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Download or read book Stand Straight, Ella Kate written by Kate Klise and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ella Kate Ewing was born in 1872. She started out small, but she just kept on growing. Soon she was too tall for her desk at school, too tall for her bed at home, too tall to fit anywhere. Ella Kate was a real-life giant, but she refused to hide herself away. Instead, she used her unusual height to achieve her equally large dreams. The masterful Klise sisters deliver a touching and inspiring true story about a strong-minded girl who finally embraced her differences. It's the perfect book for every child who has ever felt like an outsider.

Download or read book Cloud Tea Monkeys written by Mal Peet and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monkeys come to the rescue of a struggling family in this traditional tale from a Carnegie Medal winner.Tashi lives in a tiny village below the tea plantations where her mother earns a living. One day her mother falls ill, and Tashi must pick tea to earn the money for a doctor. But she is too small to reach the tender shoots and the cruel Overseer sends her away empty-handed. Tashi needs a miracle. Then, on the mountains high above the plantation where only monkeys live, something extraordinary happens that will change her life for ever...

Download or read book Brontorina written by James Howe and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite her size and not having the proper footwear, a determined dinosaur pursues her dream of becoming a ballerina.

Download or read book Short written by Holly Goldberg Sloan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this heartwarming and funny middle-grade novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Counting by 7s, Julia grows into herself while playing a Munchkin in The Wizard of Oz Julia is very short for her age, but by the end of the summer run of The Wizard of Oz, she’ll realize how big she is inside, where it counts. She hasn’t ever thought of herself as a performer, but when the wonderful director of Oz casts her as a Munchkin, she begins to see herself in a new way. As Julia becomes friendly with the poised and wise Olive—one of the adults with dwarfism who’ve joined the production’s motley crew of Munchkins—and with her deeply artistic neighbor, Mrs. Chang, Julia’s own sense of self as an artist grows. Soon, she doesn’t want to fade into the background—and it’s a good thing, because her director has more big plans for Julia! Bubbling over with humor and tenderness, this is an irresistible story of self-discovery and of the role models who forever change us.

Download or read book Long-Armed Ludy and the First Women's Olympics written by Jean L. S. Patrick and published by Triangle Interactive, Inc. . This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucile “Ludy” Godbold was six feet tall and skinnier than a Carolina pine and an exceptional athlete. In her ?nal year on the track team at Winthrop College in South Carolina, Ludy tried the shot put and she made that iron ball sail with her long, skinny arms. But when Ludy qualified for the first Women's Olympics in 1922, Ludy had no money to go. Thanks to the help of her college and classmates, Ludy traveled to Paris and won the gold medal with more than a foot to spare. Hooray for Ludy! Based on a true story about a little-known athlete and a unique event in women's sports history.

Download or read book Someone Else's Ocean written by Kate Stewart and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-23 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first time I met Ian Kemp in the sparkling blue waters of St. Thomas, I was six years old and we shared a summer beneath the stars. The second time I met Ian Kemp, he was a shell of the boy I once knew. Turbulent and infuriating, he refused my friendship at every turn. Like me, he was a casualty of life's cruelty, but we were planets apart. We'd both sought refuge on the island, hoping to find our anchor. Instead, we found each other and managed to reclaim our stars...until we both got swept away.

Download or read book Trial by Journal written by Kate Klise and published by Perfection Learning. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lily Watson is serving on the jury for the trial of a man accused of killing Lily's classmate, Perry Keet. There's something fishy about the case. Nobody has ever found Perry's body. Is he sending messages from beyond the grave? This funny mystery by the author of "Regarding the Fountain" is told through diaries, court documents, newspaper articles--and the paintings of a talented gorilla.