The Dragon Of Cripple Creek

Author : Troy Howell
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781613121313

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The Dragon of Cripple Creek by Troy Howell Pdf

When Kat and her father and brother visit the Mollie Kathleen, an old gold mine now open for tours by the busload, Kat gets lost from the group and falls down a shaft, where she discovers an awe-inspiring world of fantasy come to life. She meets an ancient dragon—the last of his kind—and discovers a secret about the gold that litters the creature's den and why dragons throughout time have hoarded the sparkling treasure. The dragon helps Kat escape the endless caverns, but not before Kat greedily takes a piece of gold for herself. Feeling guilty, Kat decides to return it, but before she can do this she drops it in front of a group of visitors, and a media frenzy ensues. Soon the mining town is filled with gold seekers. In order to save the dragon and his gold, Kat and her brother must venture back into the mine to warn him. But will they get there in time? This fast-paced, beautifully told modern fantasy tale by children's book illustrator Troy Howell will keep readers spellbound. Praise for The Dragon of Cripple Creek “Writing in Kat’s first-person narrative, which is wry and funny, clipped and eloquent, Howell, best known as an illustrator, mixes fantasy adventure with a moving conservation story in a debut that blends sadness, secrecy, and pure fun.” –Booklist

Author : J. J. Bond
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781532072024

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Cripple Creek Pass by J. J. Bond Pdf

CRIPPLE CREEK PASS.. Prelog to Stealing Home by j. j. Bond.. The Viking Child: A string of unexplained murders on the tiny most northern Canadian Island.. The discovery of an elusive, psychotic, sadistic, serial killer.. A turn for the worse.. The theft of the wrong car.. A chase of excitement, discovery and adventure to find, track and recover the totally restored, green, 1967 Ford Mustang Coupe.. The breathtaking views, the sights and scenery of Newfoundland, within the back drops, of Gros Morne National Park.. The beauty of the Appalachian Mountain Range and The Long Range Mountains.. Discover the secrets of the origin, of all life, in North American Civilization.. Join the Viking Child, Drisko Oobbew's race against time.. The chase around the twist and turns of The Rock.. The journey of the New Age Viking Clan, intent on catching a killer and letting him Kiss the Cod.. The search of the Clan to trap him before the Newfoundland Provincial Police and the local Sheriffs get to him.. This is where kin is kin, and Kings are Kings, the beginning of it all, the discovery of Newfoundland..

Author : Susan Fichtelberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781440834516

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Encountering Enchantment by Susan Fichtelberg Pdf

The most current and complete guide to a favorite teen genre, this book maps current releases along with perennial favorites, describing and categorizing fantasy, paranormal, and science fiction titles published since 2006. Speculative fiction continues to be of consuming interest to teens, so if you work with that age group, keeping up with the explosion of new titles in this category is critical. Likewise, understanding the many genres and subgenres into which these titles fall—wizard fantasy, alternate worlds, fantasy mystery, dystopian fiction, science fantasy, and more—is also key if you want to motivate young readers and direct them to books they'll enjoy. Written to help you master a complex array of genres and titles, this guide includes more than 1,500 books, most published since 2006, organizing them by genre, subgenre, and theme. Subgenres growing in popularity such as "steampunk" are highlighted to keep you current with the latest trends. The guide will serve three audiences. Of course, you can turn to it as you help your teenage patrons select the books and genres that will interest them most. Teen readers, whether devoted fans or newcomers, can use it themselves to find titles and subgenres they might like. In addition, the guide will help teachers and parents match students with the right books.

