Download or read book Girls Guts and Glory written by Adeline Foo and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Diary of Amos Lee Girls Guts and Glory written by Adeline Foo and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I write my diary in the toilet to get away from my troubles like having to compete with Michael the bully who’s in the swim team with me and falling out with my best friend Alvin over a girl! This year has been full of ups and downs. The good thing is that I’ve been growing UP rather than down having to deal with one thing after another. First I’ve had to work out till my arms and legs nearly fell off while Coach insisted that such discipline was necessary to make a good sportsman. The arrival of a new girl in class my new baby brother a brand new magazine by Anthony and me and a new pet cat meant that there was plenty of stuff happening and I have had to furiously scribble away to keep pace with all the new adventures and excitement in my life including spider babies and lizard’s eggs! And then there are parts that are even more fascinating for I know secrets like how to break my sister’s terrible curse how to win a race and how ba

Download or read book Girls Guts and Glory written by Adeline Foo and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I write my diary in the toilet to get away from my troubles, like having to compete with Michael, the bully who’s in the swim team with me, and falling out with my best friend, Alvin, over a girl! My diary goes wherever I go as there are those who want to read it. For I know secrets, like how to break my sister’s curse and how babies are made…

Download or read book The Diary of Amos Lee I Sit I Write I Flush written by Adeline Foo and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: --Winner, Red Dot Book Awards 2009-2010, Junior Category-- This diary began as Mum’s New Year’s resolution to get me to write. She told me to write when I am doing my big business. “Five to eight minutes max!” she said. “I don’t want you to develop piles!” And so my writing in the bathroom began. My entries started with the boring old stuff…then Mum got this new job as a writer and, following her around, I got to do fun stuff, like ogle at deformed frogs, see into the future with a fortune-telling parrot and wow at a life-sized F1 car made of chocolate! That’s how I got more interesting things to write about. Plus, I had to deal with an EVIL bully who was tormenting me at school…thank goodness for my best friends, Alvin and Anthony, we rallied against the bully and got through the year with lots of adventures and good fun!

Download or read book Whoopie Lee The Big Spell Off written by Adeline Foo and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whoopie’s now 10. She’s smart and sassy—but hardly famous. So she’s decided to do something about it: she’ll join Singapore’s National Spell Off Championship! But wait, there’s a problem. Morticia, her best friend, wants to compete too. Now that really is a BIG complication! There can only be ONE Spelling Bee champ! In their fight for fame, will the two girls have to sacrifice their friendship?

Download or read book Whoopie Lee Almost Famous written by Adeline Foo and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Amos struggling to keep up with studies in secondary school, he has less time to serve as a toilet diarist. That’s where his sister Whoopie (infamously known as WPI) steps in. Her diary is different. She doesn’t follow any rule of thumb. She writes what she wants, when she wants, how she wants. From dabbling in playwriting to training the World’s First Human Poodle, Whoopie Lee will stop at nothing to prove that she is more talented than her brother! What did Amos call her—Whiny, Pesky and Irritating? No, never, she’s going to set the record straight.

Download or read book Lights Camera Superstar written by Adeline Foo and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his diaries are stolen and published, Amos thinks his world is coming to an end. But what he doesn’t realise is that he’s going to become really famous! Adoring fan mail, girls throwing themselves at his feet and, with 5,000 friends on Facebook, yes… FINALLY! Life looks to be turning around! But when a TV Director offers to adapt his diaries into a TV show, Amos learns that a new boy will take over from him in becoming Singapore’s Most Famous Toilet Diarist! Filled with insane jealousy and a desire to right a wrong, Amos vows to do all that he can to stop the show. But will he succeed?

Download or read book Lost in Taipei written by Adeline Foo and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 11 days in TAIPEI, TAIWAN with my best friends. No naggy parents, no pesky siblings. I should be ecstatic, right? But nooo…Mum decided my first trip abroad should be culturally enriching. Which meant boring Chinese lessons. I told myself, stay positive! There’d be lots of bubble tea, all the street snacks I could find, sightseeing…

Download or read book Quokking in Australia written by Adeline Foo and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amos, Alvin and Anthony reunite with Jolin and Sheila, the girls from Malaysia, to visit Perth on an eco-holiday. It’s a wild adventure for these friends, experiencing Australia’s unique wildlife like the spiky echidna, poisonous snakes and the flightless emu. What began as a childish quest to eat the biggest emu eggs becomes a quarrel when Amos is left out in the cold. When Amos flees from his friends in a peeve, he comes across a quokka and decides to keep it. The news of Amos and his friends torturing a captive quokka go viral on social media, and Amos gets into trouble! The media start stalking the kids, and overnight, the threat of being charged and deported out of Australia becomes very real! Will Amos be able to rectify a wrong and save everyone?

