Ann E Burg
Author
Language
English
Description
The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master and his hateful wife, the more she questions things until one day her thoughts escape--and to avoid being separated she and her family flee into the Dismal Swamp, to join the other escaped slaves who live there.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
278 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Through the eyes of her family and friends we see the young Rachel as she explores nature and overcomes obstacles to write about harmful chemical practices and launch the global environmental movement. Written in blank verse.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Two years after being airlifted out of Vietnam in 1975, Matt Pin is haunted by the terrible secret he left behind and, now, in a loving adoptive home in the United States, a series of profound events forces him to confront his past.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a poor village outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Serafina works hard to help her family, but dreams of going to school and becoming a doctor--then the earthquake hits and Serafina must summon all her courage to find her father and still get medicine for her sick baby brother as she promised.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
An award-winning debut novel from a stellar new voice in middle grade fiction.Matt Pin would like to forget: war torn Vietnam, bombs that fell like dead crows, and the terrible secret he left behind. But now that he is living with a caring adoptive family in the United States, he finds himself forced to confront his past. And that means choosing between silence and candor, blame and forgiveness, fear and freedom.By turns harrowing, dreamlike, sad,...
