![]() Carle's large collages bursting with color are perfect for the text." - Booklist, To celebrate this beloved book's 25th birthday, Eric Carle has energized his original artwork, providing bold, fresh colors and his now familiar menagerie., A picture book full of rhyme and repetition that will appeal to preschoolers. perfect for sharing with a group of preschoolers." - The Horn Book Guide "A picture book full of rhyme and repetition that will appeal to preschoolers. ![]() Carle's large collages bursting with color are perfect for the text."- Booklist, "To celebrate this beloved book's 25th birthday, Eric Carle has energized his original artwork, providing bold, fresh colors and his now familiar menagerie." - Publishers Weekly "The contemporary classic. ![]() "To celebrate this beloved book's 25th birthday, Eric Carle has energized his original artwork, providing bold, fresh colors and his now familiar menagerie." - Publishers Weekly "The contemporary classic. ![]()
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But who knew that such a lovely night would erupt into a night of horror? The Devil’s Pit: Three young explorers set out into the Amazon rainforest to make names for themselves but the world will remember the horrors of the valley they journey to, and the monster that lives there-a monster the modern world long thought dead…Ī Victorian Drama: Marriage is never easy, especially when there are affairs, scandal, and a night of passion at a friend’s ball into the bargain. ![]() She will find out a terrible truth about the castle to which she has come-a secret so monstrous that those who try to tell it vanish. ![]() The Scarlet Petal: Beauty has no choice but to go with the Beast after a card game goes horribly wrong. What they discover might be beautiful beyond comprehension, or terrifying beyond our most terrible nightmares. Writers write because they want other people to know what they have discovered on their journeys. Or if you are in North America, order the book from ! The Scarlet Petal – Stories by Ryan Petrieįirst edition, 2020. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Yeva’s father’s misfortune may have cost him his mind, and when he goes missing in the woods, Yeva sets her sights on one prey: the creature he’d been obsessively tracking just before his disappearance.ĭeaf to her sisters’ protests, Yeva hunts this strange Beast back into his own territory-a cursed valley, a ruined castle, and a world of creatures that Yeva’s only heard about in fairy tales. ![]() Out in the wilderness, there’s no pressure to make idle chatter with vapid baronessas…or to submit to marrying a wealthy gentleman. So when her father loses his fortune and moves Yeva and her sisters back to the outskirts of town, Yeva is secretly relieved. Though she grew up with the city’s highest aristocrats, far from her father’s old lodge, she knows that the forest holds secrets and that her father is the only hunter who’s ever come close to discovering them. 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Uncle Quentin, who is working on a secret theory in his study, takes a break to hire a tutor, Mr. ![]() Julian, Dick, and Anne's mother are ill with scarlet fever, so they, George, and Timmy return to Kirrin Cottage for the Christmas holidays. ![]() Children and Young Adult Literature portalįive Go Adventuring Again (published in 1943) is the second book in the Famous Five series by the British author, Enid Blyton. ![]() ![]() When I read this book for the first time at 17, I couldn’t stop reading it! I have never been so captivated by a story that fosters and revels in its ambiguity. 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In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Mohandas Gandhi, the father of India.Īs a young teenager in India, Gandhi led a rebellious life and went against his parents' values. ![]() ![]() But being with Ethan is a conflict of interest and threatens to annihilate everything she’s worked toward over the last few years, including her independence and painstakingly rebuilt financial security destroyed by Ryan’s death. Rachel Sullivan is stunned when Ethan Montgomery suddenly returns to New York City after years away in Europe, and, heaven help her, those feelings she once had for him, before she had to marry Ryan, are back and stronger than ever. 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Soon, father and son will learn that Geraldine, Joe's lovely mother, has been brutally raped, and the different ways the boy and the man respond to this trauma can be construed from this seemingly mundane beginning. The symbolism is a shade heavy-handed, a fault that has been found with Erdrich's books in the past. For the first time ever, Joe's old man, a judge on an Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota in the late 1980s, tires of the task before the boy does and leaves him to finish up. A t the beginning of The Round House, the novel's 13-year-old narrator, Joe, is helping his father pry out tree seedlings that have lodged in the cement-block foundation of his family's house. ![]() ![]() A small-time hood learns a hero’s secret identity and tries to figure out how to profit from the knowledge. ![]() "The city’s leading super hero tries to be everywhere at once, and berates himself for every wasted second as he longs for just a moment of his own.
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