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Littsie And The Underground Railroad
by Schott ElizabethLittsie O'Donnell, orphaned by the cholera epidemic of 1832, tells the story of struggling to raise her little sister and of her involvement in the Underground Railroad. Her friendship with a former slave is deepened as they both discover the meaning of freedom. The story brings to life abolitionists such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, James Birney and Theodore Weld. Aided in their adventures by a former cicrcus horse, Dan, they grow up learning that freedom does not come easily; it requires courage and commitment.
The Little Yellow Leaf
by Carin BergerA yellow leaf is not ready to fall from the tree when autumn comes, but finally, after finding another leaf still on the tree, the two let go together.
Little Wrecks
by Meredith MillerGOT A MATCH?Ruth, Magda, and Isabel are on the precipice of something. They might finally escape their small town of Highbone, Long Island. They might finally be seen for who they really are—not just young, pretty things up for the taking. Or they might just set Highbone and all its lying, numb residents on fire.Each girl reaches a breaking point—one last unwelcome touch, one last blind eye turned, one last lie told. It sparks a fire within each of them. But what incites a fury of violence and vengeance might also tear these three friends apart.These girls can’t save each other. They might not even be able to save themselves.In this haunting and explosive debut, Meredith Miller explores the truth behind three girls on the cusp of adulthood, and all the shocking realizations that come under the guise of growing up.
Little World Apart
by S. Omar BarkerThe Kaiser's march on Belgium seemed far away. For here, high in the rugged mountains of New Mexico, wonder was all about them and the world was for the taking, which they did with great zest. Deer hunting, camping, riding--the Bohannon boys went everywhere together. This is a poignant novel of two brothers in the most sublime days of their youth, a novel that shines with affection, spirit, and compassion. Separated by conflicting temperaments and two years of age, Jeff and Chad share an intense and unusual bond of loyalty and love as they grow up on their father's small cattle ranch. Theirs is a hard way of life, filled with rugged duties, dangers, and devotion to their strict parents. Yet it is a life of happiness. Together Jeff and Chad had learned how to rope cattle and shoot deer. The younger Jeff never forgot the time he had to rescue Chad from the mountains, or the time the two of them went out after the great white buck Chad knew he'd seen. But suddenly the war comes very close and Jeff now realizes that Chad will one day go beyond their hill, into the wide world so different from their little one. Vaguely the two brothers sense that they will never again share experiences such as these, as they reach, first eagerly, then reluctantly towards manhood--and the end of their little world apart. Written by one of the most distinguished authors of the American Southwest, Little World Apart is a book filled with the enthusiasm of youth, the glow of the great outdoors, and the spirit of the bold people who made the Southwest what it is today.
Little Women (Great Illustrated Classics)
by Louisa May Alcott Lucia MonfriedThis adapted book chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies.
Little Women at 150 (Children's Literature Association Series)
by Daniel ShealyContributions by Beverly Lyon Clark, Christine Doyle, Gregory Eiselein, John Matteson, Joel Myerson, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, Anne K. Phillips, Daniel Shealy, and Roberta Seelinger Trites As the golden age of children’s literature dawned in America in the mid-1860s, Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, a work that many scholars view as one of the first realistic novels for young people, soon became a classic. Never out of print, Alcott’s tale of four sisters growing up in nineteenth-century New England has been published in more than fifty countries around the world. Over the century and a half since its publication, the novel has grown into a cherished book for girls and boys alike. Readers as diverse as Carson McCullers, Gloria Steinem, Theodore Roosevelt, Patti Smith, and J. K. Rowling have declared it a favorite. Little Women at 150, a collection of eight original essays by scholars whose research and writings over the past twenty years have helped elevate Alcott’s reputation in the academic community, examines anew the enduring popularity of the novel and explores the myriad complexities of Alcott’s most famous work. Examining key issues about philanthropy, class, feminism, Marxism, Transcendentalism, canon formation, domestic labor, marriage, and Australian literature, Little Women at 150 presents new perspectives on one of the United States’ most enduring novels. A historical and critical introduction discusses the creation and publication of the novel, briefly traces the scholarly critical response, and demonstrates how these new essays show us that Little Women and its illustrations still have riches to reveal to its readers in the twenty-first century.
