Download or read book Tiny Tornadoes written by Jan Carr and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A laugh-out-loud new illustrated chapter book series celebrating the roller coaster highs and lows of life in a second grade classroom. It's the second week of school, and Buddy is wondering if the other second grade class might be more fun. They've even chosen a cool class name. How will his class ever compete? Especially when Ms. Maple says they shouldn't be competing at all? In the second installment of this new chapter book series, Buddy and Bea are still sorting out how to coexist--and making plenty of hilarious missteps along the way.

Download or read book Unbored written by Joshua Glenn and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unbored is the book every modern child needs. Brilliantly walking the line between cool and constructive, it's crammed with activities that are not only fun and doable but that also get kids standing on their own two feet. If you're a kid, you can: -- Build a tipi or an igloo -- Learn to knit -- Take stuff apart and fix it -- Find out how to be constructively critical -- Film a stop-action movie or edit your own music -- Do parkour like James Bond -- Make a little house for a mouse from lollipop sticks -- Be independent! Catch a bus solo or cook yourself lunch -- Make a fake exhaust for your bike so it sounds like you're revving up a motorcycle -- Design a board game -- Go camping (or glamping) -- Plan a road trip -- Get proactive and support the causes you care about -- Develop your taste and decorate your own room -- Make a rocket from a coke bottle -- Play farting games There are gross facts and fascinating stories, reports on what stuff is like (home schooling, working in an office...), Q&As with inspiring grown-ups, extracts from classic novels, lists of useful resources and best ever lists like the top clean rap songs, stop-motion movies or books about rebellion. Just as kids begin to disappear into their screens, here is a book that encourages them to use those tech skills to be creative, try new things and change the world. And it gets parents to join in. Unbored is fully illustrated, easy to use and appealing to young and old, girl and boy. Parents will be comforted by its anti-perfectionist spirit and humour. Kids will just think it's brilliant.

Download or read book Out West written by Charles Fletcher Lummis and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains monthly column of the Sequoya League.

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Download or read book Attack of the Tiny Tornadoes written by Kelly Tully and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 9-year old Ren Singerson is a scaredy-cat. He writes a secret list of all his fears and hides it so no one will ever know. When Ren receives a mysterious gift, the words are no longer writing on paper; they become real. Will he be able to put aside what scares him in the present to save the lives of three children who lived 125-years ago?

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Download or read book The Knowing written by Sharon Cameron and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharon Cameron returns to the rich world of #1 New York Times bestseller The Forgetting with a companion novel as thrilling and intricately crafted as the first. Samara is one of the Knowing, and the Knowing do not forget. Hidden deep in the comfort and splendor of her underground city, a refuge from the menace of a coming Earth, Samara learns what she should have never known and creates a memory so terrible she cannot live with it. So she flees, to Canaan, the lost city of her ancestors, to Forget.Beckett has flown through the stars to find a dream: Canaan, the most infamous social experiment of Earth's antiquity. Beckett finds Samara in the ruins of the lost city, and uncovers so much more than he ever bargained for -- a challenge to all he's ever believed in or sworn to. When planets collide and memories clash, can Samara and Beckett save two worlds, and remember love in a place that has forgotten it?At once thought-provoking and utterly thrilling, this extraordinary companion novel to Sharon Cameron's #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling THE FORGETTING explores the truth and loss that lie within memory, and the bonds that hold us together.

Download or read book Tornadoes written by Alvin Silverstein and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Discusses the science behind tornadoes, including how and where they form, the scientific methods to track and predict them, and tornado safety tips"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book An Honorable Man written by Margaret Watson and published by Dragonfly Press. This book was released on 2017-06-05 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two years earlier, Detective Luke McKinley had gone too far, and it had cost him his badge. He was left with nothing but a burning anger at the woman he blamed for his dismissal. Julianne Cavanaugh had been gripped with guilt ever since, even though she'd been doing her job. Now, though, she needs Luke's help. But the tough PI would toss her out of his office if he knew the whole truth. In spite of herself, as they work together, Julianne falls in love with the bitter former cop. But she's hiding an ugly secret, and if Luke discovers it, he'll never forgive her.

