This Little Light, , Johnson Rachel, Johnson Rebecca

Автор: , Harmon Rebecca, Johnson Rachel
Название: The Melting Pot
ISBN: 1523408588 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781523408580
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Описание: All summer long, Emily Conn dreads starting school. Finally, the time comes for her to join her older sister Laura as a first grader in the little one-room school by the side of the dirt road in front of her home on Mare Creek in Floyd County, Kentucky.Emily decides that she does not like school and is not going to listen or learn. However, when her own life gets caught up in the mystery of a backwoods family, she not only learns reading, writing, and arithmetic, but she also discovers that another culture exists outside her little world. She experiences her first love and her first heartbreak. Through the efforts of a loving and gifted teacher, Emily comes to realize that school "ain't too awful bad."This book is the second in the Eastern Kentucky Girl series based on the childhood of Tina Rae Collins in Appalachian Kentucky, continuing the story that The Soup Bean War began.

Автор: , Johnson Rachel, Harmon Rebecca
Название: A Fine Thing
ISBN: 1530622603 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781530622603
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Автор: , Johnson Rachel, Harmon Rebecca
Название: I Wish I May
ISBN: 1530226066 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781530226061
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Описание: Emily Conn is seven years old and in second grade. She has finally accepted the idea that she must go to school and get an education, but then her world is suddenly shaken when her family moves from her beloved Mare Creek in Floyd County, Kentucky, and her older twin sisters get married. She struggles to adjust to her new, larger school and make friends in a strange environment.While Emily tries to keep out of trouble at school, where she is unsure of all the rules, exciting and challenging events continue to occur at home and Emily must cope with even more change. She encounters uncomfortable situations that require understanding and compassion, and she gradually begins to realize that life can be good even in a changing world.I wish I May is the third book in the Eastern Kentucky Girl series based on the childhood of Tina Rae Collins in Appalachian Kentucky, continuing the stories of The Soup Bean War and The Melting Pot. The fourth book in this series is A Fine Thing.

Автор: Johnson, Rachel
Название: Winter Games HB
ISBN: 0141048697 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141048697
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Winter Games is a dazzling tale of secrets and betrayal, and the perfect novel for fans of The Bolter by Frances Osborne, and all those fascinated by the Mitford sisters.Munich, 1936. She doesn't know it, but eighteen-year old Daphne Linden has a seat in the front row of history. Along with her best friend, Betsy Barton-Hill, and a whole bevy of other young English upper-class girls, Daphne is in Bavaria to improve her German, to go to the Opera, to be 'finished'.

It may be the Third Reich, but another war is unthinkable, and the girls are having the time of their lives. Aren't they? London, 2006. Seventy years later and Daphne's granddaughter, Francie Fitzsimon has all the boxes ticked: large flat, successful husband, cushy job writing up holistic spas .

. . The hardest decision she has to make is where to go for brunch - until, that is, events conspire to send her on a quest to discover what really happened to her grandmother in Germany, all those years ago.'A rip-roaring read' Evening Standard'There's never a dreary moment in this blast of a book .

. . Johnson's descriptions are irresistibly exuberant .

. . As addictively, fizzily invigorating as the Alpine air itself' Daily Mail'Johnson delivers a genuine sense of time and place .

. . there isn't a dull sentence in this sure-footed novel' Jenny Colgan, Telegraph'An excellent romp.

Full of 'tally-ho' Mitfordian charm . . .

a witty, fast read' Red'Excellent on period detail, the blundering innocent abroad and young heartbreak' Sunday Times'The Jane Austen of W11' ScotsmanRachel Johnson is a journalist who has written two previous novels and two volumes of diaries. The Mummy Diaries, Notting Hell, Shire Hell and A Diary of The Lady are all available now from Penguin.