasters their lives have become.
15 岁 的 女 孩 Daisy 从 曼 哈 顿 前 往 英 国 乡 下 看 望 她 的 表 兄 弟 们 。 然 后 ， 第 三 次 世 界 大 战 爆 发 了 ， 他 们 必 须 起 来 为 生 存 而 抗 争 。 ""Every war has turning points and every person too.""Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visither aunt and cousins she's never met: three boys near her age, andtheir little sister. Her aunt goes away on business soon afterDaisy arrives. The next day bombs go off as London is attacked andoccupied by an unnamed enemy. As power fails, and systems fail, thefarm becomes more isolated. Despite the war, it's a kind of Eden,with no adults in charge and no rules, a place where Daisy'suncanny bond with her cousins grows into something rare andextraordinary. But the war is everywhere, and Daisy and her cousinsmust lead each other into a world that is unknown in the scariest,most elemental way. A riveting and astonishing story. "From the
Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except he lives in a sprawlinggraveyard and has been raised since infancy by ghosts and aguardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor thedead. There are adventures in a graveyard for a boy—an ancientIndigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, and thestrange and terrible Sleer. There are dangers though too, and ifBod leaves the graveyard, he may fall prey to the man Jack, who hasalready murdered Bod’s entire family. Effortlessly inventive,chilling, and magical, Neil Gaiman’s Newbery winning andbestselling Graveyard Book is an a classic in the making.Illustrated by frequent Gaiman collaborator and acclaimed artistDave McKean, The Graveyard Book is enriched by beautifulblack-and-white line drawings throughout. The paperback editionfeatures a robust Extras section including the author’s NewberyMedal acceptance speech, additional art by Dave McKean, and NeilGaiman’s answers to readers’ ques
