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The interestings: A novel
Par Meg Wolitzer. 2023
Named a best book of the year by Entertainment Weekly , Time , and The Chicago Tribune , and named…
a notable book by The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post “Remarkable . . . With this book [Wolitzer] has surpassed herself.”— The New York Times Book Review "A victory . . . The Interestings secures Wolitzer's place among the best novelists of her generation. . . . She's every bit as literary as Franzen or Eugenides. But the very human moments in her work hit you harder than the big ideas. This isn't women's fiction. It's everyone's."— Entertainment Weekly (A) From Meg Wolitzer, the New York Times –bestselling author of The Female Persuasion, a novel that has been called "genius" ( The Chicago Tribune ), “wonderful” ( Vanity Fair ), "ambitious" ( San Francisco Chronicle ), and a “page-turner” ( Cosmopolitan ). The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. In The Interestings , Wolitzer follows these characters from the height of youth through middle age, as their talents, fortunes, and degrees of satisfaction diverge. The kind of creativity that is rewarded at age fifteen is not always enough to propel someone through life at age thirty; not everyone can sustain, in adulthood, what seemed so special in adolescence. Jules Jacobson, an aspiring comic actress, eventually resigns herself to a more practical occupation and lifestyle. Her friend Jonah, a gifted musician, stops playing the guitar and becomes an engineer. But Ethan and Ash, Jules’s now-married best friends, become shockingly successful—true to their initial artistic dreams, with the wealth and access that allow those dreams to keep expanding. The friendships endure and even prosper, but also underscore the differences in their fates, in what their talents have become and the shapes their lives have taken. Wide in scope, ambitious, and populated by complex characters who come together and apart in a changing New York City, The Interestings explores the meaning of talent; the nature of envy; the roles of class, art, money, and power; and how all of it can shift and tilt precipitously over the course of a friendship and a lifeFalling up: poems and drawings
Par Shel Silverstein. 1996
A collection of brief and humorous poems featuring silly situations and a gallery of zany characters. You will see the…
world from "a different angle" as you meet the Terrible Toy-Eating Tookle, attend the "Rotten Convention," and visit Hungry Kid Island. For grades 2-4 and older readers. BestsellerThe great brain is back (The Great Brain #8.)
Par John Fitzgerald, Diane DeGroat. 1995
In this final book about the Great Brain (the manuscript was found after the author's death), J.D. narrates eight more…
tales about how his big brother, Tom, now thirteen, continues to swindle people out of their money. Tom convinces J.D. to sell bars of soap, he almost outwits Polly Reagan in the spelling bee, and he helps rescue a gang of outlaws. For grades 4-7Wand
Par Landra Jennings. 2023
A dazzling story of grief and found family wrapped in a spellbinding fairy tale, perfect for fans of Anne Ursu…
and Jodi Lynn Anderson. Eleven-year-old Mira wishes everything could go back to the way it was. Before she changed schools and had to quit gymnastics. Especially before Papa died. Now she spends her days cooking and cleaning for her stepsisters and Val—who she still won't call mom and still won't forgive for the terrible thing she did. When a mysterious girl named Lyndame appears out of the woods wielding a powerful wand, she makes Mira an offer she can't refuse: she will grant Mira three wishes. What if magic isn't just pretend after all? What if these wishes could fix everything? But in the quiet town of Between, Georgia, where secrets lurk and rumors swirl of strange creatures, nothing is as it seems, and everything comes at a price. Rising talent Landra Jennings weaves together an enchanting, modern fairy tale with eloquence and compassion about finding hope after loss—and finding belonging in the places we least expectWhile no one was watching
Par Jane Conly. 1998
The summer their father is working out of town, Earl, Frankie, and Angela are left with their alcoholic Aunt Lula,…
but she vanishes. Earl hangs out with their older cousin and begins stealing. Tagging along on one job, seven-year-old Frankie takes a pet rabbit. The hare's owner, Addie, and her friend leave their nice neighborhood to track down the thieves. For grades 6-9La vie comme une image: roman (Romanichels)
Par Jocelyne Saucier. 1996
Un papa fugueur dans une famille modèle. Comment s'en tirent la mère (devenue incontinente) et la fille adolescente (aux rêves…
meurtriers) après trois années d'attente et d'illusions? (cf. p. 60). Un premier roman à la fois intense et sobre, riche en non-dit, comme le signale R. Martel. L'histoire d'une absence cruellement ressentie mais occultée par le souci de n'en rien dire. [SDMThe window
Par Jeanette Ingold. 1996
Fifteen-year-old Mandy is blinded in a car accident that took the life of her mother. Sent to live with unknown…
great-uncles and aunts, Mandy elects to attend the local high school. With help of voices from the past, Mandy learns to understand and accept her new family. For grades 6-9A long way from Chicago: a novel in stories
