Download or read book Getting To First Base With Danalda Chase written by Matt Beam and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the party, and for the rest of the summer, I couldn’t stop thinking about girls and baseball. I was beginning to think Ralph was right about the connection between the two. Both look pretty simple from the outside: there’s a ball, you hit it, you run; there’s a girl, you like her, you take her out. But in the end, they both end up being way more complicated. Life is changing for Darcy Spillman. Being the quiet, baseball-crazy kid was fine in primary school when you had two best friends to hang with, but the rulebook is different in junior high. Ralph’s defected to the in-crowd. Nerdy Dwight finds a new friend who’s even nerdier. But Danalda Chase, the impossibly pretty, totally cool girl, is suddenly very interested in Darcy, and he’s not sure what to do. He can’t ask his grandpa, who’s been acting very strange lately—and the only thing Darcy knows is baseball. Maybe the rules of the game will work for his social life? In a funny, often poignant and always intelligent story, Matt Beam mines the classic connections between baseball, love and life. With its combination of sensitive hero and baseball lore, Getting to First Base with Danalda Chase will resonate with both boys and girls.

Download or read book Gentle Reads written by Deanna J. McDaniel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume recommends some 500 positive, heart-warming stories for young readers—stories of the human spirit and what it can accomplish; stories of loving families surviving crises in positive ways; historical tales full of quick-witted people (especially girls); fairy tales with strong women; true stories of survival; and more. These gentle and uplifting reads span every genre—from science fiction and fantasy, to mysteries, realistic fiction, biographies, and nonfiction. They are Accelerated Reader titles, Reading Counts titles, and Junior Library Guild selections. Primarily intended for grades 5 to 9, this is a list of reading suggestions for the young adult who wants a great read but does not want to be offended. Grades 5-9.

Download or read book Can You Spell Revolution written by Matt Beam and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new kid at school, Clouds McFadden, and his friends decide to take lessons from revolutionary figures in history when they deal with boring routines and tyrannical teachers at Laverton Middle School.

Download or read book School Library Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 1282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bulletin of the Center for Children s Books written by University of Chicago. Center for Children's Books and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Children s Book Review Index 2008 written by Dana Ferguson and published by Children's Book Review Index C. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Childrens Book Review Index contains review citations to give your students and researchers access to reviewers comments and opinions on thousands of books, periodicals, books on tape and electronic media intended and/ or recommended for children through age 10. The volume makes it easy to find a review by authors name, book title or illustrator and fully indexes more than 600 periodicals.

Download or read book Earth to Nathan Blue written by Matt Beam and published by Puffin. This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since his father left home, Nathan Blue has lived in a world of his own imagination. Inspired by an old TV show, he spends his time meeting Plutonians, hunting babylions and trying to deal with the humanoids at the Boredom Academy. But his home life becomes increasingly difficult when his worried mother demands an end to "this imagination business,"and his new friend, Sheron, starts to wonder if Nathan even really understands the difference between his fantasy world and real life. Complex, illusory, real and funny, this is the story of an earthbound but all-too-human Plutonian--Nathan Blue.

Download or read book Quill Quire written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Book Review Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Children s Books in Print 2007 written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Last December written by Matt Beam and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2009-12-29 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen-year-old Steven needs to explain something— everything—to his sister, Sam. She needs to know about Jenny from his new high school, and how the freckles on her arm make his synapses go crazy. She needs to know about eighteen-year old dropout Byron, all his fascinating ideas about chaos and coolness and trying to keep it together. And she definitely needs to know about what drastic measures Steven is now considering and why. He needs to get this all down, so that some day Sam'll know what happened to him—to all of them—last December.

Download or read book Lily B on the Brink of Cool written by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-05-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lily attempts to turn around the most boring summer ever. And when she meets Karla and her incredibly cool parents, her summer gets even better because she learns they are her relatives.

Download or read book A Traitor to Memory written by Elizabeth George and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 1165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Eugenie Davies is killed by a driver on a quiet London street, her death is clearly no accident. Someone struck her with a car and then deliberately ran over her body before driving off, leaving nothing behind but questions. What brought Eugenie Davies to London on a rainy autumn night? Why was she carrying the name of the man who found her body? Who among the many acquaintances in her complicated and tragic life could have wanted her dead? And could her murder have some connection to a twenty-eight-year-old musical wunderkind, a virtuoso violinist who several months earlier suddenly and inexplicably lost the ability to play a single note? For Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, whose own domestic life is about to change radically, these questions are only the first in an investigation that leads him to walk a fine line between personal loyalty and professional honor. Assigned to the case by his superior, Superintendent Malcolm Webberly, Lynley learns that Webberly's first murder investigation as a DI over twenty years ago involved Eugenie Davies and a sensational criminal trial. Yet what is truly damaging is what Webberly already knows and no doubt wants Lynley to keep concealed. Now the pressure is on Lynley to find Eugenie Davies' killer. For not only is he putting his own career into jeopardy, but he is also attempting to safeguard the careers of his longtime partners Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata. Together, they must untangle the dark secrets and darker passions of a family whose history conceals the truth behind a horrific crime.

Download or read book The 101 Best Graphic Novels written by Stephen Weiner and published by NBM. This book was released on 2005 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a concise guide to the best graphic novels that are currently in print and available, written by an enthusiast and expert in this popular field.

Download or read book Whole Language Teaching Whole hearted Practice written by Monica Taylor and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This seminal collection brings together the multiple perspectives of whole language educators over the course of the past thirty-five years. The essays illustrate the complex ways in which whole language teachers have been and continue to be political activists through their interactions with students; the teachers' beliefs about teaching, learning, and curriculum; their commitment to critical thinking and social justice; their collaborative engagements with other teachers; their role as leaders of change in schools and communities; and, finally, their activism in society. Although many believe that we are living in a climate where the term «whole language» is considered taboo, the contributors to this book demonstrate hopefulness for the future of whole language: as Yetta and Ken Goodman write in the concluding chapter, «whole language is alive and well.»