Download or read book Mr Tripp Goes for a Skate written by Sandy McKay and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Mr Tripp and Room Five for three great stories about wheels day and an embarrassing fall. Mr Tripp is teaching Room Five about the wheel. On Friday, Wheels Day, everyone is allowed to bring something with wheels. Ted rides a bicycle, Tania wears rollerblades, Jingjing brings her scooter and Lily borrows her brother's BMX. When Miss Filipo suggests Mr Tripp give a skateboard demonstration, it becomes a very exciting day indeed.
Download or read book When Our Jack Went to War written by Sandy McKay and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2013-04-05 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful and moving YA story about two brothers, one of whom goes off to fight in World War One. It’s 1917 and Jack enlists. And although 13-year-old Tom is envious of his elder brother, he soon changes his mind as the reality of war becomes more apparent. We follow Jack’s story through his letters home and through the eyes of his younger brother. Tom writes about life at home in New Zealand: living with Mum and their young sister, Amy, learning to hunt with his uncle, getting a puppy and learning to knit...for the war effort. Jack writes of his first-hand experience in Trentham, the troop ship, Britain, France, the Battle of Messines and finally, Passchendaele. Sadly the story ends with Jack being killed at Passchendaele along with hundreds of other Kiwis. (Of the 180 soldiers in the 2nd Otago Division, 148 lost their lives in one day in New Zealand’s worst ever military disaster.) When Our Jack Went to War is a fictional account of a real life tragedy, based on the author’s research into the death of her own great uncle, who died in 1917. The NZ Post Award-winning Sandy Mckay ably conveys how war affects everyone – it’s a superb meditation on war and its devastating effect on soldiers and their families.
Download or read book Forest and Stream written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tied with a Bow written by Lora Leigh and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author Lora Leigh headlines an all-new paranormal romance anthology that turns up the holiday heat. #1 New York Times bestselling author Lora Leigh features the Breeds in her story. New York Times bestselling author Virginia Kantra brings a haunting tale of a fallen angel. USA Today bestselling author Eileen Wilks returns to the shapeshifing Lupi for another magical tale. National bestselling author Kimberly Frost introduces a new paronormal world of muses and vampires.
Download or read book Abial and Anna written by Abial Hall Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1996-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[This book] is a sequel and companion volume to Dear Friend Anna ... which contains letters beginning in 1866. The letters describe the struggles of Abial Edwards searching for his place in a country ravaged by war, experiencing a postwar economic depression and the increased pace of industrialization. Abial and Anna's courtship, begun in wartime, becomes more turbulent as Abial expresses his frustration at the political ramifications in seeking employment, explains his postwar obligations to his siblings, and tells of his desire to further his education"--Jacket
Download or read book Chasing Fire written by Nora Roberts and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Nora Roberts delves into the world of elite firefighters who thrive on danger and adrenaline—men and women who wouldn’t know how to live life if it wasn’t on the edge. Little else in life is as dangerous as fire jumping. But there’s also little else as thrilling—at least to Rowan Tripp. Being a Missoula smoke jumper is in Rowan’s blood: her father is a legend in the field. At this point, returning to the wilds of Montana for the season feels like coming home—even with reminders of the partner she lost last season still lingering in the air. One of the best of this year’s rookie crop, Gulliver Curry is a walking contradiction, a hotshot firefighter with a big vocabulary and a winter job at a kids’ arcade. And though Rowan, as a rule, doesn’t hook up with other smoke jumpers, Gull is convinced he can change her mind... But everything is thrown off balance when a dark presence lashes out against Rowan, looking to blame someone for last year’s tragedy. Rowan knows she can’t complicate things with Gull—any distractions in the air or on the ground could be lethal. But if she doesn’t find someone she can lean on when the heat gets intense, her life may go down in flames.
Download or read book Samantha s Winter Party written by Valerie Tripp and published by American Girl. This book was released on 1999 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Samantha planned a party, she never planned on leaving her best friend, Nellie, out. In Samantha's Winter Party, Samantha and her friends plan a party with a gift exchange. But Nellie can't afford to buy presents. Find out how Nellie manages to surprise them anyway!
