Author: Seabury Quinn Publisher: Wildside Press LLC ISBN: 1434437450 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 145
Book Description
Adventure Tales salutes classic Weird Tales authors, including Robert E. Howard, Seabury Quinn, E. Hoffmann Price, John D. Swain, Edwin Baird, and many more!
Author: Tony Piedra Publisher: Scholastic Inc. ISBN: 1338290495 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 40
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Where does true adventure come from? A young Latino boy and his grandfather find the true answer together. Eliot imagines sailing wild rivers and discovering giant beasts, right there on his block! But he wishes his adventures were real. Eliot's grandpa, El Capitan, once steered his own ship through dangerous seas, to far-off lands. But he can't do that anymore. Can Eliot and El Capitan discover a real adventure... together? Come find out! All aboard The Greatest Adventure!
Author: Jody Potts Publisher: ISBN: 9780961667740 Category : American wit and humor, Pictorial Languages : en Pages : 2
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"This program seeks to tell the real-life, real-people stories of history with excitement and humor, so that you will hardly notice you are also learning the facts"--page vi.
Author: Adam Lehrhaupt Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 153442184X Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 36
Book Description
Find out what happens to a beloved book sent to a new home in this sweet and hopeful picture book from award-winning author of Warning: Do Not Open This Book!, Adam Lehrhaupt. When a little girl outgrows her favorite book and it is donated to the library, Book worries it will never be read again. It sits alone and neglected on a library shelf, and one unlucky day, Book falls from its perch and lands behind the shelf out of sight. How will anyone find it now? Young readers will delight in following Book’s journey and the chance encounter that saves it from being forgotten.
Author: Otto Penzler Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 030747450X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 898
Book Description
A hair-raising collection of adventure stories that's so big and enthralling if you open it you may never be seen again: enter at your own risk. Everyone loves adventure, and Otto Penzler has collected the best adventure stories of all time into one mammoth volume. With stories by Jack London, O. Henry, H. Rider Haggard, Alastair MacLean, Talbot Mundy, Cornell Woolrich, and many others, this wide-reaching and fascinating volume contains some of the best characters from the most thrilling adventure tales, including The Cisco Kid; Sheena, Queen of the Jungle; Bulldog Drummond; Tarzan; The Scarlet Pimpernel; Conan the Barbarian; Hopalong Cassidy; King Kong; Zorro; and The Spider. Divided into sections that embody the greatest themes of the genre—Sword & Sorcery, Megalomania Rules, Man vs. Nature, Island Paradise, Sand and Sun, Something Feels Funny, Go West Young Man, Future Shock, I Spy, Yellow Peril, In Darkest Africa—it is destined to be the greatest collection of adventure stories ever compiled. Featuring: Lawless open seas Ferocious army ants Deadeyed gunmen Exotic desert islands Feverish jungle adventures Including: The story that introduced The Cisco Kid The complete novel of Tarzan the Terrible
Author: Paul Dowswell Publisher: Write Your Own ISBN: 9781409586821 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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A write-in book which will allow children to pen their very own adventure story. With lots of hints and tips on how to create characters, plan plots, write dialogue and stage all-important action scenes, this book will start budding writers off with simple exercises, and build them up until they are racing through their own short stories.
Author: Nadja Springer Publisher: ISBN: 9781736028100 Category : Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
A heart-warming story of a small tree with an overwhelming dream Tree has all that he needs, a beautiful home and a loving family. Still, Tree yearns to wander - and to explore the world.One little tree and one big adventure No tree has ever tried before, but that doesn't mean it can't be done! One idea changes everything - and with the help of his friends, Tree sets off and finds more than just an adventure beyond the paths close to home. Outstanding illustrations and one hidden tiny little friend When Tree leaves the shore, he's not on his own - can your young reader locate Tree's friend, the baby sea turtle on every page?The perfect picture book for every dreamer, believer and every keeper of imagination.This little Tree will be loved by all children aged 4 - 8 - and most definitely beyond, because have YOU ever seen a walking tree? Learn about the power of friendship and love, the importance of inclusion and the unique chances and opportunities you're presented with when you simply think "I can do this". Changing your mindset can change your life. Curiosity, kindness and an open heart make all the difference.
Author: Jean E. Edwards Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1477141197 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 72
Book Description
Adventure Tales: For kids, who want to become better readers, is a collection of stories that were written and illustrated especially for a third grade special education reading intervention group. The stories are short, simple, and fun with the vocabulary words written with bold type. This is so the student will be able to recognize and understand the meaning of their vocabulary words in context. The stories get progressively more difficult as the vocabulary words get more diffi cult. At the end the student will know 318 vocabulary words. The stories include a little girl who is nervous about a contest she has entered, a brother helping his sister build a tree house and new kids in school. There is a family cleaning their house, hoping to see a ghost and a Colorado camping adventure. A wounded soldier finds a new home, as a girl becomes a young woman. There is even a mad scientist. And a bonus Halloween story; is mom a witch?
Author: Seabury Quinn
Author: Tony Piedra
Author: Jody Potts
Author: Adam Lehrhaupt
Author: Jody Potts
Author: Otto Penzler
Author: Paul Dowswell
Author: Nadja Springer
Author: Sally Gould
Author: Jean E. Edwards