First-grader Tomie dePaola experiences uncertainty in the weeks following the attack on pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. What are the grown-ups talking quietly about at home and even at school? Why does his class have to go to the spooky furnace room for an air raid drill? Why does the family hang thick black curtains over the windows? Tomie's mother is there to comfort and explain the confusion, and Tomie feels better... but he's still scared.
In a heartwarming first-person account, dePaola retells his experiences at home and in school when he was a boy. 26 Fairmount Avenue is full of humor, drama, suspense and just the day to day ups and downs of a little boy's life.
In this delightful sequel, award-winning author-illustrator dePaola shares engaging childhood memories about siblings, school, and life as a five-year-old.
In a heartwarming first-person account, dePaola retells his experiences at home and in school when he was a boy. 26 Fairmount Avenue is full of humor, drama, suspense and just the day to day ups and downs of a little boy's life.
Most people decide whether a second date is on the cards in under an hour. Feeling the pressure?
Dates are stressful, and a lot rides on that first conversation.
When your palms are sweating and you’re already hooked on your date’s eyes, how do you make sure they’re getting hooked on you?
The answer’s simple: you ask questions. Not just any questions though--they have to be the right questions.
Sound stressful? Not if you have the proper guidance.
How many times have you kicked yourself for the nonsense you heard falling out of your mouth on a first date?
How many second dates have you lost because the conversation became stagnant before it ever got going?
The first date is your earliest opportunity to get to know someone intimately. It’s your chance to find out if you’re compatible, if you have the same passions, and if the same things make you tick.
For this to happen though, you need a killer question to spark hours of conversation.
This is your golden key to securing a second date.
In 250 Questions for Dates: Never Ask About the Weather Again!, you’ll be given an arsenal of material to get the conversation flowing. You’ll find:
250 killer questions so that you never find yourself stuck for words again
A toolbox of deep questions that will surely deepen your date’s interest in you
Foolproof ways to learn about the very essence of your date, even when your mind is chaos
The questions certain to raise any red flags you need to know about now, before it’s too late
The #1 way to get answers to the things no modest person will ever brag about
How to pick the perfect restaurant for the second date without even asking them
A guaranteed way to get a meaningful conversation flowing that is far bigger than 1 simple question seems
And much more.
We can all remember a time we were stuck for words when all we really wanted was to truly get to know someone.
Once you’ve been there, you’ll know it’s not somewhere you want to be again.
When you come from Nowhere, can you ever really make it anywhere? Author Dusti Bowling (Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus) returns to the desert to create a gripping story about friendship, hope, and finding the power we all have within ourselves.
Welcome to Nowhere, Arizona, the least livable town in the United States. For Gus, a bright thirteen-year-old with dreams of getting out and going to college, life there is made even worse by Bo Taylor, Nowhere's biggest, baddest bully. When Bo tries to force Gus to eat a dangerously spiny cactus, Rossi Scott, one of the best racers in Nowhere, comes to his rescue-but in return she has to give Bo her prized dirt bike. Determined to buy it back, Gus agrees to go searching for gold in Dead Frenchman Mine, joined by his old friends Jessie Navarro and Matthew Dufort, and Rossi herself. As they hunt for treasure, narrowly surviving everything from cave-ins to mountain lions, they bond over shared stories of how hard life in Nowhere is-and they realize this adventure just may be their way out.
Zapped into the twenty-first century by The Book, Fred, Sam, and Joe discover that the future is worth waiting for. 3-D ads attack them on the street, and ray gun-toting robots demand their ID numbers, or else. And a meeting with their great-grandkids could knock out the old family tree at the roots! Will the trio's future mix-up wipe out their past?
How Do You Get The Man?
20 Dating Advice for Women is here to Help You The first thing you need to do-get it out of your head that all men want is sex. There are times you want to enjoy a man without strings, but for the most part, you want the deeper relationship. Men want to find love too. There are certain things they need that you are going to learn about in the pages of this book:
-The secrets to a man's heart are not food.
· It is not giving them all the romantic entanglements they desire.
Men want meaning.
Men do not want their heart broken.
They wish to find love, whether it is a permanent fixture or a fleeting feeling.
Dating is not a game!
Here are Strategies Involve in Successful Dating.The advice you are about to learn will help you read men easier and give you a way to go beyond one or two dates with a man you could fall in love with. There are certain things you should not do:
Do not complain.
Do not use negative language. Do not test the man.
You need, to be honest, forthright, and blatant-versus using subtle concepts to try to get your man.
In June of 2002, a mere nine months since the September 11 attacks, a very unusual ceremony begins in a far-flung village in western Kenya. An American diplomat is surrounded by hundreds of Maasai people. A gift is about to be bestowed upon the American men, women, and children, and he is there to accept it. The gift is as unexpected as it is extraordinary. Hearts are raw as these legendary Maasai warriors offer their gift to a grieving people half a world away. Word of the gift will travel newswires around the globe, and for the heartsick American nation, the gift of fourteen cows emerges from the choking dust and darkness as a soft light of hope?and friendship. Based on the New York Times bestseller, this audiobook recounts the true story from Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah of the touching gift bestowed on the United States by a tribe of Maasai Warriors in the wake of the September 11 attacks. With stunning illustrations from Thomas Gonzalez, master storyteller Carmen Agra Deedy (in collaboration with Naiyomah) hits all the right notes in this elegant story of generosity that crosses boundaries, nations, and cultures.
When Ginny receives thirteen little blue envelopes and instructions to buy a plane ticket to London, she knows something exciting is going to happen. What Ginny doesn't know is that she will have the adventure of her life and it will change her in more ways than one. Life and love are waiting for her across the Atlantic, and the thirteen little blue envelopes are the key to finding them in this funny, romantic, heartbreaking novel.
When Alyssa must spend the summer with her aunt, uncle, and bratty cousin Emily in Willow Falls she thinks it's a good time to start over. She'll be turning 13 after all. What Alyssa doesn't know is that this charmed town has something big in store for her on her 13th birthday.
A smart and funny modern day 13 Going on 30 from New York Times bestselling author Jen Calonita! A tween girl finds out it is like to be 22 when she jumps in time with the help of a mysterious TikTok filter.
Turning 12 1/2 shouldn't be the most exciting birthday in the world. It's a half birthday after all. But Harper is thrilled because she is getting the biggest gift of all: her parent's approval to finally get social media accounts.
Except when she goes to post her first photo, there is a filter she has never heard of before. One that shows you what you will look like when you are older. Curious, Harper clicks on it...but ends up flash forwarding in time to when she is 22.
She will quickly find that being in her twenties means the freedom she always wanted, money for the glow up she didn't know she needed and working for her idol! But Harper soon discovers a lot more has changed than she expected-including the person she wants to be. Will Harper be able to use the filter to get the life of her dreams? Or will there be more glitches?
