Alan Cumyn
Author
Language
English
Description
Owen Skye is skinny and quiet and has big ears. He does everything (just about) his older brother, Andy, says, while trying to stay one step ahead of little brother Leonard, who has now started school and is becoming smart at an alarming pace. The Skye brothers live in a small rural village with their parents and weird Uncle Lorne, an eccentric and painfully shy bachelor who sleeps on a cot in the basement, takes out his teeth at night and embodies...
Author
Language
English
Description
Sometimes those who have the most seem bent on throwing it away. Meet Bob Sterling, a comfortable middle-aged professor, a specialist in the life of Edgar Allan Poe, married to a former student with whom he has a young son. In the space of a week his family, marriage, home, career, sanity, and life are brought to the brink of ruin in the aftermath of a trip he makes with a student, the intense young poet Sienna Chu, who brings to life Bob's long-harbored...
3) All Night
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Series
Language
English
Description
This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. Jess and Gregor live in a basement apartment. Gregor is a comedian and Jess is a struggling actor. The sudden death of their close friend Peter forces them to think about their lives. They stay up all night talking, loving, arguing. This is their night of truth. Who are they? What do they want? What do they mean to...
4) After Sylvia
Author
Language
English
Description
As the new school year unfolds, the magic of the Skye brothers' antic adventures is replaced by a different kind of magic - of stillness, when Owen visits the haunted house in the dead of winter, and of insight, as he begins to see his father in a new light. Owen is growing up, but happily for readers, he never loses his most endearing qualities - his sweet vulnerability, his impulsive courage, and his imagination as big as the sky. The Secret Life...
5) Dear Sylvia
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The third in the highly praised Owen Skye series; following The Secret Life of Owen Sky and After Silvia.
Author
Publisher
Caitlyn Dlouhy Books/Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016?]
Physical Desc
408 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Everything changes for a teenaged girl with a perfectly controlled life when she falls for the hot new first-ever interspecies transfer student, a pterodactyl named Pyke.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Edgar and his mother move to Dawson, a town in Yukon, Canada, for a new start, but when Edgar fears his mother's destructive behavior will force them to leave, he turns to a dog named Benjamin to help him stop the worst from happening.