![]() ![]() We were unable to find any books matching your exact criteria. Barbara died in 2013, but her legacy lives on in the laughter her books give to readers all over the world. But either way, she’s gone out into the world and made more friends than I ever dreamed possible.” Barbara Park is also the author of award-winning middle grade novels and bestselling picture books, including Skinnybones, Mick Harte Was Here, and Ma! There’s Nothing to Do Here! Barbara Park was born in New Jersey in 1947 and spent most of her adult life in Arizona, where she and her husband, Richard, raised two sons. Barbara once said, “I’ve never been sure whether Junie B.’s fans love her in spite of her imperfections…or because of them. ![]() Jones books have been translated into multiple languages and are a time-honored staple in elementary school classrooms around the world. ![]() Jones series, which has kept kids (and their grown-ups) laughing-and reading-for over two decades. BARBARA PARK is best known as the author of the wildly popular New York Times bestselling Junie B. Jones and the Mushy Gushy Valentime Library Binding Illustrated, Decemby Barbara Park (Author), Denise Brunkus (Illustrator) 4. ![]()
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![]() Evan Walker, a part human and part alien Silencer, knows that on the spring equinox which is only four days from arriving the Silencers will be called to return to their mother ship at which point the next wave of alien destruction will commence. They are disembodied, a consciousness rather than beings, who nevertheless are taking over a planet. The Others are aliens whose ultimate objectives have never been quite clear. Multiple waves of alien attacks by the Others have placed the future of mankind in doubt and left the earth in turmoil and ruin. It brings to conclusion the saga of the battle between sixteen-year-old Cassiopeia “Cassie” Sullivan and aliens who have invaded Earth. ![]() It is the final installment in his The 5th Wave trilogy, coming after The Infinite Sea. ![]() ![]() The Last Star by American author Rick Yancey is a 2016 science fiction novel for young adults. ![]() ![]() ![]() Peter’s books have earned him numerous honors, including a Caldecott Honor (2013) for Creepy Carrots!, two E.B. Peter quickly signed up his second and third books, and his career as an author and illustrator of children’s books was under way. He was working on animated TV shows when he signed a book deal to write and illustrate his first picture book, Flight of the Dodo. ![]() While studying illustration at Art Center College of Design, Peter’s love of both words and pictures led him to take several courses on children’s books, and before long he knew he’d found his calling.Īfter graduating from Art Center Peter moved to New York City to be closer to the publishing industry. Then, as a teenager, he fell in love with writing, and told his tales with words. Growing up in New Jersey, he told stories by drawing whimsical characters and scenes from his imagination. Peter Brown is an American writer and illustrator who is best known for children's picture books. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The timeline will be updated periodically as new information becomes available. It offers an overview of her life - and events related to her story - from 1940 to the present. This paper provides key moments and important dates in Moody’s life history. She also shares the stories of others who made sacrifices for freedom and justice. She writes of her struggle for civil rights and her prominent role in the movement. She gives a shocking and gritty look at Mississippi’s history. ![]() In vivid and sometimes heartbreaking details, she gives a riveting account of her personal experiences at a time when black people could be lynched for speaking their minds. Her book chronicles her life as a poor black girl growing up under harsh conditions during segregation in Mississippi. Surprisingly, little is known about her life beyond the publication of her book in 1968. She was born in 1940 near Centreville, Miss., and she died in 2015 in Gloster, Miss. #AnneMoody This paper presents a timeline of the life history of civil rights pioneer Anne Moody, who wrote the classic, Coming of Age in Mississippi. ![]() ![]() ![]() I love cookbooks or any book for that matter however, this series keeps readers exploring the world of books and, this time, cookbooks. Storyton Hall is an amazing resort, and readers will want to spend hours, even days picturing it. Murder in the Cookbook Nook is definitely a hit that left me smiling. Other times it has left me scratching my head in confusion. Sometimes the books are absolutely wonderful, entertaining, filled with characters and scenes that make me want to visit. This series has always been a hit or miss for me. Six chefs are preparing to compete in an outdoor tent at Storyton Hall in Virginia for prizes that will boost their careers, but is there someone who can’t stand the heat? It looks that way when one of the contestants is found dead in a pantry packed with two centuries worth of cookbooks, among other treasures and rarities.Ĭould there be a connection to other recent events in town, like tampering with the costume of a local mascot? Jane isn’t sure, but after someone serves a second course of murder, the kitchen must be closed, and the killer must be found. ![]() ![]() It was a way for livestock owners to catch and harness their loose herds. (You can still see the historic brick fire stations on Main Street but they are no longer in use.)