Download or read book Mistmantle Chronicles Book One The Urchin of the Riding Stars written by M. I. McAllister and published by Disney-Hyperion. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The start of an exciting new trilogy, Urchin of the Riding Stars is an epic, Shakespearian story of murder, treachery and revenge set on the island of Mistmantle, a world of squirrels, otters, and moles.
Download or read book Urchin of the Riding Stars written by Margaret I. McAllister and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of animals learns about friendship and loyalty when they band together to defend their island kingdom against evil forces, with the help of an orphaned squirrel.
Download or read book Urchin and the Heartstone written by Mcallister and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return to the mysterious island of Mistmantle in this brilliantly imagined tale of turmoil and terror, full of wonderful animal characters. Book Two of The Mistmantle Chronicles.
Download or read book The Mistmantle Chronicles Book One Urchin of the Riding Stars written by M.I. McAllister and published by Disney-Hyperion. This book was released on 2006-09-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of animals, led by an orphaned squirrel, learns about friendship and loyalty when they band together to defend their island kingdom against evil forces.
Download or read book Mistmantle Chronicles Book Two The Urchin and the Heartstone written by M.I. McAllister and published by Disney-Hyperion. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trying to save the island of Mistmantle from evil, Urchin, an orphaned squirrel, travels to a hostile island to meet King Silverbirch and his sorcerer, Smokewreath, and faces many challenges.
Download or read book Mistmantle Chronicles The Urchin of the Riding Stars Book 1 written by M.i. Mcallister and published by Miramax. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of animals, led by an orphaned squirrel, learns about friendship and loyalty when they band together to defend their island kingdom against evil forces.
Download or read book The Mistmantle Chronicles Book Five Urchin and the Rage Tide written by M.I. McAllister and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The animals of Mistmantle have enjoyed a long period of peace and prosperity since the violent Raven War. Their tranquility is disrupted when tidal waves threaten to destroy the island. Mossberry, a squirrel with delusions of grandeur, sees the impending disaster as an opportunity to rise to power...and his reckless decisions will put many citizens in harm's way. Urchin of the Riding Stars must stop Mossberry and usher everyone to safety before it is too late. Along the way, the ultimate sacrifice must be made for the survival of all. Deeply moving and packed with adventure, this is a fitting conclusion to the beloved Mistmantle Chronicles.
Download or read book Mistmantle Chronicles Book Four The Urchin and the Raven War written by M.I. McAllister and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his last adventures, Urchin of the Riding Stars has taken his place as a trusted member of the Circle in King Crispin's court. Life on the island is back to normal, with little Princess Catkin growing up and testing everyone’s patience in the process. But daily life is disrupted when Lord Arcneck and other inhabitants of Swan Isle come to Mistmantle asking for help. Their home has been taken over by bloodthirsty ravens that are attacking them and ravaging everything in sight. The brave animals of Mistmantle rush to the aid of their friends, but in doing so, incur the wrath of the invaders upon themselves. The vengeful ravens are powerful and won’t stop until they hunt down and destroy every creature on the island. Only by using all of their courage and cunning will Urchin and his friends stand a chance to preserve life as they know it on their beloved home.
Download or read book The Heir of Mistmantle written by Margaret I. McAllister and published by Paw Prints. This book was released on 2009-07-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the newborn Princess Catkin disappears right before the Naming Ceremony, and all clues point to her caretaker, the islanders must band together and overcome their greatest fears to save her and restore order to their beloved home. Reprint.
Download or read book A Storm of Strawberries written by Jo Cotterill and published by Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darby loves summer on her family's strawberry farm - but is the weather about to turn? A UK nomination for IBBY's List of Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities 2019 Darby is twelve and has Down's syndrome. Her favourite things are music, chocolate, and her big sister Kaydee. It's nearly time for the annual chocolate hunt, the highlight of Darby's year, but Kaydee has brought a friend home for the weekend. Suddenly both the chocolate hunt and her favourite person are in danger of slipping away... and to make things worse, the family's strawberry farm is hit by a tornado. When the storm clears, what will be left? And can Darby mend what's been broken when nobody will listen to her? A warm, thoughtful and empathetic novel from acclaimed author Jo Cotterill.
Download or read book The Tale of a No Name Squirrel written by Radhika R. Dhariwal and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solve riddles with Squirrel as he travels to the walled city of bees, the fireless tea plantation of mice, and treacherous desert full of tricksters in this beautifully written and creative debut adventure. Squirrel never expected to be anything other than a slave: the last animal slave in Bimmau. That is, until he is invited to a high profile wedding and takes a sip of the forbidden ceremonial wine, unlocking a mysterious riddle. The riddle reveals that there is a key which has the power to grant Squirrel his freedom (and a name!), but also could enslave anyone in Bimmau. Disastrous if it falls into the wrong hands! Squirrel and his friends find themselves in a race to find Brittle’s Key before the army of crows gets to him…and before the mysterious Colonel finds the key first.
Download or read book Jack and Jill written by Louisa May Alcott and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Little Women: An American classic of young best friends in a rustic New England town. In post–Civil War New England, thirteen-year-old Jack Minot and Janey Pecq are inseparable best friends who live next door to each other in the town of Harmony Village. The pair does everything together—so much so that Janey is nicknamed “Jill” to fit the old children’s rhyme. One winter day, the friends share a sled down a treacherous hill and both end up injured and bedridden. Unable to go out and have fun, Jack, Jill, and their circle of friends begin to learn about more than the fun and games of their youth and discover what it means to grow up—exploring their town, their hearts, and the big, wide world beyond for the first time. This charming, wistful coming-of-age tale, written twelve years after Louisa May Alcott’s classic Little Women, examines the strange, tempestuous changes of adolescence with homespun heart and worldly wisdom.
