Bøger af Patricia McCormick

The true story of how a simple act of kindness changed a young refugee's life - from award-winning author Patricia McCormick with Mevan Babakar.

Malala er vorðin ein altjóða ímynd fyri friðarstríð og er tann yngsta, sum nakrantíð hevur fingið Friðarheiðursløn Nobels. Í hesari bókini við endurminningum og myndum, greiðir Malala frá sínum merkisverda lívi.

An astonishing novel about pain, release, and recovery from two-time National Book Award finalist, Patricia McCormick.A tingle arced across my scalp. The floor tipped up at me and my body spiraled away. Then I was on the ceiling looking down, waiting to see what would happen next.Callie cuts herself. Never too deep, never enough to die. But enough to feel the pain. Enough to feel the scream inside.Now she's at Sea Pines, a "residential treatment facility" filled with girls struggling with problems of their own. Callie doesn't want to have anything to do with them. She doesn't want to have anything to do with anyone. She won't even speak.But Callie can only stay silent for so long...

"For generations, Mevan and her family lived in their beloved Kurdistan. But when they are forced to flee by the Iraqi government, Mevan must leave everything behind. Her family travels from country to country in search of safety and with each stop, Mevan feels more and more alone--until a stranger's gift changes everything"--

For use in schools and libraries only. Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi, though poor, enjoys her life until the Himalayan monsoons wash away her family's crops and she is sold to a brothel in India by her stepfather.

The inspiring true story of Reckless, the brave little horse who became a Marine. It's a fun way to learn to read and as a supplement for activity books for children. When a group of US Marines fighting in the Korean War found a bedraggled mare, they wondered if she could be trained to as a packhorse.

Eleven-year-old Arn is walking through the countryside in Cambodia. His whole town is walking with him. They re walking into one of the most tragic moments of history: the Killing Fields.Music will save him. Hope, luck and kindness will save him. This is his story.Based on the true story of Arn Chorn-Pond, this is an achingly raw and powerful novel about a child of war who becomes a man of peace.

You say it's up to me to do the talking. You lean forward and your black leather chair groans, like a living thing. Like the cow it was before somebody killed it and turned it into a chair in a shrink's office in a loony bin...