Download or read book The Monitor written by Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recycled written by Sandy McKay and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The funny, imaginative, award-winning story of a boy who tries to save the world through recycling. Every year in the developed world, an average person throws away 45 kgs of plastic, two trees worth of paper, 160 cans and 107 bottles. Colin takes his recycling school project to heart and tries to convert his own family first, with great difficulty, before he tries to save the world. He becomes a self-appointed eco-warrior and comes up against his sister, who delivers junk mail, his mother, who sells real estate and hang-glides for de-stressing and his father who spends a lot of time in the garage. Colin becomes involved with the Roseview Rubbish Rescue Centre and the character who runs it. They along with others, organise a campaign to protest selling off the centre for development. This is a well-told story with many hilarious episodes that will delight young readers.The text is playful and imaginative, lighthearted and funny, but also intelligent and informative. It won the Junior Fiction category of the NZ Post Children's Book Awards in 2002.
Download or read book Child Discourse written by Susan Ervin-Tripp and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child Discourse contains papers presented in a symposium on child discourse at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Mexico City in November 1974. Three other papers, one presented by Edelsky at the same meeting, and two by Dore and Garvey, are also included to broaden the scope of methods and issues considered. Organized into three parts, this book generally aims at describing and analyzing social and linguistic knowledge of a child in utilizing language to project socially appropriate identities and to engage in purposive social acts. Part I focuses on children's speech events, while Part II centers more on function and act. The last part takes into consideration the social aspect of language usage among children.
Download or read book Minutes of Proceedings and Evidence written by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Public Accounts and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Not Afraid of Life written by Bristol Palin and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her mother, Sarah Palin, became the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate in 2008, Bristol Palin was instantly propelled into the national spotlight, becoming the focus of intense public and national media scrutiny at the age of seventeen. In Not Afraid of Life, she shares with readers for the first time ever personal moments from her life—from her Alaskan roots to her pregnancy and single motherhood to her star turn on TV’s enormously popular Dancing with the Stars. This candid memoir is a heartfelt true story of a woman who is centered by her strong Christian faith and is Not Afraid of Life.
Download or read book A Slow Cold Death written by Susy Gage and published by Bitingduck Press LLC. This book was released on 2012 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cozy academic mystery featuring a girl genius detective, a physics department, and a six-hundred-million-dollar motive.
Download or read book My Dad the All Black written by Sandy McKay and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will McCann, 12 years old, is a top notch rugby player. Everybody says he gets his talent from his famous All Black father, but Will never knew his dad. After a game goes wrong, Will wonders if he plays rugby because he loves the game, or because everybody says he should? When Will's grandad dies, Will meets Jim, his reclusive uncle with a troubled past. Why has Uncle Jim stayed away from Will and his mum for so many years? What really happened the night Will's dad died? While, on the other side of the world, the All Blacks battle for the 1999 Rugby World Cup, Will battles to discover the truth about the past. He eventually unlocks a secret that helps him decide things for himself. Anyone who ever wanted to be an All Black should read this book! Following her first waggish novel, Recycled, Sandy McKay writes another eventful, tender and humorous story from a child's-eye view.
Download or read book Contempt written by Ken Starr and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years after the Starr Report and the Clinton impeachment, former special prosecutor Ken Starr finally shares his definitive account of one of the most divisive periods in American history. You could fill a library with books about the scandals of the Clinton administration, which eventually led to President Clinton's impeachment by the House of Representatives. Bill and Hillary Clinton have told their version of events, as have various journalists and participants. Whenever liberals recall those years, they usually depict independent counsel Ken Starr as an out-of-control, politically driven prosecutor. But as a New York Times columnist asked in 2017, "What if Ken Starr was right?" What if the popular media in the 1990s completely misunderstood Starr's motives, his tactics, and his ultimate goal: to ensure that no one, especially not the president of the United States, is above the law? Starr -- the man at the eye of the hurricane -- has kept his unique perspective to himself for two full decades. In this long-awaited memoir, he finally sheds light on everything he couldn't tell us during the Clinton years, even in his carefully detailed "Starr Report" of September 1998. Contempt puts you, the reader, into the shoes of Starr and his team as they tackle the many scandals of that era, from Whitewater to Vince Foster's death to Travelgate to Monica Lewinsky. Starr explains in vivid detail how all those scandals shared a common thread: the Clintons' contempt for our system of justice. This book proves that Bill and Hillary Clinton weren't victims of a so-called "vast right-wing conspiracy." They played fast and loose with the law and abused their powers and privileges. Today, from the #MeToo aftermath and Russiagate to President Trump’s impeachment trial, the office of the American presidency is in crisis—and Starr’s insights are more relevant now than ever.
Download or read book Great Galloping Galoot written by Stephanie Thatcher and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galoot was always tripping over things and the other animals would be heard shouting, 'You great galloping galoot!' But his parents would always tell him, 'Galoot, always be your best'. And when the log bridge across the river is displaced, Galoot finally comes into his own and saves the day!
Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1944-05-27 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
