Nine-year-old Dennis, whose uncle and father died within a year of one another, is visited by the ghost of his uncle, and together they settle some unfinished business.
Sharon Creech Livres
29 juillet 1945
Cette auteure explore les complexités des dynamiques familiales et de l'enfance avec un sens aigu du détail et de l'humour. Son style se distingue par sa capacité à transformer des expériences personnelles en récits universels qui résonnent auprès des lecteurs de tous âges. À travers une narration captivante, elle aborde des thèmes sur le passage à l'âge adulte, la famille et la découverte de soi. Ses œuvres sont une célébration de l'expérience humaine, capturant les joies et les défis de la vie avec chaleur et empathie.
Walk Two Moons
- 280pages
- 10 heures de lecture
"How about a story? Spin us a yarn." Instantly, Phoebe Winterbottom came to mind. "I could tell you an extensively strange story," I warned. "Oh, good!" Gram said. "Delicious!" And that is how I happened to tell them about Phoebe, her disappearing mother, and the lunatic. As Sal entertains her grandparents with Phoebe's outrageous story, her own story begins to unfold--the story of a thirteen-year-old girl whose only wish is to be reunited with her missing mother. In her own award-winning style, Sharon Creech intricately weaves together two tales, one funny, one bittersweet, to create a heartwarming, compelling, and utterly moving story of love, loss, and the complexity of human emotion.
Hate That Cat
- 176pages
- 7 heures de lecture
Jack Room 204—Miss Stretchberry February 25 Today the fat black cat up in the tree by the bus stop dropped a nut on my head thunk and when I yelled at it that fat black cat said Murr-mee-urrr in a nasty spiteful way. I hate that cat. This is the story of Jack words sounds silence teacher and cat.
A magical, funny and whimsical story of an unlikely group of people evolving into a wonderful family.
A young student, who comes to love poetry through a personal understanding of what different famous poems mean to him, surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem.
Bloomability
- 224pages
- 8 heures de lecture
When her brother lands in jail and her sister gets pregnant, Dinnie's life changes overnight. Her aunt and uncle snatch her away to Switzerland where they run a boarding school. Her father calls it her opportunity, but she feels she's been kidnapped.
Saving Winslow
- 176pages
- 7 heures de lecture
A heartwarming tale of a boy saving the life of a baby donkey, and their adventures that ensue.
In a tiny village in the Swiss Alps, an angel meets an American girl named Zola who has come with her father to open a school, and together Zola and the angel rescue a group of homeless orphans, who gradually change everything.
To Zinny Taylor, life is like trying to untangle spaghetti—she needs to escape the chaos of her family. So when she finds a long-forgotten trail in the wild woods near her home, she resolves to follow it. It's a journey that leads her to unravel the dark secrets of her aunt's life—and her own. And while Zinny chases ghosts in the woods, gorgeous Jake Boone is determined to chase her...
Absolutely Normal Chaos
- 256pages
- 9 heures de lecture
Thirteen-year-old Mary Lou grows up considerably during the summer while learning about romance, homesickness, death, and her cousin's search for his biological father
