When she is caught in the backseat of a car with her olderbrother's best friend--Deanna Lambert's teenage life is changedforever. Struggling to overcome the lasting repercussions and thestifling role of "school slut," she longs to escape a life definedby her past. With subtle grace, complicated wisdom and strikingemotion, Story of a Girl reminds us of our human capacityfor resilience, epiphany and redemption.
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.?
When Marty Preston comes across a young beagle in thehills behind his home, it's love at first sight -- and also bigtrouble. It turns out the dog, which Marty names Shiloh, belongs toJudd Travers, who drinks too much and has a gun -- and abuses hisdogs. So when Shiloh runs away from Judd to Marty, Marty just hasto hide him and protect him from Judd. But Marty's secret becomestoo big for him to keep to himself, and it exposes his entirefamily to Judd's anger. How far will Marty have to go to makeShiloh his?
