New Releases by Patricia McCormick

Toby Malone looks up to his brother Jake. Everyone does. He is the cool one, the one who is good at baseball. Even Mr. Furry, the unfortunately named family cat, seems to prefer him to everyone else. Toby and Jake and their little brother have always had an easy, jostling friendship, in which it is them against the rest of the world. But ever since Toby`s father left, things have been off balance. Toby`s mother seems deflated and resigned. And his little brother is exhibiting odd signs of stress. Toby struggles to keep his family together even as things are falling apart. Despite his efforts, though, Jake is drifting farther and farther away, and Toby knows it is because he is becoming increasingly dependent on drugs. Toby tries to cover up for Jake, to spare his mother yet another disappointment. But his attempts to protect Jake and his mother backfire, only adding to the growing tension between the brothers+until Jake finally goes much too far. With great warmth and wry humor, Patricia McCormick draws a portrait of a typical family that is struggling to reconnect after a crisis.

Een 13-jarig meisje wordt uit armoede door haar stiefvader verkocht aan een bordeel in Calcutta, waar ze zich staande probeert te houden door de hoop zichzelf vrij te kunnen kopen.

When Private Matt Duffy wakes up in an army hospital in Iraq, he''s honored with a Purple Heart. But he doesn''t feel like a hero. There''s a memory that haunts him: an image of a young Iraqi boy as a bullet hits his chest. Matt can''t shake the feeling that he was somehow involved in his death. But because of a head injury he sustained just moments after the boy was shot, Matt can''t quite put all the pieces together. Eventually Matt is sent back into combat with his squad—Justin, Wolf, and Charlene—the soldiers who have become his family during his time in Iraq. He just wants to go back to being the soldier he once was. But he sees potential threats everywhere and lives in fear of not being able to pull the trigger when the time comes. In combat there is no black-and-white, and Matt soon discovers that the notion of who is guilty is very complicated indeed. National Book Award Finalist Patricia McCormick has written a visceral and compelling portrait of life in a war zone, where loyalty is valued above all, and death is terrifyingly commonplace.

Presents five short stories about teens who stay up all night, written by award-winning authors.

Lakshmi raconte. Par petites touches. Comme une succession de tableaux. Sa vie d''avant. petite népalaise de treize ans, d''une pauvreté extrême mais heureuse dans ses montagnes, innocente. Puis le long voyage jusqu''à la ville. Un travail l''attend, elle est en âge d''aider sa famille maintenant ! Mais où sont les toits couverts d''or ? Et quelle est cette " maison du bonheur " où elle atterrit ? La répugnante Mumtaz, patronne des lieux, lui fera vite comprendre de quel enfer elle est maintenant prisonnière... Patricia McCormick ne pouvait raconter avec plus de délicatesse ce monde aussi inimaginable que réel du commerce sexuel des enfants et le triomphe d''une petite fille en perdition. Parce que rien n''est pire que le silence face à l''inacceptable et qu''il faut savoir pour se révolter, ce livre devait exister.

Teaches skills for taking the GED social studies test. Each program contains a learning focus, objectives and the chapters in the social studies workbook correspond to the program segments in the video version.