The Mosquito Brothers

Author : Griffin Ondaatje
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781554984398

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The Mosquito Brothers by Griffin Ondaatje Pdf

Accompanied by quirky line drawings by Spanish illustrator Erica Salcedo, this is a gently humorous and remarkably informative nature-adventure story about an unlikely pointy-nosed hero with big dreams and an even bigger heart. After he nearly drowns in a parking-lot puddle, Dinnn Needles is fearful of many things, including flying. When his four hundred siblings swarm off without him, he finds time to dream —about family stories, a lost brother, adventure in The Wild and, above all, how to be cool. At school in an abandoned air-conditioner, Dinnn learns about the deadly Pondhawk dragonfly and other dangers that lie beyond his home under a drive-in theater screen. But Dinnn never really takes to city life. Lonely and left out, he is filled with an unexplained longing. He sips spilled cola from abandoned pop cans, but it is not as tasty as flower nectar. He tries to make friends with the local street mosquitoes, but that just lands him in a sewer filled with spiders and water snakes. He hears about the red mini-van that brought his parents together and wonders about his extended family in the country. He even finds a great black jacket in a roadside ditch, but it doesn’t make him cool. And then one day, as fate would have it, the red mini-van reappears, giving Dinnn a chance to visit to his relatives in The Wild, where new perils await an inexperienced city mosquito — being struck by a raindrop, zapped by a porch light or snapped up by a hungry fish at dusk. But in the end Dinnn discovers that being cool is a matter of what you do, especially for one’s friends and family, including two new brothers. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.3 Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events

Author : Erica Rowell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 9780810858503

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The Brothers Grim by Erica Rowell Pdf

The Brothers Grim examines the inner workings of the Coens' body of work, discussing a movie in terms of its primary themes, social and political contexts, narrative techniques, influences, relationship to their other films, and the Coens' referential modus operandi that retreads cinema, literature, history, philosophy, and art to amplify their films' themes.

Author : Samuel A. Bard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:55298608

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Waikna, Or, Adventures on the Mosquito Shore by Samuel A. Bard Pdf

Author : Gordon Patterson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0813547008

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The Mosquito Crusades by Gordon Patterson Pdf

Among the struggles of the twentieth century, the one between humans and mosquitoes may have been the most vexing, as demonstrated by the long battle to control these bloodsucking pests. As vectors of diseases such as malaria, yellow fever, encephalitis, and dengue fever, mosquitoes forced open a new chapter in the history of medical entomology. Based on extensive use of primary sources, The Mosquito Crusades traces this saga and the parallel efforts of civic groups in New Jersey's Meadowlands and along San Francisco Bay's east side to manage the dangerous mosquito population. Providing readers with a fascinating exploration of the relationship between science, technology, and public policy, Gordon Patterson's narrative begins in New Jersey with John B. Smith's effort to develop a comprehensive plan and solution for mosquito control, one that would serve as a national model. From the Reed Commission's 1900 yellow fever experiment to the first Earth Day seventy years later, Patterson provides an eye-opening account of the crusade to curtail the deadly mosquito population.

Author : Kathleen Krull
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781442436800

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The Brothers Kennedy by Kathleen Krull Pdf

An inspiring picture book about John, Robert, and Edward Kennedy, by acclaimed author Kathy Krull and New York Times bestselling artist Amy Bates.

Author : GABRIEL J. LOIZILLON
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781300558408

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THE BUNAU-VARILLA BROTHERS AND THE PANAMA CANAL by GABRIEL J. LOIZILLON Pdf

This book unravels the secrets of the Bunau-Varilla brothers' fortune, made in the construction of the French Canal in Panama in 1886-1889. It also asks why Philippe Bunau-Varilla is not recognised by Panamanians as the man who helped their republic to be born - without him, the Panama Canal would have been in Nicaragua.

Author : Lauren Markham
Publisher : Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101906187

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The Far Away Brothers by Lauren Markham Pdf

"The ... story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California-- fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong ... journalist Lauren Markham follows the seventeen-year-old Flores twins as they make their harrowing journey across the Rio Grande and the Texas desert, into the hands of immigration authorities, and from there to their estranged older brother's custody in Oakland, CA. Soon these unaccompanied minors are navigating a new school in a new language, working to pay down their mounting coyote debt, and facing their day in immigration court, while also encountering the triumphs and pitfalls of life as American teenagers-- girls, grades, Facebook --with only each other for support"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Sally Grindley
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781616087326

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Hurricane Wills by Sally Grindley Pdf

Eleven-year-old Chris struggles to cope with his older brother Wills's ADHD, especially after Wills begins hanging around with a bad crowd and Chris, aware of his illegal activities, feels he must hide the misdeeds from their recently-separated parents.

