Download or read book Planet of the Nose Pickers written by Gordon Korman and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2000-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourth grader Devin and his friend Stan, the nerdy exchange student who is actually an alien from the planet Pan, try to get Earth designated as Pan's official vacation planet so that it will not get moved out past Pluto.
Download or read book McDuff Goes to School written by Rosemary Wells and published by Disney-Hyperion. This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone's busy at Merryhill Farm, there are so many things to do and so many friends to see! Join Dumpy the Dump Truck as he visits the rooster, the cow, the horse, and all of his farmyard friends!
Download or read book The Ultimate Nose Pickers Collection written by Gordon Korman and published by Hyperion Books for Children. This book was released on 2006-03-28 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring all four books from Gordon Korman's Nose Pickers series:Devin can't wait to meet his exchange student from another state. Maybe he'll able to rope a calf like Cody from Texas or know celebrities from California like Wanda. But Stan is the opposite of cool--he's a huge dweeb, who eats paper, talks to dogs, and worst of all, can't keep his finger out of his nose. But Devin soon finds out that Stan isn't from another state--he's from another planet! He's an alien from the planet Pan who accesses his micro-computer by picking his nose. Devin's disappointment is soon replaced with shock when he finds out that Stan's unhygienic habit is actually the key to saving the planet. Together, this unlikely duo embarks on a series of zany adventures, involving everything from traveling back in time to ancient Egypt to climbing to the top of the Statue of Liberty. From saving the planet to surviving fifth grade; Devin and Stan's escapades are the funniest this side of Pluto.
Download or read book Nose Pickers Form Outer Space written by Gordon Korman and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourth-grader Devin is disappointed in the nerdy exchange student who comes to live with his family, until he realizes that Stan is not from Chicago but from outer space.
Download or read book The Ultimate Nose Pickers Collection written by Gordon Korman and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects in one book four adventures of Devin and his alien friend Stan as they work to save the planet.
Download or read book Invasion of the Nose Pickers written by Gordon Korman and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 2001-03-31 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While on a fourth-grade trip to New York City, Devin helps his friend Stan Mflxnys, a 147-year-old alien from the planet Pan, and other E.T.s try to locate the Humongan who is stealing the Pants' power supply, thereby disabling the microcomputer in Stan's nose.
Download or read book Your Mummy is a Nose Picker written by Gordon Korman and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 2000-10-31 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devin and his alien visitor Stan from the planet Pant travel back to ancient Egypt in search of Nile Delta goldenrod which will save Stan's job by ensuring that all Pant tourists on Earth sneeze.
Download or read book Son of the Mob written by Gordon Korman and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vince Luca is just like any other high school guy. His best friend, Alex, is trying to score vicariously through him; his brother is a giant pain; and his father keeps bugging him to get motivated. There is just one thing that really sets him apart for other kids—his father happens to be the head of a powerful crime organization. Needless to say, while Vince''s family''s connections can be handy for certain things (like when teachers are afraid to give him a bad grade), they can put a serious crimp in his dating life. How is he supposed to explain to a girl what his father does for a living? But when Vince meets a girl who finally seems to be worth the trouble, her family turns out to be the biggest problem of all. Because her father is an FBI agent—the one who wants to put his father away for good.
Download or read book Funny Boy written by Shyam Selvadurai and published by Emblem Editions. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkable debut novel, a boy’s bittersweet passage to maturity and sexual awakening is set against escalating political tensions in Sri Lanka, during the seven years leading up to the 1983 riots. Arjie Chelvaratnam is a Tamil boy growing up in an extended family in Colombo. It is through his eyes that the story unfolds and we meet a delightful, sometimes eccentric cast of characters. Arjie’s journey from the luminous simplicity of childhood days into the more intricately shaded world of adults – with its secrets, its injustices, and its capacity for violence – is a memorable one, as time and time again the true longings of the human heart are held against the way things are.
Download or read book An Immense World written by Ed Yong and published by Random House. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “thrilling” (The New York Times), “dazzling” (The Wall Street Journal) tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world that will fill you with wonder and forever alter your perspective, by Pulitzer Prize–winning science journalist Ed Yong “One of this year’s finest works of narrative nonfiction.”—Oprah Daily ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Time, People, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Slate, Reader’s Digest, Chicago Public Library, Outside, Publishers Weekly, BookPage ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Oprah Daily, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Economist, Smithsonian Magazine, Prospect (UK), Globe & Mail, Esquire, Mental Floss, Marginalian, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every kind of animal, including humans, is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of our immense world. In An Immense World, Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses, allowing us to perceive the skeins of scent, waves of electromagnetism, and pulses of pressure that surround us. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires, turtles that can track the Earth’s magnetic fields, fish that fill rivers with electrical messages, and even humans who wield sonar like bats. We discover that a crocodile’s scaly face is as sensitive as a lover’s fingertips, that the eyes of a giant squid evolved to see sparkling whales, that plants thrum with the inaudible songs of courting bugs, and that even simple scallops have complex vision. We learn what bees see in flowers, what songbirds hear in their tunes, and what dogs smell on the street. We listen to stories of pivotal discoveries in the field, while looking ahead at the many mysteries that remain unsolved. Funny, rigorous, and suffused with the joy of discovery, An Immense World takes us on what Marcel Proust called “the only true voyage . . . not to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes.” WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD • LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/E.O. WILSON AWARD
Download or read book No More Dead Dogs written by Gordon Korman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-08-19 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the play but his life as well.
