Download or read book The Kid on the Green bike written by Wali Mailatyar and published by Green Bike Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-25 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Gripping True Story of Escapes, Rescues, and Fighting for the American Dream One Man’s Journey from Afghan Immigrant to Candidate for Governor of Arizona Wali Mailatyar was 15 years old, and he had a choice to make. Either get conscripted to fight in the bloody civil war between the communists and the mujahedeen devastating his country or leave his home and family and possibly never see them again. Wali ended up escaping his homeland and embarking on a long journey that would eventually lead him to stand for election in Arizona as a candidate for governor. This book tells how Wali fought against the odds to escape the horrors of war engulfing his homeland and to find the American Dream. The Kid on the Green Bike is more than just another immigrant story—it’s part action thriller and part family drama. Filled with cinematic scenes and heartbreaking stories of love and loss, this book shows all of us that the American Dream is still very much alive—if you’re willing to fight for it. If you love stories about underdogs beating to odds, the triumph of love, or the importance of family, this book is for you. Just like coming to the United States for the first time changed the course of Wali’s life, this book will change the way you see the world and America’s role in making it a better place. Get Your Copy of Kid on the Green Bike Right Now!

Download or read book The Green Bicycle written by Haifaa Al Mansour and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the vein of Year of the Dog and The Higher Power of Lucky, this Middle Eastern coming-of-age story is told with warmth, spirit, and a mischievous sense of humor Spunky eleven-year-old Wadjda lives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia with her parents. She desperately wants a bicycle so that she can race her friend Abdullah, even though it is considered improper for girls to ride bikes. Wadjda earns money for her dream bike by selling homemade bracelets and mixtapes of banned music to her classmates. But after she's caught, she’s forced to turn over a new leaf (sort of), or risk expulsion from school. Still, Wadjda keeps scheming, and with the bicycle so closely in her sights, she will stop at nothing to get what she wants. Set against the shifting social attitudes of the Middle East, The Green Bicycle explores gender roles, conformity, and the importance of family, all with wit and irresistible heart.

Download or read book Kids on Bikes written by Jonathan Gilmour and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The door to the old house creaks open, the rust on the hinges groaning as you see the dust floating like spores in the air inside. By the faint light of your cheap flashlights, you see the stairs to the upper floor, its railings gnarled and broken like crooked teeth. Their curve makes the stairs seem almost like a hungry grin, and you wonder if their age will support your weight. Still, you must go in. The only question is who will go first? In Kids on Bikes, you'll take on the roles of everyday people grappling with strange, terrifying, and very, very powerful forces that they cannot defeat, control, or even fully understand. The only way to face them is to work together, use your strengths, and knmow when you just have to run as fast as you can. --

Download or read book I Love My Bike written by Simon Mole and published by Frances Lincoln Limited. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Love My Bike tells the story of a girl's first experience with her bike, and is filled with beautiful illustrations and a heartwarming message of perseverance. There's a flame on the frame and I love how it feels from my head to my heels when my feet push the pedals and the pedals turn the wheels. I love my bike. I Love My Bike is a picture book about a daughter learning to ride a bike with the help of her father. It's also about that exhilarating feeling you get when you succeed at something for the first time as a child. And, most importantly, it's about learning that when you fall off, the best thing to do is get back on again! The story is told through wonderful watercolours from critically acclaimed artist Sam Usher, with words from children's poet Simon Mole. Celebrating both family relationships and being outdoors, this is the perfect read for families everywhere.

Download or read book The Green Bicycle Murder written by C. Wendy East and published by Sutton Pub Limited. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into the mystery of the Green Bicycle Murder in 1919, when a young Leicester millworker died, offering new information based on evidence from the previously closed files of the DPP and the British Army.

Download or read book Josie and the Fourth Grade Bike Brigade written by Beth Handman and published by Josie Goes Green. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a summer with Grandma in Euador and an encounter with Frozey the Polar Bear at the zoo, Josie decides it's time to take action on global warming. Her first idea for Going Green is to organize her grade to drive less by forming the Fourth Grade Bike Brigade. Best friends Matt and Lizzy, along with her brother Damien and other characters from the neighborhood go along for the ride. But not everyone is in favor of the plan, and trouble begins for Josie and the Fourth Grade Bike Brigade.

Download or read book The Red Bicycle written by Jude Isabella and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leo rides his beloved red bicycle to school, soccer practice and everywhere in between. He is devastated when he outgrows Big Red. But when Leo learns of a bicycle donation program, he perks up - someone who really needs his bike can give it a new life. Little does he know that Big Red will change other people’s lives, too. Follow the bike as it travels to West Africa, where it helps people in Burkina Faso bring goods to the market, and serves as a makeshift ambulance, proving that an ordinary bicycle can be truly extraordinary.

Download or read book The Kid on the Green Bike written by Wali Mailatyar and published by Green Bike Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-25 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Gripping True Story of Escapes, Rescues, and Fighting for the American Dream One Man’s Journey from Afghan Immigrant to Candidate for Governor of Arizona Wali Mailatyar was 15 years old, and he had a choice to make. Either get conscripted to fight in the bloody civil war between the communists and the mujahedeen devastating his country or leave his home and family and possibly never see them again. Wali ended up escaping his homeland and embarking on a long journey that would eventually lead him to stand for election in Arizona as a candidate for governor. This book tells how Wali fought against the odds to escape the horrors of war engulfing his homeland and to find the American Dream. The Kid on the Green Bike is more than just another immigrant story—it’s part action thriller and part family drama. Filled with cinematic scenes and heartbreaking stories of love and loss, this book shows all of us that the American Dream is still very much alive—if you’re willing to fight for it. If you love stories about underdogs beating to odds, the triumph of love, or the importance of family, this book is for you. Just like coming to the United States for the first time changed the course of Wali’s life, this book will change the way you see the world and America’s role in making it a better place.

Download or read book The Green Bicycle written by Haifaa Al Mansour and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the vein of Year of the Dog and The Higher Power of Lucky, this Middle Eastern coming-of-age story is told with warmth, spirit, and a mischievous sense of humor Spunky eleven-year-old Wadjda lives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia with her parents. She desperately wants a bicycle so that she can race her friend Abdullah, even though it is considered improper for girls to ride bikes. Wadjda earns money for her dream bike by selling homemade bracelets and mixtapes of banned music to her classmates. But after she's caught, she’s forced to turn over a new leaf (sort of), or risk expulsion from school. Still, Wadjda keeps scheming, and with the bicycle so closely in her sights, she will stop at nothing to get what she wants. Set against the shifting social attitudes of the Middle East, The Green Bicycle explores gender roles, conformity, and the importance of family, all with wit and irresistible heart.

Download or read book The Kid With Broken Glasses written by Walter Manuel and published by Walter Manuel. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to: Sun Youth Montreal / Orange and Protestant Children's Home Foundation. This true, first-person memoir of a boy’s perseverance in the face of family dysfunction and adversity in the Montreal area of the 1960s and early ’70s offers a harrowing look inside a child’s soul-crushing loss of innocence between the ages of 4 and 16. Wawa, one of seven children born to an alcoholic father and clinically depressed mother, refuses offers to fix his broken glasses, wearing them as an outward statement of his heartbreakingly broken life. His hunger for love and guidance and his will to survive to adulthood in the face of fear, loneliness, anxiety, hardship and poverty will have readers cheering him on. This is an account that resonates with the lives of thousands of abused and neglected children who remain invisible. Wawa is the voice of the silent ones. To order the Kindle version: www.thekidwithbrokenglasses.com

Download or read book Apostrophe Catastrophe written by Patrick C. Notchtree and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The apostrophe causes more problems in the English language than any other aspect of grammar. Grown adults with a university education don't know how to use it properly, and our high streets are filled with hilarious examples of its misuse. Join the pedants as they revolt against the misuse of this essential piece of punctuation and with one simple rule learn how to use the apostrophe correctly – once and for all.

Download or read book The Little Green Money Machine written by Anthony Delmedico and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Little Green Money Machine: Kids in Business Around the World offers content, ideas, and exercises to lay the foundation for kids to create and run their own business or fundraiser! In addition to teaching business principles and social entrepreneurship, this book emphasizes goal setting and visualization, powerful tools that will help kids in anything they pursue. They can easily read through the sections and start their own business or fundraiser by working through the exercises in the book.

