Simon French
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Steven has vague and distubring memories of being left alone on a road in the middle of nowhere when he was young, but his mother, faced with her own problems, continually avoids answering his questions about their earlier life in an Australian city.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When the new, strange kid at school turns out to be Kieran's cousin, Kieran will have to choose between fitting in with the other kids and standing up for his cousin against the kids that bully him.
"Eleven-year-old Kieran wants to be part of the 'in' group at school. He wants to be on the soccer team. He wants to fit in. But then his weird cousin Bon turns up, both at school and at home. Bon knows nothing about fitting in, with his long blond braid,...
4) Quién es?
Author
Publisher
SM de Ediciones
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Español
Description
When Sam brings his baby brother to school for Show and Tell, it provides Mr. Judd with an opportunity to teach the class some things about babies, including that even grown-ups were babies once.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Just as authors create books, books create authors — and these essays by thirty-one writers for young people offer a fascinating glimpse at the books that inspired them the most.
What if you could look inside your favorite authors' heads and see the book that led them to become who they are today? What was the book that made them fall in love, or made them understand something for the first time? What was the book that made them
