Books with title The Burning Bridge

Book 6 in the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series Soren and his band are sent to the mysterious Northern Kingdoms to gather allies and learn the art of war in preparation for the coming cataclysmic battle against the sinister Pure Ones. Meanwhile, in the Southern Kingdoms, St. Aggies has fallen to the Pure Ones and they are using its resources to plan a final invasion of the Great Ga'Hoole Tree. With the future of all Owldom in the balance, the parliament of Ga'Hoole must decide whether or not to join forces with the brutal Skench and Sporn and the scattered remnants of St. Aggies who remain faithful to them. The coming conflagration will demand wisdom, bravery, and sacrifice from all the owls of the great tree, and from Soren and the band, nothing less than heroism.

When 10-year-old Mourning huddles on the cold hard ground each night with a rumbling tummy and barely a rag for warmth, the last thing she dreams about is a family. As far as she is concerned, the strays are her family. She's lived among them all her life, stealing food and hiding from the kingdom guards. Most importantly, the strays keep her most dangerous secret - that she is not only an orphan, but can also do magic. But when Mourning is thrown into the castle dungeon after a particularly catastrophic food raid, she finds that she has another family - a rich and powerful family who promises to take her in and keep her safe. While Mourning struggles between who she really is and who she was supposed to be, she suffers a series of unusual accidents, making her wonder if she could ever fit into this new life . . . or perhaps she was safer on the streets.

In the cottages around The Green sleeps a memory of long-dead hands that once wielded a terrible power. Now it is only slumbering, waiting for somewhere to feed and grow, someone to embrace its awesome power and turn it to new purposes. On the eve of Bonfire Night, it is nudged to wakefulness: a stranger all the way from Canada on a quest for family history; friends Jan and Kate's sortie into a long-closed attic to find debris for the bonfire on The Green. This is a community holding an uneasy truce between tourist interest in legends of witchcraft and the terrible reality of a fire that burned scores of cottages and their inhabitants years before. Bonfire Night looms; objectors say there hasn't been a bonfore on The Green since The Fire and there shouldn't ever be again. The waking power feeds on the anxieties, puts out tendrils in search of a mind to sieze - and finds Jan. Into her hands will flow the deadly malevolence that once made The Burning. Into her mind will flow the hatred that once consumed everything..

The City is divided. The bridges gated. In Southside, the hostiles live in squalor and desperation, waiting for a chance to overrun the residents of Cityside. Nik is still in high school but is destined for a great career with the Internal Security and Intelligence Services, the brains behind the war. But when ISIS comes recruiting, everyone is shocked when he isn't chosen. There must be an explanation, but no one will talk about it. Then the school is bombed and the hostiles take the bridges. Buildings are burning, kids are dead, and the hostiles have kidnapped Sol. Now ISIS is hunting for Nik. But Nik is on the run, with Sol's sister Fyffe and ISIS hot on their trail. They cross the bridge in search of Sol, and Nik finds answers to questions he had never dared to ask. The Bridge is a gritty adventure set in a future world where fear of outsiders pervades everything. A heart-stopping novel about friendship, identity, and courage from an exciting new voice in young-adult fiction.

The night of her stroke, Tilda Chantyman saw the future of her teenaged grandsons; they were influencing world leaders. What she didn't see was the fire they would walk through to achieve this. After her death, Tyler and Chester would be forced to leave tranquil Nazko and live with their estranged mother and her new husband in Quesnel, a bustling forestry city. From a small, rural, predominantly Aboriginal, school, they would be thrust into a crowded, multicultural high school being controlled by two gangs, the Warriors and the Machetes. The new principal of West Side High, Ms. Conrankie, had been hired to fix the problem. With the bearing of a fuhrer and ten years of prison management under her belt, she wasn't supposed to fail.Rivalry was nothing new to the Chantymans. They'd been battling over Tonya Clement for years. Though she and Tyler were best friends, Chester had never stopped fighting for her heart.The Bridge changed everything.