Download or read book The Diary of Amos Lee I m Twelve I m Tough I Tweet written by Adeline Foo and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's my last year in junior school and I'm taking part in my school's newly launched Tween Idol Contest! I got myself a Twitter account to gain supporters who will vote for me. I'm furious that my arch enemy Michael is doing th same. Oh man he's everywhere - Facebook IM YouTube you name it while I deal with the worst zit-attack ever besides having to look after Everest while Mum blogs away nonstop! But what he doesn't realize is how poular I am now that I am writing the exciting new journal of the times - Poop Fiction. That alone will win me several thousand fans even though it has made me lose my place on the swim team. And my secret weapon? My sister WPI (Whiny Pesky and Irritating) and her two-girl band. She is so popular these days that it 's good to be her big brother. I'm kind of sad that my best friend Alvin is also running against me in the contest but hey may the best man win. Psst... I've got a few tricks up my sleeve...>

Download or read book Monkeying in Malaysia written by Adeline Foo and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a successful fundraising effort, I was off to Sarawak, Malaysia with my bros Alvin and Anthony for an exciting jungle trek! And, more importantly, I’d get to see my dear friend Jolin. (Mum calls her the “object of my infatuation”.) Our guide, Jolin’s weird “jungle man” Uncle Jufri, warned us to never let our guard down, for the rainforest is full of secrets and surprises. After getting drenched in a thunderstorm, and some icky encounters with mussels, toads, leeches and ants, we thought we’d seen and survived it all. But then there were those footprints, BIGGER THAN A HUMAN’S, that just couldn’t be explained.

Download or read book The Diary of Amos Lee written by Adeline Foo and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something bizarre has happened... my diaries have been STOLEN! Who could have taken them?! I have a sneaking suspicion it’s one of my fans. Yes, I have fans now, HORDES of them! I know the thief has even published my diaries online! My fan-mail just keeps pouring in. My Facebook page too has been buzzing with activity. I have more than 5,000 friends now! FINALLY, life looks like it’s turning around! What’s even better, a TV director has even offered to adapt my diaries into a TV SHOW! Imagine that! I should be jumping with joy, right? But what’s really ridiculous is that I found out that another boy has been chosen to play the lead role... Mine! I must find a way to stop this! I am the ONE and only Amos Lee. If I don’t get to play ME, then no one does.

Download or read book A Patriot s History of the United States written by Larry Schweikart and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-12-29 with total page 1373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of “dead white men.” As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington; more about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II than about D-Day or Iwo Jima; more on the dangers we faced from Joseph McCarthy than those we faced from Josef Stalin. A Patriot’s History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases. In this groundbreaking book, America’s discovery, founding, and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements of public virtue, personal liberty, and private property that make this nation uniquely successful. This book offers a long-overdue acknowledgment of America’s true and proud history.

Download or read book Seoul Searching written by Adeline Foo and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amos Lee and family were off on their first family holiday ever, to Seoul, South Korea! But everyone was caught up in their own thing: Dad kept checking his work emails. Mum and Grandma were chasing down K-pop stars. Whoopie only cared about growing long eyelashes. And Everest was set to win a Choco Pie eating contest. As for Amos, he just wanted to win the Instagram Prize for Popular Youth! But when Grandpa went missing, the family holiday became a living nightmare. Grandpa was lost in a city of TEN MILLION people—how were they going to find him?

Download or read book Predictably Irrational written by Dan Ariely and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intelligent, lively, humorous, and thoroughly engaging, "The Predictably Irrational" explains why people often make bad decisions and what can be done about it.

Download or read book Boston Riots written by Jack Tager and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2001 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating story of Boston's violent past is told for the first time in this history of the city's riots, from the food shortage uprisings in the 18th century to the anti-busing riots of the 20th century.

Download or read book Homo Deus written by Yuval Noah Harari and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity’s future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods. Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. This may seem hard to accept, but, as Harari explains in his trademark style—thorough, yet riveting—famine, plague and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals put together. The average American is a thousand times more likely to die from binging at McDonalds than from being blown up by Al Qaeda. What then will replace famine, plague, and war at the top of the human agenda? As the self-made gods of planet earth, what destinies will we set ourselves, and which quests will we undertake? Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century—from overcoming death to creating artificial life. It asks the fundamental questions: Where do we go from here? And how will we protect this fragile world from our own destructive powers? This is the next stage of evolution. This is Homo Deus. With the same insight and clarity that made Sapiens an international hit and a New York Times bestseller, Harari maps out our future.