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1 review
Avi, Sharon Creech, ...

Atheneum, 2008

Courtesy of Teens Read Too
What happens when you ask six Newbery Award winners to write one-act plays? Well, you get a book like ACTING OUT, and you get the potential for a lot of fun. Award-winning authors Avi, Susan Cooper, Sharon Creech, Patricia MacLachlan, Katherine Paterson, and Richard Peck were asked to write one-act plays. They were given the freedom to write about anything, but there was one catch. Each ...

Bridge to Terabithia (Movie Tie-in)

13 reviews
Katherine Paterson

HarperEntertainment, 2007

Do You Have a Land of Your Own Too?
Its Jess's first day back at school, and he is ready to run. He had practiced every day all summer for this, races every recess between all the boys in his grade. Every thing seems to be going well, until a new girl at school out-runs all the boys. After this, running just wasn't fun anymore. Although Leslie (the new girl) and Jess are almost completely different, and Jess has "disliked" Leslie ...

The invisible child (Charlotte Zolotow Lecture)

1 review
Katherine Paterson

Friends of the CCBC, 1999

Sharing her thoughts, sharing her heart
Katherine Paterson writes for children. She writes, not from a religious place, but from a place of deep-seeded faith, respect, and love for people, especially children - especially children that no one sees. She tells magical real life stories from her own life weaving together the books, events, situations and people who inspired her.Whether you write for children or just love children her ...

The Angel & The Donkey

1 review
Katherine Paterson

Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media, 2004

highly recommend
This is a very well-done bible story book, one of the best i've seen. The illustrations are gorgeous, and make an attempt to be accurate - eg the Israelites are camped in twelve tribes, three on each side of the tent of meeting, there are assyrian-inspired motifs under the assumption that these would have influenced the Moabites, etc. The retelling follows fairly closely the account in Numbers, ...

Part of Me Died Too: 2Stories of Creative Survival Among Bereaved Children and Teenagers

4 reviews
Virginia Lynn Fry, Katherine Paterson

Dutton Juvenile, 1995

IT WAS EXCELLENT! I LOVED IT!
I really enjoyed this book. I bought it a few years after my mother died, and it helped me a great deal with what I was feeling, thinking, and seeing. It also helped me deal with the day-to-day struggles that I encountered. Thank you so much for writing this book.

Angels and Other Strangers (rpkg): Family Christmas Stories

3 reviews
Katherine Paterson

HarperTrophy, 1988

Unfinished Christmas Gift
Review of Katherine Paterson 1979 Angels and Other Strangers: Family Christmas Stories. New York:Harper Trophy By Pamela Wright, Ph.D. This book contains moving stories that might be a nice accompaniment to Christmas family devotionals. Some stories also might be a good selection for a mother-daughter reading group, provided the daughters are mature. Paterson's characters, though set in ...

Bread and Roses, Too

4 reviews
Katherine Paterson

Listening Library, 2006

Beware that movement that generates its own songs.
Doggone it, Katherine Paterson, stop making me cry! Under normal circumstances the number of books that make me tear up is a slim number that could be counted on one hand. And most of those books, if I was going to be honest with you, were probably written by Katherine Paterson. Ms. Paterson is a bit of a wonder. Year after year, decade after decade, she churns out consistently well-written ...

Consider the Lilies : Plants of the Bible

1 review
John Paterson, Katherine Paterson

Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1986

Fabulous pictures & relevant information
This book has great drawings that look more like photographs of some plants mentioned in the Bible. It is by no means an exhaustive reference. It quotes the biblical background first and then tells about the plant. It includes how it was used, how common it was, what it looked like and how it grew, etc. For example, it tells the wheat/weeds/mustard seed story from the NT parable, then has a ...

Best Shorts: Favorite Stories for Sharing (Best Shorts)

3 reviews

Houghton Mifflin, 2006

Courtesy of Teens Read Too
In BEST SHORTS, you never know what surprise you're going to get next. Unlike many short story collections, which usually revolve around some thread of a theme, the stories Avi selected for this anthology come from all over the genre spectrum. The one thing they all have in common, however, is that they are all great little adventures you can experience without the big time commitment of an ...

Ame a Jacob/Jacob Have I Loved

8 reviews
Katherine Paterson

Bt Bound, 1999

A Good Book
I really liked this book. It was about a girl that lived on the island Rass. Her sister,Caroline, was so perfect. They treated Caroline better than they treated her. This book was so awesome! I definitly reccomend it for young audiences or for old audiences. This is an all around good book. You might think its boring at first but you have to hang in there, because the end is GREAT!

