Books with title Catcher

After an earth-shattering diagnosis of leukemia, 15-year-old Daniel Landon sees a reflection of himself in the words of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. Inspired by Holden Caulfield, Daniel begins to question the intentions and authority of those around him in his own search for identity as he faces death. Tired of his cramped surroundings and hippie parents’ alternative approaches to his treatment, he follows the footsteps of Caulfield to New York City in search of the same eternal truths, only to discover the importance of home when death looms. A coming of age story, a love story, and a new classic, Catcher, Caught will engage the imagination of more than one generation, searching for lasting values.

They call pitches, cover bunts, and catch pop-ups. They throw out runners trying to steal bases, cover wild pitches, and do anything else necessary to help their teams win. Theyre catchers, and they have a very important job. Readers will learn about this crucial role on the baseball field. Aspiring ball players will receive valuable exercises and tips to teach them how to be better catchers. Fascinating facts explain the hard work that goes into becoming a catcher, and vibrant photographs show professional catchers of yesterday and today doing what they do best.

"I couldn't put it down!"“Toast? Dream-deck? It didn’t exactly sound like the most inviting idea considering the last dream he had woken up from propelled him into a secret world of talking upper-crust rats, friendly green frog-people and lanky strangers trying to poison him with cubes of cyanide.” The Catcher is a 54,000-word fantasy/adventure novel for middle-graders set in a land beyond the Bermuda Triangle where nightmares are reality. Someone has kidnapped the Sandman, and it has fallen upon the scrawny shoulders of teenager Jack Masters to set the sleep world right. Together with a blonde super-spy and toffee-nosed rat, he must venture out in search of the mysterious Drake and a father lost.Fans of Harry Potter will love this full-length novel, guaranteed to keep kids glued to its pages for hours.

"Secrets are meant to be kept. Some are good; some evil. And then there are those that mean life or death--the kind that leave you breathless, but not in a good way. I have many secrets, but I dare not speak them, because if I do, my life will be forfeit."Fifteen-year old Paige Carson is the focus of a deadly terrorist organization, but she doesn't know why. She can't recall much of her life from before a year ago, other than that her parents were killed and she chose not to say a word to anyone since that fateful day eight years before.One day, a mysterious family with a secret shows up in town, and Paige begins to remember things from her forgotten past; things that link together who she really is and why everyone seems to be after her.Paige knows that her foster parents are not who they say they are and she distrusts everyone she comes across because of them. As her dreams and nightmares unfold, she begins to put together the puzzle that is her life. She knows that eventually, she will need to find her voice and use it to protect not only herself, but those she loves as well.Paige is in a battle to the death and will fight for her life against those who will try to take everything from her.

Forbidden love, secrets and desires in a city of hate.Verona. 1368. For all of his life, Tybalt Capulet, the best swordsman in Verona, has proudly served his family and aided them in the ancient feud against their rivals, the Montagues. So when his cousin falls in love with a Montague, things are bound to take a turn for the worse.The scandalous love between Romeo and Juliet infuriates both families. The city’s ruler, Prince Escalus, is forced to make a vital decision. Enraged by everything happening around him, Tybalt sets out for revenge. He especially can’t stand the obvious glee of his arch enemy Mercutio. The young man has, despite his royal blood, seemingly made it his personal mission to torment Tybalt at any given chance. Then an old rumour resurfaces about a dark secret of the royal family. Tybalt is determined to use this to get rid of the ruling party. Yet he couldn’t have guessed how this information would affect friend and foe. Based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. A story through the eyes of Tybalt Capulet.-----Mercutio cocked his head, a questioning look upon his cherubic face. “Now I am wounded,” he retorted, although his words did not sound sincere. “Here I had assumed you came to single me out.” -----Amanda Collins is the pseudonym of a Shakespeare-obsessed librarian who met her partner at their local theatre group. Blade of the Capulets was originally written as a birthday present for a friend and is her first published novel.

WE WERE DELINQUENTS, ADDICTS, MENTAL CASES, ORPHANS AND KIDS FROM BROKEN HOMESFifteen-year-old Kate Steiner is not sure why she is suddenly boarding at an East Coast school for troubled kids, though there is evidence that her lawyer parents are having marital problems. It is the mid-1970’s, and at the progressive school where she has landed, Kate is initiated into a stratified society inhabited by kids who fell through the cracks.Kate must grapple with moral ambiguities when she discovers that Patrick, her first boyfriend, is also a slip-sliding drug addict. In the loosening of family ties, and faced with an inscrutable headmaster, uncommunicative parents and a doomed first love, Kate makes shadowy passage through her questioning adolescence…finding solace in a ‘soul catcher’ dangling inside a geodesic dome built by a quirky boy who surprises her with an unexpected friendship.PRAISE FOR KATIA LIEF’S NOVELS “Taut, clean storytelling.” –Publishers Weekly“A realistic, believable boarding school, where adolescent angst and the trauma of growing up at a breakneck pace is presented…as the difficult transition it is.” —Small Press Magazine“Awesome and revealing.” --Elizabeth, reader

On her 13th birthday Maia, who has been brought up by Tareth, the weaver and warrior who she has always believed is her father, falls into an adventure that will take her on a perilous journey to a kingdom poisoned by bitterness and jealousies. A kingdom that she must save. Tareth is no ordinary weaver - the silk he weaves sings of destiny and danger, of Maia's future. Because she is no ordinary girl either. She has always been the flame-headed outsider among the Cliff Dwellers, but she doesn't want to listen to the song of the silk, or to the terrifying words of the village Watcher. Guarding her secret, denying her future, Maia steps into places she has never explored where she'll encounter mercenaries, spies, friends and enemies. And where she will face her destiny as a Sun Catcher.Exotically located in the Far East in an age when trading and communities were gaining more exposure to a wider world than ever before, this debut novel is beautifully, richly written, thoroughly researched and a pleasure to read. Film rights to the trilogy have now been optioned.