Lena

Lena
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2006-12-28
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1101157097

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Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature The companion to the Coretta Scott King Honor-winning I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This, now available in paperback. At the end of I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This, Marie's friend Lena and her little sister Dion run away to escape their abusive father, leaving Marie full of longing and readers full of questions. Now those questions are answered. After cutting off all their hair, Lena and Dion leave one evening as the sun sets. Disguised as boys, they set out in search of their mother's family. But will they ever make it? Whom can two young girls trust? They can't afford to make even one mistake. Now, Lena tells what happened to the two girls out in the world, and of their search for a place to belong and the home they dream of and deserve.

Twelve Hats for Lena

Twelve Hats for Lena
Author: Karen Katz
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2002-09
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0689848730

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Can you make a hat for each month of the year?

Leonce and Lena

Leonce and Lena
Author: Jurg Amann
Publisher: NorthSouth Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-02-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780735841413

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Germany’s critically acclaimed Georg Buchner’s beloved play about love, humor, and humanity adapted by one of Switzerland’s most honored writers brings this tremendous piece of literature to young audiences as never before. In a comedy of errors, two young people, Leonce of Popo and Princess Lena of Pipi, are destined to make their peace in an arranged marriage. Horrified at the thought of not knowing their betrothed, they flee, but upon a chance meeting they are love struck. Overwhelmed with emotion, Lena departs leaving Leonce distraught. But the King insists that a wedding take place—royals or no royals—for the people who have waited tirelessly to see a ceremony. Cloaked in masks two young people are brought to the altar—introduced as world famous robots—an effigy of a royal wedding. But when the masks are removed Leonce and Lena are euphoric to see each other’s identities. It’s a joyful affair and the King retires, passing the reigning power to Leonce. Leonce turns the kingdom into a theatre and bans all clocks and calendars.

Miracle Mud

Miracle Mud
Author: David A. Kelly
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2013-04-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1467710520

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Lena Blackburne loved baseball. He watched it, he played it, he coached it. But he didn't love the ways players broke in new baseballs. Tired of soggy, blackened, stinky baseballs, he found a better way. Thanks to a well-timed fishing trip and a top-secret mud recipe, Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud was born. For seventy five years, baseball teams have used Lena's magic mud to prepare baseballs before every game. Read the story of how Lena's mud went from a riverbank to the major leagues and all the way to the Hall of Fame.

Vaclav and Lena

Vaclav and Lena
Author: Haley Tanner
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2011-05-17
Genre: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
ISBN: 0307399354

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Set in New York's Russian émigré community, Vaclav & Lena is a timeless love story from a stunningly gifted young novelist. Vaclav and Lena, both the children of Russian émigrés, are at the same time from radically different worlds. While Vaclav's burgeoning love of performing magic is indulged by hard-working parents pursuing the American dream, troubled orphan Lena is caught in a domestic situation no child should suffer through. Taken in as one of her own by Vaclav's big-hearted mother, Lena might finally be able to blossom; in the naive young magician's eyes, she is destined to be his "faithful assistant"...but after a horrific discovery, the two are ripped apart without even a goodbye. Years later, they meet again. But will their past once more conspire to keep them apart?

Hush

Hush
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2010-01-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0142415510

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A powerfully moving novel from a three-time Newbery Honor-winning author Evie Thomas is not who she used to be. Once she had a best friend, a happy home and a loving grandmother living nearby. Once her name was Toswiah. Now, everything is different. Her family has been forced to move to a new place and change their identities. But that's not all that has changed. Her once lively father has become depressed and quiet. Her mother leaves teaching behind and clings to a new-found religion. Her only sister is making secret plans to leave. And Evie, struggling to find her way in a new city where kids aren't friendly and the terrain is as unfamiliar as her name, wonders who she is. Jacqueline Woodson weaves a fascinating portrait of a thoughtful young girl's coming of age in a world turned upside down A National Book Award Finalist

It's the Little Things

It's the Little Things
Author: Lena Williams
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2002
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780156013482

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Examines the small behaviors and habits that create barriers and misunderstandings between blacks and whites, drawing on case studies to reveal the various misconceptions and to explain what they mean and how to avoid them.

We Have Always Been Here

We Have Always Been Here
Author: Lena Nguyen
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2022-07-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0756418488

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The behavioral psychologist onboard a survey ship headed to a planet ripe for colonization, Dr. Grace Park must determine the origin of a strange phenomenon that is causing the crew to suffer mental breaks without losing her own mind in the process.

Lena's Rainbow

Lena's Rainbow
Author: Della May Olson
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2007-10
Genre:
ISBN: 1434332357

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"My dear," said the gypsy queen gazing at Lena's palm, "I see many troubles in the past. I see powerful upheavals. I see death. Terrible scenes of death." By now Lena was trembling in fear. Was her own death written in her palm? The queen continued. "Wait! There is something else! Yes, I see a rainbow. The rainbow stretches over a great body of water. You are sliding down the rainbow into the - - - I cannot continue." "Please," said Lena. "Tell me what you see!" "I cannot see through the water. It is too deep. Too murky. Beware!" In 1895, a sixteen year old Polish girl escapes a wretched life in Poland to care for a rich, aging uncle in Romania, only to be sabotaged by her seemingly worthless cousin. Facing the gallows, her only hope is to escape to America where the horrors of the past can be erased. Or can they? The story of Lena will tear at your heart strings until the last page of the book. Lena is unforgettable.

Miz Lena's Backyard

Miz Lena's Backyard
Author: Jan Villarrubia
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
Total Pages: 60
Release: 1994
Genre:
ISBN: 9780871293022

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