Download or read book Dude s Gotta Paintball written by Muddy Frank and published by Muddy Frank. This book was released on with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For young readers comfortable reading longer books. Kids 8 - 12 years old. Magali: a shy French marmot who can't resist her funny mountain mates and their crazy, nocturnal, sports adventures! A commotion came from the queue. The weasel team was pushing the squirrel team. The squirrel team was pushing back. The biggest weasel pointed at the squirrels. 'Those are our blackberries! You stole them from us!' The foxes in the queue recognised the squirrels. 'Yes! You stole from us too! You ambushed us and got our blueberries!' A team of rabbits further in the queue shouted at the squirrels. 'Cheaters! You're playing with stolen goods! You stole our raspberries, too!' The dirty, grey squirrel team looked left and right as all the forest animals started pointing and yelling. 'Thieves! Thieves!' 'Disqualify them!' 'Cheaters!' Magali and her mates (Mishka, Henri Le Hare, F-F-Foxy, Little Foxy, Puppy Bébé and Chamois Luc), also furious with the squirrels, shouted, 'You're going down!' Oh, dear. Is Mr Woodpecker, the referee, going to sort this out? This is paintball with fruit being used as ammunition, and the sneaky squirrel team are playing with stolen ammunition! A funny middle-grade series about trusting instinct, forging friendships, and learning independence. The books have British spelling. For ages 8-12 yrs. Set in La Plagne, Savoie, France Each book can be read as an individual book or as part of the Dude Series. The series is available in English, French, Spanish, plus bilingual versions (English / français) (English / español). Question for the Author How did you come up with the character of Magali? 'You know, I really love the French Alps, and looking at all the animals that live in the mountains. I'm Australian, so I had never seen a marmot before moving to France. I worked one summer, for a kids' summer camp, and part of my job was to take the children out on walks. We would go looking for marmots, all of us being very quiet, secretly sneaking up to the holes in the ground, where the entrances to the marmot burrows were. Of course, we would make too much noise and the marmots would disappear into their underground tunnels, but sometimes we were lucky and able to take photos. I think their underground homes took over my imagination, and before you knew it, I had a whole chapter book in my head, with Magali as the principal character!'

Download or read book Dude s Gotta Paintball written by Muddy Frank and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-30 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 8 - 12 years. Magali could not have predicted who would be her number one opponent in the Paintball Competition. Never in a million years! Ping! Splat! 'You're out! Get off the field, Loser!' Magali is turning into a power-hungry fruit-flinger! She's just flung a fat strawberry at the boar, and got him. Now, for the dirty squirrels. There's no way she and her mates can let them win. Her team always wins every sports competition. Tonight is going to be no different. But... they hadn't planned on the surprise team of the night; the Mini Tree Trunks. Those dudes are so well-camouflaged that nobody notices them amongst all the crazy; charging animals, flying fruit, splattered juice, and hovering woodpeckers. It's madness on the playing field, and Magali and her best mate, Mishka, must push through and get to the winner's flag first. Dude, this is paintball, with fruit being used for ammunition. It's flying fruit-salad-in-the-forest chaos! Middle Grade. For ages 8-12 yrs. The adventures of Magali: a cautious adrenalin addict! Young readers will enjoy this fantasy adventure book, set in the French Alps. There are animals of all sizes; foxes, boar, deer, rabbits, weasels, hedgehogs, owls, chamois, ibex, you name it, running around playing paintball while Big People are tucked up in their chalets! Each book can be read as an individual book or as part of the Dude Series (recommended). The books have British spelling. Dude's Gotta Snowboard (Book 1) Dude's Gotta River Raft (Book 2) Dude's Gotta Mountain Bike (Book 3) Dude's Gotta Paraglide (Book 4) Dude's Gotta Bobsleigh (Book 5) Dude's Gotta Rock Climb (Book 6) Dude's Gotta Paintball (Book 7) Dude's Gotta Wakeboard (Book 8 Final book in series) Question for the Author How did you come up with the character of Magali? 'You know, I really love the French Alps, and looking at all the animals that live in the mountains. I'm Australian, so I had never seen a marmot before moving to France. I worked one summer, for a kids summer camp, and part of my job was to take the children out on walks. We would go looking for marmots, all of us being very quiet, secretly sneaking up to the holes in the ground, where the entrances to the marmot burrows were. Of course, we would make too much noise and the marmots would disappear into their underground tunnels, but sometimes we were lucky and able to take photos. I think their underground homes took over my imagination, and before you knew it, I had a whole chapter book in my head, with Magali as the principal character!'

