Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy write by Gary D. Schmidt. This book was released on 2004. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Turner Buckminster is purely miserable. Not only is he the son of the new minister in a small Maine town, but he is shunned for playing baseball differently from the local boys.
Just Like That
Just Like That - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Just Like That write by Gary D. Schmidt. This book was released on 2021-01-05. Just Like That available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this poignant, perceptive, witty novel, Gary D. Schmidt brings authenticity and emotion to multiple plot strands, weaving in themes of grief, loss, redemption, achievement, and love. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students from wealthy backgrounds. In a parallel story, Matt Coffin has wound up on the Maine coast near St. Elene's with a pillowcase full of money lifted from the leader of a criminal gang, fearing the gang's relentless, destructive pursuit. Both young people gradually dispel their loneliness, finding a way to be hopeful and also finding each other.
The Wednesday Wars
The Wednesday Wars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Wednesday Wars write by Gary D. Schmidt. This book was released on 2007. The Wednesday Wars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this Newbery Honor-winning novel, Gary D. Schmidt tells the witty and compelling story of a teenage boy who feels that fate has it in for him, during the school year 1968-68. Seventh grader Holling Hoodhood isn't happy. He is sure his new teacher, Mrs. Baker, hates his guts. Holling's domineering father is obsessed with his business image and disregards his family. Throughout the school year, Holling strives to get a handle on the Shakespeare plays Mrs. Baker assigns him to read on his own time, and to figure out the enigmatic Mrs. Baker. As the Vietnam War turns lives upside down, Holling comes to admire and respect both Shakespeare and Mrs. Baker, who have more to offer him than he imagined. And when his family is on the verge of coming apart, he also discovers his loyalty to his sister, and his ability to stand up to his father when it matters most.
Orbiting Jupiter
Orbiting Jupiter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Orbiting Jupiter write by Gary D. Schmidt. This book was released on 2015. Orbiting Jupiter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The two-time Newbery Honor winner Gary D. Schmidt delivers the shattering story of Joseph, a father at thirteen, who has never seen his daughter, Jupiter. After spending time in a juvenile facility, he's placed with a foster family on a farm in rural Maine. Here Joseph, damaged and withdrawn, meets twelve-year-old Jack, who narrates the account of the troubled, passionate teen who wants to find his baby at any cost. In this riveting novel, two boys discover the true meaning of family and the sacrifices it requires.
Trouble
Trouble - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Trouble write by Gary D. Schmidt. This book was released on 2010-04-12. Trouble available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Henry Smith’s father told him that if you build your house far enough away from Trouble, then Trouble will never find you.” But Trouble comes careening down the road one night in the form of a pickup truck that strikes Henry’s older brother, Franklin. In the truck is Chay Chouan, a young Cambodian from Franklin’s preparatory school, and the accident sparks racial tensions in the school—and in the well-established town where Henry’s family has lived for generations. Caught between anger and grief, Henry sets out to do the only thing he can think of: climb Mt. Katahdin, the highest mountain in Maine, which he and Franklin were going to climb together. Along with Black Dog, whom Henry has rescued from drowning, and a friend, Henry leaves without his parents’ knowledge. The journey, both exhilarating and dangerous, turns into an odyssey of discovery about himself, his older sister, Louisa, his ancestry, and why one can never escape from Trouble.
