Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Top Series in United States

Showing 1 - 12 of 18 results for “holly thompson”
Skip side bar filters
  • The Language Inside

    Emma Karas was raised in Japan; it's the country she calls home. But when her mother is diagnosed with breast cancer, Emma's family moves to a town outside Lowell, Massachusetts, to stay with Emma's grandmother while her mom undergoes treatment.Emma feels out of place in the United States.She begins to have migraines, and longs to be back in Japan. At her grandmother's urging, she volunteers in a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Falling into the Dragon's Mouth

    In a Japanese seaside neighborhood lives Jason Parker:a sixth graderone year older than his classmatesa stinking foreigner to some classmatesan orange belt in aikidoa big brotherJason Parker is just a boy trying to get through his days with calm and courage. If only everyone around him would let him.This is a beautifully spare novel in verse about one boy's life-a story that will resonate with ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Orchards

    Winner of the APALA Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult LiteratureAn ALA-YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults BookAfter a classmate commits suicide, Kana Goldberg—a half-Japanese, half-Jewish American—wonders who is responsible. She and her cliquey friends said some thoughtless things to the girl. Hoping that Kana will reflect on her behavior, her parents pack her off to her mother's ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Twilight Chant

    Illustrated by Jen Betton ...
    A lyrical exploration of the transition between day and night and of the animals who thrive during this special time.As day slips softly into night, sharp eyes catch glimpses of the special creatures who are active at dusk.Lyrical text and lush art capture the richness and life of this magical time in a sumptuous picture book that will inspire budding naturalists and anyone who has ever chased a ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • One Wave at a Time

    Series series AV2 Fiction Readalong
    After his father dies, Kai experiences all kinds of emotions: sadness, anger, fear, guilt. Sometimes they crash and mix together. Other times, there are no emotions at all—just flatness. As Kai and his family adjust to life without Dad, the waves still roll in. But with the help of friends and one another, they learn to cope—and, eventually, heal. A lyrical story about grieving for anyone ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Tomo

    Friendship through Fiction: An Anthology of Japan Teen Stories

    One year after the tsunami, this benefit fiction anthology helps teens learn about Japan and contribute to long-term relief efforts.This aptly named fiction anthology—tomo means “friend” in Japanese—is a true labor of friendship to benefit teens in Japan whose lives were upended by the violent earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011. Authors from Japan and around the world have contributed works ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Audiobook

    Hymns to the Night, version 2 (Unabridged)

    optional

    Unabridged

    35 min

    Step into the enchanting world of Novalis with "Hymns to the Night, version 2," an audiobook that beckons listeners into the mystical realms of darkness and illumination. Novalis, the pseudonym of Friedrich von Hardenberg, unveils a poetic journey through the depths of the night, where shadows dance with the echoes of the soul. In this revised edition, experience a fusion of Romantic philosophy ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Cinder Girl

    Growing Up on America's Fringe

    Growing up on welfare, food stamps, and Greyhound buses, Holly Thompson Rehder quit school at fifteen to help take care of her mother and younger sister after a devastating car accident. Getting married and pregnant soon thereafter, like so many other young girls caught in the poverty-cycle, Holly decided that the life she had been born into was not what she intended to give her child.But unlike ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Cinder Girl

    Growing Up on America's Fringe

    Unabridged

    9 hours 10 min

    Cinder Girl sits in the rarest class of memoir—a towering literary triumph which melds searing and tragic personal history with an incredible story of resilience, hope, and civic success.Growing up on welfare, food stamps, and Greyhound buses, Holly Thompson Rehder quit school at fifteen to help take care of her mother and younger sister after a devastating car accident. Getting married and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Subculture

    They have an entire city on its knees.On a hot summer's night, terrorists take over the small English city of Chester. After months of planning, and with carefully chosen targets, they kill hundreds in a string of coordinated attacks, sending the rest into blind panic. Before anyone knows what hit them, the city's Roman walls are cut off from the rest of the world, its population trapped at the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Specialized Pediatric Palliative Care

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This compact volume offers a brief overview of pediatric palliative care and emerging ways to expand and provide palliative care to children.Pediatric palliative care is a new specialty that is rapidly expanding across the United States. The specialty has impact throughout the lifespan of children with serious illness and supports patients, families, and those who care for children.Authored by ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Representing Rural Women

    Representing Rural Women highlights the complexity and diversity of representations of rural women in the U.S. and Canada from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. The 15 chapters in this collection offer fresh perspectives on representations of rural women in literature, popular culture, and print, digital, and social media. They explore a wide range of time periods, geographic spaces, and ... Read more

    $38.09 USD