![]() She writes both fiction and nonfiction to encourage children to explore their world. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read History Smashers: The Underground Railroad. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. GWENDOLYN HOOKS is a contributor to the Brown Bookshelf and author of twenty books for children. History Smashers: The Underground Railroad - Ebook written by Kate Messner, Gwendolyn Hooks. ![]() ![]() Her titles include award-winning picture books, like Over and Under the Snow novels, like Breakout and Chirp the Fergus and Zeke easy reader series, and the popular Ranger in Time chapter books, and works of nonfiction with a focus on nature and history. The Chicago Tribune has been a source of information for 175-plus years since 1847. KATE MESSNER is passionately curious and writes books that encourage kids to wonder, too. ![]()
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I started writing Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha in February 1991, a few weeks after the birth of my first child. ![]() ![]() When she overhears alarming conversations and uncovers disquieting documents, Nancy must make excruciating choices as Great Britain goes to war with Germany. ![]() Though they've weathered scandals before, the family falls into disarray when Diana divorces her wealthy husband to marry a fascist leader and Unity follows her sister's lead all the way to Munich, inciting rumors that she's become Hitler's mistress.Īs the Nazis rise in power, novelist Nancy Mitford grows suspicious of her sisters' constant visits to Germany and the high-ranking fascist company they keep. ![]() "Plunges readers into a world of glamorous, charismatic young British debutantes and then turns that shiny world on its head.the most delicious storytelling." -Allison Pataki, New York Times bestselling author of The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Postįrom New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict comes an explosive novel of history's most notorious sisters, one of whom will have to choose: her country or her family?īetween the World Wars, the six Mitford sisters-each more beautiful, brilliant, and eccentric than the next-dominate the English political, literary, and social scenes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Root has a growly, twangy, slightly Cornish voice yet it was only when she appeared in full uniform, including a sinister peaked cap, and said “top o’ the morning,” that I said out loud: “Judi Dench is supposed to be Irish!” (It was a man in the book, but no male actor could be gruffer than Dench is here.)ĭench is styling a very notable military-style outfit in emerald green, which makes her look like some forgotten intergalactic villain from Star Wars. She plays someone called Commander Root, who is the security chief of the fairy peoples who live deep underground. But now Dench might actually have topped her feline folly, in this family fantasy adventure, adapted by Conor McPherson and Hamish McColl from Eoin Colfer’s bestselling novels about the teen Irish hero in touch with magical forces and directed by Kenneth Branagh. A fter the film version of Cats, the world agreed that Judi Dench could never, should never do anything as bizarre as her performance as Old Deuteronomy, the bafflingly attired matriarch of the Jellicle cat tribe, wearing a fur coat in addition to her normal fur. ![]() ![]() The man takes him home to his wife where he is referred to as female and wears dresses. Edward spends 297 days on the ocean floor, until a storm frees him from the seabed and a passing fisherman and his buddy pull him from their fishing net. He enjoys a pleasant but vain life with his young mistress, who treats him with the utmost love and respect until an unfortunate incident finds him falling overboard while vacationing on the Queen Mary. ![]() Following the life of a china rabbit, the book won the 2006 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award in Fiction category.Įdward Tulane is a china rabbit given to a ten-year-old girl named Abilene by her grandmother in the 1930s. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane is a 2006 novel by Kate DiCamillo and illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline. ![]() ![]() ![]() When The Kite Runner was published in 2003, it made Hosseini an international literary star. For the next ten years, Hosseini practiced medicine while working on his first novel, The Kite Runner, which was loosely based on his childhood. Nevertheless, he succeeded in learning English, attended medical school at UC San Diego, and completed his residence at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. ![]() He spoke no English, and found his time in the U.S. At the age of fifteen, Hosseini and his family moved to the United States. ![]() As a result, they spent the next two years in Paris. Following the start of the Soviet-Afghan War in early 1979, Hosseini’s family realized that returning to Afghanistan would be nearly impossible. In 1978, Hosseini’s father moved the family to Paris. As a child, Hosseini loved to read and write, and was encouraged by both of his parents, particularly his mother. His father was a successful diplomat, and his mother was a high school teacher at an all-girls school. Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. ![]() |