The House That Max Built

Author : Maxwell Newhouse
Publisher : Tundra Books
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781770491069

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The House That Max Built by Maxwell Newhouse Pdf

Having worked construction for many years, author and illustrator Maxwell Newhouse shows young readers step-by-step how houses are built in this captivating picture book. From drawing up the plans to excavating the site to laying the foundation, the unique and colorful paintings move through the seasons as Max builds the house of his dreams. Watch the framing crew as they build a floor frame to hold the house, raise the walls into place, and make the roof frame. See them install the windows and doors, bricklayers build the outside walls with bricks and mortar, and roofers nail the shingles into place. Follow the plumber as he puts in the water lines, the electrician as he installs the wiring, and the drywaller as he places wallboard on the inside walls. Along come the tile setter, floor layer, cabinetmaker, and painter, who all do their part to make Max’s house beautiful as his mischievous little dog romps through the pages. Finally, when the property has been landscaped with plants, trees, grass, and stones, Max moves into his beloved new home. With a list of all the trades and a description of what they do, The House That Max Built is a must-have for any child with a natural curiosity and a passion to build things

Author : John Green
Publisher : General Paperback
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : House construction
ISBN : 0773673393

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The House that Max Built by John Green Pdf

'Think of it, ' Maxwell Holman III chanted, 'sixty glorious days, two whole months, one sixth of an entire year with no homework, no teachers, an no more tuna sandwiches. It boggles the mind!' Summer holidays start promisingly as Max and his friends Perky and Amanda build a magnificent house out of cardboard boxes.

Author : Susanna Hill,Ken Wilson-Max
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 0689836929

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The House That Mack Built by Susanna Hill,Ken Wilson-Max Pdf

Mack is the foreman who is building a house in this new three-dimentional pop-up board book. The cumulative text, based on the familiar rhyme 'This is the House that Mack Built', desribes each machine and process as it happens. There is the excavator and the 'cement mixer churning around, that poured the foundation into the ground'. There are the carpenters and the 'roofer, with balance so light, who nailed down the shingles nice and tight'. And of course Mack who oversees the whole construction. Ken Wilson-Max's dynamic illustrations and paper engineering pop-up on each spread bringing to life the building a house.

Author : Adam Gidwitz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780593112090

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Max in the House of Spies by Adam Gidwitz Pdf

“Max in the House of Spies is everything you could hope for in a book,” -R. J. Palacio, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wonder, White Bird, and Pony “Espionage! Secrets! Suspense! If you’ve ever dreamed of being a spy, this book is for you.” -Alan Gratz, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Refugee and Projekt 1065 Max Bretzfeld doesn’t want to move to London. Leaving home is hard and Max is alone for the first time in his life. But not for long. Max is surprised to discover that he’s been joined by two unexpected traveling companions, one on each shoulder, a kobold and a dybbuk named Berg and Stein. Germany is becoming more and more dangerous for Jewish families, but Max is determined to find a way back home, and back to his parents. He has a plan to return to Berlin. It merely involves accomplishing the impossible: becoming a British spy. The first book in a duology, Max in the House of Spies is a thought-provoking World War II story as only acclaimed storyteller Adam Gidwitz can tell it—fast-paced and hilarious, with a dash of magic and a lot of heart.

Author : Barbara Thrash Murphy,Deborah L. Murphy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781135873554

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Black Authors and Illustrators of Books for Children and Young Adults by Barbara Thrash Murphy,Deborah L. Murphy Pdf

Black Authors and Illustrators of Books for Children and Young Adults is a biographical dictionary that provides comprehensive coverage of all major authors and illustrators – past and present. As the only reference volume of its kind available, this book is a valuable research tool that provides quick access for anyone studying black children’s literature – whether one is a student, a librarian charged with maintaining a children’s literature collection, or a scholar of children’s literature. The Fourth Edition of this renowned reference work illuminates African American contributions to children’s literature and books for young adults. The new edition contains updated and new information for existing author/illustrator entries, the addition of approximately 50 new profiles, and a new section listing online resources of interest to the authors and readers of black children’s literature.

Author : Cathy Cook
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780752492537

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The Agatha Christie: Inspiring Lives by Cathy Cook Pdf

This miscellany explores the fascinating and enigmatic world created by the undisputed ‘Queen of Crime’, Agatha Christie. Examining her place in literary history, her books and her iconic characters, including Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, this unique collection includes facts, trivia and quotes that feature in Christie’s legendary stories and the subsequent film and television adaptations. The Agatha Christie Miscellany will also delve into the secrets, mysteries and tricks that made Christie the most sensational and successful mystery writer of her time. For example, how is it that she managed to keep us guessing the murderer until the very end? Looking at her life and the influences on her writing, this entertaining and informative miscellany will, above all, unravel the secrets of Agatha Christie’s phenomenal success.

