Download or read book Class Pet Catastrophe written by Bruce Coville and published by Aladdin. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pleskit’s alien pet causes widespread panic in this sixth book in the hilarious, fast-paced, and accessible sci-fi series Sixth-Grade Alien from the bestselling author of Aliens Ate My Homework and My Teacher Is an Alien, Bruce Coville. Having a pet shapeshifter might be one of the coolest parts of being from a different planet. So when Jordan accuses Pleskit of lying about his Veeblax’s abilities, Pleskit decides take his pet to class—without asking parental permission. Bringing the Veeblax to school turns out to be a bigger mistake than Pleskit ever thought possible when it frightens his classmate Misty, causing an intergalactic incident. As the situation spins out of control, it becomes clear that Pleskit may lose his pet, his teacher may lose her job, and Earth may lose the benefits of the alien connection. Running away may be the only way for Pleskit to save the his pet. But where can you hide when you’re the only purple kid on the planet? Plus, escaping may not be the best idea, because someone—or something—is following him.
Download or read book A First Class Catastrophe written by Diana B. Henriques and published by Henry Holt. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The definitive account of the crash of 1987, a cautionary tale of how the U.S. financial system nearly collapsed ... Monday, October 19, 1987, was by far the worst day in Wall Street history. The market fell 22.6 percent--almost twice as bad as the worst day of 1929--equal to a loss of nearly 5,000 points today. But Black Monday was more than just a one-day market crash; it was seven years in the making and threatened the entire U.S. financial system. Drawing on superlative archival research and dozens of original interviews, the award-winning financial journalist Diana B. Henriques weaves a tale of ignored warnings, market delusions, and destructive decisions, a drama that stretches from New York and Washington to Chicago and California. Among the central characters are pension fund managers, bank presidents, government regulators, exchange executives, and a pair of university professors whose bright idea for reducing risk backfires with devastating consequences. As the story hurtles toward a terrible reckoning, the players struggle to avoid a national panic, and unexpected heroes step in to avert total disaster. For thirty years, investors, bankers, and regulators have failed to heed the lessons of Black Monday. But with uncanny precision, all the key fault lines of the devastating crisis of 2008--breakneck automation, poorly understood financial products fueled by vast amounts of borrowed money, fragmented regulation, gigantic herdlike investors--were first exposed as hazards in 1987. A First-Class Catastrophe offers a new way of looking not only at the past but at our financial future as well."--Dust jacket.
Download or read book Pet First Aid Disaster Response Guide written by G. Elaine Acker and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pet First Aid & Disaster Response Guide is designed to help pet owners provide temporary, urgent care to pets until they can reach a veterinary or emergency clinic. The text will teach readers to care for their animals before, during, and after an emergency. The Pet First Aid & Disaster Response Guide includes coverage of: injury prevention and disaster preparation; personal safety precautions to help pet owners identify and minimize risks; and a wide array of pet emergencies including bleeding and bite wounds, cardiac arrest, choking, burns, poisoning, trauma, and more.
Download or read book Princess Angelica Camp Catastrophe written by Monique Polak and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angelica isn't a liar, she just loves making up stories. When Angelica goes to sleepaway camp and is mistaken for a princess, she could easily clear up the misunderstanding...but pretending to be royalty is way more fun! When her best friend from home surprises her at camp, Angelica is forced to fess up. Luckily, she also has a talent for repairing things, and when disaster strikes on the girls' kayaking trip, Jelly has to repair more than just her newfound friendships. The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.
Download or read book The Cure for Catastrophe written by Robert Muir-Wood and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We can't stop natural disasters but we can stop them being disastrous. One of the world's foremost risk experts tells us how. Year after year, floods wreck people's homes and livelihoods, earthquakes tear communities apart, and tornadoes uproot whole towns. Natural disasters cause destruction and despair. But does it have to be this way? In The Cure for Catastrophe, global risk expert Robert Muir-Wood argues that our natural disasters are in fact human ones: We build in the wrong places and in the wrong way, putting brick buildings in earthquake country, timber ones in fire zones, and coastal cities in the paths of hurricanes. We then blindly trust our flood walls and disaster preparations, and when they fail, catastrophes become even more deadly. No society is immune to the twin dangers of complacency and heedless development. Recognizing how disasters are manufactured gives us the power to act. From the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 to Hurricane Katrina, The Cure for Catastrophe recounts the ingenious ways in which people have fought back against disaster. Muir-Wood shows the power and promise of new predictive technologies, and envisions a future where information and action come together to end the pain and destruction wrought by natural catastrophes. The decisions we make now can save millions of lives in the future. Buzzing with political plots, newfound technologies, and stories of surprising resilience, The Cure for Catastrophe will revolutionize the way we conceive of catastrophes: though natural disasters are inevitable, the death and destruction are optional. As we brace ourselves for deadlier cataclysms, the cure for catastrophe is in our hands.
