Books with title The World Upside Down

Hunter Donovan’s life always seemed perfect, but there was something rotten beneath the shiny surface. When the truth comes out and his dad is sent to prison, Hunter can only react with anger. His rage boils out of control, leading to a violent incident at school, and then to Hunter being sent to a mental health facility—Better Days. Hunter doesn’t see how therapy can help him. If it can’t change the past, what good is it? It’s not like he can go back in time, see the horrible things going on right under his nose, and put a stop to them. No, he should have found that strength when he had the chance, and now it’s too late. There is a ray of light at Better Days, though, in the friendships Hunter forges. Anxiety-ridden Casey, uninhibited Rosie, recovering bulimic Bethany, and Stray, a self-harmer who’s never had a home, lighten Hunter’s feelings of isolation. Despite the connections he’s forming—and even the love blossoming between him and Stray—Hunter can’t escape his shame and remorse. If Hunter can’t open up and find a way to deal with what happened, he might end up another casualty of mental illness, just like one of the friends he’s grown to love.

Can you solve the upside down man's riddles?Bertram Bile wasn’t always like this. At primary school, he had friends, kind teachers, and great grades. But everything changed when he started his new school. His parents split up, his dad went missing, and his mum lost her job. Now he’s bullied by his classmate Angus and his evil geography teacher Miss Petrenko. His dad had been Miss Petrenko’s first love, but she never forgave him for dumping her for Bertram’s mum when they were kids themselves. Bertram feels sure that Miss Petrenko knows more about his dad’s disappearance than she’s letting on. After all, why would you take a job as a geography teacher if you didn’t know any geography AND you hated kids? The Upside Down ManWhilst visiting Bertram's aunty, a very old and wise witch, Bertram and Molly happen upon a man hanging upside down from a tree. Can the time travelling duo help the man find the answers to the riddles he needs to solve? The Upside Down Man is the fourth book in the Bertram Bile time travel adventure series, which follows the course of the River Thames from its source in Gloucestershire to the North Sea in Essex. But don't worry if you miss a book or two, you can jump in at any point in the series.

Is emigrating from one’s birth country and moving to a new one a mere “fight for the better life,” or an act of desperation? Which requires more courage: remaining in your home country despite growing political and economic turmoil, or moving to the opposite side of the globe, with completely different cultural and behavioral values, “where people walk upside down?” Raisa Borovsky provides a surprising new perspective on this centuries-old question in her exciting historical novel, based on her own—and her friends’—personal experiences. What did it mean to grow up Jewish in the Soviet Union—the country officially based on “equality for all peoples?” How did anti-Semitism change while the country was moving from the tight government autocracy to the relative freedom of Glasnost and Perestroika? How do you decide who you are, if one of your parents is a Jew, and another one a “pure” Russian? The novel spans nearly half-a-century, from the end of the Second World War, though the years of political “thaw,” “stagnation”, Cold War, and then Perestroika, to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. It takes the reader from the elite “island of political freedom” known as Akademgorodok (then the scientific center of the Soviet Union), to the hustle and bustle of the country’s major cities, from the House of Scientists in Siberia to the infamous Butyrskaya prison and the KGB headquarters in Moscow; from the spectacular but fleeting Siberian summers to the frigid dark winters of St. Petersburg (then called Leningrad). The reader will meet world-famous scientists, Jewish refuseniks, political dissidents who may have helped to bring down the Soviet Empire, intellectuals and blue-collar workers, members of the emerging Russian mafia, and unscrupulous political leaders. You will follow a bitter-sweet narrative of a young woman through her painful search for identity as a Russian and as a Jew, her tragic marriage to a charismatic but brutally abusive man, her involvement in the Jewish cultural movement that emerged during the Perestroika of the Gorbachev’s government, and the many struggles for emigration.

