Books with title The Wanderer

The Wanderer by Sharon Creech combines adventure, family relationships, and compelling characterization to tell a tale of a difficult journey to another land and to a sense of self-awareness and acceptance for each of the characters. Young adults will be excited by the adventurous sailing while discovering that personal growth often entails a difficult journey.

Here in a vast lost valley, society has split into two: the Wanderers, who team together to battle against the elements and each other in the harsh world of the desert, and those who live in the pyramid-city of Arcone, whose closed environment and tightly controlled society enable them to maintain a more civilized existence in the face of an environmentally devastated planet. Conflict is inevitable . . .Kean is a Wanderer, adopted into a team that has protected him since he was a child. Essa lives with her parents in the pyramid, and chafes at the mental and physical restrictions the government enforces to protect its people. But when a rogue Wanderer plans an attack on the city to gain its resources for his people, Kean and Essa's paths collide with an impact that will alter their lives forever.The next in a line of postapocalyptic coming-of-age stories that began with Lois Lowry's masterpiece The Giver and moved on through the Hunger Games series, Wanderer is a journey of danger, growth, friendship, and hope for a new generation.

A well researched and endearing non-fiction account of an amazing Airedale who captured public imagination throughout New Zealand during the Great Depression, and who is today honoured in Wellington by a statue celebrating his status as a much-loved local legend. Like Scotland's Greyfriar's Bobby, Paddy mourned the loss of his human, in his case a little mistress who died of pneumonia, but instead of haunting a graveyard, Paddy headed for the waterfront. There he became a favourite of the watersiders and seamen, not to mention the taxi and bus drivers of the Central City, who fed and protected him from dog rangers. He certainly got around - taken on board ship and crossing the Tasman, travelling around coastal ports and even flying in a Gypsy Moth - not to mention the dastardly attempt to move him to Auckland by jealous Aucklanders. He was also rumoured to have made it to San Francisco and back. Formally adopted by the Harbour Board, his official title was Assistant Night Watchman responsible for Pirates, Smugglers and Rodents. On his death his funeral procession brought Wellington to a standstill. Not bad for a stray dog.

On her first day at St. Mary’s School for Particularly Difficult Children, an unwanted girl named Georgie Tanner, and her bruised and bullied friend, Thomas Finnegan, sink through a bottomless puddle into a bizarre new world.Join Georgie and Thomas in this quirky, hair-raising adventure, as they learn the dizzying spy code of Batty Latin; play the potentially lethal sport of combat croquet; face a Dark Star who is bent on revenge; and in so doing, discover a secret about themselves they never would have believed!A novel for boys & girls aged 10-14.Approx 88,000 words, or 288 paperback pages. (The paperback retails for $16.95!)“A quirky, action-charged adventure to capture the imagination!”“Fantasy, adventure and comedy all rolled into one!”“A very exciting and very funny story … anyone who enjoyed Harry Potter, this would be a fantastic alternative.”"A book that restores the meaning of healthy fantasy."

"Melmoth the Wanderer" is a novel written by Charles Robert Maturin, published in 1820 and considered the last of the classic English gothic romances. Influenced by the Gothic romances of the late 18th century, Maturin's diabolic tale raised the genre to a new and macabre pitch. The book was especially admired in France, notably by Charles Baudelaire. Honoré de Balzac wrote an ironic sequel in 1835, “Melmoth Reconciled”. Oscar Wilde, in exile, chose “Sebastian Melmoth” as his pseudonym.The novel's titular character is a scholar who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for 150 extra years of life, and searches the world for someone who will take over the pact for him, in a manner reminiscent of the Wandering Jew.The novel is composed of a series of nested stories-within-stories, gradually revealing the story of Melmoth's life. The novel offers social commentary on early-19th-century England, and denounces Roman Catholicism in favour of the virtues of Protestantism.

Jennifer Lacewing longed to be a peaceful farmer in Helix, one of the last prosperous settlements on a toxic Earth. But when she and her best friend, Collins, are picked to be Wanderers, a small group that can mysteriously survive outside the safety of Helix's fences, she is devastated.As Jennifer leaves the colony, her father is falsely accused of murder and sentenced to exile. In a rush against time, Jennifer must complete the Wanderer's training and clear her father's name...or lose him forever.

rom the master of the western comes a novel full of romance and adventure. The story begins: Adam Larey gazed with hard and wondering eyes down the silent current of the red river upon which he meant to drift away into the desert. The Rio Colorado was no river to trust. It chafed at its banks as if to engulf them; muddy and thick it swirled and glided along in flood, sweeping in curves back and forth from Arizona to California shore. Majestic and gleaming under the hot sky, it swung southward between wide green borders of willow and cottonwood toward a stark and naked upflung wilderness of mountain peaks, the red ramparts of the unknown and trackless desert.