Download or read book Ollie and the Science of Treasure Hunting written by Erin Dionne and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The follow-up to "Moxie and the Art of Rule Breaking." While spending two weeks at Wilderness Camp on the Boston Harbor Islands, 13-year-old Ollie must find and protect hidden pirate treasure from those who would steal it for themselves.
Download or read book Ollie and the Science of Treasure Hunting written by Erin Dionne and published by Dial Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While spending two weeks at Wilderness Camp on the Boston Harbor Islands, thirteen-year-old Ollie, short, half Vietnamese, asthmatic, and overweight, must find and protect hidden pirate treasure from those who would steal it for themselves.
Download or read book Ollie and the Science of Treasure Hunting written by Erin Dionne and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This companion to the Edgar Award nominee MOXIE AND THE ART OF RULE BREAKING, which SLJ called “a breathless thrill ride,” features hidden pirate treasure and a high-stakes game of tag – just what you’d expect from summer camp! While at Wilderness camp on the Boston Harbor Islands, Ollie must navigate new friends, new enemies, and a high-stakes game of tag, so the last thing he needs is a mystery. But then Ollie meets Grey, an elusive girl with knowledge of the island’s secrets, including the legend of a lost pirate treasure, which may not be a legend after all. The sidekick steps into the spotlight as Ollie uses his wits and geocaching skills to keep long-lost treasure out of the wrong hands in this exciting adventure-mystery from fan-favorite middle grade author Erin Dionne.
Download or read book Multiracial Identity in Children s Literature written by Amina Chaudhri and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Racially mixed children make up the fastest growing youth demographic in the U.S., and teachers of diverse populations need to be mindful in selecting literature that their students can identify with. This volume explores how books for elementary school students depict and reflect multiracial experiences through text and images. Chaudhri examines contemporary children’s literature to demonstrate the role these books play in perpetuating and resisting stereotypes and the ways in which they might influence their readers. Through critical analysis of contemporary children’s fiction, Chaudhri highlights the connections between context, literature, and personal experience to deepen our understanding of how children’s books treat multiracial identity.
Download or read book Moxie and the Art of Rule Breaking written by Erin Dionne and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgar Award Finalist For fans of The Westing Game and From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler comes a clever, treasure-hunt mystery based on a real-life art heist. Moxie Fleece knows the rules and follows them--that is, until the day she opens her front door to a mysterious stranger. Suddenly Moxie is involved in Boston's biggest unsolved mystery: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art heist. Moxie has two weeks to find the art, otherwise she and the people she loves will be in big-time danger. Her tools? Her best friend, Ollie, a geocaching addict who loves to find stuff; her Alzheimer's suffering grandfather, Grumps, who knows lots more than he lets on; and a geometry proof that she sets up to sort out the clues. It's a race against the clock through downtown Boston as Moxie and Ollie break every rule she's ever lived by to find the art and save her family.
Download or read book Models Don t Eat Chocolate Cookies written by Erin Dionne and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-02-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year-old Celeste Harris is no string bean, but comfy sweatpants and a daily chocolate cookie suit her just fine. Her under-the-radar lifestyle could have continued too, if her aunt hadn?t entered her in the HuskyPeach Modeling Challenge. To get out of it, she?s forced to launch Operation Skinny Celeste?because, after all, a thin girl can?t be a fat model! What Celeste never imagined was that losing weight would help her gain a backbone . . . or that all she needed to shine was a spotlight. A hilarious debut featuring friendship, family, mean girls and even celebrity crushes, Celeste?s story is a delicious treat that doesn?t add a pound.
Download or read book The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet written by Erin Dionne and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-01-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Hamlet Kennedy wants is to be a normal eighth grader. But with parents like hers - Shakespearean scholars who actually dress in Elizabethan regalia . . . in public! - it's not that easy. As if they weren't strange enough, her genius seven-year-old sister will be attending her middle school, and is named the new math tutor. Then, when the Shakespeare Project is announced, Hamlet reveals herself to be an amazing actress. Even though she wants to be average, Hamlet can no longer hide from the fact that she- like her family - is anything but ordinary.
Download or read book The Seventh Science Fiction MEGAPACK written by Robert Silverberg and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 853 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Seventh Science Fiction Megapack" presents a terrific mix of science fiction stories, new and old, including a Hugo Award-winning story by Lawrence Watt-Evans, a Hugo Award nominee from Mike Resnick, and classics by Arthur C. Clarke, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and many more. Almost 700 pages of great reading! Included are: ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE, by Mike Resnick A BRIEF DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES, by Michael Kurland GRANDPA?, by Edward M. Lerner TO ERR IS INHUMAN, by Marion Zimmer Bradley SARGASSO OF LOST STARSHIPS, by Poul Anderson THE SWORDSMEN OF VARNIS, by Geoffrey Cobbe MOON DOG, by Arthur C. Clarke WHY I LEFT HARRY’S ALL-NIGHT HAMBURGERS, by Lawrence Watt-Evans GALACTIC CHEST, by Clifford D. Simak PROTOTYPE, by John Gregory Betancourt THE DOORSTOP, by Reginald Bretnor THE TIME DISSOLVER, by Jerry Sohl DO UNTO OTHERS, by Damien Broderick KEEP OUT, by Fredric Brown THE CHAPTER ENDS, by Poul Anderson DO UNTO OTHERS, by Mark Clifton THE SERVANT PROBLEM, by Robert F. Young THE SLIZZERS, by Jerome Bixby AND THEN THE TOWN TOOK OFF, by Richard Wilson SPACE OPERA, by Michael R. Collings I AM TOMORROW, by Lester del Rey RIPENESS IS ALL, by Jesse Roarke DAWSON DID IT, by C.J. Henderson STARMAN'S QUEST, by Robert Silverberg THROUGH TIME & SPACE WITH FERDINAND FEGHOOT (94), by Grendel Briarton And don't forget to search this ebook store for "Wildside Megapack" to see the 100+ entries in this series, covering everything from science fiction and fantasy to mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, author collections--and much, much more! (Sort by publication date to see the most recent entries.)
Download or read book Treasure Hunting written by Caitlin Scott and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates true stories of treasure hunters, discussing the tools they use, secret codes that have led to treasures, laws and regulations regarding treasure hunting, and some lost treasures still waiting to be found.
Download or read book The Last Dragon written by Jane Yolen and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master storyteller Jane Yolen and celebrated fantasy artist Rebecca Guay (Swamp Thing; Magic: The Gathering) weave a textured and lyrical tale of adventure, homelands, and heroism the hard way. Two hundred years ago, humans drove the dragons from the islands of May. Now, the last of the dragons rises to wreak havoc anew - with only a healer's daughter and a kite-flying would-be hero standing in its way.
Download or read book Treasure Hunters written by James Patterson and published by jimmy patterson. This book was released on 2013-09-16 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join the famous treasure-hunting Kidds on their first adventure ever! The #1 New York Times bestselling series from James Patterson is jam-packed with action, humor, and heart! The Kidd siblings have grown up diving down to shipwrecks and traveling the world, helping their famous parents recover everything from swords to gold doubloons from the bottom of the ocean. But when their parents disappear on the job, the kids are suddenly thrust into the biggest treasure hunt of their lives. They'll have to work together to defeat dangerous pirates and dodge the hot pursuit of an evil treasure hunting rival, all while following cryptic clues to unravel the mystery of what really happened to their parents—and find out if they're still alive.
Download or read book The Girls written by Amy Goldman Koss and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The girls: Maya, Brianna, Darcy, Renee?and popular, fascinating, dangerous Candace. Five friends ruled by one ringleader who plays games to test their loyalty?and then decides who's in the group and who's out. Each of the girls has her say in this fast-paces and absolute believable novel set in the war zone of middle school cliques. The author of the highly appraised The Ashwater Experience, Amy Koss has once again crafted a "truly original piece of fiction brimming with humor and insight. " (Starred Horn Book Review for The Ashwater Experience)
Download or read book Caillou Goes to School written by Anne Paradis and published by . This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Sarah's school has a little sister or brother day, Sarah invites Caillou to join her. At school, Caillou learns about the bell schedule and enjoys recess and lunch with Sarah. This brightly illustrated book is perfect for Caillou fans and children getting ready to go off to school!
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Download or read book Hoofbeats Margret and Flynn 1875 written by Kathleen Duey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1875, and twelve-year-old orphan Margret and her sister, Libby, are living with the kind Mrs. Fredriksen in her sod house in rural Littleton, Colorado. Margret would be happy to stay forever, but she knows that Libby, with her basic distrust of anyone other than Margret, will have them moving soon enough. Then a tornado sweeps through, bringing with it an injured horse. Immediately Margret lays claim to the horse, naming him Flynn, nursing him back to health, and teaching herself to ride. Now more than ever, Margret yearns for some stability in her life. Somehow, she’s got to find a way to convince Libby to stay so she can make Flynn hers. Powerfully written and historically accurate, this is a great addition to the series that’s tailor-made for girls who love horses and historical fiction.
Download or read book Lights Camera Disaster written by Erin Dionne and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A budding filmmaker with executive function disorder figures out how to become the director of her own life in this funny, relatable middle-grade novel from Erin Dionne. Hester Greene loves making movies. With her camera in hand, she can focus, make decisions, and have the control she lacks in life, where her executive function disorder (think extreme ADHD plus anxiety) sabotages her every move.But middle school is not a movie, and if her last-ditch attempt to save her language-arts grade--and her chance to pass eighth grade, period--doesn't work, Hess could lose her friends, her year, even her camera. It will take more than a cool training montage to get her life together, but by thinking outside the frame, she just might craft a whole new ending.Written partially in script form, with STOP/PAUSE/PLAY/REWIND moments throughout, this laugh-out-loud story will speak to any budding filmmaker, or unintentional troublemaker, in every act of their lives.
Download or read book Blue Willow written by Doris Gates and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1976-09-30 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Janey Larkin, the blue willow plate was the most beautiful thing in her life, a symbol of the home she could only dimly remember. Now that her father was an itinerant worker, Janey didn't have a home she could call her own or any real friends, as her family had to keep moving, following the crops from farm to farm. Someday, Janey promised the willow plate, with its picture of a real house, her family would once again be able to set down roots in a community. Blue Willow is an important fictional account of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, and has been called The Grapes of Wrath for children. It won a Newbery Honor and many other awards.