Author : Timothy C. Winegard
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781925774702

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The Mosquito by Timothy C. Winegard Pdf

The surprising true story of how the course of human history was redirected, time and again, by the pesky mosquito.

Author : David McCullough
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476728766

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The Wright Brothers by David McCullough Pdf

The #1 New York Times bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize—the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly—Wilbur and Orville Wright. On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two brothers—bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio—changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe that the age of flight had begun, with the first powered machine carrying a pilot. Orville and Wilbur Wright were men of exceptional courage and determination, and of far-ranging intellectual interests and ceaseless curiosity. When they worked together, no problem seemed to be insurmountable. Wilbur was unquestionably a genius. Orville had such mechanical ingenuity as few had ever seen. That they had no more than a public high school education and little money never stopped them in their mission to take to the air. Nothing did, not even the self-evident reality that every time they took off, they risked being killed. In this “enjoyable, fast-paced tale” (The Economist), master historian David McCullough “shows as never before how two Ohio boys from a remarkable family taught the world to fly” (The Washington Post) and “captures the marvel of what the Wrights accomplished” (The Wall Street Journal). He draws on the extensive Wright family papers to profile not only the brothers but their sister, Katharine, without whom things might well have gone differently for them. Essential reading, this is “a story of timeless importance, told with uncommon empathy and fluency…about what might be the most astonishing feat mankind has ever accomplished…The Wright Brothers soars” (The New York Times Book Review).

Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241959190

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The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux Pdf

Winner of the Stanford Dolman Lifetime Contribution to Travel Writing Award 2020 The Mosquito Coast - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize - is a breathtaking novel about fanaticism and a futile search for utopia from bestseller Paul Theroux. Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation and takes the family to live in the Honduran jungle. There his tortured, messianic genius keeps them alive, his hoarse tirades harrying them through a diseased and dirty Eden towards unimaginable darkness. 'Stunning. . . exciting, intelligent, meticulously realised, artful' Victoria Glendinning, Sunday Times 'An epic of paranoid obsession that swirls the reader headlong to deposit him on a black mudbank of horror' Christopher Wordsworth, Guardian 'Magnificently stimulating and exciting' Anthony Burgess American travel writer Paul Theroux is known for the rich descriptions of people and places that is often streaked with his distinctive sense of irony; his novels and collected short stories, My Other Life, The Collected Stories, My Secret History, The Lower River, The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro, A Dead Hand, Millroy the Magician, The Elephanta Suite, Saint Jack, The Consul's File, The Family Arsenal, and his works of non-fiction, including the iconic The Great Railway Bazaar are available from Penguin.

Author : Peddar Panga
Publisher : Peddar Panga
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780692646557

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Tales of the Mirrors by Peddar Panga Pdf

When author Peddar Panga was young, his parents and grandparents shared animal stories with him. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, these entertaining fables always came with lessons illustrating the universal truths of life. Tales of the Mirrors gathers fifty such tales, rewritten with a modern audience in mind. Discover the dangers of living solely for your career in "The Royal Hyena Guard," where a hyena becomes so concerned with defending his pack's territory that he hurts those closest to him. Meet a raccoon carpenter on a campaign to cure work accidents-and a charismatic crab who fools a colony of ants. Similar in tone to Aesop's fables and the stories of Jean de La Fontaine, Panga's stories explore personal discipline, security, the pursuit of happiness, mastery of fear, and healing. Most of all, they celebrate the enduring power of love. Let Panga's tales sweep you away to a world where animals talk, feel, and act like humans. In doing so, they mirror the best and worst in ourselves, offering a chance to learn more about who we are and how we should act.

Author : Laura Adams Armer
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780486492889

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Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer Pdf

Story, told in beautiful poetic prose, of the training of a present-day Navajo Indian boy who feels a vocation to become a medicine man.

Author : Caroline Stellings
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781772601749

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The Great Cookie War by Caroline Stellings Pdf

Life in her traditional Mennonite community is peaceful, if a little dull, for twelve-year-old Beth who dreams of being an artist. She goes to school, helps with the cooking and cleaning at home, and works with her parents at the local farmer’s market. One Saturday, however, excitement shows up in the form of a determined lawyer from New York City who insists she needs a family cookie recipe to win a multi-million-dollar lawsuit. Beth’s parents are bemused, but her grandmother is equally determined that the recipe will not leave her kitchen. As she tries to balance her love for her family and her faith with the promises of adventure New York could bring to her future, Beth learns that she is stronger than she believes. And sometimes, adventures happen close to home.

Author : Felix Sutton
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780486492582

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We Were There at the First Airplane Flight by Felix Sutton Pdf

"On a blustery North Carolina afternoon in 1902, young Jimmie and Clara Blair meet Orville and Wilbur Wright and assist the inventors in realizing their dream of human flight"--