Download or read book Angus MacMouse Brings Down the House written by Linda Phillips Teitel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a poor street mouse named Angus accidentally wanders onto the stage of the opera, he scares the soprano so much that she sings a record-breaking high note. Word gets out, and soon the soprano, Minnie McGraw, becomes world famous, and goes on tour with Angus as her secret. But things go wrong when Angus becomes famous in his own right and Minnie grows jealous. Minnie and Carlo, the scheming tenor, come up with a plan to mousenap Angus! Trapped in a cage backstage, will Angus be able to escape in time to save the opera company from ruin?
Download or read book Dreams of a Dancing Horse written by Dandi Daley Mackall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fred the Plow Horse is born with a dancing tune in his heart. When he hears music, he just has to dance -even if it means overturning the plow and wreaking havoc! When Fred gets kicked off the farm, he must find a new place for himself - a place where a dancing horse might be just right.
Download or read book The Pup Who Cried Wolf written by Chris Kurtz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lobo is a tiny Chihuahua with a big dream-to join a wolf pack. When Lobo's owner takes her pets on vacation to Yellowstone National Park, Lobo thinks he'll finally have the opportunity to find his wolf-brothers. But he doesn't count on a strict park rule that will keep him on a leash! With the help of his endearingly quirky family-a smart Spanish-speaking parrot named Glory and a wisecracking white rat named Heckles-Lobo finally slips his leash and gets a chance to run with the wolves. But is the wild really where a feisty little five-pound pup belongs?
Download or read book Get Those Guys Reading written by Kathleen A. Baxter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want to identify fiction books that boys in grades three through nine will find irresistible? This guide reveals dozens of worthwhile recommendations in categories ranging from adventure stories and sports novels to horror, humorous, and science fiction books. In Get Those Guys Reading!: Fiction and Series Books that Boys Will Love, authors Kathleen A. Baxter and Marcia A. Kochel provide compelling and current reading suggestions for younger boys—information that educators, librarians, and parents alike are desperate for. Comprising titles that are almost all well-reviewed in at least one major professional journal, or that are such big hits with kids that they've received the "stamp of approval" from the most important reviewers, this book will be invaluable to anyone whose goal is to help boys develop a healthy enthusiasm for reading. It includes chapters on adventure books; animal stories; graphic novels; historical fiction; humorous books; mystery, horror, and suspense titles; science fiction and fantasy; and sports novels. Within each chapter, the selections are further divided into books for younger readers (grades 3–6) and titles for older boys in grades 5–8. Elementary and middle school librarians and teachers, public librarians, Title One teachers, and parents of boys in grades 3–9 will all benefit greatly from having this book at hand.
Download or read book Monkey See Monkey Zoo written by Erin Soderberg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After listening to a young boy describe his life, Willa the monkey escapes from her zoo home and, together with some friendly chipmunks, goes in search of him in the human city.
Download or read book School Library Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foundations of GTK Development written by Andrew Krause and published by Apress. This book was released on 2007-09-09 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are only two mainstream solutions for building the graphical interface of Linux-based desktop applications, and GTK+ (GIMP Toolkit) is one of them. It is a necessary technology for all Linux programmers. This book guides the reader through the complexities of GTK+, laying the groundwork that allows the reader to make the leap from novice to professional. Beginning with an overview of key topics such as widget choice, placement, and behavior, readers move on to learn about more advanced issues. Replete with real-world examples, the developer can quickly take advantages of the concepts presented within to begin building his own projects.
Download or read book Animal Tales 6 Fright Night written by Jess Black and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2012-09-03 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An adventure series based around helping animals big and small, fully endorsed by the RSPCA. Visitors at a neighbourhood guesthouse have been complaining about spooky noises at night. The owners are worried. Is it ghosts? It’s starting to affect business, but what can they do to stop it? Cassie and Ben decide to engage in a bit of late-night detective work to uncover the source of the ghostly disturbance.
Download or read book An Unexpected Arrival written by Jess Black and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2012 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cassie Bannerman and her friend Ben accompany Ben's dad, Dr Joe, on an RSPCA farm assessment visit to make sure the animals are being looked after properly. But a surprise awaits them when they have to help with an unexpected arrival!"--Back cover.
Download or read book Juilliard music adventure written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Juilliard Music Adventure is an interactive educational game designed to introduce children to important musical concepts through a series of creative puzzles.
Download or read book Dangerous Love written by Ben Okri and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic of daily life, Dangerous Love is one of Ben Okri's most accessible and most disarming novels. Omovo is an office worker and artist who lives at home with his father and his father's second wife. In the communal world of the compound in which he lives, Omovo has both friends and enemies, but his most important relationship is with Ifeyiwa, a beautiful young married woman whom he loves with an almost hopeless passion – not because she doesn't return his love, but because they can never be together. Set against the backdrop of a country struggling to come to terms with the aftermath of a recent civil war, this is a story of doomed love – of star-crossed lovers, separated not by their families, but by the very circumstances of their lives.
