Download or read book Forget Me Not written by Laura Dower and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVWhen Far Hills Junior High becomes the subject of a documentary, everyone is star struck—except Madison/divDIV Maddie’s friends all think her mom has a glamorous job, but Maddie has mixed feelings. She thinks it’s neat that her mom makes important movies about things like gorillas and travels to exciting places. But ever since the Big D, her mother works more than ever./div When her mom’s film crew shows up at Far Hills to document middle school life, everyone wants a piece of the limelight—everyone but Maddie. It’s hard having Mom at school—especially when she never has time for Madison at home. Can Maddie remind her mom to make time for her, too? /div
Download or read book From the Files of Madison Finn All Shook Up Book 22 written by Laura Dower and published by Hyperion Books for Children. This book was released on 2006-08-22 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madison has difficulty trying to divide her time between her boyfriend, a new friend, and a job.
Download or read book From the Files of Madison Finn Books 1 10 written by Laura Dower and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 985 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet a spunky preteen who uses her online journal to cope with her feelings—from junior high friendship drama to her parents’ divorce to her first crush. Twelve-year-old Madison Finn has found the perfect outlet for her worries about school and friendships and her mom and dad’s divorce: She’s started an online journal on her beloved orange laptop. For a girl who claims she’s allergic to change, this digital diary is the perfect way to sort out her feelings . . . Only the Lonely: Summer seems to be going by way too fast as Madison worries about starting seventh grade. Boy, Oh Boy!: Madison must balance a confusing class election with her feelings around her first crush. Play It Again: When Far Hills Junior High puts on a play, can Madison survive the drama? Caught in the Web: Forget ghosts—this Halloween, seventh grade is frightening enough. Thanks for Nothing: On her first Thanksgiving since her parents’ divorce, Maddie finds gratitude helping animals at a shelter. Lost and Found: On a snow day, Madison digs up some old—and surprising—memories. Save the Date: The Far Hills Junior High war of the sexes is on—and Madison is teamed up with her nemesis, Poison Ivy. Picture-Perfect: Madison and her friends are going to see their favorite singer in concert—but her friend Aimee is having a hard time. Just Visiting: Maddie has the red, white, and blues this Fourth of July when she learns she’ll be spending the holiday away from her friends, at her grandmother’s house on Lake Michigan. Give and Take: Will Maddie’s Christmas break be a total bust when her dad cancels a father-daughter ski trip?
Download or read book From the Files of Madison Finn All That Glitters Book 20 written by Laura Dower and published by Volo. This book was released on 2005-11-14 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventh grade is one topsy-turvy year for Madison Finn. Between new crushes and old enemies, family drama and friendly adventures, Maddie's computer files are filling up.
Download or read book From the Files of Madison Finn Books 4 6 Bind Up BF4E Best Friends Forever 2 written by Laura Dower and published by Hyperion Books for Children. This book was released on 2006-10-24 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madison's summer is going to be special because she's heading to a camp on the beach, but soon she's up to her elbows in turtle eggs and miles from her BFFs. Madison feels way out of touch, but soon turtles come to her rescue.
Download or read book From the Files of Madison Finn Super Edition Friends till the End written by Laura Dower and published by Hyperion Books for Children. This book was released on 2007-04-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SERIES DESCRIPTION: Madison Finn’s seventh-grade year has been full of ups and downs. She’s met some cool new friends, learned a lot about dealing with her family, and even found her first real love. Now, as she gets ready for graduation, Madison’s about to download her greatest adventure yet. SUPER EDITION #3: Friends till the End Madison and her friends have been through a lot together as seventh graders. It’s hard to believe that the end of the year has come so soon. Now they’re about to graduate, but they’ve got to get through the final crazy weeks of the semester first. Madison has to complete an end-of-year science project, and her partner is none other than her enemy, Poison Ivy. They’ll have to learn to put aside their differences if they want to get the passing grade. Then there’s the whole Hart situation. Their relationship has been great so far, but Madison knows that graduation can sometimes put a different spin on things. From a big school musical revue to an even bigger family party, there's no predicting what will happen next. Only one thing is for sure: Fiona and Aimee will be Madison's friends till the end of everything.
Download or read book Invisible Man written by Ralph Ellison and published by Penguin Books Limited. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The invisible man is the unnamed narrator of this impassioned novel of black lives in 1940s America. Embittered by a country which treats him as a non-being he retreats to an underground cell.
Download or read book The Help written by Kathryn Stockett and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original publication and copyright date: 2009.
Download or read book The Slime That Would Not Die 1 written by Laura Dower and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-08-06 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesse Ranger was just an average kid with an obsession for Oswald Leery's B-Monster movies until he discovered a dangerous secret. It turns out Leery's special filming process brought his movie monsters to life and now they've escaped the screen! Something must be done, so Leery recruits Jesse, Stella, Damon, and Lindsey to help. But how do you trap a B-Monster, especially one made up of slime?
Download or read book What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy Second Edition written by James Paul Gee and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cognitive Development in a Digital Age James Paul Gee begins his classic book with "I want to talk about video games–yes, even violent video games–and say some positive things about them." With this simple but explosive statement, one of America's most well-respected educators looks seriously at the good that can come from playing video games. This revised edition expands beyond mere gaming, introducing readers to fresh perspectives based on games like World of Warcraft and Half-Life 2. It delves deeper into cognitive development, discussing how video games can shape our understanding of the world. An undisputed must-read for those interested in the intersection of education, technology, and pop culture, What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy challenges traditional norms, examines the educational potential of video games, and opens up a discussion on the far-reaching impacts of this ubiquitous aspect of modern life.
Download or read book From the Files of Madison Finn Forget Me Not Book 21 written by Laura Dower and published by Volo. This book was released on 2006-01-23 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each title selected for this series may be used as part of the language arts program. All books in these kits are recent works by Canadian authors, reflecting Canadian social values and Canadian language. Enhances children's appreciation of present-day literature in a variety of genres.
Download or read book The Golden Ocean written by Patrick O'Brian and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1956 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commodore (late Admiral) Anson's fatefaul circumnavigation of the globe in 1740, wherein Anson and his men encounter disaster, disease, and astonishing success, is the ground to The Golden Ocean. Here ia a tale certain to please not only admirers of O'Brian's work but also any reader with an adventurous soul.
Download or read book Return of Mega Mantis 2 written by Laura Dower and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-08-06 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Monster Squad is back and this time they are battling one of Leery's biggest creations - Mega Mantis. The giant mantis has returned to Riddle and he brought all of his insect friends with him. Now it's up to the Monster Squad to squash this bug for good! But how do you kill a bug that's four times bigger than a house?
Download or read book The Wild Robot written by Peter Brown and published by . This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon to be a DreamWorks movie, coming to theaters 9/27/24! Includes 8 pages of full color stills from the movie! Wall-E meets Hatchet in this #1 New York Times bestselling illustrated middle grade novel from Caldecott Honor winner Peter Brown Can a robot survive in the wilderness? When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is all alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is--but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a violent storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realizes that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her surroundings and learn from the island's unwelcoming animal inhabitants. As Roz slowly befriends the animals, the island starts to feel like home--until, one day, the robot's mysterious past comes back to haunt her. From bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Peter Brown comes a heartwarming and action-packed novel about what happens when nature and technology collide.
Download or read book The Network Reshapes the Library written by Lorcan Dempsey and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2014-08-18 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since he began posting in 2003, Dempsey has used his blog to explore nearly every important facet of library technology, from the emergence of Web 2.0 as a concept to open source ILS tools and the push to web-scale library management systems.
Download or read book All Shook Up written by Laura Dower and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVIt’s Maddie vs. Maddie when a new friend admits she’s crushing on Hart Jones/divDIV It’s the Junior World Leaders Conference at Far Hills and everyone is excited to participate. Madison gets partnered with a girl she never really noticed before, Madhur, whose family is from India and Pakistan. Although the girls are from different cultures, they find that they have a lot of great things in common—including the nickname Maddie. Unfortunately, another thing they have in common is a crush on Hart! Madison really likes her new friend and is excited to be her partner at the conference—but Madhur’s feelings for Hart have Maddie starting to unravel. Can she play it cool?/div/div
Download or read book 1876 written by Gore Vidal and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-08-22 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third volume of Gore Vidal's magnificent series of historical novels aimed at demythologizing the American past, 1876 chronicles the political scandals and dark intrigues that rocked the United States in its centennial year. ------Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler, Aaron Burr's unacknowledged son, returns to a flamboyant America after his long, self-imposed European exile. The narrator of Burr has come home to recoup a lost fortune by arranging a suitable marriage for his beautiful daughter, the widowed Princess d'Agrigente, and by ingratiating himself with Samuel Tilden, the favored presidential candidate in the centennial year. With these ambitions and with their own abundant charms, Schuyler and his daughter soon find themselves at the centers of American social and political power at a time when the fading ideals of the young republic were being replaced by the excitement of empire. ------"A glorious piece of writing," said Jimmy Breslin in Harper's. "Vidal can take history and make it powerful and astonishing." Time concurred: "Vidal has no peers at breathing movement and laughter into the historical past." ------With a new Introduction by the author.
