Download or read book The Uncle Duncle Chronicles written by Darren Krill and published by Readhowyouwant. This book was released on 2010-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escape from Treasure Island Ahoy, Me Hearties! Adventure awaits with the turn of a page! For Sage Smiley, summer vacation doesn't just mean a break from school. It means finally going on vacation with his favorite uncle, Dunkirk Smiley (a.k.a., Uncle Duncle), who just happens to be a world-famous explorer with a World War II Supermarine Spitfire and a magical talisman that will allow them to travel wherever Sage wants! But the aerial adventure goes awry when Sage and his uncle mistakenly arrive on Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, a perilous destination teeming with murderous pirates, treacherous allies, and man-eating sharks. Together they must free a group of prisoners from the clutches of Long John Silver, lay claim to the glittering chests of pirate treasure, and fight for their very lives. Will their thrilling journey lead them home, or off the plank? ...uncle and nephew are up to their ears in adventure ...Krill keeps his audience guessing right to the very end. - Quill & Quire... With wings of wind, I fly! is destined to become a catchphrase of a new generation of young readers... - Edmonton Journal

Download or read book The Uncle Duncle Chronicles Escape From Treasure Island written by Darren James Krill and published by Library and Archives Canada. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Sage Smiley, summer vacation doesn't just mean a break from school. It means finally going on adventure with his favorite uncle, Dunkirk Smiley (a.k.a., "Uncle Duncle"), who just happens to be a world-famous explorer. Sage can barely contain his excitement when Uncle Duncle announces they'll be flying in his World War II Supermarine Spitfire, and using the powers of a magical talisman to go wherever Sage would like. But the aerial adventure goes awry when Sage's imagination brings them to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, a perilous destination teeming with murderous pirates, treacherous allies, and man-eating sharks. Together they must free a group of prisoners from the clutches of Long John Silver, lay claim to the glittering chests of pirate treasure, and fight for their very lives. Can a typical boy like Sage find the courage and the craftiness to survive in this land of legends? This exhilarating adventure introduces young readers to Robert Lewis Stevenson's literary classic, Treasure Island. From the tales of Uncle Dunkirk's international travels to the origins of the WWII Spitfire that he flies, Uncle Duncle teaches about the many real-life wonders of the world around us, and illustrates how great literature can come alive! REVIEWS "Darren Krill has given us the next best thing to a sequel (to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island). Krill keeps his audience guessing right to the very end. This is a fun read, and since Escape From Treasure Island is billed as the first in The Uncle Duncle Chronicles, readers can look forward to more adventure down the road." - Quill & Quire "This light-hearted mix of Krill's and Stevenson's characters works quite well, whether the reader is familiar with Treasure Island or not. It would be all too easy for Krill to cross the line into absurdity with a plot such as this, but he handles the blend of existing fiction and his own creation beautifully." - Children's Literature "'With wings of wind, I fly' is destined to become a catchphrase of a new generation of young readers." - Edmonton Journal "It's a rollicking adventure, in a style that's not been seen for years." - Edmonton Sun "...Scintillating...Krill wants to be Edmonton's JK Rowling. Make that DK Rowling. He's well on his way." - Edmonton Examiner "...A big, new Canadian hit in not time!" - Lloydminster Meridian Booster "Four stars! Highly recommended! Non-stop fun and action! A great read!" - Canadian Materials - Manitoba Library Association

Download or read book Escape from Treasure Island written by Darren Krill and published by Lobster Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This exhilarating adventure introduces young readers to Robert Lewis Stevenson's classic, Treasure Island."

Download or read book The Curious Misadventures of Feltus Ovalton written by Jo Treggiari and published by Lobster Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (ages 9 - 12) Ever since he and his parents moved to the city, Feltus Ovalton LeRoi has been hiding out in his room, reading comics, wishing for something - anything- to happen. With a loud "Wex Lethoo Radok!" his gibberish-speaking, odd-smelling, toad-keeping, mashed-potato-and-tin-foil-hat-wearing Great-Aunt Eunida appears ... and everythingchanges. As parallel worlds start to collide with very mixed results, Feltus finds himself shoved into the unlikely role of hero. Suddenly, parents who ignore him and bullies at school are the least of his problems! Does his peculiar great-aunt hold the answers? And could it be true that there is a tiny bit of magic in Feltus Ovalton's blood? This quirky, dexterous novel for tweens has plenty of magic, fantasy, and richly developed characters that range from the angelic to the absurd.

