Ann Brashares - The Sisterhood Series eBooks (PDF)

The Sisterhood series is a young adult novel series written by Ann Brashares. Until now, there are five books in the series with the first volume, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, published in 2001 and the last (fifth) installment, Sisterhood Everlasting, published in 2011.

The story of the series focuses on the lives on four teenage girls namely Carmen Lowell, Tibby Rollins, Bridget Vreeland, and Lena Kaligaris. They are best friends and “The Pants”—for the girls they are magical—are the symbol of their friendship. During summers, The Pants will travel back and forth among the girls. The four of them will be apart and each of them, in turns, will have the pants and then sends them to another girl who will do the same thing. While having The Pants (or not) each girl will face different huge moments and make critical decisions that will affect their lives. Through all the ups and downs, the good times and the bad times of being teenage girls and growing up, the girls always believe in The Sisterhood Vow. The four of them believe that The Pants give them the strength to cope with their problems, that The Pants bring them closer in their friendship, and that The Pants teach them something about life.
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Jon Glaser - My Dead Dad Was in ZZ Top eBook (PDF)

Language: English; PDF Pages: 134; File Size: 12 MB;

My Dead Dad Was in ZZ Top is bold and outrageous book about music history, especially rock ‘n’ roll, written by American actor, comedian and television writer Jon Glaser. First published in 2011, the book presents a number of documents (officially written papers, scribbles on a napkin or notepads, dialogue transcriptions, etc.) that might shed a new light on some of the most famous rock legends.

In this work, Jon Glaser has dug some unheard of and highly reserved histories of some rock and roll's greatest bands or artists. He provides us amusingly enjoyable documentation, which sometimes spectacular, sometimes heartbreaking, and all of the time completely made-up (or are they?).

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R.L. Stine - Goosebumps Original Series #31 to #35 eBooks (PDF)

First published in 1992, Goosebumps has become a classic horror series for children. The novels were written by the “Stephen King of children's literature” R. L. Stine. There are 62 books in the series, with the last installment published in 1997. Millions of copies of the novels have been sold around the world, in various languages.

31 Night of the Living Dummy II
Language: English; PDF Pages: 63; File Size: 0.3 MB;
Amy Krammer has no idea about things that will happen to her when she receives Slappy, a replacement ventriloquist dummy. And she definitely doesn’t have any clue when she finds a note from the dummy’s pocket and reads it. It turns out that she has cast a spell; a spell to bring Slappy to life.
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R.L. Stine - Goosebumps Original Series #26 to #30 eBooks (PDF)

Goosebumps is a horror novel series for children written by R. L. Stine, who is dubbed as “Stephen King of children's literature.” There are sixty two books in the series, with the first issue being published in 1992 and the last one in 1997. The series has been a major success around the world, been translated into numerous languages, and millions of copies ha been sold.

#26 My Hairiest Adventure

Language: English; PDF Pages: 70; File Size: 0.3 MB;

After his seemingly harmless experiment with an expired tanning lotion, Larry Boyd completely freaks out when finds his hands—at first, and then his other body parts—become hairy. Then his friends start to mysteriously disappear and dogs begin to appear.
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Diana Wynne Jones - Howl's Moving Castle Series eBooks (PDF)

Howl's Moving Castle series (sometimes also called Howl's Castle or the Castle trilogy) is a children’s story written by the late Diana Wynne Jones, an English writer mostly famous for her fantasy works for both kids and adults. The inspiration to write the series came when a little boy asked Jones to write a story called "The Moving Castle".

There are three books in the series, with the first installment published in 1986 and the last one in 2008. The first novel was adapted into a film under the same title in 2004. Animated by the famous Studio Ghibli, the film that originally was produced and released in Japan achieved wide critical acclaim and in 2006 it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 78th Academy Awards.
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Michael Cunningham - A Home at the End of the World eBook (PDF)

Language: English; PDF Pages: 277; File Size: 1 MB;

A Home at the End of the World is a contemporary GLBT—“gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender”, as written at goodreads.com—novel written by Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Michael Cunningham. The book was first published in 1990. A year before that, an excerpt from the novel was chosen for 1989 Best American Short Stories after being published in The New Yorker. A film adaptation based on this book was released in 2004 and received generally positive responses from critics.

The story in the novel is narrated in first person point of view by some characters, which is changing in each chapter. Most chapters are told by the two main protagonists, Bobby and Jonathan, with a few chapters narrated by Alice (Jonathan's mother) and Clare (an older woman who has "eccentric" relationship with both Bobby and Jonathan).
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Eiji Yoshikawa - Mushashi eBook (PDF)

Language: English; PDF Pages: 1110; File Size: 4 MB;

Mushashi is an epic Japanese historical-fiction written by Eiji Yoshikawa, one of the best authors in Japan well known for his classic works Taiko and Heike Story. Although Yoshikawa’s work is a fiction, it is based on true history. Miyamoto Musashi was a real and renowned Japanese swordsman lived around the 17th century. The story was first published as a serial in Asahi Shimbun (Morning Sun Newspaper) in 1935 before it was finally compiled into a novel series and into a single edition—the English version was first released in 1981—and since then, the book has become a classic throughout the world.

