A Tear in the Ocean

A Tear in the Ocean
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Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Total Pages : 306
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ISBN-10 : 9780399545221
ISBN-13 : 0399545220
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis A Tear in the Ocean by : H. M. Bouwman

Told in two voices and times, Artie runs away from her abusive stepfather and Rayel from an arranged marriage, and both find adventure on the high seas beyond Raftworld.

A Crack in the Sea

A Crack in the Sea
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 370
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780399545191
ISBN-13 : 0399545190
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis A Crack in the Sea by : H. M. Bouwman

"Pip, a young boy who can speak to fish, and his sister Kinchen set off on a great adventure, joined by twins with magical powers, refugees fleeing post-war Vietnam, and some helpful sea monsters"--

A Tear in the Ocean

A Tear in the Ocean
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 322
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780399545245
ISBN-13 : 0399545247
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis A Tear in the Ocean by : H. M. Bouwman

This stunning middle grade historical fantasy adventure is a companion to the critically acclaimed A Crack in the Sea. Now in paperback. Putnam, the future king of Raftworld, wants more than anything to prove himself. When the water in the Second World starts to become salty and his father won't do anything about it, Putnam sees his chance. He steals a boat and sneaks off toward the source of the salty water. He doesn't know he has a stowaway onboard, an island girl named Artie. As the two face uncertainty and danger in their shared adventure, an extraordinary friendship forms. Meanwhile, a hundred years in the past, Rayel, princess of Raftworld, flees to southern waters, escaping an arranged marriage, and foiling a plot to kill her father. Told in alternating perspectives with Putnam and Artie traveling further and further into the uncharted southern sea--and Rayel, the key to the saltwater mystery, sailing the same sea in her own time--Putnam and Artie must put aside their differences and figure out why the sea is salty before it's too late.

Big and Busy Ocean

Big and Busy Ocean
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 24
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ISBN-10 : 0312506082
ISBN-13 : 9780312506087
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Big and Busy Ocean by : Hermione Edwards

Provides facts about the ocean and the creatures that live in it. On board pages.

Hey, Water!

Hey, Water!
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Publisher : Holiday House
Total Pages : 24
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ISBN-10 : 9780823442010
ISBN-13 : 0823442012
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis Hey, Water! by : Antoinette Portis

Splash! A spunky little girl plays a spirited game of hide-and-seek with water, in this gorgeously illustrated nonfiction picture book. A Robert F. Sibert Honor Book An ALA Notable Children's Book Hey, water! I know you! You're all around. Join a young girl as she explores her surroundings and sees that water is everywhere. But water doesn't always look the same, it doesn't always feel the same, and it shows up in lots of different shapes. Water can be a lake, it can be steam, it can be a tear, or it can even be a snowman. As the girl discovers water in nature, in weather, in her home, and even inside her own body, water comes to life, and kids will find excitement and joy in water and its many forms. This latest work from award-winning author/illustrator Antoinette Portis is an engaging, aesthetically pleasing nonfiction picture book, complete with accessible backmatter on the water cycle, water conservation, and more. A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Bank Street Best Book of the Year Selected for the CBC Champions of Change Showcase A Pennsylvania Center for the Book Baker's Dozen Selection!

The Topography of Tears

The Topography of Tears
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Publisher : Bellevue Literary Press
Total Pages : 137
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781942658290
ISBN-13 : 194265829X
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis The Topography of Tears by :

“When you first view Rose-Lynn Fisher’s photographs, you might think you’re looking down at the world from an airplane, at dunes, skyscrapers or shorelines. In fact, you’re looking at her tears. . . . [There’s] poetry in the idea that our emotional terrain bears visual resemblance to the physical world; that our tears can look like the vistas we see out an airplane window. Fisher’s images are the only remaining trace of these places, which exist during a moment of intense feeling—and then vanish.” —NPR “[A] delicate, intimate book. . . . In The Topography of Tears photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher shows us a place where language strains to express grief, longing, pride, frustration, joy, the confrontation with something beautiful, the confrontation with an onion.” —Boston Globe Does a tear shed while chopping onions look different from a tear of happiness? In this powerful collection of images, an award-winning photographer trains her optical microscope and camera on her own tears and those of men, women, and children, released in moments of grief, pain, gratitude, and joy, and captured upon glass slides. These duotone photographs reveal the beauty of recurring patterns in nature and present evocative, crystalline imagery for contemplation. Underscored by poetic captions, they translate the mysterious act of crying into an atlas mapping the structure and magnificence of our interior lives. Rose-Lynn Fisher is an artist and author of the International Photography Award-winning studies Bee and The Topography of Tears. Her photographs are exhibited in galleries, festivals, and museums across the world and have been featured by the Dr. Oz Show, NPR, Smithsonian, Harper’s, New Yorker, Time, Wired, Reader’s Digest, Discover, Brain Pickings, and elsewhere. She received her BFA from Otis Art Institute and lives in Los Angeles.

A Drop in the Ocean

A Drop in the Ocean
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1631520261
ISBN-13 : 9781631520266
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis A Drop in the Ocean by : Jenni Ogden

After receivng a letter cutting her grant research funds, Dr. Anna Fergusson decides to rent a cabin on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Turlte Island turns out not to be the retreat she expected.

All the Light We Cannot See

All the Light We Cannot See
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 560
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781476746609
ISBN-13 : 1476746605
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis All the Light We Cannot See by : Anthony Doerr

*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).

Grandpa Across the Ocean

Grandpa Across the Ocean
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Publisher : Abrams
Total Pages : 40
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781647003128
ISBN-13 : 1647003121
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Grandpa Across the Ocean by : Hyewon Yum

Though separated by language, age, and an ocean, a child and grandparent find common ground in this warm, witty picture book Grandpa lives on the other side of the ocean. He takes naps all the time. He eats different foods. He speaks an unfamiliar language. His house is the most boring place on Earth! Or is it? A little time together just might reveal that Grandpa is also a great singer, an energetic sandcastle builder, and a troublemaker . . . just like his grandson! With her signature warmth and humor, award-winning author-illustrator Hyewon Yum shares the challenges and joys of having a relative who lives far away—proving that even from across the ocean, the grandparent-grandchild relationship is a very special one.

Ocean Beach

Ocean Beach
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 421
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781101580998
ISBN-13 : 1101580992
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Ocean Beach by : Wendy Wax

Three women find a second chance—or is it a third—in this novel from the USA Today bestselling author of Best Beach Ever. When unlikely friends Madeline, Avery, and Nicole arrive in Miami’s South Beach neighborhood, they’re hoping for a do-over. Literally. They’ve been hired to bring a historic house back to its former glory on a new television show called Do Over. If they can just get this show off the ground, Nikki could fix her finances, Avery could restart her career, and Maddie would have a shot at keeping her family together. The women quickly realize that having their work broadcast is one thing, but having their personal lives play out on TV is another. Soon they’re struggling to hold themselves, and the project, together. With a decades-old mystery—and hurricane season—looming, the women are forced to figure out just how they’ll weather life’s storms...