Author : Amanda Lindhout,Sara Corbett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451651720

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A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout,Sara Corbett Pdf

BREAKING NEWS: Amanda Lindhout’s lead kidnapper, Ali Omar Ader, has been caught. Amanda Lindhout wrote about her fifteen month abduction in Somalia in A House in the Sky. It is the New York Times bestselling memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the world’s most remote places and then into captivity: “Exquisitely told…A young woman’s harrowing coming-of-age story and an extraordinary narrative of forgiveness and spiritual triumph” (The New York Times Book Review). As a child, Amanda Lindhout escaped a violent household by paging through issues of National Geographic and imagining herself visiting its exotic locales. At the age of nineteen, working as a cocktail waitress, she began saving her tips so she could travel the globe. Aspiring to understand the world and live a significant life, she backpacked through Latin America, Laos, Bangladesh, and India, and emboldened by each adventure, went on to Sudan, Syria, and Pakistan. In war-ridden Afghanistan and Iraq she carved out a fledgling career as a television reporter. And then, in August 2008, she traveled to Somalia—“the most dangerous place on earth.” On her fourth day, she was abducted by a group of masked men along a dusty road. Held hostage for 460 days, Amanda survives on memory—every lush detail of the world she experienced in her life before captivity—and on strategy, fortitude, and hope. When she is most desperate, she visits a house in the sky, high above the woman kept in chains, in the dark. Vivid and suspenseful, as artfully written as the finest novel, A House in the Sky is “a searingly unsentimental account. Ultimately it is compassion—for her naïve younger self, for her kidnappers—that becomes the key to Lindhout’s survival” (O, The Oprah Magazine).

Author : Will Irwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Motion-pictures
ISBN : UOM:39015005103687

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The House that Shadows Built by Will Irwin Pdf

The story of Adolph Zukor and the rise of the motion picture industry.

Author : Markus Zusak
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780307433848

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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME The extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times. When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time. “The kind of book that can be life-changing.” —The New York Times “Deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.” —USA Today DON’T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF.

Author : Anthony Doerr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476746609

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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Pdf

*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1091201930

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Look at that Building! : a First Book of Structures by Anonim Pdf

An engaging introduction to buildings, with a deft mix of nonfiction and fiction elements.

Author : H.W. Wilson Company
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Children's literature
ISBN : UOM:39015079763580

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Childrens' Catalog by H.W. Wilson Company Pdf

The 1st ed. includes an index to v. 28-36 of St. Nicholas.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : College wit and humor
ISBN : NYPL:33433076008816

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The Harvard Lampoon by Anonim Pdf

Author : Holly Jackson
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780593379851

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As Good as Dead by Holly Jackson Pdf

THE MUST-READ MULTIMILLION BESTSELLING MYSTERY SERIES • The final book in the A Good Girl's Guide to Murder series that reads like your favorite true crime podcast or show. By the end, you'll never think of good girls the same way again... Pip is about to head to college, but she is still haunted by the way her last investigation ended. She’s used to online death threats in the wake of her viral true-crime podcast, but she can’t help noticing an anonymous person who keeps asking her: Who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears? Soon the threats escalate and Pip realizes that someone is following her in real life. When she starts to find connections between her stalker and a local serial killer caught six years ago, she wonders if maybe the wrong man is behind bars. Police refuse to act, so Pip has only one choice: find the suspect herself—or be the next victim. As the deadly game plays out, Pip discovers that everything in her small town is coming full circle . . .and if she doesn’t find the answers, this time she will be the one who disappears. . . And don't miss Holly Jackson's next thriller, Five Surive!

Author : Robert J . Collins
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781462904068

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More Max Danger by Robert J . Collins Pdf

Life with Max Danger is never dull— as all readers of the first, best-selling volume of his adventures as an expatriate in Tokyo will know. Somehow he muddles his way from one baffling episode in the on-going struggle with the "Japanese economic-animal kingdom" to another. And he miraculously stays a half-step ahead in the series of events that has swept him along through the pages of the Tokyo Weekender fortnightly for past three and a half years. "Mr. Collins is a funny writer with a knack for putting his finger exactly what it is that makes Japan bewildering, enduring, amusing inspiring, frustrating and, most of the time, captivating for many of its foreign guest." —The New York Times Review of Books "The stories are well written, neither unfair nor unkind and the humor is just about universal. This is a book of entertainment with an underlying fondness for what laughs at" —The Japan Times "If you are one of those people who feel inundated by the proliferation of how-to-do-business-in-Japan books, here's a chance to learn the same lessons by negative example and have belly laughs all the while" —The Asian Wall Street Journal "Max Danger is wondrously funny, friendly book." —Mainichi Daily News