Cassidy S Guide To Everyday Etiquette And Obfuscation

Author : Sue Stauffacher
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780375898990

Get Book

Cassidy's Guide to Everyday Etiquette (and Obfuscation) by Sue Stauffacher Pdf

Eleven-year-old Cassidy has just inherited a gift from her late great-grandmother. Unfortunately, that “gift” turns out to be a summer trapped in etiquette school. What good are manners, anyway, for a girl who dreams of living life on the road as a hobo—er, “knight of the road”? As if trying to remember to keep her elbows off the table isn’t bad enough, Cassidy’s best friend, Jack, suddenly seems more interested in doing chores for the new teenage girl who’s moved in next door than in fishing with Cassidy down by the river. Not even her classic epic pranks seem to be saving Cassidy from having her worst summer ever. It’s time to face facts: growing up stinks. Veteran middle-grade author Sue Stauffacher returns with a cranky, pranky, laugh-out-loud tomboy heroine who might just learn the hard way that manners do matter, and that people can change.

Author : Sue Stauffacher
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780823441921

Get Book

The Space Between Before and After by Sue Stauffacher Pdf

When Thomas' mother disappears, he tells himself she must be safe. Somewhere. And sometimes, the stories we tell take on a life of their own . . . One morning, ten-year-old Thomas's mother tells him about a dream she had about taking a trip by herself. That seems strange, because lately, his mother has been too depressed to even leave the house. Maybe it's a good sign. But when Thomas gets home from school, she's gone. The police search everywhere, and although they find her car, they can't find her. Without any clear answers, Thomas will have to find his own. With the help of his friends-- and a shared story they create to explain what has happened, a fantasy involving a perilous quest only his mother can complete-- Thomas finds a way to work through his anxiety and grief, reach out to his father, and recognize that even if his mother never comes back, he can still hold a place for her in his heart and mind. This heartbreaking, beautiful novel about loss and grief explores the ways in which young people must face unimaginable tragedies-- and how imagination and compassion can bring some light to the days after.

Author : Sue Stauffacher
Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : African Americans
ISBN : PSU:000061151659

Get Book

Bessie Smith and the Night Riders by Sue Stauffacher Pdf

Black blues singer Bessie Smith single-handedly scares off Ku Klux Klan members who are trying to disrupt her show one hot July night in Concord, North Carolina. Includes historical note.

Author : Sue Stauffacher
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1506180132

Get Book

Wireman by Sue Stauffacher Pdf

When Andre moves to the city with his mom, he meets all these mysterious people in the first week. They have something in common ... but what? Bullies pick on him for no reason. Pigeons deliver messages. What is going on?? And what does it have to do with Andre, his mom, and his brother James, whose death is still a mystery?

Author : Stephen McCranie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : 1451796390

Get Book

Belly Flop! by Stephen McCranie Pdf

After destroying the cake and presents at a birthday party, Mal hopes to impress Megan, his secret crush, with his performance at the school talent show.

Author : David Fremont
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781645950561

Get Book

Carlton Crumple Creature Catcher 1: Catch the Munchies! by David Fremont Pdf

Fast food, monsters, and super funny, madcap adventure combine in this graphic novel series starter as Carlton Crumple sets out to stop the Munchie monsters from taking over every Chubbzy Cheeseburger in America! Fans of series like Lunch Lady and Dog Man will gobble this down. Carlton Crumple has been obsessed with monsters ever since his older brother dressed up like them to scare him. He is determined to rid the world of monsters! Even though he's only eleven. . . . When a band of fast food crazed Munchies storm into a burger joint where Carlton is working, he finally has his chance! A cross-country chase ensues. Cops! Munchies! Carlton and his best friend Lulu! Cheeseburgers! Awesome! With it's bright art and over-the-top escapades, Catch the Munchies! is a hilarious and delicious treat, launching a new series that's sure to be devoured by middle grade graphic novel readers, especially fans of Lunch Lady and Dog Man.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics,Policy and Global Affairs,Committee on Science, Technology, and Law,Committee on Identifying the Needs of the Forensic Sciences Community
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780309142397

Get Book

Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics,Policy and Global Affairs,Committee on Science, Technology, and Law,Committee on Identifying the Needs of the Forensic Sciences Community Pdf

Scores of talented and dedicated people serve the forensic science community, performing vitally important work. However, they are often constrained by lack of adequate resources, sound policies, and national support. It is clear that change and advancements, both systematic and scientific, are needed in a number of forensic science disciplines to ensure the reliability of work, establish enforceable standards, and promote best practices with consistent application. Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward provides a detailed plan for addressing these needs and suggests the creation of a new government entity, the National Institute of Forensic Science, to establish and enforce standards within the forensic science community. The benefits of improving and regulating the forensic science disciplines are clear: assisting law enforcement officials, enhancing homeland security, and reducing the risk of wrongful conviction and exoneration. Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States gives a full account of what is needed to advance the forensic science disciplines, including upgrading of systems and organizational structures, better training, widespread adoption of uniform and enforceable best practices, and mandatory certification and accreditation programs. While this book provides an essential call-to-action for congress and policy makers, it also serves as a vital tool for law enforcement agencies, criminal prosecutors and attorneys, and forensic science educators.

