Author:
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 164491526X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Readers will be haunted by this hi-lo book that puts a modern spin on the classic book, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Nicki Crane is tired of being picked on by the school bully, Bram Bones. She knows someone else who doesn't like bullies—the Headless Hall Monitor! Every Halloween, this urban legend haunts the school hallways, seeking out bullies to teach them a lesson. Will Bram Bones be next? This short, 32-page chapter book explores the issue of bullying and will appeal to readers who enjoy suspenseful stories.
The Headless Hall Monitor 6-Pack
Author:
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 164491526X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Readers will be haunted by this hi-lo book that puts a modern spin on the classic book, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Nicki Crane is tired of being picked on by the school bully, Bram Bones. She knows someone else who doesn't like bullies—the Headless Hall Monitor! Every Halloween, this urban legend haunts the school hallways, seeking out bullies to teach them a lesson. Will Bram Bones be next? This short, 32-page chapter book explores the issue of bullying and will appeal to readers who enjoy suspenseful stories.
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 164491526X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Readers will be haunted by this hi-lo book that puts a modern spin on the classic book, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Nicki Crane is tired of being picked on by the school bully, Bram Bones. She knows someone else who doesn't like bullies—the Headless Hall Monitor! Every Halloween, this urban legend haunts the school hallways, seeking out bullies to teach them a lesson. Will Bram Bones be next? This short, 32-page chapter book explores the issue of bullying and will appeal to readers who enjoy suspenseful stories.
A Stolen Life
Author: Jaycee Dugard
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0857207148
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
A raw and powerful memoir of Jaycee Lee Dugard's own story of being kidnapped as an 11-year-old and held captive for over 18 years On 10 June 1991, eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in Tahoe, California. It was the last her family and friends saw of her for over eighteen years. On 26 August 2009, Dugard, her daughters, and Phillip Craig Garrido appeared in the office of her kidnapper's parole officer in California. Their unusual behaviour sparked an investigation that led to the positive identification of Jaycee Lee Dugard, living in a tent behind Garrido's home. During her time in captivity, at the age of fourteen and seventeen, she gave birth to two daughters, both fathered by Garrido. Dugard's memoir is written by the 30-year-old herself and covers the period from the time of her abduction in 1991 up until the present. In her stark, utterly honest and unflinching narrative, Jaycee opens up about what she experienced, including how she feels now, a year after being found. Garrido and his wife Nancy have since pleaded guilty to their crimes.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0857207148
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
A raw and powerful memoir of Jaycee Lee Dugard's own story of being kidnapped as an 11-year-old and held captive for over 18 years On 10 June 1991, eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in Tahoe, California. It was the last her family and friends saw of her for over eighteen years. On 26 August 2009, Dugard, her daughters, and Phillip Craig Garrido appeared in the office of her kidnapper's parole officer in California. Their unusual behaviour sparked an investigation that led to the positive identification of Jaycee Lee Dugard, living in a tent behind Garrido's home. During her time in captivity, at the age of fourteen and seventeen, she gave birth to two daughters, both fathered by Garrido. Dugard's memoir is written by the 30-year-old herself and covers the period from the time of her abduction in 1991 up until the present. In her stark, utterly honest and unflinching narrative, Jaycee opens up about what she experienced, including how she feels now, a year after being found. Garrido and his wife Nancy have since pleaded guilty to their crimes.
Ultimate Challenge Time!
Author: Ryan Kaji
Publisher: Simon Spotlight
ISBN: 9781534487543
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Join Ryan of the hit YouTube channel Ryan’s World and Ryan’s Mystery Playdate on Nickelodeon in this interactive, sports-themed 8x8 storybook that comes with a sheet of reusable stickers! Ryan dribbles, tumbles, and scores on his athletic playdate! Readers will use the stickers to help Ryan complete the challenges and meet his three playdates: Olympic gold-medal gymnast Laurie Hernandez, former Olympic gold-medal soccer player Brandi Chastain, and WNBA star Karlie Samuelson. Coated interior pages and reusable stickers allow readers to reread and play again and again! TM & © 2021 PocketWatch, Inc. & Hour Hand Productions, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Publisher: Simon Spotlight
ISBN: 9781534487543
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Join Ryan of the hit YouTube channel Ryan’s World and Ryan’s Mystery Playdate on Nickelodeon in this interactive, sports-themed 8x8 storybook that comes with a sheet of reusable stickers! Ryan dribbles, tumbles, and scores on his athletic playdate! Readers will use the stickers to help Ryan complete the challenges and meet his three playdates: Olympic gold-medal gymnast Laurie Hernandez, former Olympic gold-medal soccer player Brandi Chastain, and WNBA star Karlie Samuelson. Coated interior pages and reusable stickers allow readers to reread and play again and again! TM & © 2021 PocketWatch, Inc. & Hour Hand Productions, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Your Inner Fish
Author: Neil Shubin
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307377164
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the “fish with hands,” tells a “compelling scientific adventure story that will change forever how you understand what it means to be human” (Oliver Sacks). By examining fossils and DNA, he shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our heads are organized like long-extinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genomes look and function like those of worms and bacteria. Your Inner Fish makes us look at ourselves and our world in an illuminating new light. This is science writing at its finest—enlightening, accessible and told with irresistible enthusiasm.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307377164
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the “fish with hands,” tells a “compelling scientific adventure story that will change forever how you understand what it means to be human” (Oliver Sacks). By examining fossils and DNA, he shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our heads are organized like long-extinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genomes look and function like those of worms and bacteria. Your Inner Fish makes us look at ourselves and our world in an illuminating new light. This is science writing at its finest—enlightening, accessible and told with irresistible enthusiasm.
