Download or read book Big Cheeks Visits the Squirrely School written by Laura Planck and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-08 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big Cheeks from Squirrely Beach is still on his desert adventure and is invited by a teacher named Ms. Hootie, to come visit the Squirrely School. Big Cheeks will be sharing the joy he gets from helping others in need. While visiting, his friend Zippy, comes across a poor little doggie in bad shape. Everyone wants to love and take care of her. Then a big emergency happens and the joy of helping others in need comes to life for everyone. This story was inspired by and is dedicated to Mrs. Kay Laake’s third-grade class of 2022, at Del Rio Elementary School, in Chino Valley, AZ. It was our end of school-year project.

Download or read book Corgi Day at Squirrely Beach written by Laura Planck and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2019-08-23 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s another beautiful day at Squirrely Beach. This is a popular dog beach in Southern California. Big Cheeks and all his squirrelly friends live and play here along the shore. Lots of Corgi dogs are coming for fun and games in the sun, because it is Corgi Beach Day. Big Cheeks and his friends can’t wait for them to arrive. Some uninvited guest crawl up to cause trouble. It is up to him and his buddies to save the day.

Download or read book Big Cheeks Desert Adventure written by Laura Planck and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the joy of helping those in need. Big Cheeks from Squirrely Beach is invited by his cousin Zippy, the rock squirrel to come have some fun in the desert. They start their adventure with a dirt bike ride and find a baby javelina lost from her family. They come to her rescue. It won’t be an easy job reuniting them because there are lots of areas to explore, with plenty of critters along the way. They have to watch out for the sneaky snakes too.

Download or read book Big Cheeks at Squirrely Beach written by Laura Planck and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was created to show the joy in helping others in need. Big Cheeks at Squirrely Beach takes place at a popular dog beach in California. This is where lots of cute, energetic ground squirrels live along the shore. When you look real close, youll see their little swimsuits. If you listen very quietly, youll hear them laugh and play. Big Cheeks lives here with all his friends. They help to keep the beach safe so everyone can have fun in the sun all day long. A Squirrely Beach event gets exciting when Big Cheeks and his friends come to the rescue of an unusual competitor.

Download or read book Not So Fast written by Mark Kamine and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GENTRIFICATION ON THE BLOCK, A SHOWMAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE, ETHICS GONE. THIS IS THE 1980S. Mark starts out in suburban New Jersey, where housing developments and shopping malls provide cover for medical scams, divorces and abortions. He moves on to film-biz-saturated Los Angeles, harboring Afghan freedom fighters and damaged survivors of Hollywood’s entertainment-making machine. Back east in rapidly gentrifying New York City, he falls in with art snobs, literary luminaries and real estate operators, all making the most of trickle-down economics. Law school and extreme anxiety are on the horizon, followed by a foray into France and encounters with Eastern religion, an early wave of terrorism and the burgeoning right wing movement that is its corollary. Everyone is looking for anything but what they already have. Mark is no exception.

Download or read book Sisters A Graphic Novel written by Raina Telgemeier and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raina Telgemeier’s #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning companion to Smile! Raina can't wait to be a big sister. But once Amara is born, things aren't quite how she expected them to be. Amara is cute, but she's also a cranky, grouchy baby, and mostly prefers to play by herself. Their relationship doesn't improve much over the years, but when a baby brother enters the picture and later, something doesn't seem right between their parents, they realize they must figure out how to get along. They are sisters, after all.Raina uses her signature humor and charm in both present-day narrative and perfectly placed flashbacks to tell the story of her relationship with her sister, which unfolds during the course of a road trip from their home in San Francisco to a family reunion in Colorado.

Download or read book Shouting at the Rain written by Lynda Mullaly Hunt and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the New York Times bestseller Fish in a Tree comes a compelling story about perspective and learning to love the family you have. Delsie loves tracking the weather--lately, though, it seems the squalls are in her own life. She's always lived with her kindhearted Grammy, but now she's looking at their life with new eyes and wishing she could have a "regular family." Delsie observes other changes in the air, too--the most painful being a friend who's outgrown her. Luckily, she has neighbors with strong shoulders to support her, and Ronan, a new friend who is caring and courageous but also troubled by the losses he's endured. As Ronan and Delsie traipse around Cape Cod on their adventures, they both learn what it means to be angry versus sad, broken versus whole, and abandoned versus loved. And that, together, they can weather any storm.

