An beautifully-written follow up to the Peter and Veronica books--former-bully Veronica is now a grown woman with children of her own, including Mary Rose, a daughter named for her late sister. (Fans will remember the whiny Mary Rose from the Veronica books.) Little sniveling brother Stanley is a...
I don’t know even know how to start this review. This book sure was different. It wasn’t what I expected at all. And this, this is a good thing.The story is about Jeff Lyons, a high school senior who wants to transfer from chemistry class to ceramics’ because he’s not that great of a student (doe...
Summary: This is the story of Nicole Nieman, who realizes that her family's Jewish heritage will have a strong impact on her family and friends as the Nazis start to occupy France. Several refugees come to stay with her family while fleeing from Nazi soldiers. Nicole's parents wonder if they shou...
One of the most famous bullies in children's books, Veronica Ganz has never met her match. She has systematically beaten up everybody in all of the classes, and has never been challenges until... until little Peter Wedemeyer moves into the neighborhood. Taunting, teasing and always one step ahead...
Sandy said, helping herself to a piece of pepperoni pizza, “was the finest man in the world.” She had tears in her eyes as she laid the piece on her plate and began folding it inward. “Nobody cared the way he did. He was always on the side of the underdog.” She looked at me across the table befor...
my mother cried, putting down the phone, “and there’s nothing in the house to eat.” I stopped chewing my cheese-and-baloney sandwich. “Beth?” I said. “Beth is coming here?” “And her mother, Mrs. Fancy Pants Lattimore,” my mother cried. “Just like her—. 'Don’t go to any trouble', she says. 'We’re ...
No, no. I saw him when the sun had set In water, leaning on his single oar Above his garden faintly glimmering yet... There bulked the plough, here washed the updrifted weeds... And scull across his roof and make for shore, With twisted face and pocket full of seeds. Edna St. Vincent Millay Fe...
No Hebrew School. He could do what he liked today. Peter dropped his books on his bed, grabbed his roller skates, and was out of the house before his mother could ask him where he was going. Outside, he sat down on the stoop, quickly strapped on his skates, and skimmed off down the street. Funny ...