Download or read book Tiffany Sparrow Spook Slayer written by Billy Bob Buttons and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-23 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Tiffany Sparrow and my job is to slay spooks. It can be messy work, but I enjoy it. Mostly. I get to do a lot of travelling which is fun, but often just to crumbling tombs and spidery cellars. My mum was a slayer too; and so was my grandmother. I miss them terribly. They were killed, you see, by Grimdorf the warlock, so now there's only me and my old grandad left. But the word on Voodoo street is... GRIMDORF'S BACK! And he's brought a few of his pals with him. 'WONDERFUL PENMANSHIP' Tons of Fun 'Tiffany is the sort of girl every girl wants to be. Cool, funny and a scythe-weilding, kong fu-kicking spook slayer' School News
Download or read book Grace s Ghosts written by Stephenie Wilson Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Grace and her feline best friend, Midnight, have a secret: Midnight is a ghost. But then again, so are the rest of Graces' friends.Since she's the only person in hundreds of years with the ability to see them, the many ghosts of Tansy have flocked to Grace since birth. She doesn't mind. She prefers the company of the dead to that of the cliquey kids at school. Grace is happy with her strange life, until one day, the ghosts tell her about the secret her town has hidden for centuries. There's a reason there are more ghosts than living people in Tansy. Three-hundred years ago, a lonely witch cast a spell that mistakenly trapped the soul of every person to ever set foot in the tiny town. So when the spirits beg her to find a way to break the curse, Grace is eager to help. As she searches for answers, Grace makes discoveries about the secret her family hid for generations and a world of magic hidden in her own backyard.Grace soon realizes that if she succeeds in breaking the curse, she'll lose Midnight and all of her ghost friends, but if she fails, everyone living in Tansy will face the same fate. Can Grace break the curse before it's too late?
Download or read book I Think I Murdered Miss written by Billy Bob Buttons and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2014 UK PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE My name is Simon Spittle and I think - no, I know, I murdered Miss Belcher. I don't carry a gun. Or a knife. Or even a toothpick, but yesterday, in French, I wished for her to be run over by a bus and, later that very day, she was. A big, red double-decker with yellow wheels and a picture of a clown on the bonnet. A Billy Smart's Circus bus. Simon is very different to Isabella. He is all elbowy and clumsy. She, on the other hand, is elegant and cool. He's the school chess champ and has the IQ of a chemistry professor. She thinks flowers grow better if you feed them Bic Macs and play them Elvis songs. He has a 1/500 scale model of the Starship Enterprise NCC-1701 in his bedroom. She thinks it's a frying pan. Isabella has a secret. Simon, well, he IS the secret... BILLY BOB BUTTONS was shortlisted for the RUBERY BOOK AWARDS and was the winner of THE 2014 UK PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE. Comments (Birchwood Primary School) 'This is the best book I have read this year. Amazing!' John, 10 years old. 'Billy Bob Buttons' books keep getting better and better.' Stephen, 11 years old. 'This book is sooooooo funny. I laughed and laughed and laughed.' Sara, 10 years old. 'I Think I Murdered Miss is so good, I skipped Doctor Who to finish it.' Benjamin, 9 years old.
Download or read book Drowning Fish written by Billy Bob Buttons and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE HUNTER Sinjin Fury, a power-crazy wizard with a horrifying army of VERY crazy Glumsnappers. THE HUNTED Simon Spittle, a Star Trek-obsessed loner with the IQ of a chemistry professor, the temper of a monster with tooth rot and the gift to kill with a wish. HIS PROTECTOR Isabella, a street-wise Seeker who knows Simon's the key to, well, SAVING THE WORLD! The follow-up to the fantastic I THINK I MURDERED MISS 'Sweet, funny and totally unputdownable.' YA Book News
Download or read book Buyology written by Martin Lindstrom and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A fascinating look at how consumers perceive logos, ads, commercials, brands, and products.”—Time How much do we know about why we buy? What truly influences our decisions in today’s message-cluttered world? In Buyology, Martin Lindstrom presents the astonishing findings from his groundbreaking three-year, seven-million-dollar neuromarketing study—a cutting-edge experiment that peered inside the brains of 2,000 volunteers from all around the world as they encountered various ads, logos, commercials, brands, and products. His startling results shatter much of what we have long believed about what captures our interest—and drives us to buy. Among the questions he explores: • Does sex actually sell? • Does subliminal advertising still surround us? • Can “cool” brands trigger our mating instincts? • Can our other senses—smell, touch, and sound—be aroused when we see a product? Buyology is a fascinating and shocking journey into the mind of today's consumer that will captivate anyone who's been seduced—or turned off—by marketers' relentless attempts to win our loyalty, our money, and our minds.
Download or read book The Boy Who Piddled in His Grandad s Slippers written by Billy Bob Buttons and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Very, very funny and very, very sweet. A modern classic with a twist! Boys will love it!' Eclipse Ralph is always piddling everywhere. He drenched Mummy's sheepskin rug. He filled Daddy's boots. He even took a tinkle in his sister's Coco Pops! But can Ralph be the hero nobody expects him to be? 'I chuckled so much my belly hurt.' Books for Kids 'A rhyming gem!' Story Box Having problems finding a book to interest a boy? Well, The Boy Who Piddled In His Grandad's Slippers might be the answer. In this delightfully illustrated picture book, award-winning children's writer Billy Bob Buttons has written a story designed to pull boys away from toy cars and Lego bricks and over to the book corner. Buttons, who has delivered literacy workshops to over 250,000 children all over the UK, knows how important comedy is to boys. 'The hero has to be a little cheeky, ' Buttons says, 'and the story has to be very, very funny.' The Boy Who Piddled In His Grandad's Slippers, the first of seven 'CHEEKY BOY' books, is helping boys all over the world to discover the joy of opening a book and staying put till the last page is turned. PARENTS' COMMENTS 'My son was enthralled by this book He's six and he enjoys what all boys of six enjoy. Playing! But trying to find him a book has been difficult. Thankfully he now happily curls up on my knee with The Boy Who Piddled In His Grandad's Slippers.' 'My two boys love two books: The Gruffalo and The Boy Who Piddled In His Grandad's Slippers.' 'Ralph is so cheeky-looking and what he gets up to is so funny. The twist at the end had my boy crying with laughter.' Comments from parents kept with publisher.
Download or read book Patterns for College Writing written by Laurie G. Kirszner and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 837 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell, authors with nearly thirty years of experience teaching college writing, know what works in the classroom and have a knack for picking just the right readings. In Patterns for College Writing, they provide students with exemplary rhetorical models and instructors with class-tested selections that balance classic and contemporary essays. Along with more examples of student writing than any other reader, Patterns has the most comprehensive coverage of active reading, research, and the writing process, with a five-chapter mini-rhetoric; the clearest explanations of the patterns of development; and the most thorough apparatus of any rhetorical reader, all reasons why Patterns for College Writing is the best-selling reader in the country. And the new edition includes exciting new readings and expanded coverage of critical reading, working with sources, and research. It is now available as an interactive Bedford e-book and in a variety of other e-book formats that can be downloaded to a computer, tablet, or e-reader. Read the preface.
Download or read book Graceling Graphic Novel written by Kristin Cashore and published by Etch/Clarion Books. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved New York Times best-selling YA fantasy by Kristin Cashore is now available as a graphic novel, with stunning illustrations by award-winning artist Gareth Hinds. Katsa is a Graceling, one of the rare people born with an extreme skill. As niece of the king, she lived a life of privilege until the day her ability to kill a man with her bare hands revealed itself during a royal banquet. Now she acts as her uncle's enforcer, traveling the kingdom and threatening those who dare oppose him. But everything changes when she meets Po, a foreign prince Graced with combat skills who is searching for the truth about his grandfather's disappearance. When Katsa agrees to help him, she never expects to learn a new truth about her own Grace--or about a terrible secret that could destroy them all. With "gorgeous storytelling" (School Library Journal, starred review) and characters "crafted with meticulous devotion" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), Graceling is a beloved classic that has continued to resonate with readers for over a decade.