Download or read book Dude s Gotta Paintball Help Suis Accro Au Paintball written by Muddy Frank and published by Magali Marmotte Série. This book was released on 2023-10-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ce roman plein d'humour se lit avec l'anglais d'un côté et le français de l'autre. Le livre aidera votre enfant à enrichir son vocabulaire et à saisir des phrases naturelles. Pour 8 à 12 ans (le livre pourrait aussi convenir à des adolescents, voire à des adultes). Magali: une marmotte française qui sort en douce la nuit pour faire du sport avec ses amis ! C'est du paintball avec des fruits comme munitions: des fraises, des framboises, des myrtilles, des mûres, et même des tomates pourries ! Magali et ses amis (Henri Le Lièvre, F-F-Foxy, Little Foxy, Mishka, Puppy Bébé et Chamois Luc) doivent se montrer plus malins que les écureuils s'ils veulent gagner. Mais les écureuils sont de sales joueurs (et ils sont sales, aussi). Et puis, il y a l'équipe surprise de la soirée: les mini troncs d'arbre. Ils sont si bien camouflés que personne ne les remarque entre tous les animaux qui chargent, les fruits qui volent et les piverts qui planent. C'est le chaos dans la forêt ! Magali et son meilleur ami, Mishka, doivent se frayer un chemin pour atteindre le drapeau du vainqueur en premier ! Ce livre fait partie de la série Magali Marmotte. Chaque livre de la série peut être lu seul, comme un livre individuel. +++++++++++++++ This funny adventure book reads with English on one side, French on the other side. Your child will build new vocabulary and learn natural phrases. For 8-12 years (but could also be good for teenagers, and even adults). Magali: a French marmot who sneaks out at night to do mountain sports with her friends! This is paintball with fruit being used as ammunition: strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, and even stinky rotten tomatoes! Magali and her friends (Henri Le Hare, F-F-Foxy, Little Foxy, Mishka, Puppy Bébé and Chamois Luc) must outwit the squirrels if they're going to win. But, the squirrels play dirty (and they are dirty, too). Then, there's the surprise team of the night; the Mini Tree Trunks. Nobody notices them amongst all the charging animals, flying fruit, and flying woodpeckers. Magali and her best mate, Mishka, must push through to get to the Winner's Flag first! A series about trusting your instinct. The books have British spelling. Each book can be read as an individual book or as part of the Dude Series.

Download or read book Dude s Gotta Wakeboard written by Muddy Frank and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-28 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 8 - 12 years. Magali can finally see the answer to the Bald Patch On Her Bottom problem! 'Look!' Mishka pointed. A black and white badger zoomed across the lake on his fat wakeboard. He was holding a bark rope, and being pulled by two Bodybuilder Owls. He lifted into the air, and did a 360 mid-air! Magali and her best friend, Mishka, want to wakeboard and do cool tricks too, but the Frog is not making it easy. 200 dragonflies is his price for a wakeboard. Who's got 200 dragonflies?! They haven't even got one. There's a bigger problem. Magali's discovered a new sport. One that is separate to her best mate, Mishka, and their friends. One that she's really good at. She wants to do both sports, but she's finding it hard. On top of that, the big Wakeboarding Show Off Competition is coming up. Will she have the energy to participate? This marmot is not sure what to do. Well, she is sure, sort of. But, she doesn't want to do what she knows she needs to do. Dude, how is she going to choose between old friends and new friends? Middle Grade. For ages 8-12 yrs. The adventures of Magali: a cautious adrenalin addict! Young readers will enjoy this fantasy adventure book, set in the French Alps. There are animals of all sizes; chamois, foxes, boar, deer, rabbits, hare, eagles, ibex, hedgehogs, owls, you name it, wakeboarding at night while Big People are tucked up in their chalets. Each book can be read as an individual book or as part of the Dude Series (recommended). The books have British spelling. Dude's Gotta Snowboard (Book 1) Dude's Gotta River Raft (Book 2) Dude's Gotta Mountain Bike (Book 3) Dude's Gotta Paraglide (Book 4) Dude's Gotta Bobsleigh (Book 5) Dude's Gotta Rock Climb (Book 6) Dude's Gotta Paintball (Book 7) Dude's Gotta Wakeboard (Book 8 Final book in series) Question for the Author How did you come up with the character of Magali? 'You know, I really love the French Alps, and looking at all the animals that live in the mountains. I'm Australian, so I had never seen a marmot before moving to France. I worked one summer, for a kids summer camp, and part of my job was to take the children out on walks. We would go looking for marmots, all of us being very quiet, secretly sneaking up to the holes in the ground, where the entrances to the marmot burrows were. Of course, we would make too much noise and the marmots would disappear into their underground tunnels, but sometimes we were lucky and able to take photos. I think their underground homes took over my imagination, and before you knew it, I had a whole chapter book in my head, with Magali as the principal character!'

Download or read book Albion s Seed written by David Hackett Fischer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991-03-14 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.

Download or read book Naughty Nomad written by Mark Zolo and published by Mark Zolo. This book was released on 2015-02-02 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a young man who set out to discover the meaning of adventure, only to be pulled down the rabbit hole into a dark underworld filled with danger, drama, and wild sex. Reckless, raunchy, and riveting, this book documents the origins of the Naughty Nomad, a man who would later be dubbed "The Indiana Jones of Pussy". A daring rescue in the Antarctic, a border jump to escape Sudan, incarceration in Siberia, attempted murder, love, friendship, betrayal, and so much more!Join him on his epic misadventures journeying to... Antarctica The Far East Indochina Europe and every country in Southeast Asia! A journey into the heart of darkness, this is NOT your typical backpacker story.

Download or read book From Fatherless to Fatherhood written by Omar Epps and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having grown up without his biological father, then becoming a father himself, Epps shares an intimate, unapologetic, and emotional conversation about childhood, manhood, and parenting. Chronicling his journey from humble beginnings in Brooklyn, New York, to the bright lights of Hollywood, Epps touches on many themes surrounding the importance of family and community. He shows how men can break the cycle of fatherlessness within their families, and come to terms with their own issues surrounding their fathers. -- adapted from back cover

Download or read book The Unexplainable Disappearance of Mars Patel written by Ben Strouse and published by Unexplainable Disappearance of. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You've heard the podcast. Now read along with Season One of the Recording Scripts behind the Peabody-Award winning family audio drama. "The Unexplainable Disappearance of Mars Patel" is the hit, sci-fi mystery adventure drama for middle grade kids and the entire family. Follow along as eleven-year-old Mars Patel and his pals JP, Toothpick, and Caddie set out on an audacious adventure in search of two missing friends. But the mysterious tech billionaire Oliver Pruitt might have a thing-or-two to say about their quest. "To the stars!" he likes to say, and in fact, that's just where they might be headed...

Download or read book Cincinnati Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cincinnati Magazine taps into the DNA of the city, exploring shopping, dining, living, and culture and giving readers a ringside seat on the issues shaping the region.

