《星期三的战争》 讲述七年级学生霍林在一个学年里的生活和学习经历： 每个星期三下午都是一场灾难，因为班上的一半同学要去犹太教堂学习希伯来文，另一半则要到天主教堂参加教义问答，作为班里唯一的一名基督徒，霍林不得不与严肃的贝克夫人一起待在教室。不苟言笑的贝克夫人似乎总在刁难霍林， 罚 他清理黑板擦、打扫教室、整理大老鼠笼子 在种种手段都宣告失败后，贝克夫人使出了最致命的一招 让霍林阅读 冗长 而 乏味 的莎士比亚作品 于是，一场旷日持久的 战争 在两人之间悄然展开。
After years as a Rangeras apprentice, Will is now the protectorof his first fief. Not long into his service, everything that cango wrong does: Keren, a renegade knight, has taken over CastleMacindaw, a strategic gateway to the Northapoisoning the royalfamily in the processaand is holding Willas friend Alyss captive.The situation grows direr when Will uncovers Kerenas secretalliance with the Scotti, who have plans to plunder Araluen. Timeis of the essence, and Will must recruit a motley crew to rescueAlyss and reclaim Castle Macindawabefore the Scotti can make ittheir own. This "New York Times" bestselling series maintains itsbreathless pace in this newest installment.
In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, an armada of 7,000 ships carrying 160,000 Allied troops stormed the beaches of Nazi-occupied France. Up until then the Allied forces had suffered serious defeats, yet D -Day, as the invasion was called, spelled the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany and the Third Reich. Readers will dive into the heart of the action and discover how it was planned and carried out and how it overwhelmed the Germans who had been tricked into thinking the attack would take place elsewhere. D-Day was a major turning point in World War II and hailed as one of the greatest military attacks of all time.
Kit's Wilderness 内容简介 he Printz Award winning classic gets a new look. Written in haunting, lyrical prose, Kit s Wilderness examines the bonds of family from one generation to the next, and explores how meaning and beauty can be revealed from the depths of darkness. The Watson family moves to Stoneygate, an old coal-mining town, to care for Kit s recently widowed grandfather. When Kit meets John Askew, another boy whose family has both worked and died in the mines, Askew invites Kit to join him in playing a game called Death. As Kit s grandfather tells him stories of the mine s past and the history of the Watson family, Askew takes Kit into the mines, where the boys look to find the childhood ghosts of their long-gone ancestors. A Michael L. Printz Award Winner An ALA Notable Book A Publishers Weekly Best Book 媒体推荐 "Almond . . . creates a heartbreakingly real world fused with magical realism . . . suffusing the multilayered plot with an otherworldly
Christopher is 15 and lives in Swindon with his father. He hasAsperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. He is obsessed with maths,science and Sherlock Holmes but finds it hard to understand otherpeople. When he discovers a dead dog on a neighbour's lawn hedecides to solve the mystery and write a detective thriller aboutit. As in all good detective stories, however, the more heunearths, the deeper the mystery gets--for both Christopher and therest of his family.
Greg Heffley and his family hit the road in author-illustrator Jeff Kinney s ninth installment of the phenomenal bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. Praise for Jeff Kinney: The world has gone crazy for Jeff Kinney s Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Sun Kinney is right up there with J K Rowling as one of the bestselling children s authors on the planet - Independent The most hotly anticipated children s book of the year is here - Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Big Issue Hilarious - Telegraph As well as being the international bestselling author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney is also an online developer and designer. He is the creator of the children s virtual world, Poptropica. Jeff has been named one of TIME magazine s most influential people in the world. His original Diary of a Wimpy Kid was voted Best Children s Book of the Last 10 Years by UK readers. Jeff lives with his family in Massachusetts, USA. 小屁孩日记 9 终于和大家见面了，如果作为小屁孩的忠实书迷的你，还记得
