Download or read book Bandit s Moon written by Sid Fleischman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-04-29 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annyrose Smith is a true child of calamity, but she is determined to overcome it. So what if she's an orphan? So what if she's stuck with the vilest landlady in California, while her brother's off trying to strike gold? So what if Joaquín Murieta and his band of notorious outlaws swoop in and take her away? The fearsome bandit thinks Annyrose can help him in his quest for justice, and she thinks he can help her search for her long-lost brother. She's not about to let anything stop her, not the mistaken identities, the daring robberies, the wild chases, or her unlikely friendship with the Mexican Robin Hood.

Download or read book Bandit s Moon written by Sid Fleischman and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2000-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Annyrose relates her adventures with Joaquin Murieta and his band of outlaws in the California gold-mining region during the mid-1800s.

Download or read book The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water written by Zen Cho and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2021 Locus Award Finalist! A Lambda Literary Award Finalist A Book Riot Must-Read Fantasy of 2020 Amazon's Best of 2020 So Far “Fantastic, defiant, utterly brilliant.” —Ken Liu Zen Cho returns with The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water, a found family wuxia fantasy that combines the vibrancy of old school martial arts movies with characters drawn from the margins of history. A bandit walks into a coffeehouse, and it all goes downhill from there. Guet Imm, a young votary of the Order of the Pure Moon, joins up with an eclectic group of thieves (whether they like it or not) in order to protect a sacred object, and finds herself in a far more complicated situation than she could have ever imagined. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Bandits written by Johanna Wright and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raccoons wreak havoc on a town during the night, rummaging through garbage cans, stealing food, and then running off into the hills to enjoy their loot.

Download or read book Comanche Moon written by Larry McMurtry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-10-17 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the bitter frontier strife between Texans and the Comanche, Texas Rangers Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call battle Buffalo Hump, the enigmatic war chief, and Gus' long-time nemesis, Blue Duck.

Download or read book My Sober Little Moon written by Jon The Poetry Bandit and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04-18 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Sober Little Moon is a raw and edgy poetry book that can guide anyone to healing. Jon brings his unique story of suffering and restoration in a style everyone can relate to. The poems are heart wrenching and bring the reader on a colorful journey of self discovery and restoration. We had difficulties speaking emotions into verbal entities, so you asked me for a letter, but I refused, for everything you had to know was written in the aging lines of my face.

Download or read book How High the Moon written by Karyn Parsons and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Kill a Mockingbird meets One Crazy Summer in this powerful, bittersweet debut about one girl's journey to reconnect with her mother and learn the truth about her father in the tumultuous times of the Jim Crow South. "Timely, captivating, and lovely. So glad this book is in the world." --Jacqueline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming In the small town of Alcolu, South Carolina, in 1944, 12-year-old Ella spends her days fishing and running around with her best friend Henry and cousin Myrna. But life is not always so sunny for Ella, who gets bullied for her light skin tone and whose mother is away pursuing a jazz singer dream in Boston. So Ella is ecstatic when her mother invites her to visit for Christmas. Little does she expect the truths she will discover about her mother, the father she never knew and her family's most unlikely history. And after a life-changing month, she returns South and is shocked by the news that her schoolmate George has been arrested for the murder of two local white girls. Bittersweet and eye-opening, How High the Moon is a timeless novel about a girl finding herself in a world all but determined to hold her down.

Download or read book The Mexican Bandit written by Roy Patterson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The infamous Mexican bandit Zococa was hired to kill a young rancher. But he wouldn't kill anyone in cold blood. Intrigued by the assignment he goes to the intended victim's smallholding only to hear a beautiful woman in obvious distress. Attracted like a moth to the flame, Zococa investigates, and that was when the trouble really started...

Download or read book Mortal Engines Fever Crumb written by Philip Reeve and published by Scholastic Australia. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FEVER CRUMB is a stunning, stand-alone prequel to Philip Reeve's brilliant science fantasy quartet. It is set many generations before the events of Mortal Engines, in whose dazzling world huge, predatory cities chase and devour each other. Now, London is a riot-torn, ruinous town, clinging to a devastated landscape and hiding an explosive secret. Is Fever, adopted daughter of Dr Crumb, the strange key that will unlock its dangerous mysteries?

