Author: Lawrence J. Taylor
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816519262
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Drawing on two summers spent with the kids who live in drainage tunnels connecting Nogales, Sonora and Nogales, Arizona, the authors present a verbal and pictoral portrait of the displaced and sometimes heroic young people whose stories add a human dimension to the world of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Tunnel Kids
Author: Lawrence J. Taylor
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816519262
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Drawing on two summers spent with the kids who live in drainage tunnels connecting Nogales, Sonora and Nogales, Arizona, the authors present a verbal and pictoral portrait of the displaced and sometimes heroic young people whose stories add a human dimension to the world of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816519262
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Drawing on two summers spent with the kids who live in drainage tunnels connecting Nogales, Sonora and Nogales, Arizona, the authors present a verbal and pictoral portrait of the displaced and sometimes heroic young people whose stories add a human dimension to the world of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Tunnels (Tunnels #1)
Author: Roderick Gordon
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545381258
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
The New York Times Bestseller! The story of an outcast boy, his eccentric dad, and the scary underground world they discover through secret TUNNELS.14-year-old Will Burrows has little in common with his strange, dysfunctional family. In fact, the only bond he shares with his eccentric father is a passion for archaeological excavation. So when Dad mysteriously vanishes, Will is compelled to dig up the truth behind his disappearance. He unearths the unbelievable: a secret subterranean society. "The Colony" has existed unchanged for a century, but it's no benign time capsule of a bygone era--because the Colony is ruled by a cultlike overclass, the Styx. Before long--before he can find his father--Will is their prisoner....
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545381258
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
The New York Times Bestseller! The story of an outcast boy, his eccentric dad, and the scary underground world they discover through secret TUNNELS.14-year-old Will Burrows has little in common with his strange, dysfunctional family. In fact, the only bond he shares with his eccentric father is a passion for archaeological excavation. So when Dad mysteriously vanishes, Will is compelled to dig up the truth behind his disappearance. He unearths the unbelievable: a secret subterranean society. "The Colony" has existed unchanged for a century, but it's no benign time capsule of a bygone era--because the Colony is ruled by a cultlike overclass, the Styx. Before long--before he can find his father--Will is their prisoner....
Tunnel Kids (englisch)
Author: Werner J. Egli
Publisher: ARAVAIPA
ISBN: 3038642207
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
If you live in a floodwater tunnel beneath the busy streets of Nogales, you don't have much of a life. Your only chance is to get to the end of the tunnel – on the other side of the border. In the mid-1990's, Santiago Molina, a Tzotzil boy from Chiapas, sets out through Mexico to the two cities of Nogales separated by the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona and Sonora. Leaving his childhood behind, the road he follows turns into a nightmare, leading him to the tunnels that harbor kids like Santiago, most of them without a future – but still with a dream.
Publisher: ARAVAIPA
ISBN: 3038642207
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
If you live in a floodwater tunnel beneath the busy streets of Nogales, you don't have much of a life. Your only chance is to get to the end of the tunnel – on the other side of the border. In the mid-1990's, Santiago Molina, a Tzotzil boy from Chiapas, sets out through Mexico to the two cities of Nogales separated by the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona and Sonora. Leaving his childhood behind, the road he follows turns into a nightmare, leading him to the tunnels that harbor kids like Santiago, most of them without a future – but still with a dream.
The Tunnel
Author: Anthony Browne
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406313291
Category : Brothers and sisters
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Scornful of his younger sister's fears, a young boy decides to explore a tunnel forcing her to go after him when he doesn't return. Suggested level: junior, primary.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406313291
Category : Brothers and sisters
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Scornful of his younger sister's fears, a young boy decides to explore a tunnel forcing her to go after him when he doesn't return. Suggested level: junior, primary.
The Channel Tunnel
Author: Sandy Donovan
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 9780822546924
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
A history of the building of the Channel Tunnel, which connects England and France, with emphasis on the difficulties of digging a tunnel where some engineers said it could not be done.
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 9780822546924
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
A history of the building of the Channel Tunnel, which connects England and France, with emphasis on the difficulties of digging a tunnel where some engineers said it could not be done.
