The Haunting Of Hiram C Hopgood

Author : Eva Ibbotson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780330477505

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The Haunting of Hiram by Eva Ibbotson Pdf

With a beautiful cover illustration by Alex T. Smith, creator of the Claude series, The Haunting of Hiram is a wonderfully spooky young fiction title from the award-winning author of Journey to the River Sea, Eva Ibbotson. 'I will buy your castle,' declared Hiram C. Hopgood. 'But only if there are no ghosts!' Alex MacBuff can't afford to keep his beloved Castle Carra, and an American millionaire has made him an offer he can't refuse. The castle is shipped all the way to Texas, but its ghostly inhabitants, including Krok the Viking warrior and a hell-hound called Cyril, follow their home across the Atlantic. How can Alex stop them haunting Hiram and also save the millionaire's daughter from an evil ransom plot?

Author : Eva Ibbotson
Publisher : Macmillan Children's Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Ghost stories
ISBN : 0333445104

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The Haunting of Hiram C. Hopgood by Eva Ibbotson Pdf

Author : Eva Ibbotson
Publisher : Puffin Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0142403717

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The Haunting of Granite Falls by Eva Ibbotson Pdf

American millionaire Hiram C. Hopgood will stop at nothing to make his daughter, Helen, happy—even if it means buying her an ancient Scottish castle and shipping it back to Texas. Assembling the castle isn’t a problem for the oil tycoon . . . it’s the ghosts that worry him. Hopgood has made up his mind: the ghouls have got to go. But these spirits don’t spook so easily. Instead, they make their way to America, where they meet up with a magical severed hand and three fiendish, cross-dressing kidnappers for a Texassized adventure with a ghostly Scottish flair.

Author : David Orme
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : African poetry (English)
ISBN : 0330328174

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Doin Mi Ed in by David Orme Pdf

Author : Eva Ibbotson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Animals, Mythical
ISBN : 1435263979

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Island of the Aunts by Eva Ibbotson Pdf

As they get older, several sisters decide that they must kidnap children and bring them to their secluded island home to help with the work of caring for an assortment of unusual sea creatures.

Author : Greg Bear
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497608771

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Dinosaur Summer by Greg Bear Pdf

“Certain to become a new classic of adventure beyond time . . . An unofficial sequel to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World” (Prehistoric Pulp). Fifty years after Professor Challenger’s discovery of the Lost World, America’s last dinosaur circus has gone bankrupt, leaving a dozen avisaurs, centrosaurs, ankylosaurs, and one large raptor abandoned. Now a daring expedition plans to do the impossible: return the Jurassic giants to the wild. Two filmmakers, a circus trainer, a journalist, and a young Peter Belzoni must find a way to take the dinosaurs across oceans, continents, rivers, jungles, up a mountain that has been isolated for seventy thousand years . . . Then, if they make it, all they will do is face the prehistoric wonders, dangers, and terrors of the Lost World.

Author : Denise Burkhard
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783847016045

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Exploited, Empowered, Ephemeral by Denise Burkhard Pdf

Childhood in neo-Victorian fiction for both child and adult readers is an extremely multifaceted and fascinating field. This book argues that neo-Victorian fiction projects multiple, competing visions of childhood and suggests that they can be analysed by means of a typology, the 'childhood scale', which provides different categories along the lines of power relations, and literary possible-worlds theory. The usefulness of both is exemplified by detailed discussions of Philippa Pearce's "Tom's Midnight Garden" (1958), Eva Ibbotson's "Journey to the River Sea" (2001), Sarah Waters' "Fingersmith" (2002) and Dianne Setterfield's "The Thirteenth Tale" (2006).

Author : Amie A. Doughty
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443898010

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Children's and Young Adult Literature and Culture by Amie A. Doughty Pdf

This collection of essays explores a wealth of topics in children’s and young adult literature and culture. Contributions about picture-books include analyses of variants of the folktale “The Little Red Hen” and bullying. Race and gender are explored in essays about picture-books featuring children as consumable objects, about books focused on African American female athletes, and about young adult dystopian fiction. Gender itself is further explored in articles about Monster High, Joyce Carol Oates’s Beasts, and The Hunger Games and Divergent. Essays about fantasy literature include an exploration of environmentalism in Rick Riordan’s The Heroes of Olympus, a discussion of Severus Snape as a Judas figure, an explication of Chapter 5 of The Hobbit, and an analysis of ghosts and nationalism in Eva Ibbotson’s The Haunting of Granite Falls. An essay about Horrible Histories explores television, genre, and the way history is coded. Other contributions explore how teaching literature to reluctant readers can be effective through multimodal texts and how Harry Potter has played a role in the popularity of young adult literature for adult readers.

