Replying to her little sister's 'Dear Dad' letters was definitely not one of her best ideas ...
Amber Alessandra Leola Kimiko Miyamoto. As if her name made up for being tiny, half Japanese and half Italian, and starting a new school with a caveman phone. Dream on! But the hardest bit about being Amber is that a part of her is missing. Her dad. He left when she was little and if he isn't coming back, she'll have to sort things out another way...
Caldecott Honor, three time Coretta Scott King Award winner, and New York Times bestselling illustrator and her author cousin pay gorgeous homage to the street they grew up on and the loving community that made their childhood special.
Welcome to Dream Street--the best street in the world! It's where love between generations rules, everyone is special, and the warmth of a neighborhood shines. Here is the perfect book for parents to use to introduce children to the importance of community.
Meet kids like Azaria, who loves to jump double-Dutch one leg at a time; Zion, whose dream is to become a librarian; and cousins Ede and Tari, who dream of creating a picture book together one day. Meet grown-ups like Mr. Sidney, a retired mail carrier who greets everyone with the words, 'Don't wait to have a great day. Create one!' and Ms. Sarah, whose voice is only a whisper but who has stories between the lines of her face that she'll share when you come close.
Evan, a soccer star and the nephew of a conservative Southern Senator, has never wanted for much -- except a functional family. Alma has lived in Georgia since she was two-years-old, excels in school, and has a large, warm Mexican family.
Never mind their differences, the two fall in love, and they fall hard. But when ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) begins raids on their town, Alma knows that she needs to tell Evan her secret. There's too much at stake. But how to tell her country-club boyfriend that she's an undocumented immigrant?
That her whole family and most of her friends live in the country without permission. What follows is a beautiful, nuanced, well-paced exploration of the complications of immigration, young love, defying one's family, and facing a tangled bureaucracy that threatens to completely upend two young lives.
In this empowering deconstruction of the so-called American Dream, a twelve-year-old Japanese American girl grapples with, and ultimately rises above, the racism and trials of middle school she experiences while chasing her dreams.
As the daughter of immigrants who came to America for a better life, Annie Inoue was raised to dream big. And at the start of seventh grade, she’s channeling that irrepressible hope into becoming the lead in her school play.
So when Annie lands an impressive role in the production of The King and I, she’s thrilled . . . until she starts to hear grumbles from her mostly white classmates that she only got the part because it’s an Asian play with Asian characters. Is this all people see when they see her? Is this the only kind of success they’ll let her have—one that they can tear down or use race to belittle?
Disheartened but determined, Annie channels her hurt into a new dream: showing everyone what she’s made of.
Waka T. Brown, author of While I Was Away, delivers an uplifting coming-of-age story about a Japanese American girl’s fight to make space for herself in a world that claims to celebrate everyone’s differences but doesn’t always follow through.
Liar meets Romeo and Juliet in this Shakespeare-inspired young adult novel about trusting yourself when everyone is telling you your instincts are wrong.
Jaye wakes up in the hospital, disoriented and beset by a slippery morphing of reality into something else. She repeatedly sees a boy who she feels like she knows-but that's impossible. Determined to get back to school and back to A Midsummer Night's Dream, in which she's starring, she lies to her sister, her mom, and her doctors-she's fine, she says. She's fine, she's fine, she's fine. But then on her first day back, she takes a seat in class next to the mysterious boy. Queasy with anxiety ("I can't see you," she hisses at him, "because you're not really here"), Jaye realizes this boy is, in fact, real. And he has no idea what she's talking about.
Caught between this fascinating, empathetic new kid and her childhood friend turned recent love interest, Jaye begins to notice unnerving similarities between her circumstances and those of some of Shakespeare's most famous plays. Tingling banter and clandestine meet-ups give way to darker, muddier incidents. As things escalate to a frightening pitch, how much of what's happening is real, how much is in Jaye's head, and how much does it matter as she's hurtling toward a fateful end over which she seems to have no control?
"Engrossing...A dizzying new twist on one of the Bard's most famous plays."-Kirkus Reviews
A long time ago, when everything was still perfect....
Adam and Eve lived harmoniously with the fruits and vegetables in the Garden of Eden. Until one day, a serpent tempted them to eat the forbidden fruit, which made God angry. As a punishment for their sin, they were banished from the magnificent garden. And they brought along some seeds of the fruits and vegetables from God's paradise.
That's when all the adventures began.
In 1937, Christel Decker Bresko was born in Germany. She's the eldest among three children. Her father served in the German Army until 1945, the year he became a prisoner of war after being captured in Moscow, Russia. Her mother took care of the family as they experience sickness, hunger, and growing pains.