Download or read book The Funny Kid written by Mark S. Waxman and published by Oghma Creative Media. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overweight, self-deprecating, aspiring stand-up comedian, twelve-year-old Toby Baxter, amazingly fulfills his life’s dream to perform on national television. Toby Baxter is the funniest kid in school. He’s also the biggest. But Toby manages to keep most of his bullies at bay by telling hilarious fat jokes. Yet, just moments before fulfilling his dream to perform on The Tonight Show, Toby realizes how hurtful it is to make fun of himself and others struggling with weight issues. Thanks to the new girl in town, a near death experience, and his “support team,” Toby learns the importance of nutrition, exercise, and self-acceptance.

Download or read book The Red Pick Up Truck Mystery written by George S. Haines and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kidnapped? A 16 year-old farm boy abducted from his neighbor's house in broad daylight? No, this hideous crime couldn't happen in peaceful rural Indiana! A man's corpse is found in his dilapidated house. Counterfeit money, stolen paintings, secret coded messages and international intrigue during the Second World War are all revealed as two teen-aged mechanics-turned sleuths attempt to breathe life back into an old rusted and grimy red pick-up truck. A county sheriff and an agent of the F.B.I. join forces to assist the two amateur detectives in their attempts to solve this complex mystery. Together they try to sort out the mind-boggling series of events involving an evil dentist who is a fugitive from the law, two dangerous escaped convicts and an odd pair of strange men--a seven-foot giant and a his puny partner. Will all the twisted threads of this exciting thriller be untangled so that justice can prevail? You will be enthralled as this spell-binding novel, the third in the Sam and Howie series, unfolds bringing suspense page by page.

Download or read book South Dakota Blues written by Timothy Dorr and published by Timothy Dorr. This book was released on 2021-06-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My debut novel. See the checklist below: Love? Yes. Check Heartbreak? Checked Friendship? Yeah. Got it Texting? Yup. Stayed current Adventure? Yes, for sure Action? Checked Gaming? Affirmative Comedy? Absolutely. Some laughable moments Sex scene? Tastefully, of course Travel? Check Music? Oh yeah. Rocking Ending? Yes. Always a must Please read and enjoy the journey of two people as they ride through the challenges of the day. And of the night. That’s all I can give away for the plot. Finish the book and find out where these heroes find a place in the world, during a drive of a lifetime.

Download or read book Tex Med written by Robert J. Eells and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the true adventures of a University of Michigan medical student in the summer of 1916, John McFarland is a medical student who travels to the Rio Grande one summer to take a break from school. He works in his uncle's general store in a Texas border town until he gets commandeered to assist the Texas Rangers as a medic.

Download or read book One Lane Bridge written by Dan Krzyzkowski and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having decided to take a year off between college and law school to work on a road construction project, twenty-three-year-old Simon Kozlowski is dismayed when he learns his job has been eliminated before it even started. Far from his Hiawatha, New Jersey home and without transportation, Simon falls into the graces of Alisha Caldwell, a sophisticated but mysterious socialite who claims she is an artist and businesswoman. Simon agrees to work for the forty-one-year-old single mother in a job he never imagined himself doing providing companionship and childcare to five-year-old Corey Caldwell. As time passes, Simon slowly learns that all is not what it seems. There are secrets everywhere he turns in the Caldwell's house, in the lives of Alisha and Corey, and in the lives of his family. Working to unravel these mysteries leads Simon deeper into the human heart than he's ever dared go and into a life he never imagined himself living. He wonders if he's in control of his own destiny.

Download or read book Lost in the Meritocracy written by Walter Kirn and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book A Daily Beast Best Book of the Year A Huffington Post Best Book of the Year From elementary school on, Walter Kirn knew how to stay at the top of his class: He clapped erasers, memorized answer keys, and parroted his teachers’ pet theories. But when he launched himself eastward to an Ivy League university, Kirn discovered that the temple of higher learning he had expected was instead just another arena for more gamesmanship, snobbery, and social climbing. In this whip-smart memoir of kissing-up, cramming, and competition, Lost in the Meritocracy reckons the costs of an educational system where the point is simply to keep accumulating points and never to look back—or within.

Download or read book From Victim to Victor A Survivor s True Story of Her Experiences with School Bullying How She Overcame Won Back Her Confidence and Found Peace and Happiness written by Cherie White and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-03-17 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cherie White shares her own story of what were the worst six years of her life, during which she was relentlessly bullied after moving to a small Tennessee town. She describes the heartache, loneliness and despair she felt as a victim of school bullying and how her cries for help went ignored. She is brutally honest about how she viewed her bullies and the bystanders who watched but did nothing to help. She is also candid about how she too became a bully and the torment she inflicted on her own victims, whom she herself viewed as inferior, as a means to preserve what little self-esteem she had left and feel better about herself. Finally, she tells of how she was able to escape her tormentors by changing schools, make several new friends out of her new classmates, and go from victim to victor! "From Victim to Victor" is a story of survival, trial, heartache, self-discovery, reflection, growth and the eventual escape and triumph.