Blindsight
Author: Peter Watts
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429955198
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429955198
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Seeing Like a State
Author: James C. Scott
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300252986
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as “a magisterial critique of top-down social planning” by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail—sometimes catastrophically—in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. “Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”—New Yorker “A tour de force.”— Charles Tilly, Columbia University
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300252986
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as “a magisterial critique of top-down social planning” by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail—sometimes catastrophically—in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. “Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”—New Yorker “A tour de force.”— Charles Tilly, Columbia University
Rats Saw God
Author: Rob Thomas
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439115362
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Steve details his descent from bright star to burnout in this newly repackaged edition of the definitive, highly acclaimed novel from the creator of Veronica Mars and Party Down. Houston, sophomore year: Steve is on top of the world. He and his friends are the talk of the school. He’s in love with a terrific girl. He can even deal with “the astronaut”—a world-famous hero who happens to be his father. San Diego, senior year: Steve is bummed out, drugged out, flunking out. A no-nonsense counselor says he can graduate if he writes a 100-page paper. So Steve starts writing, and as the paper becomes more and more personal, he reveals how a National Merit Scholar has become an under-achieving stoner. And in telling how he got to where he is, Steve discovers how to get to where he wants to be.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439115362
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Steve details his descent from bright star to burnout in this newly repackaged edition of the definitive, highly acclaimed novel from the creator of Veronica Mars and Party Down. Houston, sophomore year: Steve is on top of the world. He and his friends are the talk of the school. He’s in love with a terrific girl. He can even deal with “the astronaut”—a world-famous hero who happens to be his father. San Diego, senior year: Steve is bummed out, drugged out, flunking out. A no-nonsense counselor says he can graduate if he writes a 100-page paper. So Steve starts writing, and as the paper becomes more and more personal, he reveals how a National Merit Scholar has become an under-achieving stoner. And in telling how he got to where he is, Steve discovers how to get to where he wants to be.
Fundamentals of Project Management
Author: James P. Lewis
Publisher: Amacom
ISBN: 9780814471326
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Updated concepts and tools to set up project plans, schedule work, monitor progress-and consistently achieve desired project results.In today's time-based and cost-conscious global business environment, tight project deadlines and stringent expectations are the norm. This classic book provides businesspeople with an excellent introduction to project management, supplying sound, basic information (along with updated tools and techniques) to understand and master the complexities and nuances of project management. Clear and down-to-earth, this step-by-step guide explains how to effectively spearhead every stage of a project-from developing the goals and objectives to managing the project team-and make project management work in any company. This updated second edition includes: * New material on the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) * Do's and don'ts of implementing scheduling software* Coverage of the PMP certification offered by the Project Management Institute* Updated information on developing problem statements and mission statements* Techniques for implementing today's project management technologies in any organization-in any industry.
Publisher: Amacom
ISBN: 9780814471326
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Updated concepts and tools to set up project plans, schedule work, monitor progress-and consistently achieve desired project results.In today's time-based and cost-conscious global business environment, tight project deadlines and stringent expectations are the norm. This classic book provides businesspeople with an excellent introduction to project management, supplying sound, basic information (along with updated tools and techniques) to understand and master the complexities and nuances of project management. Clear and down-to-earth, this step-by-step guide explains how to effectively spearhead every stage of a project-from developing the goals and objectives to managing the project team-and make project management work in any company. This updated second edition includes: * New material on the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) * Do's and don'ts of implementing scheduling software* Coverage of the PMP certification offered by the Project Management Institute* Updated information on developing problem statements and mission statements* Techniques for implementing today's project management technologies in any organization-in any industry.
The Headless Horseman
The Legend of the Headless Hall Monitor: Read-Along eBook
Author: Anne Lamb
Publisher: Triangle Interactive, Inc.
ISBN: 0743967038
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Nicki Crane is tired of Bram Bones's nasty pranks, and she knows of someone who also can't stand bulliesthe Headless Hall Monitor. Every Halloween, this terrifying specter haunts the school hallways, seeking the cruelest kids for his revenge. And Bram Bones is about to find out if the legend is real. Readers will be "haunted" by this spooky, modern spin on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow that explores the theme of bullying. Students who enjoy suspenseful stories will not be able to put this one down.
Publisher: Triangle Interactive, Inc.
ISBN: 0743967038
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Nicki Crane is tired of Bram Bones's nasty pranks, and she knows of someone who also can't stand bulliesthe Headless Hall Monitor. Every Halloween, this terrifying specter haunts the school hallways, seeking the cruelest kids for his revenge. And Bram Bones is about to find out if the legend is real. Readers will be "haunted" by this spooky, modern spin on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow that explores the theme of bullying. Students who enjoy suspenseful stories will not be able to put this one down.