Neil Armstrong Is My Uncle And Other Lies Muscle Man Mcginty Told Me

Author : Nan Marino
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781466803114

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Neil Armstrong Is My Uncle and Other Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me by Nan Marino Pdf

A tender story about a tough-as-nails girl forced to take one small step towards understanding during the summer of 1969. "Muscle Man McGinty is a squirrelly runt, a lying snake, and a pitiful excuse for a ten-year old......the problem is that no one knows it but me. In the entire town of Massapequa Park, only I can see him for what he really is. A phony." Tamara Ann Simpson is determined to expose Muscle Man McGinty, a foster boy new to her neighborhood, for the liar that she knows he is. Muscle Man tells the other kids his uncle is Neil Armstrong and he even has the audacity to challenge the entire block to a kickball game. So, why is Tamara the only one who can see through this kid? It's the summer of 1969 and things are changing in Tamara's little town of Massapequa, Long Island, and in the world. Perhaps Tamara can take one small step towards a bit of compassion and understanding.

Author : Nan Marino
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Foster children
ISBN : 0545239974

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Neil Armstrong is My Uncle by Nan Marino Pdf

Tamara dreams of the day when ten-year-old Muscle Man McGinty's constant lies catch up to him, but when an incredible event takes place in the summer of 1969, her outlook on life is altered in the most surprising way.

Author : Jack Gantos
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-24
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781466824751

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The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs by Jack Gantos Pdf

On an unseasonably warm Easter Sunday, a young girl named Ivy discovers a chilling secret in the basement of the Rumbaugh pharmacy across the street from the hotel where she lives with her mother. The discovery reveals a disturbing side to the eccentric lives of family friends Abner and Adolph Rumbaugh, known throughout their small western Pennsylvania town simply as the Twins. It seems that Ab and Dolph have been compelled by a powerful mutual love for their deceased mother to do something extraordinary, something that in its own twisted way bridges the gap between the living and the dead. Immediately, Ivy's discovery provokes the revelation of a Rumbaugh family curse, a curse that, as Ivy will learn over the coming years, holds a strange power over herself and her own mother. In his third book for young adults, Jack Gantos has scripted a completely original drama. With gothic flavor and black humor, he depicts a group of people bound together by love, compulsion . . . and a passion for taxidermy.

Author : Nan Marino
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781596437531

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Hiding Out at the Pancake Palace by Nan Marino Pdf

When 11-year-old musical prodigy Elvis Ruby completely freezes up on television, he is forced to hide out in the Pinelands of New Jersey and try to find his way back to the music once again with the help of a new friend.

Author : Mary Downing Hahn
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-07-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780547533766

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Witch Catcher by Mary Downing Hahn Pdf

When her widower father inherits a castlelike estate in the mountains of West Virginia, 12-year-old Jen is thrilled. It seems like a wish come true. But she quickly realizes that not all change is positive. Her dad has a mysterious new girlfriend, Moura, who slowly drives a wedge between Jen and her father. Furthermore, Moura has an unusually strong—almost obsessive—interest in the antiques that fill the mansion, especially a beautiful glass globe that Jen finds hanging in a window. When Jen’s cat accidentally breaks the globe, which Moura calls a “witch catcher,” strange things begin to happen. . . . An odd-looking girl wearing a torn dress appears, seemingly out of nowhere, and Moura’s behavior becomes more sinister, leading Jen to believe that her father is a pawn in an evil scheme. Soon Jen finds herself caught in the midst of a supernatural war, with the fate of an enchanted race—and her family—at stake. Inspired by the age-old legend of witch catchers, Mary Downing Hahn brings a magical cast of characters to life in this compelling fantasy adventure. Author’s note.

Author : Sara Zarr
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780316029179

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Story of a Girl (National Book Award Finalist) by Sara Zarr Pdf

Now a movie on Lifetime! I was thirteen when my dad caught me with Tommy Webber in the back of Tommy's Buick, parked next to the old Chart House down in Montara at eleven o'clock on a Tuesday night. Tommy was seventeen and the supposed friend of my brother, Darren. I didn't love him. I'm not sure I even liked him. In a moment, Deanna Lambert's teenage life is changed forever. Struggling to overcome the lasting repercussions and the stifling role of "school slut," Deanna longs to escape a life defined by her past. With subtle grace, complicated wisdom, and striking emotion, Story of a Girl reminds us of our human capacity for resilience, epiphany, and redemption.

Author : Paul Haven
Publisher : Yearling Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780375833519

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The Seven Keys of Balabad by Paul Haven Pdf

Homesick for New York City, twelve-year-old Oliver feels very much out of his element in war-torn Balabad, until he gets caught up in a centuries-old mystery involving stolen artifacts and buried treasure.

Author : Pete Hautman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781439115268

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Rash by Pete Hautman Pdf

Consumption of alcohol: Illegal. Football and other "violent" sports: Illegal. Ownership of guns, chain saws, and/or large dogs: Illegal. Body piercings, tattoos: Illegal. It's late in the twenty-first century, and the United Safer States of America (USSA) has become a nation obsessed with safety. For Bo Marsten, a teenager who grew up in the USSA, it's all good. He knows the harsh laws were created to protect the people. But when Bo's temper flares out of control and he's sentenced to three years of manual labor, he's not so down with the law anymore. Bo's forced to live and work in a factory in the Canadian tundra. The warden running the place is totally out of his mind, and cares little for his inmates' safety. Bo will have to decide what's worse: a society that locks people up for road rage, or a prison where the wrong move could make you polar bear food.

