The Jumping-Off Place

The Jumping-Off Place PDF Author: Marian Hurd McNeely
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486815684
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 323

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This 1930 Newbery Honor Book relates an exciting tale of adventure in which four orphaned children head for the South Dakota prairie, where they battle drought, squatters, and other challenges.

The Jumping-Off Place

The Jumping-Off Place PDF Author: Marian Hurd McNeely
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486815684
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 323

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This 1930 Newbery Honor Book relates an exciting tale of adventure in which four orphaned children head for the South Dakota prairie, where they battle drought, squatters, and other challenges.

The Jumping-Off Place

The Jumping-Off Place PDF Author: Marian Hurd McNeely
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486821390
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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This 1930 Newbery Honor Book relates an exciting tale of adventure in which four orphaned children head for the South Dakota prairie, where they battle drought, squatters, and other challenges.

Jumping Off the Planet

Jumping Off the Planet PDF Author: David Gerrold
Publisher: BenBella Books
ISBN: 1948836874
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231

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A trip to the Moon? Sounds like the perfect family vacation. Only, for 13-year-old Charles "Chigger" Dingillian, life is anything but perfect. His parents fight so much, they put the "dis" into dysfunctional. His brothers, Stinky and Weird, are impossible to get along with. And his neighborhood is a down-trodden tunnel community on Earth. It's supposed to be a short vacation—a trip up the Line, Earth's space elevator, and then home again. Halfway there, Chigger hits on a plan: if his parents can't find a way to work things out, why not just divorce them? The idea sounds crazy . . . until it works. But Chigger soon realizes he has much bigger problems: The people they meet on the Moon seem overly friendly and way too interested in his family. Suddenly, the quick pleasure trip takes a detour into danger as Chigger suspects they are targets of an interstellar manhunt. Their only hope may be to jump off the planet.

The Jumping-Off Place

The Jumping-Off Place PDF Author: White Kiser Dolores White Kiser
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440198187
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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Maria lifted her hand to knock, but stopped when she heard a woman speaking. "Pastor, I met the most pathetic-looking girl yesterday," the voice said. "Where was that?" "Here at the church . . ." Maria felt her face burning with shame. She had fallen into disgrace, but not far enough to endure the term "pathetic." * * * "Did you come to the Ladies' Aid Meeting?" the woman asked. "Yeah. I came for aid," Maria answered, trying to control the bitterness in her voice. "I came for aid yesterday, but you asked me to eat and I did. I came again today to see if you needed a janitor to clean the church, but I know you don't, so I'll leave." * * * Maria Grant feels she at her wit's end-hungry, weary, and bedraggled-all for the love of a boy. Why did she leave her loving family to be near Orville? He didn't care one iota for her. She had sunk so low, all because of Orville.

Jumping the Nail

Jumping the Nail PDF Author: Eve Bunting
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152413583
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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YA. The jumping place was called the Nail and it was ninety feet from the top of the cliff to the water below.

Jumping Off Swings

Jumping Off Swings PDF Author: Jo Knowles
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763651729
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Tells, from four points of view, the ramifications of a pregnancy resulting from a "one-time thing" between Ellie, who feels loved when boys touch her, and Josh, an eager virgin with a troubled home life.

Jumping-off Place

Jumping-off Place PDF Author: Baine Kerr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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Jump at the Sun

Jump at the Sun PDF Author: Alicia D. Williams
Publisher: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
ISBN: 1534419136
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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From the Newbery Honor–winning author of Genesis Begins Again comes a shimmering picture book that shines the light on Zora Neale Hurston, the extraordinary writer and storycatcher extraordinaire who changed the face of American literature. Zora was a girl who hankered for tales like bees for honey. Now, her mama always told her that if she wanted something, “to jump at de sun”, because even though you might not land quite that high, at least you’d get off the ground. So Zora jumped from place to place, from the porch of the general store where she listened to folktales, to Howard University, to Harlem. And everywhere she jumped, she shined sunlight on the tales most people hadn’t been bothered to listen to until Zora. The tales no one had written down until Zora. Tales on a whole culture of literature overlooked…until Zora. Until Zora jumped.

The Jumping-off Place

The Jumping-off Place PDF Author: Ethel Shackelford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Attitude change
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Living with Jackie Chan

Living with Jackie Chan PDF Author: Jo Knowles
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763667161
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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After fathering a baby, a teenager moves in with his karate-loving uncle and tries to come to terms with his guilt — and find a way to forgive. This isn’t how Josh expected to spend senior year. He thought he’d be hanging out with his best friends, Dave and Caleb, driving around, partying, just like always. But here he is, miles from home — new school, new life, living with his Jackie-Chan-obsessed uncle, Larry, and trying to forget. But Josh can’t forget. So many things bring back memories of last year and the night that changed everything. Every day the pain, the shame, and the just not knowing are never far from his thoughts. Why is he such a loser? How could he have done what he did? He finds some moments of peace when he practices karate with Stella, the girl upstairs and his one real friend. As they move together through the katas, Josh feels connected in a way he has never felt before. He wonders if they could be more than friends, but Stella’s jealous boyfriend will make sure that doesn’t happen. And maybe it doesn’t matter. If Stella knew the truth, would she still think he was a True Karate Man? Readers first met Josh in Jumping Off Swings which told the story of four high school students and how one pregnancy changed all of their lives. In thiscompanion book, they follow Josh as he tries to come to terms with what happened, and find a way to forgive.