NAACP Image Award winner and ALA Notable, this luminous, celebrated novel in verse is now in paperback.Serafina made a secret promiseto go to school and learn to readso she can become a doctorwith her best friend, Julie Marie.But following her dream isn't easy-endless chores, little moneyand stomach-rumbling hungerall test her resolve.When an earthquake hits and separates Serafina from friends and family,she encounters her biggest test of all.Serafina made a secret promise.Will she survive to keep it?有色人種進步協會形象獎得主,美國圖書館協會推薦童書莎拉菲娜與自己約定好:他要去學校讀書,並與她最好的朋友一起成為醫生。實現夢想的路很困難,他總有做不完的家事、永遠不夠的錢與總是餓到咕嚕嚕叫的肚子。有天,地震襲擊莎拉菲娜的家鄉,使得他與家人朋友分隔,莎拉菲娜該如何度過這場危機,繼續她與自己的約定呢?
A luminous novel in verse from the author of the Jefferson Cup award winner ALL THE BROKEN PIECES.Serafina hasa secret dream.She wants to go to schooland become a doctorwith her best friend, Julie Mar
An award-winning debut novel from a stellar new voice in middle grade fiction.Matt Pin would like to forget: war torn Vietnam, bombs that fell like dead crows, and the terrible secret he left behind.
Two years after being airlifted out of war-torn Vietnam, Matt Pin is haunted: by bombs that fell like dead crows, by the family -- and the terrible secret -- he left behind. Now, inside a caring adopt
The day Grace is called from the slave cabins to work in the Big House, Mama makes her promise to keep her eyes down. Uncle Jim warns her to keep her thoughts tucked private in her mind or they could
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THERE WAS NOTHING NATURAL ABOUT THIS DISASTERJohnstown, Pennsylvania, in 1889 was a lively, working-class factory city. Above the soot-soaked streets, an elite fishing and hunting club, built on a pri
"Modeled after traditional primers, this book includes individual stories, riddles, and original poems about the New York State. Subjects include Freedom of the Press; the Harlem Renaissance; and cult
After eluding capture by the Nazis in 1944, seven-year-old Rebekkah and her mother are brought from Italy to a vacant army base in upstate New York to begin a new life.
A companion to E Is for Empire: A New York State Alphabet teaches children about numbers using state landmarks, historical events, and famous faces, from the finger lakes to the five boroughs.
A remarkable literary debut by a stunning new voice in children's fiction.Format: 2 CDs, UnabridgedNarrator: Tobias Christian WongNarrator: TBATwo years after being airlifted out of war-torn Vietnam,