Twelve-year-old Page visits the canyons of Big Bend National Park in Texas as part of her mother's attempt to flee Page's abusive father, in a story that takes place in a 1950s town that is still reminiscent of the Wild West. Simultaneous.
Author: Aileen Kilgore Henderson
Publisher:
ISBN: 1571316191
Category: Juvenile Fiction
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Twelve-year-old Page visits the canyons of Big Bend National Park in Texas as part of her mother's attempt to flee Page's abusive father, in a story that takes place in a 1950s town that is still reminiscent of the Wild West. Simultaneous.
Twelve-year-old Page and her mother travel all the way from Alabama to the rugged, isolated Big Bend National Park in Texas, where her mother gets a job teaching in a small school and where they start a new life away from Page's abusive ...
Author: Aileen Kilgore Henderson
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 0606190376
Category: Juvenile Fiction
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Twelve-year-old Page and her mother travel all the way from Alabama to the rugged, isolated Big Bend National Park in Texas, where her mother gets a job teaching in a small school and where they start a new life away from Page's abusive father.
The Monkey Thief AILEEN KIGORE MENDERSON HARD TIMES FOR TAKE SMITH The Sumner of the Bonepile Monster Aileen Kilgore Henderwa Pood Treasure Panther Peak The Monkey Thief Aileen Kilgore Henderson New York Public Library Best Books of the ...
Author: Jessica Lee Anderson
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
ISBN: 1571316590
Category: Juvenile Fiction
Page: 194
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Twelve-year-old Trudy's life is filled with changes, mainly centered around starting middle school, and as she struggles to take them all in stride she is hit with the biggest change of all--her elderly father's diagnosis of dementia. Simultaneous.
AILEEN KILGORE HENDERSON HARD TIMES FOR JAKE SMITH Allen Kilgo Ho Sood be Roer The Gooper " > Treasure Panther Peak TAMA Cumming Susan Lowell The Secret of the Ruby Ring Yane Ma Gray Hard Times for Jake Smith Aileen Kilgore Henderson A ...
Author: John Thomson
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
ISBN: 1571316574
Category: Juvenile Fiction
Page: 168
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Twelve-year-old Donovan's summer with his aunt and uncle on Puget Sound becomes a test of his own convictions when he suspects his uncle's involvement in a local racist group.
Treasure of Panther Peak by Aileen Kilgore Henderson new york public library best books of the year: “books for the teen age” A twelve-year-old girl adjusts to her new life in Big Bend National Park. I Am Lavina Cumming by Susan Lowell ...
Author: Natasha Friend
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
ISBN: 1571318011
Category: Juvenile Fiction
Page: 232
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Depicting with humor and insight the pressure to be outwardly perfect, this novel for ages 10-13 shows how one girl develops compassion for her own and others’ imperfections. For 13-year-old Isabelle Lee, whose father has recently died, everything's normal on the outside. Isabelle describes the scene at school with bemused accuracy--the self-important (but really not bad) English teacher, the boy that is constantly fixated on Ashley Barnum, the prettiest girl in class, and the dynamics of the lunchroom, where tables are turf in a all-eyes-open awareness of everybody's relative social position. But everything is not normal, really. Since the dealth of her father, Isabelle's family has only functioned on the surface. Her mother, who used to take care of herself, now wears only lumpy, ill-fitting clothes, cries all night, and has taken every picture of her dead husband and put them under her bed. Isabelle tries to make light of this, but the underlying tension is expressed in overeating and then binging. As the novel opens, Isabelle's little sister, April, has told their mother about Isabelle's problem. Isabelle is enrolled in group therapy. Who should show up there, too, but Ashley Barnum, the prettiest, most together girl in class.
TREASURE OF PANTHER PEAK by Aileen Kilgore Henderson NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR : " BOOKS FOR THE TEEN AGE " Twelve - year - old Page Williams begrudgingly accompanies her mother , Ellie , as she flees her abusive ...
Author: George Harrar
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
ISBN: 1571316337
Category: Juvenile Fiction
Page: 266
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Twelve-year-old Andrew, who has ADD, is adopted by new parents after years of other foster homes and desperately hopes that he will not mess up the situation.
Her second book for children , The Monkey Thief , was selected for the New York Public Library's list of 1998 Books for the Teen Age . She is also the author of The Treasure of Panther Peak , which was placed on the Sunshine State Young ...
Author: Aileen Kilgore Henderson
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
ISBN: 1571316493
Category: Juvenile Fiction
Page: 216
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In 1935 Alabama, when twelve-year-old MaryJake is abandoned by her financially-strapped parents and told to walk to the house of unknown relatives, she dresses like a boy and joins the household of an old widow before discovering secrets about her own family.
Treasure of Panther Peak Aileen Kilgore Henderson The Dog with Golden Eyes Frances Wilbur Children's Anthologies Stories from Where We Live - The California Coast Edited by Sara St. Antoine Stories from Where We Live - The Great North ...
Author: John Elder
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
ISBN: 1571312587
Category: Nature
Page: 170
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Teacher and writer John Elder, a man who loves both literature and the outdoors, describes in The Frog Run how he found a way to balance these passions in building a sugarhouse with his sons in the Vermont woods. He celebrates the moment between winter and spring - known to sugarmakers as "the frog run" - when the tree frogs begin to be heard and the last run of sap good for making syrup flows from the maples. For Elder, who also writes in this book about the resurgence of New England forests and about his life as a reader, the frog run is a time to savor and celebrate the fleeting beauties of his family's place on earth.
Author: Aileen Kilgore HendersonPublish On: 2011-01-01
also by Aileen Kilgore Henderson The Summer ofthe Bonepile Monster (1995) The Monkey Thief(1997) Treasure of Panther Peak (1999) Stateside Soldier: Life in the Women's Army Corps, 1944–1945 (2001) Tenderfoot Teacher: Letter from the ...
Author: Aileen Kilgore Henderson
Publisher: NewSouth Books
ISBN: 9781588382436
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 274
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In 1871 when the University of Alabama reopened after its destruction by Federal troops, Eugene Allen Smith returned to his alma mater as professor of geology and mineralogy. Until his death in 1927, this gifted man devoted his abundant energy and his stout heart to the welfare of the school and the state. After persuading the legislature to appoint him state geologist in 1873, he spent his summers enduring chills, fevers, and verbal abuse as he searched for industrial raw materials that could bring about better lives for destitute Alabamians. Traveling in a mule-drawn wagon, he recorded detailed observations, botanical and geological discoveries, and mineral analyses in his journal. He loaded the wagon with specimens for the university museum he dreamed of creating some day. He inventoried industries that had failed or been destroyed, judging whether they were worth salvaging. Interspersed with this information were pithy comments on people he met, frustrations he dealt with, historical notes, and poetic descriptions of rocks and creeks and mountains, giving a vivid picture of Alabama in transition. What he accomplished, against monumental odds, became the catalyst that transformed Alabama from an aimless and poverty-stricken agricultural state to an industrial giant to be reckoned with. How he accomplished what he did, with very little support and hardly any money, gave this diminutive and very human man a stature of mythic proportions in the history of the university and the state. The story of Little Doc, as told in Eugene Allen Smiths Alabama, is drawn from many sources: Smiths transcribed field notes, countless numbers of letters he received and the carbon copies of his replies, his published reports over a period of fifty years, wills, genealogical records, histories of the st