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Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
by Morgan MatsonThere were three things Amy Curry didn&’t expect out of senior year. First: her father&’s death. Second: her mother&’s decision to relocate to the East Coast. Third: Roger Sullivan. After her father&’s sudden death, Amy&’s mom has decided to start anew—in Connecticut, just before the start of senior year. And she&’s decided that it&’ll be Amy&’s job to get the car from California to Connecticut. The only problem? Amy hasn&’t gotten behind the wheel since the car accident that took her father&’s life. Enter Roger, a family friend, tasked by his mother to help Amy drive across the country. Amy&’s not pleased to be driving across the country with a boy she barely knows, but as Amy gets lost on her cross-country adventure, she must confront the past she&’s running from, come to terms with the grief of losing a parent, and learn how to open her heart in order to find herself again.
AN Off Year
by Claire ZulkeyCecily has always done everything as she was supposed to: taken the right classes, gotten the right grades, applied to the right colleges. But after a lifetime of following the rules, she surprises everyone by arriving for her freshman year of college . . . and turning around. There are infinite possibilities for Cecily's unexpected gap year. She could volunteer, or travel around the world - but, for now, Cecily is content to do absolutely nothing. What follows is a year of snarkily observed self-doubt and selfdiscovery during which Cecily must ask herself, for the first time, what does she really want to do with her life?
Ana de las tejas verdes 1. La llegada (Ana de las tejas verdes #Volumen 1)
by Lucy Maud MontgomeryLas peripecias de Ana de las Tejas Verdes, una saga clásica ahora revisada y actualizada en esta cuidada edición ilustrada. Uno de los personajes más entrañables de la literatura universal. Con la llegada de Ana Shirley a Avonlea, la vida en este apacible pueblo ya nunca volverá a ser igual. Aunque la desbordante imaginación de Ana provocará más de un desastre, su pelo rojo, su desparpajo y su buen corazón conquistarán a todo aquel que se cruce con ella y la ayudarán a hacer realidad sus sueños. Aventura, humor y mucha emoción de la mano uno de los personajes más entrañables de la literatura universal.
Ana de las tejas verdes 2. Una amistad para siempre (Ana de las tejas verdes #Volumen 2)
by Lucy Maud MontgomeryLas peripecias de Ana de las Tejas Verdes, una saga clásica ahora revisada y actualizada en esta cuidada edición ilustrada. Uno de los personajes más entrañables de la literatura universal. Parece que fue ayer cuando la soñadora Ana Shirley llegó a Avonlea para revolucionar la vida del pequeño pueblo. Hay cosas que no cambian, como la facilidad de Ana para meterse en líos o su amistad con Diana. Pero la indomable pelirroja se hace mayor y su mundo está a punto de cambiar con ella.
Ana de las tejas verdes 6. Finales y comienzos: Serie Ana de las tejas verdes - Nº6 (Ana de las tejas verdes #Volumen 6)
by Lucy Maud MontgomeryLas peripecias de Ana de las Tejas Verdes, una saga clásica ahora revisada y actualizada en esta cuidada edición ilustrada. Uno de los personajes más entrañables de la literatura universal. Instalada en su querida Casa Patty, Ana prosigue sus estudios y disfruta de la vida en la gran ciudad. Tan soñadora como siempre, hace planes de futuro… que no incluyen al apuesto Gilbert Blythe. Mientras que Diana está a punto de casarse con Fred e, incluso, la alocada Phil ha encontrado el amor, Ana sigue buscando a su Príncipe Encantado.
Ana Maria Reyes Does Not Live in a Castle
by Hilda BurgosNotable Children's Book, Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) Choices, Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)The Penderwicks meets In the Heights in this sparkling middle-grade debut about a young Dominican American girl in New York City.Her last name may mean "kings," but Ana María Reyes REALLY does not live in a castle. Rather, she's stuck in a tiny apartment with two parents (way too lovey-dovey), three sisters (way too dramatic), everyone's friends (way too often), and a piano (which she never gets to practice). And when her parents announce a new baby is coming, that means they'll have even less time for Ana María. <p><p> Then she hears about the Eleanor School, New York City's best private academy. If Ana María can win a scholarship, she'll be able to get out of her Washington Heights neighborhood school and achieve the education she's longed for. To stand out, she'll need to nail her piano piece at the upcoming city showcase, which means she has to practice through her sisters' hijinks, the neighbors' visits, a family trip to the Dominican Republic... right up until the baby's birth! But some new friends and honest conversations help her figure out what truly matters, and know that she can succeed no matter what. Ana María Reyes may not be royal, but she's certain to come out on top.