Author : Ted Chiang
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781931520898

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Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang Pdf

From the author of Exhalation, an award-winning short story collection that blends "absorbing storytelling with meditations on the universe, being, time and space ... raises questions about the nature of reality and what it is to be human" (The New York Times). Stories of Your Life and Others delivers dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, often presenting characters who must confront sudden change—the inevitable rise of automatons or the appearance of aliens—with some sense of normalcy. With sharp intelligence and humor, Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty, but also by beauty and wonder. An award-winning collection from one of today's most lauded writers, Stories of Your Life and Others is a contemporary classic. Includes “Story of Your Life”—the basis for the major motion picture Arrival

Author : Cynthea Liu
Publisher : Pivotal Publishing
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781605301143

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Writing for Children and Teens by Cynthea Liu Pdf

Nowhere will you find a more comprehensive, current, and detailed writing skills course designed specifically for writing children and teen books, written by a children's and young adult author who is in the field today. WRITING FOR CHILDREN AND TEENS: A CRASH COURSE is a ten-step course that relays all the nitty-gritty details of the business, beginning with how to evaluate your book idea all the way to pitching your book to editors and agents. Within each step, you'll find clear and specific information covering topics such as the children's book market, manuscript format, commonly made mistakes and editing tips to beef up your writing skills, finding the right literary agent or children's book publisher, and professional submission etiquette. This book will even tell you what kind of paper you should use and exactly how you should write your email or letter pitches to editors and agents. Bonus materials include templates for all of your submission needs as well as examples of real-life editorial letters sent to authors from editors today. You will get a complete inside peak to the children's and YA fiction writing market for those who want to write picture books, easy readers, chapter books, and middle grade or young adult/teen novels.

Author : T.G. David,C.S. Weinstein
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781468452273

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Spaces for Children by T.G. David,C.S. Weinstein Pdf

As a developmental psychologist with a strong interest in children's re sponse to the physical environment, I take particular pleasure in writing a foreword to the present volume. It provides impressive evidence of the con cern that workers in environmental psychology and environmental design are displaying for the child as a user of the designed environment and indi cates a recognition of the need to apply theory and findings from develop mental and environmental psychology to the design of environments for children. This seems to me to mark a shift in focus and concern from the earlier days of the interaction between environmental designers and psy chologists that occurred some two decades ago and provided the impetus for the establishment of environmental psychology as a subdiscipline. Whether because children-though they are consumers of designed environments are not the architect's clients or because it seemed easier to work with adults who could be asked to make ratings of environmental spaces and comment on them at length, a focus on the child in interaction with en vironments was comparatively slow in developing in the field of environ ment and behavior. As the chapters of the present volume indicate, that situation is no longer true today, and this is a change that all concerned with the well-being and optimal functioning of children will welcome.

Author : David Almond
Publisher : Hachette Children's
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781444920949

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Clay by David Almond Pdf

With fascination, Davie and his friend Geordie watch the arrival of a new boy, Stephen Rose, in their town. He seems to have come from nowhere, and when he arrives to live with his distant aunt, the local Crazy Mary, no one envies his new home. But perhaps he's the answer to Davie and Geordie's prayers - a secret weapon in their war against monstrous Mouldy and his gang. Intrigued, Davie and Geordie befriend Stephen. But they are heading innocently down a path that brings with it a monster of an entirely unexpected nature. Their encounter with the mysterious Stephen is as incredible as it is menacing, and as the true story of Stephen's past slowly emerges, Davie's life is changed for ever... A stunning novel from the author of the modern children's classic Skellig - winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book Award. David Almond is also winner of the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen award.

Author : Edmond Stephen Meany
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015027074981

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Origin of Washington Geographic Names by Edmond Stephen Meany Pdf

Author : Kelly DiPucchio
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781466894501

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Everyone Loves Bacon by Kelly DiPucchio Pdf

Egg loves Bacon. Lettuce loves Bacon. Waffle loves Bacon. Bacon is sizzling with popularity. And pretty much everyone thinks he is the best. That is-until Bacon's fame goes to his head. He's so busy soaking up the attention, that he soon forgets the important things in life, like friendship and family. How will it all pan out for our dashing, delicious hero?

Author : Barbara Park
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780307797049

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The Kid in the Red Jacket by Barbara Park Pdf

If you thought Junie B. Jones was FUNNY—catch more laughs from New York Times bestselling author Barbara Park with her hilarious middle-grade novels—just right for fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and I Funny! Can Howard SURVIVE life without friends? Howard Jeeter’s parents have ruined his life. They’ve moved him across the country, and all the kids in his new town act like he’s totally invisible. At least, all of them except for his six-year-old neighbor, Molly Vera Thompson. Howard could use a friend. But a little girl who talks nonstop? Not what he had in mind. Still, when you’re really lonely, you’ll be friends with anyone…right? An IRA-CBC Children’s Choice A Library of Congress Children’s Book of the Year A Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner * “Park writes in a witty and bittersweet style about the awkward, supersensitive age of early adolescence. Another first-rate addition to the middle-grade popular reading shelf.” —School Library Journal, Starred “[A] witty middle-grade novel.” —Publishers Weekly