Look Out for the Fitzgerald-Trouts

Look Out for the Fitzgerald-Trouts
Author: Esta Spalding
Publisher: Tundra Books
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2016-05-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 177049877X

Kim Fitzgerald-Trout took to driving with ease--as most children would if their parents would ever let them try. She had to. After all, she and her siblings live in a car. Meet the Fitzgerald-Trouts, a band of four loosely related children living together on a lush tropical island. They take care of themselves. They sleep in their car, bathe in the ocean, eat fish they catch and fruit they pick, and can drive anywhere they need to go--to the school, the laundromat, or the drive-in. If they put their minds to it, the Fitzgerald-Trouts can do anything. Even, they hope, find a real home. Award-winning poet and screenwriter Esta Spalding's exciting middle grade debut establishes a marvelous place where children fend for themselves, and adults only seem to ruin everything. This extraordinary world is brought to vibrant life by Sydney Smith, the celebrated artist behind Sidewalk Flowers.

Shout Out for the Fitzgerald-Trouts

Shout Out for the Fitzgerald-Trouts
Author: Esta Spalding
Publisher: Tundra Books
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2019-06-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 073526452X

The third book in a Dahl-esque middle-grade series by award-winning poet and screenwriter Esta Spalding. The plucky Fitzgerald-Trout siblings (who live on a tropical island where the grown-ups are useless but the kids can drive) are back! After losing the boat that had become their home, oldest Fitzgerald-Trout, Kim, has put finding a home back on her to-do list. When her sixth-grade history assignment offers a clue about the ruins of a volcanic house built by an explorer on Mount Muldoon, she and her siblings set out to find it. The castle they discover surpasses their wildest dreams. But having a permanent home offers more challenges than the Fitzgerald-Trouts expect, especially when they begin to suspect their home is haunted. The siblings must figure out how to fix the cracks in their family foundation before one of them is lost for good.

Mere

Mere
Author: Esta Spalding
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2013-12-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1443402400

Mere’s young life is confined to the wind and water, the boat that she lives on docking only long enough to stop at the grocery store or visit the library, but never long enough to take out any books. That would mean having a library card, and a library card would mean revealing your name on a government form. Mere, her mother, Faye, and Mark, the mysterious teenage runaway who shares their boat, seem destined to sail around the Great Lakes forever, navigating the Persephone through the deep waters, stopping in Toronto twice a year to pick up envelopes of cash left with the dockmaster. Faye is a fugitive, still pursued for her part in the violent one-year anniversary events marking Chicago’s 1968 “Days of Rage”—a seminal student protest against the Vietnam war. Now Merril, Mere’s father, has suddenly appeared on the boat after many years. The authorities are looking for him and Faye is his ticket to freedom. But, in a desperate bid for her own adolescent freedom, Mere makes a choice that will change everything. Mere is a wonderfully electric novel about the inexorable bond between mothers and daughters, written by two of Canada’s most talented writers—themselves mother and daughter. Rich in its allegorical and sociological strands, it reaches into the Greek myth of Persephone; it explores a woman’s primeval need to protect her child; and it lays bare the explosive events of a touchstone period in our history. A novel of choices and consequences, betrayal and atonement, Mere builds lyrically to a shattering climax, an ending that haunts long after the last page is turned.

Sidewalk Flowers

Sidewalk Flowers
Author: JonArno Lawson
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
Total Pages: 31
Release: 2015-03-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1554988551

Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Illustrated Book A New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year In this wordless picture book, a little girl collects wildflowers while her distracted father pays her little attention. Each flower becomes a gift, and whether the gift is noticed or ignored, both giver and recipient are transformed by their encounter. “Written” by award-winning poet JonArno Lawson and brought to life by illustrator Sydney Smith, Sidewalk Flowers is an ode to the importance of small things, small people and small gestures. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.7 Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.

Elena

Elena
Author: Diane Stanley
Publisher: Hyperion
Total Pages: 55
Release: 1996
Genre: Mexican Americans
ISBN: 9780786802562

A Mexican American girl recounts how her mother moved the family to America during the Mexican Revolution.

Nevers

Nevers
Author: Sara Cassidy
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2019-09-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1459821653

Resourceful fourteen-year-old Odette is on the move again, traveling as a stowaway on a cheese cart with her hapless mother, Anneline. They are in Burgundy, France, in 1799, fleeing yet another calamity caused by Anneline (who is prone to killing people accidentally). At dawn they find themselves in a town called Nevers, which is filled with eccentric characters, including a man who obsessively smells hands, another who dreams of becoming a chicken and a donkey that keeps the town awake at night, braying about his narrow life. As Odette establishes a home in an abandoned guardhouse, she makes a friend in the relaxed Nicois and finds work as a midwife's assistant. She and Nicois uncover a mystery that may lead to riches and, more important for Odette, a sense of belonging. The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.

Lost Classics

Lost Classics
Author: Michael Ondaatje
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Authors
ISBN: 9780676972993

Based on an issue of the Canadian periodical, Brick, this compendium features 80 essays by writers about their favourite classic work of literature. In this collection, Margaret Atwood discusses sex and death in Doctor Glas, Susan Musgrave remembers A.E. Houseman, and Ronald Wright muses about William Golding. Other contributors include Jane Rule, Russell Banks, John Irving, Carole Corbeil, and Bill Richardson. 2000.

Colette's Lost Pet

Colette's Lost Pet
Author: Isabelle Arsenault
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2017-05-23
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0553536613

Colette can't find something to talk about with the new kids in the neighborhood...so she invents a pet! Her fib quickly escalates, and suddenly her parakeet is a larger-than-life world-traveler named Marie Antoinette. Have her new friends figured out her secret? What will they do? This charming story both clearly identifies the struggle of navigating a different experience, and demonstrates to kids a lovely and welcoming way to treat someone new in their community.

Proverbs of All Nations

Proverbs of All Nations
Author: Walter Keating Kelly
Publisher:
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1859
Genre: Freedom of speech
ISBN: