In 1908, the White Star Line announced it was constructing a pair of sister ships at the Harland & Wolff yard in Belfast. The new behemoths would dwarf even the largest ships of the time, being fully

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The family routine is upset during Ramona's year in second-grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job.

Ramona Quimby is a character intimately known by Beverly Cleary readers. In this story of Ramona's year in second grade they will come to know Mr. Quimby equally well. As it opens he loses his job without warning, and Ramona's seven-year-old view of this all-too-frequently family crisis rings every change of mood from tears to laughter.Not surprisingly, Ramona takes an active h...(展开全部)

Ramona Quimby is a character intimately known by Beverly Cleary readers. In this story of Ramona's year in second grade they will come to know Mr. Quimby equally well. As it opens he loses his job without warning, and Ramona's seven-year-old view of this all-too-frequently family crisis rings every change of mood from tears to laughter.Not surprisingly, Ramona takes an active h...(展开全部)

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The family routine is upset during Ramona's year in second-grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job.

Medea Georgievna Sinoply Mendez is an iconic figure in her Crimean village, the last remaining pure-blooded Greek in a family that has lived on that coast for centuries. Childless Medea is the touchstone of a large family, which gathers each spring and summer at her home. There are her nieces (sexy Nike and shy Masha), her nephew Georgii (who shares Medea’s devotion to the Crim...(展开全部)

A translator and writer, Maria José Silveira's first novel, Her Mother's Mother's Mother and Her Daughters, won a major Brazilian literary award and the rights were purchased by TV Globo. Since then, she has written six other books--including a couple highly praised YA titles--along with three plays. Eric M. B. Becker is editor of Words without Borders and an award-winning jour...(展开全部)

A translator and writer, Maria José Silveira's first novel, Her Mother's Mother's Mother and Her Daughters, won a major Brazilian literary award and the rights were purchased by TV Globo. Since then, she has written six other books--including a couple highly praised YA titles--along with three plays. Eric M. B. Becker is editor of Words without Borders and an award-winning jour...(展开全部)

帕特里夏•海史密斯，美国女作家，一九二一年生于美国得州沃斯堡，六岁时随父母迁居至纽约，曾就读于纽约的朱莉亚•里奇蒙高中与巴纳德女子学院。她的第一本小说《列车上的陌生人》于一九五一年由大导演希区柯克改编为电影，一鸣惊人。一九五五年出版的《天才雷普利》更是奠定其在类型文学中的至高地位。 帕特里夏•海史密斯的作品以犯罪小说及短篇小说为主，她常年旅居欧洲各地，在欧洲受 欢迎的程度远胜于美国。近年来，随着评论家不断发掘其作品的内涵，她身后的声誉甚至比生前还高。在数年前美国《时代》周刊选出的50位最伟大的犯罪小说作家中，帕特里夏•海史密斯仍高居榜首。 海史密斯擅写人物之异常的心理状态，步步为营、幽微复杂，气氛往往如乌云罩顶，对善恶的界定也常常与其他犯罪小说大异其趣。她的作品总量不多，但以“雷普利系列”为代表的独特风格，得到诸多纯文学名家——如格雷厄姆•格林、朱利...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Ramona just wants everyone to be happy. If only her father would smile and joke again, her mother would look less worried, her sister would be cheerful, and Picky-picky would eat his cat-food. But Ramona's father has lost his job, and nobody in the Quimby household is in a very good mood. Ramona tries to cheer up the family as only Ramona can -- by rehearsing for life...(展开全部)