Download or read book Grandmother Fish written by Jonathan Tweet and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where did we come from? It's a simple question, but not so simple an answer to explain—especially to young children. Charles Darwin's theory of common descent no longer needs to be a scientific mystery to inquisitive young readers. Meet Grandmother Fish. Told in an engaging call and response text where a child can wiggle like a fish or hoot like an ape and brought to life by vibrant artwork, Grandmother Fish takes children and adults through the history of life on our planet and explains how we are all connected. The book also includes comprehensive backmatter, including: - An elaborate illustration of the evolutionary tree of life - Helpful science notes for parents - How to explain natural selection to a child

Download or read book Good Granny Bad Granny written by Mary McHugh and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2012-07-06 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This mischievously funny and charmingly illustrated volume celebrates grandmothers who love to spoil their grandchildren rotten! Every grandmother knows that having grandchildren is one of the greatest pleasures in life. When your children finally get around to having their own children, you get a beautiful new baby in your life—and best of all, you’re not responsible for how this one turns out! Now comes the dilemma. Should you be a Good Granny who gives the little cherub healthy food and educational toys? Or should you be a Bad Granny, indulging your grandkid in Kentucky Fried Chicken, video game marathons and trips to the racetrack? In Good Granny/Bad Granny, Mqry McHugh explores both sides in a hilarious series of examples, all delightfully illustrated by Patricia Storms.

Download or read book Have You Eaten Grandma written by Gyles Brandreth and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The go-to good English guide from the grammar guru himself, Gyles Brandreth . . . __________ Why, like, does everyone keep saying 'like'? Why do apostrophe's keep turning up in the wrong place? Why do we get confused when using foreign phrases - and vice versa? Is it 'may be' or 'maybe'? Should it be 'past' or 'passed'? Is it 'referenda' or 'referendums'? FFS, what's happening to our language!? Our language is changing, literacy levels are dwindling and our grasp of grammar is at crisis point, so you wouldn't be alone in thinking WTF! But do not despair, Have You Eaten Grandma? is here: Gyles Brandreth's definitive (and hilarious) guide to punctuation, spelling, and good English for the twenty-first century. Without hesitation or repetition (and just a touch of deviation) Gyles, the Just A Minute regular and self-confessed grammar guru, skewers the linguistic horrors of our time, tells us where we've been going wrong (and why), and reveals his tips and tricks to ensure that, in future, we make fewer (rather than 'less') mistakes. End of. (Is 'End of' alright? Is 'alright' all right? You'll find out right here . . . )

Download or read book Grandma s Secrets Memories written by Solveig Rogstad Larsen and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Norwegian immigrant's true adventures and lifetime story reveals how special an everyday common person's life can be when dedicated early and diligently to Jesus.

Download or read book After All You re Callie Boone written by Winnie Mack and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2010-06-08 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Oh, fishsticks, tartar, and a side of fries!" Runaway ferrets, former BFF drama-trauma, and one GIGANTIC (and very, very public) belly flop. No doubt about it, Callie Boone's summer is CRUMMY. The only things keeping her afloat are dive practice with her dad and a top-secret Olympic dream. Then a boy named Hoot—who is NOT her boyfriend!—moves in next door and turns her world upside down and right-side up. Just when things start looking up, real disaster strikes and Callie feels like she's stuck at the top of the high diving board with no way down. What if she can't fix all the things that need fixing? She'll just have to try! With a little luck, a solid plan, and a whole lot of teamwork, she just might make it through. After all, she's Callie Boone! After All, You're Callie Boone is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Download or read book Johnny s Pheasant written by Cheryl Minnema and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An encounter with a pheasant (which may or may not be sleeping) takes a surprising turn in this sweetly serious and funny story of a Native American boy and his grandma "Pull over, Grandma! Hurry!” Johnny says. Grandma does, and Johnny runs to show her what he spotted near the ditch: a sleeping pheasant. What Grandma sees is a small feathery hump. When Johnny wants to take it home, Grandma tries to tell him that the pheasant might have been hit by a car. But maybe she could use the feathers for her craftwork? So home with Grandma and Johnny the pheasant goes . . . It’s hard to say who is most surprised by what happens next—Grandma, Johnny, or the pheasant. But no one will be more delighted than the reader at this lesson about patience and kindness and respect for nature, imparted by Grandma’s gentle humor, Johnny’s happy hooting, and all the quiet wisdom found in Cheryl Minnema’s stories of Native life and Julie Flett’s remarkably evocative and beautiful illustrations.

Download or read book My Grandma and Me written by Mina Javaherbin and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A celebration of specific manifestations of universal love. . . . A deep and beautiful book modeling grandmothers as heroines.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) In this big universe full of many moons, I have traveled and seen many wonders, but I have never loved anything or anyone the way I love my grandma. While Mina is growing up in Iran, the center of her world is her grandmother. Whether visiting friends next door, going to the mosque for midnight prayers during Ramadan, or taking an imaginary trip around the planets, Mina and her grandma are never far apart. At once deeply personal and utterly universal, Mina Javaherbin’s words make up a love letter of the rarest sort: the kind that shares a bit of its warmth with every reader. Soft, colorful, and full of intricate patterns, Lindsey Yankey’s illustrations feel like a personal invitation into the coziest home filled with familial adoration.

Download or read book Top Secret Twenty One written by Janet Evanovich and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Don’t miss Janet Evanovich’s short story “Pros and Cons” in the back of the book. Catch a professional assassin: top priority. Find a failure-to-appear and collect big bucks: top score. How she’ll pull it all off: top secret. Trenton, New Jersey’s favorite used-car dealer, Jimmy Poletti, was caught selling a lot more than used cars out of his dealerships. Now he’s out on bail and has missed his date in court, and bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is looking to bring him in. Leads are quickly turning into dead ends, and all too frequently into dead bodies. Even Joe Morelli, the city’s hottest cop, is struggling to find a clue to the suspected killer’s whereabouts. These are desperate times, and they call for desperate measures. So Stephanie is going to have to do something she really doesn’t want to do: protect former hospital security guard and general pain in her behind Randy Briggs. Briggs was picking up quick cash as Poletti’s bookkeeper and knows all his boss’s dirty secrets. Now Briggs is next on Poletti’s list of people to put six feet under. To top things off, Ranger—resident security expert and Stephanie’s greatest temptation—has been the target of an assassination plot. He’s dodged the bullet this time, but if Ranger wants to survive the next attempt on his life, he’ll have to enlist Stephanie’s help and reveal a bit more of his mysterious past. Death threats, highly trained assassins, highly untrained assassins, and Stark Street being overrun by a pack of feral Chihuahuas are all in a day’s work for Stephanie Plum. The real challenge is dealing with her Grandma Mazur’s wild bucket list. A boob job and getting revenge on Joe Morelli’s Grandma Bella can barely hold a candle to what’s number one on the list—but that’s top secret. Praise for Top Secret Twenty-One “The combination of biting dialogue, outrageous characters and intense story lines are consistent throughout. And [Janet Evanovich] novels are the true definition of a guilty pleasure.”—Associated Press “Evanovich doesn’t disappoint. . . . [She] weaves setting, family, romance and crime to pull the plot of Top Secret Twenty-One forward.”—Bookreporter

Download or read book Alarms and Diversions written by James Thurber and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Alarms and Diversions" by James Thurber. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Download or read book Starworld written by Audrey Coulthurst and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a novel in two voices, a popular teen and an artistic loner forge an unlikely bond — and create an entire universe — via texts. But how long before the real world invades Starworld? Sam Jones and Zoe Miller have one thing in common: they both want an escape from reality. Loner Sam flies under the radar at school and walks on eggshells at home to manage her mom’s obsessive-compulsive disorder, wondering how she can ever leave to pursue her dream of studying aerospace engineering. Popular, people-pleasing Zoe puts up walls so no one can see her true self: the girl who was abandoned as an infant, whose adoptive mother has cancer, and whose disabled brother is being sent away to live in a facility. When an unexpected encounter results in the girls’ exchanging phone numbers, they forge a connection through text messages that expands into a private universe they call Starworld. In Starworld, they find hilarious adventures, kindness and understanding, and the magic of being seen for who they really are. But when Sam’s feelings for Zoe turn into something more, will the universe they’ve built survive the inevitable explosion?

Download or read book Awchewa written by Nita Bauer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a rainstorm spoils the first LaHoya family picnic of the summer, an angry swan suddenly flies out of the reeds and attacks fifteen-year-old Katie. As she falls in seemingly slow motion, Katie hears a voice that no one else can hear, chanting in a foreign language. Ya awchewa! Continuing to be troubled by nightmares, a swarm of neon stars on steroids, and episodic visions that start to come true, Katie is reluctantly swept off to the sticks of central Texas to stay with her quirky Grandma Rubythe only one who knows whats going on. As a chain of events leads Katie to unravel the secret her family has been protecting for centuries, Katie must confront the past and the future in ways she never imagined. When she is left with an agonizing choice between the safety of normalcy and accepting her destiny, Katie soon discovers that she will have to let go of who she believes she is in order to find her true self. In this coming of age tale, a self-conscious teen spending the summer with her grandmother becomes intertwined with a centuries-old secret and a deranged swan intent on bringing the awakening.

