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Willie the Different Worm & The Turtle

Author : Gardiner M. Weir

Publisher : PublishAmerica

Page : 25 pages

File Size : 48,47 MB

Release : 2011-11-21

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1462663850

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"In this children's story the author, Gardiner M. Weir, applies human feelings to one of earth's least respected creatures. Willie the Worm is a happy fellow living in the soil and making sure he is not exposed to hungry birds or fishermen looking for bait. However, there is a lovely girl worm living next door, as it were, and Willie is smitten with love; but he is repulsed as being simply a yellow fellow with no special characteristics such as she likes to admire. Willie is saddened and crawls around somewhat depressed and not taking care of the dangers outside his burrow; and that is when a hungry thrush swoops down and grabs him. What will happen to Willie? The story is beautifully illustrated by Erin O'Connor."



Box Turtle at Long Pond

Author : William T. George

Publisher : Harper Collins

Page : 32 pages

File Size : 33,26 MB

Release : 1989-09-28

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 0688081843

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"A day in the life of a box turtle is rendered carefully in words and lifelike illustrations with a text that respects its subject....Superior."--School Library Journal. "Will delight the young viewer. An excellent introduction to pond ecology, and a strikingly beautiful book."--Kirkus Reviews. It is dawn at Long Pond. Box Turtle's red eyes look out from his shelter within a crumbling tree, and his day begins ... In Beaver at Long Pond, the Georges introduced the pond and its resident. In this lyrical, magnificently painted companion book, they insure its place as a favorite spot on every child's itinerary.



Dancing Girl and the Turtle

Author : Karen Kao

Publisher : Lynn Michell

Page : 266 pages

File Size : 23,92 MB

Release : 2017-04-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0993599710

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A rape. A war. A society where women are bought and sold but no one can speak of shame. Shanghai 1937. Violence throbs at the heart of The Dancing Girl and the Turtle.Song Anyi is on the road to Shanghai and freedom when she is raped and left for dead. The silence and shamethat mark her courageous survival drive her to escalating self-harm and prostitution. From opium dens to high- class brothels, Anyi dances on the edge of destruction while China prepares for war with Japan. Hers is the voice of every woman who fights for independence against overwhelming odds.The Dancing Girl and the Turtle is one of four interlocking novels set in Shanghai from 1929 to 1954. Through the eyes of the dancer, Song Anyi, and her brother Kang, the Shanghai Quartet spans a tumultuous time in Chinese history: war with the Japanese, the influx of stateless Jews into Shanghai, civil war and revolution. How does the love of a sister destroy her brother and all those around him?



The Troop

Author : Nick Cutter

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 464 pages

File Size : 41,18 MB

Release : 2014-02-25

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1476717753

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WINNER OF THE JAMES HERBERT AWARD FOR HORROR WRITING “The Troop scared the hell out of me, and I couldn’t put it down. This is old-school horror at its best.” —Stephen King Once every year, Scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a weekend camping trip—a tradition as comforting and reliable as a good ghost story around a roaring bonfire. But when an unexpected intruder stumbles upon their campsite—shockingly thin, disturbingly pale, and voraciously hungry—Tim and the boys are exposed to something far more frightening than any tale of terror. The human carrier of a bioengineered nightmare. A horror that spreads faster than fear. A harrowing struggle for survival with no escape from the elements, the infected…or one another. Part Lord of the Flies, part 28 Days Later—and all-consuming—this tightly written, edge-of-your-seat thriller takes you deep into the heart of darkness, where fear feeds on sanity…and terror hungers for more.



My Own Worst Enemy

Author : Janet Davis

Publisher : Baker Books

Page : 257 pages

File Size : 27,96 MB

Release : 2012-03-15

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1441270124

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Helps Women Overcome the Limitations They Place on Themselves Women often find that the biggest obstacle to being all they were created to be is themselves. Though they long to succeed, they can't silence the voice inside whispering, "Just who do you think you are?" Through stories of modern and biblical women, My Own Worst Enemy explores both the calling of women to shine and the complex dynamic of self-sabotage that often keeps them from daring to obey. Janet Davis shows women how to break the cycle of shame and self-doubt to achieve their full potential. Perfect for individuals or small groups, My Own Worst Enemy will encourage any woman who wants to stop holding herself back and begin living out her purpose in the kingdom.



