Author: Lynda Patriquin
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1468594125
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Cassie is a foster child of the state of California. She has been in many foster homes; some good and some bad. She is going to another one. This foster is one of the better ones and she is about to embark on the greatest adventure of her young life. Cassie is sleeping in her room in the attic, when she is awakened by the rain. As she looks out her window, she sees a mysterious light, floating in the hills. She should have kept this secret to herself. Instead, it takes her on a journey of danger and intrigue as she and Cole witness a crime, deep in the canyon floor. Without the help of Cole's horse, Bolero, the creature would have surely died.
Cassie’S Quest
Author: Lynda Patriquin
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1468594125
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Cassie is a foster child of the state of California. She has been in many foster homes; some good and some bad. She is going to another one. This foster is one of the better ones and she is about to embark on the greatest adventure of her young life. Cassie is sleeping in her room in the attic, when she is awakened by the rain. As she looks out her window, she sees a mysterious light, floating in the hills. She should have kept this secret to herself. Instead, it takes her on a journey of danger and intrigue as she and Cole witness a crime, deep in the canyon floor. Without the help of Cole's horse, Bolero, the creature would have surely died.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1468594125
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Cassie is a foster child of the state of California. She has been in many foster homes; some good and some bad. She is going to another one. This foster is one of the better ones and she is about to embark on the greatest adventure of her young life. Cassie is sleeping in her room in the attic, when she is awakened by the rain. As she looks out her window, she sees a mysterious light, floating in the hills. She should have kept this secret to herself. Instead, it takes her on a journey of danger and intrigue as she and Cole witness a crime, deep in the canyon floor. Without the help of Cole's horse, Bolero, the creature would have surely died.
Cassie's Quest
Author: Suzanne Downes
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539047339
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Ten year old Cassia Byfleet has a secret. She has found a magical Egyptian effigy called an ushabti that can grant her wishes - and Cassie needs wishes badly. Her archaeologist father died in the Great War, her mother has gone to Egypt to help Howard Carter with Tutankhamen's newly discovered tomb and she is left in the charge of her despised Aunt Maude. As if that wasn't bad enough, Aunt Maude has a new friend, Mr Judd who comes to visit bringing his three children and their dog with him. The twelve year old twins, Bruno and Rawley, immediately take a dislike to Cassie, but their nine year old sister Edie, along with her little dog, Major, are soon firm friends with the lonely little girl, who is still grieving for her lost father and missing her mother. Of course having a magical servant is not quite as exciting as it seems and there follows a number of misunderstandings and misadventures, including being kidnapped by gypsies. Then Cassie's mother is caught in a roof-fall in a forgotten tomb in Egypt and Cassie finally realises that she is going to have to use the ushabti for something other than her own pleasure and desires. But Kesbet the ushabti sees Mrs Byfleet as a tomb-robber, not a discoverer. Cassie finds that her father was also a victim of Kesbet's protective curse. Can she find the strength to force Kesbet to obey her commands to save her mother, or will the ushabti fulfill his ancient task of punishing all those who desecrate the Pharaoh's tomb?
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539047339
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Ten year old Cassia Byfleet has a secret. She has found a magical Egyptian effigy called an ushabti that can grant her wishes - and Cassie needs wishes badly. Her archaeologist father died in the Great War, her mother has gone to Egypt to help Howard Carter with Tutankhamen's newly discovered tomb and she is left in the charge of her despised Aunt Maude. As if that wasn't bad enough, Aunt Maude has a new friend, Mr Judd who comes to visit bringing his three children and their dog with him. The twelve year old twins, Bruno and Rawley, immediately take a dislike to Cassie, but their nine year old sister Edie, along with her little dog, Major, are soon firm friends with the lonely little girl, who is still grieving for her lost father and missing her mother. Of course having a magical servant is not quite as exciting as it seems and there follows a number of misunderstandings and misadventures, including being kidnapped by gypsies. Then Cassie's mother is caught in a roof-fall in a forgotten tomb in Egypt and Cassie finally realises that she is going to have to use the ushabti for something other than her own pleasure and desires. But Kesbet the ushabti sees Mrs Byfleet as a tomb-robber, not a discoverer. Cassie finds that her father was also a victim of Kesbet's protective curse. Can she find the strength to force Kesbet to obey her commands to save her mother, or will the ushabti fulfill his ancient task of punishing all those who desecrate the Pharaoh's tomb?
