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Author
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
Events of the hijacking of a bus of children by terrorists seeking the return of their homeland are described from the perspectives of a hostage, a terrorist, an Army general involved in the rescue operation, and his son, chosen as the go-between.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Monday through Saturday, Claude and Manman walk Papa to the tap tap stop, where Claude meets all sorts of interesting people waiting for the tap tap. Claude wants to join Papa, but Claude has classes at school and chores at home... On Sunday, Manman and Papa have a surprise for Claude--a ride on the tap tap! They go to the beach, where they meet a lady selling mangoes, a fisherman, a straw-hat maker, a steel drummer, and an artist. They show Claude...
43) The lost ticket
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Strangers on a London bus unite to help an elderly man find his missed love connection in the heartwarming new novel from the acclaimed author of The Last Chance Library. When Libby Nicholls arrives in London, brokenhearted and with her life in tatters, the first person she meets on the bus is elderly Frank. He tells her about the time in 1962 that he met a girl on the number 88 bus, with beautiful red hair just like hers. They made plans for a date...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The touching story of one girl's journey to find herself, In Search of Mockingbird is Loretta Ellsworth's heartfelt novel. It's 1986, and 15-year-old Erin is none too pleased by her widowed father's announcement that he's getting married. When she discovers her late mother's diary, she learns that she wanted to be a writer just like Erin does. So she runs away from home on a Greyhound bus, determined to track down Harper Lee-the author of both her...
Author
Publisher
Greystone Kids, Greystone Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Every morning, Shaka and his little sister Nandi walk with their father to school. Though the journey is long and hot, they arrive at school happy to see their friends and ready to learn. Then one day, their father gives them terrible news: he has to go work in a mine far away, and they won't be able to go to school anymore. The route is too dangerous for them to walk alone, so they'll have to stay home. But when they discover a yellow toy bus in...
53) Puppy bus
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A boy, worried about his first day at a new school, finds himself on the wrong bus, a bus full of puppies bound for Puppy School--and discovers that despite the strange food and even weirder bathroom Puppy School is a lot of fun.
54) Deep-sea dive
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When Dorothy Ann accidentally loses Jyoti's high-tech locket in the ocean, Ms. Frizzle's class travels down through the layers of the sea to retrieve it. Includes glossary.
Author
Publisher
Barefoot Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
Este fascinante libro de canciones cuenta con un disco compacto que contiene audio y video de la historia que vas a leer. También encontrarás pequeñas notas con datos interesantes de cómo es la vida en Guatemala.
In this version of the classic song, residents of a rural Guatemalan village travel by bus to the city. Includes endnotes on Guatemala's geography, agriculture, transportation, currency, landmarks, and customs.
59) Bus 174
Publisher
Hart Sharp Video
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
A powerful, award-winning examination of the tragic series of events that followed a desperate bus hijacking in Rio de Janeiro in 2000 that turned deadly when a SWAT team took evasive action against the drug-addled hijacker.
60) Speed
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A young cop must save the passengers of a bus that has a bomb set to explode if the bus goes below 50 MPH.
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