Download or read book Ultimate Toolbox written by Dawn Ibach and published by Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG). This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English written by Tom Dalzell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 5135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang offers the ultimate record of modern, post WW2 American Slang. The 25,000 entries are accompanied by citations that authenticate the words as well as offer examples of usage from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, television shows, musical lyrics, and Internet user groups. Etymology, cultural context, country of origin and the date the word was first used are also provided. In terms of content, the cultural transformations since 1945 are astounding. Television, computers, drugs, music, unpopular wars, youth movements, changing racial sensitivities and attitudes towards sex and sexuality are all substantial factors that have shaped culture and language. This new edition includes over 500 new headwords collected with citations from the last five years, a period of immense change in the English language, as well as revised existing entries with new dating and citations. No term is excluded on the grounds that it might be considered offensive as a racial, ethnic, religious, sexual or any kind of slur. This dictionary contains many entries and citations that will, and should, offend. Rich, scholarly and informative, The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English is an indispensable resource for language researchers, lexicographers and translators.
Download or read book The Hungry Grasshopper written by Billy Bob Buttons and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-14 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A delightfully sweet rhyming story.' Best Books For Kids Panthers CHEW on spider leg STEW, alligators CHOMP on frogs in a SWAMP, dogs GOBBLE puddings that WOBBLE and cows SLURP and always BURP. 'A wonderfully witty story from the wonderfully witty Billy Bob Buttons.' The Independent
Download or read book Tor Wolf Rising written by Billy Bob Buttons and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My body is not the body I had before I travelled to China. Teeth now crowd my jaw, I can spot deer from half a mile away, and to me, the tiny feet of mice no longer patter, they boom like trampling elephants. I am changing. A volcano of fury is stirring, trapped only by the thinnest crust of skin and willpower. The spirit of the hamrammr is in my blood... EVIL BECKONS 'A jaw-dropping, cracker of a book.' Eclipse Magazine
Download or read book Anagram Solver written by Bloomsbury Publishing and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anagram Solver is the essential guide to cracking all types of quiz and crossword featuring anagrams. Containing over 200,000 words and phrases, Anagram Solver includes plural noun forms, palindromes, idioms, first names and all parts of speech. Anagrams are grouped by the number of letters they contain with the letters set out in alphabetical order so that once the letters of an anagram are arranged alphabetically, finding the solution is as easy as locating the word in a dictionary.
Download or read book Nellie Nova Takes Flight written by Stephenie Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-10 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nellie appears to be a normal nine year old girl. But Nellie is not normal. Nellie is an amazingly gifted scientist who lives in a family of amazingly gifted scientists. One day, her brother, Niles, who is eleven, teases her (as all respectable big brothers do). This time, however, Niles goes too far when he tells Nellie that girls are silly and no woman has ever changed the world. This sets off a spark of an idea in Nellie's most amazing mind and sends her down the path to create a time machine and meet wonderful women who made a mark on the world. First stop, Amelia Earhart! With a few bumps along the way and a government agency out to steal her technology, Nellie and Niles are in for an incredible adventure!
Download or read book Caillou written by and published by PBS. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though Caillou's a little boy, he's got a big job: he's Rosie's big brother! This video helps kids learn the importance of sharing and cooperating, and the fun and responsibilities of sibling relationships.
Download or read book Articulus Quest written by Billy Bob Buttons and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If you don't go, Felicity; if you don't get Articulus back, there will be a terrible war in this land." The gargoyle rested his claw on her shoulder. "Galibrath left the book to you and now it is up to you to find it and return it to The Wishing Shelf. Remember, in the wrong hands it could destroy...everything." 'The story telling skills of J K Rowling and the wit of Roald Dahl.' Bookbuzz 'Spellbinding!' Kicks4kidz 'Charming! Made me wish I was young so I could find a magic bookshop of my own.' Kidsbookshelf 'A fantasitc adventure.' Teanreads 'Brilliant!' SciFi Books
