Download or read book Meet Me at the Lockers written by Derek Hinkle and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-08-21 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Me at the Lockers is a novel in short stories geared to make readers laugh and stay engaged with a chapter book. It's also intended to be a great read!Meet Me at the Lockers are tales about a fifth- grade fictitious character named Matt Richards. Matt encounters many highs-and-lows in his fifth grade year such as his father losing his job and dealing with class bullies. Matt also is buried at lunch one day by his sarcastic twin brother Doug who takes to teasing Matt seriously about his problem with acne. Matt survives the roller coaster by meeting his new best friend Brie Smith. The two embark on many journeys together and Matt realizes maybe his problems don't amount to a 'mess of beans.'

Download or read book Meet Me at My Locker written by Hal O. Kesler and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The high school is overcrowed; and while waiting for the new building to be completed, the administration--specifically Mr. Hammermocker--installs twelve lockers in a cluttered, long-neglected alcove that has formerly been used only as a storage space. Here, amid a seventy-year accumulation of piled-up classroom refuse, are assigned six boys and six girls--or six couples, as the girls are quick to note. A large part of the play is concerned with the way in which the girls divide the boys among themselves and then proceed to form a club slanted toward a furthering of that blissful contemporary state known as "going steady." Grainger Kantwell (Kant), who feels alienated from the others because of a series of unpleasant experiences brought about by his father's wealth, is something of a problem to the girls. So they "assign" Kant to Phyllis Hughes, who has been out of public school since the eight grade and is now returning to complete her senior year. They say, "Phyl has been out of touch with things so long she won't know how Kant is. She'll remember him as he was before--when he was all right." The more serious part of the play is concerned with the relationship that develops between Phyllis and Kant, a relationship that reaches its climax when some money disappears from Ida's locker, and circumstances indicate that Kant is a thief. The genuine regret expressed by the other students when they discover that their suspicions are unfounded brings Kant to realize that he is not the outcast he thought himself to be. The turn of events also brings new insight to Phyllis, enabling her to understand that she is not so "differnt" from the others as she had thought. As she sums matters up, "I have an idea now that everyone in the world is pretty much alike--in most things. You, too, Kant." Kant enthusiastically agrees; the Club's symbolic ritual is solemnized once more, and the "membership drive" of the Hammermocker Hammerlockers is dramaticallt completed

Download or read book The Locker Room written by Meghan Quinn and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you heard the rumor around campus about the locker room?If you haven't, let me enlighten you: Legend has it if you bring a girl into the sacred after-game domain of the baseball locker room, it will end with a walk down the aisle. One rowdy and naked encounter against the lockers with the girl of your dreams will make her your wife. Translation: baseball players are stupidly superstitious and believe the locker room has magical powers. But not all baseball players are superstitious, me included. So when the girl I've fallen for brushes me off, I start to question if I need to switch my way of thinking. Maybe it's time I finally hand out a coveted invitation to the locker room. The only question is, will she accept?

Download or read book The Dark that Leads to Light written by Azurasfire and published by Azurasfire. This book was released on 2013-10-13 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I never had many friends, stayed to myself reading or writing. I loved art and music. To myself, I was the most intelligent person that existed. To my Science teacher Mr. Mitchell, I was nothing but a troublemaker and a reject basically. I once heard this Latin proverb ... “Amore Vincint Omina” translated it means “Love Conquers All” now like any other girl I would believe this to be true wouldn’t you? When you find it you’re life changes; complete happiness I would have called it but then you find out some love comes with deceit and betrayal. I would have given up on the notion of love but a glimmer of hope taught me there’s always someone in the dark who will lead you into the light. So here my tale begins…

Download or read book The Minorities written by Terri Celestine Brunson and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Langston is a Caucasian girl in love with her African American boyfriend, Richard Morris. Everything is cool until she finds out she is pregnant. Sarah has a broken family, and revealing this secret to her ever-supportive dad is the most difficult thing she has ever had to do. She finds comfort in one of her best friends, Emily Wilkerson, her African American best friend. With the help of Emilys parents, Sarah tells the truth to her dad, even if haunted by fear. Surprisingly, her mom, who has never been there for her, overhears the conversation. What will happen to their already tarnished relationship? How will her mother react to this news? Abuse, the police, and the neighborhood play a part as everything comes crashing down on them. The Minorities exemplifies the unconditional love parents have for their children, no matter what the circumstances. The support of family and friends is the most important thing one needs in times of despair. Teenage pregnancy is one of the unrelenting issues our society faces. If not prevented among the youth, it can be an avenue for violence and neglect of responsibility. In The Minorities, one vivid example of aggression against women is being told.

