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Suddenly rumors are swirling, and Holly’s face is captured on countless phones and plastered all over the Internet. Because Nick just happens to be Dominic Wyatt, drummer for ReadySet–one of the hottest bands in America. But when Holly goes to make her exit, she gets the shock of her life: a corridor crammed with screaming teenage fans. The culprit? A gorgeous guy calling himself Nick. And when in a moment of seasick-fueled desperation she lurches into an open suite–she’s greeted with an eyeful of pepper spray. Spending Christmas vacation on a cruise with her two cousins from hell isn’t Holly’s idea of a good time. Holly Dayton is about to go way out of her comfort zone… classified as Contemporary, Holiday, Romance, Young Adult. Sir Princess Petra's Mission is book club recommended. These multi-award winning knight stories for children 7 - 11 years are sure to entertain. Join Sir Princess Petra and her dragon steed, Snarls, in their zany adventures in these exciting dragon books for children, children's book series. Book 2 in the Twelve-Time Award-Winning Fantasy Series For Kids.Amazingly fresh, charmingly funny, and embracing timeless values of kindness, understanding, and believing in oneself.Sir Princess Petra has already proven she is a kind and noble. Sir Princess Petra has already attained her knighthood in the Kingdom of Pen Pieyu and her non-princess-like talent certificate from Talent School,neither of which pleases her father and mother, the king and queen.The king writes up more silly rules in the royal rule book to deter Sir Princess Petra from her knightly ways and useless talent, and turn her into a real princess once and for all.Will the king finally succeed with this newly written, ridiculous mission for Petra? Sir Princess Petra's Mission has book club recommendations. The Pen Pieyu Adventures series has won 11 international book awards and 1 provincial award. Sir Princess Petra's Mission is a Multi-Award Winning Book.Ģ016 Readers' Favorite International Book AwardĢ017 Children's Literary Classics Seal of ApprovalĢ017 Children's Literary Classics Book Award, Gold Medal Book # 3 in the Eleven-Time International Award Winning Series. And this is YA/middle grade, so such details might have been glossed over intentionally. She does not specify if they were sent to concentration camps, starved in ghettos, were killed in attacks-but she probably never knew. In the novel it tells of how determination, the human ability to adopt, and happiness can hold a family together and help them even preserver over all odds. Her aunts, uncles, cousins, maternal grandmother-all were killed during the war. (Johann von Goethe) The Endless Steppe by Esther Hautzig is a novel about a family’s determination to survive. As well as worry about the family members left in Vilna.When Russia sends the family back to Poland after the war, they learn that they-who endured 4 years exiled as Jewish capitalists-are some of the few Polish Jews who survived. It is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first. I can only imagine what the physically demanding jobs, cold, hunger, need for better housing, and their daughter and mother suffering did to their thoughts. THE ENDLESS STEPPE is based on the authors true-life experience. Her parents and grandmother hid much from her (which she does recognize as an adult)-the hunger, cold, school, moving, close quarters, outgrown shoes-are all just part of this weird normal for Esther, exiled with her family in Siberia during WW2. This story is very much a child's impression. |