Author : Lawrence J. Taylor
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 28,20 MB
Release : 2001-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816519262
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.
Author : Roderick Gordon
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 48,65 MB
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0545381258
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....
Author : Dee Phillips
Publisher : Bearport Publishing
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 32,40 MB
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1684029813
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.
Author : Anthony Browne
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 13,8 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Brothers and sisters
ISBN : 9781406313291
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.
Author : Werner J. Egli
Publisher : ARAVAIPA
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 31,40 MB
Release : 2017-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3038642207
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.
Author : Sandy Donovan
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 24,67 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780822546924
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.
Author : Robert A. Heinlein
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 19,5 MB
Release : 2005-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1416505512
High school students enter a time gate to an unknown planet for a survival test, but something goes wrong and they have to learn to survive by their own resourcefulness.
Author : Brian Wildsmith
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 42,47 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Toy and movable books
ISBN : 9780192722881
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.
Author : Zack Norris
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 48,74 MB
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1402798865
Paris: city of light, catacombs, pastries…and art thieves? When Cody and Otis Chandler, their father, and their cousin Rae journey to France, they discover that theres a crime wave going on: hundreds of paintings have been stolen and replaced by forgeries. When the thief snatches their dads painting, the twins cant resist getting involved. Will they find out the truth before its too late? The ending involves a chase scene through the Paris catacombs--plenty of dead ends, skulls, danger, and…rats!
Author : Andrew Clements
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 44,96 MB
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0689850514
Ordinarily, no one would have imagined that Jack Rankin would vandalize a desk. But this was not an ordinary school year for Jack.... When Jack Rankin learns that he is going to spend the fifth grade in the old high school -- the building where his father works as a janitor -- he dreads the start of school. Jack manages to get through the first month without the kids catching on. Then comes the disastrous day when one of his classmates loses his lunch all over the floor. John the janitor is called in to clean up, and he does the unthinkable -- he turns to Jack with a big smile and says, "Hi, son." Jack performs an act of revenge and gets himself into a sticky situation. His punishment is to assist the janitor after school for three weeks. The work is tedious, not to mention humiliating. But there is one perk, janitors have access to keys, keys to secret places....
