Author : Linda Sue Park
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 50,79 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0547251270
When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, 11-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan. By a Newbery Medal-winning author.
Author : Susan Hughes
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 24,35 MB
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1525307983
A young boy finds a way to help his sister go to school. Victor and his twin sister, Linesi, are close. Only, now that they are eight years old, she is no longer able to go to school with him. Linesi, like the other older girls in their community, must walk to the river to get water five times a day to help their mother farm. But Victor is learning about equality in school. He’s beginning to realize how boys and girls are not treated equally. And that’s not fair to his sister. So Victor comes up with a plan to help. Can one boy make a difference in an unequal world? It turns out, he can!
Author : Allen Wier
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 25,46 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The author describes his own research in the field, assesses recent work by others, and provides coverage of the principles and theory of VCSELs as well as their design and operation. Chapters cover the theory of dielectric reflectors and VCSEL cavities; gain calculations for strained InGaAs and GaAs quantum wells; materials growth and device fabrication; resistance considerations for Bragg reflectors; two case studies and analysis of experimental data; and several related issues. Little prior knowledge of laser devices is necessary, though a background in solid-state physics is required. For students of optoelectronics and laser physics and researchers concerned with the development of VCSELs. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Vanita Oelschlager
Publisher : Vanita Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,54 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Natural disasters
ISBN : 9780983290452
A Haitian boy named Moses recounts surviving the 2004 flood that buried much of Gonaives, Haiti, where he was born, and describes his life at St. Helene Children's Village near Port-au-Prince, which has become a source of life to many more children in the wake of the 2010 earthquake that destroyed Port-au-Prince and a following hurricane.
Author : Adam Moore
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 24,11 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780933849242
Adam Moore describes how he suffered a serious brain injury and recovered with medical help and family support.
Author : Daron D. Fraley
Publisher : Daron Fraley
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 37,46 MB
Release : 2010-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1452394636
PETITIONS: A short story about a homeless man (contemporary fiction). ANGEL'S SONG: A companion short story to the novel 'The Thorn', book one of 'The Chronicles of Gan' (speculative fiction). WATER: Based on the account found in the Gospel of John, chapter 5, verses 1-16, and the painting by Carl Bloch, 'Healing at the Pool of Bethesda' (historical fiction).
Author : Robert J. Conley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 21,72 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780806123530
These stories, based on Cherokee history, folklore, and experience, reflect the depth of historical experience, as well as the range of contemporary life and values of this enduring Native American people
Author : Brian Griffin
Publisher : Sarabande Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 33,94 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781889330068
Selected by Barry Hannah as the 1996 winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction.
Author : Patrick Mcgrath
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,52 MB
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1501125389
Dark, unnerving, and wickedly funny, Patrick McGrath’s acclaimed short stories deal in the bizarre, the erotic, and the unexpected. A failed writer meets an ageing gin-queen who claims he was once visited by an angel; a little girl finds a delirious, dying explorer from the Congo at the bottom of her back garden; a nightclub is terrorized by a strange libidinous hand; and a young Victorian lady sails to India to find her fiancé Cecil horribly transformed...
Author : Henry Kingsley
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 25,25 MB
Release : 1899
Category :
ISBN :
