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Jinian Footseer
This volume begins one of the three trilogies that compose Sheri Tepper's epic tale of the Land of the True Game. This time we will see the tale through the eyes of Jinian of Stoneflight Demesne. Of course, we have met Jinian before. But know only what Peter discovered in the short period when he met Jinian and came to care for her. Now we come to find out that Jinian has great depths of her own. This is our introduction to her history and will bring us up-to-date, so that we are ready to join the young couple and their friends on a journey past the borders of the lands of the gamesmen
Rocky and Ginger help the chicken escape from Tweedy's Farm.
Based on the popular film "Chicken Run" by DreamWorks, this is a level 2 reduced complexity book from Penguin Young Readers. Aimed at children aged 7-9 (700 words) Up to 200 hours of English
It is a fine yew tree that for many hundreds of years has protected Punchbowl Farm from gales and storms. Lindsey loves it and feels certain that it holds the spirit which guards their home and that to destroy it would be wrong and might cause some dreadful disaster. But Dion, who has taken the many problems of running the farm on his practical young shoulders, knows only that its poisonous branches are a constant menace to his herd and even to their beloved ponies.
Cynthia Voigt crafts a novel about discovery, perspective, and the meaning of home—all through the eyes of an affable and worried little mouse. Fredle is an earnest young fellow suddenly cast out of his cozy home behind the kitchen cabinets—into the outside. It's a new world of color and texture and grass and sky. But with all that comes snakes and rain and lawnmowers and raccoons and a different sort of mouse (field mice, they're called) not entirely trustworthy. Do the dangers outweigh the thrill of discovery? Fredle's quest to get back inside soon becomes a wild adventure of predators and allies, of color and sound, of discovery and nostalgia.
Punchbowl Midnight, with her slanting, velvety eyes, was beautiful, and to Dion she was like no other calf, for he had assisted at her birth. When she escaped, he and the rest of the Thorntons were nearly distracted with fear that they would never find her again. They had other anxieties too for the wild deer were coming in from the Punch Bowl and trampling the young growing corn. With the true farmer's instinct for preserving his crops, Dion threatened to shoot the deer.