Download or read book Arena of Souls written by David Wood and published by Gryphonwood Press. This book was released on 2016-02-03 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic adventure for the modern reader! In 1931, an assassin's bullet nearly claims Brock Stone's life on the day he returns home to Washington, DC to claim his inheritance. Inside his grandfather's secret library, Stone finds a map to a lost island in the center of the Bermuda Triangle! Joined by his sometimes girlfriend, investigative reporter Trinity Page, and childhood friend, mechanical genius Alex English, and ex-boxer Moses Gibbs, Stone embarks on a rollicking adventure! Enemies lurk around every corner and an island of horrors awaits at the end of the journey, where Stone must face death in the Arena of Souls! Fans of Indiana Jones, Dane Maddock, and Doc Savage will love Brock Stone! Praise for David Wood and The Dane Maddock Adventures! “What an adventure! A great read that provides lots of action, and thoughtful insight as well, into strange realms that are sometimes best left unexplored.” Paul Kemprecos, author of Cool Blue Tomb and the NUMA Files “Dane and Bones.... Together they're unstoppable. Rip roaring action from start to finish. Wit and humor throughout. Just one question - how soon until the next one? Because I can't wait.” Graham Brown, author of Shadows of the Midnight Sun “David Wood has done it again. Within seconds of opening the book, I was hooked. Intrigue, suspense, monsters, and treasure hunters. What more could you want? David's knocked it out of the park with this one!” Nick Thacker- author of The Enigma Strain “A twisty tale of adventure and intrigue that never lets up and never lets go!” Robert Masello, author of The Einstein Prophecy “A page-turning yarn blending high action, Biblical speculation, ancient secrets, and nasty creatures. Indiana Jones better watch his back!” Jeremy Robinson, author of SecondWorld “With the thoroughly enjoyable way Mr. Wood has mixed speculative history with our modern day pursuit of truth, he has created a story that thrills and makes one think beyond the boundaries of mere fiction and enter the world of 'why not'?” David Lynn Golemon, Author of the Event Group series “Let there be no confusion: David Wood is the next Clive Cussler. Once you start reading, you won't be able to stop until the last mystery plays out in the final line.” Edward G. Talbot, author of 2012: The Fifth World “I like my thrillers with lots of explosions, global locations and a mystery where I learn something new. Wood delivers! Recommended as a fast paced, kick ass read.” J.F. Penn, author of Desecration

Download or read book National Science Board written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Attack of the Tiny Tornadoes written by Kelly Tully and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ren Singerson is nine year¿s old and has an embarrassing secret: he¿s a scaredy-cat. He decides to write a list of everything he¿s afraid of and hides it so no one can ever know. When a mysterious stranger gives him a bag with a magical gift inside, the list is no longer just writing on paper; it becomes real.Follow along with Ren and his twin-sister Evie as they go on a journey inside their 125-year-old house that will put Ren face-to-face with one of his biggest fears. Will he be able to put aside what scares him in the present to save the lives of three children who live in the past?

Download or read book Patterns and Perspectives in Environmental Science written by National Science Board (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book God s Cabin written by Lance Tassi and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are looking for some of the latest or some of the most important examples of the awesome power of both God and Jesus Christ, then this absolutely is a true must-read book. But it really is a lot more than that, for again and again, both God and Jesus Christ will show you and tell you right inside their own exclusive stories of what you could never expect to be possible. However, when it really comes from both God and Jesus Christ, they then shall affirm over and over that right in their own very pages that all these events by them are so absolutely possible. All these stories really did happen and now they both just are asking you to do these two most wonderful things. To make their very own stories to become a special part of you and to then fully join them both at the one and only door that centers all around God's Cabin.

Download or read book Not If I Save You First written by Ally Carter and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Ally Carter returns with an exciting stand-alone novel, about a girl stranded in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness with the boy who wronged her... as an assassin moves in. Maddie thought she and Logan would be friends forever. But when your dad is a Secret Service agent and your best friend is the president's son, sometimes life has other plans. Before she knows it, Maddie's dad is dragging her to a cabin in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness.No phone.No Iinternet.And not a single word from Logan.Maddie tells herself it's okay. After all, she's the most popular girl for twenty miles in any direction. She has wood to cut and weapons to bedazzle. Her life is full.Until Logan shows up six years later . . .And Maddie wants to kill him. But before that can happen, an assailant appears out of nowhere, knocking Maddie off a cliff and dragging Logan to some unknown fate. Maddie knows she could turn back- and get help. But the weather is turning and the terrain will only get more treacherous, the animals more deadly. Maddie still really wants to kill Logan. But she has to save him first.

Download or read book The Trophy Taker written by Sarah Flint and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of MUMMY'S FAVOURITE. He's watching, waiting... and counting. A gripping serial killer for fans of Angela Marsons. He keeps each one floating in formaldehyde to stop them from rotting. Each finger denotes a victim, tortured and butchered, their heart ripped out and discarded, replaced instead by symbols of their treachery. He sits alone admiring his trophies weekly; each and every one of them guilty in his eyes. And now more must pay. But who or what links the victims? DC 'Charlie' Stafford is already investigating a series of escalating racist attacks and it now seems she has a vicious serial killer on her patch. With no leads and time running out, the team at Lambeth are at near breaking point. Something has to give... and all the while he's watching, waiting... and counting. What readers are saying about THE TROPHY TAKER: 'I read a lot of crime stories, and this is one of the best... the writing is so good that it disappears from view' 'Great book, skilfully crafted' 'Kept me riveted to the spot' 'Absolutely brilliant! Gripping and completely engrossing - could not put it down!'