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Chapters 6-7 Summary. Patty likes Saturdays because the "country folks" come into town to do their shopping, and she is usually allowed to help out at the store. In preparation, she puts on her ...
Helen Cross. Bloomsbury, 2004 - Fiction - 248 pages. It's 1984 and one of the hottest summers Yorkshire's seen. Mona is 15 years old. She's a drinker, a thief and a fruit machine addict. Things are already going badly in the pub where she lives with her obese step-brother PorkChop. But when Mona meets posh Tamsin Fakenham, a sassy girl with ...
Chapters 16-17 Summary. As fall wanes and winter draws near, Patty evaluates the gains and losses in her life. Her losses, though they are greater than any gains, are only one: Anton. Her gains ...
Summary. Analysis. It takes the sisters hours to find the right path again in the dark. While they walk, they discuss what happened with Tonantzin in the nagual ’s cave. Odilia is grateful that her sisters finally believe her story about La Llorona and the ear pendant’s powers. Velia wonders whether Mamá knows the lullaby she used to sing ...
Summer of the Mariposas is framed as a Mexican American retelling of Homer’s Odyssey, as the five Garza sisters embark on a magical quest to heal old wounds and rediscover what it means to be a family. In the prologue, 15-year-old Odilia —the eldest Garza sister—describes the summer that her hometown of Eagle Pass, Texas experiences a ...
Crazy Rich Asians meets Love & Gelato in this hilarious, quirky novel about a Chinese-American teen who is thrust into the decadent world of Beijing high society when she is sent away to spend the summer in China.Iris Wang is having a bit of a rough start to her summer: Her boyfriend cheated on her, she didn’t get into any colleges, and she has no idea who she is or what she wants to do with ...
230. ISBN. 0803783213. Followed by. Morning Is a Long Time Coming. Summer of My German Soldier is a 1973 book by Bette Greene. The story focuses on the friendship between a young Jewish-American girl and an escaped German POW in a small town in the Southern United States during World War II. The novel was an ALA Notable Book, a New York Times ...
