Download or read book Meet Calliope Day written by Charles Haddad and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calliope has a wild and wacky day after she's sent to the after-school program and gets bored. Filled with laugh-out-loud scenes, Haddad's first book introduces an outrageously original heroine--a Ramona for the millennium.--Kirkus Reviews.

Download or read book Meet Calliope Day written by Charles Haddad and published by Yearling. This book was released on 1999-08-10 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Determine to get back the pink fangs which her teacher took from her in school one day, nine-year-old Calliope needs first of all to win over the "witch" next door.

Download or read book Calliope Day Falls in Love written by Charles Haddad and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While trying to discover who left a love poem in Noreen's ice cream during a blackout at the roller rink, fourth-grader Calliope Day learns some very interesting facts about boys.

Download or read book Skinnybones written by Barbara Park and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you thought Junie B. Jones was FUNNY—catch more laughs from New York Times bestselling author Barbara Park with Skinnybones! Just right for fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and I Funny, Skinnybones has been a kid and teacher favorite for almost thirty years and has sold over 1 MILLION copies! Play ball??? Alex Frankovitch is the smallest, second-worst kid on his team. But he has a MAJOR-LEAGUE-sized mouth. And it gets him into MAJOR-LEAGUE trouble! Even Alex knows he’s gone too far when he brags his way into a pitching contest with T.J. Stoner, the best player—and BIGGEST jerk—in the whole school (and maybe the whole world!). Can Alex talk his way out this mess? Or is he in for the GRAND SLAM of all humiliations? Find out in the award-winning, laugh-out-loud novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Junie B. Jones! “Park is one of the funniest writers around. Skinnybones equals tickled funnybones.” —Booklist “Hilarious! Even if you don’t know center field from first base this story will keep you laughing.” —Children’s Book Review Service “Park writes…in a way that touches reality, but makes the reader double over with laughter.” —Chicago Sun-Times

Download or read book Rosie Swanson Fourth Grade Geek for President written by Barbara Park and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vote for Rosie! Sure, she wears geeky-looking glasses and she tattles on her classmates. But, hey, snitching has its good side. Thanks to Rosie, Ronald Milligan has stopped blowing his nose in the water fountain. And now, Rosie is determined to do even more for her classmates -- by becoming president of the fourth grade! With the help of her two best (and only) friends, Rosie devises a brilliant campaign to defeat the two most popular kids in her class: soccer star Alan Allen and model-wannabe Summer Lynne Jones. But when despicable Alan steals Rosie's unbeatable campaign slogans, it's time to watch out! Nosy Rosie is on the warpath!

Download or read book The Kid in the Red Jacket written by Barbara Park and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you thought Junie B. Jones was FUNNY—catch more laughs from New York Times bestselling author Barbara Park with her hilarious middle-grade novels—just right for fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and I Funny! Can Howard SURVIVE life without friends? Howard Jeeter’s parents have ruined his life. They’ve moved him across the country, and all the kids in his new town act like he’s totally invisible. At least, all of them except for his six-year-old neighbor, Molly Vera Thompson. Howard could use a friend. But a little girl who talks nonstop? Not what he had in mind. Still, when you’re really lonely, you’ll be friends with anyone…right? An IRA-CBC Children’s Choice A Library of Congress Children’s Book of the Year A Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner * “Park writes in a witty and bittersweet style about the awkward, supersensitive age of early adolescence. Another first-rate addition to the middle-grade popular reading shelf.” —School Library Journal, Starred “[A] witty middle-grade novel.” —Publishers Weekly

Download or read book All of a Kind Family written by Sydney Taylor and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2011-01-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the All-of-a-Kind Family -- Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte, and Gertie -- who live with their parents in New York City at the turn of the century. Together they share adventures that find them searching for hidden buttons while dusting Mama's front parlor and visiting with the peddlers in Papa's shop on rainy days. The girls enjoy doing everything together, especially when it involves holidays and surprises. But no one could have prepared them for the biggest surprise of all!

Download or read book Calliope written by Scott Mari and published by Scott Mari. This book was released on 2020-06-17 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the Earth quelled the violence after the alien invasion, teams of engineers went to the moon to create ships capable of fighting back. After they cleared the dead, the Lunar Colony reopened as a technology hub to mine asteroids for materials to turn into starships. Calliope Morrigan arrived on the moon, completing designs for a ship. The military hated her small ship and backed Mattias, an engineer promising a ship so large it would require fusion reactors, a technology still beyond their reach. Arn Lasserman, head of nuclear engineering, allied with Calliope to create a stronger ship with engines he designed, cementing the enmity of her rivals. The violence against Calliope escalates as her ship nears completion. Rivals for control of resources, cluster time, and engines escalate as satellites range farther out into the solar system for metals to build their ships. A nest of aliens is discovered close enough to attack without warning. The pressure ramps as humanity’s ability to survive hangs in the balance. Calliope must find ways to make crucial alliances to survive. She pushes technology to its limits, but can she propel her humanity forward in time to fight the aliens?

Download or read book Chasing the Albino Pygmy Giraffe written by Charles Haddad and published by Barking Dogwood Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Chasing the Albino Pygmy Giraffe” is a laugh aloud yet insightful parody about how little Chinese and Americans understand one another. The story unfolds as a college professor leads a group of American and Chinese students 3,500 miles across the heart of Western China down the fabled Silk Road. Along the way, the travelers brave everything from squat toilets and donkey meat to insurrection and the Red Army. Author Charles Haddad is eminently qualified to spoof Chinese and Americans alike. Not only has he seen more of China than most Chinese themselves. Haddad speaks Chinese and is well versed in Chinese history and culture. While fiction, Haddad’s tale rings true. It offers great insight for those worrying about the future of Sino-American relations. And worry they should, suggests this humorous adventure story.

