5 книг
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A Year Down Yonder Ричард Пек
ISBN: 0142300705, 9780142300701 Год издания: 2002 Издательство: Puffin Books Язык: Английский Mary Alice and Grandma Dowdel return for more astonishing, laugh-out-loud adventures when fifteen-year-old Mary Alice moves in with her spicy grandmother for the year. Her extended visit is filled with moonlit schemes, romances both foiled and founded, and a whole parade of fools made to suffer in unusual (and always hilarious) ways. Wise, exuberant, and slyly heartwarming, Mary Alice's story is a fully satisfying companion to the celebrated A Long Way from Chicago.
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A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories Ричард Пек
ISBN: 978-0142401101 Год издания: 2004 Издательство: Puffin Books Язык: Английский РазвернутьJoey and his little sister are not too excited about their first visit to Grandma Dowdell in smalltown Illinois. She's an old lady - how can she possibly entertain them for a whole week! But from the moment they step off the train from Chicago, they know they had Grandma all wrong. What follows, over seven annual visits , is a hilarious and often touching account of a childhood spent with a larger than life grandmother. If she isn't holding her nasty neighbours at gunpoint, or catching the local sherriff in his underwear, Grandma Dowdell is doing a spot of poaching or cooking up a storm in her kitchen. Joey and Mary Alice observe all, and…
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A Season of Gifts Ричард Пек
ISBN: 0803730829 Год издания: 2009 Издательство: Dial Books Язык: Английский РазвернутьThe eccentric, larger-than-life Grandma Dowdel is back in this heart-warming tale. Set 20 years after the events of A Year Down Yonder, it is now 1958 and a new family has moved in next door: a Methodist minister and his wife and kids. Soon Grandma Dowdel will work her particular brand of charm on all of them: ten-year-old Bob Barnhart, who is shy on courage in a town full of bullies; his two fascinating sisters; and even his parents, who are amazed to discover that the last house in town might also be the most vital. As Christmas rolls around, the Barnhart family realizes that they’ve found a true home, and a neighbor who gives gifts…
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The Ghost Belonged to Me Ричард Пек
ISBN: 0140386718 Год издания: 1997 Издательство: Puffin Books Язык: Английский "More death! More, if you do not stop it. Others lost, like me in the black water. Save them!" When Alexander first sees the eerie glow in the dormer window of the barn, it sets his heart pounding. And when he ventures into the barn in the dark of night, his breath catches in his throat. Suddenly Blossom Culp's words come back to him: "You can make contact with the Unseen...." Now there's a girl ghost standing right in front of him, telling him of great danger ahead. But is there time for Alexander to act on her warning?
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The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts Ричард Пек
ISBN: 0439802660 Год издания: 2004 Издательство: Scholastic Язык: Английский Развернуть"If your teacher has to die, August isn't a bad time of the year for it," says Russell Culver, fifteen, who's raring to light our for the endless skies of the Dakotas to join a team of harvesters working the new 1904 all-steel threshing machines. School's only standing in the way of his Dakota dreams. Maybe now with his teacher in the ground, Hominy Ridge School with shut down for good. No such luck. Russell and his schoolmates - Pearl, Flopears, Little Britches; the whole bunch - are about to be ruled by a new teacher who's Russell's worst nightmare. Despite stolen supplies, rustic vandalism, a blazing boys' privy, and more snakes…
