Download or read book The Puzzle Box written by Danielle Trussoni and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-10-08 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two sisters. A lost imperial treasure. The world’s greatest puzzle master has twenty-four hours to solve the most dangerous mystery of his life . . . or die trying, in “[this] breathlessly paced and nail-bitingly suspenseful” (Booklist) novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Puzzle Master, hailed as “thrilling” by David Baldacci. “This rip-roaring adventure thriller is an escapist puzzle box of delights: a neurodivergent hero, an unsolvable mystery, and death hanging over every move.”—Catherine Steadman, author of Something in the Water “[An] astounding sequel . . . This clever and satisfying novel cements Mike Brink as an action hero for the ages.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review It is the Year of the Wood Dragon, and the ingenious Mike Brink has been invited to Tokyo, Japan, to open the legendary Dragon Box. The box was constructed during one of Japan’s most tumultuous periods, when the samurai class was disbanded and the shogun lost power. In this moment of crisis, Emperor Meiji locked a priceless Imperial secret in the Dragon Box. Only two people knew how to open the box—Meiji and the box’s sadistic constructor—and both died without telling a soul what was inside or how to open it. Every twelve years since then, in the Year of the Dragon, the Imperial family holds a clandestine contest to open the box. It is devilishly difficult, filled with tricks, booby traps, poisons, and mind-bending twists. Every puzzle master who has attempted to open it has died in the process. But Brink is not just any puzzle master. He may be the only person alive who can crack it. His determination is matched only by that of two sisters, descendants of an illustrious samurai clan, who will stop at nothing to claim the treasure. Brink’s quest launches him on a breakneck adventure across Japan, from the Imperial Palace in Tokyo to the pristine forests of Hakone to an ancient cave in Kyushu. In the process, he discovers the power of Meiji’s hidden treasure, and—more crucially—the true nature of his extraordinary talent.

Download or read book The Boy Who Grew a Forest written by Sophia Gholz and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020-2021 Keystone to Reading Elementary Book Award List Notable Social Studies Trade Books list – Winning Title! 2019 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award - Winning Title Florida Book Award Gold Winner Recipient of the 2019 Eureka! Honors Award Winner -Best of 2019 Kids Books - Most Inspiring Category As a boy, Jadav Payeng was distressed by the destruction deforestation and erosion was causing on his island home in India's Brahmaputra River. So he began planting trees. What began as a small thicket of bamboo, grew over the years into 1,300 acre forest filled with native plants and animals. The Boy Who Grew a Forest tells the inspiring true story of Payeng--and reminds us all of the difference a single person with a big idea can make.

Download or read book A to Z Mysteries The Panda Puzzle written by Ron Roy and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Help Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose solve mysteries from A to Z! Kids love collecting the entire alphabet and super editions! With over 8 million copies in print, the A to Z Mysteries® have been hooking chapter book readers on mysteries and reading for years. Now this classic kid favorite is back with a bright new look! P is for Panda . . . There’s panda-monium in Green Lawn! The town is building a new park for a panda and her baby. But soon, the baby is panda-napped for a million-dollar ransom. Can Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose solve the puzzle before Green Lawn has to pay up?

Download or read book The Highlights Big Book of Activities for Little Kids written by Highlights and published by Highlights Press. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creators of Highlights, the #1 most-read children’s magazine in the country, and of the best-selling book The Highlights Book of Things to Do comes the ultimate collection of over 200 screen-free activities for kids ages 3–6. Kids and their grown-ups can use everyday household items to make lasting memories while they beat boredom, get the wiggles out, read, wind down, and more. Developed by early childhood experts, this book includes fan-favorite screen-free games, crafts, recipes, puzzles, stories, songs, and more inspired by the hugely popular High Five magazine, which reaches over 800,000 households. Kids and their grown-ups will experience fun adventures with activities like Spy Escape, Tape Games, Can You Make It Tall?, How Do Vegetables Grow?, and Animal Boogie. FUN IDEAS FROM A BELOVED BRAND: Highlights is the most-read children's magazine in the U.S., and the brand has over 80% recognition. Parents and teachers trust the quality and expertise of products from Highlights. ACTIVITIES FOR EVERY MOMENT: Whether looking for a boredom buster, a trick to get the wiggles out, or something to calm kids for a nap, grown-ups can find the perfect screen-free activity for different moments throughout a child’s day. HOURS OF ENTERTAINMENT AND QUALITY TIME TOGETHER: With 288 pages of screen-free activities divided into 12 handy chapters, this book offers hours of low-mess entertainment. Kids will be begging to do the activities over and over again. Grown-ups will love the inviting questions designed to spur thinking and conversation. Everyone will cherish creating core memories of time spent together. MESS ALERT! This book is super easy for grown-ups to use with kids, and it even includes a helpful "Mess Alert" callout that gives parents a helpful heads-up for projects that might require some cleanup. QUIET TIME ACTIVITIES: In addition to chapters devoted to movement, song, and humor, there are also chapters that acknowledge the importance of downtime for young kids. Puzzles, stories, and other quiet-time activities that don’t require writing give kids opportunities to wind down.

Download or read book Landscape with Figures written by Ronald Fraser and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Punchline Puzzles written by Patrick Merrell and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fun, Solvable Crosswords with a Cartoon Twist! Renowned New York Times crossword creator and illustrator Patrick Merrell has taken ordinary crosswords to a whole new level. Already famous for his Times puzzles--which stretch, twist, and outright shatter the rules of "ordinary" crosswords--Merrell has taken his extraordinary skills in both drawing and puzzlemaking and combined them in Punchline Puzzles. Each puzzle contains a cartoon at its center--a cartoon whose punchline is hidden within the grid. Solve the puzzle, get the joke: it's as simple as that. Plus each grid is full of bonus theme-related entries and extra cartoons to discover and enjoy! · 50 easy, fun crosswords · Introduction by Will Shortz, crossword puzzle editor of The New York Times · Top-quality puzzles featuring cartoon conundrums!

Download or read book Jumbo Pad of My First Puzzles written by Highlights and published by Highlights Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This huge selection of appealing puzzles includes mazes, Hidden Pictures scenes, matching games and more activities perfect for the youngest puzzlers, ages 3-6. Jam-packed with 120+ full-color puzzles and 150+ stickers, this jumbo pad is specially designed to entertain young puzzlers and help develop visual perception and problem-solving skills. Filled with a wide variety of fun activities, silly illustrations and wholesome humor, this 240-page pad is great for rainy days, road trips or screen-free entertainment any time. Each puzzle page easily tears out, so it’s great for sharing during family game nights and play dates, too. The pad includes 4 pages of stickers that represent hidden objects to find, each with a word label that helps build vocabulary. Placing stickers is a great way to build kids’ fine motor skills, while solving puzzles boosts concentration and attention to detail. Like all Highlights products, the Jumbo Pad of My First Hidden Pictures is well researched, well constructed and visually appealing, to bring kids age-centric Fun with a Purpose.

Download or read book Temperate Forest Habitats written by Barbara Taylor and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2006-12-15 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the plants and animals that live in temperate forests around the world, showing how their physical characteristics and behaviors help form an ecosystem.

Download or read book Paper Markers Monthly Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The panda puzzle written by Ron Roy and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose investigate the kidnapping of the new baby panda at the petting zoo.

Download or read book The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane written by Lisa See and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See, “one of those special writers capable of delivering both poetry and plot” (The New York Times Book Review), a moving novel about tradition, tea farming, and the bonds between mothers and daughters. In their remote mountain village, Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. For the Akha people, ensconced in ritual and routine, life goes on as it has for generations—until a stranger appears at the village gate in a jeep, the first automobile any of the villagers has ever seen. The stranger’s arrival marks the first entrance of the modern world in the lives of the Akha people. Slowly, Li-yan, one of the few educated girls on her mountain, begins to reject the customs that shaped her early life. When she has a baby out of wedlock—conceived with a man her parents consider a poor choice—she rejects the tradition that would compel her to give the child over to be killed, and instead leaves her, wrapped in a blanket with a tea cake tucked in its folds, near an orphanage in a nearby city. As Li-yan comes into herself, leaving her insular village for an education, a business, and city life, her daughter, Haley, is raised in California by loving adoptive parents. Despite her privileged childhood, Haley wonders about her origins. Across the ocean Li-yan longs for her lost daughter. Over the course of years, each searches for meaning in the study of Pu’er, the tea that has shaped their family’s destiny for centuries. A powerful story about circumstances, culture, and distance, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane paints an unforgettable portrait of a little known region and its people and celebrates the bond of family.

Download or read book Trees Forests A Colour Guide written by Bryan G. Bowes and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trees are one of the dominant features of our existence on earth and play a fundamental role in the environment. This book gives the reader an overview and understanding of trees. Subject areas covered include ecology and conservation, tree anatomy and evolution, pathology, silviculture, propagation, and surgery. The different chapters cover trees

Download or read book Editor Publisher written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Andes written by Cathy Biggar and published by Andes. This book was released on 2001 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive trekking guide to the Andes. Includes descriptions for over 30 of the most popular treks plus many interesting day walks in all 7 countries the mountain chain of the Andes. The guidebook contains descriptions for 33 main treks Every trek included has a sketch map of the area and a trek profile indicating heights. Each trek is graded and summarised for duration, distance, total ascent and highest point. There is an introductory chapter on trekking in the Andes comparing the different areas and giving advice on planning a trek, and general travel advice for South America. Each area chapter also has a brief introduction giving details of climate and travel. Important towns for accessing the treks are described, concentrating on information relevant to the trekker. Appendices include flora and fauna information and a glossary of Spanish/English terms relevant to trekkers.

Download or read book Debating Lapita written by Stuart Bedford and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘This volume is the most comprehensive review of Lapita research to date, tackling many of the lingering questions regarding origin and dispersal. Multidisciplinary in nature with a focus on summarising new findings, but also identifying important gaps that can help direct future research.’ — Professor Scott Fitzpatrick, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon ‘This substantial volume offers a welcome update on the definition of the Lapita culture. It significantly refreshes the knowledge on this foundational archaeological culture of the Pacific Islands in providing new data on sites and assemblages, and new discussions of hypotheses previously proposed.’ — Dr Frédérique Valentin, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Paris This volume comprises 23 chapters that focus on the archaeology of Lapita, a cultural horizon associated with the founding populations who first colonised much of the south west Pacific some 3000 years ago. The Lapita culture has been most clearly defined by its distinctive dentate-stamped decorated pottery and the design system represented on it and on further incised pots. Modern research now encompasses a whole range of aspects associated with Lapita and this is reflected in this volume. The broad overlapping themes of the volume—Lapita distribution and chronology, society and subsistence—relate to research questions that have long been debated in relation to Lapita.

Download or read book The Indian Forester written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Azores written by Roman Martin and published by Bergverlag Rother GmbH. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone has heard about the Azores high – here is its home. A 3½ hour flight from London, the nine islands of the Azores – Santa Maria, São Miguel, Pico, Faial, São Jorge, Terceira, Graciosa, Flores and Corvo – are situated in the middle of the Atlantic. Still free from mass tourism, the archipelago, belonging to Portugal, is a Mecca for nature-lovers and individualists. The Azorean landscape is the very picture of extremity. Enchanting forests fuse with heavenly rolling hills and deep-blue crater lakes. Extinct volcanoes tower to the heavens and countless cleft valleys have been deeply cut through the volcanic stratum. The areas lying directly on the coast, often difficult to reach, are exceptionally fertile and under intense cultivation. From a multitude of scenic viewpoints, one can gather breath-taking views of volcanic craters, lakes, hilly countryside or the bizarre coastline. Additional attractions are fumaroles and hot springs as well as thermal bathing pools. Because of these things, the spectrum of possible walks range from pleasant strolls through meadows and forests or along the coast all the way to challenging mountain hikes on Pico, Portugal's highest peak. In years gone by, author Roman Martin has toured the Azores time and again. In this Rother Walking Guide, he offers a choice of 86 routes making up a comprehensive cross-section for the walks available on each of the individual islands. Every route is provided with comprehensive GPS data, ready for download. Listing the most important features and providing detailed route descriptions, excerpts of maps with the routes marked in, height profiles as well as many tips, the guide provides all of the information necessary for a successful walking holiday on the Azores.