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Dragons at the Schoolhouse Door

Author : Clyde Woolman

Publisher : FriesenPress

Page : 299 pages

File Size : 39,31 MB

Release : 2020-09-22

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1525564773

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Dealing with incompetent bureaucrats, a power-hungry parent, and a scheming superintendent aren’t the only hurdles facing second-year principal Steve Hepting. Fortunately, he has steadfast allies, including the academically-challenged school custodian, a feisty eco-activist teacher, and a counselor urging calm amidst the swirling brouhaha. A mysterious blueprint for a “Brave New World” of public education not only threatens Hepting’s school but the education system itself. The principal enlists the aid of a scandal-sniffing journalist as he and his colleagues grapple to uncover the truth. The comedic tale unfolds as the presence of an “Animal Hotel” on the deserted second floor unexpectedly complicates the implementation of the master plan and Hepting’s role in the entire affair.



High School Edubabble

Author : Clyde Woolman

Publisher : FriesenPress

Page : 183 pages

File Size : 24,91 MB

Release : 2020-09-01

Category : Education

ISBN : 1525564749

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Relentless jargon, a distinctive workplace, and teen foibles make for a goldmine of satire in over 350 entries. The unending tsunami of education sloganeering highlights this humor-filled, quick-read glossary. Why would edubabblers favor listless descriptors when silver-tongued gibberish and fluffy acronyms can add mystique to any everyday term? There is no career like education and no workplace like a high school. The antics of zany teens, quirky teachers, preening principals, and hovering parents provide buckets of satirical fodder. Entries such as Crisis Junkies, Grad Hug, Principal’s Message, and Teacher Behavior at Meetings are but a few of the dozens of entries emphasizing high school as a unique workplace. Unlike previous generations, today’s educators face tech-addled youth who are drowning in a churning sea of information, much of it of dubious quality. A range of tech-oriented subjects is lampooned, including, Drones, Monks of the Digital Age, and Screen Addicts. High schools do not operate in a vacuum. It is difficult for teachers to set standards of truth-telling and respectful discourse in their students when such behavior appears to be absent from many of today’s leaders. This challenge is noted in such entries, among others, as, Anti-Educators, Journalism, and Weapons of Mass Distortion.



Growing Up Canadian, Volume 2

Author : Clyde Woolman

Publisher : FriesenPress

Page : 193 pages

File Size : 41,83 MB

Release : 2024-07-12

Category : History

ISBN : 1038313759

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Read it for nostalgia, for memories of pop culture, for history, or for pure entertainment. Growing Up Canadian, Volume 2 will shed a spotlight on the astonishing degree to which Canada changed in a mere twenty years from 1960 to 1980. Rolling out in a series of fast-paced entries are TV shows and personalities, rock and pop music, fads and fashion, the stars of stage and screen, the high and low lights of sports, and much more. The reader will be guided along a compelling journey through the Canadiana of the recent past. The stereotypes about Canada and Canadians being dull, and history being boring, are decisively laid to rest through wit and humour.



Growing Up Canadian

Author : Clyde Woolman

Publisher : FriesenPress

Page : 184 pages

File Size : 25,75 MB

Release : 2023-08-14

Category : History

ISBN : 1039179509

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The generation that came of age from 1960 to 1980 had front-row seats to the events and personalities that laid the foundation for the Canada we know today. As the generation matured, so too did the country. Chapters range from TV to sports, music to business, and stage to screen. A section includes the lengths individuals went to be “cool.” Another features Canada’s attempts to deal with the big brash neighbour-nation to the south. Equal parts history, pop culture, and trivia, the events and personalities that shaped Canada for years to come are presented with wry humour. Whether you choose this book for entertainment, for nostalgia, for easy-to-read history, or for quirky trivia, you will be reminded of how much change has occurred in Canada over a lifetime.



Turn Loose the Dragons

Author : George C. Chesbro

Publisher : Apache Beach Publications

Page : 356 pages

File Size : 32,2 MB

Release : 1999-11

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9781930253025

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"There is nothing in today's mystery library that quite compares to George C.Chesbro's work".--"Mostly Murder".