Download or read book Planet Booger written by Terry Hueffed and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I tried to get it out! I tried blowing it out! I tried picking it with my little finger, but it's still there! It feels like a giant ball or maybe a planet from outer space. Maybe it is a planet ... "Planet Booger." This story is about a little boy who can't get a booger out of his nose. He falls asleep and dreams about being on Planet Booger where he has an adventure stopping the villain, the booger man, from launching boogers in people's noses all over the universe. The epilog is the truth about what boogers are and where they come from.
Download or read book WTF Evolution written by Mara Grunbaum and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all have our off days. Why should Evolution be any different? Maybe Evolution got carried away with an idea that was just a little too crazy—like having the Regal Horned Lizard defend itself by shooting three-foot streams of blood from its eyes. Or maybe Evolution ran out of steam (Memo to Evolution: The Irrawaddy Dolphin looks like a prototype that should have been left on the drawing board). Or maybe Evolution was feeling cheeky—a fish with hands? Joke’s on you, Red Handfish! Or maybe Evolution simply goofed up: How else to explain the overgrown teeth of the babirusas that curl backward over their face? Oops. Mara Grunbaum is a very smart, very funny science writer who celebrates the best—or, really, the worst—of Evolution’s blunders. Here are more than 100 outlandish mammals, reptiles, insects, fish, birds, and other creatures whose very existence leaves us shaking our heads and muttering WTF?! Ms. Grunbaum’s especially brilliant stroke is to personify Evolution as a well-meaning but somewhat oblivious experimenter whose conversations with a skeptical narrator are hilarious. For almost 4 billion years, Evolution has produced a nonstop parade of inflatable noses, bizarre genitalia, and seriously awkward necks. What a comedian!
Download or read book The Lying Planet written by Carol Riggs and published by Entangled: digiTeen. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Promise City. That’s the colony I’ve been aiming for all my life on the planet Liberty. The only thing standing in my way? The Machine. On my eighteenth birthday, this mysterious, octopus-like device will scan my brain and Test my deeds. Good thing I’ve been focusing on being Jay Lawton, hard worker and rule follower, my whole life. Freedom is just beyond my fingertips. Or so I thought. Two weeks before my Testing with the Machine, I’ve stumbled upon a new reality. The truth. In a single sleepless night, everything I thought I knew about the adults in our colony changes. And the only one who’s totally on my side is the clever, beautiful rebel, Peyton. Together we have to convince the others to sabotage their Testings before it’s too late. Before the ceremonies are over and the hunting begins.
Download or read book Barbarian Alien written by Ruby Dixon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second novel in the Ice Planet Barbarians series, the international publishing phenomenon—now in a special print edition with bonus materials and an exclusive epilogue! Liz Cramer swears she’ll find a way off of this alien planet she’s stuck on—then she meets Raahosh, the surliest and stubbornest alien, who won’t leave her alone, and she just might be okay with that... Twelve humans are left stranded on a wintry alien planet. I’m one of them. Yay, me. In order to survive, we have to take on a symbiont that wants to rewire our bodies to live in this brutal place. I like to call it a “cootie.” And my cootie’s a jerk, because it also thinks I’m the mate to the biggest, grumpiest alien of the bunch. Raahosh believes the cootie’s right, so he steals me away from the group, determined to make me fall for him—or else. He has no idea who he’s up against. And if I didn’t want his insufferable self so much (thanks, cootie), I’d let him know exactly what I’m thinking. As it is, I’m doing my best to fight this instant attraction. Just because the symbiont thinks we’re supposed to be together doesn’t mean I have to go along with it. And if we fool around a little, it’s merely biology. It doesn’t mean I’m in love—or that I’m destined to be his.
Download or read book Diet for a Large Planet written by Chris Otter and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-06-05 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the unsustainable modern diet—heavy in meat, wheat, and sugar—that requires more land and resources than the planet is able to support. We are facing a world food crisis of unparalleled proportions. Our reliance on unsustainable dietary choices and agricultural systems is causing problems both for human health and the health of our planet. Solutions from lab-grown food to vegan diets to strictly local food consumption are often discussed, but a central question remains: how did we get to this point? In Diet for a Large Planet, Chris Otter goes back to the late eighteenth century in Britain, where the diet heavy in meat, wheat, and sugar was developing. As Britain underwent steady growth, urbanization, industrialization, and economic expansion, the nation altered its food choices, shifting away from locally produced plant-based nutrition. This new diet, rich in animal proteins and refined carbohydrates, made people taller and stronger, but it led to new types of health problems. Its production also relied on far greater acreage than Britain itself, forcing the nation to become more dependent on global resources. Otter shows how this issue expands beyond Britain, looking at the global effects of large agro-food systems that require more resources than our planet can sustain. This comprehensive history helps us understand how the British played a significant role in making red meat, white bread, and sugar the diet of choice—linked to wealth, luxury, and power—and shows how dietary choices connect to the pressing issues of climate change and food supply.
Download or read book Out of the Silent Planet written by Clive Staples Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first novel in C.S. Lewis's sci-fi trilogy, which tells the adventure of Dr Ransom who was kidnapped and transported to another planet.
