No Talking

Author : Andrew Clements
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781416995197

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No Talking by Andrew Clements Pdf

In No Talking, Andrew Clements portrays a battle of wills between some spunky kids and a creative teacher with the perfect pitch for elementary school life that made Frindle an instant classic. It’s boys vs. girls when the noisiest, most talkative, and most competitive fifth graders in history challenge one another to see who can go longer without talking. Teachers and school administrators are in an uproar, until an innovative teacher sees how the kids’ experiment can provide a terrific and unique lesson in communication.

Author : Andrew Clements
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781416909842

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No Talking by Andrew Clements Pdf

The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a "no talking" contest.

Author : Andrew Clements
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781416909835

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No Talking by Andrew Clements Pdf

The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a "no talking" contest.

Author : Patricia Lockwood
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781526629777

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No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood Pdf

'Patricia Lockwood is the voice of a generation' Namita Gokhale'A masterpiece' Guardian'I really admire and love this book' Sally Rooney 'An intellectual and emotional rollercoaster' Daily Mail 'I can't remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book' David Sedaris'A rare wonder . . . I was left in bits' Douglas Stuart* WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2022 ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021 ** A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK *______________________________________________This is a story about a life lived in two halves. It's about what happens when real life collides with the increasing absurdity of a world accessed through a screen. It's about living in world that contains both an abundance of proof that there is goodness, empathy, and justice in the universe, and a deluge of evidence to the contrary.It's a meditation on love, language and human connection from one of the most original voices of our time.______________________________________________'An utterly distinctive mixture of depth, dazzling linguistic richness, anarchic wit and raw emotional candour' Rowan WilliamsA 2021 Book of the Year: Sunday Times, Guardian, Daily Mail, Telegraph, Evening Standard, The Times, New Statesman, Red, Observer, Independent, Daily Telegraph

Author : Reni Eddo-Lodge
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781526633927

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Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge Pdf

'Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We can't afford to stay silent. This book is an attempt to speak' The book that sparked a national conversation. Exploring everything from eradicated black history to the inextricable link between class and race, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race is the essential handbook for anyone who wants to understand race relations in Britain today. THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION NARRATIVE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 FOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR BLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE JHALAK PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR A BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD

Author : Andrew Clements
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442462199

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Lunch Money by Andrew Clements Pdf

Meet Greg Kenton, billionaire in the making. Greg Kenton has two obsessions -- making money and his long-standing competition with his annoying neighbor, Maura Shaw. So when Greg discovers that Maura is cutting into his booming Chunky Comics business with her own original illustrated minibooks, he's ready to declare war. The problem is, Greg has to admit that Maura's books are good, and soon the longtime enemies become unlikely business partners. But their budding partnership is threatened when the principal bans the sale of their comics in school. Suddenly, the two former rivals find themselves united against an adversary tougher than they ever were to each other. Will their enterprise -- and their friendship -- prevail?

Author : Andrew Clements
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780689828683

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The Landry News by Andrew Clements Pdf

A fifth-grader starts a newspaper with an editorial that prompts her burnt-out classroom teacher to really begin teaching again, but he is later threatened with disciplinary action as a result.

Author : Andrew Clements
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780689851865

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The School Story by Andrew Clements Pdf

After twelve-year-old Natalie writes a wonderful novel, her friend Zoe helps her devise a scheme to get it accepted at the publishing house where Natalie's mother works as an editor.

Author : Andrew Clements
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780689859748

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A Week in the Woods by Andrew Clements Pdf

Mark didn't ask to move to New Hampshire. Or to go to a hick school like Hardy Elementary. And he certainly didn't request Mr. Maxwell as his teacher. Mr. Maxwell doesn't like rich kids, or slackers, or know-it-alls. And he's decided that Mark is all of those things. Now the whole school is headed out for a week of camping -- Hardy's famous Week in the Woods. At first it sounds dumb, but then Mark begins to open up to life in the country, and he decides it might be okay to learn something new. It might even be fun. But things go all wrong for Mark. The Week in the Woods is not what anyone planned. Especially not Mr. Maxwell. With his uncanny knack to reach right to the heart of kids, Andrew Clements asks -- and answers -- questions about first impressions, fairness, loyalty, and courage -- and exactly what it takes to spend a Week in the Woods.