Literature Guide: The Great Gilly Hopkins (Grades 4-8)

1 review
Katherine Paterson

Scholastic, 1999

Being an adoptive mom, this book touched me!!
I really disliked this tough-acting little girl throughout the first half of the book. As the story unfolded, though, I was feeling her pain and getting quite attached to her. All the characters in the story are very real and human, and the relationships that develop as the story evolves are so touching! This book will stay with me for a long time!

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Kingfisher Classics)

290 reviews
Mark Twain, Claire Fletcher, ...

Kingfisher, 2002

Yes, it's a classic for a reason.
I somehow tragically managed to make my way to adulthood with never reading anything but the kiddie version of this book. When I found this book for super-cheap in the teachers' lounge book sale and I figured "hey, why not?" And thus I picked it up and immediately fell in love with the sheer Old-South charm that only Twain can deliver. Really, people, it is no wonder that this book is such a ...

Bridge to Terabithia

24 reviews
Katherine Paterson

Harper Collins Publishers, 1996

Bridge to Teribithia
I saw the movie first... which got me interested enough to read the book. I really didn't expect to enjoy the movie, but it brought back a lot of interesting memories... always wanting to build some kind of fort, treehouse, or clubhouse. I think most kids do. The subject matter gets pretty heavy near the end, not what you usually find in children's literature, but it was well presented. The fact ...

Anne of Green Gables (Aladdin Classics)

307 reviews
Lucy Maud Montgomery

Aladdin, 2001

An excellent book for girls
but my whole family loves this book along with the whole series. L.M. Montgomery's style of writing brings you right in with Anne. She makes the reader feel like a kindred spirit. A girl who is accidentally chosen to be adopted winds up being the best thing that ever happened to Green Gables. Lots of fun and excitement is the only thing that can describe the life of Anne.

The Master Puppeteer

18 reviews
Katherine Paterson

Avon Books, 1981

'' The Magical Page Turner''
The Master Puppeteer is a mysterious thrilling book about a bandit named Saburo who robs the rich and helps the poor! There also is a boy in the story named Jiro who devotes his life to learning puppetry.Meanwhile the puppet theater crashes by a mob of rioting peasents.Jiro becomes aware of his responsibilities greater than his craft.He schemes to safe his friend Kinishi and his parents.While he ...

A Midnight Clear

1 review
Katherine Paterson

Signet, 1998

Patterson radiates the true meaning of Christmas
Turn down the volume to Bing Crosby's "White Christmas " C.D.! Gather the family 'round the Christmas tree! Katherine Patterson has done it again. Patterson shows her versatile writing style in her collection of short stories, A Midnight Clear: Stories for the Christmas Season. From a pregnant woman in Marion, Virginia, to a political prisoner in Red China, these stories radiate the true ...

Bridge to Terabithia

802 reviews
Katherine Paterson

HarperTeen, 2005

Bridge to Terabithia Recommmendation
Bridge to Teribithia is a great book! It is about friendship. Jesse, the main character lives with his four sisters, momma, and papa. When Leslie moves in next door, Jesse's life was changed. Jesse and Leslie started Teribithia, an imaginary kingdom where they rule as king and queen.At the end of the book, Leslie mysteriously dies, and Jesse feels like his life is over. May Belle, one of his ...

The King's Equal

15 reviews
Katherine Paterson

Amer Printing House for Blind, 1992

Buy this book!
I would recommend this book if only for the beautifully detailed illustrations. This is truly a wonderful book with a great message about the value of character and friendship rather than physical beauty and wealth. Not your typical fairy tale. Has a very positive, courageous girl character.

The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks

1 review
Katherine Paterson

First Scholastic printing, October 1991, 1991

The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks
Ironic that this book followed The Value of Honesty (ISBN 0916392368) in the pile - they go well together, both culturally and in the teaching-morals way. A pair of ducks lived near a pond on land in the district of a cruel lord, who liked to surround himself with beautiful things, and disliked all things not beautiful. Among the things he'd come to dislike was Shozo, who had once been the ...

The Same Stuff as Stars

25 reviews
Katherine Paterson

Oxford University Press, 2003

Book Review.
Angel had a hard life, with an unreliable mother, her father in jail, and a seven year old brat of a brother, Bernie. When she was only eleven, her mother, Bernie, and her, moved in with their poor grandmother. One night, her mother disappeared, without warning. Angel was very responsible, she made sure Bernie read, did his homework, ate right, and was more of an adult than her own mother. One ...

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