The giver, lois lowry's newbery Medal–winning novel, has become one of the most influential books of our time. Celebrate lois lowry’s newbery medal–winning classic story of a young boy discovering the dark secrets behind his seemingly ideal world in this 25th Anniversary Edition of The Giver. The haunting story of twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, world of conformity, if colorless, is as resonant today as when it was first published.
Lois lowry will include a new afterword as well as her Newbery acceptance speech in this edition. This ebook includes a sample chapter of sequel Gathering Blue.
Gathering Blue Giver Quartet, Book 2
As she did in the giver, how people could evolve, Lowry challenges readers to imagine what our world could become, and what could be considered valuable. Lois lowry once again creates a mysterious but plausible future world. Every reader will be taken by Kira’s plight and will long ponder her haunting world and the hope for the future.
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Messenger Giver Quartet, Book 3
Strange changes are taking place in Village. But forest has become hostile to matty as well, and he must risk everything to fight his way through it, armed only with an emerging power he cannot yet explain or understand.
Son Giver Quartet, Book 4
That she had become a Vessel at age thirteen. They called her Water Claire. Now claire will stop at nothing to find her child, even if it means making an unimaginable sacrifice. Son thrusts readers once again into the chilling world of the Newbery Medal winning book, The Giver, as well as Gathering Blue and Messenger where a new hero emerges.
When she washed up on their shore, no one knew that she came from a society where emotions and colors didn’t exist. Claire had a son. That she had carried a Product at age fourteen.
Number the Stars
Through the eyes of ten-year-old annemarie, nearly seven thousand people, we watch as the Danish Resistance smuggles almost the entire Jewish population of Denmark, across the sea to Sweden.
The Outsiders
But not on much else besides trouble with the Socs, a vicious gang of rich kids whose idea of a good time is beating up on “greasers” like Ponyboy. Hinton's classic story of a boy who finds himself on the outskirts of regular society remains as powerful today as it was the day it was first published.
The outsiders transformed young-adult fiction from a genre mostly about prom queens, football players and high school crushes to one that portrayed a darker, truer world. The new york times"Taut with tension, filled with drama. The chicago Tribune"A classic coming-of-age book. Philadelphia daily newsa new york herald tribune best teenage booka Chicago Tribune Book World Spring Book Festival Honor BookAn ALA Best Book for Young AdultsWinner of the Massachusetts Children's Book Award.
No one ever said life was easy. At least he knows what to expect—until the night someone takes things too far. The outsiders is a dramatic and enduring work of fiction that laid the groundwork for the YA genre.
While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement
On september 15, 1963, a klan-planted bomb went off in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. It was one of the seminal moments in the Civil Rights movement, a sad day in American history. Fourteen-year-old carolyn maull was just a few feet away when the bomb exploded, killing four of her friends in the girl’s restroom she had just exited.
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A Wrinkle in Time
A wrinkle in time is soon to be a movie from Disney, starring Storm Reid, Oprah Winfrey, directed by Ava DuVernay, Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling. This title has Common Core connections. Books by madeleine l'englea wrinkle in time quinteta wrinkle in timea wind in the DoorA Swiftly Tilting PlanetMany WatersAn Acceptable TimeA Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel by Madeleine L'Engle; adapted & illustrated by Hope LarsonIntergalactic P.
S. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract. A tesseract in case the reader doesn't know is a wrinkle in time. They are in search of meg's father, a scientist who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government on the tesseract problem. A wrinkle in time is the winner of the 1963 Newbery Medal.
Let me sit down for a moment, and then I'll be on my way. To tell more would rob the reader of the enjoyment of Miss L'Engle's unusual book.
Bridge to Terabithia
Bridge to terabithia was also named an ala notable children’s book and has become a touchstone of children’s literature, as have many of Katherine Paterson’s other novels, including The Great Gilly Hopkins and Jacob Have I Loved. Jess aarons has been practicing all summer so he can be the fastest runner in the fifth grade.
It will take the love of his family and the strength that Leslie has given him for Jess to be able to deal with his grief. The two become fast friends and spend most days in the woods behind Leslie's house, where they invent an enchanted land called Terabithia. One morning, leslie goes to Terabithia without Jess and a tragedy occurs.
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Holes
A smart jigsaw puzzle of a novel. The new york times winner of the boston globe-horn book awarda new york times book review notable children's bookselected for numerous best book of the year and ala HONORS . But there are an awful lot of holes. It doesn’t take long for stanley to realize there’s more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake.
A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Winner of the newbery medal and the national book award! This #1 New York Times bestselling, modern classic in which boys are forced to dig holes day in and day out is now available with a splashy new look.
Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. Now stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, where the boys build character by spending all day, Camp Green Lake, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep.
Hatchet: 30th Anniversary Edition Brian's Saga Book 1
This special anniversary edition includes a new introduction and commentary by author Gary Paulsen, pen-and-ink illustrations by Drew Willis, and a water resistant cover. Celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the Newbery Honor–winning survival novel Hatchet with a pocket-sized edition perfect for travelers to take along on their own adventures.
When the plane crashes, killing the pilot, the sole survivor is Brian. When brian is finally rescued after fifty-four days in the wild, he emerges from his ordeal with new patience and maturity, and a greater understanding of himself and his parents. At first consumed by despair and self-pity, how to hunt and fish and forage for food, Brian slowly learns survival skills—how to make a shelter for himself, how to make a fire—and even finds the courage to start over from scratch when a tornado ravages his campsite.
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