Download or read book The Double Cousins and the Mystery of the Sod Schoolhouse written by Miriam Jones Bradley and published by Ambassador International. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Had it really been only a year since the Double Cousins solved their first mystery? But now back at Grandpa’s ranch for their summer visit, it seemed something was missing—one of those exciting mysteries. For the first time in a year, they were all together again, and the time was slipping by with no mystery. If this was the new normal, they didn’t like it very much. Then out of the blue, strangers arrive at the ranch and drop a mystery right into their laps, shocking even Grandpa with ranch history he had never heard. The Happy Hollow school property was originally part of Grandpa’s land. Had the first one been a sod building? Can they fulfill the dream of a centenarian by recovering its history and, against all odds, find the tiny time capsule hidden by two young boys over 120 years ago? And can they put up with an annoying visitor who doesn’t like the ranch or anything on it? In the seventh Double Cousins Mystery, the cousins, including Brandon, use all their sleuthing skills—along with some new ones—to help that family of strangers find the answer to their mystery; and in the process, they learn that mysteries truly are a part of history.

Download or read book Shepherds Lions and Storms written by Terry Overton and published by Ambassador International. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the final book in The Newton Chronicles, Luke, Nathan, and Lydia continue on their quest through time to find Luke’s father. After finding some clues, the trio believes they finally have what they need to get to the time of the first building of Solomon’s Temple. But before they get there, they find themselves jumping through biblical history again—all the way back to Creation, in fact! From the beginning of everything to the birth of Jesus, time travel is not easy! Will Luke ever find his father? Or will he just keep jumping through history in search of someone who is lost forever? And most importantly, will firsthand experiences with stories from the Bible influence the faith of a doubter, a pastor’s kid, and a linguist?

Download or read book The Double Cousins and the Mystery of the Torn Map written by Miriam Jones Bradley and published by Ambassador International. This book was released on 2011-07-04 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What a way to end the summer! Is it possible for the Double Cousins to squeeze a new adventure in before school starts? The excitement all begins with an e-mail from Slim who has found a clue in an old clock and needs their help to solve this intriguing mystery. Before they know it the Double Cousins are on the road in search of answers. It's great fun for Max, Carly, their siblings, and Cousin Brandon to travel through Colorado in the camper with Grandma and Grandpa Johnson. Even better is spending time with their recently discovered cousin Slim. It's not all fun and games--or camping, hiking, and roasting marshmallows--however. There's a real mystery to solve, complete with hundred-year-old clues, family stories handed down, and a few tense and dangerous moments. Will they succeed in putting together all the pieces? Are they real detectives, like Max's hero, Encyclopedia Brown? Will the pesky thief scare them away? Or worse yet, will he beat them to the treasure? Come along and find out in The Double Cousins and the Mystery of the Torn Map. As the cousins pursue their clues, they find that they each have particular strengths and can achieve more together than separately, and they learn valuable lessons in cooperation, contentment, and confidence.

Download or read book The One World Schoolhouse written by Salman Khan and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere: this is the goal of the Khan Academy, a passion project that grew from an ex-engineer and hedge funder's online tutoring sessions with his niece, who was struggling with algebra, into a worldwide phenomenon. Today millions of students, parents, and teachers use the Khan Academy's free videos and software, which have expanded to encompass nearly every conceivable subject; and Academy techniques are being employed with exciting results in a growing number of classrooms around the globe. Like many innovators, Khan rethinks existing assumptions and imagines what education could be if freed from them. And his core idea-liberating teachers from lecturing and state-mandated calendars and opening up class time for truly human interaction-has become his life's passion. Schools seek his advice about connecting to students in a digital age, and people of all ages and backgrounds flock to the site to utilize this fresh approach to learning. In The One World Schoolhouse, Khan presents his radical vision for the future of education, as well as his own remarkable story, for the first time. In these pages, you will discover, among other things: How both students and teachers are being bound by a broken top-down model invented in Prussia two centuries ago Why technology will make classrooms more human and teachers more important How and why we can afford to pay educators the same as other professionals/DIV How we can bring creativity and true human interactivity back to learning/DIV Why we should be very optimistic about the future of learning. Parents and politicians routinely bemoan the state of our education system. Statistics suggest we've fallen behind the rest of the world in literacy, math, and sciences. With a shrewd reading of history, Khan explains how this crisis presented itself, and why a return to "mastery learning," abandoned in the twentieth century and ingeniously revived by tools like the Khan Academy, could offer the best opportunity to level the playing field, and to give all of our children a world-class education now. More than just a solution, The One World Schoolhouse serves as a call for free, universal, global education, and an explanation of how Khan's simple yet revolutionary thinking can help achieve this inspiring goal.

