Download or read book Dragon Keepers 1 The Dragon in the Sock Drawer written by Kate Klimo and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2008-07-22 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Magic Tree House readers who are ready for something longer, the Dragon Keepers series has the perfect length and reading level, along with the fast-paced writing, adventure, and sense of teamwork that kids love to read. TEN-YEAR-OLD COUSINS Jesse and Daisy have always wanted something magical to happen to them. So it’s a wish come true when Jesse’s newly found thunder egg hatches, and a helpless, tiny but very loud baby dragon pops out. Soon the two kids are at the dragon’s beck-and-call, trying to figure out what to feed her. An Internet search leads them to the library, which leads them back to the Internet, where they find a very strange Web site called “foundadragon.org.” It is here that the cousins discover that the dragon’s hatching has designated them “Dragon Keepers” and that not only do they have to feed her, but they have to keep her safe from the villainous Saint George who has kept himself alive over centuries by drinking dragons’ blood.
Download or read book Roy and Roger Mouse written by Carol Marques and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roy and Roger Mouse: Their Adventures in Tales End is a collection of short stories about a solemn little boy named Roy, called upon to help the inhabitants of a magical place named Tales End. His companion is Roger Mouse, who comes to get him while he is asleep and magically transports him to Tales End. The tales deal lightly with environmental awareness, social and personal issues and simply how to get along with others. While imparting important life lessons, the book is adventurous and delightful and the tales light and easy to understand.
Download or read book One Red Sock written by Jennifer Sattler and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little purple hippo faces a dilemma. While getting dressed one day, she realizes that she is missing a red sock. But as she searches throughout her sock drawer, she cannot find a suitable replacement. From blue to green and gray to white, nothing she finds will match. But does that really matter? This new picture-book offering from Jennifer Sattler (Bully) reminds readers of all ages of the enjoyment that may occur when one lets go and embraces imperfection.
Download or read book Being Here written by Manini Nayar and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We are all now writing stories. Sometimes in memory, sometimes in air. The wind lifts and passes us in gusts. Our stories scatter over continents, camouflaged histories we cannot share." In Being Here, Manini Nayar brings together a finely crafted collection of interconnected stories that follow "the daily miracle" of her characters' inner lives. Nayar brings to the forefront immigrant women making their way in the world as mothers, as wives, as outliers, and as rebels. She writes about their insistence on autonomy, the absurdity of the struggles they face, and their occasional triumphs. These stories loop and double back across time and locales, linking characters through memory while illumining lives forever changed by an offhand phrase, an act of will, or an unsought encounter. Readers will meet a wide array of characters, but it is Nina with whom they will become most familiar, as she appears throughout the collection: first, as a young wife brought to the US by her husband, Siddharth Vellodi; second, as an older sister; and third, as a divorced mother whose daughter's fateful rebellion remains the mysterious and incandescent center of the stories. Nayar's exploration of inward lives as the locus of dramatic action and events allows both characters and readers to grapple with simply being. In doing so, Nayar reveals the performative aspects of language—particularly its ability to create, destroy, and heal connections. In poetic and eloquent prose, Being Here constructs a luminous collage of restless immigrants united by their shared deference to a brave new journey. In their burgeoning voices another America is found, both latent and radiantly alive.
Download or read book Tommy Tobotsky Tarantula III The Sock Drawer Incident written by CC Molinari and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-02-07 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susie Vanderhoof is an outspoken, bright eight-year-old with an imagination large enough to match her heart. She makes the discovery of a lifetime when she finds a talking spider named Tommy Tobotsky Tarantula III has been residing in her sock drawer. The two form an immediate bond, but Susie's parents think she is exercising her overactive imagination when she tries to tell them about Tommy, and then, refuse to allow her to keep him. Fearful of losing her new friend, Susie makes a brash decision that puts her and Tommy in danger, and in the process, irrevocably shifts the dynamic of her small family.
Download or read book Sock on the Loose written by Conor McGlauflin and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his debut picture book Sock on the Loose, author-illustrator Conor McGlauflin takes you on a fun, sock-filled, adventure about finding yourself and discovering your way back home. Socks come in twos, snuggled up in your shoes. At night they sleep tight, matching pairs in a row. Until—wait a minute!—oh no! Where did Blue Sock go?... After its twin doesn’t come back from the wash, Blue Sock decides it wants to explore the great big world outside its drawer. Just like you, there are so many things a sock can do when given the chance to try something new!
Download or read book The Birthday Box Book 1 written by Christopher Pilkington and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finn is nine today. He is about to be given a special present by his Gran. He is hoping its the new flashy digital watch he had been telling Gran to get him. But instead, she gives him an empty old wooden box. 'Weird', thinks Finn. But Finn will soon discover, that this 'birthday box' will magically take him on an unexpected journey of discovery. It's going to be an exciting, surprising and unpredictable journey. And along the way Finn will come to recognise and appreciate the value of friendship, family and a lot about himself! Plus it will bring him closer to his wannabe best friend in school, Nia. An action packed and character driven story told over three books. At the heart of the book is the key friendship between a nine year old boy and a nine year old girl. It all starts here; Finn is nine today.
Download or read book Where s My Sock written by Joyce Dunbar and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where on earth has Pippin's yellow sock with clocks gone? Pippin is determined to find out. Together with his friend Tog, they embark on the greatest sock hunt ever.
Download or read book Life s Vignettes written by Miller Roger Miller and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy some family and children's vignettes that you wished you had remembered to write down. Let this collection stir your memory into stating, "Oh, I wish I had taken the time to write that down." Life's Vignettes taps our memories from early childhood through adulthood. It touches on interesting incidents occurring in homes, work and Army. It stimulates the thought that "I could do the same thing!"
Download or read book The Awakener written by Helen Weaver and published by City Lights Publishers. This book was released on 2014-01-05 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Awakener is Helen Weaver's long awaited memoir of her adventures with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Lenny Bruce, and other wild characters from the New York City of the fifties and sixties. The sheltered but rebellious daughter of bookish Midwestern parents, Weaver survived a repressive upbringing in the wealthy suburbs of Scarsdale and an early divorce to land in Greenwich Village just in time for the birth of rock 'n' roll—and the counterculture movement known as the Beat Generation. Shortly after her arrival Kerouac, Ginsberg, and company—old friends of her roommate—arrive on their doorstep after a non-stop drive from Mexico. Weaver and Kerouac fall in love on sight, and Kerouac moves in. " … Weaver] paints a romantic picture of Greenwich Village in the 1950s and '60s, when she worked in publishing and hung out with Allen Ginsberg and the poet Richard Howard and was wild and loose, getting high and falling into bed almost immediately with her crushes, including Lenny Bruce … Her descriptions of the Village are evocative, recalling a time when she wore 'long skirts, Capezio ballet shoes and black stockings,' and used to 'sit in the Bagatelle and have sweet vermouth on the rocks with a twist of lemon.' Early on, she quotes Pasternak: 'You in others: this is your soul.' Kerouac's soul lives on through many people—Joyce Johnson, for one—but few have been as adept as Weaver at capturing both him and the New York bohemia of the time. He was lucky to have met her."—Tara McKelvey, The New York Times Book Review “There is a tendency for memoirs written by women about The Great Man to be self-abnegating exercises in a kind of inverted narcissism—the author seeking to prove her worth as muse, as consort, as chosen one. Not so with Helen Weaver’s beautiful, plainspoken elegy for her time spent with Jack Kerouac, who suddenly appeared at her door in the West Village one white, frosty morning with Allen Ginsberg, who knew Weaver’s roommate, in tow."—New York Post "Helen Weaver’s book was a revelation to me! … This is the most graphic, honest, shameless, and moving documentary of what the newly liberated women in cities got up to—how they lived, loved, and created. Who knew? It is time they did! And here’s how."—Carolyn Cassady "Weaver recreates the excitement of a time when things were radically changing and shows us what it was like living with an eccentric genius at the turning point of his life. Eventually she asks Jack to leave but they remain friends, and over the years her respect for his writing grows even as Kerouac's reputation undergoes a gradual transition from enfant terrible to American icon. She comes to realize that by writing On the Road he woke America up—along with her—from the long dream of the fifties. And the Buddhist philosophy that once struck her as Jack's excuse for doing whatever he liked because 'nothing is real, it's all a dream' eventually becomes her own." "Helen Weaver's memoir is a riveting account of her love affair and friendship with Jack Kerouac. She is both clear-eyed and passionate about him, and writes with truly amazing grace."—Ann Charters Helen Weaver has translated over fifty books from the French of which one, Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings (Farrar, Straus and Giroux ) was a Finalist for the National Book Award in translation in 1976. She is co-author and general editor of the Larousse Enyclopedia of Astrology and author of The Daisy Sutra, a book on animal communication. She lives in Kingston, New York.
