Bouncing Ball Books Inc., 2007 - Fiction - 275 pages
When space travelers from the planet Valpon land at Buckingham Palace, London will never be the same! From a chance spot in the Oxford-Cambridge boat race to attending the Epsom Derby, this adventurous group of alien adults (who look exactly like Earth children) follows their commander, Astrid, as they visit Valponians favorite vacation spot, planet Earth.

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“Astrid was ten years old, but on the planet of Valpon nine was old enough to go on a space adventure. She had short blonde hair and blue eyes and on the spaceship always wore red clothes. Red was the color for a leader and Astrid was the Commander of the spaceship. Astrid was a very determined person, courageous and strong. She had been awarded several medals for her courage and ability. She had four companions and two robots with her on the flight.”

The Adventures of Nihu
Book By Omoruyi Uwuigiaren
Published: 2007
Category: Fiction » Children's Books » Fairy tales and fables
Words: 38626 (approximate)
Language: English

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Nihu is falsely accused of a crime and is banished to the Lonely Forest. He is challenged with a mission by a magical character. As brave Nihu quests to fulfill the mission and gain his freedom, he is sucked into a world inside of a stone, visits a powerful ruler in an underwater city, and makes friends with a group of refugees only a hero could love

Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Bouncing Ball Books
ISBN-10: 1934138037
ISBN-13: 9781934138038
Buy.com Sku: 204194210
Publish Date: 12/1/2006
Dimensions: (in Inches) 9.5H x 7L x 0.5T
Pages: 225

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Sunday Lee's debut in fiction brings the reader into the glamorous and mundane life of Miami's South Beach. Using her humorous, rhetorical style, Lee ties visions of the high-life to the difficult reality of being a high school teacher at Hurricane High. Through the myriad of small revelations, Stories from South Beach tells of love's losses and gains that flow like the tide in the larger than life world of Miami Beach.
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Sunday Lee's debut in fiction brings the reader into the glamorous and mundane life of Miami's South Beach. Using her humorous, rhetorical style, Lee ties visions of the high-life to the difficult reality of being a high school teacher at Hurricane High. Through the myriad of small revelations, Stories from South Beach tells of love's losses and gains that flow like the tide in the larger than life world of Miami Beach.

By Victoria Montes, Janie K. Gilbert - Bouncing Ball Books (2007) - Hardback - 243 pages - ISBN 1934138142

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A Diplomats Daughter is the story, written from diaries and memories, of the author during her life in Pakistan as a diplomats daughter. Her father was an American diplomat in Pakistan in 1979 when the United States Embassy burned down. Montes retells the historical events from the perspective of a young girl struggling with growing up among cultural turmoil and the personal human interactions that she found makes us more alike than different.