Ana on the Edge
by A. J. SassFor fans of George and Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World, a heartfelt coming of age story about a nonbinary character navigating a binary world. <p><p> Twelve-year-old Ana-Marie Jin, the reigning US Juvenile figure skating champion, is not a frilly dress kind of kid. So, when Ana learns that next season's program will be princess themed, doubt forms fast. Still, Ana tries to focus on training and putting together a stellar routine worthy of national success. <p><p>Once Ana meets Hayden, a transgender boy new to the rink, thoughts about the princess program and gender identity begin to take center stage. And when Hayden mistakes Ana for a boy, Ana doesn't correct him and finds comfort in this boyish identity when he's around. <p><p>As their friendship develops, Ana realizes that it's tricky juggling two different identities on one slippery sheet of ice. And with a major competition approaching, Ana must decide whether telling everyone the truth is worth risking years of hard work and sacrifice.
Anacaona, Golden Flower: Golden Flower (The Royal Diaries)
by Edwidge DanticatThe New York Times–bestselling author and National Book Award finalist delivers a powerful Royal Diaries volume with the story of Haiti’s heroic queen.With her signature narrative grace, Edwidge Danticat brings Haiti’s beautiful queen Anacaona to life. Queen Anacaona was the wife of one of her island’s rulers, and a composer of songs and poems, making her popular among her people. Haiti was relatively quiet until the Spanish conquistadors discovered the island and began to settle there in 1492.The Spaniards treated the natives very cruelly, and when the natives revolted, the Spanish governor of Haiti ordered the arrests of several native nobles, including Anacaona, who was eventually captured and executed, to the horror of her people.“A gripping story that shows European invasion from a native Caribbean viewpoint . . . readers will connect with Danticat’s immediate, poetic language, Anacaona’s finely drawn growing pains, and the powerful, graphic story that adds a vital perspective to the literature about Columbus and European expansion in the Americas.” —Booklist“Explores the life of a proud, young Taíno woman as she grows into rulership, love, and motherhood . . . The arrival of Columbus’s explorers marks a major turning point in the novel, and Danticat shifts from a languid, poetic style to a tense, high gear that makes it difficult to put the book down.” —Historical Novel Society
Analee, in Real Life
by Janelle MilanesA Cuban-American teen navigates social anxiety, her father’s remarriage, and being torn between two very cute boys in this heartfelt and funny contemporary novel—perfect for fans of Morgan Matson and Kasie West. <P><P>Ever since her mom died three years ago, Analee Echevarria has had trouble saying out loud the weird thoughts that sit in her head. With a best friend who hates her and a dad who’s marrying a yogi she can’t stand, Analee spends most of her time avoiding reality and role-playing as Kiri, the night elf hunter at the center of her favorite online game. Through Kiri, Analee is able to express everything real-life Analee cannot: her bravery, her strength, her inner warrior. The one thing both Kiri and Analee can’t do, though, is work up the nerve to confess her romantic feelings for Kiri’s partner-in-crime, Xolkar—a.k.a. a teen boy named Harris whom Analee has never actually met in person. So when high school heartthrob Seb Matias asks Analee to pose as his girlfriend in an attempt to make his ex jealous, Analee agrees. Sure, Seb seems kind of obnoxious, but Analee could use some practice connecting with people in real life. In fact, it’d maybe even help her with Harris. But the more Seb tries to coax Analee out of her comfort zone, the more she starts to wonder if her anxious, invisible self is even ready for the real world. Can Analee figure it all out without losing herself in the process?
Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope
by Jenna BushAna's life is a collection of bits and pieces of her past. Infected with HIV at birth, she's unaware of many details of her early childhood and barely remembers her mother. Living with her strict grandmother, she learns how to keep secrets – secrets about her infection and about the abuse she endures at home. But after Ana falls in love and becomes pregnant at seventeen, she begins a journey of hope – a journey of protecting herself and others. She is living with HIV, not dying from it. Jenna Bush tells of Ana's struggle to break free from the cycle of abuse, silence, and illness with passion and eloquence. But this is not just Ana's story. It is also the story of many children around the world who are marginalized, neglected, and mistreated.
Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess
by Carolyn MeyerA novel in diary form in which the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II describes the privileged life in her family up until the time of World War I and the tragic events that befell them.
Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess, Russia, 1914 (The Royal Diaries)
by Carolyn MeyerAward-winning author Carolyn Meyer's ANASTASIA is back in print with a gorgeous new package!Anastasia is the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II, ruler of Russia. Anastasia is used to a life of luxury; her major concerns are how to get out of her detested schoolwork to play in the snow, go ice-skating, or have picnics. She wears diamonds and rubies, and every morning her mother, the princess, tells her which matching outfit she and her three sisters shall wear that day. It's a fairy tale life -- until everything changes with the outbreak of war between Russia and Germany. As Russia enters WWI, hunger and poverty grows among the peasants, and soon they are not pleased with their ruler. While the czar is trying win a war and save their country, the country is turning on the royal family. When her father and the rest of the family are imprisoned by the Bolsheviks, suddenly Anastasia understands what this war is costing the people. In the pages of her diary, Anastasia chronicles the wealth and luxury of her royal days, as well as the fall from power, and her uncertain fate.
Anastasia and Her Sisters
by Carolyn MeyerThere’s a heavy price to pay for royalty in this compelling—and true—story of Anastasia Romanov and her fellow grand duchesses of Russia, from an award-winning novelist.It’s summer in 1914 and the Romanovs are aboard the Standart, the Russian royal yacht. Tsar Nicholas, Tsaritsa Alexandra, their four daughters, and the youngest child, Tsarevitch Alexei, are sailing to Romania to meet Crown Prince Carol and his parents. It seems like a fairy tale existence for the four grand duchesses, dressed in beautiful clothes, traveling from palace to palace. But it’s not. Life inside the palace is far from a fairy tale. The girls’ younger brother suffers from an excruciatingly painful and deadly blood disease, and their parents have chosen to shield the Russian people from the severity of the future tsar’s condition. The secrets and strain are hard on the family, and conditions are equally dire beyond the palace walls. Peasants suffer under the burden of extreme poverty and Tsar Nicholas’s leadership power weakens. And when the unthinkable happens—Germany declares war on Russia—nothing in Anastasia’s world will ever be the same.
Anastasia Krupnik (An Anastasia Krupnik story)
by Lois LowryAnastasia's tenth year has some good things, like falling in love and really getting to know her grandmother, and some bad things, like finding out about an impending baby brother.
Anastasia Krupnik Stories
by Lois LowryThe first four books of Lois Lowry’s beloved series about precocious tween Anastasia Krupnik are collected in this ebook edition. Over the course of these stories, Anastasia deals with a new baby in the family, a move to the suburbs, a summer job, a difficult science project, and all the growing pains of adolescence. This set includes:Anastasia KrupnikAnastasia Again!Anastasia at Your ServiceAnastasia Off Her Rocker
Anatomy of a Dragon (The World of Dragons)
by Matt DoedenWe might think we know what dragons look like. But not all dragons look the same. This book describes what makes each one special, the different parts of dragon bodies and how dragons breathe fire.
Anatomy of Lost Things
by Shawn K. StoutA laugh-through-your-tears middle grade novel about what it&’s like to lose something precious. For fans of the Three Rancheros series by Kate DiCamillo.A necklace. A bugle. A lion statue. What do they have to do with each other? Absolutely nothing unless you&’re Tildy, Leon, or Nell. These items matter an awful lot to them. Not because of what they are, but what—and who—they represent.Anatomy of Lost Things shares the crisscrossing stories of Tildy, Leon, and Nell, of the impossible losses they&’ve each recently faced, and the unexpected histories of their prized objects. Written with heartbreaking honesty and humor, this novel unfolds in the tender space that exists between staggering loss and the start of recovery, and it finds plenty of hope and laughter waiting there.
