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An ALA Best Book for Young Adults 2001 Shayla Dubois lives in a Houston neighborhood known as the Bottom, where life is colorful but never easy. She wants only two things out of life: to become a writer and to have a nice, peaceful home. Instead, her life has been turned upside down. Shayla's mama kicked her sister, Tia, out of the house for messing around with an older guy. And Shayla's father has been spending a lot of time at the house with mama. And there's her strange new neighbor, Kambia Elaine, who tells the most fantastic stories. Then Shayla begins to suspect that something is wrong. This title is an Accelerated Reader® Title
"Thoroughly enjoyable and never dull. Brinda comes to life on each page in a manner seldom found in a story of a contemporary being. Elaine Williams deserves credit for an excellent job of writing. She has retained in every chapter a wealth of the maharani’s charm and personality."—The Houston Chronicle "A moving and muted account of a life in a transitional generation where East and West met . . . Touching and strange, this memoir gives fine glimpses into the Hindu culture, of worlds apart moving together, not without grief."—The Kirkus Bulletin
Traces the descendants of John Hinson and Sarah Jane Rummage of Stanly County, North Carolina. (Second edition)
"I had no choice. I had to go—for my son, my father, and all the poor souls left on Earth. I always knew our planet was doomed. I just never figured it would be during my lifetime." When the Fester takes over the Earth, the plants begin to dry up and wither away. The animals and humans succumb to disease and die long, excruciating deaths. When world-renowned wildlife biologist, Dr. Daphne Blaine, is recruited by NASA to join a crew in order to find a habitable planet, she doesn't have much of a choice in the matter. What else can she do? Say no?
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