Science Fiction
Author: Susan E. Hamen
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 1680797360
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
This title examines the genre of science fiction in Kindred, A Wrinkle in Time, 1984, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and The 5th Wave. It features four analysis papers that consider science fiction, each using different critical lenses, writing techniques, or aspects of the genre. Critical thinking questions, sidebars highlighting and explaining each thesis and argument, and other possible approaches for analysis help students understand the mechanics of essay writing. Features include a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 1680797360
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
This title examines the genre of science fiction in Kindred, A Wrinkle in Time, 1984, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and The 5th Wave. It features four analysis papers that consider science fiction, each using different critical lenses, writing techniques, or aspects of the genre. Critical thinking questions, sidebars highlighting and explaining each thesis and argument, and other possible approaches for analysis help students understand the mechanics of essay writing. Features include a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Belonging - A Related Text Companion to 'In and Out of Step' by Christine M Knight
Author: Christine M. Knight
Publisher: Highlight Publishing
ISBN: 0987434810
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
A rich and insightful analysis of 'In and Out of Step' in terms of BELONGING. Australian Higher School Certificate students will find this companion to the novel to be an invaluable and rare text. HR managers interested in how human dynamics shape relationships will gain a deeper appreciation of the challenges to modifying culture and the issues that arise if change is not achieved. This companion to the novel is a treatise about what managers need to understand when dealing with the downward spiral of behaviour in the workplace.
Publisher: Highlight Publishing
ISBN: 0987434810
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
A rich and insightful analysis of 'In and Out of Step' in terms of BELONGING. Australian Higher School Certificate students will find this companion to the novel to be an invaluable and rare text. HR managers interested in how human dynamics shape relationships will gain a deeper appreciation of the challenges to modifying culture and the issues that arise if change is not achieved. This companion to the novel is a treatise about what managers need to understand when dealing with the downward spiral of behaviour in the workplace.
A Practical Guide to the Psychology of Parenting Teenagers
Author: Kairen Cullen
Publisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 1785784773
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Develop and improve your relationship with teenagers. The teenage years are complex, exciting and often turbulent. Growth, development and learning are intrinsic to this period and every teenage experience is different. For anyone who cares about a teenager's wellbeing, development and learning, this Practical Guide offers a theoretically informed way of thinking about, understanding and actually living with teenagers. Focusing on the three major issues prevalent in teenage years: achievement, belonging and control, and the behaviors that fall within these categories, experienced professional educational psychologist Kairen Cullen expertly draws upon a wealth of experience and the different psychological theories and approaches that can be used to address each issue.
Publisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 1785784773
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Develop and improve your relationship with teenagers. The teenage years are complex, exciting and often turbulent. Growth, development and learning are intrinsic to this period and every teenage experience is different. For anyone who cares about a teenager's wellbeing, development and learning, this Practical Guide offers a theoretically informed way of thinking about, understanding and actually living with teenagers. Focusing on the three major issues prevalent in teenage years: achievement, belonging and control, and the behaviors that fall within these categories, experienced professional educational psychologist Kairen Cullen expertly draws upon a wealth of experience and the different psychological theories and approaches that can be used to address each issue.
Just Wonder
Author: Pauline Greenhill
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1646425855
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Inspired by folklore, television, fairy tales, social media, novels, and films, Just Wonder addresses crucial themes in social and ecological justice efforts. Moving into the mid-twenty-first century, wonder—as a potentially critical sociocultural, ecological, and individual stance—will play a significant role in reconceptualizing the present to imagine a different and better world. These essays examine fairy tales and other traditional forms of the fantastic and the real to offer alternative expressions of justice relevant to gender, sex, sexuality, environment, Indigeneity, class, ability, race, decolonizing, and human and nonhuman relations. By analyzing fairy tales and wonder texts from various media through an intersectional feminist lens, Pauline Greenhill and Jennifer Orme consider how wonder genres and forms blend with diverse conceptions of seeking and enacting justice. International collaborators—both established and emerging scholars who self-identify with different subjectivities, locations, and generations and come from an impressive range of inter/disciplines—engage with contemporary and historical texts from various languages and cultural contexts, including interventions, counterparts, and comparisons to the fairy tale. Just Wonder offers a critical look at how creative wondering can expand the ability to resist modes of oppression while fostering equity, as well as encourage curiosity and imagination. In a world that can be overwhelming and precarious, this book presents scholarly, artistic, personal, and collective-action interventions to identify and respond to injustice while centering wonder and, thus, imagination, questioning, and hope. Just Wonder will appeal to fairy-tale scholars; folklorists; students and scholars of film, media studies, and cultural studies; as well as a general audience.
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1646425855
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Inspired by folklore, television, fairy tales, social media, novels, and films, Just Wonder addresses crucial themes in social and ecological justice efforts. Moving into the mid-twenty-first century, wonder—as a potentially critical sociocultural, ecological, and individual stance—will play a significant role in reconceptualizing the present to imagine a different and better world. These essays examine fairy tales and other traditional forms of the fantastic and the real to offer alternative expressions of justice relevant to gender, sex, sexuality, environment, Indigeneity, class, ability, race, decolonizing, and human and nonhuman relations. By analyzing fairy tales and wonder texts from various media through an intersectional feminist lens, Pauline Greenhill and Jennifer Orme consider how wonder genres and forms blend with diverse conceptions of seeking and enacting justice. International collaborators—both established and emerging scholars who self-identify with different subjectivities, locations, and generations and come from an impressive range of inter/disciplines—engage with contemporary and historical texts from various languages and cultural contexts, including interventions, counterparts, and comparisons to the fairy tale. Just Wonder offers a critical look at how creative wondering can expand the ability to resist modes of oppression while fostering equity, as well as encourage curiosity and imagination. In a world that can be overwhelming and precarious, this book presents scholarly, artistic, personal, and collective-action interventions to identify and respond to injustice while centering wonder and, thus, imagination, questioning, and hope. Just Wonder will appeal to fairy-tale scholars; folklorists; students and scholars of film, media studies, and cultural studies; as well as a general audience.
Life Sentence
Author: A. K. Turner
Publisher: Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.
ISBN: 1838774769
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
FEATURED ON THE SUNDAY TIMES' CRIME BOOKS OF THE YEAR LIST - 'SUPERB' JOAN SMITH, SUNDAY TIMES **DON'T MISS CASSIE RAVEN'S NEWEST MYSTERY, DEAD FALL, AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW!** 'I LOVE THIS SERIES!' ELLY GRIFFITHS 'ENGROSSING, SHARP, UTTERLY ORIGINAL' TAMMY COHEN 'A MUST-READ SERIES' JAMES OSWALD 'CASSIE RAVEN IS MY FAVOURITE NEW CHARACTER' WILLIAM SHAW 'WARM, ENGAGING AND ORIGINAL' MARI HANNAH 'AN ENGROSSING AND INTRIGUING READ' FAITH MARTIN 'TWISTY AND TREMENDOUS' MARA TIMON Camden mortuary technician Cassie Raven returns to solve another ingenious forensic mystery. Perfect for fans of Tess Gerritsen, Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs. Families can be murder . . . Mortuary technician Cassie Raven was raised as an orphan, which might explain her affinity with the dead. But she's just made a devastating discovery: her father is alive, but served jail time for killing her mother. He swears he didn't do it - and Cassie wants to believe him. Desperate to find the truth, she seeks help from Phyllida Flyte, the uptight Camden detective who intrigues Cassie as much as she infuriates her. As the two women close in on the truth they will encounter true evil, and someone prepared to kill again. PRAISE FOR THE CASSIE RAVEN SERIES: 'Spellbinding storytelling' Val McDermid 'Like Silent Witness but more believable' Susi Holliday 'Blackly humorous, with a fabulously one-of-a-kind protagonist' Heat Magazine '[A] gritty novel with an engaging heroine' Sunday Times 'Ingenious and sardonically written' Financial Times 'Cassie Raven is an utterly compelling contemporary forensic heroine' Isabelle Grey 'A fresh and exciting new series' Claire McGowan 'One of the best series openers I've read in years' Jane Casey 'Cassie Raven is a blast of fresh air, striding onto the crime scene like a punk superstar' Sarah Hilary
Publisher: Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.