Par Richard Peck. 1998
In eight short stories an old man reminisces about the week each summer he and his little sister spent with…
his grandmother. Joey likes the train ride and his feisty, independent grandmother, who tells "whoppers," fishes, and shoots a shotgun. For grades 6-9Mr. Ape
Par Dick King-Smith, Roger Roth. 1998
Mr. Ape is an old man, suddenly free of wife and offspring, living in his family estate, Penny Royal. Happy…
to make his own decisions, he lives in the kitchen and buys hens to keep in the living room. He befriends Jake and his father, Joe--traveling gypsies who prove to be kindred spirits. For grades 3-6Family tree
Par Katherine Ayres. 1996
When sixth-grader Tyler Stoudt gets an assignment to create a family tree, her heart sinks. Her widowed father won't talk…
about his own family or her mother's, so Tyler has no idea who her relatives are. For grades 3-6Awake and dreaming (Guests of War Trilogy, The)
Par Kit Pearson. 1996
Theo, who lives in near poverty with her irresponsible waitress mother in Vancouver, escapes into books and fantasies about the…
perfect family. Just as things get really bad, Theo receives magical help from a ghost and, for a while, becomes part of just such a family. For grades 4-7Meet Josefina, an American girl (Historical Character)
Par Valerie Tripp, Jean-Paul Tibbles, Susan McAliley, Peg Ross. 1997
In 1824 nine-year-old Josefina lives with her father and three sisters on a rancho near Santa Fe, New Mexico. The…
girls try hard to take care of things the way Mama did before she died the previous year. When their grandfather comes for a visit, they are surprised by the guest he brings--Tia Dolores, their mother's sister. Prequel to Josefina Learns a Lesson (DB 45562). For grades 2-4Ramona Quimby, age 8: A Newbery Honor Award Winner (Ramona #6)
Par Beverly Cleary, Jacqueline Rogers. 1981
As Ramona enters third grade, her father returns to college to become an art teacher. Having a working mother and…
a student father is tough on the family, but the Quimbys stick together through good times and bad. For grades 3-6 and older Cleary fansDancing with Great-aunt Cornelia: a novel
Par Anne Quirk. 1997
Every year around her birthday, Cornelia has tea with her eccentric great-aunt Cornelia Witherspoon and her wolfhound at a hotel…
in Manhattan. On Cornelia's thirteenth birthday, her aunt invites Cornelia to spend the summer with her. Cornelia meets some colorful people, and a long hidden family secret is revealed. For grades 4-7Fudge-a-mania
Par Judy Blume. 1990
The Tubmans and Hatchers are sharing a summer home in Maine, throwing together five-year-old Fudge, his older brother Peter, and…
Peter's arch-enemy Sheila "Queen of Cooties" Tubman for three long weeks. Mayhem becomes the order of the day as children, adults, and pets find themselves in one predicament after another. Companion to "Superfudge"; and "Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great." For grades 3-6The family under the bridge
Par Natalie Carlson, Garth Williams. 1958
Armand, an adventurous old hobo, lives under a bridge in Paris. One December day he arrives there to discover three…
redheaded children and a dog. Armand cares for the young Calcets while their mother works. During one of their escapades around the city, they tell Santa Claus they want a real home. For grades 3-6Old Yeller
Par Fred Gipson, F. Gipson, Steven Polson. 1956
1860s Texas. Fourteen-year-old Travis at first resents the big, yellow stray dog that hangs around his home, but he comes…
to love and depend on him. With his father away on a cattle drive, Travis is the man of the house and looks to Old Yeller for help and protection. For grades 5-8Les étés sur la côte: 1, Les filles de l'été (Collection Incontournables)
Par Mary Monroe. 2020
Dans cette trilogie captivante qui se déroule à Sullivan's Island, en Caroline du Sud, Mary Alice Monroe, auteure à succès…
du New York Times, dresse le portrait des relations complexes entre trois demi-soeurs vivant aux quatre coins du pays et de leur grand-mère déterminée à les aider à redécouvrir les liens qui les unissent.Située en plein coeur d'un boisé de chênes et de palmiers nains surplombant la mer, la villa historique de Sea Breeze est la demeure ancestrale de Marietta Muir. Jadis, ses petites-filles adoraient venir y passer leurs vacances, mais voilà des années qu'elles ne lui ont pas rendu visite. Et Mamaw craint qu'une fois qu'elle aura quitté ce monde, les liens familiaux ne s'effritent. La famille Muir est l'une des plus anciennes familles de Charleston, et le sang de leur ancêtre, un capitaine pirate, coule dans les veines des trois petites-fillesSun & Spoon
Par Kevin Henkes. 1997
After the death of his beloved grandmother, ten-year-old Spoon pockets Gram's special deck of solitaire cards as a keepsake. When…
his grandfather becomes nostalgic and searches for the missing cards, Spoon returns the deck in exchange for another memento with a very special meaning. For grades 4-7Search for the shadowman
Par Joan Nixon. 1996
When twelve-year-old Andy Thomas interviews his relatives for a family history assignment, he discovers a long-hidden scandal. Generations before, his…
ancestor Coley Joe Bonner supposedly ran away with his father's money. Andy's great-aunt refuses to discuss it, but after seeing a photo of Coley, Andy is determined to clear Coley's name. For grades 3-6