![]() ![]() ![]() Kind, thoughtful, and a skilled woodworker, Antain is an Elder-in-Training and is not privy to the truth about the Witch. ![]() Thirteen-year-old Antain is Gherland’s too-curious nephew. Gherland and the Elders know there is no such thing as an evil Witch in the wood: The yearly sacrifice, although unpleasant, is designed to keep the citizens sorrowful and submissive, and keep the Elders in power. Supported by the learned Sisters of the Star and their elite soldiers, Gherland maintains the power imbalance between the cowed, impoverished citizens and the powerful and wealthy Elders. Gherland is the head of the Council of Elders, the Protectorate’s ruling body. It is the Day of Sacrifice in the Protectorate, and Grand Elder Gherland prepares to preside over the annual baby offering. The Protectorate is a cloudy, foggy, gloomy town located between a fertile, life-giving bog and a forest filled with dangers thanks to a restless underground volcano. A parent explains to a curious child that on the yearly Day of Sacrifice, the people of the Protectorate are compelled to give an infant to the evil Witch or else she will destroy them all. ![]() While the majority of The Girl Who Drank the Moon is told in the third-person omniscient perspective, the narrative is interspersed with stories related by first-person narrators. ![]()
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![]() Is there such thing as meant to be? Or is it true when they say ![]() But nothing in life ever quiteĮmmie Blue is about to learn everything she thinks she knows about life (and love) is just that: what she thinks she Moment he’ll reveal his feelings for her. And when Lucas tellsĮmmie he has a big question to ask her, she’s convinced this is the She barely knows after being laid off from her job. ![]() Given up the search for her absentee father, no longer tries to buildīridges with her distant mother, and lives as a lodger to an old lady So dedicated to her love for Lucas,Įmmie has all but neglected her life outside of this relationship-she’s ![]() Has pinned all her hopes on him and waits patiently for him to finallyĪdmit that she’s the one for him. Weeks later, on a beach in France, Lucas Moreau discovered the balloonĪnd immediately emailed the attached addressed, sparking an intenseĮmmie is hiding the fact that she’s desperately in love with Lucas. Her email address…and a secret she desperately wanted to be free of. School and released a red balloon into the sky. The boy who finds it now, fourteen years later, the one thing Emmie hasīeen counting on is gone for good, and everything she planned is up inĪt sixteen, Emmie Blue stood in the fields of her Poignant novel, teenager Emmie Blue releases a balloon with her emailĪddress and a big secret into the sky, only to fall head-over-heels for Published: July 2020, Atria/Emily Bestler Books ![]() ![]() ![]() And now it’s up to her to save the world.Ĭharlie Thorne is not your average twelve-year-old. Charlie Thorne isn’t old enough to drive. The Charlie Thorne series-which #1 New York Times bestselling author Chris Grabenstein called “a real page-burner”-is now available in a hardcover boxed set!Ĭharlie Thorne is a genius. ![]() Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J.
![]() ![]() I didn’t want to frighten her any more than she already was. ![]() “Where’s my father?” I asked, reeling in my anger so I could speak to her in a soft voice. She couldn’t have been any older than Sofia. I expected to crave her, but all I felt was empathy. ![]() I immediately saw the bite marks on her neck-fresh blood was still trickling from them. A young woman stood shocked in the middle of the large round hall that composed my father’s welcoming room. I pushed the doors open and let myself in. I was up on my feet and speeding toward my father’s penthouse-not far from mine. I didn’t bother to hear what else Liana had to say. “He’s at his penthouse, but is it really wise to…” I’m not having it.” I growled and shot a glare at two of my dearest friends. I’m going to talk to my father about this. “I guess that really gives you only one option…” Liana broke the tense silence. ![]() ![]() Not only will they be among the first class of female officers the army has even seen, they are also the first Black women allowed to serve.Īs these courageous women help to form the 6888 th Central Postal Directory Battalion, they are dealing with more than just army bureaucracy-everyone is determined to see this experiment fail. Grace Steele and Eliza Jones may be from completely different backgrounds, but when it comes to the army, specifically the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), they are both starting from the same level. Kaia Alderson’s debut historical fiction novel reveals the untold, true story of the Six Triple Eight, the only all-Black battalion of the Women’s Army Corps, who made the dangerous voyage to Europe to ensure American servicemen received word from their loved ones during World War II. ![]() Kaia Alderson’s debut is a triumph!”- Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code ![]() ![]() Prickly, musical Grace and bubbly, privileged Eliza may not make the most natural allies, but it’s fight or die when they’re thrown together in the Army’s first class of female officers-and the first Black women allowed to serve their country in World War II. “ Sisters in Arms is heartwarming but fierce, a novel brimming with camaraderie and fire, starring women you’d love to make your friends. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I suspect Eric Carle would get more pleasure from the interpretation given by our museum member from Minneapolis.