Author: M. E. Kerr
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1480455466
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
M. E. Kerr’s first novel—hailed by the New York Times as a “timely, compelling,” and “brilliantly funny” look at adolescence and friendship It was bad enough that they had to move to Brooklyn—Brooklyn Heights, as Tucker Woolf’s dad instructs him to tell everyone after he loses his job. Now his father has suddenly developed an allergy to Tucker’s cat, Nader, a nine-month-old calico Tucker found underneath a Chevrolet. Tucker’s beloved pet finds a new home with overweight, outrageous Susan “Dinky” Hocker, the only person to answer Tucker’s ad. As Tucker starts paying regular visits to Dinky’s house to check up on Nader, his life begins to change. Dinky introduces Tucker to her strange cousin, Natalia Line, a compulsive rhymer whom Tucker finds fascinating. And enter P. John Knight, who’s fat like Dinky . . . and now, like Nader. With this odd cast of characters, a little world is created for big kids who need to go on diets. And who also, all of them, need to find out who they are. A story of friendship, self-image, and surviving adolescence, Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack! is also about the terror—and exhilaration—of daring to be yourself. This ebook features an illustrated personal history of M. E. Kerr including rare images from the author’s collection.
Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!
Author: M. E. Kerr
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1480455466
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
M. E. Kerr’s first novel—hailed by the New York Times as a “timely, compelling,” and “brilliantly funny” look at adolescence and friendship It was bad enough that they had to move to Brooklyn—Brooklyn Heights, as Tucker Woolf’s dad instructs him to tell everyone after he loses his job. Now his father has suddenly developed an allergy to Tucker’s cat, Nader, a nine-month-old calico Tucker found underneath a Chevrolet. Tucker’s beloved pet finds a new home with overweight, outrageous Susan “Dinky” Hocker, the only person to answer Tucker’s ad. As Tucker starts paying regular visits to Dinky’s house to check up on Nader, his life begins to change. Dinky introduces Tucker to her strange cousin, Natalia Line, a compulsive rhymer whom Tucker finds fascinating. And enter P. John Knight, who’s fat like Dinky . . . and now, like Nader. With this odd cast of characters, a little world is created for big kids who need to go on diets. And who also, all of them, need to find out who they are. A story of friendship, self-image, and surviving adolescence, Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack! is also about the terror—and exhilaration—of daring to be yourself. This ebook features an illustrated personal history of M. E. Kerr including rare images from the author’s collection.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1480455466
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
M. E. Kerr’s first novel—hailed by the New York Times as a “timely, compelling,” and “brilliantly funny” look at adolescence and friendship It was bad enough that they had to move to Brooklyn—Brooklyn Heights, as Tucker Woolf’s dad instructs him to tell everyone after he loses his job. Now his father has suddenly developed an allergy to Tucker’s cat, Nader, a nine-month-old calico Tucker found underneath a Chevrolet. Tucker’s beloved pet finds a new home with overweight, outrageous Susan “Dinky” Hocker, the only person to answer Tucker’s ad. As Tucker starts paying regular visits to Dinky’s house to check up on Nader, his life begins to change. Dinky introduces Tucker to her strange cousin, Natalia Line, a compulsive rhymer whom Tucker finds fascinating. And enter P. John Knight, who’s fat like Dinky . . . and now, like Nader. With this odd cast of characters, a little world is created for big kids who need to go on diets. And who also, all of them, need to find out who they are. A story of friendship, self-image, and surviving adolescence, Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack! is also about the terror—and exhilaration—of daring to be yourself. This ebook features an illustrated personal history of M. E. Kerr including rare images from the author’s collection.
Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack[pbk]
Author: M. E. Kerr
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780329134617
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Many things change in a teenage boy's life when he meets the overweight girl who answers his advertisement for the cat he must give away.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780329134617
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Many things change in a teenage boy's life when he meets the overweight girl who answers his advertisement for the cat he must give away.
Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack
Author: James Scott
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781580497169
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781580497169
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Teaching Banned Books
Author: Pat R. Scales
Publisher: American Library Association
ISBN: 9780838908075
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
As a standard-bearer for intellectual freedom, the school librarian is in an ideal position to collaborate with teachers to not only protect the freedom to read but also ensure that valued books with valuable lessons are not quarantined from the readers for whom they were written.
Publisher: American Library Association
ISBN: 9780838908075
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
As a standard-bearer for intellectual freedom, the school librarian is in an ideal position to collaborate with teachers to not only protect the freedom to read but also ensure that valued books with valuable lessons are not quarantined from the readers for whom they were written.
