The Misadventures of Sweetie Pie - 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 Misadventures of Sweetie Pie write by Chris Van Allsburg. This book was released on 2014. The Misadventures of Sweetie Pie available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From two-time Caldecott winner Chris Van Allsburg, creator of Jumanji and The Polar Express, comes a poignant story of one hamster's struggle with destiny. Being a pet store hamster isn't much fun for Sweetie Pie, but life in human homes proves downright perilous. As Sweetie Pie longingly gazes out of his cage at the squirrels frolicking in the trees, he wonders if he'll ever have the chance to feel the wind in his fur. Allsburg's expressive, soft-hued illustrations artfully capture a hamster's-eye view of the wide and wonderful world where maybe, just maybe, Sweetie Pie could someday run free.
Nobody Is Ever Missing
Nobody Is Ever Missing - 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 Nobody Is Ever Missing write by Catherine Lacey. This book was released on 2014-07-08. Nobody Is Ever Missing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the spirit of Haruki Murakami and Amelia Gray, Catherine Lacey's Nobody Is Ever Missing is full of mordant humor and uncanny insights, as Elyria waffles between obsession and numbness in the face of love, loss, danger, and self-knowledge. Without telling her family, Elyria takes a one-way flight to New Zealand, abruptly leaving her stable but unfulfilling life in Manhattan. As her husband scrambles to figure out what happened to her, Elyria hurtles into the unknown, testing fate by hitchhiking, tacitly being swept into the lives of strangers, and sleeping in fields, forests, and public parks. Her risky and often surreal encounters with the people and wildlife of New Zealand propel Elyria deeper into her deteriorating mind. Haunted by her sister's death and consumed by an inner violence, her growing rage remains so expertly concealed that those who meet her sense nothing unwell. This discord between her inner and outer reality leads her to another obsession: If her truest self is invisible and unknowable to others, is she even alive? The risks Elyria takes on her journey are paralleled by the risks Catherine Lacey takes on the page. In urgent, spiraling prose she whittles away at the rage within Elyria and exposes the very real, very knowable anxiety of the human condition. And yet somehow Lacey manages to poke fun at her unrelenting self-consciousness, her high-stakes search for the dark heart of the self.
Queen of the Falls
Queen of the Falls - 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 Queen of the Falls write by Chris Van Allsburg. This book was released on 2011-04-04. Queen of the Falls available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. She could remember standing in a park near the falls, hypnotized by the sight and sound, and holding her father’s hand as they took a walk that would lead them closer. That’s what everyone wonders when they see Niagara . . . How close will their courage let them get to it? At the turn of the nineteenth century, a retired sixty-two-year-old charm school instructor named Annie Edson Taylor, seeking fame and fortune, decided to do something that no one in the world had ever done before—she would go over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel. Come meet the Queen of the Falls and witness with your own eyes her daring ride!
Zathura
Zathura - 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 Zathura write by . This book was released on 2002. Zathura available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Publisher Description
Bad Day at Riverbend
Bad Day at Riverbend - 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 Bad Day at Riverbend write by Chris Van Allsburg. This book was released on 1995. Bad Day at Riverbend available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Riverbend was a quiet little town, the kind of place where one day was just like all the rest and nothing ever happened. Occasionally the stagecoach rolled through, but it never stopped, because no one ever came to Riverbend and no one ever left. The day the stagecoach stood motionless in the center of town, Sheriff Ned Hardy knew something was terribly wrong. What was the mysterious substance on both coach and horses? It would not come off. Soon it was everywhere in the tidy little village. Something had to be done, and Sheriff Hardy aimed to do it.
