The Swallowtail Legacy 1 Wreck At Ada S Reef

Author : Michael D. Beil
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781645951025

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The Swallowtail Legacy 1: Wreck at Ada's Reef by Michael D. Beil Pdf

A vibrant contemporary mystery with a classic feel about grappling with grief, righting past wrongs, redefining family, and finding yourself. An Edgar Award Nominee! Twelve-year-old Lark Heron-Finch is steeling herself to spend the summer on Swallowtail Island off the shores of Lake Erie. It's the first time she and her sister will have seen the old house since their mom passed away. The island's always been full of happy memories—and with a step father and his boys and no mom, now everything is different. When Nadine, a close family friend, tells Lark about a tragic boat accident that happened off the coast many years before, Lark's enthralled with the story. Nadine's working on a book about Dinah Purdy, Swallowtail's oldest resident who had a connection to the crash, and she's sure that the accident was not as it appeared. Impressed by Lark's keen eye, she hires her as her research assistant for the summer. And then Lark discovers something amazing. Something that could change Dinah's life. Something linked to the crash and to her own family's history with Swallowtail. But there are others on the island who would do anything to keep the truth buried in the watery depths of the past. A compelling and complex mystery with a classic feel, Wreck at Ada's Reef is a perfect coming-of-age middle grade novel for fans of The Parker Inheritance, Holes, The Westing Game, and anyone looking for a satisfying puzzle that stretches across decades. Named to the Vermont Golden Dome Book Award List

Author : Michael D. Beil
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781645950493

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The Swallowtail Legacy 1: Wreck at Ada's Reef by Michael D. Beil Pdf

A vibrant contemporary mystery with a classic feel exploring righting past wrongs, redefining family, and finding yourself. Punctuated with transcripts, letters, maps, black-and-white illustrations and more. Twelve-year-old Lark Heron-Finch is steeling herself to spend the summer on Swallowtail Island off the shores of Lake Erie. It's the first time she and her sister will have seen the old house since their mom passed away. The island's always been full of happy memories—and with a step father and his boys and no mom, now everything is different. When Nadine, a close family friend, tells Lark about a tragic boat accident that happened off the coast many years before, Lark's enthralled with the story. Nadine's working on a book about Dinah Purdy, Swallowtail's oldest resident who had a connection to the crash, and she's sure that the accident was not as it appeared. Impressed by Lark's keen eye, she hires her as her research assistant for the summer. And then Lark discovers something amazing. Something that could change Dinah's life. Something linked to the crash and to her own family's history with Swallowtail. But there are others on the island who would do anything to keep the truth buried in the watery depths of the past. A compelling and complex mystery with a classic feel, Wreck at Ada's Reef is a perfect coming-of-age middle grade novel for fans of The Parker Inheritance, Holes, The Westing Game, and anyone looking for a satisfying puzzle that stretches across decades.

Author : Jonathan Case
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780823452811

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Little Monarchs by Jonathan Case Pdf

A ten-year-old girl may be the only person who can save humanity from extinction in this exciting graphic novel adventure. It’s been fifty years since a sun shift wiped out nearly all mammal life across the earth. Towns and cities are abandoned relics, autonomous machines maintain roadways, and the world is slowly being reclaimed by nature. Isolated pockets of survivors keep to themselves in underground sites, hiding from the lethal sunlight by day and coming above ground at night. 10-year-old Elvie and her caretaker, Flora, a biologist, are the only two humans who can survive during daylight because Flora made an incredible discovery – a way to make an antidote to sun sickness using the scales from monarch butterfly wings. Unfortunately, it can only be made in small quantities and has a short shelf life. Free to travel during the day, Elvie and Flora follow monarchs as they migrate across the former Western United States, constantly making new medicine for themselves while trying to find a way to make a vaccine they can share with everyone. Will they discover a way to go from a treatment to a cure and preserve what remains of humanity, or will their efforts be thwarted by disaster and the very people they are trying to save? Little Monarchs is a new kind of graphic novel adventure—one that invites readers to take an intimate look at the natural world and the secrets hidden within. Elvie and Flora’s adventures take place in real locations marked panel-by-panel with coordinates and a compass heading. Curious readers can follow their travel routes and see the same landscapes—whether it be a secluded butterfly grove on the California coast or a hot-springs in the high desert. Through both comic narrative and journal entries, readers learn the basics of star navigation, how to tie useful knots, and other survival skills applicable in the natural world. Creator Jonathan Case acquired the fact-based portion of Little Monarchs through intensive research and several expeditions to study monarchs across the western United States. Scientific support also came from the Xerces Society, the world leaders in monarch preservation. An American Library Association Notable Children's Book An ALA Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table Top Ten Best Graphic Novels for Children Selection Named to the Little Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year An NPR Book We Love A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A Booklist Editors’ Choice Selection

