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1) Tamar
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
424 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In England in 1995, fifteen-year-old Tamar, grief-stricken by the puzzling death of her beloved grandfather, slowly begins to uncover the secrets of his life in the Dutch resistance during the last year of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, and the climactic events that forever cast a shadow on his life and that of his family.
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
A boy and his dog set sail in search of treasure, braving stormy seas, snowy mountains, and other challenging obstacles, before finally reaching the end of their quest: the treasure of Pirate Frank.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Lexile measure
820L
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1960s Norfolk, England, seventeen-year-old Clem Ackroyd lives with his mother and grandmother in a tiny cottage, but his life is transformed when he falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy farmer in this tale that flashes back through the stories of three generations.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Lexile measure
850L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When her mother becomes too ill to harvest tea on the nearby plantation, Shenaz is too small to fill in, but when she tells the monkeys she has befriended why she is sad, they bring her a basket filled with rare and valuable wild tea.
5) Exposure
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Physical Desc
430 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Paul Faustino, South America's best soccer journalist, reports on the series of events that hurl Otello from the heights of being a beloved and successful soccer star, happily married to the pop singer Desdemona, into a downward spiral, in this novel loosely based on Shakespeare's play, Othello.
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Essays by popular children's authors reveal the books that shaped their personal and literary lives, explaining how the stories they loved influenced them creatively, politically, and intellectually.