Download or read book A Racecourse for Andy written by Patricia Wrightson and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mentally retarded boy thinks he has bought a race track for three dollars, and until a solution to the problem can be found, only the patience and understanding of his friends keep him from being hurt by the realization of the truth.
Download or read book I Own the Racecourse written by Patricia Wrightson and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-22 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andy Hoddel was different from other boys. He never really understood the game they played, in which they 'owned' the factories, the library and the police station in their town, but he longed to tell them he owned something too. Then he met an old tramp and paid him three dollars for Beecham Park Racecourse. When Andy's friends find out they are horrified. Andy would have to be told he'd been taken for a ride. But how could they tell him without breaking his heart, especially when all the staff at the racecourse were calling him the 'owner'? How could anyone take away his racecourse? Kate Constable introduces this Text Classics edition of Patricia Wrightson's I Own the Racecourse! Patricia Wrightson was born in Lismore, NSW, in 1921. She was the author of twenty-seven children's novels including Nargun and the Stars, The Ice is Coming and The Crooked Snake. She has been awarded CBCA Book of the Year four times and was also awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Award, Dromkeen Medal and Order of the British Empire for her contribution to literature. textclassics.com.au
Download or read book Recommended Readings in Literature K 8 written by DIANE Publishing Company and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1996-02 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled by teachers, administrators, curriculum planners, and librarians. Designed to: 1. encourage school children to read and to view reading as a worthwhile activity; 2. help local curriculum planners select books for their reading programs; and 3. stimulate educators to evaluate and improve their literature programs. More than 1,200 annotated titles represent the finest works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama. The literary contributions of specific ethnic and cultural groups are represented. Best seller! Illustrated.
Download or read book Disability in Modern Children s Fiction written by John Quicke and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1985, Disability in Modern Children’s Fiction presents a case for the inclusion of a planned element in the mainstream curriculum, specifically designed to encourage positive attitudes and actions towards children with special needs, and for utilising the possibilities inherent in fiction for helping all children to explore their thoughts and feelings in this area. The central chapters of the book are concerned with a critical examination of specific texts, focusing on how they deal with disability in a story context. Books are grouped for discussion under common themes which have been teased out according to their contemporary relevance: the effects on the family of a severely disabled child; the struggle of a child with a disability for personal identity in oppressive social circumstances; the interaction between disability, race, gender and social class; the different reactions of ‘normal’ children towards disabled peers; the failings of the medical approach to disability; love, sex, adolescence and disability; the relationship between children and handicapped adults. The penultimate chapter is concerned with an evaluation of picture books and quasi-fiction for younger children. This book will be of interest to students of disability studies, pedagogy and literature.
Download or read book Skiing written by and published by . This book was released on 1994-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Skeleton Hill written by Peter Lovesey and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Diamond's tenth case is a perfect piece of superbly entertaining crime fiction from a master of the genre. Battle and burial are built into the history of Lansdown Hill, so it is no great shock when part of a skeleton is unearthed there. But Peter Diamond, Bath's Head of CID, can't ignore the fresh corpse found close to the folly known as Beckford's Tower. The hill becomes the setting for one of the most puzzling cases he has investigated, involving golf, horseracing, Civil War re-enactment and the Cyrillic alphabet. Inevitably, Diamond butts heads with the group of vigilantes who call themselves the Lansdown Society, discovering in the process that his boss Georgina is a member. She resolves to sideline Diamond by sending him to Bristol and handing the skeleton investigation to his deputy, Keith Halliwell. Fortunately matters don't pan out as Georgina plans...
Download or read book Skiing written by and published by . This book was released on 1993-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notes from a Different Drummer written by Barbara Holland Baskin and published by New York : R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 1977 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to juvenile fiction written between 1940 and 1975 that depicts handicapped characters.
Download or read book Alternative Ways written by Victor Ralph and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Womanising, cheating and gambling, what a mix! Andy Clewer, self-made man and successful entrepreneur has a need for beautiful women and gambling, is arrogant with a mean streak and thinks of himself first and foremost. Brought up in South London he has never forgotten how, with no money in his pockets, the streets were the only place to hang out. Through his company Clewer Alternatives, a provider of natural medicines, he owns a string of race horses funded using money from his company. He has the chance to win one of the most valuable and prestigious steeplechases in the racing calendar but he is less successful at gambling than at business and has been taking money out of the company to pay his debts. He starts a steamy relationship with the young wife of one of his company's major clients. Spending money that he doesn't have on his liaison and in debt to the bank and the betting exchange, he turns to her wealthy husband to help him out of his financial problems. He believes that he has kept his affair from common knowledge. However, after a chance conversation at the golf club and his benefactor's suspicions of his wife's whereabouts on several occasions, the secret affair is out in the open. Andy's greed leads him to take one gambling risk too many with borrowed money. His downfall is plotted by the disgruntled Finance Director of Clewer Alternatives, who joins with the cuckolded husband to destroy Andy Clewer and wrest the company from him. Andy's wife, for so long either ignored or taken for granted, delights in joining the plot to bring down her husband.
Download or read book Rio Grande s Last Race and Other Verses written by Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses is the second anthology of poems by Australian poet Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson. Excerpt: "They started, and the big black steed Came flashing past the stand; All single-handed in the lead He strode along at racing speed, The mighty Rio Grande."
Download or read book I Own the Racecourse written by Patricia Wrightson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a while Andy really believes that the old tramp he meets actually sold him the Beecham Park racecourse. Andy's friends help him to keep his dream for as long as they can, but soon Andy has to accept the truth.
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Download or read book A New Mantra written by Sapna Srinivasan and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She’s always done what was expected of her. Until… When 30-year-old Seattle-based Indian housewife Mira Sood is blindsided by her husband’s extramarital affair, her three-year arranged marriage is shattered. Humiliated, heartbroken, near-broke, and facing the united dissension of her orthodox family, Mira is desperate to rebuild her life. She moves in with her rebel cousin, searches for any job that will take her, and impulsively signs up for a half-marathon race. There’s just one problem—Mira's experience with running starts and ends with running to catch the bus. With herself as her biggest critic and doubter, Mira commits to the race and is assisted by entrepreneur Andy Fitzgerald, a handsome, elite marathoner who helps her create a training schedule and personal goals. When the lines of friendship begin to blur, Mira realizes she’s facing an even bigger challenge. Can Mira embrace her stronger, more independent self—risking another heartbreak and disappointing her family—or will she once again play it too safe and let the possibility of happiness slip away?
Download or read book Written for Children written by John Rowe Townsend and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1996-05-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised and updated edition provides children's and young adult librarians, teachers, literature classes, and library school classes with an authoritative history and analysis of the best British and American children's literature through 1994, with a new 2003 postscript including such recent phenomenons as J.K.Rowling and Philip Pullman. Written for Children traces the development of children's literature from its origins through the beginnings of the multimedia revolution. In effortless and entertaining style, Townsend, a world-renowned authority in the field, examines the changing attitudes toward children and their literature and analyzes the various strands that make up this important field. While examining many well-known American classics, Townsend also looks at British works that American audiences may have overlooked. With illustrations and bibliography.
Download or read book Second Century in Australian Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Young People Reading written by Ian Victor Hansen and published by Melbourne University. This book was released on 1973 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