Dragon Frontier

Author : Dan Abnett

Publisher : Penguin UK

Page : 259 pages

File Size : 25,68 MB

Release : 2013-01-03

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 0141342978

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Dragon Frontier is a Wild West fantasy adventure series for 9+ readers, ideal for fans of How To Train Your Dragon and Christopher Paolini's Eragon. Cowboys, Indians and dragons come together in this rip-roaring adventure where frontier land is even wilder than history suggests . . . The Wild West: where great possibility also brings grave danger Jake Polson and his family are starting a new life on the American Frontier. Twelve-year-old Jake is proud to drive the lead wagon; he's in charge of the oxen and minding his Ma and little sister. But tragedy strikes and Jake must venture deep into the West in search of a legendary creature to save his family. What he discovers in that vast landscape is wilder than he ever imagined. Out on the frontier, an evil force is waiting . . . 'A rousing, well-executed piece of fiery pulp adventure ****' SFX 'A cracking fantasy-tinged Wild West yarn . . . hot stuff' Financial Times About the author: Dan Abnett is a multiple New York Times best-selling novelist. He is the fan-favourite author of over thirty Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 novels, and has sold nearly three million copies in over a dozen languages. He has also written novels for franchises such as Torchwood, Primeval and Doctor Who. When he's not being a novelist, he writes screenplays and video games, and he has written some of the most famous superhero comics in the world, including Iron Man, Thor and The Guardians of the Galaxy at Marvel, and Superman, Batman, The Legion of Superheroes, and Wonder Woman at DC Comics. Dragon Frontier is his first book for younger readers



The Dragon Lord

Author : Cynthia A Sears

Publisher : FriesenPress

Page : 373 pages

File Size : 48,81 MB

Release : 2013-12

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1460230825

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Disaster Strikes Several months have passed since Fairy Princess Elizabeth rejoined the kingdoms of Elnara and Kellmorgen. With endless details to be worked out between the two kingdoms, life at Castle North is busy indeed. When news arrives of the birth of Lady Margaret's baby, everyone rejoices at the opportunity to attend the Naming Ceremony and Celebration at Lakeland Castle. But at the last planning meeting before they are to depart, Prince Aden unexpectedly proposes marriages of alliance between the two kingdoms, he to Edric's sister, Lady Shaylee, and Princess Clara to Elizabeth's brother, Lord Lark. Putting duty first, Shaylee and Lark are now resigned to giving up their love for the good of the kingdoms, but Elizabeth and Edric refuse to abandon hope. As they struggle to find a way to avoid the marriages without offending the Kellmorgs, disaster strikes Lakeland Castle, prompting the appearance of a most unexpected visitor....



Life and Light for Woman

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Page : 650 pages

File Size : 34,71 MB

Release : 1911

Category : Congregational churches

ISBN :

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Dreams of a Dragon Girl

Author : Bonnie Jacoby

Publisher : CosmicDragon Press

Page : 488 pages

File Size : 21,82 MB

Release : 2023-03-28

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN : 1738797414

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A dragon’s vision. A girl’s curse. A quest to save dragons from extinction. Dragons disappeared long ago. Now they’ve returned, and magic pours back into a world that has buried its existence. Becca is ridiculed for believing dragons are more than the plague-bringers of history. When a fever sweeps through her village, igniting fears that the dragon plague has returned, her belief becomes dangerous. To make matters worse, Becca can suddenly sense emotions. It’s a curse, exposing secrets she’d rather not know and making life almost unbearable. The youngest dragon, Gregor, watched his family die because he didn’t know his power could’ve saved them. Defying the rules, he risks exposure to search for a human girl from his vision, certain she’s the key to dragon survival. But when Gregor finds Becca, violence erupts. Now the fate of the world rests on these unlikely heroes finding the courage to save dragons without losing everyone they love.



The Swamp Dragon

Author : Nick Korolev

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 253 pages

File Size : 34,21 MB

Release : 2010-05-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 161160057X

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From the misty mountains and shadowy hollows of West Virginia a new legend arises. It's 1863 in Civil War-torn southern Hardy County. Beloved school teacher George Voorhees becomes the unlikely hero shortly after he joins the local Union Militia know as the Swamp Dragons, at his brother's insistence. When he's mortally wounded in an ambush by Luther Boggs, a vicious leader of a gang of Confederate bushwackers, Abigail, his friend, local midwife and witch turns him into a real swamp dragon in order to save his life. Overnight his simple life is shattered, and he's thrust into a perilous new world of destiny, magic and power. With only Abigail's advice for guidance and the continued support of Sarah, the girl he loves, George must navigate the dangerous terrain of a suddenly unfamiliar world in a quest to end the reign of terror by a man whose evil knows no bounds.