Author : Deborah Heiligman
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781250187550

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Torpedoed by Deborah Heiligman Pdf

From award-winning author Deborah Heiligman comes Torpedoed, a true account of the attack and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of Benares, which was evacuating children from England during WWII. Amid the constant rain of German bombs and the escalating violence of World War II, British parents by the thousands chose to send their children out of the country: the wealthy, independently; the poor, through a government relocation program called CORB. In September 1940, passenger liner SS City of Benares set sail for Canada with one hundred children on board. When the war ships escorting the Benares departed, a German submarine torpedoed what became known as the Children's Ship. Out of tragedy, ordinary people became heroes. This is their story. This title has Common Core connections.

Author : Michael D. Beil
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780375867422

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Summer at Forsaken Lake by Michael D. Beil Pdf

Twelve-year-old Nicholas and his ten-year-old, twin sisters, Hetty and Haley, spend the summer with their Great-Uncle Nick at Forsaken Lake, where he and their new friend Charlie investigate the truth about an accident involving their families many years before.

Author : Alan Madison
Publisher : Dragonfly Books
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780307978042

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Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly by Alan Madison Pdf

It's hard to be Velma, the littlest Gratch, entering the first grade. That's because everyone has marvelous memories of her two older sisters, who were practically perfect first graders. Poor Velma—people can barely remember her name. But all that changes on a class trip to the magnificent Butterfly Conservatory—a place neither of her sisters has ever been. When a monarch roosts on Velma's finger and won't budge for days . . . well, no one will forget Velma ever again. Acclaimed and bestselling illustrator Kevin Hawkes and author Alan Madison celebrate everything butterfly—from migration to metamorphosis. Watch as Velma Gratch metamorphosizes from a timid first grader into a confident young scientist!

Author : Michael D. Beil
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780385753197

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Lantern Sam and the Blue Streak Bandits by Michael D. Beil Pdf

“An atmospheric late-1930s adventure with old-time cinematic appeal. Fans of fast-paced, far-fetched action will lap it up as enthusiastically as Sam swallows his favorite brand of sardines.” —Kirkus Reviews Lantern Sam is the wise-cracking, sarcastic, talking cat (for those who can hear him, that is) who lives on board the Lake Erie Shoreliner train and is one of the best detectives no one knows about. He doesn’t have much patience for humans (unless they bring him sardines), but when 10-year-old traveler Henry can’t find his new friend, the exuberant Ellie, Sam’s enlisted to help. A ransom note is soon discovered and just like that, Sam and Henry are on the case, with the help of Clarence the Conductor (who supplies Sam’s sardines). But is Ellie still on board the train? Did the salesman with his trunk full of samples sneak her off? And why does that couple keep acting so suspiciously? Veteran middle-grade mystery author Michael D. Beil has crafted a hilarious and appealing adventure set in the 1930s that’s chock-full of quirky characters and red herrings, and all with an irresistible cat at its center.

