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Author | : Gary D. Schmidt |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2011-04-05 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0547534175 |
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2011 National Book Award Finalist As a fourteen-year-old who just moved to a new town, with no friends and a louse for an older brother, Doug Swieteck has all the stats stacked against him. So begins a coming-of-age masterwork full of equal parts comedy and tragedy from Newbery Honor winner Gary D. Schmidt. As Doug struggles to be more than the “skinny thug” that his teachers and the police think him to be, he finds an unlikely ally in Lil Spicer—a fiery young lady who “smelled like daisies would smell if they were growing in a big field under a clearing sky after a rain.” In Lil, Doug finds the strength to endure an abusive father, the suspicions of a whole town, and the return of his oldest brother, forever scarred, from Vietnam. Together, they find a safe haven in the local library, inspiration in learning about the plates of John James Audubon’s birds, and a hilarious adventure on a Broadway stage. In this stunning novel, Schmidt expertly weaves multiple themes of loss and recovery in a story teeming with distinctive, unusual characters and invaluable lessons about love, creativity, and survival.
Author | : Gary D. Schmidt |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0618724834 |
Download The Wednesday Wars Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns muchof value about the world he lives in.
Author | : Gary D. Schmidt |
Publisher | : Clarion Books |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2021-01-05 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0544084772 |
Download Just Like That Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this poignant, perceptive, witty novel, Gary D. Schmidt brings authenticity and emotion to multiple plot strands, weaving in themes of grief, loss, redemption, achievement, and love. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students from wealthy backgrounds. In a parallel story, Matt Coffin has wound up on the Maine coast near St. Elene's with a pillowcase full of money lifted from the leader of a criminal gang, fearing the gang's relentless, destructive pursuit. Both young people gradually dispel their loneliness, finding a way to be hopeful and also finding each other.
Author | : Gary D. Schmidt |
Publisher | : Yearling |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Clergy |
ISBN | : 0553494953 |
Download Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Turner Buckminster is purely miserable. Not only is he the son of the new minister in a small Maine town, but he is shunned for playing baseball differently from the local boys.
Author | : Gary D. Schmidt |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2010-04-12 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0547487738 |
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“Henry Smith’s father told him that if you build your house far enough away from Trouble, then Trouble will never find you.” But Trouble comes careening down the road one night in the form of a pickup truck that strikes Henry’s older brother, Franklin. In the truck is Chay Chouan, a young Cambodian from Franklin’s preparatory school, and the accident sparks racial tensions in the school—and in the well-established town where Henry’s family has lived for generations. Caught between anger and grief, Henry sets out to do the only thing he can think of: climb Mt. Katahdin, the highest mountain in Maine, which he and Franklin were going to climb together. Along with Black Dog, whom Henry has rescued from drowning, and a friend, Henry leaves without his parents’ knowledge. The journey, both exhilarating and dangerous, turns into an odyssey of discovery about himself, his older sister, Louisa, his ancestry, and why one can never escape from Trouble.
Author | : Gary D. Schmidt |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2019-02-05 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1328526917 |
Download Pay Attention, Carter Jones Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Carter Jones is astonished early one morning when he finds a real English butler, bowler hat and all, on the doorstep—one who stays to help the Jones family, which is a little bit broken. In addition to figuring out middle school, Carter has to adjust to the unwelcome presence of this new know-it-all adult in his life and navigate the butler's notions of decorum. And ultimately, when his burden of grief and anger from the past can no longer be ignored, Carter learns that a burden becomes lighter when it is shared. Sparkling with humor, this insightful and compassionate story will resonate with readers who have confronted secrets of their own.
Author | : Gary D. Schmidt |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 054446222X |
Download Orbiting Jupiter Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The two-time Newbery Honor winner Gary D. Schmidt delivers the shattering story of Joseph, a father at thirteen, who has never seen his daughter, Jupiter. After spending time in a juvenile facility, he's placed with a foster family on a farm in rural Maine. Here Joseph, damaged and withdrawn, meets twelve-year-old Jack, who narrates the account of the troubled, passionate teen who wants to find his baby at any cost. In this riveting novel, two boys discover the true meaning of family and the sacrifices it requires.
Author | : Jack Gantos |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2011-09-13 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 142996250X |
Download Dead End in Norvelt Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Dead End in Norvelt is the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the year's best contribution to children's literature and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction! Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid named Jack Gantos, whose plans for vacation excitement are shot down when he is "grounded for life" by his feuding parents, and whose nose spews bad blood at every little shock he gets. But plenty of excitement (and shocks) are coming Jack's way once his mom loans him out to help a fiesty old neighbor with a most unusual chore—typewriting obituaries filled with stories about the people who founded his utopian town. As one obituary leads to another, Jack is launced on a strange adventure involving molten wax, Eleanor Roosevelt, twisted promises, a homemade airplane, Girl Scout cookies, a man on a trike, a dancing plague, voices from the past, Hells Angels . . . and possibly murder. Endlessly surprising, this sly, sharp-edged narrative is the author at his very best, making readers laugh out loud at the most unexpected things in a dead-funny depiction of growing up in a slightly off-kilter place where the past is present, the present is confusing, and the future is completely up in the air.
Author | : Gary D. Schmidt |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0547612133 |
Download What Came from the Stars Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In a desperate attempt for survival, a peaceful civilization on a faraway planet besieged by a dark lord sends its most precious gift across the cosmos into the lunchbox of Tommy Pepper, sixth grader, of Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Author | : Matt Haig |
Publisher | : Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021-01-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781432883614 |
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