As a novel, Musashi is in the best tradition of Japanese story telling. It focuses on the journey of a rōnin (Japanese swordsman) in climbing the steep and harsh path in the Way of the Samurai, which can be translated into reaching perfection in doing what someone’s do best and completeness as a human being. The book is imaginative and refined, filled with a living story and excellent characters—most are historical. It is a great depiction of an absolute dedication of a person, interweaved with other themes including unconditional love, blind and foolish revenge, and filial piety.

Book Description:
Miyamoto Musashi was lured to join the great Battle of Sekigahara only to find himself losing the war and his dream. Being a fugitive, he conducted reckless bloody acts until finally captured by Takuan the Zen Monk. This event was the beginning of his long self transformation and also his complicated romantic relationship with the lovely Otsu.

He then spent years in a long journey to hone his swordsmanship and reach perfection as a human being. Along the way he fought numerous sword battles, including against the famous Yoshioka. At the same time, he was constantly “pursued” by Matahachi (his childhood friend who went to Sekigahara with him and was lured into a degenerated life path), Osugi (Matahachi’s mother who wanted to killed him because she blamed him for destroying his son’s life), and Otsu (who deeply in love with him and wanted to be with him no matter what). His adventurous journey would reach its peak in the famous duel against Sasaki Kojiro, the other greatest swordsman of that era.

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Rachel Renee Russell - Dork Diaries Book 1 - 4 eBooks (PDF)

Available: Book 1 - 4; Language: English;

Dork Diaries is a hilarious novel series written and illustrated by Rachel Renee Russell. The first volume was published in 2009 and in mid 2013, the seventh installment—Book 6, since the fourth installment is officially referred as Book 3 ½—was released. The series has achieved commercial success and most of the novels in the series have spent many weeks in New York Times Best Sellers list in the Children’s Series category.

As the title says, the series is a personal diary. Presented in doodles, drawings, and comic strips, it depicts the daily life experience of the owner and writer of the diary, Nikki Maxwell. Nikki is a 14 years old girl who lives a pretty much normal life but being a teenager, life never seems “normal” for her. The series colorfully chronicles how she copes with the things happen in school and at home: her dream of popularity, her crush, and the “disturbance” from her family.
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Kate DiCamillo - The Tale of Despereaux eBook (PDF)

Language: English; PDF Pages: 148; File Size: 2 MB;
The Tale of Despereaux is a fantasy novel written by Kate DiCamillo, an American author well known for her fantasy stories for children featuring animals. This 2004 Newbery Medal winner novel is divided in four books and each of them delivers the story from different perspective of different character. The story also presents a unique assortment of exciting characters, who set out on their respective journeys and will come across each other.
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Lynne Rae Perkins - Criss Cross eBook (PDF)

Language: English; PDF Pages: 229; File Size: 1.8 MB;

Criss Cross is a novel by Lynne Rae Perkins, American author and illustrator of books for children or young adult. It expands the story and, especially, the character of Debbie from her previous book All Alone in the Universe. Despite the mixed reviews (some consider it too subtle and many feel the contemporary realism in it resonates with them), the novel has proven its excellence in children's literature and won Newbery Medal in 2006.

Filled with vignettes, poems (haikus), illustrations, and photographs, the novel focuses on a bunch of teenagers in a small town, where nothing “big” really happens. The two main characters who narrate most of the story are Debbie and Hector; both are 14 years old both are entering the phase of leaving childhood behind yet not fully grown up. The other teen characters, who experience the exact same thing as both of them, are Patty, Lenny, Phil, and Peter.
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Susan Patron - The Higher Power of Lucky eBook (PDF)

Language: English; PDF Pages: 97; File Size: 0.6 MB;

First published in 2006, The Higher Power of Lucky is a children’s novel written by Susan Patron. The book has successfully won Newbery Medal in 2007 and also successfully drawn a controversy. As written in a New York Times article, some school libraries banned it as a result of the use of a single word, “scrotum”, in the first page. Responses came from Patron herself, associations, and fellow authors. Patron stated that the choice of the word was based on her own knowledge of a rattlesnake biting a dog's scrotum and it also serves as anatomy explanation for 9 – 12 years old readers. The American Library Association and some authors also encouraged people to see the real value in the novel and not to focus on that single word.
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Cynthia Kadohata - Kira-Kira eBook (PDF)

Language: English; PDF Pages: 133; File Size: 0.6 MB;

Kira-Kira (Japanese for glittering) is a novel by Japanese-American writer Cynthia Kadohata. This young adult book had gotten wide critical acclaims and won several award including the prestigious 2005 Newbery Medal for children’s literature.
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Rebecca Stead - When You Reach Me eBook (PDF)

Language: English; PDF Pages: 164; File Size: 0.5 MB;

When You Reach Me is a novel by award-winning American author of books for young-adult and children, Rebecca Stead. The novel that mixes fantasy, science fiction, and mystery received mostly good reviews and critical acclaim following its publication in 2009. Getting the inspiration from an article in a newspaper about a man suffering from amnesia and also from A Wrinkle in Time, one of her favorite book from her childhood, Stead has successfully written a story with realistic setting and thorough details. The book also got commercial success and made it into The New York Times Bestseller list. The novel has also won several awards including Newbery Medal in 2010.
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