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Collects horror stories centered around Halloween tales, including a sheriff battling a walking ghost, a war hero facing his past with a magic prosthetic hand, and a deadly doppelganger terrorizing a small town.
From a computer game in which the aliens want Johnny to negotiate a peace treaty for them, to the inhabitants of a cemetery who are just discovering how much fun being alive can be, to the time of the Blitz, join Johnny Maxwell and his friends in these three terrific tales from the master of comic fantasy. ONLY YOU CAN SAVE MANKIND - Shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Award JHNNY AND THE DEAD - Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal;A Writers' Guild Award Winner; Also televised by LWT for ITV JOHNNY AND THE BOMB - Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal; Shortlisted for the Children's Book Award; Smarties Prize Silver Medal Winner
Red Rover! Red Rover! Send the Dead Over! by Drac Von Stoller Pdf
Before this story begins some of us may have heard of the Red Rover game that has been played long ago at many school yards. With many games, there is a time when someone says “Hey why don’t we play it this way?” When the game is played in a different way it becomes more exciting and you’ll want to play it again. Let’s move on ahead with the rules of the Red Rover game in this story and a brief history behind it. The game Red Rover began around the 19th century in schoolyards that consisted of two teams that would line up opposite of each other, no more than thirty feet apart. The first team agrees to call one player from the opposite team, and chants “Red Rover, Red Rover, send (player name) on over!” The person called runs to the other line and attempts to break the chain (formed by the linking of hands).” Since you have an insight as to how the game is played this is where the story begins. Ravendale High School was having a Halloween contest on Friday the 13th in 1963 and Johnny Deadman had a hearse that he liked to give his friends a ride in especially on Halloween night. Johnny was also a prankster and would drive his hearse around town on Halloween night when the trick-or-treaters were going door to door asking for candy. Johnny would pull his hearse alongside the trick-or-treaters and tell them he would give them a ride in his hearse if they would give him some candy but Johnny wanted it all. So, the unsuspecting trick-or-treater would get inside the hearse not knowing that Johnny was going to steal all of their candy and drive off leaving them crying in the cold windy night. Johnny’s prankster days were about to end soon when he picked up his four friends to give them a ride to Ravendale High’s Halloween costume contest. As the four friends got into Johnny’s hearse all in costume they were unaware of the danger that lies ahead. As the hearse was on its way to the high school Johnny decided to take a shortcut across an old wooden bridge, but as the hearse approached the bridge, the wind was so strong it blew off the sign that read “Bridge is unsafe for vehicles to cross.”
The Night Crystal McGoober Had Seven Heads by James Silberstein Pdf
How will eleven-year-old Crystal McGoober deal with the terrible effects of the evil eye cast by her troublesome neighbor Brian Trabble? With the help of her eccentric friends and a substitute teacher who has a love for storytelling, will Crystal be able to design a Halloween costume terrifying enough to scare away her darkest fears? Find out in this imaginative tale that walks the tightrope between what is real and what is magical.
Talking to Learn by Pauline Jones,Jennifer Hammond Pdf
This book examines the place of talk in learning and the role of such talk in literacy education. It builds on a strong tradition of research into the role of talk in constructing curriculum knowledge, the relationship between talking and thinking, and the significance of extended, in-depth dialogic interaction in classroom talk. However, it differs from tradition with its emphasis on the need to make the role of language in learning more visible and more explicit. This book places particular emphasis on the relationship between dialogic pedagogy and language-based approaches to learning. Contributions range from discussions on educational linguistics and dialogic pedagogy as complementary perspectives to needs of students for whom English is an additional language or dialect. This volume was originally published as a special issue of Research Papers in Education.
Union Ghosts of Mountsville Hollow by Michelle Portch,Larry Portch Pdf
The Union Ghosts of Mountsville Hollow is a delightful story about young metal detectors who find themselves in the middle of The Battle of Mountsville during the Civil War. - Or are they among ghosts? Their perspective fathers had been planning to metal detect the area of Mountsville,VA. However, these young kids beat them to it. The four adventurerers are more than excited to meet their new confederate friends, as they try to make their way back to their parents and safety. If you dont know much about the Civil War, this is a comedic, adventurous way to learn about this period of antiquity.
