Download or read book In Search of Real Monsters written by Richard Freeman and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From animals long believed extinct to monsters we thought never existed —a cryptozoologist’s true accounts of his worldwide hunt for legendary creatures. Cryptozoologist Richard Freeman has spent years researching and tracking down mythical monsters. In this book, he recounts more riveting monster hunt stories from his globetrotting adventures: through the dense forests of Sumatra on the trail of a mystery ape known as the orang-pendek, to Tasmania in search of the thylacine or Tasmanian wolf. Every corner of Earth has its own monster —even in the traceless Gobi Desert, where he searches for the Mongolian death worm, a creature so feared by the nomads that it can send a whole community into a panic. Freeman also provides excellent advice on how to carry out your own cryptozoological expeditions from scratch—with information on: what equipment to take inoculations how to choose which mythical animals to hunt planning ahead the importance of getting good local guides, and more

Download or read book Mia and the Monsters Search for Shapes written by Neil Christopher and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let's look for shapes! In this interactive book, children can join Mia and her monster friends as they look for different shapes on the tundra.

Download or read book Mia and the Monsters Search for Shapes written by Neil Christopher and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let's look for shapes! In this interactive book, children can join Mia and her monster friends as they look for different shapes on the tundra.

Download or read book Mia and the Monsters Search for Shapes written by Neil Christopher and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let's look for shapes! In this interactive book, children can join Mia and her monster friends as they look for different shapes on the tundra.

Download or read book A Mango Shaped Space written by Wendy Mass and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2008-11-16 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning book from the author of Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life and The Candymakers for fans for of Wonder and Counting by Sevens Mia Winchell has synesthesia, the mingling of perceptions whereby a person can see sounds, smell colors, or taste shapes. Forced to reveal her condition, she must look to herself to develop an understanding and appreciation of her gift in this coming-of-age novel.

Download or read book Lamia s Blood written by Lacey Carter Andersen and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am the greatest of monsters...Thousands of years ago I made a mistake. A terrible mistake that cost me everything. My dearest husband. My beloved children.Even my humanity.My curse makes me dangerous to all those around me, so I've secluded myself where I can never hurt another person again.But the Fates have other plans for me that don't include hiding for eternity. Three gargoyles I killed have returned from the dead to seek, not only revenge against me, but also to remove the curse I've inadvertently passed onto them. But if they can't provide me with the blood I need to quench my hunger, all of humanity will be in danger on our path.And so, we strike a deal: they'll provide me with blood, and I'll help to seek the answers to end this curse.I'd be lying if I didn't say I was afraid. Of trusting my enemies, yes, but more than anything, of trusting myself. I am a bloodthirsty monster that can shift into a dangerous form, that feeds on blood, that kills. Am I a fool to think I could be anything more?LAMIA'S BITE is a paranormal reverse harem romance featuring a vampiristic heroine and three sexy gargoyles. This is also a #whychoose romance, meaning our heroine doesn't need to choose between her love interests. And like all the books in this series, it's so hot it might just boil your blood!

Download or read book Tuktu Says written by Nadia Sammurtok and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tuktu and his friends are playing Tuktu Says. Join in and play with them! In this interactive book, children can play along by doing the actions with the characters in the book. With interactive books, children are encouraged to actively participate in the stories they are listening to. Through directions or instructional text, children are encouraged to play, move, or make sounds along with the characters in the book.

Download or read book My Favorite Thing is Monsters written by Emil Ferris and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karen’s investigation takes us back to Anka’s life in Nazi Germany, the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge.

Download or read book The Stolen Crown written by TM Watkins and published by TM Watkins. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walking home from her work’s Christmas party, Mia is abducted by a vampire and taken to another world where she is sold as sustenance. When the vampire that owns her feeds on Mia, something goes incredibly wrong. Mia escapes, fleeing into the unknown world where she has no one that she can trust and has no idea how to get back to Earth. Hiding from the vampires becomes Mia’s new life in this strange world. Once a mighty figure, Jodan has lost it all. After trusting the wrong people, he was sentenced to death. Escape was his only option. Jodan quickly becomes a figure of darkness that stalks through the shadows at night and keeps a low profile during the day. The treachery has filled Jodan with distrust, leaving him a bitter husk that keeps everyone at a distance. Jodan finds Mia, thinking she is the enemy. He soon learns it is not the case, and after hearing the sad tale of how she ended up in his world, Jodan agrees to help Mia. Their partnership is frosty at best, filled with questions from an inquisitive human and a fae warrior who would prefer to be left alone. Mia wants to return to Earth, and Jodan wants to go back to the life that he’d once had. As their journey progresses, Jodan and Mia search for answers to their problems, soon realizing that there is something far better in front of them. In order to get what they want; they must learn to trust each other.

Download or read book Have You Seen My Dragon written by Steve Light and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invite young readers to practice counting to twenty while helping a small boy search the city for his pet dragon.

