This is a really sweet book. The boy in the story finds out that instead of responding to English his dog responds to Chinese words. It leads him to want to learn Chinese. This would be a good book to introduce a child to the Chinese language, only a few words and expressions are shown. It's also...
Malcolm Firth is an aging hairdresser whose partner, Denis, is wasting away from memory loss. Malcolm works at a zany Vancouver hair salon where he trains Alison, a young ingenue from the suburbs, amidst a staff of eccentric urbanoid hair stylists. Their clients include a troop of old people, one...
Isabel didn’t come over. She couldn’t because Mandy was holding on to the collar of her shirt. Every time Isabel tried to sneak away, Mandy yanked her back. “Do you want to come to my house?” Ori asked Jasper. Jasper did, but he was afraid that Ori ...
When she got near enough to recognize Larry, she stopped. Stopped and released the handle of her wheeled carry-on, her baggage, and waited for Larry to come and pick it up. He did, kissing her paperbag cheek and leading her by the arm out of the terminal into the summery, contrailed air. In the c...
This happened when Nicola was returning to her desk after asking Lindsay if she’d visited Shady Oaks the day before. Lindsay had pushed up her pink glasses and made a shooing motion with her hand. Either she didn’t want to talk just then, or she never wanted to speak to Nicola again. ...
brought Simon home that afternoon. My office is at the front of the house, facing the street, so I had advance notice of their coming. (Here’s something else to worry about: do they talk this loudly because they’re plugged in, or is this premature hearing loss?) I got up from the computer—page 22...
Not only was he over the hump, he was going to have his first sleepover. His wooden brother Earl was going to sleep with him. Mom and Dad stood in the doorway. “Don’t talk all night,” Dad said. “You have school tomorrow.” “You don’t want to be too t...
He had to show the teacher what he’d learned. He showed her his flutter kick. He showed her his side glide. He showed her his back float. Bruno could float on his back for a very long time. He was an excellent floater. “That’s great, Bruno!” the teacher called. Bruno kept on floating. The teacher...
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It was Annie. She wasn’t old, and her eyes looked normal, just like Mom said. But there was something different about her. Jasper noticed right away. “Oh!” he said. Mom came to the door zippering her dress. She said, “Hello. You must be — Oh!” ...