Download or read book My Sister Sif written by Ruth Park and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen-year-old Riko manages to get her sister Sif and herself to their Pacific island home, where a scientist who falls in love with Sif discovers her connection with an underwater race.
Download or read book My Sister Sif written by Ruth Park and published by Puffin. This book was released on 1988 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 24/2/88--15000(+GROUP)X24PX$2.25(20000X20P). A FORMAT.192PP.PLUS. AND DOLPHIS (WITH WHOM RIKO CAN COMMUNICATE). THE GIRLS' MOTHER PLEADS WITH SIF TO ACCOMPANY THEM, AGAIN THREATENING TO LEAVE RIKO ON HER OWN IN THE WORLD/ THE SEAPEOPLE AND THE LITTLE PEOPLE OF RONGO CONVINCINGLY AND CLEVERLY PORTRAYED, ADN THE FOURTEEN YEAR OLD'S EMOTIONAL STRUGGLES ARE MOVINGLY CHARTED. THE POWERFUL CLIMAX HAS MUCH TO SAY ABOUT MAN'S ABUSE OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, THE OCEANS IN PARTICULAR.
Download or read book My Sister Sif written by Ruth Park and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen-year-old Riko manages to get her delicate older sister Sif and herself to their remote Pacific island home, where an American scientist who falls in love with Sif and discovers her connection with an underwater race creates complications in Riko'
Download or read book The Modern British Drama written by and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Playing Beatie Bow written by Ruth Park and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2012 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Now then,' thought Abigail, 'something very weird has happened to me. I'm in the last century. I don't know why, and that doesn't matter. I've got to get back.' Every so often, there comes a story so brilliant and lively and moving that it cannot be left in the past. Rediscover the magic of our country's most memorable children's books in the Penguin Australia Children's Classics series of stories too precious to leave behind.
Download or read book The modern British drama written by British drama and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Big Dumb Invisible Dragon written by Angie Lucas and published by Sounds True. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated picture book for children dealing with grief, showing that although loss is hard and real, together we can move through it to find joy and hope again. When a young boy unexpectedly loses his mother, an invisible dragon swoops in and perches on top of his head. The boy wants the dragon to go away, but the dragon has plans of its own. It follows him to school, sleeps on his chest at night, and even crashes his birthday party. Yet as the boy comes to terms with his loss, his relationship with the dragon changes in surprising ways. My Big, Dumb, Invisible Dragon is an important book for children dealing with loss. Whether it is the death of a parent or loved one, divorce, a move, illness, or losing a friendship, this story shows children that loss is real and hard, but we can move through it. Young readers learn that healing takes time, and that it’s okay to experience a range of emotions when processing a really big loss. Filled with poignant yet playful illustrations and touches of humor, the book tackles a weighty subject in an easy and approachable way. For any child who’s lost someone they love, My Big, Dumb, Invisible Dragon is a tale of healing and hope.
Download or read book The Modern British Drama Tragedies written by Sir Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Serpent The Dead written by Anna Stephens and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary duo of Asgardian Heroines battle across the Ten Realms, in this epic fantasy adventure set in Marvel’s Legends of Asgard In the midst of a bloody conflict, Lady Sif, the valiant Asgardian warrior, watches her close friend die in glorious battle – but her soul is not taken to the eternal halls of Valhalla. Furious and petrified that the afterlife for her and all Asgardians is in peril, she enlists the aid of Brunnhilde the Valkyrie, the fearsome warrior entrusted with conveying worthy souls to the heroes’ afterlife. Together they scour Asgard for answers. Rumors abound of towns being attacked by a horde of soldiers who cannot be killed. Someone is building an immortal army and stealing Asgardian souls… A worthy challenge for two of Asgard’s mightiest champions!
Download or read book Shakespeare in Children s Literature written by Erica Hateley and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2010-12-21 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare in Children's Literature looks at the genre of Shakespeare-for-children, considering both adaptations of his plays and children's novels in which he appears as a character. Drawing on feminist theory and sociology, Hateley demonstrates how Shakespeare for children utilizes the ongoing cultural capital of "Shakespeare," and the pedagogical aspects of children's literature, to perpetuate anachronistic forms of identity and authority.
