Showing results for "Coming of Age" in Animals & Nature

Twelve-year-old Jessie is in for a long summer at her aunt and uncle’s house. Her cousin Ann has a snotty new best friend, which leaves Jessie all alone. But Jessie is industrious, and—not content with being ignored all summer—she convinces Wes, a grouchy neighborhood dog walker, to take her on as his apprentice. Sure, dog walking turns out to be harder than she expected, but she has Wes’s dog-walking code, the Rules of the Ruff, to guide her, and soon she’s wrangling her very own pack.

The Fosters meets The Great Gilly Hopkins in this moving novel of a young girl who as sets off on an important mission to save a fellow foster kid from the home that still haunts her nightmares. Twelve-year-old Pavi Sharma is an expert at the Front Door Face: the perfect mix of puppy dog eyes...

Ten-year-old Keely Rosalie Tucker is a modern-day knight with no armor. Constantly bullied by a neighbor boy, Keely struggles to find her place in the world in which she is comforted only by the stories her Gramms has told her about enchanted, faraway places, where unicorns, fairies, and angels protect children from life's everyday pains and dangers. Now all Keely has to do is figure out how to call them to help her.

Trostbuch für Kinder empfohlen ab 3 bis 9 Jahre. Der kleine Kater Michel zeigt allen Kindern den Himmel. Ganz unerwartet wurde er von seinem Beschützer-Kater Bruno die Leiter hinauf in den Himmel geschickt. Michel lernt nun in den Wolken andere Haustiere und deren Geschichten kennen. Obwohl er traurig ist, nicht mehr auf der Erde zu sein, wird er im Himmel sehr glücklich - denn er darf jeden Abend dem kleinen Mädchen Laura zuwinken, bei der er auf der Erde zu Hause war.