"It's not a river, it's this river. A hot, motionless afternoon. Enero and El Negro are fishing with Tilo, their dead friend's teenage son. After hours of struggling with a hooked stingray, Enero aims his revolver into the water and shoots it. They hang the ray's enormous corpse from a tree at their campsite and let it go to rot, drawing the attention of some local islanders and igniting a long-simmering fury toward outsiders and their carelessness....

Time to dropout and start a new, secure and sustainable life. This book is full of useful information for anyone planning to drop out.

In this funny, big-hearted friendship story, perfect for fans of Wendy Mass and Linda Urban, twelve-year-old Edie and her impossibly cool cousin, Rae, set out to complete a mysterious list of "Good Ideas for Summertime" that their eccentric late grandmother wrote back when she was their age. But good ideas? Most of them seem like bad ideas. Reckless. Foolish. Ridiculous. Still, by accomplishing everything on the list, rule-abiding Edie feels certain...

Love under trying circumstances One night out of the blue, Ratchet Clark's ill-natured mother tells her that Ratchet will be leaving their Pensacola apartment momentarily to take the train up north. There she will spend the summer with her aged relatives Penpen and Tilly, inseparable twins who couldn't look more different from each other. Staying at their secluded house, Ratchet is treated to a passel of strange family history and local lore, along...

A Kitten Needs Help!Join Sophia and Justin on an adventure filled with heartwarming family values, positive sibling relationships, and real-life lessons in animal care.When their dad arrives home with a surprise in the backseat of his truck-a tiny, cold, and lonely kitten left on the front steps of his veterinary clinic-their world transforms into an exciting journey of compassion and responsibility.Sophia and Justin are no ordinary siblings. They...

Ignatius is a pig with a big appetite and very little patience. When someone tosses a fresh dumpling his way, he grabs it in mid-air and swallows. That dumpling is big and it is hot, and very quickly it is stuck-right in Ignatius's throat! Desperate for relief, the poor pig races through his little community to reach the cooling water of the ocean. And careening on his way to the sea, he has plenty of near misses, and a few collisions, with local...

Horses bring them together and their future looks rosy-it's the present they can't handle. When equine veterinary student Lena and veteran pilot Blake fall in love, vet school and the past intrude. Add in a long-distance relationship, and things get just plain hard. A grueling endurance race tests their horse-and their relationship. Can they make it? BOOK THREE IN THE ONCE UPON A VET SCHOOL 24/7 SERIES. Books by Lizzi Tremayne: Unpretentious, eminently...

Hi. My name's Lea, like the field. I'm sixteen and i live on a farm that's too far away from the public schools so i'm home-schooled, but not, like, Christian home-schooled. My parents pulled me out of that a few years ago. My younger brother and i read a lot of books and learn what we want to learn. All that knowledge gets me in trouble though, because i mouth off to my dumb neighbors when they stick God and guns in my face. And i stick up for the...

With slurps and splashes and hoots and growls, some very noisy neighbours make their presence known. Plans for a peaceful retreat in the woods are disturbed when a new cabin-owner meets her very noisy neighbours. Animal hijinks abound in this playful, phonically rich story. Eager for some peace and quiet, the main character of this tale in verse moves to the woods and builds a little cabin getaway. She's found the perfect retreat-or so she thinks...

"An illustrated tour of the US, highlighting the diversity of American lives through the stories of fifty real children, one from each of the fifty states, along with maps, demographic research and additional back matter"--