Ancient Appetites (The Wildenstern Saga #1)
by Oisín McgannShortlisted for the 2008 Waterstones Children's Book Prize: Murder, betrayal, and power . . . Welcome to the Wildenstern empire The slow collapse of the British Empire in the nineteenth century meant opportunity for anyone with ammunition and wit. Now the Wildensterns are by far the most powerful family--and the most ruthless. Trained from childhood in the arts of assassination and conspiracy and endowed with the supernatural ability to live for more than a century, the clan has grown rich, vicious, and seemingly invincible. After nearly two years away, eighteen-year-old Nate has returned. But his homecoming is shattered when his eldest brother, Marcus, is mysteriously killed. Following the Rules of Ascension, which allow one male family member to murder another, Nate is being blamed. Nate knows he isn't the murderer, but who is? With the help of his sister-in-law, Daisy, and his cousin Gerald, Nate intends to find out. Their investigation brings them into the underbelly of the Wildenstern empire, where living machines, conspiring relatives, and undercover mercenaries do their dirty work. But when a disaster uncovers the ancient remains of Wildenstern ancestors, the lives of the family members and their struggle for power will take a bizarre and gruesome turn.
The Ancient Celtic Festivals: and How We Celebrate Them Today
by Clare Walker Leslie Frank E. GeraceTravel 2,500 years back in time to find out where many of our modern holiday traditions originated. • Charming full-color ink and watercolor illustrations throughout. • This valuable resource for teachers and parents uses hands-on activities, natural science facts, and observations to explore the concepts of measuring time, making calendars, and marking seasonal celebrations. • Shows how our popular holiday traditions are rooted in nature, beginning as the seasonal festivals of an ancient society. Children love holiday celebrations but most don't know why they wear masks on Halloween or watch for the groundhog on February 2. Now they can discover that many of our modern traditions started with the festivals of the ancient Celts. The Celts were farming people, so their festivals marked the important events of the agricultural year. Imbolc, in very early spring, celebrated the birth of new lambs, while Samhain, in late fall, celebrated the end of the growing season and the beginning of winter. If we look at our modern calendar, we'll find Groundhog Day falling where Imbolc did, Halloween where the Celts celebrated Samhain, and a host of other holiday correspondences. That's because descendants of the Celts were among the first Europeans to settle in the New World, bringing their holiday traditions with them. In a world of electric lights and store-bought foods, The Ancient Celtic Festivals can help children make the connections to nature that their ancestors did. Whimsically illustrated activity pages invite them to bake a harvest corn bread, stage a spring festival, or warm up the cold depths of winter with hot spiced cider. Teachers, librarians, parents, and children alike will welcome this book as a fun-filled resource.
Ancient Chamorro Society Activity Book
by Lawrence J. CunninghamActivity book to accompany the textbook Ancient Chamorro Society.
Ancient Cities and Civilizations (Travel to...)
by DulingTake a trip through time to see how ancient cities and civilizations thrived and fell long ago as you Travel to… Ancient Cities and Civilizations!Part of the Travel to… Children’s Book Series, this 48-page nonfiction book takes you back in time to ancient Rome, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Mexico, and other places in ancient history. Learn about their societies, their architecture, the rise and fall of power, and more.World History Book Features:Before- and after-reading activitiesExtension activityGlossaryAbout Rourke Educational Media:We proudly publish respectful and relevant nonfiction and fiction titles that represent our diverse readers, and are designed to support reading on a level that has no limits!
Ancient Civilizations (HMH Social Studies)
by Houghton Mifflin HarcourtHMH Social Studies: Ancient Civilizations: Student Edition 2019
Ancient Civilizations: Student Edition 2019 (HMH Social Studies: Ancient Civilizations Ser.)
by Houghton Mifflin HarcourtNIMAC-sourced textbook
Ancient Egypt (DK Ancient Histories)
by DKLearn all about ancient Egypt, from everyday life to the afterlife, in this ultimate guide.Explore the everyday lives of ancient Egyptians, from farming alongside the mighty River Nile to worshipping powerful gods and goddesses, in this history book for children aged 9-12.Discover why cats were seen as sacred animals, how magnificent tombs were protected from robbers, and why the elite of Egyptian society wore wigs. Pore over breathtaking images, incredible artifacts, and unique illustrations, and travel back in time to this incredible civilization.Encourage your children to explore: Beautiful illustrations and photography from the top ancient Egypt collections.Fantastic facts and the latest finds from an expert Egyptologist.Information on what life in ancient Egypt was really like – from wearing wigs and green eyeshadow to playing games in the street and sleeping on the roof.How do you read hieroglyphics? Which Egyptian god made the Sun rise and set? What games did children enjoy playing? Why did both male and female pharaohs wear false beards? Find out in this ultimate guide to ancient Egypt, perfect for children who love history and mythology.