Ayah Mo---Meggie---memiliki kemampuan ajaib: ia bisa mengeluarkan tokoh-tokoh dari buku yang dibacanya. Sayangnya, kehadiran mereka ternyata harus ditukar dengan manusia-manusia di dunia nyata. Sembilan tahun yang lalu, Mo membaca Tintenherz. Tanpa sengaja ia memunculkan berbagai tokoh jahat buku itu, dan membuat ibu Meggie lenyap karena masuk ke buku. Capricorn dan Basta, dua tokoh jahat dari…
Grades 4-7--Laurence Yep's Newbery Honor book (HarperCollins, 1975) offers insights into the lives of Chinese-Americans in early 20th century California. The story begins as eight-year-old Moon Shadow Lee journeys across the Pacific to join his proud and clever father at the family-owned laundry in San Francisco. The boy recounts their problems with prejudice, as well as the kindness of uncles …
Abandoned in Washington Territory by her faithless fiancé, Jane Peck prepares to return home to Philadelphia -- only to learn that the life she once knew is no more. Lost and alone, Jane must make a new home for herself as the only pioneer woman in the primitive settlement of Shoalwater Bay. Armed with little more than her finishing-school education, Jane is left to survive everything from the…
With everyone taking a much more careful took at the real story behind the food on their plate, Jolly Good Egg are delighted to announce the publication of "Attila the Hen", a tale for children that takes the chickens eye view of the thoughtless cruelty we help to perpetuate every time we take a pack of 'Farm Fresh' battery eggs from the supermarket shelf. Cooped up in a smelly battery cage is …