ABOUT THE BOOK THE BRIDGE tells the story of a girl who leaves her home town in search of a place where she can thrive. In order to reach her destination, she has to climb a long, steep bridge. Despite obstacles, she perseveres and eventually reaches her destination. The story of the girl's perseverance will encourage the reader, young or old, to pursue a worthwhile goal despite seemingly insurmountable difficulties. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Born in Israel (then called "Palestine"), Judith Weinshall Liberman came to the United States in 1947 to pursue higher education. She earned four American university degrees including two in law, a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School and an LL.M. from the University of Michigan Law School. After settling in the Boston area in 1956, she studied art and creative writing. Beginning in the early 1960s, and for four decades thereafter, Ms. Liberman created numerous series of artworks. Her art has been widely exhibited, and is represented in the collection of museums and other public institutions. During her long career in visual art, Ms. Liberman wrote several books, among them some picture books. Her book THE BIRD'S LAST SONG (Addison-Wesley, 1976), which she also illustrated, won a citation as one of the "fabulous books of the year." Since 2012, she has published several additional picture books, including ICE CREAM SNOW, THE LITTLE FAIRY, COLOR IN OUR WORLD, THE VERY OLD PAINTER AND HER HUSBAND, HAIFA, ANGEL'S PUPPIES, THE GIANT HOUSE, THE BEE AND THE BUTTERFLY, THE MOUNTAIN, THE TUNNEL, THE OLD DOLL, THE LITTLE SONGBIRD, FIFTEEN FABLES, TWELVE MORE FABLES, THE BIRD WHO WENT TO HEAVEN, A PARAKEET FOR ERIC, TALES OF HUMAN FOIBLES, IN THE MILITARY CEMETERY, THE GIRL AND THE PIGEONS, MORE TALES OF HUMAN FOIBLES, MICHAEL AND THE FLAG, WHAT WILL I BE?, IF I HAD THE POWER, IF I WERE RICH, LUCY AND THE SNOWMAN, THE WHIRLPOOL, THE LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET, and TALE OF THE ROMAN NUMERALS. Judith Weinshall Liberman's archives can be found in the Arts Department of the Boston Public Library and at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR THE BRIDGE is the twentieth book on which Judith Weinshall Liberman, the author, has collaborated with Gail Davis, the illustrator. Since Ms. Liberman did not feel that, in light of her deteriorated eyesight, she could do justice to illustrating THE BRIDGE herself, she selected a fine artist, Ms. Gail Davis, to create the illustrations under the author's guidance. The two had previously collaborated on THE LITTLE FAIRY, on THE VERY OLD PAINTER AND HER HUSBAND, on ANGEL'S PUPPIES, on THE GIANT HOUSE, on THE MOUNTAIN, on THE TUNNEL, on THE OLD DOLL, on FIFTEEN FABLES, on TWELVE MORE FABLES, on A PARAKEET FOR ERIC, on TALES OF HUMAN FOIBLES, on IN THE MILITARY CEMETERY, on MORE TALES OF HUMAN FOIBLES, on MICHAEL AND THE FLAG, on IF I HAD THE POWER, on IF I WERE RICH, on THE WHIRLPOOL, on THE LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET and on TALE OF THE ROMAN NUMERALS. In the present book, Ms. Davis creates a memorable character who struggles to ascend from darkness into light.

In the kingdom of Edleton, a newborn baby is whisked away from the magnificent home of her prominent wizard family, and believed to have been consumed by the fire that killed her parents. She is delivered to a group of strays and grows up homeless, starving, and cold. Ten years later, the child, now called Mourning, reemerges from the shadows and is reunited with her family. From rags to riches, Mourning’s new life is not exactly one of luxury. Her family, who consist of a stern, uptight older brother, his fat screeching wife, and her three bratty kids, all seem to hate her. As Mourning tries her best to fit in, she experiences far too many “accidents” in her new home and begins to wonder if she was better off in the streets.