Author : David Anton
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001-12-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781450080897

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The Belle of Cripple Creek Gold by David Anton Pdf

In the fall of 1895, a young Irish girl, Anabelle Brown, unhappy at home, leaves Ireland for the States to join her brother Joe. After arriving in New York, she is left stranded. Frantic, she hesitatingly takes a nanny job with an immigrant Italian family, but after a sexual assault from the husband, she decides to leave for Cripple Creek, where her brother is supposed to be seeking his fortune in the new gold camp. She trains to the Colorado boom gold town, anxious but determined to make her way with or without her brother. She finds Cripple Creek to be a daunting place for a young, eighteen-year-old girl. She has little money and there are several Joe Brownes, none of them her brother. An Irish bartender, Nolan, and his sister, Maggie, take her in hand by giving her a job as a dime dancer in a saloon hall. This grueling and unwholesome job becomes the door for Anabelle to enter into a new life in America. She meets a young Irishman named Jimmie Demaree at the dance hall, allows him to escort her home, a short journey which was to change her life. On the way, they stop off at a famous men ́s club in the town, the Old Homestead, also a high class brothel, where Anabelle meets the most famous Madam in town, Pearl Van del Lear. She likes the young Irish girl and offers her a job as her assistant. Hesitatingly deciding to take the position plunges Anabelle into the very center of life in the exploding gold camp. In the next months, she meets the men who are making big gold strikes and using their wealth to make over Cripple Creek to their advantage. Anabelle sees the lust and lure of a major gold camp. She watches the winners exploit their advantages; she sees first hand the violence that gold fever provokes, and she learns how to survive in a place where women are men ́s chattels. She connects with the upstanding men among the rabble. Besides Jimmie, she comes to know the richest man in the camp, Scott Winfield, who wants to build Cripple Creek into a fine city and make life better for all its inhabitants. He is as cunning in dealing with the avaricious gold seekers and the riffraff that drift into such places as he is in managing his gold claims. Amid the violence, personal tragedies, and luridness of the gold camp culture, she releases her Irish sexual frigidity, falls in love with Jimmie, only to lose him, but thanks to Winfield is rescued. Winfield and her friends, in an effort to bring back her zest for life, make her their city ́s parade queen in the Fourth of July parade, celebrating the rebirth of Cripple Creek after its disastrous city fire. But what really saves her is a secret consolation.

Author : Mabel Barbee Lee
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803279124

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Cripple Creek Days by Mabel Barbee Lee Pdf

Mabel Barbee Lee has written a rousing tale of early days in Cripple Creek, Colorado. She speaks with authority because she arrived there as a child in 1892, and with wide-eyed wonder saw the whole place turn to gold. With his divining rod, Mabel's father tapped gold ore on Beacon Hill but missed becoming a millionaire by selling his claim short. Nonetheless, life was rich for young Mabel in a booming town with points of interest like Poverty Gulch, the Continental Hotel, and a fantastic house called Finn's Folly; with characters around like the promoter Windy Joe and (seen from a distance) the madam Pearl De Vere; with something always going on, whether a celebration or a disastrous fire or train wreck or a no-nonsense miners' strike. Mabel Lee's book brings back a time and place with affection. The foreword is by Lowell Thomas, who was her pupil when she was a young schoolmarm in Cripple Creek. "One of the most fascinating accounts of a gold rush town."-Chicago Sunday Tribune. "More entertaining by far than the run of fictional westerns, more authentic, of course, and a great deal more moving."-W. M. Teller, Saturday Review

Author : Marek C. Oziewicz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317610816

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Justice in Young Adult Speculative Fiction by Marek C. Oziewicz Pdf

This book is the first to offer a justice-focused cognitive reading of modern YA speculative fiction in its narrative and filmic forms. It links the expansion of YA speculative fiction in the 20th century with the emergence of human and civil rights movements, with the communitarian revolution in conceptualizations of justice, and with spectacular advances in cognitive sciences as applied to the examination of narrative fiction. Oziewicz argues that complex ideas such as justice are processed by the human mind as cognitive scripts; that scripts, when narrated, take the form of multiply indexable stories; and that YA speculative fiction is currently the largest conceptual testing ground in the forging of justice consciousness for the 21st century world. Drawing on recent research in the cognitive and evolutionary sciences, Oziewicz explains how poetic, retributive, restorative, environmental, social, and global types of justice have been represented in narrative fiction, from 19th century folk and fairy tales through 21st century fantasy, dystopia, and science fiction. Suggesting that the appeal of these and other nonmimetic genres is largely predicated on the dream of justice, Oziewicz theorizes new justice scripts as conceptual tools essential to help humanity survive the qualitative leap toward an environmentally conscious, culturally diversified global world. This book is an important contribution to studies of children’s and YA speculative fiction, adding a new perspective to discussions about the educational as well as social potential of nonmimetic genres. It demonstrates that the justice imperative is very much alive in YA speculative fiction, creating new visions of justice relevant to contemporary challenges.