Download or read book A Year of Spiritual Companionship written by Anne Kertz Kernion and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nourish your spirituality with helpful reminders to look for—and create—moments of grace every day. For seekers of all backgrounds, these weekly reflections offer inspiring quotations from all faith traditions; current research on happiness, mindfulness and gratitude; and practical suggestions for incorporating spiritual practices into daily life.

Download or read book Could I Have This Dance written by Harry Kraus and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2002 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claire McCall has overcome adversity to become one of the top surgical residents at the local hospital, but the "Stoney Creek Curse" threatens to destroy her career, and Claire must find the truth behind the curse, despite the objections of her friends and family.

Download or read book Magic Flirts 5 Romantic Short Stories written by Lisa Scott and published by Lisa Scott. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love is a magical thing, especially when witches, ghosts, and Cupid are involved. Magic Flirts! features five short, fun romances laced with enchanted elements. The stories stand alone but are connected when read together. Each story is between 9,000 and 13,000 words—perfect for lunch breaks or kids’ sports practices. But don’t be surprised if you read them in one sitting! The collection is 50,000 words total. If you get hooked on these fun reads—good news! There are nine other Flirts! volumes and more to come. As Flirts! fans say: “Simply wonderful.” “… a fun mix of sexy and romantic.” “Lisa Scott somehow packs a big story into less pages.” “I couldn't put it down for anything in the world.” “I hate short stories but I loved these.” “I found a new addiction. FLIRTS!!!!” Stories in this volume include: “Hex Addict” Short story #1: 9000 words Vicky is a witch who enjoys that special feeling she gets when casting love spells on humans. Handsome Drake is an enforcer in the witching world who opposes her work. When he accuses her of being a hex addict, her love spell backfires and hits the two of them. Now that these enemies are smitten, Vicky wonders whether she wants the spell reversed. “The Ghost’s Guide to Dating” Short story #2: 9000 words Julie can see ghosts, including her grandmother, who insists she play matchmaker for her friends in the afterworld. When these golden ghouls aren’t haunting strip clubs, they’re busy meddling in their families’ love lives. But when one ghost asks Julie to set up her granddaughter with a handsome guy at a wedding, Julie decides she wants him for herself. Now Julie must either face the wrath of an angry spirit, or give up a guy she’s fallen for. “Cupid School Dropout” Short story #3: 10,000 words In order to obtain immortality, Val is training to become one of Cupid’s agents, and his final exam is a doozy. He has to help jaded Jacey find love, even though she’s convinced she doesn’t want it. But when he falls for her, there’s a big price for Val to pay if he wants to be with her forever. “Charmed” Short story #4: 9,000 words Alana makes a wish on a love charm that she buys at an antique store: she wants to find a redheaded Scotsman like the character in a favorite book. The next day, her wish seems to have come true when she meets Doug—he’s tall, has red hair, and a killer Scottish accent. Unfortunately, Doug has a secret that threatens to ruin everything. Is there any way to save their charmed romance? “Dream Guy” Short story #5: 13,000 words Occasionally, Kim has “shiny” dreams that come true. And she’s been having one about her future groom—a guy she’s never met—for years. But when she bumps into him one day, he runs away from her. In fact, he runs every time he sees her. Which is often, since she keeps bumping into him in the strangest places. What’s this guy got against Kim anyway, and how is she going to marry a man who won’t even speak to her? Look for Lisa's other collections: Flirts!, Beach Flirts!, Holiday Flirts!, Fairy Tale Flirts!, Wedding Flirts!, More Flirts!, Reunion Flirts! Fairy Tale Flirts 2!, and Office Flirts! Look for another Flirts! collection in early 2015 and check out Lisa's Willowdale Romance novel series.

Download or read book Twelve Sharp written by Janet Evanovich and published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-06-19 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Trenton, New Jersey, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is trying to track down a female stalker.

Download or read book Moments in Time Featuring Grandmas written by Amy Garren and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a memoir to all Grandmothers everywhere. Moments in Time is a series of books dedicated to the phenomenon of life being moments, captured in our memory for all time. The first in this series is this book about Grandmothers that is compiled of stories gathered from all over about precious moments with a Grandma. This is a coffee-table type book with the intention of bringing a smile to every face on any kind of day. Whether you know of a first-time Grandma, a seasoned Grandmother or somebody who has had a loved one fly home this is a book that can brighten those moments of memory for all time.

Download or read book Dangerously Innocent written by Carla Schardein and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cheryl is a high school student brimming with rage and drowning in fear. She is a victim of a vicious attack by a highly respected business acquaintance of her father. The death threats become all too real and Cheryl is coerced and cornered into planning murder. The perfect murder plan materializes and she is ready.