Books with title The Big White Wall

Ever since The White appeared in our valley of Windridge, my people have lived in fear. But today that fear ends. Finally, the King has sent his most elite dragon hunters to kill The White, the last of the imperial dragons.Since the death of her father, Sienna Foxburn hasn’t felt safe. The White, a fire-breathing imperial dragon, terrorizes the Valley of Windridge with no end in sight. But Sienna isn’t satisfied hiding behind the walls of her keep. She is tired of fearing the dragon, but she can’t fight it alone.Then a mysterious sorceress and two elite dragon hunters arrive, claiming to be sent by the King. Thus begins the great hunt for The White. Sienna embarks on a dragon-hunting adventure through the exotic Valley of Windridge, all while uncovering secrets and conspiracies that could endanger the entire Kingdom….

This funny Halloween story about Clifford the Big Red Dog, based on an episode from the award-winning TV show, is just right for beginning readers.It's Halloween, and the whole town dresses up in funny or spooky costumes and gathers at the beach to watch a scary ghost movie together. When Clifford investigates the big white movie screen afterwards, it falls on him, covering him like a ghost! He runs through town, unintentionally scaring everybody. Emily Elizabeth's friend Jetta learns that it's okay to admit to being afraid.

To the reader of this bookThis book is dedicated to the imagination. It is an exercise in expanding and building this vital tool. I hope you and your child will enjoy the trip. Now settle back, ask your child to close his or her eyes . . . and begin . . . This book is dedicated to your imagination. It will be your imagination that colors the grass and hears the secrets that the trees tell . . . Your imaginary nose that smells the salty air and the meadow flowers across the oyster shell road. It will be your hand that grasps the big gold door knob that opens the big glossy white door, and your feet that will step down upon the oyster shell road. It will be you and you alone who will walk and run and laugh and explore with Mrs. Mocha Fudgebody and her dear friend, Thomas D. Cat.I know you will have wonderful adventures in a place where it’s always summer . . . where the sun always shines . . . and there is always a happy ending.

A facile novel which expounds its emotional problems in terms that are too simple for the depth they imply, this takes poor but upstanding Leeann Storm on her first resolute and successful steps away from home. Leaving the Junction, she ascends to the estate beyond the high wall to be governess for Mrs. Kingsley's two little girls and part time secretary for the grown son Dirk, a would-be poet. But sinister motifs overlay the new relationships. Dirk is a sickly, hostile young man, and his mother's son by a former marriage. Mrs. Kingsley is over-protective. Dirk's at first unreciprocated love for Leeann precipitates a crisis that makes him leave home to hunt for an engineering job (his true bent is mechanics) and Leeann, who jockeys between the rich and the poor with phenomenal perception, does much to straighten things out both in her own home and the Kingsley's. In the end she has her man and her position, two achievements which the author does little to affirm as the actual goals throughout the course of her narrative.

In May 1915, Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire. Nearly 750,000 Italian troops were killed in savage, hopeless fighting on the stony hills north of Trieste and in the snows of the Dolomites. To maintain discipline, General Luigi Cadorna restored the Roman practice of decimation, executing random members of units that retreated or rebelled. With elegance and pathos, historian Mark Thompson relates the saga of the Italian front, the nationalist frenzy and political intrigues that preceded the conflict, and the towering personalities of the statesmen, generals, and writers drawn into the heart of the chaos. A work of epic scale, The White War does full justice to the brutal and heart-wrenching war that inspired Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms.