Author: Leo Timmers
Publisher: Gecko Press (Tm)
ISBN: 1927271932
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
Sam has a lot of imagination. He loves robots and looks at the stars, imagining that robots live there. But Sam's parents are so busy doing mundane, ordinary things like vacuuming and gardening that they have lost all their imagination. Although Sam and his parents speak the same language, they don't understand each other. Sam wants to share his beliefs and the only one who can understand him is ... a robot. Thanks to his imagination, Sam builds Franky out of the ordinary objects his parents use. Although Franky and Sam don't speak the same language they DO understand each other because they share the same imagination and passion. That's why they become such good friends.
Franky
Author: Leo Timmers
Publisher: Gecko Press (Tm)
ISBN: 1927271932
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
Sam has a lot of imagination. He loves robots and looks at the stars, imagining that robots live there. But Sam's parents are so busy doing mundane, ordinary things like vacuuming and gardening that they have lost all their imagination. Although Sam and his parents speak the same language, they don't understand each other. Sam wants to share his beliefs and the only one who can understand him is ... a robot. Thanks to his imagination, Sam builds Franky out of the ordinary objects his parents use. Although Franky and Sam don't speak the same language they DO understand each other because they share the same imagination and passion. That's why they become such good friends.
Publisher: Gecko Press (Tm)
ISBN: 1927271932
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
Sam has a lot of imagination. He loves robots and looks at the stars, imagining that robots live there. But Sam's parents are so busy doing mundane, ordinary things like vacuuming and gardening that they have lost all their imagination. Although Sam and his parents speak the same language, they don't understand each other. Sam wants to share his beliefs and the only one who can understand him is ... a robot. Thanks to his imagination, Sam builds Franky out of the ordinary objects his parents use. Although Franky and Sam don't speak the same language they DO understand each other because they share the same imagination and passion. That's why they become such good friends.
Franky Franklyn's Philadelphia Adventure
Author: Philip Brown
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1456754238
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Franky Franklyn is at it again. He finds himself waking up in Philadelphia in the year 1776. What exploits will he find himself in this time? Who will he meet as he explores what life is like at the birth of America? Will Danny Divine make an appearance? It's all here in this second adventure as we travel back in History.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1456754238
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Franky Franklyn is at it again. He finds himself waking up in Philadelphia in the year 1776. What exploits will he find himself in this time? Who will he meet as he explores what life is like at the birth of America? Will Danny Divine make an appearance? It's all here in this second adventure as we travel back in History.
Franky Four-Eyes
Author: Lyn Marinello
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1602474125
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Franky, a fifth-grader, is eagerly awaiting a field trip to a single-cell ghost town. He's read all about Western outlaws and sheriffs and grabs the first spot in line to board the school bus. Franky's enthusiasm is quickly snuffed by his classmate's cruelty about the thick glasses that he has to wear. Over and over again, the jeers and taunting crack Franky's excitement and self-esteem. Determined to enjoy his field trip, he tries desperately to ignore the mean remarks and hurtful drama that enfolds. Nearly beaten, Franky clings to an inkling of an opportunity to do the right thing. Take a field trip with Franky Four-Eyes to see how this ruthlessly teased youngster rises to the occasion and becomes an unusual hero.
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1602474125
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Franky, a fifth-grader, is eagerly awaiting a field trip to a single-cell ghost town. He's read all about Western outlaws and sheriffs and grabs the first spot in line to board the school bus. Franky's enthusiasm is quickly snuffed by his classmate's cruelty about the thick glasses that he has to wear. Over and over again, the jeers and taunting crack Franky's excitement and self-esteem. Determined to enjoy his field trip, he tries desperately to ignore the mean remarks and hurtful drama that enfolds. Nearly beaten, Franky clings to an inkling of an opportunity to do the right thing. Take a field trip with Franky Four-Eyes to see how this ruthlessly teased youngster rises to the occasion and becomes an unusual hero.
Where We're Born
Author: Lucy Thurber
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822222699
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
THE STORY: Small-town America, class distinctions, sexual politics and love. This play explores the fact that sometimes in order to leave your home you have to destroy it. Lilly is a scholarship student from a very rural town. After her first year
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822222699
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
THE STORY: Small-town America, class distinctions, sexual politics and love. This play explores the fact that sometimes in order to leave your home you have to destroy it. Lilly is a scholarship student from a very rural town. After her first year
Franky Furbo
Author: William Wharton
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007458150
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
A welcome reissue of this wartime classic from the author of Birdy.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007458150
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
A welcome reissue of this wartime classic from the author of Birdy.
Unearthing
Author: Julius G Varga
Publisher: Julius G Varga
ISBN: 1079796444
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
“Unearthing” is a novel that will immerse you into the life of a couple, Johanna and Gunter after they have lost everything and move across the country in hopes of their second chance. The story is told from the third person’s point of view, and after a jaw dropping ending of the first chapter, becomes a flashback. Through the ordeals of the characters and vivid backgrounds spanning not only several generations but European locales even during Word War II, this novel celebrates our most human emotions with a life transforming intensity.
Publisher: Julius G Varga
ISBN: 1079796444
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
“Unearthing” is a novel that will immerse you into the life of a couple, Johanna and Gunter after they have lost everything and move across the country in hopes of their second chance. The story is told from the third person’s point of view, and after a jaw dropping ending of the first chapter, becomes a flashback. Through the ordeals of the characters and vivid backgrounds spanning not only several generations but European locales even during Word War II, this novel celebrates our most human emotions with a life transforming intensity.
National Theatre Connections 2023
Author: Simon Longman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350382701
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 567
Book Description
National Theatre Connections 2023 draws together ten new plays for young people to perform, from some of the UK's most exciting and popular playwrights. These are plays for a generation of theatre-makers who want to ask questions, challenge assertions and test the boundaries, and for those who love to invent and imagine a world of possibilities. The plays offer young performers an engaging and diverse range of material to perform, read or study. Touching on themes like climate change, politics, toxic masculinity and gang culture, the collection provides topical, pressing subject matter for students to explore in their performance. This 2023 anthology represents the full set of ten plays offered by the National Theatre 2023 Festival, as well as comprehensive workshop notes that give insights and inspiration for building characters, running rehearsals and staging a production.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350382701
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 567
Book Description
National Theatre Connections 2023 draws together ten new plays for young people to perform, from some of the UK's most exciting and popular playwrights. These are plays for a generation of theatre-makers who want to ask questions, challenge assertions and test the boundaries, and for those who love to invent and imagine a world of possibilities. The plays offer young performers an engaging and diverse range of material to perform, read or study. Touching on themes like climate change, politics, toxic masculinity and gang culture, the collection provides topical, pressing subject matter for students to explore in their performance. This 2023 anthology represents the full set of ten plays offered by the National Theatre 2023 Festival, as well as comprehensive workshop notes that give insights and inspiration for building characters, running rehearsals and staging a production.
