Download or read book Silent Striker written by Pete Kalu and published by HopeRoad. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcus is the best player in his football team. He's actually so good that there's a very real chance he'll be signed by Manchester United. But when he discovers he may be losing his hearing, his whole world falls to pieces and he finds himself having to put them back together on his own. But is this feeling of isolation real or just a consequence of his own behaviour? While dealing with parents, friends and first girlfriends, Marcus gradually understands that accepting the help of others is ultimately an acceptance of self. A novel about friendship and family, The Silent Striker explores the issue of disability, and deafness, and the different ways in which we can choose to handle it. ‘ I enjoyed reading the book from the beginning to the end. YA fiction for all ages’ Assia Shahin - blogger. ‘An amazing book and it would benefit people, whether they are hard of hearing or not. (Robert Murrell, age 13, profoundly deaf and wears hearing aids. (Reviewed for the National Deaf Children Society) ‘Full to the brim with the joy, heartache and passion for the beautiful game.’ (Carnegie Medal winner Melvin Burgess) ‘A strong inspirational story about human aspiration.’ (Commonwealth Writers’ Prize shortlisted Jacob Ross) ‘Touching, funny and well tackled!’ (Muli Amaye, novelist) ‘A story that takes you through every emotion a young schoolboy goes through.’ ( Dotun Adebayo, BBC Radio 5) 'The Silent Striker scores! There are hundreds of books about the beautiful game and The Silent Striker is near the top of the table. A brilliantly realised young adult novel. The Silent Striker is moving, funny and uplifting. A must read!' (Rodney Hinds, the VOICE Newspaper) ‘Marcus' battles to contain his temper against petty school authority and casual racism; his passion for football; his gradual acceptance of his disability are vividly and engagingly portrayed in this un-showy but moving urban story.’
Download or read book The Silent Striker written by Pete Kalu and published by Hoperoad. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 14 year old Marcus is the best football player dealing with deafness, shifting friends, crazy parents and a 'special measures' school.
Download or read book The Silent Striker written by Peter Kalu and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcus is the best player on his soccer team and rumours have it that he is being scouted by the best football team ever. But Marcus is troubled by a developing loss of hearing, and finds himself unable to concentrate on the game and increasingly isolated from his friends and family. But is that isolation real, or is it the result of his own behavior? As he confronts not only his hearing loss, but the problems with his family, friends, and girlfriend Marcus grows to understand that in life as in soccer, accepting the help of others is essential.
Download or read book The Striker written by Clive Cussler and published by G.P. Putnam's Sons. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After witnessing a terrible coal mining accident, Detective Isaac Bell hunts for the high-level saboteurs he believes are responsible.
Download or read book You re Not Proper written by Tariq Mehmood and published by HopeRoad. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Frances Lincoln ‘Diverse Voices’ Children’s Book Award 2014Karen thinks she's not proper white.Her dad is Pakistani and her mother is white Christian, and somehow she feels as if she doesn't quite fit in... anywhere. So she's made a choice: she's switching sides.Karen’s going to convert to Islam to find her true identity.But Shamshad, her Hijab-wearing school mate, isn’t making things easy for her. What's her deal, anyway? Is Shamshad really any more proper than herself?Trouble and turmoil await in the old textile mill town of Boardhead East, as school battles are replaced by family troubles, name calling turns to physical confrontation and cataclysmic secrets are unveiled.Set against a backdrop of seething Islamaphobia, You're Not Proper is the first in the Striker series, written by Tariq Mehmood and Pete Kalu to shine a light on issues of identity, religion, politi and class affecting young people today - a unique new series in young adult fiction.‘You're Not Properis a real insight into communities more often talked about than listened to. But it’s not just an important book - it's full of heart and a cracking good read as well. Highly recommended!’ Melvin Burgess‘Contemporary and hard-hitting,You're Not Properis the story of two girls with one religion and two very different lifestyles ... High on impact and highly engaging, it truly is a story of our age.’ Jake Hope, critic, librarian and coordinator of the Lancashire Children’s Book of the Year Award
Download or read book Snow on the Headlight written by Cy Warman and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Snow on the Headlight" (A Story of the Great Burlington Strike) by Cy Warman. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book The Silent March written by C. M. Klyne and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winnipeg, 1919. The Winnipeg General Strike, the Spanish influenza and a sociopathic personality coalesce to forge a summer of strife, death and hope for a community still suffering the pestilence of the first world war. Can bacteriologist Dr. Anna Williams, driven by the need to prove herself in a predominantly male research lab and responding to a panicky public health department, overcome the resistant attitudes of her male colleagues, to unlock the mysteries surrounding the deadly influenza virus? Will the infamous Committee of One Thousand subvert the intentions of the strike leaders and the growing union movement and prevent the spread of Bolshevism upon Canadian soil? Will Earle Nelson, a murderous sociopath and righteous zealot, force his will upon those he perceives as undesirable and unacceptable? Follow Klyne's story as he leads you through the streets of Winnipeg - reliving historical events with brilliant character creations whose intricate paths of emotions, ideas and conflicts culminated in what became known as Bloody Saturday.
Download or read book Striker s Grove written by Karlin Dean and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Striker’s Grove: New Berkshire Connection is the second book in the series, following Striker’s Grove, where a group of friends affectionately known as the Six-Pack had gone through some difficult twists and turns. Continuing with the account of their lives in this book, some families remain together while achieving personal and career growth, and others endure life-altering circumstances, undesirable choices with consequences, and changes in family dynamics. An old love returns, friends move away, old friends move closer, some careers are budding, others are coming to a close, families are growing while others are fading. Through it all, the offspring of the Six-Pack enjoy life to the fullest, determining the paths their futures will take.
