The Horse Of The River

Author : Sari Cooper
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781550178784

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The Horse of the River by Sari Cooper Pdf

Twelve-year-old Gillian had never been so scared as the bus wound its way toward Canyon Falls summer camp. She had been dreaming about a horseback riding experience like this for years, but now that she was actually on her way, she was terrified. She had never been away from her family, never mind for a whole month. Would she make friends? Would she be able to keep up with the other girls’ riding? When Gillian finds herself paired with Beauty, a beautiful silver-gray mare, the negative voice in her head eases up. But then her fears begin to come true. Snobby Katrina causes an accident that injures Beauty and another rider, Gillian’s best friend. Gillian ends up atop the Beast, a horse even the camp counsellors struggle to control. Things only get worse when the Beast leaps into a river with Gillian still in the saddle. Gillian finds herself alone in the wilderness, far from help and facing challenges she never imagined even in her worst nightmares. Will the skills she has learned be enough to save her?

Author : Natalie Lunis
Publisher : Bearport Publishing
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781617722752

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Hippo by Natalie Lunis Pdf

Describes how hippos communicate with each other and how the sounds they make help them survive, and discusses their habitat, diet, and behavior.

Author : Sari Cooper
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1550178776

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The Horse of the River by Sari Cooper Pdf

Horses and wilderness survival come together in this exciting middle grade debut.

Author : Christine Denis-Huot
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Hippopotamus
ISBN : 0785757937

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The Hippopotamus by Christine Denis-Huot Pdf

With many colorful photos and helpful text, this book presents a look at the hippopotamus -- from physical description to how they live to how they raise their young. Also gives a discussion of their genealogical roots, and endangered status in the world environment.

Author : William Least Heat-Moon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780140298604

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River-Horse by William Least Heat-Moon Pdf

The author of Blue Highways and PrairyErth "takes us on a lifetime voyage full of imagery, insight and appreciation." --Cleveland Plain Dealer In his most ambitious journey ever, William Least Heat-Moon sets off aboard a small boat named Nikawa ("river horse" in Osage) from the Atlantic at New York Harbor in hopes of entering the Pacific near Astoria, Oregon. He and his companion, Pilotis, struggle to cover some 5,000 watery miles, often following in the wakes of our most famous explorers, from Henry Hudson to Lewis and Clark. En route, the voyagers confront massive floods, dangerous weather, and their own doubts about whether they can complete the trip. But the hard days yield incomparable pleasures: generous strangers, landscapes untouched since Sacajawea saw them, riverscapes flowing with a lively past, and the growing belief that efforts to protect our lands and waters are beginning to pay off. Teeming with humanity, humor, and high adventure, River-Horse is an unsentimental and original arteriogram of our nation at the millennium.

Author : Richard Wagamese
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781553659709

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Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese Pdf

"An unforgettable work of art."—The National Post Saul Indian Horse is dying. Tucked away in a hospice high above the clash and clang of a big city, he embarks on a marvellous journey of imagination back through the life he led as a northern Ojibway, with all its sorrows and joys. With compassion and insight, author Richard Wagamese traces through his fictional characters the decline of a culture and a cultural way. For Saul, taken forcibly from the land and his family when he's sent to residential school, salvation comes for a while through his incredible gifts as a hockey player. But in the harsh realities of 1960s Canada, he battles obdurate racism and the spirit-destroying effects of cultural alienation and displacement. Indian Horse unfolds against the bleak loveliness of northern Ontario, all rock, marsh, bog and cedar. Wagamese writes with a spare beauty, penetrating the heart of a remarkable Ojibway man. Drawing on his great-grandfather's mystical gift of vision, Saul Indian Horse comes to recognize the influence of everyday magic on his own life. In this wise and moving novel, Richard Wagamese shares that gift of magic with readers as well.

Author : Ginny Rorby
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781101429440

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The Outside of a Horse by Ginny Rorby Pdf

Hannah Gale starts volunteering at a horse stable because she needs a place to escape. Her father has returned from the Iraq war as an amputee with posttraumatic stress disorder, and his nightmares rock the household. At the stable, Hannah comes to love Jack, Super Dee, and Indy; helps bring a rescued mare back from the brink; and witnesses the birth of the filly who steals her heart. Hannah learns more than she ever imagined about horse training, abuse, and rescues, as well as her own capacity for hope. Physical therapy with horses could be the answer to her fatherÕs prayers, if only she can get him to try.

Author : Nina Ames Frey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Guatemala
ISBN : LCCN:52013587

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The River Horse by Nina Ames Frey Pdf

Every child wants a horse, and Arana the young Mayan Indian hero of this story, is no exception. In a little hut in a village on the shores of Lake Atitlán in Guatemala he dreams of owning a horse. The story tells how his dreams came true.

