Sloanová Holly

eelings travel even when people cant...Its been almost a year since Silas mum travelled halfway around the world to Turkey, hoping to secure the immigration paperwork that would allow her to return to her family in the United States.The long separation is almost impossible for Sila to bear. But things change when Sila accompanies her father (who is a mechanic) outside their Oregon town to fix a truck. There, behind an enormous stone wall, she meets a grandfatherly man who only months before won the state lottery. Their new alliance leads to the rescue of a circus elephant named Veda, and then to a friendship with a unique boy named Mateo, proving that comfort and hope come in the most unlikely of places.A moving story of family separation and the importance of the connection between animals and humans, this novel has the enormous heart and uplifting humour that readers have come to expect from the beloved author of Counting by 7s.

In this heartwarming and funny middle-grade novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Counting by 7s, Julia grows into herself while playing a Munchkin in The Wizard of Oz Julia is very short for her age, but by the end of the summer run of The Wizard of Oz, she'll realize how big she is inside, where it counts. She hasn't ever thought of herself as a performer, but when the wonderful director of Oz casts her as a Munchkin, she begins to see herself in a new way. As Julia becomes friendly with the poised and wise Olive-one of the adults with dwarfism who've joined the production's motley crew of Munchkins-and with her deeply artistic neighbor, Mrs. Chang, Julia's own sense of self as an artist grows. Soon, she doesn't want to fade into the background-and it's a good thing, because her director has more big plans for Julia! Bubbling over with humor and tenderness, this is an irresistible story of self-discovery and of the role models who forever change us.

Willow Chance egy tizenkét éves zseni, megszállottja a természetnek és diagnosztizálásnak. Nehezen kommunikál az emberekkel, de a fejszámolás mindig megnyugtatja. Williow-t még csecsemő korában örökbe fogadták, és nevelőszülei mellett minden könnyűnek tűnk, boldog, csendes életet ... Folytatás ›› élt... egészen mostanáig. Willow világa tragikusan megváltozott, amikor nevelőszülei meghaltak egy autóbalesetben. Így a lánynak egyedül kell szembenéznie egy számára érthetetlen világgal. Szerencsére Willow hamar pártfogókra talál, ám a körülmények nem engedik, hogy új otthonra és új családra is találjon. Elindul az embert próbáló harc, melynek hajtóereje az őszinte szeretet. Megrendítő és egyben felemelő történet arról, hogyan illeszkedhet be egy különc gyerek a világba, és hogyan fogadhatja be őt saját környezete. A(z) 7esével (Könyv) szerzője Holly Goldberg Sloan.