In an attempt to avoid being sent to a juvenile detention center, 14-year-old Alex agrees to leave his abusive mother and live with his grandparents in their small rural community. Will Alex be able to escape the violence of his past?
Colorful cartoon-style illustrations depict a young boy's outlandish bedtime fears. Despite his mother's reassurances, Stephen still thinks a shark will somehow enter his bedroom and devour him during the night. Could this fear actually come true?
Yen-Tzu, the son of a farmer, leaves the family home in search of a better life. Along the way he has many misadventures, but things somehow always manage to work out for the best. Watercolor paintings illustrate this retelling of a traditional Chinese tale.
A teen-ager who has always made fun of boy-conscious friends and who has been groomed to develop her "full potential" finds herself becoming interested in boys and begins to question some of her former thinking.
Emotionally devastated by her parents' divorce, sixteen-year-old Carole is grateful for the friendship of the self-confident, imaginative, and popular Marty but finds herself in a terrible dilemma when Marty suggest a logical solution to their individual problems.
Lizzie finds a fantasy world that helps her humdrum existence become a fulfilling life, but then something terrible happens that breaks the seemingly magic spell.
This is the story of David and Xinni. When David sees Xinni and Xinni sees David, suddenly nothing is dull anymore. The moment is missed by both David's father and Xinni's father, but for David and Xinni, having seen something they could never have expected or imagined, nothing will ever be quite the same. Winifred Morris has written several books ...
A teenager who has always made fun of boy-conscious friends and who has been groomed to develop her "full potential" finds herself becoming interested in boys and begins to question some of her former thinking.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Birn Brothers Ltd
Date Published: N.D.
Description: Very Good-with no dust jacket. Undated but gift inscription dated 1946 on front endpaper. Vintage board book with colour cover with a girl playing with a ball, nine stories, colour frontispiece and numerous black and white drawings throughout. Unpaginated pages. Stories are; A Matter of Moments, Miss Newberry`s Niece, The Haunted Windmill, The House of Memories, Speedboat Sue, The Old Clock`s Secret, Myrna and the Burglar, The Mysterious Pikelets! Sharks! In overall good clean condition. Some ... read more
Edition: 1st
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Atheneum
Date Published: 1987
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Hard Back. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. X-Library with normal flaws. The hard cover and the jacket has very little shelf wear. read more
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