Terror in the Underground Tunnel
Author: Dee Phillips
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
ISBN: 1684029813
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
David and Emma were thrilled to accompany their mom to London to watch the filming of her movie. They were even more excited when they found out the movie would be set in an abandoned subway station! When the brother and sister decide to explore the old, crumbling station, however, they hear the cries of a ghostly child— just as they spot a phantom subway train barreling toward them. Soon, they find themselves becoming part of a terrifying story that took place more than 70 years ago! What will happen if David and Emma step aboard the ghostly train? The answers can be found in the maze of passageways and dark tunnels deep below the streets of London. Join David and Emma as they step into the past to uncover the terror in the tunnel. Terror in the Underground Tunnel is part of Bearport’s Cold Whispers II series. This bone-chilling book is the fiction companion to Dark Labyrinths from Bearport’s best-selling nonfiction series Scary Places.
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
ISBN: 1684029813
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
David and Emma were thrilled to accompany their mom to London to watch the filming of her movie. They were even more excited when they found out the movie would be set in an abandoned subway station! When the brother and sister decide to explore the old, crumbling station, however, they hear the cries of a ghostly child— just as they spot a phantom subway train barreling toward them. Soon, they find themselves becoming part of a terrifying story that took place more than 70 years ago! What will happen if David and Emma step aboard the ghostly train? The answers can be found in the maze of passageways and dark tunnels deep below the streets of London. Join David and Emma as they step into the past to uncover the terror in the tunnel. Terror in the Underground Tunnel is part of Bearport’s Cold Whispers II series. This bone-chilling book is the fiction companion to Dark Labyrinths from Bearport’s best-selling nonfiction series Scary Places.
The Tunnels Below
Author: Nadine Wild-Palmer
Publisher: Pushkin Children's Books
ISBN: 1782692231
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A twelfth birthday takes a very unexpected turn when a girl finds herself at the centre of a plot to save a community from the brutal Corvus rule On her twelfth birthday Cecilia goes out with her parents and sister to celebrate with a visit to a museum. On their way Cecilia drops the marble that her sister gave her as a present, and running to pick it up she is taken away on an empty underground train into a dark and deep tunnel. The fun family outing becomes a much more serious mission when Cecilia finds that she and her marble have a very important role to play in freeing the inhabitants of the tunnels from the tyrannical rule of the Corvus. A truly inventive, clever and magical story about the power of friendship and the importance of self-belief by debut novelist Nadine Wild-Palmer.
Publisher: Pushkin Children's Books
ISBN: 1782692231
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A twelfth birthday takes a very unexpected turn when a girl finds herself at the centre of a plot to save a community from the brutal Corvus rule On her twelfth birthday Cecilia goes out with her parents and sister to celebrate with a visit to a museum. On their way Cecilia drops the marble that her sister gave her as a present, and running to pick it up she is taken away on an empty underground train into a dark and deep tunnel. The fun family outing becomes a much more serious mission when Cecilia finds that she and her marble have a very important role to play in freeing the inhabitants of the tunnels from the tyrannical rule of the Corvus. A truly inventive, clever and magical story about the power of friendship and the importance of self-belief by debut novelist Nadine Wild-Palmer.
The Tunnel
Author: Brian Wildsmith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780192722881
Category : Toy and movable books
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
A bilingual book to celebrate the opening of the Channel Tunnel. Two moles, one French, one English, decide to dig a hole under the English Channel to see each other. The book has a hole running through it, and a moveable wheel in the middle.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780192722881
Category : Toy and movable books
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
A bilingual book to celebrate the opening of the Channel Tunnel. Two moles, one French, one English, decide to dig a hole under the English Channel to see each other. The book has a hole running through it, and a moveable wheel in the middle.
Dig a Tunnel
Author: Ryan Ann Hunter
Publisher: Scholastic Incorporated
ISBN: 9780439176729
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Simply describes a variety of tunnels, how they are built and how they are used.
Publisher: Scholastic Incorporated
ISBN: 9780439176729
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Simply describes a variety of tunnels, how they are built and how they are used.
The Time Tunnel
Author: Galilah Ron-Feder-ʻAmit
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
We entered the cave, and here we were, in a time tunnel. Suddenly we were in another era. I'm sure we seemed like aliens, extraterrestials or UFOs to the people we met ... We are children of the present, with computers, mobiles phones and televisions ... yet for a few hours we went back dozens of years in time.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
We entered the cave, and here we were, in a time tunnel. Suddenly we were in another era. I'm sure we seemed like aliens, extraterrestials or UFOs to the people we met ... We are children of the present, with computers, mobiles phones and televisions ... yet for a few hours we went back dozens of years in time.