Download or read book Books For Boys 6 The Boy Who Had Nearly Everything written by Ian Whybrow and published by Hachette Children's. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine what it's like getting everything you want ... That's how it is for Lucky Fries O'Mighty ... until the day of his seventh birthday. How can a poor boy like Billy Humble show Fries what his life is missing? With a little bit of imagination, and his amazing dog, Whizz the Fleabag, that's how!
Download or read book The Boy who Had nearly Everything written by Ian Whybrow and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucky Fries O'Mighty is used to getting everything he wants, until the day of his seventh birthday. Fries spends some time with a poor boy, Billy Humble, who uses a little bit of imagination and his amazing dog, Whizz the Fleabag, to show Fries what his life is missing. Suggested level: primary.
Download or read book The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid written by Bill Bryson and published by Crown. This book was released on 2006-10-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the world's most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s. Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century—1951—in the middle of the United States—Des Moines, Iowa—in the middle of the largest generation in American history—the baby boomers. As one of the best and funniest writers alive, he is perfectly positioned to mine his memories of a totally all-American childhood for 24-carat memoir gold. Like millions of his generational peers, Bill Bryson grew up with a rich fantasy life as a superhero. In his case, he ran around his house and neighborhood with an old football jersey with a thunderbolt on it and a towel about his neck that served as his cape, leaping tall buildings in a single bound and vanquishing awful evildoers (and morons)—in his head—as "The Thunderbolt Kid." Using this persona as a springboard, Bill Bryson re-creates the life of his family and his native city in the 1950s in all its transcendent normality—a life at once completely familiar to us all and as far away and unreachable as another galaxy. It was, he reminds us, a happy time, when automobiles and televisions and appliances (not to mention nuclear weapons) grew larger and more numerous with each passing year, and DDT, cigarettes, and the fallout from atmospheric testing were considered harmless or even good for you. He brings us into the life of his loving but eccentric family, including affectionate portraits of his father, a gifted sportswriter for the local paper and dedicated practitioner of isometric exercises, and of his mother, whose job as the home furnishing editor for the same paper left her little time for practicing the domestic arts at home. The many readers of Bill Bryson’s earlier classic, A Walk in the Woods, will greet the reappearance in these pages of the immortal Stephen Katz, seen hijacking literally boxcar loads of beer. He is joined in the Bryson gallery of immortal characters by the demonically clever Willoughby brothers, who apply their scientific skills and can-do attitude to gleefully destructive ends. Warm and laugh-out-loud funny, and full of his inimitable, pitch-perfect observations, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid is as wondrous a book as Bill Bryson has ever written. It will enchant anyone who has ever been young.
Download or read book The Nearly Teenage Girl s Guide to Almost Everything written by IglooBooks and published by Igloo Books. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stress. Hormones. School. Social media. It’s a lot for a teenager to handle. Luckily, this guide has got it all covered: the good, the bad, and the kind of icky. This is The (Nearly) Teenage Girl’s Guide to (Almost) Everything. Chapters include topics on: Puberty, hormones, body changes Feelings, relationships, family, stress And more!
Download or read book A Little Life written by Hanya Yanagihara and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.
Download or read book Books For Boys 4 Boy Racer written by Ian Whybrow and published by Hachette Children's. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry's mum and dad think his new friend Gary is BAD NEWS. But Dad's got worse problems at work. If he doesn't win the charity go-kart race, he might lose his job! There's trouble ahead, that's for sure. But nobody reckons on a mystery boy racer who turns up at the track. He's got a surprise in store for everyone ... From football to go karting, and real heroes and aliens, Books for Boys are packed with high action, adventure and humour, ideal for turning reluctant boy readers into lifelong bookworms. Ideal for fans of HARRY AND THE DINOSAURS who are ready to move on to chapter books.
Download or read book Books For Boys 10 The Secret Superhero written by Ian Whybrow and published by Hachette Children's. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raymond is Alan's new step-dad. He doesn't know much about Alan, like what football team he supports. In fact, he doesn't know much at all. So he's in for a real surprise, because Alan has super-powers. But dare he share his secret? From football to go karting, and real heroes and aliens, Books for Boys are packed with high action, adventure and humour, ideal for turning reluctant boy readers into lifelong bookworms. Ideal for fans of HARRY AND THE DINOSAURS who are ready to move on to chapter books.
Download or read book Books For Boys 7 Alex the Walking Accident written by Ian Whybrow and published by Hachette Children's. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex doesn't mean to cause trouble. He didn't mean to cover his dad with pink yoghurt, or drop the goldfish in the bath. He just couldn't help it! Alex's mum and dad ask him to keep out of trouble just for one day ... so the sideways skateboard isn't SUCH a bad idea, is it? From football to go karting, and real heroes and aliens, Books for Boys are packed with high action, adventure and humour, ideal for turning reluctant boy readers into lifelong bookworms. Ideal for fans of HARRY AND THE DINOSAURS who are ready to move on to chapter books.
Download or read book Books For Boys 8 Through the Cat Flap written by Ian Whybrow and published by Hachette Children's. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas can't work out what goes on in the tiny minds of his toddler twin sisters. They sing all the time but never get the words right. They think cats enjoy being dressed up as fairies. But who else can Thomas turn to when they all get locked out of the house? Besides, it's a brilliant idea to pop them through the cat-flap and tell them to look for the keys. Isn't it ...?
Download or read book Books For Boys 2 A Footballer Called Flip written by Ian Whybrow and published by Hachette Children's. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Lewis is short. REALLY short. So short, in fact, that Mr Bullock, the St Saviours football coach, doesn't want him on the team. But when Mr Willis discovers Jack's 'footballing brain' ... and Jack's mum steps in with a few tips ... it looks like the School Cup may be just the beginning!
Download or read book Books For Boys 9 The Knights Of The Brown Table written by Ian Whybrow and published by Hachette Children's. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben's in trouble again! The local gamekeeper's on the warpath. And who does he blame but Sniff, Ben's faithful dog! It sounds like a quest for the Knights of the Brown Table. After all, they can't let all that knightly training go to waste ... From football to go karting, and real heroes and aliens, Books for Boys are packed with high action, adventure and humour, ideal for turning reluctant boy readers into lifelong bookworms. Ideal for fans of HARRY AND THE DINOSAURS who are ready to move on to chapter books.
Download or read book Books For Boys 14 Goldy Superhamster written by Ian Whybrow and published by Hachette Children's. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: hi ludo dont be sad im your friend This was my first text message to the boy. Not bad, was it? Not for a hamster. Ludo says I'm a genius, but I know he is as well. We have something else in common, too ... we both want to escape, and to explore the Outside. Just two problems. His parents ... and the cat. Ian Whybrow's BOOKS FOR BOYS are funny, pacy reads from one of the UK's best-loved authors - collect all sixteen!
Download or read book Books For Boys 5 Aliens Stole My Dog written by Ian Whybrow and published by Hachette Children's. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From football to go karting, and real heroes and aliens, Books for Boys are packed with high action, adventure and humour, ideal for turning reluctant boy readers into lifelong bookworms. What's out there? First David finds the mysterious CD-rom in the school playground. Next, there's a spaceship in his garden, and his dog, Hairy Spice, disappears. Who else have the aliens kidnapped? Why have they chosen David to help them? And will he be able to save the world? Books for Boys provide the ideal first step into longer fiction for fans of Ian Whybrow's HARRY AND THE DINOSAURS stories.
Download or read book Books For Boys 1 Robin Hood s Best Shot written by Ian Whybrow and published by Hachette Children's. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From football to go karting, and real heroes and aliens, Books for Boys are packed with high action, adventure and humour, ideal for turning reluctant boy readers into lifelong bookworms. Ideal for fans of HARRY AND THE DINOSAURS who are ready to move on to chapter books. Do you know everything there is to know about Robin Hood and his Merry Men? Well, think again! Before they were famous, battling the nasty Sheriff of Nottingham, this famous band of heroes were normal boys with normal names. So how did they come to be called Robin Hood, Friar Tuck, Will Scarlett and Little John? Well, it's quite a story, and certainly not one for the faint-hearted!
Download or read book More Than This written by Patrick Ness and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From two-time Carnegie Medal winner Patrick Ness comes an enthralling and provocative new novel chronicling the life — or perhaps afterlife — of a teen trapped in a crumbling, abandoned world. A boy named Seth drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments, losing his life as the pounding sea claims him. But then he wakes. He is naked, thirsty, starving. But alive. How is that possible? He remembers dying, his bones breaking, his skull dashed upon the rocks. So how is he here? And where is this place? It looks like the suburban English town where he lived as a child, before an unthinkable tragedy happened and his family moved to America. But the neighborhood around his old house is overgrown, covered in dust, and completely abandoned. What’s going on? And why is it that whenever he closes his eyes, he falls prey to vivid, agonizing memories that seem more real than the world around him? Seth begins a search for answers, hoping that he might not be alone, that this might not be the hell he fears it to be, that there might be more than just this. . . .
Download or read book The Boy on the Bridge written by M. R. Carey and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One exceptional boy journeys into the ashes of society to find the cure for a devastating plague in this riveting post-apocalyptic standalone set in the same world as the USA Today-bestselling The Girl With All the Gifts. Once upon a time, in a land blighted by terror, there was a very clever boy. The people thought the boy could save them, so they opened their gates and sent him out into the world. To where the monsters lived. "Strange and surprising and humane" (Lauren Beukes), The Boy on the Bridge is a gripping, powerful story that will make you question what it means to be human.
Download or read book Duality Ii written by David Cupples and published by David Cupples. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike and Chris are two lonely soul, era]individuals in search of the one elusive thing that we all seek, yet few of us really ever findaourselves. In this case, however, they do find themselvesaleading to a journey, to discoveries the likes of which neither of them could have dreamed. Not the least of which is that they are reincarnated persons from millennia back called the Duality, and that they are the son, the creation, of the Greek god Apollo. They have been pre-ordained to participate in a quest wherein few facts are made known to them. They are also gifted with a companion who is shrouded in mystery. You have to watch yourselves on this one; do you ever feel like someone is watching you? What is too much information?