Author : Liane Moriarty
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781524790066

Get Book

Nicola Berry and the Shocking Trouble on the Planet of Shobble #2 by Liane Moriarty Pdf

The second in a three-book outer space adventure series for young readers from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies! Nicola Berry and her friends have barely caught their breath from their last trip to space when they are called on another intergalactic adventure! This time, they're on their way to Shobble, a beautiful snowy rainbow planet where nothing bad ever happens--or so they say. It turns out there is trouble brewing beneath this glittery exterior, and Nicola is put in a tough position. Should she risk defying the planet's dangerous commander-in-chief to help the people of Shobble? Leading the Space Brigade is no easy task!

Author : Sue Stauffacher
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Alligators
ISBN : 0375958479

Get Book

Gator on the Loose! by Sue Stauffacher Pdf

Chaos ensues when Keisha's father brings an escaped alligator home to Carter's Urban Rescue, but it gets out of the bathroom while Grandma is guarding it.

Author : Todd McGowan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231542210

Get Book

Capitalism and Desire by Todd McGowan Pdf

Despite creating vast inequalities and propping up reactionary world regimes, capitalism has many passionate defenders—but not because of what it withholds from some and gives to others. Capitalism dominates, Todd McGowan argues, because it mimics the structure of our desire while hiding the trauma that the system inflicts upon it. People from all backgrounds enjoy what capitalism provides, but at the same time are told more and better is yet to come. Capitalism traps us through an incomplete satisfaction that compels us after the new, the better, and the more. Capitalism's parasitic relationship to our desires gives it the illusion of corresponding to our natural impulses, which is how capitalism's defenders characterize it. By understanding this psychic strategy, McGowan hopes to divest us of our addiction to capitalist enrichment and help us rediscover enjoyment as we actually experienced it. By locating it in the present, McGowan frees us from our attachment to a better future and the belief that capitalism is an essential outgrowth of human nature. From this perspective, our economic, social, and political worlds open up to real political change. Eloquent and enlivened by examples from film, television, consumer culture, and everyday life, Capitalism and Desire brings a new, psychoanalytically grounded approach to political and social theory.

Author : Sue Stauffacher
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780307530639

Get Book

Harry Sue by Sue Stauffacher Pdf

Harry Sue Clotkin is tough. Her mom's in the slammer and she wants to get there too, as fast as possible, so they can be together. But it's not so easy to become a juvenile delinquent when you've got a tender heart. Harry Sue's got her hands full caring for the crumb-snatchers who take up her afternoons at the day care center, and spending time with her best friend Homer, a quadriplegic who sees life from a skylight in the roof of his tree house. When Harry Sue finds an unlikely confidante in her new art teacher, her ambitions toward a life of crime are sidelined as she comes to a deeper understanding about her past--and future. Sue Stauffacher has once again crafted a fast-paced middle-grade novel filled with quirky but lovable characters, a narrator impossible to ignore, a completely original plot, and a whole lot of redemption.

Author : Roger Hargreaves
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1997-09-29
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780843178128

Get Book

Little Miss Busy by Roger Hargreaves Pdf

Little Miss Busy does everything. Then--oh calamity!--she needs to rest.

Author : Thomas Pynchon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 1584 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101594667

Get Book

Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year Spanning the era between the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, and constantly moving between locations across the globe (and to a few places not strictly speaking on the map at all), Against the Day unfolds with a phantasmagoria of characters that includes anarchists, balloonists, gamblers, drug enthusiasts, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, spies, and hired guns. As an era of uncertainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it’s their lives that pursue them.

Author : Franklin W. Dixon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0261668579

Get Book

The Jungle Pyramid by Franklin W. Dixon Pdf

Author : Sue Stauffacher
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780307982483

Get Book

Tillie the Terrible Swede by Sue Stauffacher Pdf

When Tillie Anderson came to America, all she had was a needle. So she got herself a job in a tailor shop and waited for a dream to find her. One day, a man sped by on a bicycle. She was told "bicycles aren't for ladies," but from then on, Tillie dreamed of riding—not graceful figure eights, but speedy, scorching, racy riding! And she knew that couldn't be done in a fancy lady's dress. . . . With arduous training and her (shocking!) new clothes, Tillie became the women's bicycle-riding champion of the world. Sue Stauffacher's lively text and Sarah McMenemy's charming illustrations capture the energy of America's bicycle craze and tell the story of one woman who wouldn't let society's expectations stop her from achieving her dream.