Author: Twinkl Originals
Publisher: Twinkl
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Otis Owl and Kia Kingfisher both find mysterious feathers. Who do they belong to? After searching day and night, they each find a feathered friend to help them solve the puzzle. Download the full eBook and explore supporting teaching materials at www.twinkl.com/originals Join Twinkl Book Club to receive printed story books every half-term at www.twinkl.co.uk/book-club (UK only).
Author: Margaret Verble
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 0358554837
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
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Louise Erdrich meets Karen Russell in this deliciously strange and daringly original novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Margaret Verble: An eclectic cast of characters--both real and ghostly--converge at an amusement park in Nashville, 1926.
Author: Tracy McGrath
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781527267664
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Tim Tingle
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874837773
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Choctaw variant of Aesop's fable, The Tortoise and the Hare, in which Turkey assists Turtle in defeating Rabbit.
Author: Kirk Wallace Johnson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101981628
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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As heard on NPR's This American Life “Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air “One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.” —Christian Science Monitor A rollicking true-crime adventure and a captivating journey into an underground world of fanatical fly-tiers and plume peddlers, for readers of The Stranger in the Woods, The Lost City of Z, and The Orchid Thief. On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin's obsession: the Victorian art of salmon fly-tying. Once inside the museum, the champion fly-tier grabbed hundreds of bird skins—some collected 150 years earlier by a contemporary of Darwin's, Alfred Russel Wallace, who'd risked everything to gather them—and escaped into the darkness. Two years later, Kirk Wallace Johnson was waist high in a river in northern New Mexico when his fly-fishing guide told him about the heist. He was soon consumed by the strange case of the feather thief. What would possess a person to steal dead birds? Had Edwin paid the price for his crime? What became of the missing skins? In his search for answers, Johnson was catapulted into a years-long, worldwide investigation. The gripping story of a bizarre and shocking crime, and one man's relentless pursuit of justice, The Feather Thief is also a fascinating exploration of obsession, and man's destructive instinct to harvest the beauty of nature.
Author: Robert Rivard
Publisher: Public Affairs
ISBN: 9781586482220
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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A reporter's murder in Mexico and his editor's search for justice.
Author: Joy Cowley
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780399247910
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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The story of the summer Josh spends while his mother is in the hospital awaiting the birth of his baby sister, and his pet chicken Semolina--who talks but only to him--is almost killed by a red fox.
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Publisher: Philomel
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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A collection of animal fables and folklore from such sources as the Bidpai fables, Aesop, Panchatantra, Grimm, and Wu Cheng'en.
Author: Sita Singh
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593116461
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Differences are gorgeously illustrated in a heartwarming picture book about a colorless peacock who learns to love himself in a jungle full of color. Mo has always felt a little different. While all the other peacocks grew bright, bold, beautiful feathers in rich greens and vibrant blues, Mo's feathers grew in a snowy white. And even though Mo's friends try to include him in their playtime, Mo doesn't like to be reminded that he's different from his friends. But when a storm threatens to ruin the group's annual celebration, Mo must learn to stand tall, strut his stuff, and shake his brilliantly glowing tail feathers--in a way only he can--to help his friends and set things right. From debut author Sita Singh, and brought to life by Stephanie Fizer Coleman, comes a story about finding strength in the things that make us different, and beauty in all its forms.
Author: Anna-Marie McLemore
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250058651
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 319
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Lace Paloma and Cluck Corbeau, from feuding families of traveling performers, fall in love.
