Download or read book Tolly And The Pirate Ghost written by Lucinda Williams and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When eleven year old Emily and her mother are forced to move from their house into a cramped, third-floor flat, she has to return the new puppy she has always longed for. To make matters worse, when her mother becomes ill shy Emily is sent to stay with Gertie Pink, the lollipop lady and her boisterous twins. Emily soon finds herself swept up in the extraordinary events of the Pinks’ household with the dramatic arrival of their eccentric Uncle Wilf whose house has been washed into the sea during a storm. While he is recovering from pneumonia, Emily is thrilled to be given charge of his talking parrot, Autolocus but dreads having to tell the old man when the bird unexpectedly disappears. However, Wilf has a confession of his own to make: he has brought with him Tobias, the ghost of a 17th century pirate who haunted his house in Devon. Visible only to Wilf and Emily, this terrifying buccaneer has a tale of his own to tell. Autolocus at last returns and the family are amazed when he lays an egg! But one night the priceless, magical egg is stolen, and the parrot is grief-stricken. Emily and the twins must find it quickly, but which of the story’s colourful characters is responsible? And will they rescue it in time?
Download or read book Lost in Time written by Lucinda Williams and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-08-28 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this final instalment of Emily's adventures, two problems face her and the Pinks. First: Raphus, world-famous half-parrot, half-dodo is dangerously ill due to the absence of his mother, Tolly, the parrot. She is holidaying on Worango Island back in the 17th Century with Tobias and cannot be contacted. Nothing can save Raphus unless Tolly returns. Second: Hendrik is finding it impossible to settle into life in the 21st century. When a stranger arrives from Worango and tells the children that Tobias is desperate for their help, they are suspicious. But Hendrik, on hearing his father is there, searching for him, agrees to return with the stranger and the others can't let him go alone. But nothing is as it seems on Worango. Who can they trust? Have all the pirates drowned, or are some still looking for the precious beans from the Medicine Tree? Where are Tobias and Tolly? Where is Hendrik's father? And where is the cloak which will take them safely home?
Download or read book The Medicine Tree written by Lucinda Williams and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Emily’s mother becomes dangerously ill again, in this sequel to ‘Tolly and the Pirate Ghost’,Emily and the twins, Laura and Harry, time travel with Tobias, the pirate ghost, and his parrot, Tolly, to a tropical island in the year 1660. Their goal is to find the legendary Medicine Tree said to cure any illness, but there are thousands of trees on the island. How can they possibly find the right one? Tobias is reassuring but mysteriously disappears with Tolly, shortly after their arrival, leaving the children to fend for themselves under a scorching sun, with little to eat or drink and no means of getting home. Their problems multiply when they realise a band of ruthless pirates is also hunting for the Tree, and will stop at nothing to gain the prize and make their fortune. Time is running out to save Emily’s mother and dangers press in on all sides. As the situation becomes desperate, the children start to quarrel and then to lose hope. More complications arise and their spirits are in turn raised and then dashed. Can they think of some means of escape or will they be trapped forever on a tropical island hundreds of years in the past?
Download or read book Old Jake and the Pirate s Treasure written by Betty Hager and published by Zondervan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four Alabama children look for pirate treasure using a map belonging to an old Cajun fisherman.
Download or read book Treasure of Green Knowe written by Lucy Maria Boston and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With cover art by Brett Helquist, this thrilling and chilling tale of Green Knowe is about a haunted house in the English countryside.
Download or read book Life and Times of Frederick Douglass written by Frederick Douglass and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick Douglass recounts early years of abuse, his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom, abolitionist campaigns, and his crusade for full civil rights for former slaves. It is also the only of Douglass's autobiographies to discuss his life during and after the Civil War, including his encounters with American presidents such as Lincoln, Grant, and Garfield.
Download or read book The Sound of Coaches written by Leon Garfield and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One stormy December night some time in the eighteenth century, a coach came thundering down the long hill outside of Dorking on its usual journey into London. But something unusual was to happen that night as one of the passengers unexpectedly gave birth to a child. Not until he was eight did Sam Chichester discover that the coachman and guard he called 'Ma and 'Pa' were not his real parents. Sam will need to grow up, leave home, and find love before he will finally uncover the truth about his parentage.
