About Eva Ibbotson
Eva Ibbotson is the author of books published to wide acclaim in Great Britain and the U.S. She has a daughter and three sons, who showed her that children like to read about ghosts, wizards, and witches "because they are just like people but madder and more interesting."
The Great Ghost Rescue (1975)
Which Witch? (1979)
A Countess Below Stairs (1981)
aka The Secret Countess
Magic Flutes (1982)
The Worm and the Toffee-nosed Princess (1983)
A Company of Swans (1985)
The Haunting of Hiram C. Hopgood (1987)
Madensky Square (1988)
Not Just a Witch (1989)
The Morning Gift (1993)
The Secret of Platform 13 (1994)
Dial-a-Ghost (1996)
A Song for Summer (1997)
Monster Mission (1999)
Island of the Aunts (2000)
Journey to the River Sea (2001)
The Haunting of Granite Falls (2004)
The Star of Kazan (2004)
Beasts of Clawstone Castle (2005).
艾娃.易勃森(Eva Ibbotson)出生於奧地利的维也納。二次世界大战時,她的家庭为了逃避纳粹的迫害而搬到英国,易勃森也进入當地的寄宿学校就读。目前她定居於英国北部,育有三个儿子及一个女儿。四个孩子的成长让她了解,儿童都喜爱关于鬼怪、巫师和女巫的故事,因为“他们看似与平常人无异,却更疯狂、更有趣”。
结婚后,易勃森著手写了一些短篇故事。等到最小的儿子也进入学校读书,她才开始创作长篇儿童小说;现在,她不但写給儿童,也写給成人。易勃森除了《蝴蝶‧天堂‧探险记》之外,还著有《Island of the Aunts》、《Dial-a-Ghost》、《The Secret of Platform 13》、《Which Witch?》等作品。
她的作品曾获Nominated for the 2001 Children's Whitbread Award 2001英国史马提斯童书奖金牌奖;The runner-up in the 2001 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 好书大家读奖 .
"It’s a trail-of-tears saga worthy of Hollywood." -- Inside Tennis --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Driven by his love of tennis, Mike Agassi decided to teach his children how to play the game. It was his son Andre’s talent that shone through the brightest, and Andre became dominant in the world of men’s tennis.
The Agassi Story begins on the streets of Iran, where Mike Agassi was born. Learning to defend himself at an early age, Mike developed a punch that quickly got noticed by the boxing community. After participating in two Olympic Games and getting a taste for a better quality of life, Mike set his eyes on America. It was in Chicago that he decided to focus on tennis, and he moved to Las Vegas so he could play year–round. Knowing that it was too late for him to pursue a tennis career, he made sure to develop his children into great players, and fulfill his dream that way. But his teachings came with a high price, and tensions between Mike and his children threatened to pull the family apart.
The Agassi Story is a heartwarming look at one family’s turbulent relationship, and their ultimate reconciliation.
<Life of Pi> 位于很多美国中学的READING LIST。
Yann Martel's imaginative and unforgettable Life of Pi is a magical reading experience, an endless blue expanse of storytelling about adventure, survival, and ultimately, faith. The precocious son of a zookeeper, 16-year-old Pi Patel is raised in Pondicherry, India, where he tries on various faiths for size, attracting "religions the way a dog attracts fleas." Planning a move to Canada, his father packs up the family and their menagerie and they hitch a ride on an enormous freighter. After a harrowing shipwreck, Pi finds himself adrift in the Pacific Ocean, trapped on a 26-foot lifeboat with a wounded zebra, a spotted hyena, a seasick orangutan, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker ("His head was the size and color of the lifebuoy, with teeth"). It sounds like a colorful setup, but these wild beasts don't burst into song as if co-starring in an anthropomorphized Disney feature. After much gore and infighting, Pi and Richard Parker remain the boat's sole passengers, drifting for 227 days through shark-infested waters while fighting hunger, the elements, and an overactive imagination. In rich, hallucinatory passages, Pi recounts the harrowing journey as the days blur together, elegantly cataloging the endless passage of time and his struggles to survive: "It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion."
An award winner in Canada, Life of Pi, Yann Martel's second novel, should prove to be a breakout book in the U.S. At one point in his journey, Pi recounts, "My greatest wish--other than salvation--was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One that I could read again and again, with new eyes and fresh understanding each time." It's safe to say that the fabulous, fablelike Life of Pi is such a book. --Brad Thomas Parsons --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Hey guys
Some really nice stuff ur puttin' up there.
I got some books of my own that i'd like to share with y'all
So listen up.
First of all the Wolf Brothers series,
It's a series written by Michelle Pavor which takes us back to the ancient times, when dark magic and soul eaters existed.
Also,
I'd like everyone to take a look at The Alchemist by Paul Coelho (blahh, hard to pronounce)
It's an inspiring story which tells the adventures of a young boy trying to fulfill his destiny, but learns the ways of the world, the natural laws, and even how to communicate with everything around him, including the hand that made it all. Very good book. Must read classic.
The Giver
It is an interesting tale of the future. It's protagonist is a boy named Jonas. The story is about him and his adventure after he was entitled the receiver of memory. This is a very short book but you can read it over and over again as you get older, and it would become more meaningful after each time