Tuck Everlasting 内容简介 Doomed to or blessed with eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and explain why living forever at one age is less a blessing that it might seem. Complications arise when Winnie is followed by a stranger who wants to market the spring water for a fortune." 作者简介 A gifted artist and writer, Natalie Babbitt is the award-winning author of the modern classic "Tuck Everlasting," "The Eyes of the Amaryllis," "Kneeknock Rise" and many other brilliantly original books for young people. She began her career in 1966 as the illustrator of "The Forty-ninth Magician," a collaboration with her husband. When her husband became a college president and no longer had time to collaborate, Babbitt tried her hand at writing. Her first novel, "The Search for Delicious," establish
人人皆知的主人公杰罗尼摩-斯帝顿,经营着鼠城畅销报纸《鼠民公报》,他博学而睿智,却因过分的原则性而显得古板憨厚。他有一个爱玩的表弟赖皮、一个精力旺盛的妹妹菲、一个聪明的侄儿本杰明,每一次,在家人的“煽动”下杰罗尼摩一次又一次陷入或神秘或恐怖或疯狂的旅行探险中,而且每一次的旅行都将给小读者带来许多有趣的科学文化知识呢。 天啊,这是怎样的一次冒险啊! 杰罗尼摩和家人们前往出发鬼岛找寻遗失的宝藏。 但是,杰罗尼摩真的不喜欢旅行,呆在海中央的船上,对他而言,可不是一件有意思的事情…… 随着各种突发事件的发生,杰罗尼摩开始怀疑自己是不是只是出来找宝藏的…… 故事惊险刺激、扣人心弦又妙趣横生,配上全彩图片,独特的“老鼠语言”,牢牢抓住孩子的眼球!
Moody Margaret and the Secret Club strike back! With theirmost ingenious dares and hilarious jokes, it's time for the girlsto get their own back on Henry and his friends. But Henry isn'tabout to let anyone get the better of him, resulting in ahilariously horrid showdown! Filled with witty comments and acerbicasides from Henry and Margaret's friends, enemies, families andteachers, along with brand new Tony Ross illustrations, this bookshould keep Henry's (and Margaret's!) fans mischievously quiet.
Before he was a world-renowned children's book writer, RoaldDahl was a master of short stories for adults. The thirteen talescollected here were specially selected for their appeal to teens,and they represent his finest work. By turns shocking, ironic,humorous, and touching, these stories are filled with bizarretwists and unexpected delights. This collection proves Roald Dahl'sstanding as one of the world's foremost storytellers. "A baker's dozen of barbed, witty, obliquely macabre shortstories... This sampler of Dahl's writing conveys a sense of hisversatility." --Kirkus Reviews --This text refers to an alternatePaperback edition.
I have never been a brave mouse...but lately, my fears were taking over my life! So Thea and Trap decided to cure me by dragging me all the way to the jungle, where I was forced to eat bug soup, swim in raging rivers, and even wrangle snakes! How would a 'frady mouse like me ever survive?
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual HungerGames with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was avictory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules.Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just wonfor themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. Butthere are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss andPeeta, to their horror, are the faces of that rebellion. TheCapitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge.
Jack Room 105 -- Miss Stretchberry September 13 I don't want to because boys don't write poetry. Girls do. Meet Jack, who tells his story with a little help from some paper,a pencil, his teacher, and a dog named Sky. Love That Dog is the story of Jack, hisdog, his teacher, and words. The story develops through Jack’sresponses to his teacher, Miss Stretchberry, over the course of aschool year. At first, his responses are short and cranky: “I don’twant to” and “I tried. Can’t do it. Brain’s empty.” But as histeacher feeds him inspiration, Jack finds that he has a lot to sayand he finds ways to say it. Jack becomes especially fond of a poemby Walter Dean Myers titled “Love That Boy,” and it is this poemthat gives Jack a way to tell the story of his beloved dog,Sky.