Download or read book The Red Circle written by Brandon Webb and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explosive, revealing, and intelligent, The Red Circle provides a uniquely personal glimpse into one of the most challenging and secretive military training courses in the world. Now including an excerpt from The Killing School: Inside the World's Deadliest Sniper Program BEFORE HE COULD FORGE A BAND OF ELITE WARRIORS... HE HAD TO BECOME ONE HIMSELF. Brandon Webb's experiences in the world's most elite sniper corps are the stuff of legend. From his grueling years of training in Naval Special Operations to his combat tours in the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan, The Red Circle provides a rare and riveting look at the inner workings of the U.S. military through the eyes of a covert operations specialist. Yet it is Webb's distinguished second career as a lead instructor for the shadowy "sniper cell" and Course Manager of the Navy SEAL Sniper Program that trained some of America's finest and deadliest warriors-including Marcus Luttrell and Chris Kyle-that makes his story so compelling. Luttrell credits Webb's training with his own survival during the ill-fated 2005 Operation Redwing in Afghanistan. Kyle went on to become the U.S. military's top marksman, with more than 150 confirmed kills. From a candid chronicle of his student days, going through the sniper course himself, to his hair-raising close calls with Taliban and al Qaeda forces in the northern Afghanistan wilderness, to his vivid account of designing new sniper standards and training some of the most accomplished snipers of the twenty-first century, Webb provides a rare look at the making of the Special Operations warriors who are at the forefront of today's military.

Download or read book Backpacker written by and published by . This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.

Download or read book Paintball Communication 101 written by Stuart Ridgel and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'd like to introduce Paintball Communication 101: A Guide to Tournament Paintball Communication, brought to you by Spearhead Sports and written by me Stuart Ridgel. Spearhead Sports is a paintball company focused around educating paintball players on how to play the sport of paintball and become better athletes all around. Whether you're playing competitive tournament speedball or just having fun in the woods with scenario play, we have something for you. If you're interested in becoming a better player; shooting more players and getting shot less, you have to learn some technical skills and make sure your mind and body is in good physical shape to compete. This is why I wanted to create something that will help focus on improving your game and teach you a few things you might not know. This book is meant to be a starting place and a resource to break down the different aspect of tournament paintball communication. You can tweak, add your own concepts or build off of the information I've provided. Also feel free to email or message me on your favorite social media sites and share any paintball knowledge with me! I'm always looking to learn new things and I know I still have a lot to learn in life and in paintball. Paintball has always been a huge part of my life and the moments I've experienced have been life changing. I can only hope to teach you some of the things I've learned throughout my years and help you grow as a person and a player. I'm extremely excited to have you join this journey with me and I look forward to our progress together. With your dedication and my paintball knowledge, we will get you to the highest level. Like anything in life it takes hard work to get to the top and run with the Champions. I wish you luck in your journey, if you need anything or have any questions please message me and let me know.

Download or read book Hank written by Arch Montgomery and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Meet Hank Collins, an astute, gutsy, and funny 13-year-old who s just finished the seventh grade at a public school in Baltimore s affluent suburbs. But all is not trouble-free for Hank. He must contend with a troubled family, an alien school, and a world otherwise booby-trapped with alluring but perilous possibilities.Hank is a page-turning, contemporary, coming-of-age story of growing up amidst this wreckage of a dangerous and suspenseful summer. From him, we hear the events of his life. We stand by him on the baseball field and at the dinner tables of his remarried parents. We walk with him into an epic, appalling, yet believable teenage party. We share with him an astounding encounter with adult weekend warriors. We see not just his confusions and dismays, but his grit, his honesty, and his vulnerability. We like him, and root for him, and care about him.Through a raw, real, and rewarding storyline, recounted with an understated elegance, and dialogue that is witty and captivating, we watch as he manages to evolve into a courageous, undaunted human being.As The Harvard Crimson observes, Hank is so authentic that one sometimes feels the need to check for that standard disclaimer reminding us that these characters are only fictitious. Hank bursts from the pages, vibrant and flawed. We feel his pain, share his sorrows, and rejoice in his triumphs.There is no holding back here, notes Pulitzer-Prize-winning writer Buzz Bissinger. There is no political correctness. The world that Hank sees and tells us about a world fraught with pitfalls, potholes, protagonists, antagonists, decency, and deceit is the world of the American pre-adolescent.Author Arch Montgomery never shies away from important issues, adds The Harvard Crimson, and never takes the easy way out in dealing with them. With a few deft strokes, he manages to compress every in-between shade of gray into the dialogue and actions of his characters. Like the state of the world it reflects, good and evil are not always so clear-cut. Part of Hank s journey of growth entails understanding and dealing with that realization.No wonder The Harvard Crimson concludes: ""Few novels have succeeded in capturing the essence of adolescence, but the likes of Tom Sawyer and Holden Caulfield are about to welcome the newest member to their ranks a 13-year-old boy named Hank Arch Montgomery, impressive in an incandescent debut, shows a mastery of his craft and an unusually perceptive insight into the human heart."""

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Download or read book Silver Screen Fiend written by Patton Oswalt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Between 1995 and 1999, Patton Oswalt lived with an unshakable addiction. It wasn't drugs, alcohol or sex: it was film. After moving to L.A., Oswalt became a huge film buff (or as he calls it, a sprocket fiend), absorbing classics, cult hits, and new releases at the New Beverly Cinema. Silver screen celluloid became Patton's life schoolbook, informing his notion of acting, writing, comedy, and relationships. Set in the nascent days of L.A.'s alternative comedy scene, Oswalt's memoir chronicles his journey from fledgling stand-up comedian to self-assured sitcom actor, with the colorful New Beverly collective and a cast of now-notable young comedians supporting him all along the way"--

Download or read book Who s Swearing Now written by Kristy Beers Fägersten and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who's Swearing Now? represents an investigation of how people actually swear, illustrated by a collection of over 500 spontaneous swearing utterances along with their social and linguistic contexts. The book features a focus on the use of eight swear words: ass, bitch, cunt, damn, dick, fuck, hell, shit and their possible inflections or derivations, e.g., asshole or motherfucker, offering a solution to the controversial issue of defining swear words and swearing by limiting the investigation to the core set of words most common to previous swearing studies. The specific focus results in accurate depictions of contextualized swearing utterances. Precise frequency counts are thus enabled which, along with offensiveness ratings of contextualized and non-contextualized swearing, enable a clarification of The Swearing Paradox, referring to the phenomenon of frequently used swear words also being those which traditionally are judged to be the most offensive. The book revisits the relationship between gender and swear word usage, but considers the distribution based on the core subset of swear words, revealing similarities where others have claimed differences. Significantly, Who's Swearing Now? considers the aspect of race with regards to swear word usage, and reveals behavioral differences between, for example, White and African American males and females with regards to word preferences as well as social impetuses for and effects of swearing. Questionnaire and interview data supplement the swearing utterances, revealing participants' individual credos about their own use or non-use of swear words and, interestingly, about others' allowed or ideally prohibited use of swear words. These sets of data present thought-provoking and often entertaining statements regarding the unwritten set of rules governing swearing behavior. Who's Swearing Now? concludes with close analyses of four recent and highly publicized incidences of public swear word usage, considered in light of the spontaneous swearing utterances, speaker and addressee variables such as gender, race and age, and perceptions of offensiveness and propriety.

Download or read book Jet Girl written by Caroline Johnson and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh, unique insider’s view of what it’s like to be a woman aviator in today’s US Navy—from pedicures to parachutes, friendship to firefights. Caroline Johnson was an unlikely aviation candidate. A tall blonde debutante from Colorado, she could have just as easily gone into fashion or filmmaking, and yet she went on to become an F/A-18 Super Hornet Weapons System Officer. She was one of the first women to fly a combat mission over Iraq since 2011, and one of the first women to drop bombs on ISIS. Jet Girl tells the remarkable story of the women fighting at the forefront in a military system that allows them to reach the highest peaks, and yet is in many respects still a fraternity. Johnson offers an insider’s view on the fascinating, thrilling, dangerous and, at times, glamorous world of being a naval aviator. This is a coming-of age story about a young college-aged woman who draws strength from a tight knit group of friends, called the Jet Girls, and struggles with all the ordinary problems of life: love, work, catty housewives, father figures, make-up, wardrobe, not to mention being put into harm’s way daily with terrorist groups such as ISIS and world powers such as Russia and Iran. Some of the most memorable parts of the book are about real life in training, in the air and in combat—how do you deal with having to pee in a cockpit the size of a bumper car going 600 miles an hour? Not just a memoir, this book also aims to change the conversation and to inspire and attract the next generation of men and women who are tempted to explore a life of adventure and service.