ISBN: 1838774769
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
FEATURED ON THE SUNDAY TIMES' CRIME BOOKS OF THE YEAR LIST - 'SUPERB' JOAN SMITH, SUNDAY TIMES **DON'T MISS CASSIE RAVEN'S NEWEST MYSTERY, DEAD FALL, AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW!** 'I LOVE THIS SERIES!' ELLY GRIFFITHS 'ENGROSSING, SHARP, UTTERLY ORIGINAL' TAMMY COHEN 'A MUST-READ SERIES' JAMES OSWALD 'CASSIE RAVEN IS MY FAVOURITE NEW CHARACTER' WILLIAM SHAW 'WARM, ENGAGING AND ORIGINAL' MARI HANNAH 'AN ENGROSSING AND INTRIGUING READ' FAITH MARTIN 'TWISTY AND TREMENDOUS' MARA TIMON Camden mortuary technician Cassie Raven returns to solve another ingenious forensic mystery. Perfect for fans of Tess Gerritsen, Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs. Families can be murder . . . Mortuary technician Cassie Raven was raised as an orphan, which might explain her affinity with the dead. But she's just made a devastating discovery: her father is alive, but served jail time for killing her mother. He swears he didn't do it - and Cassie wants to believe him. Desperate to find the truth, she seeks help from Phyllida Flyte, the uptight Camden detective who intrigues Cassie as much as she infuriates her. As the two women close in on the truth they will encounter true evil, and someone prepared to kill again. PRAISE FOR THE CASSIE RAVEN SERIES: 'Spellbinding storytelling' Val McDermid 'Like Silent Witness but more believable' Susi Holliday 'Blackly humorous, with a fabulously one-of-a-kind protagonist' Heat Magazine '[A] gritty novel with an engaging heroine' Sunday Times 'Ingenious and sardonically written' Financial Times 'Cassie Raven is an utterly compelling contemporary forensic heroine' Isabelle Grey 'A fresh and exciting new series' Claire McGowan 'One of the best series openers I've read in years' Jane Casey 'Cassie Raven is a blast of fresh air, striding onto the crime scene like a punk superstar' Sarah Hilary
The Avenging-Woman On-Screen
Author: Lara C. Stache
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1666915564
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
This book demonstrates how the avenging-woman character on-screen represents cultural conversations about female agency and feminism. This critical feminist analysis analyzes the construction of female empowerment in the American avenging-woman narrative to uncover how we can understand messages about women and power in contemporary culture.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1666915564
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
This book demonstrates how the avenging-woman character on-screen represents cultural conversations about female agency and feminism. This critical feminist analysis analyzes the construction of female empowerment in the American avenging-woman narrative to uncover how we can understand messages about women and power in contemporary culture.
Extraordinary: A Story of an Ordinary Princess
Author: Cassie Anderson
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 150671028X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
While her sisters were blessed at birth with exceptional skills, Princess Basil's "gift" is to be ordinary. But can a princess be ordinary? After escaping an unconventional kidnapping, Princess Basil finds herself far from her castle and must take fate into her own hands. She tracks down the fairy godmother who "blessed" her, and learns the solution to her ordinariness might be as simple as finding a magic ring. With an unlikely ally in tow, she takes on gnomes, a badger, and a couple of snarky foxes in her quest for a less ordinary life. Portland comics artist Cassie Anderson (Lifeformed) takes her webcomic to print in this tale of magical adventure, full of soul and humor for readers of all ages.
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 150671028X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
While her sisters were blessed at birth with exceptional skills, Princess Basil's "gift" is to be ordinary. But can a princess be ordinary? After escaping an unconventional kidnapping, Princess Basil finds herself far from her castle and must take fate into her own hands. She tracks down the fairy godmother who "blessed" her, and learns the solution to her ordinariness might be as simple as finding a magic ring. With an unlikely ally in tow, she takes on gnomes, a badger, and a couple of snarky foxes in her quest for a less ordinary life. Portland comics artist Cassie Anderson (Lifeformed) takes her webcomic to print in this tale of magical adventure, full of soul and humor for readers of all ages.
You Should Have Seen This Coming
Author: Shani Michelle
Publisher: Swoon Reads
ISBN: 1250294797
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
A teen girl who sees visions of the past must use her gift to save a kidnapped classmate in Shani Michelle's high-stakes YA thriller You Should Have Seen This Coming! Hayden sees the past. Just touching an object will occasionally give her flashes of the previous owner’s memories. And if that memory happens to be a deeply hidden secret, then she has no problem making you pay for your crime, in cash. Cassie sees the future, and it sucks. Her dreams are filled with disasters that she feels compelled to stop, and could she please stop watching her boyfriend fall in love with someone else?! But when Cassie tries to warn Hayden that her latest blackmailing scheme is a trap, she knows she’s really in trouble. Suddenly the upcoming kidnapping is all she can see, yet nothing she does stops it. And it’s all Hayden’s fault! Can Hayden’s gift help her find Cassie before it’s too late?
Publisher: Swoon Reads
ISBN: 1250294797
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
A teen girl who sees visions of the past must use her gift to save a kidnapped classmate in Shani Michelle's high-stakes YA thriller You Should Have Seen This Coming! Hayden sees the past. Just touching an object will occasionally give her flashes of the previous owner’s memories. And if that memory happens to be a deeply hidden secret, then she has no problem making you pay for your crime, in cash. Cassie sees the future, and it sucks. Her dreams are filled with disasters that she feels compelled to stop, and could she please stop watching her boyfriend fall in love with someone else?! But when Cassie tries to warn Hayden that her latest blackmailing scheme is a trap, she knows she’s really in trouble. Suddenly the upcoming kidnapping is all she can see, yet nothing she does stops it. And it’s all Hayden’s fault! Can Hayden’s gift help her find Cassie before it’s too late?