Īndrew Laties co-founded Easton Book Festival, Book & Puppet Company, Vox Pop, The Children’s Bookstore, Chicago Children’s Museum Store, and Eric Carle Museum Bookstore. They told me that good socialist children should never read ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ because it is a tale of the Western consumer society it teaches over-consumption. “I was seated at a round table with many East German librarians. “I was in East Berlin in 1989, at a library conference,” he said. “You must have encountered so many interpretations,” I said. “I think of the story as redemptive, because the caterpillar eats all that junk food and suffers a stomachache, but he still gets to turn into a butterfly,” I said.Įric smiled. I hadn’t heard this story, and I was surprised. “I wanted holes in the pages: I needed a character to move through the holes.” “I was trying to make a book that would also be a toy,” he said. “Did you have some moral in mind, when you began to write ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar?’” I asked him. ![]() ![]() There she attended the Lycée Français de Vienne. In 1983, at the age of 14 Satrapi was sent to Vienna, Austria by her parents in order to flee the Iranian regime. There's nothing extremely special about that." She added that due to this detail, most Iranian families would be, in the words of Simon Hattenstone of The Guardian, "blue blooded." ![]() If you multiply these kids by generation you have, I don't know, 10-15,000 princes. Satrapi said that "But you have to know the kings of the Qajar dynasty, they had hundreds of wives. Satrapi's family are of distant Iranian Azeri ancestry and are descendants of Nasser al-Din Shah, Shah of Persia from 1848 until 1896. According to Persepolis, one Scud hit the house next to hers, killing her friend and entire family. She experienced an Iraqi air raid and Scud missile attacks on Tehran. She attended the Lycée Français there and witnessed, as a child, the growing suppression of civil liberties and the everyday-life consequences of Iranian politics, including the fall of the Shah, the early regime of Ruhollah Khomeini, and the first years of the Iran-Iraq War. Satrapi grew up in Tehran in a family which was involved with communist and socialist movements in Iran prior to the Iranian Revolution. Apart from her native tongue Persian, she speaks English, Swedish, German, French and Italian. ![]() Marjane Satrapi (Persian: مرجان ساتراپی) is an Iranian-born French contemporary graphic novellist, illustrator, animated film director, and children's book author. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ībercrombie began writing The Blade Itself in 2002, completing it in 2004. With this time, he decided to reconsider a story plot he conceived while attending University. As a freelance film editor, Abercrombie found himself with more free time than he previously had. Career Ībercrombie had a job making tea at a television production company before taking up a career as a freelance film editor. Other favorite games of Abercrombie's include Elite, Dungeon Master, Street Fighter II, and Red Dead Redemption. In an interview with Edge magazine, Abercrombie stated that video games have been a big influence on his writing, including early interest in text-based adventure games and historically based strategy games such as Civilization and Age of Empires. Ībercrombie has been an avid player of video games since his childhood. He was educated at Lancaster Royal Grammar School and Manchester University, where he studied psychology. Life and education Ībercrombie was born in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. ![]() His novel Half a King won the 2015 Locus Award for best young adult book. He is the author of The First Law trilogy, as well as other fantasy books in the same setting and a trilogy of young adult novels. Joseph Edward Abercrombie (born December 31, 1974) is a British fantasy writer and film editor. ![]() ![]() ![]() Grrissen's refreshing, black-and-white art gives the story a crisp, modern feel, with clearly individuated characters and realistic body types. Petersburg, Florida, is scary and gory and exciting but not too bloody for a middle-school audience. The middle section of the book gets rushed a bit when the zombies start appearing, but the final act, when the two teens try to fight their way out of embattled St. Dicey and Jack are extremely likable characters-as are the bit players-and their young romance is crafted slowly enough to get readers invested in it. ![]() But jock Dicey is determined that she and Jack will survive-and maybe she'll even finally get a kiss from him! Tsang and Grrissen's entry in the new My Boyfriend Is a Monster graphic-novel series cashes in on the current zombie craze, but it does so with style and humor. "What happens when a baseball player and a goth nerd fall in love? The zombie apocalypse, of course. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He develops a deep and abiding hatred for the strange girl of the Others who lives in their midst, and is determined to get his revenge. But the brutal and proud youth who is destined to become their next leader sees her differences as a threat to his authority. ![]() Iza and Creb, the old Mog-ur, grow to love her, and as Ayla learns the ways of the Clan and Iza's way of healing, most come to accept her. ![]() To them, blond, blue-eyed Ayla looks peculiar and ugly-she is one of the Others, those who have moved into their ancient homeland but Iza cannot leave the girl to die and takes her with them. Auel's magnificent storytelling we are taken back to the dawn of modern humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are swept up in the harsh and beautiful Ice Age world they shared with the ones who called themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear.Ī natural disaster leaves the young girl wandering alone in an unfamiliar and dangerous land until she is found by a woman of the Clan, people very different from her own kind. This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love. Buy from Amazon| Buy from Barnes & Noble| Buy from Book Depository| Buy on Audible ![]() |