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Can the game they all love eventually bring them back together, safe at home?Īcclaimed author Wendy Wan-Long Shang brings her signature warmth, gentle humor, and wisdom to this poignant story of healing and loss, family, and the great American pastime, baseball. The Way Home Looks Now, an Amelia Bloomer Project List selection and a CCBC Choices List selection. His dad's unconventional teaching methods rub some of Peter's teammates the wrong way, and Peter starts to wonder if playing baseball again was the right idea - and if it can even help his family feel less broken. Bubble Trouble By Wendy Wan-Long Shang Cover Image. But his plans become suddenly complicated when his strict and serious father volunteers to coach the team. Hoping to lift his mother's spirits, Peter decides to try out for Little League. From award-winning author Wendy Wan-Long Shang comes a poignant and timely take on prejudice, bullying, and claiming our own. Scholastic Press, 16. 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This week I'm talking to Sarah McLean, New York Times bestselling author of romance novels, including Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake, A Rogue by Any Other Name and many, many more. Welcome to First Draft with me, Sarah Enni. Neil Gaiman called her ‘the best writer of Magic there is’. An international bestseller, this much-loved book is the source for the Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Feature. Wynne Jones presents this exciting sequel to her novel Howls Moving Castle. This entrancing classic fantasy novel is filled with surprises at every turn. Jones’s numerous awards include the Guardian Award for Children’s Fiction, two Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards and a Life Achievement Award at the World Fantasy Convention 2007. House of Many Ways as its meant to be heard, narrated by Jenny Sterlin. It broke all box-office records in Japan at the time and was nominated for an Oscar. In 2004 Howl’s Moving Castle was made into an animated film by Hayao Miyazaki for Studio Ghibli, Japan. Among Jones’s best-loved books are the Chrestomanci series and Howl’s Moving Castle (The Folio Society, 2019) and its two sequels. Her magical adventures have enthralled children and adults ever since. She never ceased writing, and from 1973 onwards published many titles, which have been released worldwide in 30 languages. She and her two sisters were deprived of books but, armed with a vivid imagination and an insatiable appetite for stories, Jones wrote them herself to read to her sisters. Her family moved frequently, finally settling in rural Essex. Diana Wynne Jones had an unsettled childhood against the background of the Second World War. East of eden book review6/5/2023 John Steinbeck once called East of Eden "a sort of autobiography of the Salinas Valley." Learn about the California landscape that served as an endless source of inspiration for Steinbeck. Learn about John Steinbeck-the man, the writer, the father-through his son Thom's eyes. The Story of Cain and Abel | Timshel: Man's Ability to Choose This classic struggle is the central force of the novel. Meet the characters Steinbeck based on his real-life relatives and their fictional counterparts. What makes John Steinbeck so fascinating? His quirky personality? His unique world view? Discover the man behind the book Oprah says might be the best novel she's ever read!Įast of Eden is a novel of about three generations of two families who touch one another's lives. Find out why he wrote this novel for his sons. East of Eden is an epic novel full of good and evil, love and hatred, failure and redemption.įirst published in 1952, John Steinbeck's best-seller East of Eden has never gone out of print. Three generations, two love triangles, one timeless story. |