Download or read book Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults written by Carrie Hintz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines a variety of utopian writing for children from the 18th century to the present day, defining and exploring this new genre in the field of children's literature. The original essays discuss thematic conventions and present detailed case studies of individual works. All address the pedagogical implications of work that challenges children to grapple with questions of perfect or wildly imperfect social organizations and their own autonomy. The book includes interviews with creative writers and the first bibliography of utopian fiction for children.
Download or read book The Head of Mimir written by Richard Lee Byers and published by Aconyte. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The young Heimdall must undertake a mighty quest to save Odin – and all of Asgard – in the first heroic fantasy novel set in Marvel’s incredible Legends of Asgard It is a dark time for Asgard. The All-Father is trapped in a bewitched Odinsleep, inspiring an all-out assault from the Frost Giants. They evade the gods’ defenses with uncommon ease, as if guided by augury. Heimdall, a quick-witted young warrior still finding his place amongst Asgard’s defenders, believes it no coincidence that Odin lies enchanted and that the Giants are so well-informed. Sneaking into Odin’s inner chambers, he discovers that the severed head of Mimir, a great source of wisdom, is missing. Accompanied by his sister, Lady Sif, Heimdall must quest across the Nine Realms to retrieve it, lest mighty Asgard fall.
Download or read book Beastkeeper written by Cat Hellisen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah has always been on the move. Her mother hates the cold, so every few months her parents pack their bags and drag her off after the sun. She's grown up lonely and longing for magic. She doesn't know that it's magic her parents are running from. When Sarah's mother walks out on their family, all the strange old magic they have tried to hide from comes rising into their mundane world. Her father begins to change into something wild and beastly, but before his transformation is complete, he takes Sarah to her grandparents—people she has never met, didn't even know were still alive. Deep in the forest, in a crumbling ruin of a castle, Sarah begins to untangle the layers of curses affecting her family bloodlines, until she discovers that the curse has carried over to her, too. The day she falls in love for the first time, Sarah will transform into a beast . . . unless she can figure out a way to break the curse forever.
Download or read book Swish and Squeak s Noisy Day written by Birgitta Sif and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two sibling mice contend with a variety of sounds—and an active imagination—as they go about their day in this charming book that’s just right for preschoolers. A little mouse hears all sorts of noises as she gets ready for school. What is that CRUNCH? Is it an alligator chomping the kitchen table into tiny pieces? No, it’s her sister eating her breakfast cereal! Join two adorable furry siblings as they crunch, stomp, swish, nibble, and smooch their way through their day, finally ready to listen to the soothing sounds of a story before bed. Filled with familiar noises and daily activities, this delightful book celebrates both the sense of hearing and the imagination! Praise for Birgitta Sif’s Where My Feet Go: “[A] sweet testament to creativity and the power of imagination.” —Booklist “Pleasingly reflective of familiar childhood inner and outer wanderings, this picture book encourages little readers’ feet and minds to run on and on.” —Kirkus “Will get kids thinking about where their feet go in an unusual and truly entertaining way.” —School Library Journal
Download or read book A Gift for My Sister written by Ann Pearlman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ann Pearlman's The Christmas Cookie Club enthralled readers everywhere with a heartwarming and touching story about the power of female friendship. Now, in A Gift for My Sister, she once again explores the depth of the human heart, and this time it’s through the eyes of two sisters. Tara and Sky share a mother, but aside from that they seem to differ in almost every way. When a series of tragedies strikes, they must somehow come together in the face of heartbreak, dashed hopes, and demons of the past. The journey they embark on forces each woman to take a walk in the other’s shoes and examine what sisterhood really means to them. It’s a long road to understanding, and everyone who knows them hopes these two sisters can find a way back to each other.
Download or read book Bell s British Theatre written by John Bell and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
