Their friendship ruined by a vicious rumor twenty years earlier, Allie and Olivia prepare for a high school reunion while acknowledging disparities between their youth reputations and adult realities, circumstances that cause them to wonder if they can put aside past demons by embracing shared memories. By the best-selling author of Secrets of a Shoe Addict. 150,000 first printing.
Tells story of Irena Sendler who organized the rescue of 2,500 Jewish children during World War II, and the teenagers who started the investigation into Irena's heroism.
Twelve-year-old Anna Krawitz is imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto with her older sister, Lina, and their father.
Michelle is not who her new Amish family believes her to be, but how can she tell the truth without hurting the ones she has come to love?
Here's a marvelous picture book, charmingly written and beautifully illustrated, about the power of memory and the magic of friendship.
Suggestions for collecting and keeping as pets such small animals as snails, toads, worms, ants, butterflies, and starfish.
Maurice has just killed a dragon with a bread knife.
"Tells Irena Sendler's story of saving 2,500 children during the Holocaust"--
He glimpses only the sterile and lonely world inside the tower that is his prison. He is only a brain in a jar, a test subject that the scientist Nikaya is assigned to watch over.
Yet perhaps the most fascinating aspect of this book is the sudden resurgence of making moonshine in the Southern mountains today.
Occasionally, out of the turmoil emerges a work of exceptional wisdom and beauty. Gifts from the Broken Jar is one such work. Psychotherapist PJ Long's life-altering moment came when the bolt of a terrified horse left her brain-injured.