Books with title Smiles

It's been a rough year. Wendy's mom is recovering from a bad car accident, and now they will have to move. The bank foreclosed on Wendy's house, and Wendy will have to give up her dogs, Max and Nova. As if that's not bad enough, Wendy insults the elders and loses her abilities. She has to find a way to everything back, but she doesn't know how. Follow Wendy on her next great adventure!

Graphic novel about a girl, Raina, who just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth. What follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarassing headgear, and even a retainer with fake teeth attached. And on top of that, there's still more to deal with: a major earthquake, boy confusion, and friends who turn out to be not so friendly. Raina's story takes us from middle school to high school, where she discovers her artistic voice, finds out what true friendship really means, and where she can finally...smile

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. In this coming-of-age true story, Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader, but one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth, and what follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear and even a retainer with fake teeth attached--on top of all that, there's a major earthquake, boy confusion and friends who turn out to be not so friendly.

Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth, and what follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear, and even a retainer with fake teeth attached. And on top of all that, there's still more to deal with: a major earthquake, boy confusion, and friends who turn out to be not so friendly. This coming-of-age true story is sure to resonate with anyone who has ever been in middle school, and especially those who have ever had a bit of their own dental drama.

Your whole family will enjoy this song book. It contains scrapbook style pages about everyday things that make you smile. From a day at the zoo to a birthday party, you won't be able to help but smile when singing along. A free download of the song "Smile" is included with the purchase of the book. All profits from this book go to the Smile Train organization to pay for life altering surgeries.

"It's Doyle's bravest novel yet; it's also, by far, his best." npr.org“The closest thing he’s written to a psychological thriller." The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the author of the Booker Prize–winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, a bold, haunting novel about the uncertainty of memory and how we contend with the past.Just moved into a new apartment, alone for the first time in years, Victor Forde goes every evening to Donnelly’s for a pint, a slow one. One evening his drink is interrupted. A man in shorts and a pink shirt comes over and sits down. He seems to know Victor’s name and to remember him from secondary school. His name is Fitzpatrick.Victor dislikes him on sight, dislikes, too, the memories that Fitzpatrick stirs up of five years being taught by the Christian Brothers. He prompts other memories—of Rachel, Victor's beautiful wife who became a celebrity, and of Victor’s own small claim to fame, as the man who would say the unsayable on the radio. But it’s the memories of school, and of one particular Brother, that Victor cannot control and which eventually threaten to destroy his sanity.Smile has all the features for which Roddy Doyle has become famous: the razor-sharp dialogue, the humor, the superb evocation of adolescence, but this is a novel unlike any he has written before. When you finish the last page you will have been challenged to reevaluate everything you think you remember so clearly.

Smile tells the tale of a young boy who can see something that nobody else can, and whose love for this vision changes his family, city and even world, despite the constant pressure to just fit in — a story about the joy that children see in places where most of us would never look. This is a part of the short story collection titled The Book of Stars and Other Stories — a seemingly simple compilation about transformation and purpose, Published by Feel Good Press.