Download or read book The Velveteen Rabbit written by Phil Grecian and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the time the velveteen rabbit is dirty, worn out, and about to be burned, he has almost given up hope of ever finding the magic called Real.
Download or read book Mouse Guard Legends of the Guard written by David Petersen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-12 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The June Alley Inn holds a storytelling competition.
Download or read book Mouse Guard Legends of the Guard Vol 3 written by David Petersen and published by BOOM! Studios. This book was released on 2015-11-04 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third volume in the New York Times bestselling and Eisner Award-winning series, Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard Volume Three features tales written and illustrated by a collection of award-winning and critically acclaimed storytellers personally selected by series creator David Petersen. Once again, patrons at the June Alley Inn are challenged to tell the best Mouse Guard tale, with the winner getting their tab cleared! "...a fun ride." - Comic Book Resources
Download or read book Odd Socks written by Michelle Robinson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-01-07 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suki and Sosh love their life. Each day they go to work together on their pair of feet, and each night they snuggle together in their sock drawer. But then disaster strikes: Sosh spots that Suki has a hole. Darn it! Sure enough, his warm, woolly wife starts to unravel, until one day Suki is nowhere to be found. The rest of the underwear warn him not to go it alone – no one likes an odd sock. But Sosh swears to find her.
Download or read book Catopolis written by Martin H. Greenberg and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2008-12-02 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen original stories about the ?city of cats? Set in a world that exists on the same plane as humans, yet is hidden from us, Catopolis introduces readers to an assortment of cats, ranging from a feline Seer who must take destiny into her own paws to defeat a dictatorial tomcat thug...to a black cat who can call upon the powers of the ?big cats? to wage a war against evil...to a cat who would be king...to the ins and outs of cat politics and the perils of using mice as ballots...to a cat burglar looking for a musical treasure for his ?boss.?
Download or read book Who Killed Darius Drake A Mystery written by Rodman Philbrick and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Newbery Honor author Rodman Philbrick comes a delicious, fast-paced whodunit about two socially outcast boys who set out to find jewels hidden for a century--and unwittingly flush out a murderer. In award-winner Philbrick's new page-turning mystery, Arthur "Bash Man" is the school thug, paid with candy to bully and threaten other students. When genius orphan Darius Drake employs Arthur to help him discover the origin of a suspicious threat, written in blood, they uncover a mystery that involves Darius's estranged grandfather, who was imprisoned for forging evidence in a search for a long-lost diamond necklace worth millions. The boys make the dangerous decision to search for the jewels themselves -- and in the process, they discover that the car crash that killed Darius's parents was not an accident at all. Who will be next?Where are the diamonds? And who is stalking the boys? In his first mystery for children, Philbrick delivers yet another suspenseful, unpredictable tale filled with twists and turns that will leave readers breathless.
Download or read book Houghton Mifflin Reading written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grade 1.
