Books with title PEACH BOY

In ancient Japan, a peasant couple discovers a little boy inside a giant peach. Momotaro, the Peachboy, grows up to become a courageous hero who vanquishes forever the evil band of ogres who have been tormenting his people. In this wonderful tale, good triumphs over evil, life overcomes death, and nature flourishes in the face of destruction. Richly colored images create the perfect mood for this eloquent adaptation of Japan’s most revered folktale. Ages 7 and up

Peach Sweeney makes her way through a Sixties’ landscape littered with sex, proms, fashion, rock & roll, clueless parents, and her own righteous if confounded self-regard straight into the reader’s heart. - Steven Schwartz, A Good Doctor’s Son and Therapy: A NovelA prom--the climax of lively and painful high school years. Throw in the sexual revolution, a stuttering cousin for a date, and a parking valet dressed like Abraham Lincoln, and looking cool is an impossible dream. The hilarious narrator of our story tries to leave her painful past behind, and find a way to be the free spirit her friends demand. Peach tries, somehow, to be herself.Peach is a book of genuine fictional beauty. - Chuck Wachtel, Joe The Engineer and 3/03FEATURING A READER’S GUIDE AT THE BACK OF THE BOOK.The Gemma Open Door Series features storytelling by best-selling authors and important voices for new readers. A story doesn't have to be big to change ‎our world‎.‎ ‎

Everyone has a prom story - the culmination of the vibrant and painful years of high school.Throw in the sexual revolution, a stuttering cousin for a date, and a parking valet dressed like Abraham Lincoln, and looking cool is an impossible dream. Edith, the fierce and vibrant narrator, tries to leave nuns snapping prom pictures and her painful past behind, and find a way to be both the free spirit her friends require and to be herself.