Download or read book A Year with Butch and Spike written by Gail Gauthier and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2000-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon entering the sixth grade, straight-A student Jasper falls under the spell of the dreaded, irrepressible Cootch cousins.

Download or read book A Year with Butch and Spike written by Gail Gauthier and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon entering the sixth grade, straight-A student Jasper falls under the spell of the dreaded, irrepressible Cootch cousins.

Download or read book Year with Butch and Spike written by Gail Gauthier and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being the ultimate teacher's pet has always worked for Jasper Gordon until he meets his sixth grade teacher, Mrs. McNulty. She seats him between the two most notorious bad kids in school in the hopes that some of his goodness will rub off on them. She never expects the opposite will happen.

Download or read book Butch Geography written by Stacey Waite and published by Tupelo Press. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her Los Angeles Review of Books essay “Who Is Who: Pronouns, Gender, and Merging Selves,” Dana Levin describes Stacey Waite’s fusion of gender identities: “Pseudonyms, heteronyms, personae, all the ventriloquizing literary arts; point of view and tonal shifts: these are tools for speakers and speaking. But the sentence too has a voice: ‘i will not be the kind of boy who can not bear the memory of her body’ ... This is [Waite’s] genius ... to take innocuous syntactical phrasing and change the players mid-sentence — to get around English’s pronominal either/or by creating a syntactical both/and...” “In this arresting collection, Stacey Waite is a pathfinder, charting with disarming honesty, humor, pathos and willful perplexity the uncertain terrain of gender in ways that shatter assumptions, unsettle easy presumptions, and yet, through the sheer grace of her craft and deft language, that open us to the beauty of our strange human enterprise.” — Kwame Dawes

Download or read book The Hero of Ticonderoga written by Gail Gauthier and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Thérèse is chosen to do the coveted oral report on Ethan Allen, she learns a great deal about the Vermont hero and also discovers what pleasure she gets from writing and presenting the report.

Download or read book Club Earth written by Gail Gauthier and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will and his brother Robby have met aliens before, but their latest dinner guest, an alien named Saliva, makes them and their parents an offer they can't refuse. Their home is to become an intergalactic resort for space travelers: Club Earth. Will and Robby are thrilled. They'll be the only people on Earth having aliens sleep over.

Download or read book College Sports Traditions written by Stan Beck and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year since 1961, football and basketball players at Middlebury College in Vermont pick up their wheelchair-bound fan, Butch, and bring him to the stadium sidelines to watch their games. At John Brown University, the volleyball team distributes candy to fans before each match. For years, fans attending a University of Maryland football game rubbed the bronze statue of their terrapin mascot, Testudo. Traditions like these are visible statements of school loyalty, and they are part of why college sports are unforgettable. College Sports Traditions: Picking Up Butch, Silent Night, and Hundreds of Others details not only the well-known traditions of major universities, but also the obscure customs of smaller schools. Approximately 1,200 traditions are captured, covering almost every college sport. It depicts such traditions as The Ohio State University’s “Script Ohio,” University of Kansas’s “Waving the Wheat,” Linfield College’s “End Zone Couches,” and even a list of traditions that involve streaking. The wide variety of traditions covered in this book are grouped thematically, including: Before the game During the game After a score After the game Mascot traditions Preseason traditions Traditions probably not university sanctioned Rivalries Yells, cheers, and chants From the crazy and eccentric to the touching and meaningful, these traditions connect fans and athletes across generations. The first of its kind, this comprehensive volume encompasses hundreds of universities and colleges throughout the U.S. Featuring 75 photos that bring many of these events to life, College Sports Traditions will be an entertaining read for every sports fan.

Download or read book Hell With the Lid Blown Off written by Donis Casey and published by Poisoned Pen Press Inc. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1916, a big twister cuts a swath of destruction through Boynton, Oklahoma. Alafair Tucker's family and neighbors are not spared the ruin and grief spread by the storm. But no one will mourn for dead Jubal Beldon, who'd made it his business to know everyone's ugly secrets. It never mattered if Jubal's insinuations were true or not since in a small town like Boynton, rumor could be as ruinous as fact. Then Mr. Lee, the undertaker, discovers that Jubal was already dead when the tornado swept his body away. Had he died in an accident or had he been murdered by someone whose secret he had threatened to expose? Dozens of people would have been happy to do the deed, some of them members of Jubal's own family. As Sheriff Scott Tucker and his deputy Trenton Calder look into Jubal's demise, it begins to look like the prime suspect may be someone very dear to the widow Beckie MacKenzie, mentor of Alafair's daughter Ruth. Ruth fears that the secrets exposed by the investigation are going to cause more damage to Beckie's life than the tornado. Alafair, coping with injuries to her own, still has time for suspicions about how Jubal Beldon came to die. What if the truth of it hits very close to home?