Author : Eva Ibbotson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780330477697

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The Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson Pdf

Under Platform 13 at King's Cross Station there is a secret door that leads to a magical island . . . It appears only once every nine years. And when it opens, four mysterious figures step into the streets of London. A wizard, an ogre, a fey and a young hag have come to find the prince of their kingdom, stolen as a baby nine years before. But the prince has become a horrible rich boy called Raymond Trottle, who doesn't understand magic and is determined not to be rescued. Shortlisted for the Smarties Prize, The Secret of Platform 13 is an exciting magical adventure from Eva Ibbotson, the award-winning author of Journey to the River Sea. 'This kind of fun will never fail to delight' Philip Pullman

Author : Tracey Watson
Publisher : Contemporary Authors New Revis
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0787678945

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Contemporary Authors by Tracey Watson Pdf

These exciting and unique author profiles are essential to your holdings because sketches are entirely revised and up-to-date, and completely replace the original Contemporary Authors entries. A softcover cumulative index is published twice per year (included in subscription).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Children's literature
ISBN : MINN:31951000698260N

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The Junior Bookshelf by Anonim Pdf

Author : Eva Ibbotson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780330477475

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The Great Ghost Rescue by Eva Ibbotson Pdf

With a beautiful cover illustration by Alex T. Smith, creator of the Claude series, The Great Ghost Rescue is a wonderfully spooky young fiction title from the award-winning author of Journey to the River Sea, Eva Ibbotson. 'Nobody knew what had gone wrong with Humphrey. Perhaps it was his ectoplasm . . .' Humphrey the Horrible sounds scary, but he's actually a very friendly skeleton, with twinkling eye sockets and jangling finger bones. Humphrey dreams of being ghastly, like his brother – a screaming skull – or terrifying, like his bloodsucking vampire-bat cousins. But when Humphrey discovers an evil plot to exorcise his family, he finally realizes you don't have to be spine-chillingly fearsome to be a hero.

Author : Douglas Sarine,Kent Nichols
Publisher : Crown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-09
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780307405807

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Ask a Ninja Presents The Ninja Handbook by Douglas Sarine,Kent Nichols Pdf

DEADLY NINJA WISDOM FOR THE NON-NINJA Carefully consider the joy of your soft-headed ignorance before you begin to run, flip, and jump along the Ninja Path. After much debate and in a spirit of morbid amusement, the International Order of Ninjas has chosen to produce The Ninja Handbook, the first-ever secret ninja training guide specifically designed for the non-ninja. Most non-ninjas who handle these delicate, deadly pages will die–probably in an elaborately horrific and painful manner. But whether your journey lasts five seconds or five days or (rather inconceivably) five years, all those who bravely take up this text and follow the tenets and trials laid out within will die knowing they were as ninja as they possibly could’ve been. For the true of heart or the extremely lucky, this powerful and honorable manuscript contains such phenomenal ninja wisdom as: •How to create and name your very own lethal ninja clan •The proper weapon to use when fighting a vampire pumpkin •Why clowns and robots are so dangerous on the Internet •Easy-to-follow charts showing when to slice and when to stab •How to execute such ultradeadly kicks as the Driving Miss Daisy •Why pretty much every ninja movie ever made sucks •How to make a shoggoth explode using well-placed foliage •What the heck a shoggoth is and why you’ll need to make it explode •Death Aide certification •And much more ninjafied enlightenment on every shuriken-sharp page! Remember: People do not take the Path, the Path takes people.

Author : British Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015082943534

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The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books, 1986 to 1987 by British Library Pdf

Author : Edward M. Komara
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 1274 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Blues
ISBN : 9780415926997

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Encyclopedia of the Blues by Edward M. Komara Pdf

This comprehensive two-volume set brings together all aspects of the blues from performers and musical styles to record labels and cultural issues, including regional evolution and history. Organized in an accessible A-to-Z format, the Encyclopedia of the Blues is an essential reference resource for information on this unique American music genre. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclopedia of the Blues website.