Download or read book End of the Alphabet written by Fleur Beale and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this coming-of-age novel by the award-winning YA author Fleur Beale, Ruby is about to discover that she has more backbone than she ever knew . . . Ruby Yarrow is 14 and she's the good girl who helps her mum. She cooks, she looks after the little ones and she would rather do all the work herself than make her brother Max help as he's meant to. That's okay with Ruby because she knows her mum loves her and relies on her. But it's not okay with Ruby's best friend Tia. 'You know what, Ruby Yarrow,' Tia yells, 'I'm not talking to you until you stop being a doormat.' That gets to Ruby. But how do you stop being a doormat? How do you get some backbone and start standing up for yourself? She can't even get her own bedroom, so why does she think she could get accepted for the school trip to Brazil? But Tia has made her start thinking - and things will never be the same again for Ruby. Or her family.
Download or read book The End Of The Alphabet written by C.S. Richardson and published by Portobello Books. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some time around his fiftieth birthday, Ambrose Zephyr fails his annual medical check-up. An illness of inexplicable origin with no known or foreseeable cure is diagnosed and it will kill him within a month. Give or take a day. In the time that remains, he decides to travel to all the places he has most loved or ever wanted to visit, in strict alphabetical order. And so Ambrose and his wife Zipper embark on a strange adventure that takes them further and further away from home and doesn't quite turn out as either of them had expected.
Download or read book The End of the Alphabet written by Claudia Rankine and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “harrowing and hallucinogenic” collection of poems from author of the New York Times–bestselling National Book Award-finalist Citizen: An American Lyric (Library Journal). Claudia Rankine’s book-length poem about rising racial tensions in America, Citizen: An American Lyric, won numerous prizes, including the The National Book Critic’s Circle Award. Her new collection of poems—intrepid, obsessive, and erotic—tell the story of a woman’s attempt to reconcile herself to her own despair. Drawing on voices from Jane Eyre to Lady MacBeth, Rankine welds the cerebral and the spiritual, the sensual and the grotesque. Whether writing about intimacy or alienation, what remains long after is her singular voice—its beguiling cadence and vivid physicality. There is an unprotected quality to this writing, as if each word has been pushed out along the precipice, daring us to go with it. Rankine’s power lies in the intoxicating pull of that dare. From one of contemporary poetry’s most powerful and provocative authors, The End of the Alphabet is a work where “wits at once keen and tenacious match themselves against grief’s genius” (Boston Review).
Download or read book The Alphabet s Alphabet written by Chris Harris and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of P is for Pterodactyl comes this groundbreaking spin on the ABCs from an acclaimed bestselling author and artist duo! Here's a totally twisted take on the alphabet that invites readers to look at it in a whole new way: An A is an H that just won't stand up right, a B is a D with its belt on too tight, and a Z is an L in a tug-of-war fight! Twenty-six letters, unique from each other -- and yet, every letter looks just like one another! Kind of like...one big family. From two bestselling masters of wordplay and visual high jinks comes a mind-bending riddle of delightful doppelgängers and surprising disguises that reveal we're more alike than we may think. You'll never look at the alphabet the same way again!
Download or read book Y is for Yesterday written by Sue Grafton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE FINAL INSTALLMENT IN SUE GRAFTON'S ALPHABET SERIES WINNER OF THE ANTHONY/BILL CRIDER AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL IN A SERIES Private investigator Kinsey Millhone confronts her darkest and most disturbing case in this #1 New York Times bestseller from Sue Grafton. In 1979, four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old classmate—and film the attack. Not long after, the tape goes missing and the suspected thief, a fellow classmate, is murdered. In the investigation that follows, one boy turns state’s evidence and two of his peers are convicted. But the ringleader escapes without a trace. Now, it’s 1989 and one of the perpetrators, Fritz McCabe, has been released from prison. Moody, unrepentant, and angry, he is a virtual prisoner of his ever-watchful parents—until a copy of the missing tape arrives with a ransom demand. That’s when the McCabes call Kinsey Millhone for help. As she is drawn into their family drama, she keeps a watchful eye on Fritz. But he’s not the only one being haunted by the past. A vicious sociopath with a grudge against Millhone may be leaving traces of himself for her to find...
Download or read book Alphabet Rescue written by Audrey Wood and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While on vacation in Alphabet City, Little e and the other lowercase letters repair an old fire truck and come to the rescue when a fire engulfs the letter-making factory.
