Beth Kephart
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nadia Cara is in Florence, Italy with her family because her professor father is researching the 1966 flood, but Nadia herself is in trouble--she has turned into a kleptomaniac and she feels detached from everything, except for an elusive Italian boy whom no one but herself has seen.
Author
Publisher
Temple University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Highly personal and idiosyncratically historical, this book is a memoirist's guide to more than fifty paper objects, including report cards, maps, menus, spreadsheets, broadsides, library cards, prescriptions, tickets, books, dictionaries, file folder, and legal tender--and an invitation to readers whose stories might be a single box or shelf away"--
3) Cloud hopper
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Sophie and her best friends Wyatt and K set out to help when a silent, mysterious girl in a homemade hot air balloon lands in rural Gilbertine. --
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Georgia knows what it means to keep secrets. She knows how to ignore things. She knows that some things are better left unsaid. . . . Or are they?
When Georgia and her best friend, Riley, travel along with nine other suburban Pennsylvania kids to Anapra, a squatters' village in the heat-flattened border city of Juarez, Mexico, secrets seem to percolate and threaten both a friendship and a life. Certainties unravel. Reality changes. And Georgia
...Author
Publisher
Gotham Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Description
A memoir-writing guide offers writing lessons and examples for those interested in putting their memories down on paper, explains the difference between remembering and imagining, and describes the language of truth.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
If eleven-year-old Sara and her brother Hawk can complete a task involving the reclusive author renting out the silo on their farm for the summer, they will receive reward money that will pay for Sara's life-saving surgery. --
Author
Publisher
Cameron Kids
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"William Morris is best known for his colorful wallpapers and textiles, inspired by the English forests and wild foliage where he grew up. But did you know this icon of the Arts and Crafts Movement was also a poet, a painter, a preservationist, an activist, an environmentalist, and a maker of many other beautiful useful things, like books?"--
"A poetic story about the life and work of William Morris, maker of beautiful, useful things, sure to engage...
Author
Publisher
New World Library
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
National Book Award nominee Beth Kephart's new book is an enchanting midlife meditation on aging, identity, and memory set against the backdrop of Chanticleer garden in Pennsylvania. On the morning of her forty-?rst birthday, Kephart - a mother, a wife, and a writer pressured by deadlines - finds herself at Chanticleer, one of the world's most celebrated pleasure gardens. She knows little of the language of flowers. She cannot name the birds in the...
14) Small damages
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Kenzie of Philadelphia, pregnant by Yale-bound Kevin, is bitter when her mother sends her to Spain to deliver and give her baby away, but discovers a makeshift family with the rancher who takes her in, his cook, and the young man they have raised together.
15) Wild blues
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Lizzie relates, through a victim statement, her harrowing journey through the Adirondacks seeking her disabled friend, Matias, who was kidnapped by escaped convicts." --
Author
Publisher
Cameron Kids
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A poetic picture-book biography about artist N.C. Wyeth's daughter, Henriette, a talented painter in her own right" -- Amazon.com.
"A picture-book biography of painter Henriette Wyeth, depicting a day in her childhood, learning how to paint and be inspired from her father, painter N. C. Wyeth"--
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
After her mother's death, sixteen-year-old Katie copes with her grief by working in the garden of an old estate, where she becomes intrigued by the story of a reclusive millionaire, while her father, an art restorer, manages in his own way to come to terms with the death of his wife.
