Dunces Anonymous

Author : Kate Jaimet
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781554694600

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Dunces Anonymous by Kate Jaimet Pdf

Josh Johnson's mother wants him to run for class president. Josh just wants to run and hide. If only there were a club to help downtrodden eleven-year-olds escape their parents' ambitions! But since no such club exists, Josh has to invent one—he calls it Dunces Anonymous, and before he knows it, the membership is up to three. Magnolia and Wang help Josh lose the school presidential election, but that's just the beginning of the club's activities. Magnolia, pressured by her mom into trying out for the role of Juliet in the school's play, finds herself fending off the advances of an overly amorous Romeo. Wang's father has forced him to join the school chess club, but Wang desperately wants to take fencing lessons instead. As the three friends try to free Magnolia from the school play, liberate Wang from the chess club and get rid of horrible Stacey Hogarth, who has vowed to become the new president of Dunces Anonymous, they realize that they all have talents—if only their parents could see them.

Author : Kate Jaimet
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781459805866

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Dunces Rock by Kate Jaimet Pdf

Four friends work together to revive their school’s drama and music program.

Author : George Rousseau
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781611461213

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The Notorious Sir John Hill by George Rousseau Pdf

The first biography of one of Georgian England’s most notorious figures, who thrived on scandal, fracas, and the cultivation of notoriety. Despite this he managed to make contributions to diverse fields, including botany, geology, literature, medicine and the professionalization of science, whose value has stood the test of time. Hill appears here in the company of other illuminati such as Samuel Johnson, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith, Christopher Smart, Linnaeus, Haller and the Fellows of the Royal Society.

Author : Kate Jaimet
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781459805873

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Dunces Rock by Kate Jaimet Pdf

The Dunces—Josh, Magnolia, Wang and Wilmot—are back, and this time they’re going up against a formidable foe: Principal Hale, who has canceled their school’s drama and music program just when Wilmot needs it most. He has a guitar (given to him by a teen named Headcase), but no teacher and nowhere to practice (his dad hates rock ’n’ roll). The Dunces’ plan to convince Principal Hale to reinstate the program involves Josh’s reluctant participation in a hockey team, Magnolia’s enthusiastic role-playing and Wang’s disillusionment with a suspicious character named Hui Bing (aka Larry). But can the Dunces really rock, even when they rebrand themselves as Cousin Willy and the Wang Dang Doodles?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Children's libraries
ISBN : PSU:000061877634

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School Library Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Terry Reed
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781628940350

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Book of Fools An Intelligent Person's Guide to Fops, Jackasses, Morons, Dolts, Dunces, Halfwits and Blockheads by Terry Reed Pdf

This book presents a provocatively, outrageously assertive exposure of fools in their not infrequently bizarre manifestations, the object being to leave no halfwits behind. It explores the world of the fool from many perspectives, including Engines of Limited Cognition: Dumb Bells, Dumb Clucks and Dumb Waiters; Imprudence and Its Imbecilic Implications; Fools, Eccentrics & Sons of Momus; and Idiotic Opportunities: Putting Fools to Work. This is not to infer (or even hint) that either the author or his readership is in any demonstrable sense of the word foolish, now or at any other time. After all, no fool would write a book like this, and no fool would read it. Precisely who does read it is a discretely personal decision we leave to those gifted with more than ordinarily inquiring minds. Indeed, those who elect to come along for the ride are likely to find their minds piqued, tickled and enriched by this tour de farce. True to form, Reed illustrates Ambrose Bierce's definition of educational -- 'that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the fools their lack of understanding.' Abundantly documented, endlessly subtle, hopelessly eccentric and deadly funny, the book blends history, sociology, literature, philosophy, etymology and even theology, all with a good laugh.

Author : Alexander Pope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V001476184

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The Works of Alexander Pope. Including ... Unpublished Letters and Other New Materials. Collected in Part by the Late Rt. Hon. J.W. Croker. With Introduction and Notes by ... Whitwell Elwin [and W.J. Courthope. The Life of Pope. By W.J. Courthope.] ... With Portraits and Other Illustrations by Alexander Pope Pdf

Author : Alexander Pope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015067016926

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The Works of ... by Alexander Pope Pdf

Author : Alexander Pope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Poets, English
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000230663

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The Works of Alexander Pope by Alexander Pope Pdf

Author : Alexander Pope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11664942

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The Works by Alexander Pope Pdf

Author : Alexander Pope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Poets, English
ISBN : HARVARD:32044020035796

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The Works of Alexander Pope: The life [by W.J. Courthope] and index by Alexander Pope Pdf

Author : Mark W. Brewin
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0820486418

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Celebrating Democracy by Mark W. Brewin Pdf

How has the mass media changed our experience of Election Day? This chronological account of Election Day in Philadelphia begins in the colonial era and traces the evolution of the democratic process through to the present day. Using a variety of sources, the book documents how Philadelphians have dramatically changed the ways in which they perform and discuss Election Day, and examines the significance of these changes, using them as a lens through which to understand differing conceptions of democratic life. Particular attention is paid to the day's status as a mass-mediated ritual, and the various forms of media - among them broadsides, newspapers, television, and the Internet - that have dominated public portrayals of the occasion.Well-researched and written, Celebrating Democracy is as much about the history of Election Day as it is about the history of American journalism and mass media.

Author : Pat Rogers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317315544

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A Political Biography of Alexander Pope by Pat Rogers Pdf

This is the first study to assess the entire career of Alexander Pope (1688–1744) in relation to the political issues of his time.

Author : John Kennedy Toole
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802197627

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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole Pdf

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—The New York Times Book Review A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures" (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times).

Author : Maynard Mack
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Poets, English
ISBN : 0874131820

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Collected in Himself by Maynard Mack Pdf

A collection of various essays about Pope and the eighteenth century written by Professor Mack during the past four decades. An appendix includes a finding list of books surviving from Pope's library and a selection of letters by, to, and about Pope, most of them unpublished.