Author : Angela Lambert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448203543

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No Talking after Lights by Angela Lambert Pdf

Long light evenings, swimming and tennis, striped cotton frocks...it's summer term at Raeburn. New arrival Constance King hates her boarding school on sight, yet dreams of being accepted by the other girls. Instead, she finds a ferment of frustrated hopes mingled with excited expectations...

Author : Jenny Odell
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781612197500

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How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell Pdf

** A New York Times Bestseller ** NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Time • The New Yorker • NPR • GQ • Elle • Vulture • Fortune • Boing Boing • The Irish Times • The New York Public Library • The Brooklyn Public Library "A complex, smart and ambitious book that at first reads like a self-help manual, then blossoms into a wide-ranging political manifesto."—Jonah Engel Bromwich, The New York Times Book Review One of President Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of 2019" Porchlight's Personal Development & Human Behavior Book of the Year In a world where addictive technology is designed to buy and sell our attention, and our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity, it can seem impossible to escape. But in this inspiring field guide to dropping out of the attention economy, artist and critic Jenny Odell shows us how we can still win back our lives. Odell sees our attention as the most precious—and overdrawn—resource we have. And we must actively and continuously choose how we use it. We might not spend it on things that capitalism has deemed important … but once we can start paying a new kind of attention, she writes, we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine humankind’s role in the environment, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress. Far from the simple anti-technology screed, or the back-to-nature meditation we read so often, How to do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism. Provocative, timely, and utterly persuasive, this book will change how you see your place in our world.

Author : BMI Staff
Publisher : BMI Educational Services
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609335694

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No Talking by BMI Staff Pdf

Author : Andrew Clements
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781101200452

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Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements Pdf

Winner of American Library Association Schneider Family Book Award! Bobby Phillips is an average fifteen-year-old-boy. Until the morning he wakes up and can't see himself in the mirror. Not blind, not dreaming-Bobby is just plain invisible. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to Bobby's new condition; even his dad the physicist can't figure it out. For Bobby that means no school, no friends, no life. He's a missing person. Then he meets Alicia. She's blind, and Bobby can't resist talking to her, trusting her. But people are starting to wonder where Bobby is. Bobby knows that his invisibility could have dangerous consequences for his family and that time is running out. He has to find out how to be seen again-before it's too late.

Author : Yuvraj Goswami
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781644297315

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No Point Talking. by Yuvraj Goswami Pdf

There is no point talking about it. In fact, there is nothing to talk about. So, what do we have? This is not classical poetry. It is not contemporary either. The words used are simple to mean what they intend. Sentences are easy and sensible. Yet, different poems will to different people, do different things at different times. The poetry is such that you do to the poem more than what the poetry can. That is the potency and is outrageously crazy. The subject is the objective of this book. There is no point talking about it. It can only Nudge you, point at you, for you to touch your own self. How else is one to do that than in their own way? If in the mood to get high, you may go higher. You do not have to, but you will be aware of how something is happening out of nothing. If open and willing, you will arrive at what’s here and now, infinite and ultimate. The whole thing is within, with or without this book. This is a catalyst, or a mirror, or a window, or a game to play. There is no point talking about it, so read!

Author : Dayna Lorentz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781101585597

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No Safety In Numbers by Dayna Lorentz Pdf

"Think of the heart-racing chase of The Hunger Games, but a giant mall is your arena."--Seventeen.com A suspenseful survival story and modern day Lord of the Flies set in a mall that looks just like yours. A biological bomb has just been discovered in the air ducts of a busy suburban mall. At first nobody knows if it's even life threatening, but then the entire complex is quarantined, people start getting sick, supplies start running low, and there's no way out. Among the hundreds of trapped shoppers are four teens. These four different narrators, each with their own stories, must cope in unique, surprising manners, changing in ways they wouldn't have predicted, trying to find solace, safety, and escape at a time when the adults are behaving badly. This is a gripping look at people and how they can—and must—change under the most dire of circumstances. And not always for the better.