“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
A shy, lonely six-year-old wanders into the Canadian prairieand spends a summer under the protection of a badger.
Summer has a magic all its own in Elizabeth Enright's belovedstories about two children and their discovery of a ghostlylakeside resort. These two modern classics are once again availablein Odyssey/Harcourt Young Classic editions, but now with handsomenew cover art by Mary GrandPre to complement Beth and Joe Krush'soriginal interior illustrations.
David Kherdian re-creates his mother's voice in telling thetrue story of a childhood interrupted by one of the mostdevastating holocausts of our century. Vernon Dumehjian Kherdianwas born into a loving and prosperous family. Then, in the year1915, the Turkish government began the systematic destruction ofits Armenian population.
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.
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.
Doctor Dolittle heads for the high seas in perhaps the most amazing adventure ever experienced by man or animal.
The gripping story of young Karana, who survives by herselffor eighteen years on a deserted island off the Californiacoast.
Half moorfolk and half human, and unable to shape-shift ordisappear at will, Moql threatens the safety of the Band. So theFolk banish her and send her to live among humans as a changeling.Named Saaski by the couple for whose real baby she was swapped, shegrows up taunted and feared by the villagers for being different,and is comfortable only on the moor, playing strange music on herbagpipes. As Saaski grows up, memories from her forgotten past with theFolks slowly emerge. But so do emotions from her human side, andshe begins to realize the terrible wrong the Folk have done to thehumans she calls Da and Mumma. She is determined to restore theirchild to them, even if it means a dangerous return to the worldthat has already rejected her once.
He was named "Sham" for the sun, this golden-red stallion bornin the Sultan of Morocco's stone stables. Upon his heel was a smallwhite spot, the symbol of speed. But on his chest was the symbol ofmisfortune. Although he was swift as the desert winds, Sham'spedigree would be scorned all his life by cruel masters andowners. This is the classic story of Sham and his friend, the stableboy Agba. their adventures take them from the sands of the Sahara.to the royal courts of France, and finally to the green pasturesand stately homes of England. For Sham was the renowned GodolphinArabian, whose blood flows through the veins of almost verysuperior thoroughbred. Sham's speed -- like his story -- has becomelegendary.
Caddie Woodlawn is a real adventurer. She'd rather hunt thansew and plow than bake, and tries to beat her brother's dares everychance she gets. Caddie is friends with Indians, who scare most ofthe neighbors -- neighbors who, like her mother and sisters, don'tunderstand her at all. Caddie is brave, and her story is special because it's based onthe life and memories of Carol Ryrie Brink's grandmother, the realCaddie Woodlawn. Her spirit and sense of fun have made this book aclassic that readers have taken to their hearts for more thanseventy years.
After their baby sister dies, Willa Jo and Little Sister'sfamily falls apart. Their mother sinks deep into an unshakabledepression, so the two older girls are sent to live with theirstrict Aunt Patty and her husband. Since Little Sister refuses totalk, Willa Jo has to try and make things right in their new home,but she can't stop missing her mother or the life the four of themhad before Baby died. Aunt Patty is trying as hard as she can, butshe doesn't really understand what Willa Jo and Little Sister aretrying to deal with-until the morning the two girls climb up to theroof of her house, and stay there. Audrey Couloumbis's masterfuldebut novel brings to mind Karen Hesse, Katherine Paterson, andBetsy Byars's The Summer of the Swans -it is a story you willnever forget.
In ancient Japan, a struggling artist is angered when hishousekeeper brings home a tiny white cat he can barely afford tofeed. But when the village's head priest commissions a painting ofthe Buddha for a healthy sum, the artist softens toward the animalhe believes has brought him luck. According to legend, the proud andhaughty cat was denied the Buddha's blessing for refusing to accepthis teachings and pay him homage. So when the artist, moved bycompassion for his pet, includes the cat in his painting, thepriest rejects the work and decrees that it must be destroyed. Itseems the artist's life is ruined as well -- until he is rewardedfor his act of love by a Buddhist miracle. This timeless fable has been a classic sinceits first publication in 1930, and this beautifully reillustratededition brings the magic and wonder of the tale to a new generationof readers.
DAVID IS ONLY trying to be cool when he helpssome of the popular kids steal Old Lady Bayfield’s cane. But whenthe plan backfires, he’s the one the “old witch” curses. Now Davidcan’t seem to do anything right. Is it the Bayfield curse at work?Or is David simply turning into a total loser?
When the great Velázquez was painting his masterpieces at theSpanish court in the seventeenth century, his colors were expertlymixed and his canvases carefully prepared by his slave, Juan dePareja. In a vibrant novel which depicts both the beauty and thecruelty of the time and place, Elizabeth Borton de Trevi?o tellsthe story of Juan, who was born a slave and died an accomplishedand respected artist. Upon the death of his indulgent mistressin Seville, Juan de Pareja was uprooted from the only home he hadknown and placed in the charge of a vicious gypsy muleteer to besent north to his mistress’s nephew and heir, Diego Velázquez, whorecognized at once the intelligence and gentle breeding which wereto make Juan his indispensable assistant and companion—and hislifelong friend. Through Juan’s eyes the reader seesVelázquez’s delightful family, his working habits and the characterof the man, his relations with the shy yet devoted King Philip IVand with his fellow painters, Rubens and Murillo, t
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
