Books with title The Exchange

Long Island author, Rosemary McKinley has written a young adult historical novella, The Wampum Exchange, set in 1650, Southold, New York. A twelve-year-old boy has a chance meeting with a Native American boy and their worlds connect in a most interesting way. The tale is told through their daily lives, giving the reader a glimpse into life in America. Middle grade readers, as well as adults would enjoy reading this story.

Daria is one of Earth’s youngest licensed breeders of endangered species, and she has enough to do caring for her menagerie without having to cope with an exchange student from another planet. Besides Fen’s color-shifting and endless questions, there is something about the way the lanky alien looks at her animals and his stubborn refusal to talk about the creatures of his own world that makes Daria nervous. Fen, on the other hand, couldn’t be happier with his Earth family. Hoping for one pet, he finds himself in a zoo.With a sharp eye for human, alien, and animal ways, Kate Gilmore has written a fascinating tale.

The Exchange of Rings, is the third book in the Tales of Avalon Series.The Exchange of Rings follows on from The New Land the first book in the series. It describes the preparations for the wedding of Princess Jeanette of Twydell to Prince Steven of Kerner. Rosalie is excited at the prospect of meeting Derrick, Prince of Twydell, who many hope will be her future husband. The weddings are an opportunity for each county to build new alliances.Everything seems to be running smoothly but news is brought that wizards, who have been missing from Twydell’s Forbidden Forest for many years, are being held in a Kerner prison. It is also revealed that fairies and elves have also been treated with cruelty by Kernans. The magical people of Avalon are furious and some want to take revenge on Kerner.King Arthur of Avalon, Merlin the wizard, and their new found ally King Frederrick of Twydell, try to resolve the situation. They are concerned that revenge will be the beginning of war.The allies hope that a solution can be found when the King of Kerner is forced to ask the magical people, of the Forbidden Forest, for help.

What a time for an exchange student to arrive, Daria thought, especially one from another planet! Daria is one of Earth's youngest licensed breeders of endangered species, and she has enough to do caring for her menagerie without having to cope with Fen. Besides his color-shifting and endless questions, there is something about the way the lanky alien looks at her animals and his stubborn, even hostile refusal to talk about the creatures of his own world that makes Daria nervous. Fen, on the other hand, can't be happier with his new Earth family. Hoping for one pet, he lands in a zoo. Not one of his fellow exchange students, living in homes scattered across the Earth, has been as lucky, but each has found at least one animal to love, and all cherish the same wild, mysterious dream. With a sharp eye for human, alien, and animal ways, Kate Gilmore has written a challenging tale.

Although sixteen-year-old Hannah Gray hates nearly everything about her pioneer life on the Kansas prairie, becoming a werewolf is the absolute worst. Each night she changes into a fierce beast. Each morning she awakes to carnage she doesn't remember. Can she find a cure before those she loves uncover her terrible secret? Bitten one evening while walking with her new boyfriend Daniel Drumm, Hannah struggles to control the wolf inside her. Each night the pull of the rising moon grows stronger. Flashes of her missing hours haunt her. She worries that it's her, and not the werewolf that attacked her, that's destroying her town. Daniel tells her he loves her, but will he still feel that way if he discovers the dark beast hidden within her?

Michael Morgan is no ordinary boy. His life is an experiment, the first boy to be raised in space. Two hundred and fifty miles above the planet’s surface, on the space station Daedalus, Michael dreams about visiting earth for the first time. On the earth below, Peter Davies dreams about going into space. When the two meet, adventure is not far behind, as well as plenty of danger. Experiencing earth and space for the first time, the two boys discover something that will change both of their lives.

Michael Morgan is no ordinary boy. His life is an experiment, the first boy to be raised in space. Two hundred and fifty miles above the planet’s surface, on the space station Daedalus, Michael dreams about visiting earth for the first time. On the earth below, Peter Davies dreams about going into space. When the two meet, adventure is not far behind, as well as plenty of danger. Experiencing earth and space for the first time, the two boys discover something that will change both of their lives.

A fiendishly clever dystopian novel for the digital age, The Word Exchange is a fresh, stylized and decidedly original debut about the dangers of technology and the power of the printed word. In the not so distant future, the forecasted "death of print" has become a reality. Bookstores, libraries, newspapers and magazines are a thing of the past, as we spend our time glued to handheld devices called Memes that not only keep us in constant communication, but have become so intuitive as to hail us cabs before we leave our offices, order take out at the first growl of a hungry stomach, and even create and sell language itself in a marketplace called The Word Exchange. Anana Johnson works with her father Doug at the North American Dictionary of the English Language (NADEL), where Doug is hard at work on the final edition that will ever be printed. Doug is a staunchly anti-Meme, anti-tech intellectual who fondly remembers the days when people used email (everything now is text or video-conference) to communicate--or even actually spoke to one antoher for that matter. One evening, Doug disappears from the NADEL offices leaving a single writen clue: ALICE. It's a code word he and Anana devised to signal if one of them ever fell into harm's way. And thus begins Anana's journey down the proverbial rabbit hole. . . Joined by Bart, her bookish NADEL colleague (who is secretly in love with her), Anana's search for Doug will take her into dark basement incinerator rooms, underground passages of the Mercantile Library, secret meetings of the anonymous "Diachronic Society," the boardrooms of the evil online retailing site Synchronic, and ultimately to the hallowed halls of the Oxford English Dictionary--the spiritual home of the written word. As Ana pieces togehter what is going on, and Bart gets sicker and sicker with the strange "Word flu" that has spread worldwide causing people to speak in gibberish, Alena Graedon crafts a fresh, cautionary tale that is at once a technological thriller, and a throughtful meditation on the price of technology and the unforeseen, though very real, dangers of the digital age.

The Exchange of Rings, is the third book in the Tales of Avalon Series. It was published in 2016.The Exchange of Rings follows on from The New Land the first book in the series. It describes the preparations for the wedding of Princess Jeanette of Twydell to Prince Steven of Kerner. Rosalie is excited at the prospect of meeting Derrick, Prince of Twydell, who many hope will be her future husband. The weddings are an opportunity for each county to build new alliances.Everything seems to be running smoothly but news is brought that wizards, who have been missing from Twydell’s Forbidden Forest for many years, are being held in a Kerner prison. It is also revealed that fairies and elves have also been treated with cruelty by Kernans. The magical people of Avalon are furious and some want to take revenge on Kerner.King Arthur of Avalon, Merlin the wizard, and their new found ally King Frederrick of Twydell, try to resolve the situation. They are concerned that revenge will be the beginning of war.The allies hope that a solution can be found when the King of Kerner is forced to ask the magical people, of the Forbidden Forest, for help.