Download or read book Hero written by Catherine Johnson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features a story with period detail and atmosphere, with a spirited heroine, Hero. Hero's father has been taken away to be sent back to the slave plantation, and Hero has been forced to move in with cruel relations in the East End of London. She decides to escape and rescue her father. She's ready to take on anyone who gets in her way.
Download or read book Paper Towns written by John Green and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quentin Jacobson has spent a lifetime loving Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life - dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge - he follows. After their all-nighter ends, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo has disappeared.
Download or read book Be A Hero written by Wesley Campbell and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God is challenging you to enlist in the noblest of all battles-the battle for our children. This is the cry resonating throughout the earth. 1.2 billion "children at risk" cannot be ignored. This book is a compelling case for you to be a hero in the life of "children at risk," beginning with scriptural understanding of mercy and justice to the poor. Then, setting the stage historically, the authors unveil the great exploits of those awesome warriors who have gone before us, outlining their struggles to serve the masses of broken humanity. Finally, Be a Hero time warps into the third millennium, introducing the seven deadly sins uniquely facing children: extreme poverty, orphans of the streets, children in chains, sex in the city, AIDS and plagues, the oppression of war, and religious persecution. But it doesn't leaving you hanging in despair. Be a Hero is a revolutionary document that prepares you to change your world.
Download or read book Where Have All the Heroes Gone written by Bruce Garen Peabody and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where Have All the Heroes Gone? provides an analysis of heroism's application and meaning among political and media elites, as well as the mass public over the past fifty years. In asking "what has happened" to American heroes over this span, it explores how heroes are used strategically by governing officials and providers of media content in ways that are frequently divergent from and even directly opposed to popular expectations.
Download or read book Supernatural Beings 1 written by Thierry Kouam and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winnipeg is divided between two worlds: one is comprised of human beings and the other of supernatural beings, some of whom have been gifted with special powers and magic. Supernatural beings, animals shaped like humans, believe their ancestors are their gods, dutifully follow the rules of their tradition, and understand their purpose is to eradicate the human race. Hero is a young adult, magician supernatural being who has been sent with his brothers to the world of human beings to destroy humankind. But everything changes during his important mission when Hero surprisingly feels his magic pushing him against his own desire to protect Angel, a mysterious human being who appears different than others in her race. When Hero breaks the rules of his tradition and battles against his own family to protect Angel, he becomes a traitor who now must learn why his magic warns him when Angel is in danger as fate leads him to places he never imagined. In this fantasy tale, a young supernatural being with magical powers on a mission to destroy the human race crosses paths with a mysterious being that causes him to question everything he has ever known.
Download or read book A Faker s Dozen written by Melvin Jules Bukiet and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wicked exploits of an assortment of louts and losers occupy Melvin Jules Bukiet's profligate imagination in these delectable stories.
Download or read book List of Books and Prices Issued by the Superintendent of Public Instruction in Accordance with the Provisions of the Law Regulating the Sale of School Textbooks in Michigan written by Michigan. Department of Public Instruction and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Revaluing British Boys Story Papers 1918 1939 written by H. A Fairlie and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-02-09 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the phenomenon of the story paper, the meanings and values children took from their reading, and the responses of adults to their reading choices. It argues for the revaluing of the story paper in the inter-war years, giving the genre a pivotal role in the development of children's literature.
Download or read book The Victors written by Jack Cavanaugh and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2006 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventh book in the popular adult fiction series, "An American Family Portrait, The Victors" follows the path of a new generation of the Morgan family. Four siblings are caught up in the events of World War II, and each will handle the challenge differently. Nat, Walt, Alex, and Lily must face life's worst before they find out what it really means to be "the victors".
Download or read book Out to Get Her written by Leigh Landry and published by Leigh Landry. This book was released on 2023-08-02 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When I want to burn down the patriarchy, I don’t try to fix it. I light a match and take the whole town down with me." * Sweet sapphic romance meets small-town cozy mystery. * Trouble blazes when Erin's Louisiana hometown return lands her between yet another arson accusation and a murder. Investigating officer Samantha tackles the case with calm and control, a stark contrast to Erin's trademark chaos. She struggles to keep Erin clear of both cases while battling the local patriarchy for the soul of her town. Their attraction is undeniable, but Erin has no love for cops and isn’t spending a second more than necessary in a place that never wanted her. Plus, Samantha isn’t exactly public about her bisexuality yet. The women must navigate lingering wounds, a murder investigation, and a hurricane on the horizon to find a love that can weather all storms. ***** OUT TO GET HER is a 61k-word cozy sapphic romantic mystery.
Download or read book A Nineteenth Century Hero written by Laura M. Lane and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 36 Stars 2nd Edition written by Ray Gosa and published by Raymond Gosa . This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This program includes a compact writing portfolio for middle and high school students. The portfolio contains fifteen total prompts. There are five prompts for each grade level, 6 thru 8 or 9 thru 11. The prompts are grouped and organized, not only in grade level packets, but also in individual student packets, providing the assessor with a clear, immediate, and objective means of visually assessing student progress through each successive prompt and response cycle. This approach saves valuable time and effort when filing individual student responses and/or retrieving them for comparative analysis and growth assessment.
Download or read book Adventures in Mathematical Physics written by Jean-Michel Combes and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume consists of refereed research articles written by some of the speakers at this international conference in honor of the sixty-fifth birthday of Jean-Michel Combes. The topics span modern mathematical physics with contributions on state-of-the-art results in the theory of random operators, including localization for random Schrodinger operators with general probability measures, random magnetic Schrodinger operators, and interacting multiparticle operators with random potentials; transport properties of Schrodinger operators and classical Hamiltonian systems; equilibrium and nonequilibrium properties of open quantum systems; semiclassical methods for multiparticle systems and long-time evolution of wave packets; modeling of nanostructures; properties of eigenfunctions for first-order systems and solutions to the Ginzburg-Landau system; effective Hamiltonians for quantum resonances; quantum graphs, including scattering theory and trace formulas; random matrix theory; and quantum information theory. Graduate students and researchers will benefit from the accessibility of these articles and their current bibliographies.
Download or read book VIRGIE written by Mary Dean Shipp Greer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a True Story of a Young Girl named "VIRGIE" in regards to hardships of living with her parents and maintaining the care of poor disabled people of the community "Pauper Farm" the residents were called "Inmates" not that they had committed any crimes other than being Old and Poor with No Family. Virgie had to suffer many deaths of those she had began to love so much, the death angel visited her home and taking her brother he also was disabled with polio since a young infant. Do Not believe anyone has ever written nor told the facts of this County Farm with indigent residents within the Paulding County Community in which I was born and raised. The life of my dear Mother "Virgie" learn of the hardships she had to endure but selflessly willing in helping and loving strangers who became as dear as family.
Download or read book Harlequin Heartwarming March 2017 Box Set written by Kate James and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlequin Heartwarming brings you a collection of four new wholesome reads, available now! This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes: SANCTUARY COVE by Kate James When communications executive Emma Meadows’s life is shattered by an act of corruption, can a chance meeting with veterinarian Josh Whitmore change her life again, this time for the better? THE WEDDING MARCH The Busines of Weddings by Tara Randel Inspiration strikes at the oddest moments. Like when Cassie Branford runs into Luke Hastings, playing in a wedding band. This is a man who refuses to create music again… She’s a woman who desperately needs his help to save her career in music. Even if it’s at the risk of falling in love. A SONG FOR RORY A Findlay Roads Story by Cerella Sechrist Country-music superstar Sawyer Landry is living the dream. Yet something is missing, and that something is Rory Callaghan, the woman he never stopped loving. So he returns to Findlay Roads to win her back, but he’ll have to do more than sing her a few sweet songs… HER TEXAS REBEL by LeAnne Bristow He left her when she needed him most, and she’s hidden a secret baby from him for ten years. When Sabrina Davis returns home in the hopes of getting her at-risk son into a better environment, she discovers that Tony Montoya, now a cop, has also returned to Lometa, Texas, to recover from an injury on the job. Great. That’s just what she needs.
Download or read book Teambuilding with Teens written by Mariam G. MacGregor and published by Free Spirit Publishing. This book was released on 2007-11-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 36 activities in this book make learning about leadership a hands-on, active experience. Kids are called on to recognize each other’s strengths, become better listeners, communicate clearly, identify their values, build trust, set goals, and more. Each activity takes 20–45 minutes. Digital content includes all of the book's reproducible forms.
Download or read book Multiethnic Moments written by Susan E. Clarke and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is anyone listening to minority voices in reforming American schools?