Download or read book The Dangerous Alphabet written by Neil Gaiman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-04-29 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A is for Always, that's where we embark . . . Two children, treasure map in hand, and their pet gazelle sneak past their father, out of their house, and into a world beneath the city, where monsters and pirates roam. Will they find the treasure? Will they make it out alive? The Dangerous Alphabet is a tale of adventure, piracy, danger, and heroism told in twenty-six alphabetical lines—although even the alphabet is not to be relied upon here. A delightfully dangerous journey from national bestselling author Neil Gaiman and the monstrously talented Gris Grimly, The Dangerous Alphabet is sure to captivate and chill young readers.
Download or read book The Edge of the Alphabet written by Janet Frame and published by . This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book P Is for Pterodactyl written by Raj Haldar and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller! A "raucous trip through the odd corners of our alphabet." —The New York Times Let's get real—the English language is bizarre. A might be for apple, but it's also for aisle and aeons. Why does the word "gnat" start with a G but the word "knot" doesn't start with an N? It doesn't always make sense, but don't let these rule-breaking silent letters defeat you! This whimsical, funky book from Raj Haldar (aka rapper Lushlife) turns the traditional idea of an alphabet book on its head, poking fun at the most mischievous words in the English language and demonstrating how to pronounce them. Fun and informative for word nerds of all ages!
Download or read book The Alphabet from Z to A written by Judith Viorst and published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1994-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Alphabet from Z to A (With Much Confusion on the Way), Judith Viorst once again applies her clear-sighted wit to a subject of universal appeal, turning the traditional alphabet book on its head by going through the alphabet backwards. Viorst's lively verse irreverently demonstrates that the spellings and sounds of our language are often so maddeningly inconsistent -- "blue" and "blew," "chute" and "shoe" -- that, as her exasperated narrator complains, "It could drive you berserk." Aimed at children who already have some facility with language (and at anyone else who likes to play with words), The Alphabet from Z to A is an entertaining and thought-provoking romp through the quirks and quagmires of the English language. Richard Hull's exquisite drawings enrich the text and offer a playful challenge.
Download or read book Dr Seuss s ABC written by Dr. Seuss and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Aunt Annie's Alligator to Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz, this sturdy board book version of Dr. Seuss's ABC is now available in a bigger trim size. With Dr. Seuss as your guide, learning the alphabet is as fun and as funny as the feather on a Fiffer-feffer-feff!
Download or read book Eating the Alphabet written by Lois Ehlert and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1989 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While teaching upper- and lowercase letters to preschoolers, Ehlert introduces fruits and vegetables from around the world.
Download or read book The Messy Alphabet Book written by Sesame Workshop and published by Sesame Street Scribbles. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for any child who has ever been told to "stop making a mess." In other words, children everywhere will love this book Join Elmo and his Sesame Street friends as they splat, splash, crash, and dash their way through the alphabet "You know, it seems like every alphabet book I read is full of nice, clean things like cute kittens, cuddly puppies, and shiny new toys. That's why I love Sesame Street's Messy Alphabet Book It doesn't have any of those things."--Oscar the Grouch
Download or read book Alphabet written by Inger Christensen and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A startling and gorgeous work by Denmark's most admired poet finally available in English translation.
Download or read book Inventing the Alphabet written by Johanna Drucker and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Though there are many books about the history of the alphabet, virtually none address how that history came to be. In Inventing the Alphabet, Johanna Drucker guides readers from antiquity to the present to show how humans have shaped and reshaped their own understanding of this transformative writing tool. From ancient beliefs in the alphabet as a divine gift to growing awareness of its empirical origins through the study of scripts and inscriptions, Drucker describes the frameworks-classical, textual, biblical, graphical, antiquarian, archaeological, paleographic, and political-within which the alphabet's history has been and continues to be constructed. Drucker's book begins in ancient Greece, with the earliest writings on the alphabet's origins. She then explores biblical sources on the topic and medieval preoccupations with the magical properties of individual letters. She later delves into the development of modern archaeological and paleographic tools, and she concludes with the role of alphabetic characters in the digital era. Throughout, she argues that, as a shared form of knowledge technology integrated into every aspect of our lives, the alphabet performs complex cultural, ideological, and technical functions, and her carefully curated selection of images demonstrates how closely the letters we use today still resemble their original appearance millennia ago"--
Download or read book O is for Oklahoma written by Boys & Girls Club of Oklahoma County and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2013-04-08 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: See-My-State Alphabet Books have a subject related to that specific state for each letter of the alphabet. Children from schools or Boys & Girls Clubs in each state write the rhyming couplet for each subject. The book project is an opportunity for each participating child to learn to express themselves in writing, learn meter and rhyming skills, and become a "published person" in a real book. The back of f the book is a section called "Who Knew" which gives a brief description of the facts and importance of each subject chosen for each letter of the alphabet. It is written by the editors. Each child is acknowledged by name for their contribution.
Download or read book Yankee Doodle America written by Wendell Minor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An A to Z of the American Revolution.