Download or read book Trading Faces written by Julia DeVillers and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Trading Faces, identical twin sisters Emma (the smart one) and Payton (the popular one) start seventh grade at a brand-new school and discover they’ve been assigned entirely different schedules—so when they get sick of their respective cliques, they secretly switch places. What ensues is a hilarious yet poignant romp from middle school to the mall as the twins learn what it means to be true to yourself, even when the rest of the world isn’t making it easy.

Download or read book The Eyes Have It written by Dawn Essegian Lajeunesse and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As her high school graduation nears, Olivia finds herself inexplicably drawn to the handsome and enigmatic Ethan. Almost from the start, an instantaneous connection emerges, and the relationship between the two intensifies quickly and passionately. But as the young lovers are on the verge of true happiness, the unexpected strikes—a terror attack that changes their lives forever. While reeling from the devastating aftermath, Olivia and Ethan uncover a decades-old secret shared by their two families that tests loyalties both old and new as they confront heartbreak, fear, and tragedy with hope, understanding, and resilience. In the grips of this turmoil, they discover that their love and the lives of those most important to them are in jeopardy. REVIEWS OF THE EYES HAVE IT With her new novel, Dawn Lajeunesse proves she understands the human heart as well as any writer working today, and she knows how to make a reader’s heart thump hard—with anticipation, with sorrow, with fear, and with joy. The Eyes Have It is an intelligent, poignant, rewarding experience. —Mark Spencer, author of A Haunted Love Story: The Ghosts of the Allen House

Download or read book Miss Match written by Wendy Toliver and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-02-10 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sasha Finnegan has always had a knack for setting people up, and at sixteen, she's turned her talent into an online business, molding high school crushes into true love. But Sasha finds her toughest match yet when hottie Derek Urban asks her to set him up with Sasha's gorgeous sister, Maddie. It's not that Derek isn't a good catch. In fact, after spending so much time with him, Sasha can't help but think he's perfect -- for her, that is. Can Sasha push her feelings aside for the sake of her business? Or has this miss finally found her match?

Download or read book Answers written by Alan Kohls and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 811 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is Andrew Elric, and whats he doing here? Says hes here with answers. As Andrew would explain it, We live our lives shrouded with mysteries. Were compelled to show faith in explanations that we really dont believe inthe origins of our being, the nature and existence of God, are we alone in the universe? Less weighty issues as well as stuff wed just like to knowwho really shot Kennedy? What happened to Jimmy Hoffa? You think about it and know there really are answers to all of it, but you dont have access to them. Ive got those answers and, more importantly, proof for all of it. Some of it you can hold in your hand. You follow the news, you know this place is going to blow. Im here to try and stop it. Religion, race, nationalism . . . We all come from the same place. But the world has suffered through too many charlatans and false prophets. Im going to use these proofs to get you savages to settle down. Andrew has recruited renowned attorney, author, and sports agent Aron Samuelson to help him get the word out. Aron, in the throes of a midlife crisis, is looking for the next big thing in his life. As they say, be careful what you wish for.

