Showing results for title "Leap" in Literature & Fiction

Stella is getting ready for her next big step. This year, she's a fifth grader, which means she's not only one of the big kids in her elementary school, but she'll also have to start thinking about middle school. GULP! Luckily, Stella can count on her best friends Jenny and Stanley at her side. But when she has a chance to apply for an art and science program at a magnet school, Stella realizes that her future might hold a lot of big changes.

Today is a big day for Josie Taylor - she has play auditions and a driver's test. But even more importantly, she is celebrating her sweet 16 and her fourth birthday - she was born on Leap Day. Told from Josie's perspective and the perspective of her friends and family, this entertaining tale will ring true for every teenage listener.

We fight crime across time. Leaplings, children born on the 29th of February, are very rare. Rarer still are Leaplings with The Gift - the ability to leap through time. Elle Bíbi-Imbelé Ifíè has The Gift, but she's never used it. Until now. On her 12th birthday, Elle and her best friend, Big Ben, travel to the Time Squad Centre in 2048. Elle has received a mysterious warning from the future.

Gertie Reece Foy is 100 percent not-from-concentrate awesome. She has a daddy who works on an oil rig, a great-aunt who always finds the lowest prices at the Piggly Wiggly, and two loyal best friends. So when her absent mother decides to move away from their small town, Gertie sets out on her greatest mission yet: becoming the best fifth grader in the universe to show her mother exactly what she'll be leaving behind.

It’s her dream come true: Martha’s cousins are about to come for a six-week summer visit. But instead of hustling to meet her parents and head to the airport to pick them up, she finds herself rescuing a pregnant cat from a garage sale free box. Things get messy when her parents find out and, even worse, when the cat runs away before giving birth to the kittens.

Hello. I am Rory Branagan. I am actually a detective. Me and Cat are at the most awesome event ever - Car Bonanza, where people are doing epic car stunts, jumping out of planes and breaking world records. It is amazing. But then one of the stunts goes terribly wrong. But was it really an accident, or did someone meddle with the car?! It’s a good job me and the Cat are here, because this is a crime, and it needs to be solved....

From high up in the sky, the Moon has spent her whole life watching Earth and hoping for someone to visit. Dinosaurs roam, pyramids are built, and boats are made, but still, no one comes. Will friends ever come to visit her? One day a spaceship soars from Earth...and so does her heart.

It's midsummer's day, and 13-year-old Elle and her Leapling classmates are visiting the Museum of the Past, the Present and the Future. But on the day of the school trip, disaster strikes, and the most unique and valuable piece in the museum, the Infinity-Glass, is stolen! And worse still, Elle's friend and fellow Infinite, MC², is arrested for the crime! To prove his innocence, Elle must leap back centuries in time, to a London very different from today.

Monty's Leap of Faith is the story of a lovable, laid-back exotic shorthair cat called Monty, who isn’t the brightest feline in the world and has never left his garden because he can’t jump. Monty’s life changes when his owner starts to foster cats for the local RSPCA and a variety of cats and kittens are welcomed into his home on a temporary basis. This story follows the antics of the first three kittens to be fostered and how they influence Monty to finally leave the confines of his garden.

Nuova edizione in italiano del classico inglese! Bella la coccinella fa una gita in montagna, dove incontra il piccolo camoscio Jana, che ha paura di saltare. Ma poi arriva una slavina, che rinchiude Bella e Jana in una grotta... New release of the classic in Italian-English! Ladybird Marie travels into the mountains and meets little chamois Chloe who doesn't like to leap over hedges and ditches. But then an avalanche breaks loose. Chloe and Marie are trapped in a cave.

Pièce radiophonique bilingue : En français et en anglais ! Marie la coccinelle voyage à travers les montagnes et rencontre la petite étagne Élodie qui ne veut pas sauter d'un rocher à l'autre. Mais soudain une avalanche se détache. Élodie et Marie se retrouvent enfermées dans une grotte... Bilingual radio play: In French and English! Ladybird Marie travels into the mountains and meets little chamois Chloe who doesn't like to leap over hedges and ditches. But then an avalanche breaks loose. Chloe and Marie are trapped in a cave.

Marienkäfer Marie macht eine Reise in die Berge und trifft dabei auf die kleine Gämse Jana, die nicht, über Stock und Stein, springen will. Doch dann bricht eine Lawine los. Jana und Marie werden in einer Höhle eingeschlossen. Bilingual radio play: In German and English! Ladybird Marie travels into the mountains and meets little chamois Chloe who doesn't like to leap over hedges and ditches. But then an avalanche breaks loose.

Daniel and Krista drift apart when Krista develops a crush on Daniela??s chief swim team rival. And then an allergic reaction during a routine dental procedure leaves Daniel paralyzed. But after Krista volunteers to help Daniel swim again and the two join forces in a school tadpole project, a remarkable series of emotionally moving events begins to unfold.

Bible Reading: Proverbs 3:5-6; Romans 8:28Jake finished taping up the box that held his video games. "What do you think my new school will be like?" he asked Mom."I'm guessing it will be similar to Wilson, but we'll have to find out when we get to New Jersey." Mom smiled and gave him a hug. "It's gonna be all right, you know." "I know," Jake said. When Mom left the room, Jake picked up a photo album and looked through it. He saw a picture of his best friend, Matt. They'd been best friends since kindergarten, and they played basketball together every day after school. What would he do without ...

Peggy shares short stories that give the listener insights into the adventures of life. The essence of those experiences added with the listener's imagination produces Images of Mindfulness that is a guiding source accentuating stronger faith, mediation practices, prayer, and a closer walk with the Creative Force, God.

Come along with Jane as she pursues her passion for gymnastics and gives her best despite a difficult challenge!