Showing posts with label Self-Confidence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Self-Confidence. Show all posts

Saturday, August 31, 2013

Paperboy by Vince Vawter - 2014

Paperboy by Vince Vawter
Delacorte
224p.


Summary: When an eleven-year-old boy takes over a friend's newspaper route in July, 1959, in Memphis, his debilitating stutter makes for a memorable month.

Monday, September 12, 2011

Small Acts of Amazing Courage by Gloria Whelan

Small Acts of Amazing Courage by Gloria Whelan
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
2011
217p.

 In 1919, independent-minded fifteen-year-old Rosalind lives in India with her English parents, and when they fear she has fallen in with some rebellious types who believe in Indian self-government, she is sent "home" to London, where she has never been before and where her older brother died, to stay with her two aunts.

Monday, July 25, 2011

Four Seasons by Jane Breskin Zalben

fourseasonsFour Seasons by Jane Breskin Zalben

Alfred A. Knopf

2011

322p.

Over the course of a year, thirteen-year-old Allegra Katz, a student at the demanding Julliard School and the daughter of two musicians, tries to decide whether she wants to continue to pursue a career as a concert pianist or to do something else with her life.