Patricia McCormick crafts powerful and unsettling stories for young adults that often delve into complex psychological and social issues. Her literary style is incisive and empathetic, revealing characters' inner lives and their struggles with trauma, addiction, and self-harm. As a journalist, she has honed an ability to ground her narratives in compelling and realistic settings. McCormick is distinguished by her courageous approach to sensitive subject matter, offering readers profound reflection.
The inspiring true story of Reckless, the brave little horse who became a Marine. It's a fun way to learn to read and as a supplement for activity books for children. When a group of US Marines fighting in the Korean War found a bedraggled mare, they wondered if she could be trained to as a packhorse.
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. Malala Yousafzai was ten years old when the Taliban took control of her region. They said music was a crime, women weren't allowed to go to the market and girls couldn't go to school. Malala fought for her right to be educated, and on 9 October, 2012, she was shot point-blank on her way home from school. No one expected her to survive. Now she is an international symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest-ever winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. This teen edition written by Malala for her peers is fully updated with new material.
Struggling with feelings of inadequacy, Private Matt Duffy grapples with his experiences in war after receiving a Purple Heart in an army hospital in Iraq. The story delves into his internal conflict and the complexities of heroism, exploring themes of trauma, honor, and the personal toll of combat. As he navigates his recovery, Duffy must confront his identity and the expectations placed on him as a soldier.
You say it's up to me to do the talking. You lean forward and your black leather chair groans, like a living thing. Like the cow it was before somebody killed it and turned it into a chair in a shrink's office in a loony bin...
A brush with the supernatural? A rock concert? A reunion? A poolside revelation? The need to know what's up? The confessions of a friend? The dream of escape? A sick pet? An English assignment? The rear-window view of a murder next door? The search for the mother you never met? What keeps you up all night?This remarkable collection of award-winning and bestselling authors is thought provoking, insightful, heartfelt, and powerful.
In this powerful and emotional New York Times bestseller, Nobel Peace Prize winner and activist Malala Yousafzai shares various stories of displacement, including her own. Part memoir, part communal storytelling, We Are Displaced introduces readers to some of the incredible girls Malala has met on her many journeys and lets each tell her story …
Toby bewundert seinen großen Bruder, der in die Drogenabhängigkeit abrutscht. Um ihn zu schützen, lügt Toby, doch als sein Bruder eine Grenze überschreitet, erkennt er, dass er handeln muss. Ein berührendes und humorvolles Buch über Tragik und den Mut zur Wahrheit.
This National Book Award nominee from two-time finalist Patricia McCormick is the unforgettable story of Arn Chorn-Pond, who defied the odds to survive the Cambodian genocide of 1975-1979 and the labor camps of the Khmer Rouge. Based on the true story of Cambodian advocate Arn Chorn-Pond, and authentically told from his point of view as a young boy, this is an achingly raw and powerful historical novel about a child of war who becomes a man of peace. It includes an author's note and acknowledgments from Arn Chorn-Pond himself. When soldiers arrive in his hometown, Arn is just a normal little boy. But after the soldiers march the entire population into the countryside, his life is changed forever. Arn is separated from his family and assigned to a labor camp: working in the rice paddies under a blazing sun, he sees the other children dying before his eyes. One day, the soldiers ask if any of the kids can play an instrument. Arn's never played a note in his life, but he volunteers. This decision will save his life, but it will pull him into the very center of what we know today as the Killing Fields. And just as the country is about to be liberated, Arn is handed a gun and forced to become a soldier. Supports the Common Core State Standards.