Download or read book The Kids on Ford Street written by Christine Chatterton and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kids on Ford Street is a humorous memoir of growing up around Detroit in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It is the authors memories of the true escapades of herself, her two older brothers, and her baby sister, written from her childhood point of view. This was a time when kids were kids. Detroit was a growing, vibrant city, and life on Ford Street was always an exciting adventure. Follow the frequently funny, sometimes scary, occasionally sad, and often downright extraordinary life of Richard, Mike, Christine, and Sue as they get in and out of trouble despite the best efforts of their loving parents.

Download or read book Dear Dickhead written by Virginie Despentes and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Epic . . . Brash and provocative . . . [A] riveting exploration of feminism and sexism . . . Readers will be awed." ―Publishers Weekly (starred review) The French novel taking the world by storm: an ultracontemporary Dangerous Liaisons about sex, feminism, and addiction. Dear Dickhead, I read your post on Insta. You’re like a pigeon shitting on my shoulder as you flap past. It’s shitty and unpleasant. Waah, waah, waah, I’m a pissy little pantywaist, no one loves me so I whimper like a Chihuahua in the hope someone will notice me. Congratulations: you’ve got your fifteen minutes of fame! You want proof? I’m writing to you. Oscar is a B-list novelist in his forties. He used to be an alcoholic and a cokehead, but now he keeps himself busy by ranting on social media. When Rebecca, an actress whose looks he insulted, sends him an angry email, they strike up a combative correspondence—at the very moment that Oscar is accused of sexual harassment by his former publicist. What ensues is a no-holds-barred conversation about life under the patriarchy, and above all about addiction—to drugs, to alcohol, to the internet, to rage. Virginie Despentes, the celebrated author of King Kong Theory, has written her breakthrough book: a Dangerous Liaisons for our time. We follow Rebecca and Oscar as they develop an unlikely friendship and argue over questions of right and wrong in a city—Paris—where pleasure, excess, and freedom rule the day, or used to. Dear Dickhead is a guns-blazing novel about a culture that makes men and women sick, and about how the search for feeling leaves us addicted to what makes us feel. The result is a provocative and unmissable book from the author hailed by The Guardian as France’s “rock and roll Zola.”

Download or read book Running Scared written by Lisa Jackson and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson draws readers into a tension-filled story of suspense, as a woman’s secret past returns with a vengeance . . . Kate Summers’ teenage son, Jon, has been having nightmares. Someone is chasing him, the footsteps drawing relentlessly nearer. Jon can’t see the man’s face. He only senses that danger is coming—and there’s no way to stop it. “Never tell anyone he’s not your boy,” was the warning. And Kate hasn’t. Not since the day fifteen years ago when she was offered what she most wanted—a healthy newborn baby. He was hers to keep, provided she moved far away, for good. She’s kept her word, raising Jon in a small Oregon town, lying to him for both their sakes. Despite his gift—or curse—of premonition, Jon hasn’t divined that he was adopted illegally. But now Kate’s long-ago choices are engulfing the life she’s tried to build. Daegan O’Rourke has come to this remote corner of the Pacific Northwest to find answers only Kate can give. He understands why she’s wary of him, but there’s a far greater threat at hand. Someone is tracking Jon down—ready to kill him and anyone who gets in the way. And convincing Kate to trust him, even once she knows the whole shocking truth, is Daegan’s only hope of keeping them alive . . .

Download or read book Brummie Kid written by Graham V Twist and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2010-03-12 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brummie Kid is a fascinating recollection of the experience of growing up in the slums of Nechells and Aston. All the harshness of daily life is remembered here by local author Graham Twist. Despite hard living conditions and a distinct lack of money, a strong community spirit prevailed and families and neighbourhoods were close-knit. In these tough times you hoped nobody noticed you going to the 'pop shop' to pawn precious valuables, siphoning petrol from cars under the nose of the local bobby, or sneaking into the flicks without paying – though everyone was more or less in the same boat. Here are more funny, heart-warming stories from the backstreets of Birmingham which are sure to rekindle old memories.

Download or read book Sensitive New Age Spy written by Geoffrey McGeachin and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Alby wants is a decent coffee and a day off. But there's a hijacked tanker with a deadly cargo in Sydney Harbour, and bullets are flying on board a US Navy cruiser. Three sailors are dead and a Seahawk chopper is missing. Who's behind the mayhem? Why is the government intent on shutting down Alby's investigation? What's the connection to the...