Frankenstink!

Author : Ron Lightburn

Publisher : Tundra Books

Page : 39 pages

File Size : 25,95 MB

Release : 2015-03-10

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1770496963

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With vibrant and zany art, this is a book about "garbage" that transforms and mutates into a grotesque, greedy monster devouring everything in its path. Frankenstink! is sure to be a hit with kids who do not like to clean up. Is the monster who feeds on "a mountainous salad of plastic and goo, fast-food leftovers and Styrofoam stew," real, a dream, or a warning of what is to come if we don't compost and recycle? Complemented by playful illustrations in a comic-book style.



Alice in Wonderland

Author : Lewis Carroll

Publisher : Seven Books

Page : 102 pages

File Size : 49,43 MB

Release : 2024-09-25

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 3988655856

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford. It details the story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre. The artist John Tenniel provided 42 wood-engraved illustrations for the book.It received positive reviews upon release and is now one of the best-known works of Victorian literature; its narrative, structure, characters and imagery have had a widespread influence on popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre. It is credited as helping end an era of didacticism in children's literature, inaugurating an era in which writing for children aimed to "delight or entertain". The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. The titular character Alice shares her name with Alice Liddell, a girl Carroll knewscholars disagree about the extent to which the character was based upon her.



Hate That Cat

Author : Sharon Creech

Publisher : HarperCollins

Page : 181 pages

File Size : 41,6 MB

Release : 2014-12-23

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 0061828939

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Return to Miss Stretchberry's class with Jack, the reluctant poet, who over the course of a year encounters new and challenging things like metaphors, alliterations, onomatopoeia, and one mean fat black cat! The Newbery Medal-winning author of Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech, introduced Jack in Love That Dog, a New York Times bestseller. Both Love That Dog and Hate That Cat are approachable, funny, warm-hearted introductions to poetry told from the point of view of a very real kid wrestling with school assignments. These books are fast reads that will be welcomed by middle graders as they too wonder how poetry and schoolwork connect with their interests and how to uncover their true voices. In Hate That Cat, Jack is only trying to save that fat black cat stuck in the tree by his bus stop—but the cat scratches him instead! At school Miss Stretchberry begins teaching new poems, everything from William Carlos Williams to Valerie Worth to T.S. Eliot. As the year progresses, Jack gradually learns to love that cat and finds new ways to express himself.



Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories

Author : Dr. Seuss

Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers

Page : 128 pages

File Size : 41,42 MB

Release : 2008-09-23

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 0375838503

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Includes three humorous stories in verse, Yertle the Turtle, Gertrude McFuzz, and The Big Brag, followed by commentary and end notes, reproductions of illustrations from other Dr. Seuss books, and two poems, "The Ruckus" and "The Kindly Snather."



The People in the Trees

Author : Hanya Yanagihara

Publisher : Anchor

Page : 407 pages

File Size : 38,58 MB

Release : 2013-08-13

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 038553678X

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A thrilling anthropological adventure story with a profound and tragic vision of what happens when cultures collide—from the bestselling author of National Book Award–nominated modern classic, A Little Life “Provokes discussions about science, morality and our obsession with youth.” —Chicago Tribune It is 1950 when Norton Perina, a young doctor, embarks on an expedition to a remote Micronesian island in search of a rumored lost tribe. There he encounters a strange group of forest dwellers who appear to have attained a form of immortality that preserves the body but not the mind. Perina uncovers their secret and returns with it to America, where he soon finds great success. But his discovery has come at a terrible cost, not only for the islanders, but for Perina himself. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.