Books with title This Is What Happened

David’s younger sister Ivy, born with multiple disabilities, needs constant attention. She may be eleven years old, but in many ways she’s still a baby. She embarrasses him in public. She takes all of their parents’ focus, to the point where David wonders if they see him as anything more than a helper for Ivy. But despite it all, he loves her. The summer days are following their usual pattern of taking care of his sister, doing chores, and trips to the cottage. The one exception is Hannah, the new girl across the street. Hannah makes David feel anything but routine. He wants to be around her all the time. And, amazingly, she seems to be into him as well. Everything changes when Ivy has an accident while being looked after by her dad. As David wrestles with what happened to Ivy, he is forced to confront his own feelings of guilt, the meaning of mercy, and what can be forgiven.

An unnamed sixteen-year-old is the narrator of this impressionistic and fragmented story of two brothers who learn that the disappearance of their father is only the tip of his mystery and only a sliver of what really happened. HONORS and AWARDS Best New Books for the Classroom —Book Links Books for the Teen Age —NYPL Paterson Prize for Books for Young People, Grades 7-12 — Passaic County Community College Poetry Center Book of the Year for Rhode Island High Schools —The Alliance for the Study and Teaching of Adolescent Literature (ASTAL) A Highly Recommended Book —Boston Authors Club Missouri State Teachers Association, Reading Circle Program

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It’s 14 years since a mysterious global catastrophe – survivors call it The Event – wiped out most human life and literally reshaped the Earth. Whole continents split and sank.Felix is 13 and has no family, like most survivors. He also has no memory of the first eight years of his life. His reluctant guardian Anna refuses to fill in the gaps: she thinks ignorance is bliss.They live in the small farming settlement of Doggett Island in what’s left of England – sea levels have risen by over 400 feet, drowning every major city. Felix spends most days out on his kite boat, catching fish for the islanders. Despite this service, they prefer Felix to keep his distance, and not just because of his fishy smell. Felix is a ‘kinny’, one of a group of children his age who create very destructive gravity spikes if they get upset. It can even happen in their sleep. Kinnies seem to be some kind of side effect of The Event.The remnants of the British Army have formed a military government 50 miles across the London Sea in Aldershot, though it has little real power. The government offers Felix training to control his abilities and sends Edith, a kinny who’s been through the programme, to collect him. But before they can set out, a militia group attacks Doggett, hunting for Felix.Felix and Edith escape with little more than the clothes on their backs. Now they must try to outrun the gunmen in a desperate flight across a devastated, lawless land whose dangers aren’t always visible. Meanwhile, Felix discovers his power is far greater than he realised - but it may just save their lives long enough for them to discover why they’re being hunted in the first place. The answers could lie in Felix’s long-forgotten past…

Then What Happened Papa is a story about the generation that came to age in WWII, as well as the personal story of a man whose childhood on a Nebraska farm during the Great Depression gave him a deep love for the land and shaped his future as a researcher, educator and international rangeland and agriculture consultant. With humor and maybe a few controversial thoughts, this book reflects both universal themes and cultural uniqueness among people worldwide. It takes you to Iraq, Africa, China, Russia, Australia and other locations spanning the globe. Meet the bellowing Coast Guard Coxswain, King Neptune and the Polywogs, Susie the pet hippo, the "close call" rhino, inventive Aussie gamblers, the Mali Maiden, and American Cowboys hosting Chinese rancher for Western Barbeque, to name just a few, as farm boy finds his calling in a career serving the lands and people of the world.