I Stay Near You
Author: M. E. Kerr
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152055899
Category : Dysfunctional families
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
In this compelling story by the author of "Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!," a gold ring mysteriously manipulates a complex chain of events as it is passed from generation to generation.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152055899
Category : Dysfunctional families
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
In this compelling story by the author of "Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!," a gold ring mysteriously manipulates a complex chain of events as it is passed from generation to generation.
M.E. Kerr
Author: Albert Spring
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 9781404204652
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Discusses the life and work of the author who wrote young adult novels on topics that, at the time, were considered too risquâe for teenagers.
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 9781404204652
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Discusses the life and work of the author who wrote young adult novels on topics that, at the time, were considered too risquâe for teenagers.
Well Enough Alone
Author: Jennifer Traig
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440639329
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
The hilarious first-person account of life as a hypochondriac-from the critically acclaimed author of Devil in the Details. Jennifer Traig does not suffer from lupus, multiple sclerosis, Crohn's Disease, or muscular dystrophy. Nor does she have SUDS, the mysterious disorder that claims healthy young Asian men in their sleep. What she does have is hypochondria. In Well Enough Alone, Traig provides an uproariously funny inquiry into her ailment, as well as a well-researched history of the disorder. While chronicling her life as a hypochondriac and the minor conditions that helped to fuel her persistent self-diagnosis, she offers a literary tour of the disorder's past and present. And by the end, her journey leaves her more knowledgeable, a little less neurotic, and-one might say-healthier.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440639329
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
The hilarious first-person account of life as a hypochondriac-from the critically acclaimed author of Devil in the Details. Jennifer Traig does not suffer from lupus, multiple sclerosis, Crohn's Disease, or muscular dystrophy. Nor does she have SUDS, the mysterious disorder that claims healthy young Asian men in their sleep. What she does have is hypochondria. In Well Enough Alone, Traig provides an uproariously funny inquiry into her ailment, as well as a well-researched history of the disorder. While chronicling her life as a hypochondriac and the minor conditions that helped to fuel her persistent self-diagnosis, she offers a literary tour of the disorder's past and present. And by the end, her journey leaves her more knowledgeable, a little less neurotic, and-one might say-healthier.
A Bibliography of Drug Abuse Literature
Author: National Clearinghouse for Drug Abuse Information
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drug abuse
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drug abuse
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Naked Reading
Author: Teri S. Lesesne
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
ISBN: 157110416X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
"Teri draws on her extensive experience as a teacher and consultant to examine ways that educators can help interest kids in books and keep them reading during this crucial period."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
ISBN: 157110416X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
"Teri draws on her extensive experience as a teacher and consultant to examine ways that educators can help interest kids in books and keep them reading during this crucial period."--BOOK JACKET.
Reading Programs for Young Adults
Author: Martha Seif Simpson
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476605440
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
School and public libraries often provide programs and activities for children in preschool through the sixth grade, but there is little available to young adults. For them, libraries become a place for work—the place to research an assignment or find a book for a report—but the thought of the library as a place for enjoyment is lost. So how do librarians recapture the interest of teenagers? This just might be the answer. Here you will find theme-based units (such as Cartoon Cavalcade, Log On at the Library, Go in Style, Cruising the Mall, Space Shots, Teens on TV, and 44 others) that are designed for young adults. Each includes a display idea, suggestions for local sponsorship of prizes, a program game to encourage participation, 10 theme-related activities, curriculum tie-in activities, sample questions for use in trivia games or scavenger hunts, ideas for activity sheets, a bibliography of related works, and a list of theme-related films. The units are highly flexible, allowing any public or school library to adapt them to their particular needs.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476605440
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
School and public libraries often provide programs and activities for children in preschool through the sixth grade, but there is little available to young adults. For them, libraries become a place for work—the place to research an assignment or find a book for a report—but the thought of the library as a place for enjoyment is lost. So how do librarians recapture the interest of teenagers? This just might be the answer. Here you will find theme-based units (such as Cartoon Cavalcade, Log On at the Library, Go in Style, Cruising the Mall, Space Shots, Teens on TV, and 44 others) that are designed for young adults. Each includes a display idea, suggestions for local sponsorship of prizes, a program game to encourage participation, 10 theme-related activities, curriculum tie-in activities, sample questions for use in trivia games or scavenger hunts, ideas for activity sheets, a bibliography of related works, and a list of theme-related films. The units are highly flexible, allowing any public or school library to adapt them to their particular needs.