Little Women: Or, Meg, Jo, Beth And Amy (Little Women)
by Louisa May AlcottThe iconic novel of American girlhood, and basis for the film adaptation by acclaimed writer-director, Greta Gerwig. Beautiful and proper Meg, headstrong Jo, gentle Beth, pampered little Amy—generations of young women have recognized themselves in one or more of the devoted March sisters. Set against the backdrop of the Civil War and the changing seasons of New England, the story of their passage from adolescence to adulthood—from a Christmas without presents to a glorious fall day in a bountiful apple orchard, from castles in the air to real-life hearths and homes—is just as touching and illuminating today as it was a century and a half ago. Based on author Louisa May Alcott&’s own childhood and early career as a writer, Little Women is her masterpiece and one of the most popular novels of all time.
Little Women
by Louisa May AlcottDiscover this beautiful and charming classic book behind the new major film. 'Rich or poor, we will keep together and be happy in one another'Christmas won't be the same this year for Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, as their father is away fighting in the Civil War, and the family has fallen on hard times. But although they may be poor, life for the four March sisters is rich with colour, as they play games, put on wild theatricals, make new friends, argue, grapple with their vices, learn from their mistakes, nurse each other through sickness and disappointments, and get into all sorts of trouble.BACKSTORY: Learn all about the author's life and how it inspired her famous story, and find out which of the March sisters you most resemble!
Little Women: A Kaplan Vocabulary-building Classic For Young Readers (Kaplan Children's Series)
by Louisa May Alcott Kaplan Publishing Staff Kaplan<P><P>Little Women: A Kaplan Vocabulary Building Classic for Young Readers features: <P>*400 vocabulary words to help students aged 9-12 improve their vocabulary while reading classic literature <P>*Glossary of important vocabulary words on the pages facing the text of the story <P>*1 page of discussion questions <P>*1 page of strategies for students to use to learn the meanings of difficult vocabulary words <P>*1 page of tips for writing a book report
Little White Lies (Debutantes #1)
by Jennifer Lynn BarnesScandal, scheming, and secrets abound in #1 bestselling author Jennifer Lynn Barnes&’s Little White Lies, packed with &“page-turning tension, witty humor&” (Jennifer L. Armentrout), and &“characters as devious as they are southern-belle glamorous (E. Lockhart)."I'm not saying this is Sawyer's fault," the prim and proper one said delicately. "But." Eighteen-year-old auto mechanic Sawyer Taft did not expect her estranged grandmother to show up at her apartment door and offer her a six-figure contract to participate in debutante season. And she definitely never imagined she would accept. But when she realizes that immersing herself in her grandmother's "society" might mean discovering the answer to the biggest mystery of her life—her father's identity—she signs on the dotted line and braces herself for a year of makeovers, big dresses, bigger egos, and a whole lot of bless your heart. The one thing she doesn't expect to find is friendship, but as she's drawn into a group of debutantes with scandalous, dangerous secrets of their own, Sawyer quickly discovers that her family is not the only mainstay of high society with skeletons in their closet. There are people in her grandmother's glittering world who are not what they appear, and no one wants Sawyer poking her nose into the past. As she navigates the twisted relationships between her new friends and their powerful parents, Sawyer's search for the truth about her own origins is just the beginning.
Little Universes
by Heather DemetriosHeather Demetrios's Little Universes is a book about the powerful bond between sisters, the kinds of love that never die, and the journey we all must make through the baffling cruelty and unexpected beauty of human life in an incomprehensible universe.One wave: that’s all it takes for the rest of Mae and Hannah Winters’ lives to change.When a tsunami strikes the island where their parents are vacationing, it soon becomes clear that their mom and dad are never coming home. Forced to move to Boston from sunny California for the rest of their senior year, each girl struggles with secrets their parents’ death has brought to light, and with their uncertainty about the future. Instead of bringing them closer, it feels like the wave has torn the sisters apart.Hannah is a secret poet who wants to be seen, but only knows how to hide. The pain pills she stole from her dead father hurl her onto the shores of an addiction she can’t shake and a dealer who turns her heart upside down. When it’s clear Hannah’s drowning, Mae, a budding astronaut suddenly launched into an existential crisis—and unexpected love—must choose between herself and the only family she has left.
Little Thieves (Little Thieves #1)
by Margaret OwenKids' Indie Next pick for November/December!Amazon Best Book of October 2021!A scrappy maid must outsmart both palace nobles and Low Gods in a new YA fantasy by Margaret Owen, author of the Merciful Crow series.Once upon a time, there was a horrible girl...Vanja Schmidt knows that no gift is freely given, not even a mother’s love—and she’s on the hook for one hell of a debt. Vanja, the adopted goddaughter of Death and Fortune, was Princess Gisele's dutiful servant up until a year ago. That was when Vanja’s otherworldly mothers demanded a terrible price for their care, and Vanja decided to steal her future back… by stealing Gisele’s life for herself.The real Gisele is left a penniless nobody while Vanja uses an enchanted string of pearls to take her place. Now, Vanja leads a lonely but lucrative double life as princess and jewel thief, charming nobility while emptying their coffers to fund her great escape. Then, one heist away from freedom, Vanja crosses the wrong god and is cursed to an untimely end: turning into jewels, stone by stone, for her greed.Vanja has just two weeks to figure out how to break her curse and make her getaway. And with a feral guardian half-god, Gisele’s sinister fiancé, and an overeager junior detective on Vanja’s tail, she’ll have to pull the biggest grift yet to save her own life.Margaret Owen, author of The Merciful Crow series, crafts a delightfully irreverent retelling of “The Goose Girl” about stolen lives, thorny truths, and the wicked girls at the heart of both.
Little Rock Girl 1957: How A Photograph Changed The Fight For Integration
by Shelley TougasNine African American students made history when they defied a governor and integrated an Arkansas high school in 1957. It was the photo of a young girl trying to enter the school being taunted, harassed and threatened by an angry mob that grabbed the world's attention and kept its disapproving gaze on Little Rock, Arkansas. In defiance of a federal court order, Governor Orval Faubus called in the National Guard to prevent the students from entering all white Central High School. The plan had been for the students to meet and go to school as a group on September 4, 1957. But one student didn't hear of the plan and tried to enter the school alone. A chilling photo by newspaper photographer Will Counts captured the sneering expression of a girl in the mob and made history. Years later Counts snapped another photo, this one of the same two girls, now grownup, reconciling in front of Central High School.
Little Red Readings: Historical Materialist Perspectives on Children’s Literature (Children's Literature Association Series)
by Angela E. HublerA significant body of scholarship examines the production of children's literature by women and minorities, as well as the representation of gender, race, and sexuality. But few scholars have previously analyzed class in children's literature. This definitive collection remedies that by defining and exemplifying historical materialist approaches to children's literature. The introduction of Little Red Readings lucidly discusses characteristics of historical materialism, the methodological approach to the study of literature and culture first outlined by Karl Marx, defining key concepts and analyzing factors that have marginalized this tradition, particularly in the United States. The thirteen essays here analyze a wide range of texts—from children's bibles to Mary Poppins to The Hunger Games—using concepts in historical materialism from class struggle to the commodity. Essayists apply the work of Marxist theorists such as Ernst Bloch and Fredric Jameson to children's literature and film. Others examine the work of leftist writers in India, Germany, England, and the United States. The authors argue that historical materialist methodology is critical to the study of children's literature, as children often suffer most from inequality. Some of the critics in this collection reveal the ways that literature for children often functions to naturalize capitalist economic and social relations. Other critics champion literature that reveals to readers the construction of social reality and point to texts that enable an understanding of the role ordinary people might play in creating a more just future. The collection adds substantially to our understanding of the political and class character of children's literature worldwide and contributes to the development of a radical history of children's literature.
The Little Prince (The Little Prince)
by Richard Howard Antoine de Saint-Exupéry<P>Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as <i>The Little Prince</i>. <p>Richard Howard's translation of the beloved classic beautifully reflects Saint-Exupéry's unique and gifted style. Howard, an acclaimed poet and one of the preeminent translators of our time, has excelled in bringing the English text as close as possible to the French, in language, style, and most important, spirit. The artwork in this edition has been restored to match in detail and in color Saint-Exupéry's original artwork. Combining Richard Howard's translation with restored original art, this definitive English-language edition of The Little Prince will capture the hearts of readers of all ages. <P>This title has been selected as a Common Core Text Exemplar (Grades 4-5, Stories).</p>
The Little Preacher
by Elizabeth PrentissBig Grandmother is outraged when her son falls in love with a woman poorer than he. If that isn't horrible enough, the mother-in-law (the little grandmother) will live with them in their tiny house. While Big Grandmother blusters and acquires things, her son's family struggles, and the little grandmother prays and nurture her oldest grandchild, who seems to be dull and clumsy. This is a heartwarming and believable story, written in 1880 by the author of the hymn "More Love to Thee, O Christ."
Little Pills
by Melody DoddsSeventeen-year-old Charlotte Navarro never asked to be anyone's hero. If you're a hero, your sister isn't supposed to hate you. And you're definitely not supposed to get hooked on Gramma's painkillers. Even so, Charlotte's sister's friend Mia looks at her like she's some sort of hero. <p><p> As Charlotte starts taking pills more and more, she has to question how it could hurt herself and others, even Mia. Is it a harmless habit or a dangerous addiction?
Little Mule
by John BurressThe hope that this is another Little Britches dies a-borning -- but those who like quiet, homespun novels, may find this sincere, unpretentious, pleasant reading of a boy and his family in rural Missouri in 1916-1918 The father, a Baptist minister, has died, and the mother is determined to hold her little brood of five together without taking Charity. Little Mule, the youngest, has at four earned his nickname by answering anything that displeases him with a kick. It takes two years-span of the story to turn him from a stealing, high-tempered baby into a not-quite credible paragon ready to take on the job of cotton field plowing to help earn the family's way. Despite a cyclone, a tear-jerking Christmas, a serious accident to the eldest son, and the mother's being done out of her husband's life insurance, this book is filled with humor and thoughtfulness.
Little Monsters
by Kara ThomasFor fans of Pretty Little Liars, comes a psychological thriller, from the author of The Cheerleaders, about about how when you're the new girl in town, you can't trust anyone, especially other teenage girls.Kacey is the new girl in Broken Falls. When she moved in with her father, she stepped into a brand-new life. A life with a stepbrother, a stepmother, and strangest of all, an adoring younger half sister.Kacey's new life is eerily charming compared with the wild highs and lows of the old one she lived with her volatile mother. And everyone is so nice in Broken Falls--she's even been welcomed into a tight new circle of friends.Which is why it's so odd when her closest friends, Bailey and Jade, start acting distant. And when they don't invite her to the biggest party of the year, it doesn't exactly feel like an accident.But Kacey will never be able to ask, because Bailey never makes it home from that party. Suddenly, Broken Falls doesn't seem so welcoming after all--especially once everyone starts looking to the new girl for answers.
The Little Midrash Says, Volume 5: The Book of Devarim
by R. WeissmanDevarim: In this Book, Moshe instructs Bnai Yisrael: Believe that Hashem is the one and only God! Fear Him! Love Him! Listen to His prophets! Don't listen to false prophets! Do not lose faith, even if Hashem brings suffering on you!
The Little Midrash Says, Volume 4: The Book of Bamidbar
by R. WeissmanThe word "Bamidbar" means "in the desert." This is a suitable title for the fourth Book of the Torah that tells us what happened to Bnai Yisrael in the desert.
The Little Midrash Says, Volume 3: The Book of Vayikra
by R. WeissmanThe Book of Vayikra is different from the first two Books of the Torah, Beraishis and Sh'mos. It mostly discusses laws about the Mishkan and Bais Hamikdash. Therefore, do you think that it is not important to learn this Book of the Torah? The contrary is true; it is most important for all of you to know it.
The Little Midrash Says, Volume 2: The Book of Sh'mos
by R. WeissmanSh'mos--the second of the five Books of the Torah--continues the story begun in the Book of Beraishis. You will not find all the answers to the parsiia-quizzes in the text of "The little Midrash Says." To answer some questions you must know the pesukim (verses) of the parsha. If you are not able to study the pesukim by yourself, perhaps you can ask an older brother or sister or a parent to find the right passuk and help you.
The Little Midrash Says, Volume 1: The Book of Beraishis
by R. WeissmanBy reading "The Little Midrash Says" you will find out how wonderful it is to learn Torah. The Book of Beraishis begins by telling us about the creation of the world by Hashem. Then it mainly deals with Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov, and their wives and children. The Torah tells us so much about them, because they were the founders of our people, the Jewish people. They were wonderful tzaddikim (righteous people), who served Hashem every day, every hour, and every minute of their lives.