Download or read book Riding the Trail of Tears written by Blake M. Hausman and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherman Alexie meets William Gibson. Louise Erdrich meets Franz Kafka. Leslie Marmon Silko meets Philip K. Dick. However you might want to put it, this is Native American fiction in a whole new world. A surrealistic revisiting of the Cherokee Removal, Riding the Trail of Tears takes us to north Georgia in the near future, into a virtual-reality tourist compound where customers ride the Trail of Tears, and into the world of Tallulah Wilson, a Cherokee woman who works there. When several tourists lose consciousness inside the ride, employees and customers at the compound come to believe, naturally, that a terrorist attack is imminent. Little does Tallulah know that Cherokee Little People have taken up residence in the virtual world and fully intend to change the ride’s programming to suit their own point of view. Told by a narrator who knows all but can hardly be trusted, in a story reflecting generations of experience while recalling the events in a single day of Tallulah’s life, this funny and poignant tale revises American history even as it offers a new way of thinking, both virtual and very real, about the past for both Native Americans and their Anglo counterparts.

Download or read book The Twain Does Meet written by Elaine L. Orr and published by Elaine Orr. This book was released on 2020-03-15 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Twain Does Meet" is a between-the-numbers book in the Jolie Gentil series, and while there are joys and problems to discover it's not a traditional cozy mystery. In book 10 (The Unexpected Resolution) Jolie solves a murder, she and Scoobie get married, and they gain a new family member--Scoobie's much-younger half-brother. Book 11 (Underground in Ocean Alley) takes place a few years later, and mystery solving is accompanied by their three-year old twins. I promised readers they would have the story of the twins' birth -- an anything-but-calm event -- but it didn't seem right to mix it with a murder. So, we have a 33,000 word novella that features laughs and angst with the Ocean Alley crew and more than a few surprises. A fun read with familiar characters.

Download or read book the Art of Breaking Up written by Elizabeth Stevens and published by Sleeping Dragon Books. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking up is hard to do. Whether you’re breaking up with a bad habit, a life you know, or your first boyfriend. But we all have to do it. It’s just one of the many sucky things about growing up. Some of us do it better than others. I do it badly. Wade Phillips shattered Lisa McGinty's heart in Year 10 for no known reason. One minute he was the perfect boy-next-door boyfriend, star goalie on the soccer team, and future head prefect. The next he was like a different person altogether, dumping Lisa and systematically making his way through every girl in our year. By Year 12, he'd made it through most of the girls in our year and was on to the year below. He'd miraculously made Head Prefect and was somehow still on the Soccer team, even though he put more effort into partying. Lisa and I were used to his sarcastic teasing, his shallow taunting, and his insincere flirting. My best friend put on a brave face in front of him, but she still felt the sting. I knew she still loved him. At least, she thought she did. I kept waiting for her to see he wasn't worth it. No one knew what happened to Wade and no one got close to him anymore. Not until a life-altering incident throws me unavoidably into his path. For one single second, I see through the armour he's built. It takes just one single second for him to see through mine. Something connects us. It turns out, Wade Phillips might be the only one who understands me. It turns out, I might be the only one who understands him. Wade Phillips might be the guy to teach me the art of breaking up, but will my heart - and Lisa's - break in the process? Please be aware that this story is set in Australia and therefore uses Australian English spelling and syntax. Not recommended for younger readers due to mature content.

Download or read book The Gods of Asphalt Book One written by H. E. Ellis and published by H.E. Ellis. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When police search seventeen year-old Sawyer Hayden's wallet after he steals and crashes a vintage motorcycle they find just three things:The fake I.D. his brother bought him, his real ID without a motorcycle endorsement and the empty condom wrapper he saved from his first night with Sarah.What police don't find is his list. A list of the three things Sawyer blames for turning his once promising athlete of a father into a trucker who's life went nowhere. A list that before tonight he never left home without. Before tonight Sawyer lived his life by that list, like a map he used to avoid the same path his father traveled. A map he used to find a road of own, a road he knew for a fact would pave the way to a college scholarship and a future in basketball. But that was before tonight. Because despite all Sawyer's careful planning his map sends him down a road toward an obstacle he never sees coming. An obstacle that slams him head on and reveals a fate worse than failure. Success. Now broken, bleeding and running out of time Sawyer is forced to make a new list. A simple list with only one strategy. Live long enough to fail.

Download or read book Flowers for Her Grave written by Judy Clemens and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Readers will find themselves throughly entertained by this oddly appealing mix of the jaunty and the macabre."—Booklist Casey and Death are on the run...again. After obtaining new identification and throwing herself off the grid, she travels to Florida to begin a new life as Daisy Gray, fitness instructor for a wealthy, enclosed community. But even while keeping her head down, it doesn't take long for Casey to find herself in the middle of trouble. One of the residents is attacked, and Casey is the one to find her, bleeding on the tile floor of the locker room. Despite heroic attempts, the woman dies, and the community is thrown into turmoil. The cops are at a loss, unable to find anyone who might want the woman dead. Despite Death's urgings to go on the run again, Casey takes a careful look at the victim's life and asks who could have wanted her dead. The free-wheeling residents? The staff? And what, if anything, might Casey's predecessors in her new job have to do with it? Time to dig in and ask, even with Death on her back.

Download or read book Tamara Ireland Stone Collection written by Tamara Ireland Stone and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 1520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover four critically-acclaimed novels from award-winning author Tamara Ireland Stone, including the New York Times bestseller Every Last Word. In the New York Times bestselling Every Last Word, Samantha McAllister looks just like the rest of the popular girls in her junior class. But she’s hiding a secret that her friends would never understand: Sam has Purely-Obsessional OCD and is consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can't turn off. It doesn't help that her lifelong friends will turn toxic at the first sign of a wrong outfit, wrong lunch, or wrong crush. So when Sam meets Caroline, she has to keep her new friend a secret, right up there with Sam's weekly visits to her psychiatrist. But then Caroline introduces Sam to Poet's Corner, a tight-knit group of misfits who have been ignored by the school at large. Sam is drawn to them immediately, especially a guitar-playing guy with a talent for verse. Slowly, she begins to feel more "normal" than she ever has as part of the popular crowd . . . until she finds a new reason to question her sanity and all she holds dear. In Little Do We Know, lifelong best friends and next-door neighbors Hannah and Emory have never gone a single day without talking. But now it’s senior year and they haven't spoken in three months. Not since the fight, where they each said things they couldn't take back. Then one fateful night, Emory's boyfriend, Luke, almost dies, and Hannah is the one who finds him and saves his life. As Luke tries to make sense of his experience, he secretly turns to Hannah, who becomes his biggest confidante. And in Luke, Hannah finds someone she can finally talk to. But Emory just wants everything to go back to normal—the way it was before the accident. But when the horrifying reason behind Hannah and Emory's argument ultimately comes to light, all three of them will be forced work together to protect the one with the biggest secret of all in this deeply moving, unforgettable story about love, betrayal, and the power of friendship. In Time Between Us, Anna and Bennett were never supposed to meet. She lives in 1995 Chicago and he lives in 2012 San Francisco. But Bennett's unique ability to travel through time and space brings him into Anna's life, and with him, a new world of adventure and possibility. As their relationship deepens, they face the reality that time might knock Bennett back where he belongs, even as a devastating crisis throws everything they believe into question. Against a ticking clock, Anna and Bennett are forced to ask themselves how far they can push the bounds of fate—and what consequences they can bear in order to stay together. In the sequel to Time Between Us, Time After Time, Anna and Bennett have found a way to stay together against all odds. It’s not a perfect arrangement, though, with Bennett unable to stay in the past for more than brief visits, skipping out on big chunks of his present in order to be with Anna. They each are confident that they’ll find a way to make things work…until Bennett witnesses a single event he never should have seen. Will the decisions he makes from that point on cement a future he doesn’t want?

Download or read book Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board written by United States. National Labor Relations Board and published by . This book was released on 1999-08-31 with total page 1344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Life s Songs of a Born Superstar written by Wylanda Blanding and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of aspiring entertainer growing up in South Carolina. Struggles and trials do not have to define us, but it can make us stronger. It doesn't matter how many times we fall, but how many times we get up and keep on trying. This book allows you to take a walk in my shoes and see how I over come some of my obstacles. My love for music and dance and how it saved me when I had nothing else to turn to. The love of a strong minded mother, to broken hearts, empty promises, and loneliness. From romance, true friends, the wrong friends, roads of distruction, to roads of success. Also, my personal thoughts on real men and learning from the past so you can have a brighter future.