Authors:Beacon Press, Amy Bloom,
Publisher: Beacon Pre
Keywords: beacon, anthology, don, marry, heart, essays, lies
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1999-04-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0807062170
ISBN-13: 9780807062173
In these intensely personal essays, contemporary writers probe their experiences in and thoughts about one of our most enduring social and cultural institutions. Husbands and wives celebrate marriages that work, mourn those that don’t, and write frankly about adultery. Includes essays by Mark Doty, Gerald Early, Barbara Ehrenreich, Cynthia Heimel, Vivian Gornick, Phillip Lopate, Nancy Mairs, and David Mamet.
Author: Ken Mochizuki
Publisher: Scholastic Pre
Keywords: boys, beacon
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2002-11-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0439267498
ISBN-13: 9780439267496
Like other Japanese-American families in the Beacon Hill area of Seattle in the early 1970s, 16-year-old Dan Inagaki’s parents expect him to be an example of the "model minority." But unlike Dan’s older brother, with his 4.0 GPA and college scholarship, Dan is tired of being called "Oriental" by his teachers, and sick of feeling invisible. Dan’s growing self-hatred threatens his struggle to claim an identity. Sharing his anger and confusion are his best friends, Jerry Ito, Eddie Kanagae, and Frank Ishimoto. Together, these Beacon Hill Boys fall into a spiral of rebellion that
Author: James Baldwi
Publisher: Beacon Pre
Keywords: paperback, beacon, son, native, notes
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1984-07-09
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0807064319
ISBN-13: 9780807064313
Originally published in 1955, James Baldwin’s first nonfiction book has become a classic. These searing essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and Americans abroad remain as powerful today as when they were written. "He named for me the things you feel but couldn’t utter. . . . Jimmy’s essays articulated for the first time to white America what it meant to be American and a black American at the same time." -Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Author: Annie Bryant
Publisher: Aladdi
Keywords: girls, street, beacon, kidding
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-07-07
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 1416964401
ISBN-13: 9781416964407
It’s Spirit Week at Abigail Adams Junior High, but the IM gossip chain has gotten way out of control, and poor Isabel is the target! Mean messages and whispering classmates are popping up all over -- and of course, the Queens of Mean are in the thick of it. Everybody claims to be "just kidding," but it’s not funny at all. Can the BSG stop the Whisperers and rally for a new kind of Spirit Week?
Author: Annie Bryant
Publisher: Aladdi
Keywords: girls, street, beacon, freaked
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-02-10
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 1416964339
ISBN-13: 9781416964339
Julia Faber’s Hawaiian-themed birthday bash is the talk of Abigail Adams Junior High, but one of the Beacon Street Girls doesn’t get an invitation. Should the others be loyal to their slighted friend and miss the party of the year? And Maeve’s got more than the party on her mind: She’s in deep trouble in math class and afraid she may have to repeat seventh grade.It’s no wonder the BSG are freaking out!
Author: Annie Bryant
Publisher: Aladdi
Keywords: girls, street, beacon, frenzy, fashion
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-06-02
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 1416964398
ISBN-13: 9781416964391
Katani is off to New York City to take part in a real live fashion show! There’s just one little problem -- she can only take one friend and all of the BSG want to go. How can she possibly choose?When the trip is almost canceled, Maeve figures out how to make it happen, and everyone agrees that she should get to go. But as the disasters keep coming -- from the highway to the runway -- Katani wonders if her dream trip to the Big Apple is nothing but trouble.
Author: Annie Bryant
Publisher: Aladdi
Keywords: girls, street, beacon, town, ghost
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-09-08
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 141696441X
ISBN-13: 9781416964414
Thanks to Charlotte’s travel-writer dad, the Beacon Street Girls are headed to a luxe resort in Montana. But when their dream vacation turns into a snowy nightmare, the BFFs are split up. While Katani and Isabel enjoy room service and hanging out with country music superstar twins Nik and Sam, Charlotte, Maeve, and Avery are stranded with Mr. Ramsey in a haunted old ghost town.Whether snowboarding and chilling with celebrities or solving an old-fashioned mystery with ghosts, wolves, and romance, the BSG find fun and adventure in the Wild West.
