Download or read book Casting the Gods Adrift written by Geraldine McCaughrean and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thriller set in ancient Egypt between 1351-1354 BC. Tutmose and Ibrim's father, the animal dealer, is commanded by the new pharaoh Akhenaten, to bring him animals - lots of animals - for his new capital city. The boys' father is delighted. But he has no idea what the pharaoh's strange new religion will mean for all of them...
Download or read book Casting the Gods Adrift written by Geraldine McCaughrean and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thriller set in ancient Egypt between 1351-1354 BC. Tutmose and Ibrim's father, the animal dealer, is commanded by the new pharaoh Akhenaten, to bring him animals - lots of animals - for his new capital city. The boys' father is delighted. But he has no idea what the pharaoh's strange new religion will mean for all of them...
Download or read book Casting The Gods Adrift written by Geraldine McCaughrean and published by . This book was released on 1998-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thriller set in ancient Egypt, two boys accompany their father to the new capital city to help him bring animals to the pharaoh Akhenaten. The boys and their father are delighted-but have no idea what the pharaoh's strange new religion will mean for them.
Download or read book The Egyptians written by Katherine E. Reece and published by Rourke Publishing (FL). This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores ancient Egyptian civilization's importance, place in history, and major contributions to society.
Download or read book The Kite Rider written by Geraldine McCaughrean and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up and up the wind drew him. Haoyou looked about him and saw the wholeworld beneath him. And it was his. The Great Miao, master of the Jade Circus, offers Haoyou the amazing chance to escape his family's poverty -- by becoming a kite rider. Strapped onto a beautiful scarlet-and-gold kite, Haoyou is sent into the sky, earning money, freedom, and unexpected fame. Miao even plans for Haoyou to perform before Kublai Khan himself. From Carnegie Medalist Geraldine McCaughrean comes a dazzling story of adventure, betrayal, family, and sacrifice set in the dramatic world of thirteenth-century China.
Download or read book One Thousand and One Arabian Nights written by Geraldine McCaughrean and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Who Built the Pyramids written by Jane Chisholm and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed full of fun and facts, accompanied by internet links, about everyday life in ancient Egypt, this book answers questions like what were pyramids for? Why are they so big? How were mummies made? And, why did the Egyptians write on walls?
Download or read book Stop the Train written by Geraldine McCaughrean and published by Oxford University Press - Children. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1893 and for Cissy and her family, a new life beckons on the prairies of Oklahoma and they and their fellow settlers prepare for steady business alongside the Red Rock Railroad track. But when they refuse to sell their land to the railroad company, the boss swears that his trains will never stop in Florence again. How will they ever make a living now? Cissy and her friends, family and neighbours vow that they will make the train stop - by whatever means are necessary, no matter how dangerous that may prove to be . . .
Download or read book Mummy Riddles written by Katy Hall and published by Dial. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where do mummies swim? In the Dead Sea. Do mummies enjoy being mummies? Of corpse! And so will young readers when they wrap themselves up in these sidesplitting riddles! The colorful, spooky illustrations add to the humor. "This lively collection of puns and jokes is likely to be frightfully popular." --School Library Journal
Download or read book Ancient Egypt written by Joann Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Egypt includes accounts of key themes that have long preoccupied the popular imagination, including the religious mysteries of the great temples of Karnak and Luxor and the secrets of the hieroglyphs.
Download or read book The Boy Who Flew written by Fleur Hitchcock and published by Nosy Crow. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid adventure filled with danger and heroism from the author of Murder in Midwinter. Athan Wilde dreams of flight. When his friend, Mr Chen, is murdered, Athan must rescue the flying machine they were building together and stop it falling into the wrong hands. But keeping the machine safe puts his family in terrible danger. What will Athan choose - flight or family? From the acclaimed author of Murder In Midwinter, Fleur Hitchcock's The Boy Who Flew is a thrilling, murderous tale set among the steep rooftops and slippery characters of Athan's intricately imagined world. Perfect for fans of Philip Pullman, Peter Bunzl and Philip Reeve.
Download or read book Tales of Ancient Egypt written by Roger Lancelyn Green and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: London: Bodley Head, 1967.
Download or read book River of Gods written by Ian McDonald and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2009-09-18 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Mother India approaches her centenary, nine people are going about their business — a gangster, a cop, his wife, a politician, a stand-up comic, a set designer, a journalist, a scientist, and a dropout. And so is Aj — the waif, the mind-reader, the prophet — when she one day finds a man who wants to stay hidden. In the next few weeks, they will all be swept together to decide the fate of the nation. River of Gods teems with the life of a country choked with peoples and cultures — one and a half billion people, twelve semi-independent nations, nine million gods. Ian McDonald has written the great Indian novel of the new millennium, in which a war is fought, a love betrayed, a message from a different world decoded, as the great river Ganges flows on.
Download or read book Gods Without Men written by Hari Kunzru and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the desert, you see, there is everything and nothing . . . It is God without men. —Honoré de Balzac, Une passion dans le désert, 1830 Jaz and Lisa Matharu are plunged into a surreal public hell after their son, Raj, vanishes during a family vacation in the California desert. However, the Mojave is a place of strange power, and before Raj reappears inexplicably unharmed—but not unchanged—the fate of this young family will intersect with that of many others, echoing the stories of all those who have traveled before them. Driven by the energy and cunning of Coyote, the mythic, shape-shifting trickster, Gods Without Men is full of big ideas, but centered on flesh-and-blood characters who converge at an odd, remote town in the shadow of a rock formation called the Pinnacles. Viscerally gripping and intellectually engaging, it is, above all, a heartfelt exploration of the search for pattern and meaning in a chaotic universe. This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.
Download or read book Mission to Marathon written by Geoffrey Trease and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story set in Ancient Greece. When news reaches Athens that Persian ships are about to invade Greece at Marathon, Philip knows that his uncle and grandmother are in great danger. As his brothers and father are busy preparing for war, he is the only one who can cross the mountains and warn his family. The race is on...but will he reach them in time?
Download or read book The Sense of an Ending written by Julian Barnes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.
Download or read book A Slip in Time written by Maggie Pearson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Slip in Time is the story of an ordinary boy who gets mixed up in some extraordinary events. When Jack sets out to the shops, he finds that he has somehow stepped into the streets of Victorian London. With every person that he meets, the story gets stranger. Flashbacks are dramatic stories set during key moments in history. Strong characters and thrilling plots bring the past to life.
