In the early morning on April 18, 1906, a terrible earthquake struck San Francisco, California. Lizzie Newton, who had been staying with her grandmother, woke up frightened but unhurt. She helped her injured grandmother out of the apartment building. People across the city left their homes for fear that the buildings might collapse. After Lizzie's grandmother was taken to the hospital, ten-year-old Lizzie was on her own. She had to make her way to her parents without any help. Could she find them? Would they be all right? In the back of this book, you'll find a script and instructions for putting on a reader's theater performance of this adventure.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11524.33 | Fiction literature | 10 August 2011
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The Way Life Should Be
Angela Russo finds herself in Maine thanks to a sailing instructor, an impulse, and an idea that in Maine, people live "the way life should be." But reality on Mount Desert Island is not what she expected. Far from everything familiar, Angela begins to rebuild her life from the ground up. Relying on the flair for Italian cooking she inherited from her grandmother, she begins to discover the pleasures and secrets of her new small community—and to connect her heritage to a future she is only beginning to envision.
The leaves of the calendar may be shedding faster than the sycamores on her family's decaying Mississippi plantation, but thirty-something Sarah Booth Delaney isn't ready to sing the blues. Not when she's got a thriving detective agency and the outspoken, outrageously attired ghost of her great-great grandmother's nanny to keep her on her toes. But the matchmaking phantom may have the last word on motherhood when Sarah Booth takes on the controversial case of an accused baby killer.
To Baby With Love: 35 Gorgeous Gifts to Make for Babies and Toddlers
To Baby with Love is the perfect collection of gifts for any newborn or toddler. The birth of a baby is such a special event, and it is a traditional time for gifts. What could be better than a gift that has been made by an adoring mother, grandmother, aunt or friend? Here, Deborah Schneebeli-Morrell - herself a doting grandmother of two - has put together a collection of 35 beautiful projects, all with charmingly illustrated step-by-step instructions and beautiful photography. For newborns, make a cosy patchwork quilt from off-cuts of cashmere sweaters or cute toys to hang above the cot.
Fighting with her genius older sister, Claudia is furious when Janine criticizes the Baby-sitters Club and otherwise makes her feel inferior, but when Grandmother Mimi has a stroke, the sisters must bury the hatchet.
