Author: Kurt Cyrus Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press ISBN: 1534103066 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 36
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Poor Napoleon. Despite being the spiffiest chameleon in the jungle, he has no friends. And why is that? Because no one can see him! As everyone knows, chameleons blend in with their surroundings. Napoleon is practically invisible. So he tries every trick he can think of, from waving his arms to weaving a welcome mat to making funny faces, to get the other jungle animals to see him. But it's his final trick that really gets him noticed.
Author: Kurt Cyrus Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press ISBN: 1534146237 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 32
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Napoleon, the spiffiest chameleon in the jungle, is a pretty happy guy. And why shouldn't he be? After all, he loves living on his spiffy limb, and blending in with its colorful foliage. And after a few missteps, he now has friends. Mike the monkey and Polly the parrot often come to play. The spiffy limb shakes with fun and it seems like the laughter will never stop. Except it does when Mike meets Mooka and Polly meets her Pedro. His friends have found their perfect mates and Napoleon is now back to being on his own. What will it take for the loneliest chameleon in the jungle to find his own true love?
Author: Mark Pett Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1442483229 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 44
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A lonely boy’s new pet grows into a rather large dilemma—and a Thanksgiving parade offers an uplifting solution—in this charming tale from the author of The Boy and the Airplane and The Girl and the Bicycle. When Leonard takes a shortcut through the park, he finds an egg and takes it home, where it hatches into a lizard (or so Leonard thinks). Leonard names his new pet Buster and takes him all around the city: on the subway, to the library, to a baseball game, and more. But Buster keeps growing and growing—and Leonard gets the sense that Buster is longing for something Leonard can’t provide. Before long, Buster becomes too big to keep, and Leonard realizes he needs to set Buster free. So Leonard comes up with an inventive plan, one that involves all the balloons Leonard can find and the annual Thanksgiving parade, in an imaginative plot twist that will spark readers’ imaginations—and touch their hearts.
Author: Ellen Kay Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 059533766X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 140
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The Search for the Jade Lizard pairs teen-aged siblings Andrea and Brad Davis in an exciting and dangerous Hawaiian mystery. Everyone is excited to go to the island of Maui and swim, play tennis, and learn to SCUBA dive. But soon after their arrival, Brad and Andrea find themselves in a far different kind of adventure--one that spells danger. Wandering down a Lahaina street, Brad and Andrea are told by a fortune teller that they will find an ancient treasure, but to "beware of the man with the gold earring...he is a very bad man, an evil man, who would stop at nothing, even murder, to take the treasure from you." Undaunted by the warning, Andrea and Brad hunt for a missing jade lizard statue that once belonged to Hawaiian royalty. Captured by the henchman of the islands' biggest crime boss, Andrea and Brad must reveal the whereabouts of the treasure...or be killed.
Author: Otto Penzler Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ISBN: 0307743969 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 962
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The Most Complete Collection of Impossible Crime Stories Ever Assembled, with puzzling mysteries by Stephen King, Dashiell Hammett, Lawrence Block, Agatha Christie, Georges Simenon, Dorothy L. Sayers, P. G. Wodehouse, Erle Stanley Gardner, and many, many more THE BLACK LIZARD BIG BOOK OF LOCKED-ROOM MYSTERIES: An empty desert, a lonely ski slope, a gentleman’s study, an elevator car—nowhere is a crime completely impossible. Edgar Award–winning editor Otto Penzler has collected sixty-eight of the all-time best impossible-crime stories from almost two hundred years of the genre. In addition to the many classic examples of the form—a case of murder in a locked room or otherwise inaccessible place, solved by a brilliant sleuth—this collection expands the definition of the locked room to include tales of unbelievable thefts and incredible disappearances. Among these pages you’ll find stories with evocative titles like “The Flying Death”, “The Man From Nowhere”, “A Terribly Strange Bed”, and “The Theft of the Bermuda Penny”, not to mention appearances by some of the cleverest characters in all of crime, including Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, Georges Simenon’s Jules Maigret, Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, Dashiell Hammett’s Continental Op, and many more. Featuring • Unconventional means of murder • Pilfered jewels • Shocking solutions Includes • Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, the first detective story and the first locked-room mystery • Masters of the short story form: Edward D. Hoch, Ellery Queen, Carter Dickson, and Stanley Ellin A VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD ORIGINAL
Author: Camilla De La Bédoyère Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc ISBN: 1477754946 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 26
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Readers will delight in this colorful book about lizards. Bright visuals are paired with engaging text to grab readers’ attention and spark their interest as they gain an understanding of lizard species, anatomy, diet, and behavior. Readers will learn about the freaky and fun features of the Komodo dragon, frilled lizard, chameleon, and many more. Fact-filled text is supplemented by jokes, puzzles, activities, and a fictional story for a robust learning experience.
Author: Rebecca L. Thomas Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 3583
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Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.
Author: Heng Liu Publisher: Funstory ISBN: 163707624X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 705
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After the return of the transcender, all sorts of otherworldly elders would collide within the shop. The person who destroyed a planet with a single punch could only obediently listen to the main character ...
Author: Cees Nooteboom Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic ISBN: 1555848710 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 160
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From “one of the greatest modern novelists” comes a haunting tale of angels, art, and modern love (A. S. Byatt). In Lost Paradise, Cees Nooteboom sets out to connect two seemingly unrelated strangers whom he has glimpsed on his travels, and to explore the major impact that small interactions can have on the course of our journeys. A beautiful woman aboard a Berlin-bound flight becomes Alma, a young lady who leaves her parents’ São Paulo home on a hot summer night in a fit of depression. Her car engine dies in one of the city’s most dangerous favelas, a mob surrounds her, and she is pulled from the automobile. To escape her memory of the assault, she flees across the world, to Australia, where she becomes involved in the beautiful but bizarre Angel Project. Not long after, Dutch literary critic Erik Zontag is in Perth, Australia, for a conference. He has found a winged woman curled up in a closet in an empty house. He reaches out, and for a second allows his fingertips to brush her feathers—and then she speaks. The intersection of their paths illuminates the extraordinary coincidences that propel our lives. “Dreamy and self-conscious . . . [Nooteboom] brazenly explores notions of reinvention, healing, loss, and the divine.” —Tom Barbash, The New York Times Book Review
Author: David Quammen Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1476728739 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 320
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The award-winning author of The Song of the Dodo examines weird and wonderful aspects of nature in this collection of wise, witty, and insightful essays. From tales of vegetarian piranha fish and voiceless dogs to the scientific search for the genes that threaten to destroy the cheetah, David Quammen captures the natural world with precision. Throughout, he illuminates the surprising intricacies of the natural world, and our human attitudes towards those intricacies. A distinguished essayist, Quammen’s reporting is masterful and thought provoking and his curiosity and fascination with the world of living things is infectious.
Author: Kurt Cyrus
Author: Kurt Cyrus
Author: Mark Pett
Author: Ellen Kay
Author: Otto Penzler
Author: Camilla De La Bédoyère
Author: Rebecca L. Thomas
Author: Heng Liu
Author: Cees Nooteboom
Author: David Quammen