Download or read book The Ice Monster written by David Walliams and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as “the heir to Roald Dahl” by The Spectator, the UK’s #1 bestselling children’s author, David Walliams, will have fans of Jeff Kinney and Rachel Renee Russell in stitches! David Walliams burst on to the American scene with his New York Times bestseller Demon Dentist, and now he’s bringing his signature humor to this story of a ten-year-old orphan and a 10,000-year-old mammoth. When Elsie, an orphan on the streets of Victorian London, hears about the mysterious Ice Monster—a woolly mammoth found at the North Pole—she’s determined to discover more.... Luckily, a chance encounter brings Elsie face to face with the creature, sparking the adventure of a lifetime—from London to the heart of the Arctic!

Download or read book Chase s Calendar of Events 2019 written by Editors of Chase's and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out what's going on any day of the year, anywhere across the globe! The world’s date book, Chase's is the definitive day-by-day resource of what America and the world are celebrating and commemorating. From national days to celebrity birthdays, from historical anniversaries to astronomical phenomena, from award ceremonies and sporting events to religious festivals and carnivals, Chase's is the must-have reference used by experts and professionals—a one-stop shop with 12,500 entries for everything that is happening now or is worth remembering from the past. Completely updated for 2019, Chase's also features extensive appendices as well as a companion website that puts the power of Chase's at the user's fingertips. 2019 is packed with special events and observances, including The International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements The Transit of Mercury National days and public holidays of every nation on Earth Celebrations and observances of Leonardo da Vinci's 500th death anniversary The 100th anniversary of the 1919 World Series Scandal The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing The 200th birthdays of Queen Victoria and Walt Whitman The 150th birth anniversary of Mohandas Gandhi and the 100th birth anniversary of Jackie Robinson Scores of new holidays and national days Birthdays of new world leaders, office holders, and breakout stars And much more! All from the reference book that NPR's Planet Money calls the "Oxford English Dictionary of holidays."

Download or read book The Perfidious Caim written by Ankita Bansode and published by Ankita Bansode. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the past knocks on your door, you have very little choice but not to ignore it. To add on a camp turning into an unsolicited adventure that no one wished for. But what happens when evil is overpowering and your past meets your present. Will Adrian have answers to everything? - The Perfidious Caim by Ankita Bansode

Download or read book Mia Mayhem and the Super Switcheroo written by Kara West and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mia’s best friend, Eddie, becomes SUPER in this tenth adventure of the Mia Mayhem chapter book series! One day, Mia wakes up to find that none of her superpowers work. She can’t fly, she doesn’t have superspeed, and she definitely can’t lift an elephant anymore. Not only that, it turns out that her best friend, Eddie, who’s always been just a regular kid, wakes up to be totally SUPER! With Mia and Eddie now in each other’s shoes, will they be able to work together to get through this super switcheroo? With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Mia Mayhem chapter books are perfect for emerging readers.

Download or read book The Gone Away World written by Nick Harkaway and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious, action-packed look at the apocalypse that combines a touching tale of friendship, a thrilling war story, and an all out kung-fu infused mission to save the world. “A flat-out ferociously good novel.... Reads like a surrealist smashup of Pynchon and Pratchett, Vonnegut and Heller.” —Austin Chronicle Gonzo Lubitch and his best friend have been inseparable since birth. They grew up together, they studied kung-fu together, they rebelled in college together, and they fought in the Go Away War together. Now, with the world in shambles and dark, nightmarish clouds billowing over the wastelands, they have been tapped for an incredibly perilous mission. But they quickly realize that this assignment is more complex than it seems, and before it is over they will have encountered everything from mimes, ninjas, and pirates to one ultra-sinister mastermind, whose only goal is world domination.

Download or read book Groggle s Monster Valentine written by Diana Murray and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groggle has been up all night making a Valentine’s Day card. This isn’t just any Valentine, though, and it has to be perfect—it’s for Snarlina, his beast friend in the whole wide world. Searching in the dark forest, he finds just the right heart-shaped leaves. He collects some bog slime and squirts everything he wants to say in bold, gooey letters. Groggle’s creation looks horribly good. But there’s just one problem—gobble, crunch, crunch, slurp! He has a monster appetite! Groggle tries again, this time writing poem after poem to make sure he has some extras just in case. He picks skunk flowers, carefully ties on snake bows, and sprinkles shiny beetle glitter. He decorates each card with care. But . . . gobble, crunch, crunch, slurp! Groggle’s monster impulses foil his efforts and he’s run out of time. Will Groggle ever be able to give his toothsome, stomping, monstrous friend Snarlina a Valentine? Find out in this monster of a tale. Sky Pony Press, with our Good Books, Racehorse and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of books for young readers—picture books for small children, chapter books, books for middle grade readers, and novels for young adults. Our list includes bestsellers for children who love to play Minecraft; stories told with LEGO bricks; books that teach lessons about tolerance, patience, and the environment, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Download or read book Always October written by Bruce Coville and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Bruce Coville, the master of tween comic suspense, comes a tale of monsters, the bond between brothers, and saving the world. Jake's baby brother, LD, may be a monster (complete with fangs and fur!), but together with his best friend, Lily, Jake isn't going to let anything happen to that baby. Even if it turns out LD may be the key to saving the world—or destroying it. Soon Jake and Lily are on a perilous quest through Always October, a land populated with monsters. Perfect for fans of Bruce Coville's beloved books, such as Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher, the Unicorn Chronicles series, and My Teacher Is an Alien series.