Square fish jan 2022 (4 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Jake Burt's Cleo Porter and the Body Electric is a futuristic middle-grade novel about a girl who lives in a hermetically sealed housing development.In a future forever changed by a pandemic, a girl survives in total isolation. A woman is dying. Cleo Porter has her medicine. And no way to deliver it.Like everyone else, twelve-year-old Cleo and her parents are sealed in an apartment without windows or doors. They never leave. They never get visitors. Their food is dropped off by drones. So they're safe. Safe from the disease that nearly wiped humans from the earth. Safe from everything. The trade-off They're alone. Thus, when they receive a package clearly meant for someone else--a package containing a substance critical for a stranger's survival--Cleo is stuck. As a surgeon-in-training, she knows the clock is ticking. But people don't leave their units.Not ever. Until now.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A William C. Morris Award Finalist 'Brown has written a guidebook of survival and wonder.'-The New York Times 'Just brilliant.'-Kirkus ReviewsHeavily autobiographical and infused with magical realism, Black Girl Unlimited fearlessly explores the intersections of poverty, sexual violence, depression, racism, and sexism-all through the arc of a transcendent coming-of-age story for fans of Renee Watson's Piecing Me Together and Ibi Zoboi's American Street.Echo Brown is a wizard from the East Side, where apartments are small and parents suffer addictions to the white rocks. Yet there is magic . . . everywhere. New portals begin to open when Echo transfers to the rich school on the West Side, and an insightful teacher becomes a pivotal mentor.Each day, Echo travels between two worlds, leaving her brothers, her friends, and a piece of herself behind on the East Side. There are dangers to leaving behind the place that made you. Echo soon realizes there is pain flowing through everyone around her, and a black veil of depression threatens to undo everything she's worked for.Christy Ottaviano Books.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A powerful middle-grade novel from Barbara O'Connor, New York Times-bestselling author of Wish, about a boy who is about to go on the biggest adventure of his life. Perfect for fans of Katherine Applegate and Kate DiCamillo.Walter Tipple is looking for adventure. He keeps having a dream that his big brother, Tank, appears before him and says, 'Let's you and me go see my world, little man.' But Tank went to the army and never came home, and Walter doesn't know how to see the world without him.Then he meets Posey, the brash new girl from next door, and an eccentric man named Banjo, who's off on a bodacious adventure of his own. What follows is a summer of taking chances, becoming braver, and making friends-and maybe Walter can learn who he wants to be without the brother he always wanted to be like.Halfway to Harmony is an utterly charming story about change, friendship, and growing up.Don't miss Barbara O'Connor's other heartwarming middle-grade titles:WishWonderlandHow to Steal a Dog Greetings from NowhereBeethoven in ParadiseFame and Glory in Freedom, Georgia The Fantastic Secret of Owen JesterThe Small Adventure of Popeye and ElvisOn the Road to Mr. Mineo'sDream. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - P. G. Bell's Delivery to the Lost City is the thrilling conclusion of the Train to Impossible Places trilogy, a magical middle-grade adventure.When the Impossible Postal Express is charged with returning an overdue library book, Suzy Smith looks forward to a nice, simple delivery-just the thing she needs to convince her anxious parents to let her keep her job on the train.So she's less than thrilled to discover that not only is the book alive, it's full of a growing and dangerous magic. Worse still, the world to which it belongs is missing, and Suzy and her friends will have to use all their ingenuity to find it.Suzy must help a fledgling rebellion seize power, return the book to its rightful owner, and get home before her parents ground her for life.The conclusion to the Train to Impossible Places trilogy promises to be the most adventurous yet.…