Transport yourself in this funny, luminous, utterly moving novel about a space-obsessed boy, his dog Carl Sagan, and a journey toward family, love, hope, and awe.
Everyone assumes that Gus, whose family is from the Dominican Republic, is a baseball guy. But this year Gus is even more excited about basketball than any other sport he's ever played. He's been practicing some new moves and lately he's more surprised when he misses his shot than when he scores. Plus now that he's convinced his friend Teddy to try out for the team and Jack's shoulder is healed, it looks like Walton's home team will be unstoppable.
The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.
a searing memoir of the battle to integrate Little Rock's Central High
Beals, Melba
2011
Beals chronicles her harrowing junior year at Central High where she underwent the segregationists' brutal organized campaign of terrorism which included telephone threats, vigilante stalkers, economic blackmailers, rogue police, and much more.
Presents stories and poems by Edgar Allan Poe, including "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "Masque of the Red Death," and "The Raven;" and includes biographical information about the author.
Collects short late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century works by American writers Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, Mark Twain, Jack London, and O. Henry.
Here are the top 100 poems--the poems in English most frequently anthologized, and most cherished. Historical background provides valuable insights into the artists and their work.
In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth H?bener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people.
The author shares the story of his family's love for their yellow Labrador retriever, Marley, and recalls how the dog grew from a mischievous puppy into a nearly impossible adult that no amount of obedience school training could correct.
After learning that books are a vital part of a culture he never knew, a book-burning official in a future fascist state clandestinely pursues reading until he is betrayed.