Author : Don Rittner,Timothy Lee McCabe
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08
Category : Biology
ISBN : 9781438109992

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Encyclopedia of Biology by Don Rittner,Timothy Lee McCabe Pdf

Contains approximately 800 alphabetical entries, prose essays on important topics, line illustrations, and black-and-white photographs.

Author : Michael D. Beil
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780385753210

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A New Recruit by Michael D. Beil Pdf

Andy witnesses a bank robbery and becomes a recruit for a secret organization that finds and eliminates evil.

Author : M. G. Leonard,Sam Sedgman
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781250222947

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Murder on the Safari Star: Adventures on Trains #3 by M. G. Leonard,Sam Sedgman Pdf

In this third book of the middle-grade Adventures on Trains series by M. G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman, amateur sleuth Hal Beck travels to South Africa with his uncle to a ride a famous train...and stumbles onto a murder mystery! Following his adventure on the California Comet, artist and amateur sleuth Hal Beck is looking forward to another railway journey with Nat, his journalist uncle—this time riding the historic Safari Star through South Africa. Then the already eventful journey becomes even more so when one of their fellow passengers dies on board! Accident . . . or murder? With help from a new friend, Winston (and his mongoose, Chipo), Hal is determined to figure out if a murder has really taken place and, if so, who among a long list of suspects is the killer—all before the Safari Star arrives at its final destination.

Author : Gary Paulsen
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780374314217

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Northwind by Gary Paulsen Pdf

This stunning New York Times Bestseller from the survival story master, set along a rugged coastline centuries ago, does for the ocean what Hatchet does for the woods, as it relates the story of a young person’s battle to stay alive against the odds, where the high seas meet a coastal wilderness. When a deadly plague reaches the small fish camp where he lives, an orphan named Leif is forced to take to the water in a cedar canoe. He flees northward, following a wild, fjord-riven shore, navigating from one danger to the next, unsure of his destination. Yet the deeper into his journey he paddles, the closer he comes to his truest self as he connects to “the heartbeat of the ocean . . . the pulse of the sea.” With hints of Nordic mythology and an irresistible narrative pull, Northwind is Gary Paulsen at his captivating, adventuresome best.

Author : Troll Lord Games
Publisher : Troll Lord Games
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1936822350

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The Storyteller's Thesaurus by Troll Lord Games Pdf

Writers, game designers, teachers, and students ~this is the book youve been waiting for! Written by storytellers for storytellers, this volume offers an entirely new approach to word finding. Browse the pages within to see what makes this book different:

Author : Hans Rupprecht Goette
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134543939

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Athens, Attica and the Megarid by Hans Rupprecht Goette Pdf

This exciting new guide is the ideal companion to Greece if you are a traveller with historical and archaeological interests, as it combines practical information with impeccable scholarly research. Written by an expert on Greece's landscape and archaeology, the guide is unique in exploring a wide range of sites off the beaten track. It also tours all the best-known monuments and regions, from the Acropolis to Aegina, from Megara to Marathon and from Sounion to Salamis. Beautifully illustrated with over 200 plates, maps, plans and drawings, it includes: * precise descriptions of routes and individual sites * artistic, historical, social and political background * unprecedented coverage outside Athens * detailed exploration of the post-classical, Byzantine and post-Byzantine periods. Take it with you on your travels or read it at home; either way, you will gain a deeper appreciation and enjoyment of Greece's history and archaeology.

Author : Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781408102572

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Anagram Solver by Bloomsbury Publishing Pdf

Anagram Solver is the essential guide to cracking all types of quiz and crossword featuring anagrams. Containing over 200,000 words and phrases, Anagram Solver includes plural noun forms, palindromes, idioms, first names and all parts of speech. Anagrams are grouped by the number of letters they contain with the letters set out in alphabetical order so that once the letters of an anagram are arranged alphabetically, finding the solution is as easy as locating the word in a dictionary.

Author : Arthur H. Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Clipper ships
ISBN : HARVARD:32044024583627

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The Clipper Ship Era by Arthur H. Clark Pdf