Download or read book Pencil Shavings And Other Things From My Garbage Can written by K. Taylor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debut poetry collection from young North Carolina writer, Kelcy Taylor, features pieces about love and heartbreak, mental illness, rape culture, and grief.

Download or read book High School Memoirs a Journey in Surrealism written by Sean C. Cusack and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2007-11-14 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synopsis High School Memoirs: A Journey in Surrealism is a tear-jerking, hilarious ride for a less-than-ordinary High School student who battles bullies and librarians to become King of the Classroom. Set in a small Catholic High School on the north side of Chicago, author Sean Cusack takes us on a surrealistic journey through four fun-filled years of triumph and tragedy in this unique epic. The journey begins with Sean Cusack entering St. Bernadin High School in August of 1995 as a very young and innocent Freshman student. He focuses on several life changing experiences in his infant days of High School that change him forever. Innocence Lost traces the steps Sean Cusack took that ultimately lead him on a path toward frequent battles with students and the school faculty and Administration. As a Sophomore, The Ride most certainly takes us on a ride through fights, vandalism, and verbal debacles that continued to steer the vengeful ship that Sean Cusack had been building since a Freshman. He now had become the ships Captain as it set sail. The Ride takes us through many strange and mysterious encounters that add more of a surrealist element to this budding melodrama and comedic satire. Sean Cusacks roses bud Junior Year in Forever Remembered, when he becomes a charismatic hero and leader of a rebellious group of students that pillage and plunder the school and faculty in wild and zany antics. Forever Remembered embodies the humorous and more imaginative side of Sean Cusack as the journey through High School becomes more surreal. Senior Year wraps up the trials and tribulations that Sean Cusack had endured thus far in his High School experience culminating into one person after years of battling the Defunct Administration. He is molded by evil as the rebellious youth becomes totally hellbent on crippling the school. In the end, he loses friends, respect from teachers, but most of all, he loses faith in his cause, yet ends his High School experience with a fantastical and triumphant bow. Sean Cusack proves that not all High School stories are the same in this turbulent and chaotic autobiography. High School Memoirs: A Journey in Surrealism chronicles a strange and unique history that is truly a step above the rest.

Download or read book The Mind Warp Era written by W. Leadbeater and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W.C. "Lead" Leadbeater, learning that the entire world is mind-warped by a psionic satellite, transforms into his favorite comic book swamp monster, Slime-thing. Somehow, school continues in spite of nova conditions, and he moves to Nite City, where he begins the use of medical marijuana. He steals a device, the monad, which actually changes him into Slime-thing--but it also changes him in ways he never expected.

Download or read book Undone written by Cat Clarke and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jem Halliday is in Love with Her Best Friend. It doesn't matter that Kai is gay, or that he'll never look at her the same way she looks at him. Their friendship is all she needs. But when Kai is outed online by one of their classmates, he does the unthinkable: he commits suicide. Jem's world is shattered. All she has left of her best friend are twelve letters—one for each month of the year—he wrote her before he died. Kai's letters beg her not to investigate what happened, but Jem can't let it go. She needs to know who did this, and she'll stop at nothing to find the person responsible for Kai's death. One way or another, someone is going down. Someone is going to pay... "I haven't felt so much for a book since If I Stay by Gayle Forman."—Confessions of a Book Addict "Undone is a story that will stick with me for a long time."—Book Passion for Life

Download or read book Going Green Grades 1 2 written by Tracie Heskett and published by Teacher Created Resources. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standards-based lessons to encourage students to take care of the environment by adapting the way they live and do things, beginning in the classroom. Each unit includes suggestions and adaptations to help ELL students and students in RTI (response to intervention) programs keep pace with the rest of the class.