It's school spirit day at Blossom Hill School, and everyone's enjoying the fun. Especially Abby Hunter's teacher, Miss Hershey. She does all sorts of wacky things, like wearing her clothes backward.And there's the new girl at school with a BIG secret. Leslie Groff--with bright red pigtails--dares Abby's class to guess her secret. In just one school day!Can the Cul-de-sac Kids do it? Or will spunky Leslie outsmart them all?

Upside-Down Fish lives in a big tank at a pet store filled with lots of other fish. The other fish in the tank swim the right way up though, and they don’t understand why Upside-Down Fish is so different. This makes him very lonely. One day, a child comes into the store and chooses Upside-Down Fish as a pet. He is anxious that he won’t be accepted in his new tank, but much to his surprise, the new fish are friendly! They love that he is different and want to know what it’s like to have the sky below and the ground above. Upside-Down Fish realizes that it’s okay to be different—it’s what makes him so special.Kate Louise and Laura Matine’s The Upside-Down Fish is about being yourself and finding happiness with people who accept you for who you are. Inspired by the author’s own upside-down fish, this is a book for any child who feels a little different and needs that extra boost of confidence.Sky Pony Press, with our Good Books, Racehorse and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of books for young readers—picture books for small children, chapter books, books for middle grade readers, and novels for young adults. Our list includes bestsellers for children who love to play Minecraft; stories told with LEGO bricks; books that teach lessons about tolerance, patience, and the environment, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Hobbs Crane doesn’t like distractions. He lives for football, rules the basketball court, and does his best to avoid the neighbor girl with the Jupiter-sized crush on him. With a new kid out to steal his starting basketball position, Hobbs needs to feel in control again. Then Hobbs finds a boy living inside a giant blue spruce on an empty city lot who becomes the biggest distraction of all. How long has he been there? Where did he come from? And why does he seem to be following Hobbs? The boy named Up is in survival mode. Leaving his real name and a neglectful home life behind, Up is running away to Florida to find his older sister who left home years ago. But he’s hungry and desperate, and he finds the overgrown evergreen next to the old factory the perfect hideout until he makes a plan. Can Hobbs and Up help each other face their own uncertain futures while forging an unlikely friendship? Or are they too different?

Hunter Donovan's life always seemed perfect, but there was something rotten beneath the shiny surface. When the truth comes out and his dad is sent to prison, Hunter can only react with anger. His rage boils out of control, leading to a violent incident at school, and then to Hunter being sent to a mental health facility--Better Days.Hunter doesn't see how therapy can help him. If it can't change the past, what good is it? It's not like he can go back in time, see the horrible things going on right under his nose, and put a stop to them. No, he should have found that strength when he had the chance, and now it's too late.There is a ray of light at Better Days, though, in the friendships Hunter forges. Anxiety-ridden Casey, uninhibited Rosie, recovering bulimic Bethany, and Stray, a self-harmer who's never had a home, lighten Hunter's feelings of isolation.Despite the connections he's forming--and even the love blossoming between him and Stray--Hunter can't escape his shame and remorse. If Hunter can't open up and find a way to deal with what happened, he might end up another casualty of mental illness, just like one of the friends he's grown to love.

Fourteen year-old Amy Von Brandt's life is upside down. In order to forget Nicolas who has just broken-up with her, her bad grades and the possible devilish fiancé of her mother slash principal, she escapes to Grandma Von Brandt’s farm. Plenty of Mother Nature and peace and quiet are on the agenda but listening to chirping sparrows, counting ants, observing the mating dance of earthworms ... gets old (and depressing) real fast! But not even Amy can imagine what is to come that will assure her summer will be one for her diary! Based on the novels by India Desjardins, this is another great Charmz title designed to capture young female (and even male) audiences.

Ellie, the boy with the happy smile, wakes up one morning and decides he wants to plant a garden. The problem is that there is no land available. Inspired by a swing set near his home and his can-do attitude, Ellie decides to plant his garden upside-down. Learn how, with the help of his neighborhood friends, Ellie brings his upside-down garden idea to life.