Books with title Sticks, Stones

Themes: grief, helping others. Jan is angry at everyone. Her mom and sister suffer the most. In a fit of rage, Jan stomps off to her room. When she wakes up, she's home, but it's not real. Everything is hard and cold and gray. The people look different. They are square, short. And they are dying. They need her help. Only a human can cure them. Jan wants no part of it. But the machine that brought her there is broken. She has no choice. Jan learns that helping others will also help her overcome her own pain.

A vivid, compelling and intensely moving novel from an exciting new voice in young adult fiction.Coo is trying to cope with the hand that life has dealt her. At sixteen, she feels she’s too young to have lost her older brother, Sam, to alcoholism. She’s skipping school to avoid the sympathy and questions of her friends and teachers, and shunning her parents, angry that they failed to protect her, and desperate to avoid having to face the fact that, towards the end, she began to wish Sam would leave forever – even die. Then, one day, truanting by the Brighton seafront, Coo meets Banks, a homeless alcoholic and she’s surprised to discover that it is possible for her life to get more complicated.Despite warnings from her friends and family, Coo and Banks develop an unlikely friendship. Brought together through a series of unexpected events, strange midnight feasts, a near drowning and the unravelling of secrets, together they seek their chance for redemption. That is, until Coo’s feelings start getting dangerously out of hand.

Jujube is thrilled when Brent asks her out. She is not so happy when the rumors start flying at school. Pretty soon her name is showing up on bathroom walls and everyone is snickering and sniping. When her mother gets involved, Jujube’s reputation takes another hit. Deciding that someone has to take a stand, Jujube gathers all the other girls who are labelled sluts—and worse—and tries to impress on her fellow students the damage that can be done by assigning a label that reduces a person to an object.

Themes: grief, helping others. Jan is angry at everyone. Her mom and sister suffer the most. In a fit of rage, Jan stomps off to her room. When she wakes up, she's home, but it's not real. Everything is hard and cold and gray. The people look different. They are square, short. And they are dying. They need her help. Only a human can cure them. Jan wants no part of it. But the machine that brought her there is broken. She has no choice. Jan learns that helping others will also help her overcome her own pain.

Follow the adventures of a boy who uses sticks of all shapes and sizes to become a valiant knight, a rocking musician, an outdoor artist, a fairy-house architect, a fierce Tyrannosaurus rex and to show his mom just how much he loves her. See the power of imagination unfold in this stick-lover's story! Sticks are Great!Sticks are Grand!So much to do with Sticks in Hand! Do you agree? Then come along with a fellow stick lover as he and his sticks adventure into war, play around with dinosaurs, and so much more. "Maybe," you say? Well then let a stick lover show you the surprising things sticks can do! Who knows you may be a stick lover too! "No Way," you say? All righty then get ready to see just how amusing sticks can be!

Who hasn't been bullied, or known of someone who has? It may have been years ago, and all but disappeared, but a bullying incident can impact a person's future. Many of the tragic events that have taken place in schools in recent years have come as a result of a child who has been bullied, and decides to even the score. Sticks and Stones addresses this very relevant issue of bullying. Thirteen-year-old Sarah Jo Foster finds herself dealing with bullies at the school she attends, after her family moves to a new town. Because she was home-schooled, she is completely out of her element as her bullies torment her. Specifically a group of four, two girls and two boys, the bullies make her life nearly unbearable. Her strong faith in God, as well as her good friend Abby, buoy her up during her darkest hours. But is it enough? Will she find the strength to prevail over her enemies? This book was written with the intention of showing young readers that they are not alone in the world of bullying. An easy read, Sticks and Stones is an absorbing vehicle that transports the reader through it all, with solutions of a practical and spiritual nature for young people to draw on.