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Providing answers to common questions, definitions of complex medical terms, and lists of helpful resources, this book also: touches on expected, age-related changes in communication, memory, swallowing, and hearing abilities, to name a few, offers practical strategies for caregivers to cope with speech, language, and voice problems and to maximize their loved one's ability to communicate, reveals how caregivers can assist their loved ones wit...

A heartfelt middle-grade novel from New York Times bestselling author Barbara O'Connor about a boy whose life is upended after the loss of his older brother-timeless, classic, and whimsical.Walter Tipple is looking for adventure. He keeps having a dream that his big brother, Tank, appears before him and says, "Let's you and me go see my world, little man." But Tank went to the army and never came home, and Walter doesn't know how to see the wo...

Providing answers to common questions, definitions of complex medical terms, and lists of helpful resources, this book also: touches on expected, age-related changes in communication, memory, swallowing, and hearing abilities, to name a few, offers practical strategies for caregivers to cope with speech, language, and voice problems and to maximize their loved one's ability to communicate, reveals how caregivers can assist their loved ones wit...

A heartfelt middle-grade novel from New York Times bestselling author Barbara O'Connor about a boy whose life is upended after the loss of his older brother-timeless, classic, and whimsical.Walter Tipple is looking for adventure. He keeps having a dream that his big brother, Tank, appears before him and says, "Let's you and me go see my world, little man." But Tank went to the army and never came home, and Walter doesn't know how to see the wo...

From Barbara O'Connor, the beloved author of Wish, comes a big-hearted story about the meaning of friendship, the challenges of growing up, and one lovable runaway dog.Mavis Jeeter is fearless and bold, but she has never lived in one place long enough to have a real best friend. Her flighty mother has uprooted them again to another new home and taken a job as a housekeeper for the Tully family. Mavis wants this home to be permanent-which means...

Charlie ha undici anni e un unico grande desiderio, che esprime segretamente ogni giorno. Ma quando viene data in affido agli zii, che conosce a malapena, sembra impossibile che il suo sogno si avveri. La vita, però, sa riservare svolte inaspettate e incontri speciali. Come Howard, compagno di classe e vicino di casa, che si rivela ogni giorno più sorprendente. O come Buonastella, un randagio pelle e ossa che cattura subito il suo cuore. Charl...

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The new novel from the beloved author of "Wish." When her mother uproots them, 10-year-old Mavis is determined to find a best friend in Landry, Alabama, where the summer also holds the promise of friendship and change for a sad man, a stray dog, and a timid girl.

A New York Times bestseller!A touching story about a girl and her dog, perfect for young animal lovers.Eleven-year-old Charlie Reese has been making the same secret wish every day since fourth grade. She even has a list of all the ways there are to make the wish, such as cutting off the pointed end of a slice of pie and wishing on it as she takes the last bite. But when she is sent to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina to live with fam...

Partly thematic, partly chronological, this account of dance in Ireland emerges out of a broader interest in the body in society as well as in the construction of national and gender identities. It comprises seven chapters each of which addresses a particular form of cultural identity. These include national, ethnic, gender, social class, postmodern and global identities. It is structured in such a way that many of the chapters are devoted to ...

Sherman, a one-legged pigeon, sets everyone aflutter in a small southern town.

A New York Times bestseller!A touching story about a girl and her dog, perfect for young animal loversEleven-year-old Charlie Reese has been making the same secret wish every day since fourth grade. She even has a list of all the ways there are to make the wish, such as cutting off the pointed end of a slice of pie and wishing on it as she takes the last bite. But when she is sent to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina to live with fami...

One day Georgina has a home and plenty to eat and the next she's living in a car with her mother and brother. Impatient and ashamed of having to wash up in a restaurant bathroom and do her homework by flashlight, she decides to steal a dog, hoping to collect a reward. She chooses a mark and makes careful plans, but doesn't take into count her conscience bothering her. "Un dia Georgina tiene una casa y mucho de comer y al dia siguiente esta viv...

Once you've finally captured the most enormous frog in Carter, Georgia, what exactly are you supposed to do with it?

Sherman, a one-legged pigeon, sets everyone aflutter in a small southern town.

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Author Barbara Yuen O'Connor's grandfather left the China mainland in 1877 when he was twenty years old. It was the beginning of an amazing journey that took him to San Francisco just a few years before the Chinese Exclusion Act. He ultimately went to Hawaii to work on the sugar plantations, and it was there that he and his wife raised twelve children. The second generation continued the family's tradition of working hard, putting family first...

Don't miss Barbara O'Connor's other middle-grade work-like Wish, Wonderland, How to Steal a Dog, Fame and Glory in Freedom, Georgia, The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester, and more!From an author long recognized for her true Southern voice and heartfelt characters, Greetings from Nowhere, with its four intertwining stories, brings Barbara O'Connor's work to a new level of sophistication.Aggie isn't expecting visitors at the Sleepy Time Motel in ...

Desperate to hold her struggling family together, Georgina Hayes is inspired after she spots a poster offering a $500 reward for the return of a missing dog. All she has to do is "borrow" the right dog and its owners are sure to offer a reward.