Download or read book Thornyhold written by Mary Stewart and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A comfortable chair and a Mary Stewart: total heaven. I'd rather read her than most other authors.' Harriet Evans The rambling house called Thornyhold is like something out of a fairy tale. Left to Gilly Ramsey by the cousin whose occasional visits brightened her childhood, the cottage, set deep in a wild wood, has come just in time to save her from a bleak future. With its reputation for magic and its resident black cat, Thornyhold offers Gilly more than just a new home. It offers her a chance to start over. The old house, with it tufts of rosy houseleek and the spreading gilt of the lichens, was beautiful. Even the prisoning hedges were beautiful, protective with their rusty thorns, their bastions of holly and juniper, and at the corners, like towers, their thick columns of yews. 'Mary Stewart is magic' New York Times 'One of the great British storytellers of the 20th century' Independent

Download or read book The Ghost of the Lantern Lady written by Carolyn Keene and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nancy loves a good mystery. That’s why she, Bess, and George are volunteering at Persimmon Woods Pioneer Village, a living history museum of the 1830s. Nancy’s heard that a lot of weird things have been happening there, like the eerie sightings of the Lantern Lady­ the ghost of an original settler. But as soon as Nancy starts investigating, she learns that even though the workers at Persimmon Woods are in costume, the danger isn’t an act. Someone has concocted a cunning scheme to destroy the village—and if Nancy doesn’t find the culprit, she could become history, too.

Download or read book Tom Brown s School Days written by Thomas Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book My Omaha Obsession written by Miss Cassette and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Omaha Obsession takes the reader on an idiosyncratic tour through some of Omaha’s neighborhoods, buildings, architecture, and people—celebrating the city’s unusual and overlooked history

Download or read book Mrs Smith s Spy School for Girls written by Beth McMullen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A girl discovers her boarding school is actually an elite spy-training program, and she must learn the skills of the trade in order to find her mother in this action-packed middle grade debut that’s perfect for fans of Stu Gibbs. After a botched escape plan from her boarding school, Abigail is stunned to discover the school is actually a cover for an elite spy ring called The Center, along with being training grounds for future spies. Even more shocking? Abigail’s mother is a top agent for The Center and she has gone MIA, with valuable information that many people would like to have—at any cost. Along with a former nemesis and charming boy from her grade, Abigail goes through a crash course in Spy Training 101, often with hilarious—and sometimes painful—results. But Abigail realizes she might be a better spy-in-training than she thought—and the answers to her mother’s whereabouts are a lot closer than she thinks…

Download or read book The New Kids written by Brooke Hauser and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a reading group guide (p. [311-324]).

Download or read book Adaline Falling Star written by Mary Pope Osborne and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning author Mary Pope Osborne's first middle-grade novel is a gripping girl survival story reminiscent of such classics as *Island of the Blue Dolphins* and *Julie of the Wolves*. LOVE AND LOYALTY PUT TO THE TEST Adaline is a fiery child--an irrepressible combination of her white explorer father Kit Carson and her Arapaho mother. When Ma dies and Pa sets off on an expedition out West, Adaline finds herself living in St. Louis with racist white relatives who call her a savage and work her like a slave. When Adaline realizes she may have been abandoned, she decides to find her own way back to her mother's people, where she is sure her father will find her. With the company of a stray dog, Adaline sets out on a journey that will either save her life--or end it...

Download or read book The Double Cousins and the Mystery of the Missing Watch written by Miriam Bradley and published by . This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juvenile Mystery.Back Cover Copy: When double cousins Max Rawson and Carly Johnson with theirsiblings Dorie, Chad, and Molly, arrive at their grandparents' ranchfor an annual visit, they are delighted with a surprise request thatchanges everything.Grandpa asks them to uncover what happened to his grandfather'stwin brother Zachary, who left home to seek adventure andfortune in the West over 100 years before and was never heardfrom again. The only clue is a pocket watch Grandpa has thatmatches the one Zachary carried.Added to this real-life mystery is the sudden arrival of a new hiredman, Slim, a quiet stranger with an unusual background.Will they be able to discover what happened to Zach and hiswatch? Who is Slim? Can he be trusted? What is he hiding?As the cousins seek answers to these questions they learnvaluable lessons about forgiveness and acceptance.

Download or read book Echo Burning written by Lee Child and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-06-25 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Reacher finds trouble in Texas in the fifth novel in Lee Child’s #1 New York Times bestselling series. DON'T MISS REACHER ON PRIME VIDEO! Thumbing across the scorched Texas desert, Jack Reacher has nowhere to go and all the time in the world to get there. Cruising the same stretch of two-lane blacktop is Carmen Greer. For Reacher, the lift comes with a hitch. Carmen’s got a wild story to tell—all about her husband, her family secrets, and a hometown that’s purely gothic. She’s also got a plan. Reacher’s part of it. And before the sun sets, this ride could cost them both their lives.

Download or read book Among the Impostors written by Margaret Peterson Haddix and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-12-21 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danger continues to loom over Luke now that he's out of hiding in the second book in bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix's Shadow Children series. Luke Garner is an illegal third child. All his life has been spent in hiding. Now, for the first time, Luke is living among others. He has assumed a deceased boy's identity and is attending Hendricks School for Boys, a windowless building with cruel classmates and oblivious teachers. Luke knows he has to blend in, but he lives in constant fear that his behavior will betray him. Then one day Luke discovers a door to the outside. He knows that beyond the walls of Hendricks lie the secrets he is desperate to uncover. What he doesn't know is whom he can trust -- and where the answers to his questions may lead him...

Download or read book Book Scavenger written by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times-Bestseller! For twelve-year-old Emily, the best thing about moving to San Francisco is that it's the home city of her literary idol: Garrison Griswold, book publisher and creator of the online sensation Book Scavenger (a game where books are hidden in cities all over the country and clues to find them are revealed through puzzles). Upon her arrival, however, Emily learns that Griswold has been attacked and is now in a coma, and no one knows anything about the epic new game he had been poised to launch. Then Emily and her new friend James discover an odd book, which they come to believe is from Griswold himself, and might contain the only copy of his mysterious new game. Racing against time, Emily and James rush from clue to clue, desperate to figure out the secret at the heart of Griswold's new game—before those who attacked Griswold come after them too. This title has Common Core connections.

Download or read book The Double Cousins and the Mystery of the Camp Prowler written by Miriam Jones Bradley and published by Ambassador International. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Better than birthdays. Better than Thanksgiving. Better even than Christmas! For the Double Cousins, the high point of the year is SUMMER CAMP! Seeing camp friends. Choosing one activity for the day’s free time, and there are too many to do them all in one week: The climbing wall, The hike, The zip line, And for a quieter break, crafts or fishing. And then there’s WATER DAY! So many ways to get wet! BUT—and it’s a big BUT—this year there’s even more excitement with unexplained happenings, disappearances, and strangers around. Who returned the wandering four-year-old? Who is pilfering food from the kitchen? Will Carly have to survive without daily chocolate? Will Max lose friends because of Jess, who seems to attract trouble? And how is it all related to the historic stagecoach robbery they are just hearing about now! Or is it? In The Double Cousins and the Mystery of the Camp Prowler, the cousins cram sleuthing into a tight schedule and still manage to learn lessons about doing right despite what others think and the value of a lifetime of service to others. With this Double Cousins adventure you can have summer camp anytime you want!

Download or read book History of Windham County Connecticut 1600 1760 written by Ellen Douglas Larned and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: