Books with title Ordinary

You just need the simplest everyday items to try these teasers and challenges—but they all stre-e-e-etch your powers of imagination and deduction! See how to... ● make objects appear and disappear ● step through a piece of paper ● create matchstick challenges● do card tricks ...and lots more. Devised by an expert on brain training, these visual conundrums and fun games will inspire you to find smart solutions to ticklish problems! There are handy tips if you need help, plus an answer key at the back!

Family secrets and school secrets entwine in an engaging new novel from the author of You Remind Me of You, and Splintering.Sometimes when life haunts you, you're better off becoming the ghost. Emil Simon feels invisible enough. He counts as a nonentity at his elite preparatory school and makes barely a dent in his father's thoughts. When his older brother runs away, he entrusts Emil with a master key to Caramoor Academy. Soon Emil is sneaking into the school at night to explore ... and falling for a faculty daughter who sneaks in for reasons of her own. This is a novel about living with disappearances... and willing yourself to appear.

It’s okay to be ordinary. Just like Larry. We all have people we admire, but there’s nothing more unique and interesting then being yourself. Your children will learn and enjoy the process of rhyming, repeating and memorizing his adventures. Join Larry in being ordinary and learn that being ordinary can be quite “extraordinary”.This is the second book in the Crazy Daisy and Friends series of adventures that will bring joy to your children every time they pick it up and read it. More friends are on their way!!

Deadwood Deb is the toughest little girl in the Wild West. She can out-lasso, out-snarl, and out-eat even the biggest cowboys. So when word gets out that outlaws are on their way into town, the best solution is to make Deb the sheriff. There's only one problem-- Deb is vacationing in Florida, wrestling alligators! So the folks look to Deb's twin sister, Ordinary Audrey to protect them. But Audrey isn't Deb. She can't out-snarl, out-lasso, or even out-eat the bad guys. But luckily for Deadwood, Audrey can out-smart them... This charming story shows that brains are better than brawn.

While behind the wheel during driver's ed, high school sophomore Kate Sterns inadvertently foils an escaped convict's getaway. When her heroic actions land her face on the front page of the Wainscott Gazette, she thinks her life is over, and it is, at least her life as an ordinary anyway. Overnight she is plucked from the ordinaries and plopped into the "in crowd." At first Kate is in denial of her status change, but then she likes it, that is until she's labeled a snob, her locker gets trashed and one other minor thing-- she's being stalked.

Shortlisted for the SYRCA 2013 Diamond Willow Award selected as an American Library Association 2012 Notable Children's Book Booklist Editor's Choice There's not much that upsets young Valli. Even though her days are spent picking coal and fighting with her cousins, life in the coal town of Jharia, India, is the only life she knows. The only sight that fills her with terror are the monsters who live on the other side of the train tracks - the lepers. Valli and the other children throw stones at them. No matter how hard her life is, she tells herself, at least she will never be one of them. Then she discovers that she is not living with family after all, that her ''aunt'' was a stranger who was paid money to take Valli off her own family's hands. She decides to leave Jharia ... and so begins a series of adventures that takes her to Kolkata, the city of the gods. It's not so bad. Valli finds that she really doesn't need much to live. She can ''borrow'' the things she needs and then pass them on to people who need them more than she does. It helps that though her bare feet become raw wounds as she makes her way around the city, she somehow feels no pain. But when she happens to meet a doctor on the ghats by the river, Valli learns that she has leprosy. Despite being given a chance to receive medical care, she cannot bear the thought that she is one of those monsters she has always feared, and she flees, to an uncertain life on the street.