Download or read book Cashier World written by Tom Lichtenberg and published by Tom Lichtenberg. This book was released on 2009-11-15 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories, including the Legend of the Wandering Cashier, the roadside diner Angel of Death, the classic tale of the Bathroom on the Bus, and featuring private eye Dawn Debris in the Land of Many Things

Download or read book Beau Lee the Bomb and Me written by Mary McKinley and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Growing up is a trip... In high school, there are few worse crimes than being smart or fat. Lucky me, I'm both. But when Beau Gales blows in to town, it takes about two minutes for the jackasses at our Seattle school to figure out he's gay, and that makes him an even bigger target. Have you ever heard the saying: 'The enemy of my enemy is my friend'? There's something to that. When the bullying gets violent and Beau decides to run away to San Francisco to ask his Uncle Frankie for advice, we all go. Beau, me, Leonie (designated class slut), and a scruffy rescue dog called The Bomb--a tribe of misfits crammed into my mom's minivan. Throw in a detour to the Twilight town of Forks, armed robbery, cool record shops, confessions, breakups and makeups, and you have the kind of journey that can change the way you look at the whole world--and yourself."--Publisher's website.

Download or read book Rusty Summer written by Mary McKinley and published by Rusty Winters. This book was released on 2015 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's school, and then there's the real world. If you're lucky enough to survive the first, you owe it to yourself to explore the second... So let's roll... With graduation a month away, I'm hitting the road with my best friends Beau, Leonie, and Leonie's awesome rescue dog, The Bomb. We've all got something on our minds. Beau is schooling our school for ignoring brutal bullying. Beautiful, crazy Leonie is striving to become a model. And I'm drilling to join a local roller derby team-The Rat City Roller Girls-where my bulk is actually a benefit! But first, somewhere between finals and graduation, I need some answers. I need to see my dad. Face to face. Unless he's moved without telling me, my dad is out in the wilds of Alaska-somewhere remote, beautiful, and amazing, where there will be wild animals, and hot guys, and adventures and lies and heartbreaks. It's further from home than any of us have ever been. Sometimes that's how far you need to go to figure out exactly where you want to be...

Download or read book The Skeleton Flute written by Damara Allen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Sam learns his parents are separating, a stranger offers him a magic flute that will grant his greatest desire, but soon Sam discovers that while it worked on his parents, his two siblings have disappeared, as if they never existed.

Download or read book Nearer written by Arthur Saltzman and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2006-02-10 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyrical, witty, and elegiac, Nearer’s 25 essays show the imagination at work and play amid the ambiguities, consternations, and beauties of the world.

Download or read book Cashier World Collected Short Pieces written by and published by Tom Lichtenberg. This book was released on with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Movies Moonlight Magic written by January Bain and published by Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD). This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charm McCall can solve a small-town murder, but can she figure out how to stop a man-stealing interloper? A movie production company has come to town...and so has an old family friend of the town's sexy new Mountie, Ace Collins. His “old pal” turns out to be a scheming long-legged blonde who throws Charm right off her game. Even Auntie T.J. playing the bagpipes down Main Street to drive the trespasser away doesn't work. Between catering for the world's hungriest film crew, trying to solve the murder of the unit accountant who hired her and dealing with her new magical gifts, Charm's a tad busy. But too bad, because she's soon facing off against a bigger threat when more people become ill with suspected poisoning—and her own sister's in the crosshairs. Charm's left wondering if even Agatha Christie could have seen this one coming. But with so much working against them—including the whole town being dead set against them consummating their relationship—do Charm and Ace stand a chance?

Download or read book A Living Dead Love Story Series written by Rusty Fischer and published by Medallion Media Group. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maddy Swift is just a normal high school girl—until she’s struck by lighting and reanimated as a zombie. Great. Like Barracuda Bay High wasn’t cold-blooded enough already! Navigating the perils of cliques and hot guys was bad enough. Now Maddy has to learn to survive as the undead. She quickly discovers she’s not the only one walking dead in class, and soon she’s thrown into an epic battle surrounding everyone she’s ever loved. Avoiding detection by curious Normals while fighting vengeful Zerkers and equally lethal Sentinels, Maddy discovers life as a zombie is no picnic. Turns out there’s a lot more to it than shuffling around 24/7 growling, “Brains!”

