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Author |
: Gary D. Schmidt |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins |
Total Pages |
: 398 |
Release |
: 2011-04-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780547534176 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0547534175 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Okay for Now by : Gary D. Schmidt
2011 National Book Award Finalist As a fourteen-year-old who just moved to a new town, with no friends and a louse for an older brother, Doug Swieteck has all the stats stacked against him. So begins a coming-of-age masterwork full of equal parts comedy and tragedy from Newbery Honor winner Gary D. Schmidt. As Doug struggles to be more than the “skinny thug” that his teachers and the police think him to be, he finds an unlikely ally in Lil Spicer—a fiery young lady who “smelled like daisies would smell if they were growing in a big field under a clearing sky after a rain.” In Lil, Doug finds the strength to endure an abusive father, the suspicions of a whole town, and the return of his oldest brother, forever scarred, from Vietnam. Together, they find a safe haven in the local library, inspiration in learning about the plates of John James Audubon’s birds, and a hilarious adventure on a Broadway stage. In this stunning novel, Schmidt expertly weaves multiple themes of loss and recovery in a story teeming with distinctive, unusual characters and invaluable lessons about love, creativity, and survival.
Author |
: Gary D. Schmidt |
Publisher |
: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages |
: 313 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780618724833 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0618724834 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Wednesday Wars by : Gary D. Schmidt
In this Newbery Honor-winning novel, Gary D. Schmidt tells the witty and compelling story of a teenage boy who feels that fate has it in for him, during the school year 1968-68. Seventh grader Holling Hoodhood isn't happy. He is sure his new teacher, Mrs. Baker, hates his guts. Holling's domineering father is obsessed with his business image and disregards his family. Throughout the school year, Holling strives to get a handle on the Shakespeare plays Mrs. Baker assigns him to read on his own time, and to figure out the enigmatic Mrs. Baker. As the Vietnam War turns lives upside down, Holling comes to admire and respect both Shakespeare and Mrs. Baker, who have more to offer him than he imagined. And when his family is on the verge of coming apart, he also discovers his loyalty to his sister, and his ability to stand up to his father when it matters most.
Author |
: Gary D. Schmidt |
Publisher |
: Clarion Books |
Total Pages |
: 403 |
Release |
: 2021-01-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780544084773 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0544084772 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Just Like That by : Gary D. Schmidt
In this poignant, perceptive, witty novel, Gary D. Schmidt brings authenticity and emotion to multiple plot strands, weaving in themes of grief, loss, redemption, achievement, and love. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students from wealthy backgrounds. In a parallel story, Matt Coffin has wound up on the Maine coast near St. Elene's with a pillowcase full of money lifted from the leader of a criminal gang, fearing the gang's relentless, destructive pursuit. Both young people gradually dispel their loneliness, finding a way to be hopeful and also finding each other.
Author |
: Gary D. Schmidt |
Publisher |
: Yearling |
Total Pages |
: 226 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780553494952 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0553494953 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by : Gary D. Schmidt
Turner Buckminster is purely miserable. Not only is he the son of the new minister in a small Maine town, but he is shunned for playing baseball differently from the local boys.
Author |
: Gary D. Schmidt |
Publisher |
: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780547612133 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0547612133 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis What Came from the Stars by : Gary D. Schmidt
In a desperate attempt for survival, a peaceful civilization on a faraway planet besieged by a dark lord sends its most precious gift across the cosmos into the lunchbox of Tommy Pepper, sixth grader, of Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Author |
: Gary D. Schmidt |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2010-04-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780547487731 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0547487738 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Trouble by : Gary D. Schmidt
“Henry Smith’s father told him that if you build your house far enough away from Trouble, then Trouble will never find you.” But Trouble comes careening down the road one night in the form of a pickup truck that strikes Henry’s older brother, Franklin. In the truck is Chay Chouan, a young Cambodian from Franklin’s preparatory school, and the accident sparks racial tensions in the school—and in the well-established town where Henry’s family has lived for generations. Caught between anger and grief, Henry sets out to do the only thing he can think of: climb Mt. Katahdin, the highest mountain in Maine, which he and Franklin were going to climb together. Along with Black Dog, whom Henry has rescued from drowning, and a friend, Henry leaves without his parents’ knowledge. The journey, both exhilarating and dangerous, turns into an odyssey of discovery about himself, his older sister, Louisa, his ancestry, and why one can never escape from Trouble.
Author |
: Gary D. Schmidt |
Publisher |
: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages |
: 197 |
Release |
: 2015 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780544462229 |
ISBN-13 |
: 054446222X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Orbiting Jupiter by : Gary D. Schmidt
The two-time Newbery Honor winner Gary D. Schmidt delivers the shattering story of Joseph, a father at thirteen, who has never seen his daughter, Jupiter. After spending time in a juvenile facility, he's placed with a foster family on a farm in rural Maine. Here Joseph, damaged and withdrawn, meets twelve-year-old Jack, who narrates the account of the troubled, passionate teen who wants to find his baby at any cost. In this riveting novel, two boys discover the true meaning of family and the sacrifices it requires.
Author |
: Gary D. Schmidt |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins |
Total Pages |
: 229 |
Release |
: 2019-02-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781328526915 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1328526917 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pay Attention, Carter Jones by : Gary D. Schmidt
Carter Jones is astonished early one morning when he finds a real English butler, bowler hat and all, on the doorstep—one who stays to help the Jones family, which is a little bit broken. In addition to figuring out middle school, Carter has to adjust to the unwelcome presence of this new know-it-all adult in his life and navigate the butler's notions of decorum. And ultimately, when his burden of grief and anger from the past can no longer be ignored, Carter learns that a burden becomes lighter when it is shared. Sparkling with humor, this insightful and compassionate story will resonate with readers who have confronted secrets of their own.
Author |
: Holley Gerth |
Publisher |
: Revell |
Total Pages |
: 223 |
Release |
: 2014-02-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781441213310 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1441213317 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis You're Going to Be Okay by : Holley Gerth
Sometimes it feels like life's falling apart at the seams. Sometimes you're completely worn out by stresses that never seem to end. For every woman who has been disappointed, who has watched a dream die, whose life isn't what she imagined it would be, bestselling author Holley Gerth has a heartfelt message of hope--you really are going to be okay. And it is possible to live with joy, resilience, and strength in both the good times and the bad. In fact, she says, that's what God desires for us. With her trademark positive encouragement and probing questions for self-reflection, Holley encourages women to spend less of their lives regretting and more of their lives truly living. She shows them how to guard their hearts against despair and look to the future with confidence, remembering that they are part of a greater plan and nothing can stop God's purposes for them.
Author |
: Sandra Cisneros |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 130 |
Release |
: 2013-04-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780345807199 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0345807197 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis The House on Mango Street by : Sandra Cisneros
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago • Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. “Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage...and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.” —The New York Times Book Review The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. “In English my name means hope,” she says. “In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting." Told in a series of vignettes—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous—Cisneros’s masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time. Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street or Toni Morrison’s Sula, it makes a world through people and their voices, and it does so in language that is poetic and direct. This gorgeous coming-of-age novel is a celebration of the power of telling one’s story and of being proud of where you're from.