FREDERICK RYCROFT retired from the State University of New York at Canton, where he was employed for thirty-five years, last holding the position of Director of Facilities. He and his wife still reside in Canton, New York where they have both spent there entire lives. He enjoys the company of his three children and ten grandchildren. This is his first work of fiction, inspired by the need to share the uniqueness of life in a small rural town in the northern part of New York State. Book two of the of Young World will go to print October 2, 2012
Boo is the highly anticipated debut novel from one of the most incomparable voices in Canadian literature: Bang Crunch author Neil Smith. Oliver Dalrymple, nicknamed "Boo" because of his pale complexion and staticky hair, is an outcast at his Illinois middle school--more interested in biology and chemistry than the friendship of other kids. But after a tragic accident, Boo wakes up to find himself in a very strange sort of heaven: a town populated only by 13-year-old Americans. While he desperately wants to apply the scientific method to find out how this heaven works (broken glass grows back; flashlights glow without batteries; garbage chutes plummet to nowhere), he's confronted by the greatest mystery of all--his peers. With the help of his classmate Johnny, who was killed at the same time, Boo begins to figure out what exactly happened to them (and who they really were back in America) through this story about growing up, staying young and the never-ending heartbreak of being 13.
Expect No help: the life and times of Jumpin` Jack Flash by Cesspool Jones Pdf
Expect No Help' is a non-fiction novel that depicts America from the 1960's up to now through the eyes of someone who was there...and still is...sometimes. It shows most anyone who reads this how to grow up (author's point of view), even coming up in the 60's and 70's. Much change happened from then till now...with the word change now reduced to a 4-letter word...along with the word power. This novel is all about the future of this country at the grass-roots level. That means 'old school America' ain't goin` anywhere soon...if at all! However, this novel looks at 'new school America' with only slight skeptisism, only for the fact...change makes the world go `round. Without change, the world turns stagnant. However, once again,"What do you want to change into?" This novel does a pretty good job in trying to decipher that question, leaving no stone unturned...with an open-minded and also a one-sided opinion. That is not easy to do. There is absolutely no 'political correctless' what-so-ever in this novel and could be considered toxic to people with narrow-minded beliefs. This novel don't care...but with tact. It is written somewhat off of the streets in a language that anyone...from a stoner to a P.H.D can understand. The very first part of the book vaguely states what the novel is all about and if that's gunna be a rough ride for you...wear a helmut while reading it or find something else to do.
This book is not a memoir but a compilation of actual journals that the author kept as her children were born and growing from infants to young adults. It captures the funny sayings of young children we all wish we had written down at the time. It also captures the very real problems of parenting, sibling rivalries, and settling into new neighborhoods. The author writes with her heart and records the ordinary moments so they wont be forgotten. She also writes with a very young voice, and we see her mature along with her children over the fifteen years that this book encompasses.
Growing Up on the Cul de Sac by Essdale Wilson Pdf
Growing up on the cul de sac will insert you into the stories of people in the suburb as you uncover their lives while they grow, recalling your own existence. Some of the reading will invoke nostalgia, some will evoke laughter as you recall your youth and some will touch you in ways that are heart warming. Essdale takes you onto the path of a boy and girl who must cope with the problems of youth, adjust to a world that no one can describe accurately and struggle to overcome the obstacles that we all meet on the road of life. It is also about parenting, coping with conflict and problem solving.
Author : Mark C. Taylor Publisher : Columbia University Press Page : 339 pages File Size : 43,7 Mb Release : 2013-01-29 Category : Literary Criticism ISBN : 9780231531641
Digital and electronic technologies that act as extensions of our bodies and minds are changing how we live, think, act, and write. Some welcome these developments as bringing humans closer to unified consciousness and eternal life. Others worry that invasive globalized technologies threaten to destroy the self and the world. Whether feared or desired, these innovations provoke emotions that have long fueled the religious imagination, suggesting the presence of a latent spirituality in an era mistakenly deemed secular and posthuman. William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo are American authors who explore this phenomenon thoroughly in their work. Engaging the works of each in conversation, Mark C. Taylor discusses their sophisticated representations of new media, communications, information, and virtual technologies and their transformative effects on the self and society. He focuses on Gaddis's The Recognitions, Powers's Plowing the Dark, Danielewski's House of Leaves, and DeLillo's Underworld, following the interplay of technology and religion in their narratives and their imagining of the transition from human to posthuman states. Their challenging ideas and inventive styles reveal the fascinating ways religious interests affect emerging technologies and how, in turn, these technologies guide spiritual aspirations. To read these novels from this perspective is to see them and the world anew.