Christel came to England in 1957. She studied the English language by herself while working as a nursemaid for an old lady with MS. After a year, she enrolled in a nursing program and received her degree in 1962.
After everything she's been through, her passion to see the world never ceased. And that's one of the reasons why she came to the USA in 1968. When she found a home in the states, she created her own family with her husband, Bill.
An all-new official, original novel from the twisted world of the hit horror video game, Bendy and the Ink Machine!
Seventeen-year-old Buddy Lewek has spent most of his life trying to escape the Lower East Side slums of New York City.Working as a delivery boy to support his family, Buddy wants to become an artist, a dream he's sure will never be realized. But
that all changes when a delivery job puts him face-to-face with Mister Joey Drew, the eccentric owner of an animation studio.
Mister Drew takes Buddy under his wing as an apprentice, thrusting him into a world unlike anything Buddy has ever seen before.
There's the colorful cast of the studio, from the cranky, yet driven composer Sammy Lawrence to the cheerful voice actress
Allison Pendle to Dot, the writing intern and Buddy's counterpart. After his first glamorous studio party, Buddy starts to think that
maybe it's really as simple as Mister Drew says: Dreams do come true. But not everything at the studio is as picture-perfect as it
seems . . .
Something is going bump in the night at Joey Drew Studios, something that leaves behind trails of thick, dark ink. While the studio
frantically works toward their latest deadline, Buddy and Dot team up to find out just what is tormenting the studio after-hours,
even if it means tracking the trail to Mister Drew himself.
Don't miss this official pulse-pounding story from award-winning author Adrienne Kress!
Toller Krimi für kleine Detektive!
Das Städtchen Bad Münstereifel ist in heller Aufruhr. Beim Einbruch in das Museum ist der freundliche Museumswärter niedergeschlagen worden. Gestohlen wurde nichts außer einem scheinbar wertlosen alten Schlüssel. Tim und seine Freunde Steffi und Olli sind natürlich neugierig, da sie erst einen Tag zuvor mit der Schulklasse das Museum besucht haben. Sie beschließen, der Sache auf den Grund zu gehen. Doch der Ferienbeginn macht ihnen einen Strich durch die Rechnung. Olli ist verzweifelt. Er muss Ferien bei seinem Onkel machen. Der wohnt tief in der Eifel, und Tim und Steffi beschließen, ihn zu besuchen. Ollis Onkel ist Wissenschaftler und lebt in einem katastrophalen Haushalt. Und dann tauchen plötzlich zwei Männer im schwarzen Anzug zum Kaffee auf, die die Kinder erst kürzlich gesehen haben - und zwar ausgerechnet bei ihrem Besuch im Museum!
Ralf Kramp, geb. 1963, lebt in der Vulkaneifel. Er ist mehrfacher Preisträger und hat eine Reihe von Kriminalromanen und Kurzkrimis verfasst, bevor er mit 'Wenn Goldfinger rauskommt' seinen ersten Kinderkrimi schrieb. Jetzt folgt die Fortsetzung der spannenden Abenteuer um die jugendliche Ermittlertruppe aus der Eifel, 'Das schwarze Kleeblatt'.
Auf geht's in drei, fünf oder acht Minuten lange Abenteuer - je nach verfügbarer Zeit und Ausdauer der kleinen Hörer. Und diese Geschichten stecken voller Überraschungen: Majas Bild von einer hellblau funkelnden Fee erwacht zum Leben. Aus Omas Wunderlampe regnet es Brausestäbchen. Und Ritter Rufo fängt mit ein paar Eiern einen Drachen ...
Drei, fünf oder acht Minuten: Wie lange soll die Gutenachtgeschichte heute dauern? Mit den abwechslungsreichen Erzählungen rund um die Zahnfee, Nachtwanderungen, Kuscheltiere, Prinzessinnen und Zauberbetten gleiten Kinder sanft in die Welt der Träume. Ein Hörbuch mit Einschlaf-Garantie!
Ein Buch zum Vorlesen, für das immer Zeit ist! In Maren von Klitzing Vorlesebuch gibt es Geschichten, die drei, fünf oder acht Minuten lang sind. Die Geschichten erzählen von Tagen am Meer, von Gespenstern, von Abenteuern und Prinzessinnen. Für jeden Geschmack ist eine Geschichte dabei und Groß und Klein werden durch Humor und Witz kaum aufhören können zu lachen. -
Hier findet sich für jedes Einschlafritual die richtige Geschichte. Wie die von Nele, der es ganz schön schwer fällt, sich zu entscheiden, welches Kuscheltier sie am liebsten mag. Oder von Julia, die eine neue Matratze bekommt, die Geschichten erzählt. Und von der Mondfee, die jedem Kind einen Traum zum kuscheligen Einschlafen bringt.
