Download or read book Swimmer Boy written by Jay Argent and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liam Green is a sixteen-year-old boy who has just moved to Fairmont with his family. On his first day in his new high school, he falls for Alex, a handsome jock on the swim team. Alex does not seem to be gay, but that does not end Liam's obsession with him. Fate pushes the boys together, and they become friends—until Liam's secret is revealed. Swimmer Boy is a story about friendship and the kind of love that is found in the most unlikely places.
Download or read book A Boy in the Water written by Tom Gregory and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Winner of the William Hill 2018 Sports Book of the Year Award** A Sunday Times Book of the Year and Telegraph Best Book of 2018 'Extraordinary' Clare Balding The poignant, life-affirming story of a determined boy, a visionary coach, and how the dream of a record-breaking Channel swim became reality Eltham, South London. 1984: the hot fug of the swimming pool and the slow splashing of a boy learning to swim but not yet wanting to take his foot off the bottom. Fast-forward four years. Photographers and family wait on the shingle beach as a boy in a bright orange hat and grease-smeared goggles swims the last few metres from France to England. He has been in the water for twelve agonizing hours, encouraged at each stroke by his coach, John Bullet, who has become a second father. This is the story of a remarkable friendship between a coach and a boy, and a love letter to the intensity and freedom of childhood.
Download or read book At Swim Two Boys written by Jamie O'Neill and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two young men, Jim, the naive, scholarly son of a Dublin shopkeeper, and Doyler, a rough working boy, struggle with issues of political, religious, and sexual identity in the year leading up to the Easter uprising of 1916.
Download or read book Freedom Swimmer written by Wai Chim and published by Scholastic Press. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful story of friendship, bravery, and a desperate bid for freedom, inspired by true events. Ming survived the famine that killed his parents during China's Great Leap Forward, and lives a hard but adequate life, working in the fields. When a group of city boys comes to the village as part of a Communist Party re-education program, Ming and his friends aren't sure what to make of the new arrivals. They're not used to hard labor and village life. But despite his reservations, Ming befriends a charming city boy called Li. The two couldn't be more different, but slowly they form a bond over evening swims and shared dreams. But as the bitterness of life under the Party begins to take its toll on both boys, they begin to imagine the impossible: freedom.
Download or read book The Swimmer written by and published by Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Swimmers written by Julie Otsuka and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BEST SELLER • From the best-selling, award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine comes a novel about what happens to a group of obsessed recreational swimmers when a crack appears at the bottom of their local pool. This searing, intimate story of mothers and daughters—and the sorrows of implacable loss—is the most commanding and unforgettable work yet from a modern master. The swimmers are unknown to one another except through their private routines (slow lane, medium lane, fast lane) and the solace each takes in their morning or afternoon laps. But when a crack appears at the bottom of the pool, they are cast out into an unforgiving world without comfort or relief. One of these swimmers is Alice, who is slowly losing her memory. For Alice, the pool was a final stand against the darkness of her encroaching dementia. Without the fellowship of other swimmers and the routine of her daily laps she is plunged into dislocation and chaos, swept into memories of her childhood and the Japanese American incarceration camp in which she spent the war. Alice's estranged daughter, reentering her mother's life too late, witnesses her stark and devastating decline.
Download or read book Leo Can Swim written by Anna McQuinn and published by Charlesbridge. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Splishy, splashy babies Leo, Lola’s little brother from Leo Loves Baby Time, is back in a new adventure at the pool. Leo and Daddy go to swim class where they kick, bounce, and dive like little fish. Joining other babies and their caretakers in the pool is a guarantee for unforgettable fun.
Download or read book The Girl in the Lake written by India Hill Brown and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Small Spaces, Doll Bones, and Mary Downing Hahn, a truly chilling (and historically inspired) ghost story from the talented author of The Forgotten Girl. Celeste knows she should be excited to spend two weeks at her grandparents' lake house with her brother, Owen, and their cousins Capri and Daisy, but she's not. Bugs, bad cell reception, and the dark waters of the lake... no thanks. On top of that, she just failed her swim test and hates being in the water—it's terrifying. But her grandparents are strong believers in their family knowing how to swim, especially having grown up during a time of segregation at public pools. And soon strange things start happening—the sound of footsteps overhead late at night. A flickering light in the attic window. And Celete's cousins start accusing her of pranking them when she's been no where near them! Things at the old house only get spookier until one evening when Celeste looks in the steamy mirror after a shower and sees her face, but twisted, different... Who is the girl in the mirror? And what does she want? Past and present mingle in this spine-tingling ghost story by award-winning author India Hill Brown.
