Resultados para "Düster" en Literatura y ficción

Henry loves his grandfather’s old pocket knife! He asks his grandfather to tell him the story of why he carved a bird into the handle. He learns the history of his family as they moved from Kansas to Oregon during the Dust Bowl and how the meadowlark became a symbol of hope during their journey.

When dust bunnies grow under the bed, a child sweeps, mops, and dusts in an effort to chase them away.

A girl who struggles to breathe befriends a boy who seems shrouded in dust, in this unmissable tour de force from bestselling and award-winning author Dusti Bowling. After Avalyn nearly died from an asthma attack, her parents moved her to the clear, dry air of Clear Canyon City, Arizona. And for...

Marius Grey hunts Monsters. He's not supposed to. He's only twelve and his job as a Cemetery Boy is to look after the ghosts in his family's graveyard. He should be tending these ghosts and—of course—going to school to learn how to live between worlds without getting into trouble. But Marius has an expensive goal. He wants to bring his mother back from the dead, and that takes a LOT of mystic coins, which means a LOT of Monster Hunting, and his mother’s window to return is closing.

Billy, who lives in the town of Stony Brook, is having a miserable summer. Firstly, she's having a fight with her best friend, Dev. Secondly, it looks like her mums might have to sell their antique shop. And thirdly and perhaps worst of all, her goldfish Hepzibah has died (she killed it). But when Billy happens across some unusual spectacles through which she can not only see but hear ghosts–things take a spectral turn.

Zulaikha hopes. She hopes for peace, now that the Taliban have been driven from Afghanistan; a good relationship with her hard stepmother; and one day even to go to school, or to have her cleft palate fixed. Zulaikha knows all will be provided for her--"Inshallah," God willing. Then she meets Meena, who offers to teach her the Afghan poetry she taught her late mother. And the Americans come to her village, promising not just new opportunities and dangers, but surgery to fix her face. These changes could mean a whole new life for Zulaikha--but can she dare to hope they'll come true?

The Dust Bowl of the 1930s was the worst environmental disaster in American history, a time when "black blizzards" of dust, some hundreds of miles wide, swept across the southern plains. Hundreds of people were killed. Thousands of farms were buried. Millions of refugees fled starvation and sickness in the plains only to face hatred and prejudice in California. In her 25th I Survived audiobook, Lauren Tarshis brings this desperate time of poverty and fear to life through the thrilling story of an eleven-year-old boy.

What do you do when you find a sweet, little dust bunny hiding under your bed? There are lots of games to be played; he can stay awhile. But what about when that dust bunny turns into a roomful of dust bunnies? It's time for a little Dust Bunny Boogie! Come sing and dance along.

Set in the 1930s Oklahoma, this American Horse Tale is the story of a young girl who makes the difficult decision to leave her family and move to California so she can stay with her horse. A young girl named Ginny and her family are dealing with the hardships of the Great Depression, and in...

From a bestselling author: Miss Peregrine meets The Graveyard Book in this middle grade adventure about rival siblings running a monster mortuary. ​ Thirteen-year-old Molly doesn't know how she got the short end of the stick—being raised by her neglectful father—while Dustin, the older...

How much do you have to give up to find yourself? When Pete first sets eyes the Man, he's convinced he's an ax murderer. But at the revival meeting, Pete discovers that the Man is actually a savior of souls, and Pete has been waiting all his life to be saved. It's not something Pete's parents...

In a Fairyland far away, lives a little fairy named Poppy. Read about her story as she dreams of friendship and magic wings like all the other little fairies in the land.

Author of A Comb of Wishes Lisa Stringfellow returns with a West African–inspired fantasy about a girl who is determined to return both magic and justice to her people—and whose destiny holds more surprises than she could ever imagine. “A fascinating fairy tale of memory, the power of...

Papa Winterwald ist absolut sicher: Diese Weihnachtsferien werden Rentier-frei, denn die Familie verdrückt sich in den Skiurlaub! Doch kurz vor der Abreise klingelt es und ein riesiges Paket steht vor der Tür. Im Innern – Überraschung! – sitzt Rentier Flinn, der seit Neuestem unter Flugangst leidet. Und wer könnte ihn besser heilen als Frieda, die sich schon im letzten Jahr so gut um Flinn gekümmert hat? Vielleicht verliert er beim Skifahren und Rodeln in den Bergen die Angst vor Höhe und Geschwindigkeit?

Billie Jo has a great deal to forgive: her father for causing the accident that killed her mother; her mother for leaving when Billie Jo needed her most; and herself for being the cause of her own sorrow. Daddy's too wrung out to help her, and there's no one else to care. So at fourteen, Billie...

Ich bin Egon und das ist mein Forschertagebuch. Hier darf nur reinhören, wer Forscher ist. Oder wer einer werden will. Aber sonst keiner... Egon und Jojo entdecken auf einer Schul-Exkursion riesige Kornkreise. Wer kann die bloß fabriziert haben? Etwa ein Ufo? Und was passiert, wenn ein Asteroid auf die Erde zurast? Jojo macht das alles ziemlich nervös. Aber Egon tüftelt schon am Plan für eine Asteroiden-und-Alien-Abwehrrakete... Bei diesen Weltraum-Experimenten ist lustiges Chaos garantiert.

In a distant galaxy, far, far away, but really a lot closer than one would think, lies the fantastic, floral, fields of Florapopadrop. On this flowery paradise, The Empire of the Sunflowers and The Great and Harmonic Nation of the Moonlily wage an ancient, passive aggressive war to control the fate, freedom, and harmony of their planet.

Nostril is a unique mouse with the gift of smelling and identifying the finest of cheeses. He can sniff out the most minute differences in cheeses with his with very large nose. The story centers itself around Nostril's quest for survival and his mission to protect the most valuable cheese from his evil nemesis, Roscoe. Roscoe is an evil, daunting rat who wants the most valuable cheese, which is made of gold dust. This story is both adventurous and intriguing.

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