Download or read book Being Me written by Pete Kalu and published by HopeRoad. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A witty lively novel, Being Me is the perfect companion to The Silent Striker, a feminine take on the football world. Meet Adele Vialli: 14 years old, a star footballer. With an aching heart and an impossible frenemy. She is intelligent, funny and resourceful, yet gets into fights all the time. She finds school boring compared to shoplifting, hanging out with her footballer boyfriend, Marcus from The Silent Striker, and having fun making trouble. As the weary school counsellor says: ‘there’s never a dull day with Adele’. ‘An innovative, impressive and well crafted narrative that strikes a chord for young and old alike.’ (Carol Leeming FRSA) ‘A witty, lively novel of growing up female, black, and middle class in contemporaryLondon.Adele inBeing Mesits alongside some other great non-conventional girl YA characters such as Lyra inHis Dark Materialsby Phillip Pullman, Sephy inNoughts and Crossesby Malorie Blackman, Katniss Everdeen of theHunger Gamestrilogy and the fascinating title heroine in Catherine Johnsons’ most recent novel,The Curious Tale of Lady Caraboo’ [SarahChapter blogspot]
Download or read book Snow on the Headlight written by Cy Warman and published by New York : D. Appleton. This book was released on 1899 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, nearly a lifelong railroad man himself, writes a fictionalized account of the Great Burlington Strike of 1888, which shut down the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy system that ran between Chicago and the Colorado Rockies.
Download or read book Game On written by Mary Amato and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Albert and a group of ragtag aliens as they dribble, cross, and score across the galaxy in this soccer-themed story of unlikely friendships. The day that aliens abducted 13-year-old Albert Kinney was the day he was hoping to make the school soccer team.But that's the way life works sometimes, especially for Albert. Astonishingly the Zeenods, don't want to harm Albert, they want him to play soccer. And so, Albert jumps at the chance to join the Zeenods. Yet just as he is introduced to the specifics of their game and all their high-tech gear, he faces a series of direct threats to his life. Does someone have a mysterious vendetta against Albert? Or does their first opponent, the ruthless team from Planet Tev, want to guarantee that they win? Action-packed, yet filled with humor and heart, Game On! is the first book in a series that features thrilling play-by-play soccer scenes and an intergalactic plot with far-reaching consequences for the Zeenods--and Earth.
Download or read book The Silent Force written by Thomas Morris Longstreth and published by New York : The Century Company. This book was released on 1927 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the force from 1873 arranged in sections by the terms of the Commissioner: G.A. French, 1873-76; J.F. Macleod, 1876-80; A.G. Irvine, 1880-86; L.W. Herchmer, 1886-1900; A.B. Perry, 1900-22; and Cortlandt Starnes, 1922-
Download or read book Steelstriker written by Marie Lu and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the instant New York Times bestseller SKYHUNTER “Riveting.” –POPSUGAR “Action-packed.” –BuzzFeed “Fresh.” –Los Angeles Times “Exhilarating...a rollercoaster of a reading experience.” –The Nerd Daily “My favorite YA of 2020.” —Sabaa Tahir, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Ember in the Ashes series and National Book Award Winner All My Rage Explosive action and swoon-worthy suspense collide in Steelstriker, the riveting conclusion to Marie Lu’s instant New York Times bestseller Skyhunter. The world’s last free nation has fallen. And behind enemy lines, Talin stands alone. With her friends scattered by combat and her mother held captive, Talin has no choice but to submit to the Federation’s experiments and become their most deadly war machine—a Skyhunter. But Red hasn’t given up on Talin. Though the link between them is weak, it could be enough. To find their way back to each other. To reunite the Strikers. To fight back against the Federation, against all odds, against all hope. Because the battle has only just begun.
Download or read book The Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker written by Theresa Serber Malkiel and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Memoirs of a Silk Striker written by John H. Steiger and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Borders and Border Crossings in the Contemporary British Short Story written by Barbara Korte and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents a contribution to both border studies and short story studies. In today’s world, there is ample evidence of the return of borders worldwide: as material reality, as a concept, and as a way of thinking. This collection of critical essays focuses on the ways in which the contemporary British short story mirrors, questions and engages with border issues in national and individual life. At the same time, the concept of the border, as well as neighbouring notions of liminality and intersectionality, is used to illuminate the short story’s unique aesthetic potential. The first section, “Geopolitics and Grievable Lives”, includes chapters that address the various ways in which contemporary stories engage with our newly bordered world and borders within contemporary Britain. The second section examines how British short stories engage with “Ethnicity and Liminal Identities”, while the third, “Animal Encounters and Metamorphic Bodies”, focuses on stories concerned with epistemological borders and borderlands of existence and identity. Taken together, the chapters in this volume demonstrate the varied and complex ways in which British short stories in the twenty-first century engage with the concept of the border.
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing written by Susheila Nasta and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing provides a comprehensive historical overview of the diverse literary traditions impacting on this field's evolution, from the eighteenth century to the present. Drawing on the expertise of over forty international experts, this book gathers innovative scholarship to look forward to new readings and perspectives, while also focusing on undervalued writers, texts, and research areas. Creating new pathways to engage with the naming of a field that has often been contested, readings of literary texts are interwoven throughout with key political, social, and material contexts. In making visible the diverse influences constituting past and contemporary British literary culture, this Cambridge History makes a unique contribution to British, Commonwealth, postcolonial, transnational, diasporic, and global literary studies, serving both as one of the first major reference works to cover four centuries of black and Asian British literary history and as a compass for future scholarship.