Download or read book Little White Farm House in Iowa written by Carol Brands and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 1 of the Precious Memories' series, entitled "Little White Farmhouse in Iowa", is the first of three books about the childhood of Katherine Kroontje (Vastenhout), a farm girl of Iowa and, later, Minnesota. Book 1 describes farm life in Iowa during the depression years of the 1930s, before such luxuries as indoor plumbing, electric lights, and telephones -- while beds were still made from corn husks, and clothes sewn from feed sacks. It begins with Katherine's birth exactly at midnight of June 3, 1930, during an horrific summer thunderstorm, and ends with the "Blizzard of the Century", the Armistice Day's Blizzard of 1940. (We've had people tell us they didn't believe everything in there until they checked it out for themselves!!) Book 2, "Little Yellow Farmhouse in Iowa", continues these Iowan farm childhood stories with Katherine's years in a second little farmhouse, colored yellow, with a focus on the World War II years and fascinating details of Uncle Bill Tilstra's involvement in the Japanese front of that war. It begins with the traumatic move to the second house and ends with the exciting move to a third house in Minnesota, one with electricity! Book 3, Strangers in Minnesota, about the last four years of Katherine's years at home, not only chronicles the loneliness of a move to another state, but becomes her romance, as well, while leading us into a third Amerian era, that of the Korean War.

Download or read book 32 Third Graders and One Class Bunny written by Phillip Done and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, to tie in with the publication of Phillip Done's new hardcover Close Encounters of the Third Grade Kind from Center Street, 32 Third Graders and One Class Bunny "brings the joys and terrors of elementary school back to life" (The Washington Times). Phil Done has taught elementary school for twenty years. He fixes staplers that won't staple, zippers that won't zip, and pokes pins in the caps of glue bottles that will not pour. He has sung "Happy Birthday" 657 times. 32 Third Graders and One Class Bunny is for anyone who has ever taught children--or been to third grade. This collection of tightly written, connected essays is an "unexpected pleasure...an absolute joy" (Tucson Citizen) and a testament to the kids who uplift us--and the teachers we will never forget. With just the right mix of humor and wisdom, Done reveals the enduring promise of elementary school as a powerful antidote to the cynicism of our times.

Download or read book The Story That Brought Me Here written by Linda Goyette and published by Brindle and Glass. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of newcomers are pouring into Alberta from around the globe, bringing unexpected gifts. Many are writers and storytellers. What pulls them to Canada? What happens to them on the journey? What experiences have they deliberately left behind? What treasures do they bring? How do they describe their emerging sense of place and their creative aspirations in a new home? In this moving collection of stories and poems, writers from around the world share their thoughts on creating a life in Alberta. Expressed with beauty and clarity, and sometimes translated from the writer's native tongue, these very personal accounts of joy and sadness, regret and humour, homesickness and exuberance, describe the defining moments of a departure and an arrival. Contributors to The Story That Brought Me Here include Jalal Barzanji, Edmonton's first Writers in Exile; Rita Espeschit, Thuc Cong, Mohammed Al-Nassar, Monika Igali, Sabah Tahir, Therezinha Franca Kennedy, Sangmok Lee, Sudhir Jain, Yi Li, Athiann Makuach Garang, Marsh Hoke, Tortor Maruku, Reinekke Lengelle, Brian Brennan, A.K. Rashid, June Smith-Jeffries, Magdalena Witkowsky, Anna Mioduchowska, Ikponwosa I.K. Ero and Comfort Adesuwa Ero, Wilma Rubens, Patricia Lopez de Vloothduis, Neung-jae Park Mary Cavill, Mansoor Ladha, Chantal Hitayezu and many others. With photographs by Shabnam Sukhdev.

Download or read book Fall on Your Knees written by Ann-Marie MacDonald and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-03-09 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book Following the curves of history in the first half of the twentieth century, Fall On Your Knees takes us from haunted Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, through the battle fields of World War One, to the emerging jazz scene of New York City and into the lives of four unforgettable sisters. The mythically charged Piper family—James, a father of intelligence and immense ambition, Materia, his Lebanese child-bride, and their daughters: Kathleen, a budding opera Diva; Frances, the incorrigible liar and hell-bent bad girl; Mercedes, obsessive Catholic and protector of the flock; and Lily, the adored invalid who takes us on a quest for truth and redemption—is supported by a richly textured cast of characters. Together they weave a tale of inescapable family bonds, of terrible secrets, of miracles, racial strife, attempted murder, birth and death, and forbidden love. Moving and finely written, Fall On Your Knees is by turns dark and hilariously funny, a story—and a world—that resonate long after the last page is turned.