Download or read book Pop Flies Robo Pets and Other Disasters written by Suzanne Kamata and published by Red Chair Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year-old Satoshi Matsumoto spent the last three years living in Atlanta where he was the star of his middle-school baseball team—a slugger with pro potential, according to his coach. Now that his father's work in the US has come to an end, he's moved back to his hometown in rural Japan. Living abroad has changed him, and now his old friends in Japan are suspicious of his new foreign ways. Even worse, his childhood foe Shintaro, whose dad has ties to gangsters, is in his homeroom. After he joins his new school's baseball team, Satoshi has a chance to be a hero until he makes a major-league error. "A heart-warming story about a baseball player who learns that teamwork is much more important than being the star of the team. I loved the family dynamics and depiction of life, and especially baseball, in Japan."—Shauna Holyoak, author of Kazu Jones and the Denver Dognappers (Hyperion, 2019) "A story set in Japan rich in details only Kamata, an insider, could share. With ease and respect, she weaves the pressures, agonies, and loyalties of Satoshi's life at home, at school and on a junior high baseball team with the practices and traditions of the game played in Japan. I am a big fan of this middle-grade homerun!"—Annie Donwerth Chikamatsu, award-winning author of Somewhere Among (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, 2017) "Pop Flies really pops! A lively, fun, easy read that draws you in and keeps you guessing."—Dori Jones Yang, award-winning author of The Forbidden Temptation of Baseball (SparkPress, 2017)
Download or read book Crisis Pursued by Disaster Followed Closely by Catastrophe written by Mike O'Connor and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-03-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his childhood, Mike O’Connor’s family pretended to be normal. But Mike and his two younger sisters knew that their parents were hiding something–a secret they didn’t dare talk about. The family appeared to be no different from any of their small-town Texas neighbors–that is, until suddenly, the O’Connor’s would flee, leaving with only a few hours’ notice, abandoning houses and pets and possessions and running across the border to Mexico. For all of Mike’s adolescence, O’Connor family life alternated between relative comfort and abject poverty–sometimes within a matter of days. From living in a Texas ranch house to living in two rented rooms in an impoverished Mexican village, the O’Connors never knew what lay ahead–only that they must not draw attention to themselves. Though their parents steadfastly denied it, the children knew that something was chasing them–a past that hovered like an invisible enemy, always waiting to strike, always in pursuit. But it was not until much later, after his parents’ deaths, that Mike O’Connor, now an investigative reporter, was able to uncover the truth about his family’s past. As the secrets were unlocked one by one and the long trail of deception unfurled, Mike faced the heart-wrenching ramifications of his parents’ actions–and made a discovery that shook his family loyalty to its core. Full of incredible details of a life lived on both sides of the border, in near-poverty and near-wealth, Mike O’Connor’s account is a real-life suspense story of childhood mysteries and strange circumstances that will enthrall readers to its very end.
Download or read book Barty s Ketchup Catastrophe written by Sally Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barty the little sheep loves ketchup. He has it with every meal, even on his Christmas dinner. When he goes to his friend's house for tea there's no ketchup. He manages without it and thinks he's cured of his addiction - but is he?
Download or read book The Class Pet from the Black Lagoon written by Mike Thaler and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's another scary day at the Black Lagoon. . . . Mrs. Green tells her students that they're going to have a class pet! Hubie's imagination goes wild. Will the new class pet have fangs, horns, or headlights? Will it be vicious? Who knows what kind of monster Mrs. Green will bring in?Hubie's worst fears are nearly realized, when Mrs. Green brings in a big cage. What could be inside?
