![]() ![]() ![]() The novel inspired a ground-breaking BBC series featuring a soundtrack by David Bowie. With the publication of Buddha of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi landed into the literary landscape as a distinct new voice and a fearless taboo-breaking writer. When the unlikely opportunity of a life in the theatre announces itself, Karim starts to win the sort of attention he has been craving - albeit with some rude and raucous results. The hero of Hanif Kureishi's debut novel is dreamy teenager Karim, desperate to escape suburban South London and experience the forbidden fruits which the 1970s seem to offer. My name is Karim Amir, and I am an Englishman born and bred, almost. With the publication of Buddha of Suburbia, Hanif K. ![]()
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![]() Baker hated with heat whiter than the sun. Of all the kids in the seventh grade at Camillo Junior High, there was one kid that Mrs. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. But how can Holling stay out of trouble when he has so much to contend with? A bully demanding cream puffs angry rats and a baseball hero signing autographs the very same night Holling has to appear in a play in yellow tights! As fate sneaks up on him again and again, Holling finds Motivation-the Big M-in the most unexpected places and musters up the courage to embrace his destiny, in spite of himself. His father wants Holling and his sister to be on their best behavior: the success of his business depends on it. Why else would she make him read the plays of William Shakespeare outside class? But everyone has bigger things to worry about, like Vietnam. ![]() Baker doesn’t like Holling-he’s sure of it. ![]() Baker, while the rest of the class has religious instruction. Meet Holling Hoodhood, a seventh-grader at Camillo Junior High, who must spend Wednesday afternoons with his teacher, Mrs. ![]() The Wednesday Wars is a wonderfully witty and compelling story about a teenage boy’s mishaps and adventures over the course of the 1967–68 school year in Long Island, New York. Schmidt offers an unforgettable antihero. In this Newbery Honor-winning novel, Gary D. ![]() ![]() But Sage's rivals have their own agendas as well.As Sage moves from a rundown orphanage to Conner's sumptuous palace, layer upon layer of treachery and deceit unfold, until finally, a truth is revealed that, in the end, may very well prove more dangerous than all of the lies taken together. Sage knows that Conner's motives are more than questionable, yet his life balances on a sword's point - he must be chosen to play the prince or he will certainly be killed. If you liked The False Prince, what should you read next The False Prince Ascendance (Book 1) The Runaway King Ascendance (Book 2) The Blackthorn Key The. Four orphans are recruited to compete for the role, including a defiant boy named Sage. In this first book in a remarkable trilogy, an orphan is forced. To unify the divided people, Conner, a nobleman of the court, devises a cunning plan to find an impersonator of the king's long-lost son and install him as a puppet prince. The False Prince (the Ascendance Series, Book 1) - Volume 1 (Paperback). ![]() ![]() In a discontented kingdom, civil war is brewing. New York Times bestseller The False Prince thrills with wild twists and turns, danger and deceit, and the revelation of hidden identities that will have readers rushing breathlessly to the end. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jackie Rodowsky, a lovable charge with a penchant for disaster (dropping lemonade, knocking over a refreshment table, breaking a window at the elementary school, etc.) comes up with the name of Kristy's Krushers. Upon seeing how much Karen, David Michael, and Andrew (and other BSC charges) really want to play, she decides to form a team. They try very hard but they lack the skills or the age to play Little League ball. Kristy is baby-sitting for her own brothers and sister and find they want to play baseball. ![]() It's bad enough that the Bashers truly ARE lean and mean- but what's worse is that Kristy has a crush on the Basher's coach. Now Bart's Bashers have challenged the Krushers to a real live game. Maybe Kristy's Krushers aren't world champions (how could they be, with Jackie Rodowsky, walking disaster, playing for them?), but nobody beats them when it comes to team spirit. When Kristy sees how much her little brothers and sister want to play on a softball team, she starts a rag-tag team of her own. They're lean, they're mean, they're the pride of Stoneybrook. ![]() |