Download or read book Flower Moon written by Gina Linko and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tally Jo and Tempest Trimble are mirror twins, so alike they were almost born the same person. Inseparable, but more than that. Connected. That is, until this summer. The twins are traveling with Pa Charlie’s carnival just like always, but there’s a new distance between them. Tempest is so caught up in her own ideas, she doesn’t seem to have space left in her life for Tally. And, more than that, Tally’s started to notice there’s something between them. Something real, growing with the phases of the moon, pushing them apart. Sparking, sputtering, wild. Dangerous. With the full moon approaching, Tally knows it’s up to her to find out what’s going on—and to beat it. If she can’t, she might just lose her sister. Forever. For fans of Savvy and A Snicker of Magic, this is a spellbinding story of friendship and family—a poignant ode to both what’s worth holding on to and what we have to let go.

Download or read book The Tailor written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rocked by Romance written by Carolyn Carpan and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2004-04-30 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a guide to teenage romance fiction which focuses on themes of dating, first love, and sexuality, and includes annotations for each book.

Download or read book With Love from Spain Melanie Martin written by Carol Weston and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third of the popular Melanie Martin books finds Melanie in Spain—and caught up in her first romance! Dear Diary, All of us are excited about this vacation, but Mom might be too excited. Mel is back and off to Spain, the land of bullfights, flamenco, and Picasso. But this is no ordinary vacation—the Martins are visiting Mom’s old boyfriend. Mel’s worried that Mom might still have feelings for Antonio . . . until she meets Antonio’s son, Miguel, who’s almost exactly Mel’s age—and cute! So instead of spying on Mom for Dad, she ends up getting pretty distracted herself. . . .

Download or read book Leveled Books for Readers Grades 3 6 written by Gay Su Pinnell and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes more than 6000 leveled books - cover.

Download or read book The Nine Muses written by Aisha Urooj and published by Aisha Urooj. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something strange is going on with the Muses. They can't write. They can't sing. They can't dance. They can't do anything right. They say Muses inspire the greatest of artists, artisans, thinkers, and poets, but what will inspire them? Zeus sees his nine daughters struggling with their talents, so he orders them to go to a mortal high school. Perhaps, he reasons, they will find inspiration there under the careful guidance and tutelage of Headmistress Ehtel. Zeus hopes his idea works... that the visit sparks his daughters' interests again or this will be the end of creativity, as we know it. The muses are not amused. Thalia, the muse of Comedy, proclaims that 'High school is where creativity goes to die'. With the headmistress, and their father, dead set against anything remotely fun, her sisters agree. In the mortal world, the humans meet the Muses for the first time but the nine sisters have biases against them. Calliope, the leader, vows to turn anyone who annoys her into a bird. Her sight is set on Henry, the insufferable human with the cute smile. Can the mortals survive the feisty nine daughters of Zeus, or will they fall victims to their immortal prejudices? Despite all their efforts, things go from bad to worse. Even with their lessons, the muses are forgetting their talents. But when they start disappearing, one by one, perhaps there is actually something or someone behind it all? Is there a dark and sinister nemesis they are unaware of? Can they find out who it is before they all disappear? Don't miss this fun new release! Topics: urban fantasy, comedy, humorous fantasy, discworld, good omens, fantasy books, fantasy novel, funny urban fantasy, best urban fantasy, best fantasy, cozy mystery, cosy mystery, greek mythology, percy jackson, harry potter Perfect for fans of J.R.R. Tolkien, Brandon Sanderson, P.G. Wodehouse, A. Lee Martinez, Robert Rankin, Douglas Adams, Eoin Colfer, Christopher Moore, Robert Asprin, Ben Aaronovitch, Tom Holt, Terry Pratchett, J.K. Rowling, Jasper Fforde, Neil Gaiman, piers anthony, Rick Riordan

Download or read book The London Trilogy written by Edward St. Boniface and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a trilogy about three young men finding the fulfillment of their youthful ambitions, from the late 1980s onwards, in rock music and journalism, up to the present day and middle age. As middle age comes on, each must accept a wider responsibility for their past sins. Having either emigrated to or been born in London, all of them become caught up in tantalising opportunities in the capital to fulfill their ambitions of success and fame. Each of them also finds that success comes with an immense price for them personally, and private failures that unmercifully torment them. Their hopeful idealism and dreams become tainted by ruthlessness, opportunism and betrayal of their principles. As each character grows older, he realises he wants to redeem himself and somehow resolve the worst things he has perpetrated in his life – but true redemption requires genuine sacrifice; one even more intense and difficult than their hard-won successes of the past. It may be more than any of them can endure. All of this happens against the background of London’s fantastic, fabulous variety and wealth and exoticism, opportunity and glamour, corruption and poverty and loneliness and harshness. Its pitfalls, rewards and insatiable demands as a fast-moving cultural and media capital are a significant part of the novel’s tone, with an intensified sense of time and place. Edward St. Boniface takes inspiration from a wide range of authors, including Ray Bradbury, Mark Z. Danielewski and David Foster Wallace. The London Trilogy is a work of adult contemporary fiction that will appeal to fans of highbrow and literary novels, bildungsromans and satire.

Download or read book Big Sur Marvels and Wondrous Delights written by David Detrich and published by David Detrich. This book was released on 2001 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: