Download or read book The Mosquito Brothers written by Griffin Ondaatje and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanied by quirky line drawings by Spanish illustrator Erica Salcedo, this is a gently humorous and remarkably informative nature-adventure story about an unlikely pointy-nosed hero with big dreams and an even bigger heart. After he nearly drowns in a parking-lot puddle, Dinnn Needles is fearful of many things, including flying. When his four hundred siblings swarm off without him, he finds time to dream —about family stories, a lost brother, adventure in The Wild and, above all, how to be cool. At school in an abandoned air-conditioner, Dinnn learns about the deadly Pondhawk dragonfly and other dangers that lie beyond his home under a drive-in theater screen. But Dinnn never really takes to city life. Lonely and left out, he is filled with an unexplained longing. He sips spilled cola from abandoned pop cans, but it is not as tasty as flower nectar. He tries to make friends with the local street mosquitoes, but that just lands him in a sewer filled with spiders and water snakes. He hears about the red mini-van that brought his parents together and wonders about his extended family in the country. He even finds a great black jacket in a roadside ditch, but it doesn’t make him cool. And then one day, as fate would have it, the red mini-van reappears, giving Dinnn a chance to visit to his relatives in The Wild, where new perils await an inexperienced city mosquito — being struck by a raindrop, zapped by a porch light or snapped up by a hungry fish at dusk. But in the end Dinnn discovers that being cool is a matter of what you do, especially for one’s friends and family, including two new brothers. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.3 Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events
Download or read book Waikna Or Adventures on the Mosquito Shore written by Samuel A. Bard and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Brothers Grim written by Erica Rowell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brothers Grim examines the inner workings of the Coens' body of work, discussing a movie in terms of its primary themes, social and political contexts, narrative techniques, influences, relationship to their other films, and the Coens' referential modus operandi that retreads cinema, literature, history, philosophy, and art to amplify their films' themes.
Download or read book The Mosquito Crusades written by Gordon Patterson and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the struggles of the twentieth century, the one between humans and mosquitoes may have been the most vexing, as demonstrated by the long battle to control these bloodsucking pests. As vectors of diseases such as malaria, yellow fever, encephalitis, and dengue fever, mosquitoes forced open a new chapter in the history of medical entomology. Based on extensive use of primary sources, The Mosquito Crusades traces this saga and the parallel efforts of civic groups in New Jersey's Meadowlands and along San Francisco Bay's east side to manage the dangerous mosquito population. Providing readers with a fascinating exploration of the relationship between science, technology, and public policy, Gordon Patterson's narrative begins in New Jersey with John B. Smith's effort to develop a comprehensive plan and solution for mosquito control, one that would serve as a national model. From the Reed Commission's 1900 yellow fever experiment to the first Earth Day seventy years later, Patterson provides an eye-opening account of the crusade to curtail the deadly mosquito population.
Download or read book The Brothers Kennedy written by Kathleen Krull and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring picture book about John, Robert, and Edward Kennedy, by acclaimed author Kathy Krull and New York Times bestselling artist Amy Bates.
Download or read book Waterless Mountain written by Laura Adams Armer and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story, told in beautiful poetic prose, of the training of a present-day Navajo Indian boy who feels a vocation to become a medicine man.
Download or read book THE BUNAU VARILLA BROTHERS AND THE PANAMA CANAL written by GABRIEL J. LOIZILLON and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-12-24 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book unravels the secrets of the Bunau-Varilla brothers' fortune, made in the construction of the French Canal in Panama in 1886-1889. It also asks why Philippe Bunau-Varilla is not recognised by Panamanians as the man who helped their republic to be born - without him, the Panama Canal would have been in Nicaragua.
Download or read book Missouri Brothers in Gray written by William Jeffery Bull and published by Press of the Camp Pope Bookshop. This book was released on 1998 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Bull brothers begins prior to the firing on Fort Sumter and presents the reader with some fascinating information on ante-bellum military preparations for the upcoming war. From Camp Jackson in May 1861, William takes the reader through four years of military service, covering the battles of Pea Ridge, Corinth, Prairie Grove, Helena, the Red River and Camden campaigns and a few smaller engagements.
Download or read book Hurricane Wills written by Sally Grindley and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven-year-old Chris struggles to cope with his older brother Wills's ADHD, especially after Wills begins hanging around with a bad crowd and Chris, aware of his illegal activities, feels he must hide the misdeeds from their recently-separated parents.
Download or read book We Were There at the First Airplane Flight written by Felix Sutton and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On a blustery North Carolina afternoon in 1902, young Jimmie and Clara Blair meet Orville and Wilbur Wright and assist the inventors in realizing their dream of human flight"--
Download or read book The Mosquito King written by Scott R. Welvaert and published by Raintree Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This horror story is designed to inspire struggling and reluctant readers, offering a full-sized novel in an accessible format.
Download or read book The Mosquito Coast written by Paul Theroux and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Stanford Dolman Lifetime Contribution to Travel Writing Award 2020 The Mosquito Coast - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize - is a breathtaking novel about fanaticism and a futile search for utopia from bestseller Paul Theroux. Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation and takes the family to live in the Honduran jungle. There his tortured, messianic genius keeps them alive, his hoarse tirades harrying them through a diseased and dirty Eden towards unimaginable darkness. 'Stunning. . . exciting, intelligent, meticulously realised, artful' Victoria Glendinning, Sunday Times 'An epic of paranoid obsession that swirls the reader headlong to deposit him on a black mudbank of horror' Christopher Wordsworth, Guardian 'Magnificently stimulating and exciting' Anthony Burgess American travel writer Paul Theroux is known for the rich descriptions of people and places that is often streaked with his distinctive sense of irony; his novels and collected short stories, My Other Life, The Collected Stories, My Secret History, The Lower River, The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro, A Dead Hand, Millroy the Magician, The Elephanta Suite, Saint Jack, The Consul's File, The Family Arsenal, and his works of non-fiction, including the iconic The Great Railway Bazaar are available from Penguin.
Download or read book The Great Cookie War written by Caroline Stellings and published by Second Story Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in her traditional Mennonite community is peaceful, if a little dull, for twelve-year-old Beth who dreams of being an artist. She goes to school, helps with the cooking and cleaning at home, and works with her parents at the local farmer’s market. One Saturday, however, excitement shows up in the form of a determined lawyer from New York City who insists she needs a family cookie recipe to win a multi-million-dollar lawsuit. Beth’s parents are bemused, but her grandmother is equally determined that the recipe will not leave her kitchen. As she tries to balance her love for her family and her faith with the promises of adventure New York could bring to her future, Beth learns that she is stronger than she believes. And sometimes, adventures happen close to home.
Download or read book Delta Kappa Epsilon Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mosquito Bowl written by Buzz Bissinger and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instant New York Times Bestseller · Winner of the General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation “Buzz Bissinger’s Friday Night Lights is an American classic. With The Mosquito Bowl, he is back with a true story even more colorful and profound. This book too is destined to become a classic. I devoured it.” — John Grisham An extraordinary, untold story of the Second World War in the vein of Unbroken and The Boys in the Boat, from the author of Friday Night Lights and Three Nights in August. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, college football was at the height of its popularity. As the nation geared up for total war, one branch of the service dominated the aspirations of college football stars: the United States Marine Corps. Which is why, on Christmas Eve of 1944, when the 4th and 29th Marine regiments found themselves in the middle of the Pacific Ocean training for what would be the bloodiest battle of the war – the invasion of Okinawa—their ranks included one of the greatest pools of football talent ever assembled: Former All Americans, captains from Wisconsin and Brown and Notre Dame, and nearly twenty men who were either drafted or would ultimately play in the NFL. When the trash-talking between the 4th and 29th over who had the better football team reached a fever pitch, it was decided: The two regiments would play each other in a football game as close to the real thing as you could get in the dirt and coral of Guadalcanal. The bruising and bloody game that followed became known as “The Mosquito Bowl.” Within a matter of months, 15 of the 65 players in “The Mosquito Bowl” would be killed at Okinawa, by far the largest number of American athletes ever to die in a single battle. The Mosquito Bowl is the story of these brave and beautiful young men, those who survived and those who did not. It is the story of the families and the landscape that shaped them. It is a story of a far more innocent time in both college athletics and the life of the country, and of the loss of that innocence. Writing with the style and rigor that won him a Pulitzer Prize and have made several of his books modern classics, Buzz Bissinger takes us from the playing fields of America’s campuses where boys played at being Marines, to the final time they were allowed to still be boys on that field of dirt and coral, to the darkest and deadliest days that followed at Okinawa.
Download or read book Journal of American Folklore written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Book 4 Hunting the Treasure written by Emma Bland Smith and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The McNallys are visiting Michigan's Mackinac Island. Gavin and his brother, Gus, take a nature walk. Gavin wants to hunt for treasure at a nearby fort after the walk. When Gus goes missing Gavin is annoyed. But he soon comes to realize what treasure really means. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Spellbound is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.
