![]() ![]() She lived in Spain for a year, but spends most of her time in Los Angeles with her husband and youngest son while being as near as possible to her two adult children without annoying them. Cambria Gordon Adult content: No Language: English Has Image Descriptions: No Categories: History, Romance, Teens, Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality Grade Levels: Seventh grade, Eighth grade, Ninth grade, Tenth grade, Eleventh grade, Twelfth grade. Her one-act play, Within Reach, was produced by Jewish Women's Theatre. She has written for the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Boys' Life, Parent Guide News, and The Jewish Journal of Los Angeles. ![]() She is the co-author of The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming, winner of the national Green Earth Book Award. ![]() Cambria Gordon is the author of The Poetry of Secrets (Scholastic, 2021). She lived in Spain for a year, but spends most of her time in Los Angeles with her husband and youngest son while being as near as possible to her two adult children without annoying them. ![]()
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![]() " of the anxiety, despair, and joy that is common to every human experience of suffering and growth." - The New York Times "Rejoice! A novel for all ages and all seasons." - The Washington Post Book WorldĪbout the Author Judith Guest won the Janet Heidegger Kafka Prize for her first novel, Ordinary People, which was made into the Academy Award-winning 1980 film of the same name. Ordinary People is an extraordinary novel about an "ordinary" family divided by pain, yet bound by their struggle to heal. In this memorable, moving novel, Judith Guest takes the reader into their lives to share their misunderstandings, pain, and ultimate healing. 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Autumn surrounds herself with books and wants to write her own destiny-but one doesn't always get a new chapter and fate can be cruel to those in love. ![]() That's Sylvie, and Finn would never hurt her, so there's no way Autumn could know how he truly feels. She's not just the girl next door or his mother's best friend's daughter, she is his everything. Told through three different perspectives, If Only I Had Told Her is a love story brimming with truth, tragedy, and the unexpected bonds that heal us. If only I'd told her that I loved her years ago, then I wouldn't be here now. Perfect for fans of Colleen Hoover and Jenny Han. An intensely emotional and gripping companion novel to Laura Nowlin's USA Today and New York Times Bestselling novel If He Had Been With Me about the love that both breaks and heals us. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A few years later came the doors into Narnia, the Secret Garden and Wonderland, Bilbo Baggins’s ‘perfectly round’ green door with its shiny yellow brass knob ‘in the exact middle’, the door into the Yellow Dwarf ’s home in the orange tree, and the dark door into Bluebeard’s bloody chamber. Aged about 4, I suppose, I passed through the small, latched door in the hillside, into Mrs Tiggywinkle’s flagged kitchen, filled with the ‘nice, hot, singey smell’ of ironing, busy and reassuring. When the Clock Struck ThirteenĪ lot of the stories I loved most as a child involved doors. A garden that everyone told him doesn’t exist. Thirteen? When Tom gets up to investigate, he discovers a magical garden. ![]() Lying awake at night, Tom hears the old grandfather clock downstairs strike. ![]() ![]() Hiraku dies purely by accident due to a God not giving him good luck, so he reincarnated him in another world as an apology even turning a holy artifact into a multi-purpose tool for him. An anime television series adaptation by Zero-G aired from January to March 2023. It was later acquired by Enterbrain, who has released fifteen volumes since October 2017.Ī manga adaptation illustrated by Yasuyuki Tsurugi has been serialized in Fujimi Shobo's shōnen manga magazine Monthly Dragon Age since November 2017, with its chapters collected into ten tankōbon volumes as of January 2023. It has been published online via the user-generated novel publishing website Shōsetsuka ni Narō since December 2016. ![]() ![]() Farming Life in Another World ( Japanese: 異世界のんびり農家, Hepburn: Isekai Nonbiri Nōka) is a Japanese light novel series written by Kinosuke Naito and illustrated by Yasumo. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Cody, who often jokes around and is perceived as unserious, learns he is capable of more than he thought, and heals his relationship with his father. Through the journey, Sophie learns to accept who she is and gets to know a lot about her relatives, which creates bonds among them all, especially Cody and Uncle Dock. During the first part of the trip, the Wanderer stops at Block Island, Martha's Vineyard, and Grand Manan, and then makes the long and treacherous journey to Ireland. The family sails from Virginia to Ireland on Dock's sailboat, the Wanderer. The story is told from her point-of-view and also from Cody's. Sophie, a 13-year-old girl with two non-biological parents, is the only girl amongst a crew of her three uncles (Dock, Mo, & Stew) and her two cousins (Brian & Cody) sailing across the Atlantic Ocean to visit their grandpa, Bompie, who lives in England. It was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and named a Newbery Honor book. ![]() The Wanderer is a children's novel by Sharon Creech, published in 2000. ![]() ![]() Her book explores the act of walking, something that is impossible to encompass, but since the subject has no end, and neither does its practice, we are all partakers. OL12446W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 95.88 Pages 342 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1101199555 Wanderlust: A History of Walking is the most recent book by American author and winner of the Guggenheim’s National Critic’s Circle, Rebecca Solnit. 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Suddenly, water is everywhere, and George's life changes forever. The ship is full of exciting places to explore, but when George ventures into the first class storage cabin, a terrible boom shakes the entire boat. The most terrifying events in history are brought vividly to life in this New York Times bestselling series! Ten-year-old George Calder can't believe his luck - he and his little sister, Phoebe, are on the famous Titanic, crossing the ocean with their Aunt Daisy. 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