Download or read book The Swimmers written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: »The Swimmers« is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, originally published in 1929. F. SCOTT FITZGERALD [1896-1940] was an American author, born in St. Paul, Minnesota. His legendary marriage to Zelda Montgomery, along with their acquaintances with notable figures such as Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway, and their lifestyle in 1920s Paris, has become iconic. A master of the short story genre, it is logical that his most famous novel is also his shortest: The Great Gatsby [1925].
Download or read book The River Swimmer written by Jim Harrison and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two outstanding late novellas from one of America’s most beloved and critically acclaimed authors. A brilliant rendering of two men striving to find their way in the world, written with freshness, abundant wit, and profound humanity, The River Swimmer is Jim Harrison at his most memorable. In The Land of Unlikeness, sixty-year-old art history academic Clive a failed artist, divorced and grappling with the vagaries of his declining years reluctantly returns to his family’s Michigan farmhouse to visit his aging mother. The return to familiar territory triggers a jolt of renewal—of ardor for his high school love, of his relationship with his estranged daughter, and of his own lost love of painting. In Water Baby, Harrison ventures into the magical as an Upper Peninsula farm boy is irresistibly drawn to the water as an escape, and sees otherworldly creatures there. Faced with the injustice and pressure of coming of age, he takes to the river and follows its siren song all the way across Lake Michigan. The River Swimmer is a striking portrait of two richly-drawn, profoundly human characters, and an exceptional reminder of why Jim Harrison remains one of America’s most cherished and important writers, on a par with such literary greats as Richard Ford, Anne Tyler, Robert Stone, Russell Banks, and Ann Beattie. “Trenchant and visionary . . . Harrison is a writer of the body, which he celebrates as the ordinary, essential and wondrous instrument by which we measure the world. Without it, there is no philosophy. And with it, of course, philosophy can be a rocky test. . . . I could feel Jim Harrison grinning . . . in his glorious novella The River Swimmer.” —The New York Times Book Review
Download or read book The Puritan written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Swimming with Sharks written by Henry Foreman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-09-20 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Henry graduated from college, like most students, he was still innocent and idealistic. After he joined the FBI, and they assigned him to undercover work at a Mafia casino, his attitude changed forever. Also his understanding of interpersonal relationships grew by the same proportions when the service teamed him with the female agent, Bessie. Three years later his team solved the murder of John F. Kennedy and his understanding of the inside workings of government was truly complete. If you are among the eighty percent of citizens, who never believed the Warren commissions report, you get to learn you were right all the time.
Download or read book Problem solving and Thinking Skills Resources for Able and Talented Children written by Barry Teare and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-07-06 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This treasure trove of resources is divided into ten themed sections, each preceded by an outline giving the key principles, links with curriculum guidelines and an explanation about the importance of the particular skill. Charts at the beginning of the book summarize curriculum links and skills involved. Each photocopiable activity is accompanied by teachers' notes, and fully explained solutions are given where appropriate.
Download or read book Teaching an Infant to Swim written by Virginia Hunt Newman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Love Never Ends It s Always Remembered written by D.D. Manners and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-07-29 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A promise both absolute and true, was made by a young woman after too many disappoints. Faced with difficult choice after a devastating storm sweeps through her life, she's facing the worst days of her life. A broken promise, a wrecked truck and a life that hangs in the balance, means everything she has work so hard to obtain dangles by a thread. Can she manage to get through this without losing the love of her life? From first date, to that perfect first kiss, the story of love is a timeless classic, but for each it takes on different forms, different memories and different challenges. Her love for him will never end, It will be remembered by those it touched.
Download or read book Harold the Hawk at the Beach written by Bob Williams and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2021-05-17 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cousins are headed to the sandy beaches off the Gulf Coast for their yearly family vacation. The four older boys, Hudson, Jackson, Colt, and Griffin join Addie on a large float in the ocean having fun in the sun and surf. They are unaware, however, that the riptide is carrying them further out to sea. Far from the beach the cousins find themselves surrounded by several large ocean predators. Their hopes are sinking fast.