Download or read book Suddenly Supernatural Crossing Over written by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medium-in-training Kat Roberts is one year older and feeling a whole lot wiser when it comes to healing the living dead. But when her spirit-seeing mother volunteers to chaperone her class trip to Old Montreal, Kat's problems become drop dead-serious. From dealing with French-Canadian ghosts to trying to win the heart of her former bio lab partner and top-secret crush, Kat is finding beaucoup drama on this border and boundary-crossing adventure.

Download or read book The Misbegotten Son written by Jack Olsen and published by Crime Rant Books. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little Artie Shawcross bullied classmates, insulted teachers, started fires, tortured animals, and roved the woods of New York's hardscrabble North Country with imaginary friends, talking in a high squawk. He also scored top grades, excelled in sports and shared his money and toys with the children who ridiculed him. From the second grade on, he was subjected to psychiatric examination, regularly confounding the experts. Years later, while serving in Vietnam, Arthur John Shawcross wrote bloodcurdling letters about his battlefield ordeals, then returned to Watertown to commit a string of arsons and burglaries. He served two years in prison, was paroled to his respectable parents - and murdered a boy and a girl. Back in the penitentiary, he proved as enigmatic as ever. Some counselors saw him as a Frankenstein monster, beyond hope, irredeemable. To others he was a troubled young man who could be saved. No two psychiatrists seemed to agree. Shawcross served fifteen years, then conned a parole board into an early release. He settled in Binghamton, but angry citizens learned of his bloody history and ran him out of town. After two smaller communities turned him away, desperate parole authorities finally smuggled the child-killer into Rochester in the dead of night - neglecting to alert the local police. Soon the corpses started turning up, locked in winter ice, covered by reeds in swamps, floating in streams. The homicidal pedophile had changed his M.O., this time murdering diminutive women. As the body count grew, Rochester streets swarmed with police, and still the serial killer managed to snare his tenth victim, then his eleventh. Amazon.com Accounts of more famous serial killers like Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer may have ghoulish entertainment value, but I agree with writer Darcy O'Brien that this meticulously factual study of child sex-murderer Arthur Shawcross "comes closer to capturing the psychology of a serial killer than anything else I've ever read." The strength of this book (semi-finalist for a 1994 Edgar Award) comes first from the quality of the materials--including first-person interviews with the killer's wives, girlfriends, co-workers, police officers, therapists, and even a prostitute who "played dead" for Shawcross--and second, from Olsen's ability to weave the information into a highly readable story that reveals, above all, the ineffectiveness of our system of rehabilitation and parole. From Publishers Weekly An experienced and skilled writer, Olsen ( Predator ) proves himself equal to the formidable task of studying serial killer Arthur Shawcross. Born in 1945 in upstate New York, Shawcross was perceived as different even in childhood (his classmates dubbed him "Oddie," and elementary school officials called for mental health evaluations). In the early '70s he murdered two children and was sentenced to up to 25 years in prison; he served less than 15 years before he was paroled in 1987. He was difficult to place--townspeople drove him out as soon as his past became known. After three such episodes, parole officials sent him surreptitiously to Rochester, N.Y., where he killed at least 11 prostitutes. He was arrested in 1990 and eventually sentenced to 250 years in prison. During the trial, he claimed that he had been physically and sexually abused by his mother (untrue, the authorities concluded) and that he had committed horrible atrocities in Vietnam (probably untrue). He did not fit the classic pattern of the sociopath, nor did he seem either schizophrenic or paranoid. It remained for psychiatrist Richard Kraus to hypothesize that physiology was the basis for Shawcross's behavior--he diagnosed Shawcross as suffering from a metabolic ailment known as pyroluria and an abnormal genetic constitution. Told by Olsen with contributions from others affected by Shawcross's crimes, the story is a triumph of true-crime writing.

Download or read book Desolate Kharma written by M.E. Purfield and published by trash books. This book was released on 2024-06-28 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the dark, gritty streets of the Central District, everyone is out for themselves. But when a desperate father walks into her office, private investigator Kelly Kharma is drawn into a dangerous game of secrets and violence. As she navigates her way through a caseload of missing children, Kelly Kharma crosses paths with ex-girlfriend Myrna. Though Myrna has forgiven Kharma for her mistakes in their relationship, Kharma still lives with the guilt. When Kharma learns that Myrna has fallen into a dangerous web of violence and prostitution, Kharma sets out to free Myrna and make amends. But as Kharma dives deeper into the darkness of the Central District, she soon discovers that her future, and even her life, is at stake. If you enjoyed the thrilling science fiction novels of Phillip K. Dick and the crime novels of Michael Connelly, then you'll love Desolate Kharma. Buy it now!