![]() ![]() Several of her books have been chosen by New York Public Library as a Best Books for Children,and have appeared on numerous State Reading Lists. Ellen Potter is the bestselling author of more than 20 award-winning novels for children and young adults, including Olivia Kidney, Slob, Big Foot and Little Foot, Piper Green and The Fairy Tree, The Humming Room, Pish Posh, and The Kneebone Boy. ![]() Life in a small town can be pretty boring when everyone avoids you like the downloads: 4. The Kneebone Boy Ellen Potter Feiwel and Friends September 2010 Otto, Lucia, and Max Hardscrabble live in a small town with their Dad, Casper. Publication date: September Hardcover: pages.
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![]() ![]() The series also pays attention to a group of teachers at the school: Yukari, the English teacher with some rather juvenile tendencies Minamo, Yukari's longtime friend/rival who teaches physical education and Mr. ![]() "Osaka", a kind girl who just happens to always have her head in the clouds. ![]() There's Chiyo, the adorable 10-year-old prodigy Sakaki, the quiet girl who loves cute things but has trouble with a particularly vicious kitty Tomo, the loud and energetic but untalented one Kagura, a competitive and athletic girl Yomi, the relatively level-headed member of the group Kaorin, a shy girl with an unusual admiration for Sakaki and Ayumu, a.k.a. Azumanga Daioh, based on the 4-panel manga of the same name by Kiyohiko Azuma, is a charming and funny series that focuses on a group of girls - each with their own distinct personalities - at a high school in Japan. ![]() ![]() ![]() One son became Australia's most infamous (and ultimately most celebrated) outlaw another became a highly decorated policeman, an honorary member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and a worldwide star on the rodeo circuit. ![]() She lived through famine and drought, watched her babies die, listened through the prison wall while her eldest son was hanged and saw the charred remains of another of her children who'd died in a shoot-out with police. Born in Ireland during a time of entrenched poverty and sectarian violence, she was a mother of seven when her husband died after months in a police lock-up. Like so many pioneering women, Ellen, the wife of a convict, led a life of great hardship. By the time she died aged 91 in 1923, having outlived seven of her 12 children, motor cars plied the highway near her bush home north of Melbourne, and Australia was a modern, sovereign nation. When Ned Kelly's mother, Ellen, arrived in Melbourne in 1841 aged nine, British convict ships were still dumping their unhappy cargo in what was then known as the colony of New South Wales. While we know much about the iconic outlaw Ned Kelly, his mother Ellen Kelly has been largely overlooked by Australian writers and historians.until now. ![]() |