Out of the Dust Scholastic Gold

• Author : Karen Hesse
• Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
• Release Date : 2012-09-01
• ISBN : 9780545517126

Acclaimed author Karen Hesse's Newbery Medal-winning novel-in-verse explores the life of fourteen-year-old Billie Jo growing up in the dust bowls of Oklahoma.

• Author : Louise Lawrence
• Publisher : Random House
• Release Date : 2013-01-30
• ISBN : 9781446430781

A powerful post-nuclear holocaust novel described by the author as, 'my cry against the monstrous weapons men have made'. Everyone thought, when the alarm bell rang, that it was just another fire practice. But the first bombs had fallen on Hamburg and Leningrad, the headmaster said, and a full-scale nuclear attack was imminent . . . It's a real-life nightmare. Sarah and her family have to stay cooped up in the tightly-sealed kitchen for days on end, dreading the inevitable radioactive fall-out and

• Author : Janice Mirikitani
• Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
• Release Date : 2014-07-31
• ISBN : 9780824847944

Out of the Dust is a collection of new poems by activist, leader, poet, and editor Janice Mirikitani. After being named San Francisco’s second Poet Laureate in 2000, this fifth book of poems from Mirikitani was written in response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Drawing from her own background as a Sansei (third generation) Japanese American, Mirikitani reflects on the many ways we connect through the dust and our ability to rise and renew ourselves from this place. From

• Author : Jerry Stanley
• Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Release Date : 2014-11-26
• ISBN : 9780307792471

Illus. with photographs from the Dust Bowl era. This true story took place at the emergency farm-labor camp immortalized in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Ostracized as "dumb Okies," the children of Dust Bowl migrant laborers went without school--until Superintendent Leo Hart and 50 Okie kids built their own school in a nearby field.

• Author : Trent Reedy
• Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
• Release Date : 2013-03-01
• ISBN : 9780545578066

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

• Author : Gharbi M. Mustafa
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release Date : 2018-06-19
• ISBN : 9781628729498

As The Kite Runner and The Swallows of Kabuldid for the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, this slim, profound novel illuminates the plight of those living under the Islamic State as well as the spirit of the Yazidi people. Today is Nazo’s wedding. Today she will set herself on fire. Nazo Heydo has drenched herself in kerosene and is ready to light the match in order to avoid marrying the Syrian elder who bought her from Islamic State officials. Her

• Author : Pat Young
• Publisher : Open Road Media
• Release Date : 2017-07-27
• ISBN : 9781913682095

“An enthralling narrative of shifting identity juxtaposed with New York in crisis…a wickedly unnerving thriller.”—Caro Ramsay, author of Absolution Lucie married young. Her husband has become abusive, controlling and violent. Having lost everything as a result of the marriage, Lucie decides it is time to walk away. As she leaves the house on the morning of September 11, heading to a job interview at the World Trade Center and the promise of a new life, the unthinkable happens. On

• Author : Karen Hesse
• Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
• Release Date : 2013-03-01
• ISBN : 9780545345941

Leanora Sutter. Esther Hirsh. Merlin Van Tornhout. Johnny Reeves . . . These characters are among the unforgettable cast inhabiting a small Vermont town in 1924. A town that turns against its own when the Ku Klux Klan moves in. No one is safe, especially the two youngest, twelve-year-old Leanora, an African-American girl, and six-year-old Esther, who is Jewish. In this story of a community on the brink of disaster, told through the haunting and impassioned voices of its inhabitants, Newbery Award winner Karen

• Author : Zoe Klein
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release Date : 2009-07-07
• ISBN : 9781416599128

Scorned for agreeing to help an Arab couple excavate allegedly haunted grounds under their house, archaeologist Page Brookstone finds what may be the tomb of the prophet Jeremiah, as well as the remains of a woman, and intriguing scrolls documenting their relationship.

• Author : Charmaine Pauls
• Publisher : Charmaine Pauls
• Release Date : 2020-05-19
• ISBN : 9782491833015

“She’s a pretty wildflower destined for my brother's vase. I'll make her mine, even if how I do it will make flowers wilt.” A DARK FRENCH MAFIA ROMANCE Men like us, we see things. We do things, things that make us unfeeling. That's the price of power and money, of living la belle vie and running the French mafia. Then she came along like a pretty wildflower pushing through the cracks on a dirty pavement - fragile yet resilient,

• Author : Susie Finkbeiner
• Publisher : Kregel Publications
• Release Date : 2015-10-27
• ISBN : 9780825443886

Where you come from isn’t who you are “Riveting. An achingly beautiful tale told with a singularly fresh and original voice.” —Jocelyn Green, award-winning author of the Heroines Behind the Lines Civil War series Ten-year-old Pearl doesn’t understand a lot of things—why her sister’s brain doesn’t work right, why the preacher yells so much, why Jesus and the president seem to have forgotten all about Oklahoma. But she does know who she is: Pearl Spence,

• Author : A. R. Colbert
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2020-02-14
• ISBN : 9798610806792

IN A WORLD WHERE EVERYTHING IS DONE "FOR THE GREATER GOOD," EXPOSING THE TRUTH IS A DEATH WISH. Strap in for the first book in the highly addictive dystopian world of the Ember Society Series. Life isn't easy for Claren Greenwood. Her mother was killed by rebels, her father was exiled, and her brother is walking dangerously close to a similar fate. But Claren has a rare skill, and once the government identifies her as an Empath her world is

• Author : Ray Bradbury
• Publisher : HarperCollins UK
• Release Date : 2014-01-09
• ISBN : 9780007541737

Enter the strange world of the Elliott family: it will change you forever...

• Author : Tom Linley
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2015-02-21
• ISBN : 0985865121

Biography of Gene Rainbolt

• Author : William Faulkner
• Publisher : Good Press
• Release Date : 2021-08-31
• ISBN : EAN:4066338038456

"Intruder in the Dust" by William Faulkner. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in