Author: Jane Kurtz Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers ISBN: Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 40
Book Description
Almaz hates to wait for anything. It has been a year since her mother died, and she wants her father's new wife to love her right away. Her wise grandfather promises to tell her how to win her stepmother's affection, if she will bring him a handful of hair from the tail of a lion. As she gains the trust of the lion, she also becomes close to her new stepmother--one step at a time. Full color.
Author: Barry J. Freeman Publisher: ISBN: 9781904722243 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Never Pull A Lion's Tail is a humorous book of poems about African animals that parents and children can read together and which is both educational and lots of fun. Children will enjoy the familiar and entertaining characters, while adults will appreciate the poems' social commentary. The topics are easily identifiable and timeless, and the rhyming schemes and meter are varied and compelling. Features photographs taken by some of Africa's most eminent photographers.
Author: Richard Stooker Publisher: In Dreams Extreme Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 18
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To graduate from wizard training, Stick must direct a starving lion to go from one end of a long cage to the other. Then survive the brother wizard who hates him -- and the Moon Queen who loves him. Tired of magic wand, eye of newt 'recipe' magic? If the ingredients really contain the power, you perform a chemistry experiment. Perhaps real magicians can impose their will on the world without hocus pocus. In the early Neolithic era, wizard schools teach powerful inner magic. Chants and charms might fool ignorant primitive hunters and stoop farmers, but not the king of beasts. In the end, your inner strength derives from the God or Goddess you serve. In The Moon Queen, a very short story for very young children, a poor little backwoods girl walks all the way to town to see the Moon Queen, only to have the crowd of arrogant town people turn her away. However, far from the proud and powerful, she meets a little girl in a carriage who insists they change clothes, and she never sees her mother and little brother again. Stick and the Lion first appeared in BARDIC RUNES IX in 1994.
Author: C.S. Lewis Publisher: Wyatt North Publishing, LLC ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 156
Book Description
C. S. Lewis was a British author, lay theologian, and contemporary of J.R.R. Tolkien. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is the first book in The Chronicles of Narnia.
Author: Ralph Ellison Publisher: Modern Library ISBN: 158836089X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 1137
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From the author of bestselling Invisible Man—the classic novel of African-American experience—this long-awaited second novel tells an evocative tale of a prodigal of the twentieth century. Brilliantly crafted, moving, and wise, Juneteenth is the work of an American master. "Tell me what happened while there's still time," demands the dying Senator Adam Sunraider to the itinerate preacher whom he calls Daddy Hickman. As a young man, Sunraider was Bliss, an orphan taken in by Hickman and raised to be a preacher like himself. Bliss's history encompasses the joys of young southern boyhood; bucolic days as a filmmaker, lovemaking in a field in the Oklahoma sun. And behind it all lies a mystery: how did this chosen child become the man who would deny everything to achieve his goals? Here is the master of American vernacular at the height of his powers, evoking the rhythms of jazz and gospel and ordinary speech. "An extraordinary book, a work of staggering virtuosity. With its publication, a giant world of literature has just grown twice as tall." —Newsday
Author: Miljenko Jergovic Publisher: Northwestern University Press ISBN: 0810127539 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 293
Book Description
The novel Ruta Tannenbaum is by prolific, award-winning Croatian author Miljenko Jergović. First published in 2006, the story illuminates life and society in Yugoslavia between the world wars. The title character was inspired by real-life figure Lea Deutsch, the now-forgotten Shirley Temple of Yugoslavia, who was murdered in the Holocaust. Using their shared Jewish heritage as a starting point, Jergovic constructs a fictional family history populated by historical figures with the precocious Ruta at the center. Stephen Dickey’s translation masterfully captures Jergovic ́’s colloquial yet deeply observed style, which animates the tangled and troubled history of persecution and war in Croatia.
Author: Jon Agee Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0803739087 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 34
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With the wit and read-aloud appeal of Peter Brown’s Children Make Terrible Pets and William Steig’s Pete’s a Pizza, this funny, fierce picture book teaches kids just what it takes to be a great lion There are seven steps to becoming a proper lion, including Looking Fierce, Roaring, Prowling Around, and Pouncing. Our young hero, a rather meek and scrawny human boy, does his best to learn the necessary skills during his training with a master instructor (who just happens to be a real lion). After a grueling set of lessons, the boy discovers that that the final step—Looking Out for Your Friends—is the most important of all. That’s how any kid can earn his lion diploma (not to mention the affection of every cat in town).
Author: T. Jefferson Parker Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780312357153 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 436
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Life in Newport Beach, California is more nightmare than paradise when ex-cop Jim Weir's pregnant sister is brutally murdered. Life becomes unbearable when Weir is asked to investigate his former department. Political corruption and small town connections make this task even more onerous.
Author: Nancy J. Polette Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1598845888 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 364
Book Description
This valuable reference guide provides suggestions of picture books set in more than 70 countries in each continent of the world, along with standards-based activities. Reading the World with Picture Books presents an exhaustive collection of booktalk options with picture books that are set in the major countries of each continent. Hundreds of children's books with an international flavor are organized by continent and then by country, and suggested activities accompany the titles, encouraging students to interpret information related to historical or geographic concepts and use problem-solving skills. Activities range from those appropriate for beginners to experienced researchers/writers. All call for high-level thinking and most provide opportunities to respond in creative ways. In addition, all of the activities are keyed to selected national standards in language arts and social studies. The picture books suggested are not only excellent choices to capture a booktalk audience's attention and educate young readers about world culture, but also to demonstrate how human beings have adapted to the various environments of the world.
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