Download or read book Time Bandit written by Andy Hillstrand and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every Alaskan king crab season, brothers Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand risk their lives and seek their fortunes upon the treacherous waters of the Bering Sea. Sons of a hard-bitten, highly successful fisherman, and born with brine in their blood, the Hillstrand boys couldn’t imagine a life without a swaying deck underfoot and a harvest of mighty king crabs waiting to be pulled from the ocean floor. In pursuit of their daily catch, the brothers brave ice floes and heaving waves sixty feet high, the perils of thousand-pound steel traps thrown about by the punishing wind, and the constant menace of the open, hungry water—epitomized in the chorus of a haunting sailors’ sing-along: “Many brave hearts are asleep in the deep, so beware, beware.” By turns raucous and reflective, exhilarating and anguished, enthralling, suspenseful, and wise, Time Bandit chronicles a larger-than-life love affair as old as civilization itself—a love affair between striving, willful man and inscrutable, enduring nature.

Download or read book Nicholas St North and the Battle of the Nightmare King written by Laura Geringer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forget naughty or nice; this is a battle of good and evil. Luminary Joyce and co-author Geringer deliver the first book in a new series. Before Santa was Santa, he was Nicholas St. North--a daredevil swordsman whose prowess with double scimitars was legendary. Illustrations.

Download or read book Pale Moon Rider written by Marsha Canham and published by Dell Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998-12-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful Rene+a7e d'Anton forms a risky, passionate alliance with Captain Starlight, a notorious highwayman who represents her only hope in a dangerous game of chance with a fortune in heirloom rubies at stake. Original.

Download or read book Monkey Bandit Manners on a Playdate written by Maria Ellis and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'May I', 'Sorry', 'Thank you', 'Please' Help us get along with ease!" How do you help your child discover the value of being polite, of having good manners with other people? Practical examples work best. This children's book on manners on a playdate will teach your child that manners help us get along with each other. Monkey Bandit goes on a surprise playdate with Lilly, a new friend. He is very excited about the toys and activities he sees, especially the painting. But when he takes the brush from Lilly's hand, snatches her cookie and does not ask nicely, Lilly becomes very upset. Monkey Bandit learns first-hand the importance of good manners!

Download or read book A Bandit s Tale The Muddled Misadventures of a Pickpocket written by Deborah Hopkinson and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an award-winning author of historical fiction comes a story of survival, crime, adventure, and horses in the streets of 19th century New York City. Eleven-year-old Rocco is an Italian immigrant who finds himself alone in New York City after he's sold to a padrone by his poverty-stricken parents. While working as a street musician, he meets the boys of the infamous Bandits' Roost, who teach him the art of pickpocketing. Rocco embraces his new life of crime—he's good at it, and it's more lucrative than banging a triangle on the street corner. But when he meets Meddlin' Mary, a strong-hearted Irish girl who's determined to help the horses of New York City, things begin to change. Rocco begins to reexamine his life—and take his future into his own hands.

Download or read book The Giant Rat of Sumatra written by Sid Fleischman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A swashbuckling tale of thievery and revenge The Giant Rat of Sumatra is the most notorious pirate ship in the Pacific. Its ferocious figurehead, a rat with crooked teeth and gouged-out eyes, strikes fear in the heart of every seafaring crew. Now the ship has dropped anchor in San Diego. Twelve-year-old cabin boy Shipwreck -- so named after he was rescued from the sea by the pirates -- is anxious to begin his long journey home to Boston. Instead, he finds himself swept up in a treacherous plot. It seems his adventure is only just beginning. . . .

Download or read book Moon Palace written by Paul Auster and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It was the summer that men first walked on the moon. I was very young back then, but did not believe there would ever be a future. I wanted to live dangerously, to push myself as far as I could go, and then see what happened when I got there.'So begins the mesmerising narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg - orphan, child of the 1960s, a quester by nature. Moon Palace is his story - a novel that spans three generations, from the early years of this century to the first lunar landings, and moves from the canyons of Manhattan to the cruelly beautiful landscape of the American West. Filled with suspense, unlikely coincidences, wrenching tragedies and marvellous flights of lyricism and erudition, the novel carries the reader effortlessly along with Marco's search - for love, for his unknown father, and for the key to the elusive riddle of his origins and his fate. 'Clever: very. Surprising: always - Auster is a master.' The Times

Download or read book Danger by Moonlight written by Jamila Gavin and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stranger arrives with a message for 12-year-old Filippo: his father, whom he has never met, is being held captive by the bandit Mir Baba and only the most valuable jewel, The Ocean of the Moon, is worth enough to raise the ransom.