Books with title Stitches

Travis has been waiting to get to junior high. When that time finally comes, things are both better, and worse, than he had hoped. On the plus side are two great new teachers. On the minus side there's Shon Docker, Travis's old tormenter from elementary school. Travis lives in a trailer park outside a small prairie town. His mother, a country-and-western singer, is on the road a lot; his father is long gone. When things get crazy at his house, he can always visit his best friend, Chantelle, a smart disabled girl with several wild biker brothers. Travis knows he's different. He loves to sew and play with puppets. He wants to become a professional puppeteer. It all makes him a target for Shon and his friends. As Travis and his friends happily prepare a puppet production of A Midsummer Night's Dream for the school graduation festivities, Shon's anger and prejudice erupt in violence.

This is Prospero’s darkest hour. The few remaining humans trapped within the quarantine zone are all but defenseless against the multiplying forces of the Sliver Queen, Locusta. With Ben missing, Aldo among the enemy ranks, and more steel plates than bones left in her body, Mina’s passing the hours drowning in morphine and throwing heavy objects at her guards. Stripped of her weapons, her gadgets, and the Network itself, she has just one card left, hidden somewhere under her oft-sutured skin. It might be powerful enough to complete her life’s work once and for all… or to reach the one person who could make her life into more than a means to an end. But playing it will cost everything she has, or everything she believes in.The final chronicle of Prospero waits in these pages.

For Gemini, a life of solitude and depression have been the only thing she's known for as long as she can remember. Longing to find happiness and peace of mind free from the mental hell she lives in she looks for an escape.On a daily basis, it seems as if things will never change. Parents who continuously ignore her and an older brother who plays the role of a father figure. It seems that nothing will ever change for her.Out of nowhere, and what seems like a gift from the heavens above she meets Brooklyn.Will he be the answer to all her problems and the escape she so desperately needs? Or is it the start of her own mental demise. Follow Gemini a long in her mental battle of fighting anxiety and depression.

Travis lives in a trailer park outside a small prairie town with his aunt, uncle, and a pack of rowdy little cousins. His mother, a country-and-western singer, is on the road a lot; his father is long gone. When things get crazy at his place he can always go visit his best friend, Chantelle, a smart disabled girl. Travis doesn't mind being poor and having strange relatives. But he knows he's different from his junior high classmates in other ways, too. He loves to sew and play with puppets. He wants to become a professional puppeteer. These interests make Travis a ripe target for Shon and his friends, the school bullies. As ninth grade graduation approaches and Travis and his friends (including Shon's girlfriend) create a puppet production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, the taunts and schoolyard ambushes escalate until Shon's anger, jealousy, and prejudice erupt in violence.This touching story of the trials and tribulations of adolescence resonates with young adult readers.

Stitches was a newly manufactured baseball. He wanted to make it to the big leages, but his dreams were shattered when a defect was discovered in his stitching. So instead of an exciting major league career, destiny landed him in a seconhand store. This is a marvelous tale of how dreams come true in ways we least expect. It proves the old adage: When one door closes another door opens. And in Stitches' case, it is the door to the Hall of Fame.

"I suppose for some, knitting is just a hobby. But to me, it's an art form. It's my passion. Where oils may be the medium of the painter, my medium is wool and cotton, angora and cashmere, bamboo or mohair in the most fantastic of shades and colors. I can't not knit. It's a necessary part of my being." Molly GardnerMartha, a lonely young mother of two, finds herself isolated on Martha's Vineyard in a deteriorating marriage. When she reluctantly joins Molly Gardner's knitting group at Stitches to knit an afghan for charity, she finds herself among a group of women she can confide in. Through poignant stories of her eccentric Great Aunt Frieda, Molly imparts the lessons she learned about life, love and knitting. As Frieda takes center stage through an almost ghost-like presence, her Mae West style and strength of character embolden Martha to make a difficult choice.

For Gemini, a life of solitude and depression have been the only thing she's known for as log as she can remember. Longing to find happiness and peace of mind free from the mental hell she lives in she looks for an escape.On a daily basis it seems as if things will never change. Parents who continuously ignore her, and an older brother who plays the role of a father figure. It seems that nothing will ever change for her.Out of no where, and what seems like a gift from the heavens above she meets Brooklyn.Will he be the answer to all her problems and the escape she so desperately needs. Or is it the start of her own mental demise.Follow Gemini a long in her mental battle of fighting anxiety and depression.

Having learned to cope with being poor and not being one of the popular kids in school, Travis has found friends and a hobby that keeps him quite happy despite the teasing, but when the school thugs go on the attack while Travis and his friends are trying to assemble a puppet production for school, Travis isn't so willing to sit by so quietly for this round.