The Photographer
When Delta Dawn, the photographer she hired for her daughter's eleventh birthday, starts slowly integrating herself into their lives, Amelia Staub soon discovers that she will do anything to permanently become part of the picture.
2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
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When Delta Dawn, the photographer she hired for her daughter's eleventh birthday, starts slowly integrating herself into their lives, Amelia Staub soon discovers that she will do anything to permanently become part of the picture.
Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four-years-old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes delft blue, and in England she might have had many suitors. But here in The New World, amid this community of saints, Mary is the second wife of Thomas Deerfield, a man as cruel as he is powerful. When Thomas, prone to drunken rage, drives a three-tined fork into the back of Mary's hand, she resolves that she must divorce him to save her life. But in a world where every neighbor is watching for signs of the devil, Mary soon finds herself the object of suspicion and rumor.
Three years after a cataclysmic event which tore their lives apart, a mother and daughter flee Poland for Paris, shame and fear at their heels, not knowing how hard it is to escape your past. Nearly eighty years later, Gretel Fernsby lives a life that is a far cry from her traumatic childhood. When a couple moves into the flat below her in her London mansion block, it should be nothing more than a momentary inconvenience. However, the appearance of their nine-year-old son Henry brings back memories she would rather forget.
Nine strangers, including FBI Agent Jessica Winslow, receive a cryptic list with their names on it. There seems to be no connection between the people, until they begin to die in unusual circumstances.
Captain Underpants is an illustrated children's novel series by American author and illustrator Dav Pilkey. The series revolves around two fourth graders, George Beard, and Harold Hutchins, living in Piqua, Ohio, and Captain Underpants, an aptly named superhero from one of the boys' homemade comic books, who accidentally becomes real when George and Harold hypnotize their cruel, bossy, and ill-tempered principal, Mr. Krupp. From the third book onwards, Mr. Krupp also possesses superhuman strength, durability, and flight as a result of drinking alien "Extra-Strength Super Power Juice".
The Amelia Bedelia Chapter Books book series by Herman Parish includes books Amelia Bedelia Means Business, Amelia Bedelia Unleashed, Amelia Bedelia Road Trip!, and several more. Amelia Bedelia (series) is about morality. The genre of the story is Comedy, the setting is Contemporary. The theme of the story is We must have patience with those who are different from us
When Logan's dog runs away as he and his mother are moving to a new home after his parents separate, a girl named Hannah, who longs for a dog of her own, finds him.
Aldo Zelnick is a comic novel children's book series intended for middle-grade students, written by Karla Oceanak and illustrated by Kendra Spanjer. These books have titles written in alphabetical order and follow the life of a ten-year-old boy, Aldo, and are written and illustrated as entries in Aldo's sketchbook.
Jenny is discouraged when her second grade penpal turns out to be a new student from Saudi Arabia who does not speak English very well, but as she works with her they slowly become friends.
In Claudia Mills illustrated Franklin School Friends chapter book series for young readers, third grade students love learning and practing their reading, math, and athletic skills–and enjoy sharing those loves with the rest of their class.