The Boy Grows Up

Reducere. The Talented Mr. Ripley is the 1st book in the Ripley Series. Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath, ...

Reducere. In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly er...

Reducere. From the moment a mother holds her newborn son, his eyes tell her that she is his world. But often, as he grows up, the boy who needs her simultane...

Reducere. DescriptionTony lives on the showroom floor of a car dealership and longs to go outside. He spends his days watching trucks go by and wishing he co...

A boy from the central Tibetan grasslands grows up in the wake of the Cultural Revolution. Love, loss, bears, bandits and Buddhist mysteries. Tibet...

Reducere. Little Thunder is quite an astounding pony, and he and Yakari truly are the best of friends. So when upon waking up one morning, he discovers that ...

DescriptionThis powerfully silent graphic novel follows the saga of a boy who grows up to be an astronaut, just like he always wanted, until a fata...

Reducere. An illustrated volume of all of Carl Sandburg's books for young readers: Rootabaga Stories, Early Moon, Wind Song, Prairie-Town Boy, and Abe Lincol...

When the Star Boy's space-pod crashes to Earth it gives him the perfect opportunity to study humans close up while he awaits rescue. Two in particu...

Reducere. While Laura Ingalls grows up in a little house on the western prairie, Almanzo Wilder is living on a big farm in New York State. Here Almanzo and h...

Reducere. When Momotaro was found as a baby in a giant peach everyone knew he was destined for great things. But when he grows up to become a brave warrior, ...

Pierre grows up in a family still scarred by the Great War. When the Second World War breaks out, the Germans invade Belgium. Pierre's yearning for...

Reducere. The second book in the treasured Little House series, Farmer Boy is Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved story of how her husband, Almanzo, grew up as a ...

Reducere. An earnest young boy who loves nature grows up the son of a fundamentalist pastor. He goes to college, trains as a biologist, and becomes a success...

Reducere. Beat the Devil Two boys are caught in the midst of a raging nighttime storm on a Sanibel Island beach. Then lightning strikes and for those boys no...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Little White Bird introduces the character of Peter Pan, a free spirited and mischievous young boy who can fly and never grows up. P...

Reducere. A puppy who became a true American hero. The blind boy who let nothing stop him. When they finally grew up and met, it was magic. On September 11, ...

Four huge disasters, Three months of tourists, Two gorgeous boys, And a partridge in a palm treeIn this lighthearted beach read about family, frien...

Reducere. DescriptionFollow along with Peter, Tinker Bell, and more as you jet off to Neverland in this die-cut Disney classic Peter Pan is the boy who never...

Reducere. The True Story of Sitting Bull from multi-award-winning author Joseph Bruchac. Anxious to be given a name as strong and brave as that of his father...

A thrilling story of a sexually abused boy who grew up too fast. He's taken to a brothel at age thirteen and discovers his love for smoking fetish....

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sowmya RajendranIllustrator: Satwik GadeWhy do I have to sit separately in a corner of the classroom? Why can't I drink wat...

Reducere. Why do I have to sit separately in a corner of the classroom? Why can't I drink water from the tap like other children? Why do the teachers never t...

Reducere. Return to the world of Laura Ingalls Wilder's classic series with this gorgeous box set, which includes hardcover, unjacketed editions of the first...

Reducere. Crazy Horse is among the best known Native American heroes. Yet many people do not know his boyhood name was Curly, inspired by his curly hair.Curl...

DescriptionFrank William Epperson is a curious boy who wants to be an inventor when he grows up. Since inventing begins with experimenting, Frank s...

Reducere. A girl makes a secret sacrifice to the faerie king in this lush New York Times bestselling fantasy by author Holly Black In the woods is a glass co...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Marshall PoeIllustrator: Leland PurvisNathaniel Smithfield is a ten-year-old boy living with his family in Boston, Massachu...

Reducere. Tang Tang weaves traditional Chinese storytelling with Western fantasy elements, using vivid language to craft unique stories of wonder and magic. ...

"Beautiful, lyrical writing and a dangerously suspenseful plot. . .an unforgettable novel that readers will love." --Lucy Connors, author of The Lo...

Reducere. Precious wants to be a detective when she grows up. She is always practicing at being a detective by asking questions and finding out about other p...

Boys can do and be anything They need to hear this message from an early age to encourage them to aim high and study hard so they can pursue a care...

DescriptionLittle Thunder answers a mysterious call and sets off on a quest--alone. Little Thunder is quite an astounding pony, and he and Yakari t...

Ellen Cantarow once said, "Making the decision to have a child-it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside...

Reducere. Seamus Deane's first novel is a mesmerizing story of childhood set against the violence of Northern Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s. The boy narrato...