Author : Sarah Gailey
Publisher : Tor.com
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765395221

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River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey Pdf

A Finalist for the 2017 Nebula Award for Best Novella Sarah Gailey's wildfire debut River of Teeth is a rollicking alternate history adventure that Charlie Jane Anders calls "preposterously fun." In the early 20th Century, the United States government concocted a plan to import hippopotamuses into the marshlands of Louisiana to be bred and slaughtered as an alternative meat source. This is true. Other true things about hippos: they are savage, they are fast, and their jaws can snap a man in two. This was a terrible plan. Contained within this volume is an 1890s America that might have been: a bayou overrun by feral hippos and mercenary hippo wranglers from around the globe. It is the story of Winslow Houndstooth and his crew. It is the story of their fortunes. It is the story of his revenge. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : William Least Heat Moon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:503205286

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River Horse: a Voyage Across America by William Least Heat Moon Pdf

Author : Ginny Rorby
Publisher : Carolrhoda Lab ®
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781467731676

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Lost in River of Grass by Ginny Rorby Pdf

"I don't realize I'm crying until he glances at me. For a moment, I see the look of anguish in his eyes, then he blinks it away and slips off into the water. I immediately think of the gator. It's still down there somewhere. . . ." A science-class field trip to the Everglades is supposed to be fun, but Sarah's new at Glades Academy, and her fellow freshmen aren’t exactly making her feel welcome. When an opportunity for an unauthorized side trip on an air boat presents itself, it seems like a perfect escape—an afternoon without feeling like a sore thumb. But one simple oversight turns a joyride into a race for survival across the river of grass. Sarah will have to count on her instincts—and a guy she barely knows—if they have any hope of making it back alive.

Author : William Least Heat-Moon
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780316218542

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Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon Pdf

Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads. William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map -- if they get on at all -- only because some cartographer has a blank space to fill: Remote, Oregon; Simplicity, Virginia; New Freedom, Pennsylvania; New Hope, Tennessee; Why, Arizona; Whynot, Mississippi." His adventures, his discoveries, and his recollections of the extraordinary people he encountered along the way amount to a revelation of the true American experience.

Author : Linda Rui Feng
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982129453

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Swimming Back to Trout River by Linda Rui Feng Pdf

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE A lyrical novel set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution that follows a father’s quest to reunite his family before his precocious daughter’s momentous birthday, which Garth Greenwell calls “one of the most beautiful debuts I’ve read in years.” How many times in life can we start over without losing ourselves? In the summer of 1986 in a small Chinese village, ten-year-old Junie receives a momentous letter from her parents, who had left for America years ago: her father promises to return home and collect her by her twelfth birthday. But Junie’s growing determination to stay put in the idyllic countryside with her beloved grandparents threatens to derail her family’s shared future. What Junie doesn’t know is that her parents, Momo and Cassia, are newly estranged from one another in their adopted country, each holding close private tragedies and histories from the tumultuous years of their youth during China’s Cultural Revolution. While Momo grapples anew with his deferred musical ambitions and dreams for Junie’s future in America, Cassia finally begins to wrestle with a shocking act of brutality from years ago. In order for Momo to fulfill his promise, he must make one last desperate attempt to reunite all three members of the family before Junie’s birthday—even if it means bringing painful family secrets to light. “A beautifully written, poignant exploration of family, art, culture, immigration, and most of all, love,” (Jean Kwok, New York Times bestselling author of Searching for Sylvie Lee) Swimming Back to Trout River weaves together the stories of Junie, Momo, Cassia, and Dawn—a talented violinist from Momo’s past—while depicting their heartbreak and resilience, tenderly revealing the hope, compromises, and abiding ingenuity that make up the lives of immigrants.

Author : Abie Longstaff
Publisher : Random House
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-31
Category : Alchemists
ISBN : 9781782951902

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The River Horse by Abie Longstaff Pdf

Book 2 in the 6-part Magic Potions Shop series from the creators of the bestselling Fairytale Hairdresser, Abie Longstaff & Lauren Beard. Tibben is the potions apprentice, and helps Grandpa make spells to sell in their shop. Along with Wizz, a magical creature with a special gift for finding things, they set off on adventures to help the creatures of Arthwen. When the Water Sprites of Lake Sapphire start to feel poorly, it's up to Tibben and Wizz to find out what's making the enchanted waters of the kingdom dirty âe" can they solve the mystery? This is the second of Tibben's adventures in Arthwen, following book 1: The Young Apprentice. This series is perfect for building reading confidence, whether reading aloud or alone.

Author : Jean M. Auel
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553381665

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The Valley of Horses by Jean M. Auel Pdf

This unforgettable odyssey into the distant past carries us back to the awesome mysteries of the exotic, primeval world of The Clan of the Cave Bear, and to Ayla, now grown into a beautiful and courageous young woman. Cruelly cast out by the new leader of the ancient Clan that adopted her as a child, Ayla leaves those she loves behind and travels alone through a stark, open land filled with dangerous animals but few people, searching for the Others, tall and fair like herself. The short summer gives her little time to look, and when she finds a sheltered valley with a herd of hardy steppe horses, she decides to stay and prepare for the long glacial winter ahead. Living with the Clan has taught Ayla many skills but not real hunting. She finally knows she can survive when she traps a horse, which gives her meat and a warm pelt for the winter, but fate has bestowed a greater gift, an orphaned foal with whom she develops a unique kinship. One winter extends to more; she discovers a way to make fire more quickly and a wounded cave lion cub joins her unusual family, but her beloved animals don’t fulfill her restless need for human companionship. Then she hears the sound of a man screaming in pain. She saves tall, handsome Jondalar, who brings her a language to speak and an awakening of love and desire, but Ayla is torn between her fear of leaving her valley and her hope of living with her own kind.