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Genre: Language + Art + Disciplines, Biography + Autobiography, Juvenile Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, Social Science. Subgenre: American / General, Books + Reading, Biography + Autobiography / Literary, Biography + Autobiography / Women, Authorship, General, Women's Studies, Language Arts / Composition + Creative Writing. Age: 9-12 years. Publisher: Mitchell Lane Pub Inc. Pages: 48. Language: English. Format: hardcover. Release Date: September 30, 2004. Date Published: September 30, 2004.

ISBN-10: 0060009330 ISBN-13: 9780060009335. Edition: .

When ten-year-old Lyddie and her younger brother are hired out as servants to help pay off their family farmas debts, Lyddie is determined to find a way to reunite her family. A story of determination and personal growth, Lyddie has already established itself as a classic.

"Paterson offers her young readers a glimpse of the Vietnam War from what might be considered their own perspective: that of the next generation, the children of veterans, those for whom Vietnam is a vague historical event".--The New York Times.

The subtitle of this book is telling, because in Paterson's view of things, the reading of children's books is at least as significant as the writing of them. And what a rare privilege it is to partake of her reflections on children, reading, writing, and life. This collection of essays and talks was previously published as two separate books, Gates of Excellence and The Spying Heart. With characteristic eloquence and depth of emotion, Paterson allows the reader to share her childhood experiences...

Profiles the life and writing career of the Newbery Award-winning author of "The Bridge to Terabithia."

Description Author Bios Bridge to Terabithia is a favorite middle-grade novel. This companion gives background on the author, including an interview, questions to guide reading, clues to the story's themes, plot, characters, and setting, a glossary, writing and other activities, and more. If you loved Bridge to Terabithia, you need this reading companion. BR show more show less

"A remarkable portrait of an untutored but intelligent young woman making her way against fierce odds".--Kirkus Reviews, starred review. "A superb novel".--School Library Journal. American Bookseller Pick of the Lists. Booklist Editor's Choice. ALA Notable Book. ALA Best Book for Young Adults.

That's not a very promising beginning for a friendship, but Jess and Leslie Burke become inseparable. It doesn't matter to Jess that Leslie dresses funny or that her family has a lot of money -- but no TV. Leslie has imagination. Together, they create Terabithia, a magical kingdom in the woods where they reign as king and queen, and their imaginations set the only limits. Then one morning a terrible tragedy occurs. Only when Jess is able to come to grips with this tragedy does he finally understand...

ISBN-10: 0325007918 ISBN-13: 9780325007915. Edition: .

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Description: Very good condition hardcover in a good plus condition dustjacket. 148pp. One-inch closed tear to edge of dustjacket. Price-clipped. Inscribed by Paterson on title page. A Newbery Honor Book. Synopsis: At eleven, Gilly is nobody's real kid. If only she could find her beautiful mother, Courtney, and live with her instead of in the ugly foster home where she has just been placed! How could she, the great Gilly Hopkins, known throughout the county for her brilliance and unmanageability...

Pages: 112, Library Binding, Rosen Pub Group

Hesse and Hemingway both write with influences from existential philosophy; however, each writer also fails to address the embedded paradox of isolation and meaningfulness is his writing. What emerges in this analysis the way denial functions in the authors' texts. This denial works at a deep level, where each author writes in ways that presume a logic of transparency to writing. In other words, the assumption that the author is absent from the writing functions as a denial of writing at all. As...

All summer, Jess pushed himself to be the fastest boy in the fifth grade, and when the year's first school-yard race was run, he was going to win.But his victory was stolen by a newcomer, by a girl, one who didn't even know enough to stay on the girls' side of the playground. Then, unexpectedly, Jess finds himself sticking up for Leslie, for the girl who breaks rules and wins races. The friendship between the two grows as Jess guides the city girl through the pitfalls of life in their small, rural...

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Eleven-year-old Gilly has been stuck in more foster families than she can remember, and she's disliked them all. She has a county-wide reputation for being brash, brilliant, and completely unmanageable. So when she's sent to live with the Trotters -- by far the strangest family yet -- Gilly decides to put her sharp mind to work. Before long she's devised an elaborate scheme to get her real mother to come rescue her.