Download or read book Zombies of the Science Fair written by Bruce Coville and published by Aladdin. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pleskit and Tim’s last-minute project for the science fair leads to disaster in this fifth book in the hilarious, fast-paced, and accessible sci-fi series Sixth-Grade Alien from the bestselling author of Aliens Ate My Homework, Bruce Coville. It’s science fair time again, and Tim Tomkins is in trouble. It’s only two days until the big event, and he hasn’t finished his project! In fact, he hasn’t even started it. Given Tim’s track record with homework, this is no big surprise. But this year Tim has a new resource—his alien best friend, Pleskit Meenom! Surely with his super science Pleskit can help Tim come up with a knockout project for the science fair. Pleskit makes his own science project out of helping Tim, but his solution turns out to have side effects that not even an alien could have expected! Soon Pleskit is left desperately trying to answer the question, “What do you do when you’ve just amputated your best friend’s personality?”
Download or read book Sixth Grade Alien Complete Cosmic Collection written by Bruce Coville and published by Aladdin. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 2016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fellow sixth graders, an alien and a human, become unlikely friends in this hilarious, fast-paced, and accessible sci-fi series from the bestselling author of Aliens Ate My Homework, Bruce Coville—now all together in a collectible paperback boxed set! When Pleskit Meenom becomes the first alien to go to school on earth, not everyone is happy about it. But when he becomes best friends with Tim Tompkins, life gets a little easier. Together, Tim and Pleskit navigate earthly and intergalactic adventures from school bullies and rogue aliens to shrinking rays gone wrong and alien abductions. This intergalactically fun collection includes: Sixth-Grade Alien I Shrank My Teacher Missing—One Brain! Lunch Swap Disaster Zombies of the Science Fair Class Pet Catastrophe Too Many Aliens Snatched from Earth There’s an Alien in My Backpack The Revolt of the Miniature Mutants Aliens, Underwear, and Monsters Farewell to Earth
Download or read book Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Recovery in School Libraries written by Christie Kaaland and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When disaster strikes, school librarians can play a key role in keeping kids safe. This is the only book written specifically to provide school librarians with emergency preparedness and recovery tools as well as curricular tie-ins. No school is immune to disaster, whether in the form of a natural event like a tornado or a tragedy like the violence that occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The key to minimizing injury or death in an emergency is preparednesssomething the school librarian is uniquely positioned to lead. This must-have book will show you how to be proactive in getting your school ready for the worst. It provides comprehensive preparedness and recovery plans, check lists, and curricular recommendations on preparedness that can be tailored to your individual library and community. Covering natural disasters, human-made disasters, and school violence, the book shows you how to conduct drills, assess vulnerabilities and risk, communicate preparedness plans, and use bibliotherapy for disaster recovery. It also describes how your library can be a safe haven for students who feel disconnected, bullied, or otherwise disenfranchised. Although the book is primarily intended for school librarians, classroom teachers will also find many ideas here for helping students be better prepared for disasters, whatever their cause or severity.
Download or read book Stanley and the Class Pet written by Barney Saltzberg and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stanley is excited about bringing the class pet, a bird, home for the weekend, but when his friend Larry urges him to open the cage and let Figgy out to fly, it is hard to know who is to blame for the ensuing disaster.
Download or read book How to Lose Your Class Pet written by Valerie Wilson Wesley and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When third-grader Willimena loses the class pet, her teacher helps her to understand that responsibility means doing one's best, and that animals can't always be controlled.
Download or read book Charlie Burr and the Cockroach Disaster written by Sally Morgan and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great series about the real life mischief every boy gets up to! Written in simple language and full of Australian humour. Charlie Burr is in trouble again! His magic trick went wrong and now Mum has a bald patch on her head. To make matters worse, Mum confiscated Charlie’s box of magic tricks and now Charlie must find a way to put on a magic show for the school bully without any of his gear. Charlie has one week to get back in Mum’s good books, or find some new tricks to perform. Will he find a way?
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Download or read book Canine Catastrophe written by Terry Collins and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jimmy researches cats for his science report, he uses Goddard to download some feline facts from the Internet. Goddard downloads the information -- as well as a virus that makes him act like a cat! Can Jimmy figure out how to get his canine companion back to his old self?
