[PDF] Wave Me Goodbye eBook

Author : Jacqueline Wilson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 30,4 MB
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1448198062

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'A heart-warming story packed with Second World War detail' - Daily Express 'Carrie's War for a new generation of children' - Belfast Telagraph September, 1939: At the breakout of the Second World War , ten-year-old Shirley is sent away on a train. She doesn't know where she's going, or what's going to happen to her when she gets there. All she has been told is that she's going on 'a little holiday'. She soon finds herself lodged deep in the countryside, with two boys from the East End of London, Kevin. But here, living in the strange, half-empty Red House with the mysterious and reclusive Mrs Waverley, the children's lives will be changed for ever. Award-winning, bestselling and beloved author Jacqueline Wilson has created a beautiful, moving story of friendship and bravery against the backdrop of the worst conflict the world has ever known. 'So good, I couldn't put it down.' - Reader review, BookTrust 'The reigning queen of British children's fiction, Jacqueline Wilson, turns to the second World War with Wave Me Goodbye . . .The story handles the balance of big worries - the war - with the smaller details of what it means to be separated from one's family while life still goes on.' - The Irish Times

Author : Doug Magee
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 25,72 MB
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1439160090

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A riveting family drama about the kidnapping of children en route to summer camp, Never Wave Goodbye is a fast-paced and thrilling debut. An innocent rite of passage turns into a nightmare for four couples, exposing their secrets and risking the lives of their children. After passing the bittersweet parental milestone of putting her daughter, Sarah on the bus to sleep-away camp for the first time, Lena Trainor plans to spend the next two weeks fixing all the problems in her marriage. But when a second bus arrives to pick up Sarah for camp, no one seems to know anything about the first bus or its driver. Sarah and three other children have been kidnapped, and within hours of the crime the parents receive an email demanding $1,000,000. When the specifics of the delivery terms throw suspicion on the parents of two of the abducted children, some of the parents begin to turn on each other, exposing fault lines in already strained marriages and forging new alliances. While the kidnapped children are living their parents' worst nightmare, the police are trying to sort the lies from the truth in conflicting stories and alibis that seem to be constantly changing. Deftly weaving the emotional story that pits the parents of the missing campers against the police—and each other—with the fate of the kidnapped children hanging in the balance, Never Wave Goodbye will keep readers holding their breath until the last page.

Author : Philip K. Jason
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,45 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313013669

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Sent across the ocean by their parents and taken in by foster parents and distant relatives, approximately 1,000 children, ranging in age from fourteen months to sixteen years, landed in the United States and out of Hitler's reach between 1934 and 1945. Judith Tydor Baumel, Holocaust scholar and sister of two rescued children, provides an introduction explaining why, when, how, and where the rescues were carried out, who the heroes and heroines were, and which individuals and organizations placed almost insurmountable obstacles in their path.

Author : Deborah Underwood
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 42,93 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0547928521

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Illustrations and simple, rhyming text follow a family as they move to a new town.

Author : Rob Reid
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,42 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Exercise
ISBN : 9781880000304

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This action-packed book on different ways to say goodbye will delight young children as they discover how to wave with their entire bodies. F/c illustrations. Ages 1-6. Illustrated by Lorraine Williams.

Author : Marius Gabriel
Publisher : Lake Union Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,21 MB
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Sisters
ISBN : 9781503945227

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As the devastating years of the Second World War march ever closer, the beautiful Redcliffe sisters must face their own struggles and navigate the perils of growing up and growing apart. Eldest sister Isobel passionate, domineering, misguided is infatuated with Fascism. But can she continue to justify her dangerous political beliefs when faced with the shocking realities of Nazi Germany? Insecure and introverted Felicity, youngest of the three, is about to take her vows and enter the convent, against her sisters' wish. A chance meeting with an American soldier threatens the very foundations of her decisions. Chiara, the bright and happy golden child, is more interested in the gay whirl of the season than matters of faith or ideology. But even her breezy innocence cannot survive the harsh lessons of heartbreak and war. Each sister must follow her own path and, as they do so, their differences threaten to take them beyond the realms of forgiveness.

Author : John Graves
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 31,67 MB
Release : 2010-11-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0307773353

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In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people whose rugged ancestors had eked out an existence there. Graves therefore decided to visit that stretch of the river, which he had known intimately as a youth. Goodbye to a River is his account of that farewell canoe voyage. As he braves rapids and fatigue and the fickle autumn weather, he muses upon old blood feuds of the region and violent skirmishes with native tribes, and retells wild stories of courage and cowardice and deceit that shaped both the river’s people and the land during frontier times and later. Nearly half a century after its initial publication, Goodbye to a River is a true American classic, a vivid narrative about an exciting journey and a powerful tribute to a vanishing way of life and its ever-changing natural environment.

Author : Ruby Jackson
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 20,7 MB
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0007506287

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A compelling story of tragedy and triumph in WWII -the second in a series of books featuring four young women whose lives will be forever changed by the war.

Author : Ruth Picardie
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 13,90 MB
Release : 2000-09-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780805066128

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A collection of essays, letters, and personal recollections in which Ruth Picardie records her feelings in the year before she died of breast cancer.

Author : Roger Housden
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 31,24 MB
Release : 2012-02-21
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0307886018

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In Ten Poems to Say Goodbye, the newest addition to the celebrated Ten Poems series, Roger Housden continues to highlight the magic of poetry, this time as it relates to personal loss. But while the selected poems in this volume may focus upon loss and grief, they also reflect solace, respite, and joy. A goodbye is an opportunity for kindness, for forgiveness, for intimacy, and ultimately for love and a deepening acceptance of life as it is rather than what it was. Goodbyes can be poignant, sorrowful, sometimes a relief, and—now and then—even an occasion for joy. They are always transitions that, when embraced, can be the door to a new life both for ourselves and for others. In this inspiring and consoling volume, Housden encourages readers to embrace poetry as a way of enabling us to better see and appreciate the beauty of the world around and within us.