Author : Henry Lee Jacques Warren,Robert Stride
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Colorado Springs (Colo.)
ISBN : HARVARD:HWHJ9Q

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Cripple Creek and Colorado Springs by Henry Lee Jacques Warren,Robert Stride Pdf

Author : Troy Howell
Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781524715205

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Whale in a Fishbowl by Troy Howell Pdf

A moving, poetic story about a whale in captivity who longs for the ocean . . . because whales don't belong in fishbowls, do they? Wednesday is a whale who lives in a fishbowl smack dab in the middle of a city--it's the only home she's ever known. Cars whizz around her and people hurry past; even the sun and moon circle above. But if she leaps high enough out of her bowl, Wednesday can see it: a calm bit of blue off in the distance. When a girl in a paisley dress tells Wednesday "You belong in the sea," the whale starts to wonder, what is the sea? Readers will cheer--and get all choked up-- when, one day, Wednesday leaps higher than ever before and sets in motion a breathtaking chain of events that will carry her to her rightful home. Touching, and ultimately uplifting, here is a story about a lonely creature longing to be free--and longing to find someone just like her. A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018! A New York Public Library Best Book of 2018!

Author : Troy Howell
Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781524715182

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Whale in a Fishbowl by Troy Howell Pdf

A moving, poetic story about a whale in captivity who longs for the ocean . . . because whales don't belong in fishbowls, do they? Wednesday is a whale who lives in a fishbowl smack dab in the middle of a city--it's the only home she's ever known. Cars whizz around her and people hurry past; even the sun and moon circle above. But if she leaps high enough out of her bowl, Wednesday can see it: a calm bit of blue off in the distance. When a girl in a paisley dress tells Wednesday "You belong in the sea," the whale starts to wonder, what is the sea? Readers will cheer--and get all choked up-- when, one day, Wednesday leaps higher than ever before and sets in motion a breathtaking chain of events that will carry her to her rightful home. Touching, and ultimately uplifting, here is a story about a lonely creature longing to be free--and longing to find someone just like her. A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018! A New York Public Library Best Book of 2018!

Author : Mine and Quarry News Bureau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Mineral industries
ISBN : NYPL:33433069097677

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The Mine, Quarry and Metallurgical Record of the United States, Canada and Mexico by Mine and Quarry News Bureau Pdf

Author : Anne Ylvisaker
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780763654610

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The Luck of the Buttons by Anne Ylvisaker Pdf

In Iowa circa 1929, spunky twelve-year-old Tugs vows to turn her family’s luck around, with the help of a Brownie camera and a small-town mystery. (Ages 8-12) Tugs Esther Button was born to a luckless family. Buttons don’t presume to be singers or dancers. They aren’t athletes or artists, good listeners, or model citizens. The one time a Button ever made the late Goodhue Gazette - before Harvey Moore came along with his talk of launching a new paper - was when Great Grandaddy Ike accidentally set Town Hall ablaze. Tomboy Tugs looks at her hapless family and sees her own reflection looking back until she befriends popular Aggie Millhouse, wins a new camera in the Independence Day raffle, and stumbles into a mystery only she can solve. Suddenly this is a summer of change - and by its end, being a Button may just turn out to be what one clumsy, funny, spirited, and very observant young heroine decides to make of it.

Author : Geological Survey (U.S.). Water Resources Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Stream measurements
ISBN : UOM:39015000398365

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Water Resources Data for Virginia by Geological Survey (U.S.). Water Resources Division Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Stream measurements
ISBN : UIUC:30112007589648

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Water Resources Data for Virginia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Pam Grout
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780762762002

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Colorado Curiosities by Pam Grout Pdf

Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Centennial State has to offer!

Author : Patsy J. Still,Jennie M. Cosby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Lakes
ISBN : UCR:31210018975597

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Alaska Index by Patsy J. Still,Jennie M. Cosby Pdf