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Download or read book Woodsong written by Gary Paulsen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1990 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a rugged outdoor man and his family, life in northern Minnesota is a wild experience involving wolves, deer, and the sled dogs that make their way of life possible. Includes an account of the author's first Iditarod, a dogsled race across Alaska.
Download or read book Inkheart Inkheart Trilogy Book 1 written by Cornelia Funke and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From internationally acclaimed storyteller Cornelia Funke, this bestselling, magical epic is now out in paperback!One cruel night, Meggie's father reads aloud from a book called INKHEART-- and an evil ruler escapes the boundaries of fiction and lands in their living room. Suddenly, Meggie is smack in the middle of the kind of adventure she has only read about in books. Meggie must learn to harness the magic that has conjured this nightmare. For only she can change the course of the story that has changed her life forever. This is INKHEART--a timeless tale about books, about imagination, about life. Dare to read it aloud.
Download or read book The Best Northeastern Colleges written by Princeton Review (Firm) and published by Princeton Review. This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive guide to 222 select colleges in the northeastern and mid-Atlantic regions gives you a thorough look at life at each of the schools. There is no better way to learn about a college than by talking to its students, so we asked thousands of them to speak out about their schools. Complete with student opinion narratives, ratings, and tips for applying, this compact resource also reveals information on: - Quality of life - Academic load - Admissions selectivity - Financial aid process - Accessibility to Professors - Social scene and extracurriculars The Best Northeastern Colleges covers Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Often provocative, sometimes hilarious, and always telling, the students' opinions contained in this book will give you rare insight into each college.
Download or read book Daughter of the White River written by Denise Parkinson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tragic, true story of Helen Spence, the teenager who murdered her father’s killers in the insulated lower White River area of Arkansas in 1931. The once-thriving houseboat communities along Arkansas’s White River are long gone, and few remember the sensational murder story that set local darling Helen Spence on a tragic path. In 1931, Spence shocked Arkansas when she avenged her father’s murder in a DeWitt courtroom. The state soon discovered that no prison could hold her. For the first time, prison records are unveiled to provide an essential portrait. Join author Denise Parkinson for an intimate look at a Depression-era tragedy. The legend of Helen Spence refuses to be forgotten—despite her unmarked grave. “Most memorably, Parkinson evokes the natural beauty of the White River itself. But more importantly, she’s given Helen Spence, daughter of the river, a sympathetic hearing—something in its pulp version of events Daring Detective did not.”—Memphis Flyer “Denise details Helen’s life, from the murder of her father to the horrific treatment she received at the hands of the law, including how prison officials seemed to entice her to escape a final time, with the attempt culminating in her murder.”—Only in Arkansas
Download or read book The Beet Fields written by Gary Paulsen and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a 16-year-old boy out in the world alone for the first time, every day's an education in the hard work and boredom of migrant labor; every day teaches him something more about friendship, or hunger, or profanity, or lust--always lust. He learns how a poker game, or hitching a ride, can turn deadly. He discovers the secret sadness and generosity to be found on a lonely farm in the middle of nowhere. Then he joins up with a carnival and becomes a grunt, running a ride and shilling for the geek show. He's living the hard carny life and beginning to see the world through carny eyes. He's tough. Cynical. By the end of the summer he's pretty sure he knows it all. Until he meets Ruby.
Download or read book Devil in the fog written by Leon Garfield and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Treet, actor, suddenly becomes George Dexter Esq., son of Sir John Dexter. Just when he's getting used to his new position in life he finds himself the victim of attempted murder and family treachery.
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Download or read book Life on the Circuit with Lincoln written by Henry Clay Whitney and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally commenced as a pastime, and to please a circle of friends alone, success, in any degree, can only be hoped for, because of my vantage ground as an intimate and close friend of Mr. Lincoln, and because, by reason of such intimacy, of the novelty of some of the facts and deductions, and not, in any sense, by reason, but in spite of, its literary style or, rather, the lack thereof."--Preface.
