Sixteen-year-old Eliza Miller has never made a phone call, never tried on a pair of jeans, never sat in a darkened theater waiting for a movie to start. She’s never even talked to someone her age who isn’t Amish, like her. When she leaves her close-knit family to spend the summer as a nanny in a suburb of Chicago, a part of her can’t wait to leave behind everything she knows. She can’t imagine the secrets she will uncover, the friends she will make, the surprises and temptations of a way of life so different from her own. Every minute Eliza spends with her new friend Josh feels as good as listening to music for the first time, and she wonders whether there might be a place for her in his world. But as summer wanes, she misses the people she has left behind and the Plain life she once took for granted. Eliza will have to decide for herself where she belongs. Whichever choice she makes, she knows she will lose someone she loves.

A World Away

Teen & Young Adult

GROSSMAN, NANCY

Literature & Fiction

Listening Library (Audio)

World Away, a (Lib)(CD)

Listening Library

Will it ever be Charley’s turn to carry the flag? When Charley Cornett begins school in the Appalachian Mountains, his brothers and sisters explain to him that the highest honor at the Little School is being chosen to “carry the flag”—the award each day for a child who has been very good. Mischievous Charley doesn’t seem to be the ideal candidate for such a distinction, but eventually he achieves this honor in his own special way. This much-loved book by a Newbery Honor–winning author has been in print for four decades. Children will identify with Charley’s school triumphs and woes and cheer for him to carry the flag!

Did You Carry the Flag Today, Charley?

Children's Books

Caudill, Rebecca

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

The Cleveland Museum of Art's Art of Japan features selections from three thousand years of Japanese art assembled since the museum opened in 1916. Many works in the collection are recognised in Japan as being National Treasures, the highest honour given only to works of near-perfect artistry. This remarkable collection's catalogue depicts a vast array of objects which convey the poetry of natural materials, the earthy humour of some of the most spiritual imagery, the dynamic use of 'empty' space, and, above all, the constant theme of the relationship of nature and humankind that are unique to Japan. The masterpieces that appear in this book provide an unaltered view of old-world Japan.

Art of Japan: Masterworks in the Cleveland Museum of Art

Arts & Photography

Williams, Marjorie

Channing, Laurence

History & Criticism

Hudson Hills

A summer of firsts Sixteen-year-old Eliza Miller has never made a phone call, never tried on a pair of jeans, never sat in a darkened theater waiting for a movie to start. She’s never even talked to someone her age who isn’t Amish, like her. A summer of good-byes When she leaves her close-knit family to spend the summer as a nanny in suburban Chicago, a part of her can’t wait to leave behind everything she knows. She can’t imagine the secrets she will uncover, the friends she will make, the surprises and temptations of a way of life so different from her own. A summer of impossible choice Every minute Eliza spends with her new friend Josh feels as good as listening to music for the first time, and she wonders whether there might be a place for her in his world. But as summer wanes, she misses the people she has left behind, and the Plain life she once took for granted. Eliza will have to decide for herself where she belongs. Whichever choice she makes, she knows she will lose someone she loves.

Hyperion Book CH

Nancy Grossman: Loud whispers : four decades of assemblage, collage and sculpture

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery

Draußen wartet die Welt

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