īut according to locals, the practice of penning dates back centuries. It was a fundraiser for the newly established Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Department. ![]() ![]() The first modern-day Pony Penning Day occurred in 1924. The stallions and mares are rounded back up and returned to their wild home on Assateague. The island’s firemen (known as the saltwater cowboys) round up the wild horses and ponies and swim them over to Chincoteague. Her connection with a real-life palomino mare named Misty started with a suggestion from her editor to write a children’s book about Pony Penning Day held on the last Wednesday and Thursday in July in Chincoteague. (Henry hailed from Michigan.) But there is no doubt that this island was Henry’s creative home. Marguerite Henry, the author of Misty of Chincoteague and sequels (Stormy, Misty’s Foal, Sea Star, and Misty’s Twilight), was not born and did not live in Chincoteague. ![]() ![]() ![]() He tells of crows and cats, lumber dealers and leather-men with the same frankness and sense of humor. “All my friends in this book, both animals and humans, were real, and appear under their rightful names.Ī few less lovable characters have been rechristened.Įven as a boy, North seems to have been a keen observer of character. He kept a menagerie of adopted animals, some domesticated, some not, and tells about their habits with the familiarity of long acquaintance. North remembers his boyhood self as industrious, compassionate, curious, and honorable even at significant personal cost.įrom working as a newspaper boy, to spending days alone in the forest (save for his pet raccoon), to building a canoe with his own money in the family living room, Sterling lived an adventurous, self-sufficient boyhood that reads as very wholesome. Sterling’s mother died a few years before this book begins, and his father was loving but preoccupied with work, so North had a boyhood of freedom and responsibility that was unusual even at the time. He narrates the story as an adult, retelling a treasured part of his childhood from the perspective of his eleven-year-old self. It is a story supposedly about a raccoon, but really about North’s boyhood growing up in Wisconsin during World War I - the war that affected everything yet, compared to the decades that followed, changed so little of essential American life. ![]() Sterling North’s Rascal is a gem I re-discovered by reading to my kids. ![]() ![]() ![]() Marvel 1602 features a massive line-up of Marvel characters, all recognizable while also living out quite different lives in 1602. Said colony, Roanoke, which is often known as the "lost colony" today, is heavily featured in the story. The story features some real historical events and characters, including Queen Elizabeth I of England, her successor King James I, and Virginia Dare, the first English child born in a New World colony. ![]() The series also follows adventure, action, and intrigue between the characters within the settings of 1602 Europe and America. The reason for this is unknown, and characters realizing something is not as it should be and uncovering the mystery of their own existence is one of the core plotlines of Marvel 1602. The series was set in an alternate timeline where Marvel heroes and villains somehow emerged in 1602, 400 years earlier than their time. ![]() None of the sequel series were written by Gaiman, but they followed the same continuity as the original series and featured the same characters. Marvel 1602 spawned three sequel limited series: 1602: New World in 2005, Marvel 1602: Fantastick Four in 2006, and Spider-Man: 1602 in 2009. It was written by Neil Gaiman, penciled by Andy Kubert, and digitally painted by Richard Isanove, with covers designed by artist Scott McKowen. Marvel 1602 is a limited series eight-issue comic book published in 2003 by Marvel comics. ![]() ![]() "With him, she was at ease her skin felt as though it was her right size." Their connection is easy and electrifying, the stuff of true, once-in-a-lifetime love. "He made her like herself," Ifemelu realises. The more they talk, "hungry to know each other," the more the pair's mutual like deepens, lighting in each of them that hauntingly rare quality, "a self-affection". It was indeed true that because of a male, your stomach could tighten up and refuse to unknot itself, your body's joints could unhinge, your limbs fail to move to music, and all effortless things suddenly become leaden." ![]() ![]() Ifemelu, whose previous experience has been limited to playing at Mills and Boon stories with her friends, suddenly finds she's "jolted by a small truth in those romances. When, in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's new novel Americanah, Obinze and Ifemelu fall in love, they fall hard and fast. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When a high-ranking member of House Greed is assassinated, damning evidence somehow points to Vittoria as the murderer. She doesn't just desire his body she wants his heart and soul-but that's something the enigmatic demon can't promise her. But before she faces the demons of her past, Emilia yearns to claim her king, the seductive Prince of Wrath, in the flesh. But that suits Emilia just fine - she's got secrets of her own.Įmilia is reeling from a shocking discovery about her sister, Vittoria. Even Wrath, her onetime ally, may be keeping secrets about his true nature. And it quickly becomes clear that nothing in Hell is what it seems. But the first rule in the court of the Wicked? Trust no one. With the enigmatic Prince of Wrath at her side, Emilia sold her soul to become Queen of the Wicked and travelled to the Seven Circles to fulfil her vow of avenging her beloved sister. ![]() Devastated, Emilia sets out to find her sister's killer and to seek vengeance at any cost-even if it means using dark magic that's been long forbidden. ![]() Emilia soon finds the body of her beloved twin. One night, Vittoria misses dinner service at the family's renowned Sicilian restaurant. Emilia and her twin sister Vittoria are streghe - witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution. ![]() |