Reverse spin, triple pump, reverse dribble, stutter step withtwist to the left, stutter into jumper, blind pass. These are me.The moves make the man.The moves make me.Jerome foxworthy -- theJayfox to his friends -- likes to think he can handle anything. Hehandled growing up without a father. He handled being the firstblack kid in school. And he sure can handle a basketball. Then Jerome meets bix Rivers -- mysterious and moody, but a greatathlete. So Jerome decides to teach bix his game. He can tell thatbix has the talent. All he's got to do is learn the rightmoves....
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.
“Engle writes her new book in clear, short lines of stirringfree verse. Caught by the compelling narrative voices, many readerswill want to find out more.”—Booklist, Starred Review “A powerful narrative in free verse . . . haunting.”—The HornBook “Hauntingly beautiful, revealing pieces of Cuba’s troubled pastthrough the poetry of hidden moments.”—School Library Journal “Young readers will come away inspired by these portraits ofcourageous ordinary people.” —Kirkus Reviews “The poems are short but incredibly evocative.”—Voice of YouthAdvocates
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
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
Three award-winning classics, one treasured set: "The E.L. Konigsburg Newbery Collection" is a must-have for every bookshelf. Trouble brews and friendship bubbles when Elizabeth meets an honest-to-goodness witch in "Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth." "The View from Saturday "assembles the Souls: an unlikely team of even unlikelier sixth-grade Academic Bowl champions. And who could ever forget Claudia and Jamie's adventures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" Three of E. L. Konigsburg's most beloved, celebrated, and timeless works are now together in one collectable paperback set--a must-have foundation for building any young reader's library.
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
Nhamo's mother is dead, and her father is gone. She is avirtual slave in her small African village. Before her twelfthbirthday, Nhamo learns that she must marry a cruel man with threeother wives--and decides desperately to run away. Alone on theriver, in a stolen boat, she is swept into the uncharted heart of agreat lake. There, she battles drowning, starvation, and wildanimals, and comes to know Africa's mystical, luminous spirits.Nancy Farmer's masterful storytelling makes this a trulyspellbinding novel--and readers will be cheering for Nhamo frombeginning to end. A gripping adventure, equally a survival storyand a spiritual voyage.Nhamo is a stunning creation--while sheserves as a fictional ambassador from a foreign culture, she issupremely human. An unforgettable work. --Publishers Weekly,starred review
When an eccentric millionaire dies mysteriously, sixteen veryunlikely people are gathered together for the reading of the will .. . and what a will it is!
"Withsimplicity,wit,andhumor,CushmanpresentsanothertaleofmedievalEngland.Herereadersfollowthesatisfying,literalandfigurativejourneyofahomeless,namelesschildcalledBrat....Earthyhumor,thefoiblesofhumansbothhighandlow,andafascinatingmixofsuperstitionandgenuinelyhelpfulherbalremediesattachedtochildbirthmakethisatrulydelightfulintroductiontoaworldseldomseeninchildren’sliterature." —SchoolLibraryJournal,Starred "Thisnovelisaboutastrong,youngwomaninmedievalEnglandwhofindsherownwayhome....Kidswillbecaughtupinthisshort,fast-pacednarrativeaboutaherowhodiscoversthatshe’snotuglyorstupidoralone." —Booklist,ALA,StarredReview
Mary Alice's childhood summers in Grandma Dowdel's sleepyIllinois town were packed with enough drama to fill the double billof any picture show. But now she is fifteen, and faces a whole longyear with Grandma, a woman well known for shaking up herneighbors-and everyone else! All Mary Alice can know for certain isthis: when trying to predict how life with Grandma might turn out .. . better not. This wry, delightful sequel to the Newbery HonorBook A Long Way from Chicago has already taken its placeamong the classics of children's literature.
Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashionedkind of running away...so she decided not to run FROM somewhere,but TO somewhere. And so, after some careful planning, she and heryounger brother, Jamie, escaped -- right into a mystery that madeheadlines!
Lucky, age ten, can’t wait another day. The meanness gland inher heart and the crevices full of questions in her brain makerunning away from Hard Pan, California (population 43), therock-bottom only choice she has. It’s all Brigitte’s fault–for wanting to go back to France.Guardians are supposed to stay put and look after girls in theircare! Instead Lucky is sure that she’ll be abandoned to someorphanage in Los Angeles where her beloved dog, HMS Beagle, won’tbe allowed. She’ll have to lose her friends Miles, who lives oncookies, and Lincoln, future U.S. president (maybe) and member ofthe International Guild of Knot Tyers. Just as bad, she’ll have togive up eavesdropping on twelve-step anonymous programs where theinteresting talk is all about Higher Powers. Lucky needs herown–and quick. But she hadn’t planned on a dust storm. Or needing to lug the world’s heaviest survival-kit backpack intothe desert.
The gripping story of young Karana, who survives by herselffor eighteen years on a deserted island off the Californiacoast.
