Books with title The year of the badger

Oh the edge of the Han Empire, the Great Wall is crumbling. And, on the other side, China's enemies are gathering strength. In the shadow of the wall, two very different boys - Hu and Ren - are thrown together, hoping to win an archery contest. But in the year of the Tiger trouble stalks them ... When everything goes wrong, can Hu and Ren work together to save the town and the empire from destruction?A thrilling story - full of action and adventure - set during one of the most fascinating and dramatic periods in history.

Inspiring & funny, harrowing & hopeful The Year of the Bird (TRUE STORIES IN PICTURES & WORDS) is about the surprises life can dish up. Illness, death and grief. Midnight trips to the ER. Airplanes crashing into towers on a bright blue morning that's also your grandson's seventh birthday. Those kinds of surprises. It's also about the things that keep you sane. Violets in the kitchen window. The first day of spring. Your own love story. The kinds of things that help you put one foot in front of the other- even when you're not sure where they're taking you. This powerful graphic journal recalls "a year that actually began three years ago." The words & pictures are snapshots of life- bright flashes of moments remembered. The Year of the Bird is about family, about finding words, finding meaning, finding strength to go on. It's about holding on and letting go. It's a book to share with your friends and to keep in your heart. Beautifully written and illustrated by Susan Spangler, this book is a masterpiece of feeling, color and word that will transport the reader into a better place.

The year is 1955, and there’s nothing that Paul and his best friends, Oz, Arnie, and Crank, love more than horror movies. So when Invasion of the Body Snatchers starts filming in their small California town, they couldn’t be more excited. But when their acquaintance with Laura and Darryl, extras on the movie, leads to an involvement in a possible Communist conspiracy, Paul is afraid that they’re in too deep. It’s not a horror movie anymore—this is real life. From acclaimed storyteller Ronald Kidd comes this coming-of-age tale about taking a stand, following the crowd, and navigating the gray areas in between.

In Chinese, peng you means friend. But in any language, all Anna knows for certain is that friendship is complicated. When Anna needs company, she turns to her books. Whether traveling through A Wrinkle in Time, or peering over My Side of the Mountain, books provide what real life cannot—constant companionship and insight into her changing world. Books, however, can’t tell Anna how to find a true friend. She’ll have to discover that on her own. In the tradition of classics like Maud Hart Lovelace’s Betsy-Tacy books and Eleanor Estes’ One Hundred Dresses, this novel subtly explores what it takes to make friends and what it means to be one.

Prize-winning author Parland narrates events of a tumultuous 1918, between WWI and the Russian Revolution, from the viewpoint of six-year-old Riki in this strong intensely imaginative novel. Barricaded on a Finnish farm in a lovely, ghost-haunted countryside, along with parents, aunts, uncles and godlike Grandmother - whose thundered warnings from vengeful biblical texts create a frightening childhood mythology - Riki confuses Baal, devourer of children, with Bull, the lordly animal who bellows and rampages in a nearby field. Parland suggests the wartime brutality through Bull and the deaths of helpless creatures."" - Publishers Weekly.