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Author: Rachelle Delaney Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0735269327 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 225
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A visit to Leo's grandfather's farm turns upside down when his grandmother's beehives are stolen. A light-hearted and funny middle-grade novel for fans of Rebecca Stead and Lynda Mullaly Hunt. Eleven-year-old Leo is an "armchair adventurer." This, according to Dad, means he'd choose adventures in books or video games over real-life experiences. And while Leo hates the label, he can't argue with it. Unlike his little sister Lizzie, Leo is not a risk-taker. So when he, Lizzie, Mom and Dad leave the city to visit Grandpa on Heron Island, Leo finds all kinds of dangers to avoid — from the deep, dark ocean to an old barn on the verge of collapse. But nothing on the island is more fearsome than Grandpa himself — Leo has never met anyone so grumpy! According to Mom, Grandpa is still grieving the recent death of his wife, a beekeeper beloved by everyone on the island. Despite Leo's best efforts to avoid it, adventure finds him anyway when Grandma's beehives go missing in the dead of night. Infuriated, Grandpa vows to track down the sticky-fingered thieves himself . . . with risk-averse Leo and danger-loving Lizzie (plus a kitten named Mayhem) in tow.
Author: Rachelle Delaney Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0735269327 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 225
Book Description
A visit to Leo's grandfather's farm turns upside down when his grandmother's beehives are stolen. A light-hearted and funny middle-grade novel for fans of Rebecca Stead and Lynda Mullaly Hunt. Eleven-year-old Leo is an "armchair adventurer." This, according to Dad, means he'd choose adventures in books or video games over real-life experiences. And while Leo hates the label, he can't argue with it. Unlike his little sister Lizzie, Leo is not a risk-taker. So when he, Lizzie, Mom and Dad leave the city to visit Grandpa on Heron Island, Leo finds all kinds of dangers to avoid — from the deep, dark ocean to an old barn on the verge of collapse. But nothing on the island is more fearsome than Grandpa himself — Leo has never met anyone so grumpy! According to Mom, Grandpa is still grieving the recent death of his wife, a beekeeper beloved by everyone on the island. Despite Leo's best efforts to avoid it, adventure finds him anyway when Grandma's beehives go missing in the dead of night. Infuriated, Grandpa vows to track down the sticky-fingered thieves himself . . . with risk-averse Leo and danger-loving Lizzie (plus a kitten named Mayhem) in tow.
Author: Mark Stobbe Publisher: ISBN: 9781770416123 Category : Languages : en Pages : 220
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Over a hundred Canadians "got away with murder" until an undercover police officer tricked them into confessing. Learn about the controversial "Mr. Big" police tactic that catches the guilty and occasionally traps the innocent.
Author: Richard Brignall Publisher: James Lorimer & Company ISBN: 1459408640 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 138
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On the night of June 23, 1990, teenage friends Kyle Unger and John Beckett made a last-minute decision to attend a music festival near Roseisle, Manitoba. They were loners, not the popular kids at school. But on this night they seemed to finally fit in. They had fun, played games, drank, and hung around bonfires with other people. The next morning, a sixteen-year-old girl was dead. By the next week, Kyle was charged with her murder. Due to insufficient evidence he was let go, but the Mounties were convinced he was the killer. They laid a trap, called the Mr. Big operation, for Kyle. With offers of money, friends, and a new criminal lifestyle, the RCMP got Kyle to confess to the murder. But the confession was false -- he had not been the killer. He was convicted and sent to prison. For the next twenty years Kyle fought for his freedom. He was finally acquitted in 2009. This book tells the story of an impressionable but innocent teenager who was wrongfully convicted based on the controversial Mr. Big police tactic. [Fry reading level - 4.9
Author: Raymond L. Robinson Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing ISBN: 1608444600 Category : Languages : en Pages : 98
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In a land where everyone is insane, your sanity may be your biggest downfall or your greatest weapon. This story is about the fantastic world where a young man by the name of Richard lives. Armed with a weapon that he receives from a pile of rotting corpses, Richard must escape the institution that has held him prisoner for so long. Partnering up with a severed hand named Resk and a young girl who has been created in an underground room of a madman's laboratory, Richard is just trying to survive in this wacky world filled with cannibalistic nuns. Is trying to get home really supposed to be this difficult? "How do you make it without dying?" "You don't..." Sometimes, escaping your fears isn't enough and you must stand and fight, even if it means losing your life...a couple times... What would you do to see your love? The dark world of severed hands, rock monsters, cannibalistic nuns, and madmen awaits you in this exciting tale of a young man who just wants to escape the institution that he's been imprisoned in for so long. With the help from a friend on the inside, his escape becomes a reality. But what has he gotten himself into? Has he been institutionalized for so long that the world has left him behind, or does everyone know something that he doesn't? In the tremendous amount of confusion that swarms all around him, he is left with the love for his friend Sharon, the girl created in a laboratory. But will his love for her save him or destroy him? With nuns lurking around every corner, sniffing him out, where can he and Sharon seek refuge? In this land full of madness, nothing is what it seems... Born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, I moved to Pennsylvania when I was three. I went to school at Northwestern, in a small town called Albion. At a young age, I had incorporated a many hobbies into my life, which made it very difficult for my parents to ever really ground me for messing up in their eyes. They could take away my toys, my computer, my video games, and my time with my friends, but they couldn't take my writing or imagination, so if I were to get grounded from one thing, I would switch my attention to another one. I've always enjoyed writing very much. With my free time in school, I created one comic series and various stories. Some still have yet to be finished, but as I continue through this life, I am continually thinking of new ideas for short stories, novels, and comics. Note to the readers: There are times when we all want to escape our lives for one reason or another. Some people do it by working themselves to the extreme, some by dreaming in their beds no matter the time of day, and some by keeping their minds in a perpetual state of fantasy that they themselves or someone else has created for them. Sometimes reality seems a bit more like fantasy, you find yourself wondering, "How could reality be real?" Maybe it's not. Sometimes that fantasy is our reality. I invite you into one of my fantasies. Enter a realm where the normality of real life washes away to become something much greater, where unconditional love becomes the driving force behind the reason for putting yourself in terrible danger. Enter into one of my escapes from reality.
Author: Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0062223240 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 284
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In the spirit of Schott’s Miscellany, The Magic of Reality, and The Dangerous Book for Boys comes Can a Bee Sting a Bee?—a smart, illuminating, essential, and utterly delightful handbook for perplexed parents and their curious children. Author Gemma Elwin Harris has lovingly compiled weighty questions from precocious grade school children—queries that have long dumbfounded even intelligent adults—and she’s gathered together a notable crew of scientists, specialists, philosophers, and writers to answer them. Authors Mary Roach and Phillip Pullman, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, chef Gordon Ramsay, adventurist Bear Gryllis, and linguist Noam Chomsky are among the top experts responding to the Big Questions from Little People, (“Do animals have feelings?”, “Why can’t I tickle myself?”, “Who is God?”) with well-known comedians, columnists, and raconteurs offering hilarious alternative answers. Miles above your average general knowledge and trivia collections, this charming compendium is a book fans of the E.H. Gombrich classic, A Little History of the World, will adore.
Author: Leigh Montville Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 0385536062 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 405
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An insightful portrait of Muhammad Ali from the New York Times bestselling author of At the Altar of Speed and The Big Bam. It centers on the cultural and political implications of Ali's refusal of service in the military—and the key moments in a life that was as high profile and transformative as any in the twentieth century. With the death of Muhammad Ali in June, 2016, the media and America in general have remembered a hero, a heavyweight champion, an Olympic gold medalist, an icon, and a man who represents the sheer greatness of America. New York Times bestselling author Leigh Montville goes deeper, with a fascinating chronicle of a story that has been largely untold. Muhammad Ali, in the late 1960s, was young, successful, brash, and hugely admired—but with some reservations. He was bombastic and cocky in a way that captured the imagination of America, but also drew its detractors. He was a bold young African American in an era when few people were as outspoken. He renounced his name—Cassius Clay—as being his 'slave name,' and joined the Nation of Islam, renaming himself Muhammad Ali. And finally in 1966, after being drafted, he refused to join the military for religious and conscientious reasons, triggering a fight that was larger than any of his bouts in the ring. What followed was a period of legal battles, of cultural obsession, and in some ways of being the very embodiment of the civil rights movement located in the heart of one man. Muhammad Ali was the tip of the arrow, and Leigh Montville brilliantly assembles all the boxing, the charisma, the cultural and political shifting tides, and ultimately the enormous waft of entertainment that always surrounded Ali. Muhammed Ali vs. the United States of America is an important and incredibly engaging book.
Author: Diana Sammataro Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 0801485037 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 210
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Since 1973, tens of thousands of first-time and experienced beekeepers alike have relied on The Beekeeper's Handbook as the best single-volume guide to the hobby and profession of beekeeping. Featuring clear descriptions and authoritative content, this handbook provides step-by-step directions accompanied by more than 100 illustrations for setting up an apiary, handling bees, and working throughout the season to maintain a healthy colony of bees and a generous supply of honey. This book explains the various colony care options and techniques, noting advantages and disadvantages, so that beekeepers can make the best choices for their own hives. This fourth edition has been thoroughly redesigned, expanded, updated, and revised to incorporate the latest information on Colony Collapse Disorder, green IPM methods, regional overwintering protocols, and procedures for handling bees and managing diseases and pests such as African honey bees and bee mites. The book explains not only how but also why each step is part of the transformative process that results in the magnificent creation of honey. This essential guide is a beekeeper's most valuable resource. Colony Collapse Disorder has renewed our recognition of the importance of small-scale beekeeping and the critical role of bees in the production of our food supply. For the growing number of beekeepers looking to set up hives for either a rewarding hobby or a profitable commercial enterprise, this updated and revised essential how-to guide includes: step-by-step directions for all stages from setting up an apiary to harvesting honey; approximately 100 illustrations featuring techniques, equipment, and bee biology; information about how to manage new pests and diseases including Colony Collapse Disorder; coverage of new trends and changes in beekeeping including green IPM techniques and new laws for urban beekeeping; the most up-to-date bibliography and list of resources on the topic; and a new user-friendly book design that clearly highlights instructions and other important features.
Author: Jude Watson Publisher: ISBN: 9781536420937 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Twelve-year-old March McQuin forgot rule number one for cat burglars, which is how he and his twin sister, Jules, found themselves dangling upside down twenty feet above a stone floor at three in the morning. Their target was a set of stunning diamonds and it should have been an easy job, in and out. Except another thief got there first. March and Jules were lucky to escape with their lives, and one measly stone.
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