Download or read book The Trickster written by Muriel Gray and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He is a shape-shifter. He is as old as time. He kills without mercy.
Download or read book No Laughing Matter written by Joseph Heller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-12-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An uproarious and frank memoir of illness and recovery, No Laughing Matter is a story of friendship and recuperation from the author of the classic Catch-22. It all began one typical day in the life of Joe Heller. He was jogging four miles at a clip these days, working on his novel God Knows, coping with the complications of an unpleasant divorce, and pigging out once or twice a week on Chinese food with cronies like Mel Brooks, Mario Puzo, and his buddy of more than twenty years, Speed Vogel. He was feeling perfectly fine that day—but within twenty-four hours he would be in intensive care at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital. He would remain hospitalized for nearly six months and leave in a wheelchair. Joseph Heller had Guillain-Barré syndrome, a debilitating, sometimes fatal condition that can leave its victims paralyzed from head to toe. The clan gathered immediately. Speed—sometime artist, sometime businessman, sometime herring taster, and now a coauthor—moved into Joe's apartment as messenger, servant, and shaman. Mel Brooks, arch-hypochondriac of the Western world, knew as much about Heller's condition as the doctors. Mario Puzo, author of the preeminent gangster novel of our time, proved to be the most reluctant man ever to be dragged along on a hospital visit. These and lots of others rallied around the sickbed in a show of loyalty and friendship that not only built a wild and spirited camaraderie but helped bring Joe Heller, writer and buddy extraordinaire, through his greatest crisis. This book is an inspiring, hilarious memoir of a calamitous illness and the rocky road to recuperation—as only the author of Catch-22 and the friend who helped him back to health could tell it. No Laughing Matter is as wacky, terrifying, and greathearted as any fiction Joseph Heller ever wrote.
Download or read book Angels Passing written by Graham Hurley and published by Orion Media. This book was released on 2002 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ANGELS PASSING is a Dickensian trawl through the depths of life in Portsmouth. With a compactly labyrinthine plot, uniquely human policemen, a grotesque rogues gallery of squalid villains and a shadowy child as anti-hero - it's a breathtaking and harrowing ride. Devoted to the events of just one week, and focused around two investigations - the hunt for a ten year old boy who may be linked to the death of a teenage girl and a murder enquiry prompted by the discovery of the body of a small time crook on wasteland north of the city - ANGELS PASSING takes us to the core of complex relationships, serves as a grimly recognisable post-mortem on a society that is coming apart at the seams. This is at once an unremittingly realistic fast moving crime thriller and a bleakly moving novel about the price children are paying for a society that is in freefall.
Download or read book Visiting Mrs Nabokov written by Martin Amis and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-01-26 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tantalizing collection of classic essays from one of the most gifted writers of his generation. • "The brainy, sarcastic, tender intelligence at the center of these pieces can make you laugh out loud: they can also move you to tears." —People Martin Amis brings the same megawatt wit, wickedly acute perception, and ebullient wordplay that characterize his novels. He encompasses the full range of contemporary politics and culture (high and low) while also traveling to China for soccer with Elton John and to London's darts-crazy pubs in search of the perfect throw. Throughout, he offers razor-sharp takes on such subjects as: American politics: "If history is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake, then the Reagan era can be seen as an eight-year blackout. Numb, pale, unhealthily dreamless: eight years of Do Not Disturb." Chess: "Nowhere in sport, perhaps in human activity, is the gap between the tryer and the expert so astronomical.... My chances of a chess brilliancy are the 'chances' of a lab chimp and a type writer producing King Lear." "His fascination with the observable world is utterly promiscuous: he will address a cathedral and a toilet seat with the same peeled-eyeball intensity." —John Updike
Download or read book Pig Earth written by John Berger and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this haunting first volume of his Into Their Labours trilogy, John Berger begins his chronicle of the eclipse of peasant cultures in the twentieth century. Set in a small village in the French Alps, Pig Earth relates the stories of skeptical, hard-working men and fiercely independent women; of calves born and pigs slaughtered; of summer haymaking and long dark winters f rest; of a message of forgiveness from a dead father to his prodigal son; and of the marvelous Lucie Cabrol, exiled to a hut high in the mountains, but an inexorable part of the lives of men who have known her. Above all, this masterpiece of sensuous description and profound moral resonance is an act of reckoning that conveys the precise wealth and weight of a world we are losing.
Download or read book Sing Me a Story written by Jane Rosenberg and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1996-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated retelling of the plots of fifteen well-known operas.