At the Crossroads
Author: Travis Hunter
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN: 0758262426
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The future he was meant for is just within his reach. . . Franklyn "Franky" Bourgeois is fifteen, and he's already done more living than most. First he was blasted out of a normal childhood in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit. Determined to survive, he left town with two older cousins. They were nothing short of thugs, but they were all he had. And hard as he tried, even for a good kid like Franky, their influence was hard to resist. . . Now Franky's just a heartbeat away from a life of crime--until he gets an unexpected chance to turn things around. Getting back on track is easier said than done, especially when a group of prep school fools set out to keep Franky on the streets. But Franky's always been a survivor. He'll just have to prove it one more time. . . "Travis Hunter knows the urban teen scene." --Ni-Ni Simone, author of Teenage Love Affair
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN: 0758262426
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The future he was meant for is just within his reach. . . Franklyn "Franky" Bourgeois is fifteen, and he's already done more living than most. First he was blasted out of a normal childhood in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit. Determined to survive, he left town with two older cousins. They were nothing short of thugs, but they were all he had. And hard as he tried, even for a good kid like Franky, their influence was hard to resist. . . Now Franky's just a heartbeat away from a life of crime--until he gets an unexpected chance to turn things around. Getting back on track is easier said than done, especially when a group of prep school fools set out to keep Franky on the streets. But Franky's always been a survivor. He'll just have to prove it one more time. . . "Travis Hunter knows the urban teen scene." --Ni-Ni Simone, author of Teenage Love Affair
The Armour
Author: Ben Ellis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474256147
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Because power is fragile, it requires you naked. That is why the most powerful people in the world have sex in hotels. In fact, having sex in the best hotels makes you powerful. It doesn't matter how good the sex is, only how good the hotel is. Featuring three duologues, set in 2015, 1970 and 1981, all within the walls of London's Langham Hotel, The Armour is a site-specific drama about the lasting and changing effects of empire. The play received its world premiere at The Langham Hotel, in a promenade production, on 3 March 2015.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474256147
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Because power is fragile, it requires you naked. That is why the most powerful people in the world have sex in hotels. In fact, having sex in the best hotels makes you powerful. It doesn't matter how good the sex is, only how good the hotel is. Featuring three duologues, set in 2015, 1970 and 1981, all within the walls of London's Langham Hotel, The Armour is a site-specific drama about the lasting and changing effects of empire. The play received its world premiere at The Langham Hotel, in a promenade production, on 3 March 2015.
Like A Hero
Author: Michael J Bowler
Publisher: Michael J Bowler
ISBN: 1733329021
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Courage can be costly. Orphaned brothers Vincent and Dennis Villanueva learn the truth of those words when they create a masked crime fighter and turn him loose on Los Angeles. The brainchild of fourteen-year-old Dennis and embodied in twenty-one-year-old Vincent, “Invictus” hits the streets to jumpstart apathetic Angelenos into taking a more active role in their city. But reality isn’t a comic book. Vincent finds poverty, homelessness, drug addiction, abuse, and cast-off children. Labeled a vigilante and criminal, the shy grad student with formidable martial arts talent and abysmal people skills soon doubts his ability to make an impact. Forced to straddle an ambiguous line between moral and legal, he becomes disheartened and secretive, hiding the truth of what he’s doing from Dennis and driving a wedge between them. Feeling neglected, Dennis infiltrates a dangerous drug ring to show Vincent he can be just as heroic, not knowing that the woman in charge is weaving an insidious plot against Invictus as part of her citywide scheme of vengeance. In a race against time, Vincent must regain Dennis’s trust before the brother he loves is lost to him forever.
Publisher: Michael J Bowler
ISBN: 1733329021
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Courage can be costly. Orphaned brothers Vincent and Dennis Villanueva learn the truth of those words when they create a masked crime fighter and turn him loose on Los Angeles. The brainchild of fourteen-year-old Dennis and embodied in twenty-one-year-old Vincent, “Invictus” hits the streets to jumpstart apathetic Angelenos into taking a more active role in their city. But reality isn’t a comic book. Vincent finds poverty, homelessness, drug addiction, abuse, and cast-off children. Labeled a vigilante and criminal, the shy grad student with formidable martial arts talent and abysmal people skills soon doubts his ability to make an impact. Forced to straddle an ambiguous line between moral and legal, he becomes disheartened and secretive, hiding the truth of what he’s doing from Dennis and driving a wedge between them. Feeling neglected, Dennis infiltrates a dangerous drug ring to show Vincent he can be just as heroic, not knowing that the woman in charge is weaving an insidious plot against Invictus as part of her citywide scheme of vengeance. In a race against time, Vincent must regain Dennis’s trust before the brother he loves is lost to him forever.