Download or read book It s Raining Fish and Spiders written by Bill Evans and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the things Bill Evans enjoys the most is talking to young people about weather. Middle-schoolers in particular, Evans says, are deeply interested in the natural world and in weather. It's Raining Fish and Spiders covers everything, from tornadoes and hurricanes to lightning and the different kinds of snowflakes. Evans addresses weather myths and facts, from "Can it really rain fish?" to "Will opening a window save my house during a tornado?" Evans also tells his most exciting personal weather stories: flying with the Hurricane Hunters, riding pell-mell through Tornado Alley with storm chasers, and visiting the coldest place on Earth. The book includes simple weather experiments that can be performed at home without expensive equipment. Extensively researched, fact-filled, and packed with charts, tables, illustrations, and amazing photographs, It's Raining Fish and Spiders is an entertaining and educational addition to the library of anyone interested in weather, science, and the natural world. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Spillover Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic written by David Quammen and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerginghuman diseases.
Download or read book Finding Orion written by John David Anderson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of Ms. Bixby’s Last Day and Posted returns with an unforgettable tale of love and laughter, of fathers and sons, of what family truly means, and of the ways in which we sometimes need to lose something in order to find ourselves. Celebrate dads and Father's Day year-round with this warm and witty novel for tweens. Rion Kwirk comes from a rather odd family. His mother named him and his sisters after her favorite constellations, and his father makes funky-flavored jellybeans for a living. One sister acts as if she’s always on stage, and the other is a walking dictionary. But no one in the family is more odd than Rion’s grandfather, Papa Kwirk. He’s the kind of guy who shows up on his motorcycle only on holidays handing out crossbows and stuffed squirrels as presents. Rion has always been fascinated by Papa Kwirk, especially as his son—Rion’s father—is the complete opposite. Where Dad is predictable, nerdy, and reassuringly boring, Papa Kwirk is mysterious, dangerous, and cool. Which is why, when Rion and his family learn of Papa Kwirk’s death and pile into the car to attend his funeral and pay their respects, Rion can’t help but feel that that’s not the end of his story. That there’s so much more to Papa Kwirk to discover. He doesn’t know how right he is.
Download or read book Relentless written by Tom Madsen and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing first out of despair, but gradually opening to a broader awareness, Tom Madsen captures all the emotion and wonder of a family's journey with cancer, death, and the depths of grief. But they emerge from - or are pulled out of - the morass of grief by their son from the Other Side of the Veil. Tom's son Kevin is the Relentless personality threading through this story. As a boy and a young man, Kevin exults in his physical abilities. He climbs rocks and trees with animal grace and power. He's a formidable athlete, especially on the football and rugby fields. He is strikingly handsome. His physique, chiseled. We follow the Madsens from California to Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Boston, and finally back to California. The boys (Kevin has a brother, Gustavo) grow up speaking English, Portuguese, and Spanish. They spend the boys' formative years in Danville, California, near San Francisco. It is an idyllic family setting. But in December 2014, their idyllic life shatters. Kevin - now sixteen - finds a lump on the back of his left thigh. The diagnosis comes back as Rhabdomyosarcoma, a soft-tissue cancer. So begins a three and a half year battle: surgeries; radiation; chemotherapy. Hair loss. Retching. Life in patches, between remissions and relapses. Kevin exceeds all doctor's predictions, and handles cancer with courage, grace, and composure beyond his years. But the disease is patient, and slowly drains even his immense drive and reserves. He passes in June 2018, just one month shy of his twentieth birthday. But this is where the story really begins... "My wife Marilene and I belong to that club that none of us wants to join, and that I would not wish on anyone: the club of parents who've lost children." says Tom. "No other loss can compare. You're emptied: a shell." "But soon after Kevin passed, we began to receive signs from him. They came in many forms: animals; insects; birds; lights; cell phones acting up; license plates; messages in films; odd encounters. You can dismiss some as coincidence. But as you receive more and more, and as they defy the probabilities of coincidence, as they become more insistent, we were forced to acknowledge them. We thanked Kevin. And we asked for more. We even made specific requests. And Kevin answers most of our requests, and he always seems to answer them with Love, Warmth, and often with humor or with the steely determination he showed in life." "All my life, I believed that our spirits survived death." Tom continues. "The gift that Kevin has given us is that now we know our spirits survive. He has made this abundantly - sometimes even bluntly - clear. So much of Kevin comes across - and so strongly - that we no longer doubt the afterlife at all. And this knowing alters how we think about this life, in a freeing, liberating way." "Through it all, I felt a pull, a role reversal. I morphed from father, teacher, coach, disciplinarian... to pupil, novice, as Kevin taught and revealed more from the other side." "Relentless is the story I wish we had had while Kevin was fighting cancer." Tom concludes. "Had we known then what we know now, we might have handled some things differently, or taken more comfort in the knowledge that - whatever the outcome - he and we would be alright." For everyone who has suffered loss. For everyone who has ever wondered what's there after we die. In short, Relentless is for everyone.
Download or read book One Snowy Night written by M. Christina Butler and published by Good Books. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magical story of friendship with a soft, textured finish on the cozy red hat, perfect for little fingers to trace. One snowy Christmas, a cold little hedgehog wakes from his winter sleep to find a present from Father Christmas. It’s a snug, woolly red hat – just what he needs. But when Little Hedgehog tries to wear the hat his prickles get in the way and it won’t fit. Then Little Hedgehog has a wonderful idea . . .