Download or read book The Secret of Grim Hill written by Linda DeMeulemeester and published by Lobster Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This suspenseful tale pits typical teens against diabolical fairies and their powerful spells in a Halloween showdown.

Download or read book Stories for Every Classroom written by Beverly A. Brenna and published by Canadian Scholars’ Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic study of children's literature has explored various aspects of diversity; however, little research has examined Canadian books that portray characters with disabilities. This relevant and timely text addresses the significant dearth of research by exploring the treatment of disability in Canadian literature for young people. Engaging and highly accessible, this text will assist teachers, teacher educators, and teacher candidates in finding and using books about characters where disability is a part of their characterization, supporting the development of curricula that reflect critical literacy and social justice issues. Stories for Every Classroom explores the historical patterns and trends, theoretical frameworks, and critical literacy methods used to understand and teach children's literature and its portrayal of characters with disabilities. It provides educators with curriculum ideas and enriches the body of resources shared with children in K-12 settings for the purposes of developing imagination, empathy, and understanding of self and others. Featuring author portraits, comprehensive annotated bibliographies of contemporary Canadian children's books that depict characters with disabilities, and read-on bibliographies that provide connections with other books in the field, this unique text will be an invaluable resource for educators.

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Download or read book Children s Book Review Index 2008 written by Dana Ferguson and published by Children's Book Review Index C. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Childrens Book Review Index contains review citations to give your students and researchers access to reviewers comments and opinions on thousands of books, periodicals, books on tape and electronic media intended and/ or recommended for children through age 10. The volume makes it easy to find a review by authors name, book title or illustrator and fully indexes more than 600 periodicals.

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Download or read book Poetics of Children s Literature written by Zohar Shavit and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its emergence in the seventeenth century as a distinctive cultural system, children's literature has had a culturally inferior status resulting from its existence in a netherworld between the literary system and the educational system. In addition to its official readership—children—it has to be approved of by adults. Writers for children, explains Zohar Shavit, are constrained to respond to these multiple systems of often mutually contradictory demands. Most writers do not try to bypass these constraints, but accept them as a framework for their work. In the most extreme cases an author may ignore one segment of the readership. If the adult reader is ignored, the writer risks rejection, as is the case of popular literature. If the writer utilizes the child as a pseudo addressee in order to appeal to an adult audience, the result can be what Shavit terms an ambivalent work. Shavit analyzes the conventions and the moral aims that have structured children's literature, from the fairy tales collected and reworked by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm—in particular, “Little Red Riding Hood”—through the complex manipulations of Lewis Carroll in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, to the subversion of the genre's canonical requirements in the chapbooks of the eighteenth century, and in the formulaic Nancy Drew books of the twentieth century. Throughout her study Shavit, explores not only how society has shaped children's literature, but also how society has been reflected in the literary works it produces for its children.

Download or read book English Book Collectors written by William Younger Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Susan Sontag written by Leland Poague and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan Sontag: An Annotated Bibliographycatalogues the works of one of America's most prolific and important 20th century authors. Known for her philosophical writings on American culture, topics left untouched by Sontag's writings are few and far between. This volume is an exhaustive collection that includes her novels, essays, reviews, films and interviews. Each entry is accompanied by an annotated bibliography.

Download or read book Unintended Consequences written by John Ross and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rising by the pro-gun lobby brings the government to its knees. The story begins when Henry Bowman, a geologist in Iowa, fires on federal agents, thinking they are terrorists. The conflict escalates, agents and congressmen die, and to bring peace the president agrees to repeal anti-gun laws and pardon the rebels.

Download or read book Mystics and Zen Masters written by Thomas Merton and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 1999-11-29 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Merton was recognized as one of those rare Western minds that are entirely at home with the Zen experience. In this collection, he discusses diverse religious concepts-early monasticism, Russian Orthodox spirituality, the Shakers, and Zen Buddhism-with characteristic Western directness. Merton not only studied these religions from the outside but grasped them by empathy and living participation from within. "All these studies," wrote Merton, "are united by one central concern: to understand various ways in which men of different traditions have conceived the meaning and method of the 'way' which leads to the highest levels of religious or of metaphysical awareness."