Reducere. Warning: This is not a virtuous and tender love story. It's chaotic, ruthless, and tragic. This story takes love and kills its innocence, steals aw...

Reducere. From one of today's most brilliant and beloved novelists, a dazzling, epic family saga set across a half-century spanning World War I, the rise of ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Clay BoutwellAuthor: Yumi BoutwellIllustrator: Cj MartinRead Real Japanese with Free MP3s ** Recommended for Beginners of J...

Reducere. Meet Trenchmouth Taggart, a man born and orphaned in 1903, a man nicknamed for his lifelong oral affliction. His boyhood is shaped by the Widow Dor...

Reducere. The Boy Who Lived In Pudding Lane - ``Being a true account, if only you believe it, of the life and ways of Santa, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Claus...

"Wynn is my son. No little boy could be more loved by his parents. Inquisitive, fiercely affectionate, staunchly opinionated, he sees the world thr...

Reducere. This landmark novella--one of the central texts of Mexican literature, is eerily relevant to our current dark times--offers a child's-eye view of a...

When life is funny, make some jokes about it.Billy Plimpton has a big dream: to become a famous comedian when he grows up. He already knows a lot o...

Reducere. Before Verity . . . there was Julie.When fifteen-year-old Julia Beaufort-Stuart wakes up in the hospital, she knows the lazy summer break she'd ima...

Reducere. A black man, a white woman, and twenty-five years. The unbelievable true story of Ronald Eubanks's life. A young boy from the streets of Dallas gro...

Reducere. From the author and illustrator of Belinda Baloney Changes Her Mind, Benji Baloney Learns to be Brave is a children's book about a young boy coming...

Reducere. Inspired by true events, One Hen tells the story of Kojo, a boy from Ghana who turns a small loan into a thriving farm and a livelihood for many. A...

Reducere. Every mom wants the best for her son. She wants him to succeed in life, to be a man of character, to find a good woman, to be a great dad. But some...

Reducere. ★ "A heartfelt and expertly written tale of loss, family, and friendship that will have readers blinking back their tears...Beautiful and sincere."...

DescriptionReception studies have transformed the classics. Many more literary and cultural texts are now regarded as 'valid' for classical study. ...

Leopold is just like every other boy in town...except that he can turn himself invisible Perhaps when he grows up, Leopold will use his powers to f...

Reducere. Sometimes history is made by a dyslexic, mischievous boy who hates school, is a descendant of one of Frederick Douglass' half-sisters, and whose Po...

Explore all of life's possibilities in this exuberant book by Newbery Award winning author Jerry Spinelli -- a perfect gift for new parents, gradua...

DescriptionRead along, dig along, sing along Young paleontologists and dinosaur enthusiasts are invited on a fossil dig, set to the tune of "Here W...

Reducere. The long-awaited second and final installment in the "smart, sexy, and devilishly clever" Mirage series (Ren e Ahdieh, New York Times bestselling a...

Reducere. Somaiya Daud's Court of Lions is the long-awaited second and final installment in the "smart, sexy, and devilishly clever" Mirage series (Renée Ahd...

Reducere. Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem only a distant echo. An only child, he lives a...

Reducere. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book, National Book Award finalist, more than two and a half years on the New Yo...

Reducere. Deep in the woods, a gnarled tree grows. Its thick, black trunk twists angrily up into the night sky. Held in place by the magic of a long-ago patr...

One of The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of fiction in 2018 "Am lie Nothomb's twenty-fifth novel is among her very best." --T l rama Marie is ...

Growing up in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, a young Kurdish boy named Kerim has ample opportunity to witness the murderous repression that defined the era...

Reducere. Meg Meeker, M.D., acclaimed author of Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters, now turns to an equally powerful relationship in the family: the one betwee...

Reducere. A loner at heart... Morgan McKenzie has been on her own since she ran away from a nightmarish foster home at the age of sixteen. Afraid to put down...

Reducere. Honor and conviction clash with loyalty and love in this sweeping Civil War tale that pits brother against brother. The Shades of Gray Civil War Se...

Reducere. Inspired by the life events of Antje Paarlberg, So Big is an award-winning drama that depicts the life of Selina Peake de Jong. Raised in a strict ...

Reducere. Inspired by the life events of Antje Paarlberg, So Big is an award-winning drama that depicts the life of Selina Peake de Jong. Raised in a strict ...

Reducere. One called him son. One called him brother. One called him husband. And all three suffered for him. This epic novel tells the story of Moses from t...

Reducere. A young girl must learn to survive and find her family against all odds in this heartbreaking companion to Hush from award-winning author Donna Jo ...