Download or read book A Man in a Million written by Jessica Bird and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As far as bad boy Spike Moriarty was concerned, Madeline Maguire defined female perfection. When they'd met, she'd walked up as if she wasn't the most gorgeous thing on the planet and asked to see his tattoos. He—a tough guy who'd make grown men run—had just about passed out. But their connection was definitely one-way…it had to be. Because he could never be the man in a million she was looking for, not with the things he'd done and seen. So for as long as she'd let him, he'd give her whatever she wanted. He'd worry about her walking away when it happened.

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Download or read book A Girl A Boy and Three Robbers written by Gail Gauthier and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-07-03 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect humor for 2nd and 3rd graders. When Brandon has to go to Hannah’s house after school, she always gets to be the leader while he has to play her sidekick or some villain she’s out to destroy. Then the horrible Sunderland kids try to steal Hannah’s monster cat, Buttercup, and suddenly Brandon and Hannah have an exciting real-life mission on their hands. All the games of vampire hunter and enemy agent in the world couldn’t have prepared them for the task of saving Buttercup from the Sunderlands’ grubby clutches.

Download or read book The Death of Jack and Jill written by Kevin Dowdy and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-09-23 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, remind me on what a true friend should be, for all what Jack and Kevin went through while they were growing up. And down to they last year in college, is so funny when it involve two best and one girl, here is where friendship it put the test. It shows you what true love is and one thing you have to be carefull of your friend around your girl."

Download or read book Happy Kid written by Gail Gauthier and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his mother bribes him into reading a self-help book on how to form satisfying relationships and enjoy a happy life, cynical eighth-grader Kyle finds there may be more to the book than he realized.

Download or read book Clear Skies Deep Water written by Beth Peyton and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir about loss, restoration, and finding home on a lake in western New York. After a year of devastating personal and financial loss, Beth Peyton and her husband, Jeff, moved to the hamlet of Maple Springs, New York, on Chautauqua Lake to pick up the pieces of their lives, certain to be in a place that they loved and certain of nothing else. As they worked to restore a neglected old house, the community, the beauty of the lake, and the old-fashioned sensibility of the place comforted them. While Peyton’s story traces the couple’s progress toward recovery, it also includes tales of the silly, colorful, and warm characters who became their neighbors and friends. Whether it’s the mystery of Emil and Betty’s lost blue plate, dead bodies in the water, or memories of karaoke at the Village Casino, Clear Skies, Deep Water is a testament to the healing power of rituals, friendships, the beauty of the natural world, and the possibility of grace. Filled with nostalgia about an America that has slipped, or is slipping away, it will resonate with anyone who has searched for meaning and home. “Clear Skies, Deep Water is a gentle, quietly moving memoir about the power of nature and community to heal and inspire. This is a writer’s elegant and spirited love letter—to her husband, to a lake, and to a wonderfully quirky collection of characters; it shows how you can find a place you truly belong, no matter where you are in life or what you’ve been through. And if you don’t already dip your buttered toast in your coffee, after reading this book, you’ll be tempted to start.” — Will Schwalbe, author of The End of Your Life Book Club “In prose as luminous and as poignant as moonlight on lake water, Beth Peyton has written a love song to life, marriage, and the healing power of place. Honest, tender, at times hilarious, this is a memoir to be read and savored again and again.” — Jane Candia Coleman, author of Mountain Time: A Western Memoir “A perceptive and deeply sensitive human story. Beth Peyton’s memoir is a paean to a unique place that, during a time of great sorrow and loss, provided the author and her husband with a sense of security, a measure of solace, and the promise of renewed possibilities.” — Michael Steinberg, author of Still Pitching: A Memoir

Download or read book Stanford Wong Flunks Big Time The Millicent Min Trilogy Book 2 written by Lisa Yee and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stanford Wong is in big trouble--or as he would spell it, "trubble"--in this laugh-out-loud companion to the award-winning Millicent Min, Girl Genius. Stanford Wong is having a bad summer. If he flunks his summer-school English class, he won't pass sixth grade. If that happens, he won't start on the A-team. If that happens, his friends will abandon him and Emily Ebers won't like him anymore. And if THAT happens, his life will be over. Then his parents are fighting, his grandmother Yin-Yin hates her new nursing home, he's being "tutored" by the world's biggest nerdball, Millicent Min--and he's not sure his ballpoint "Emily" tattoo is ever going to wash off.But Stanford Wong has a few things going for him. He has Yin-Yin's fantastic dim sum. He has his magic jade pendant, source of all his basketball skill. He has this amazing new book called The Outsiders he's just discovered. He may even have Millicent. And Stanford realizes that that might just be enough to save his summer--if he can pull it all together in time.

Download or read book Books Kids Will Sit Still For 3 A Read Aloud Guide written by Judy Freeman and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2006-04-30 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated compilation which offers criteria for selecting good read-alouds, indexing over 1,700 books for children by author/illustrator, title, and a wide range of subjects; it includes strategies for book selection, recommendations for struggling readers, and annotations with related titles.

Download or read book The Youth s Companion written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes songs for solo voice with piano accompaniment.