Author: Gordon Korman
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780590442053
Category : Boarding schools
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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When they discover that Macdonald Hall is in financial trouble and in danger of closing, the boys come up with a wacky plan to get publicity for their cause and save the school.
Author: Gordon Korman
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 9780590403542
Category : Boarding schools
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Author: Kim File
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734490800
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Twelve-year-old Storm West is so done after a hideously boring sixth-grade school year. Kicking off the summer by working at her family's Crimson Creek Resort in the mountains of Wyoming feels like a welcome change . . . until freaky things start happening. The animals are acting weird, a thief's on the loose, and the ghost from a legend communicates with Storm through her dreams. Storm's mysterious grandmother, K?ú??i, even warns her to be on the lookout for a ?i?íye, the Lakota word for bogeyman.As Storm and her new friend IQ begin to uncover the dark secrets of Miner's Mountain, they find that abandoned mine shafts, shadowy woods, and tall reeds make perfect hiding spots for frightful creatures. Suddenly, boredom doesn't seem so bad.
Author: Gordon Korman
Publisher: Scholastic Canada
ISBN: 1443128031
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Gordon Korman's classic, bestselling series celebrates its 35th anniversary! Macdonald Hall's ivy-covered buildings have housed and educated many fine young Canadians. But Bruno Walton and Boots O'Neal are far from being fine young Canadians. The roommates and best friends are nothing but trouble! Together they've snuck out after lights-out, swapped flags, kidnapped mascots . . . and that's only the beginning. Macdonald High is having some serious cash flow problems. Everything is being cut back — evening snack is gone, the lab equipment is decrepit and the dorms are freezing at night. Worst of all, Bruno Walton and Boots O'Neal are being moved in with Elmer Drimsdale — the science geek. There's even talk of Macdonald Hall being put up for sale! Could this be the end of Canada's finest boarding school or do Bruno and Boots have a plan? Join two of Gordon Korman's most memorable characters in seven side-splitting, rip-roaring adventures! Macdonald Hall is the series that started it all, and thirty-five years later it remains a must-read for old fans and new, the young — and the young at heart.
Author: Mara Rutherford
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1488038880
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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“A fabulous interweaving of fantasy, politics, and sisterhood—this unusual, tense tale will have you on the edge of your seat!”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Tamora Pierce Red Queen meets House of Salt and Sorrow in Mara Rutherford's debut YA fantasy Crown of Coral and Pearl, which follows a young woman from a village on the sea who must impersonate her twin on land to save everyone she loves from a tyrannical prince. For generations, the crown princes of Ilara have married the most beautiful maidens from the ocean village of Varenia. Nor once dreamed of seeing the mysterious mountain kingdom for herself, but after a childhood accident left her with a scar, she knew her twin sister, Zadie, would likely be chosen to marry the crown prince. Then Zadie is injured, and Nor is sent to Ilara in her place. She soon discovers her future husband, Prince Ceren, is as forbidding and cold as his home. And as she grows closer to Ceren’s brother, Prince Talin, Nor learns of a failing royal bloodline, a murdered queen...and a plot to destroy her village. To save her people, Nor must learn to negotiate the treacherous protocols of a court where lies reign and obsession rules...but discovering her own formidable strength may cost her everything she loves. Books in the Crown of Coral and Pearl duology: Crown of Coral and Pearl Kingdom of Sea and Stone
Author: C. Lavett Smith
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801480843
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Smith presents habitat selection, food and feeding habits, defense adaptations, and reproductive mechanisms of freshwater fishes and tips on where, when, and how to find and watch fishes in their natural habitats.
Author: Ian Frazier
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374706336
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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In The Fish's Eye: Essays about Angling and the Outdoors, Ian Frazier "A Great Storyteller" (Newsweek), and one of the "American Originals" (Washington Post Book World) explores his lifelong passion for fishing, fish, and the aquatic world. He sees the angler's environment all around him-in New York's Grand Central Station, in the cement-lined pond of a city park, in a shimmering bonefish flat in the Florida keys, in the trout streams of the Rocky Mountains. He marvels at the fishing in the turbid Ohio River by downtown Cincinnati, where a good bait for catfish is half a White Castle french fry. The incidentals of the angling experience, the who and the where of it, interest him as much as what he catches and how. The essays (including the famous profile of master angler Jim Deren, late proprietor of New York's tackle store, the Angler's Roost) contain sharply focused observations of the American outdoors, a place filled with human alterations and detritus that somehow remains defiantly unruined. Frazier's simple love of the sport lifts him to straight -ahead angling description that are among the best contemporary writing on the subject. The Fish's Eye brings together twenty years of heartfelt, funny, and vivid essays on a timeless pursuit where so many mysteries, both human and natural, coincide.
Author: Jessika Fleck
Publisher: Swoon Reads
ISBN: 125015474X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 319
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On the island of Bellona, they worship the sun. Seventeen-year-old Veda understands that keeping the sun content ensures plentiful crops, peace and harmony, and a thriving economy. But as a member of the Basso class, she never reaps those benefits. Life as a Basso is one fraught with back-breaking work and imposing rules. Her close friendship with Nico is Veda’s one saving grace in a cruel world where the division between her people and the ruling Dogio is as wide and winding as the canals that snake through their island. But when Veda’s grandfather is chosen as the next sacrificial offering to keep the sun’s favor, Veda is forced to see the injustice of her world. Turning away from the sun means she must join the night—and an underground revolution she’s been taught to fear all her life.
Author: John McPhee
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374706344
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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John McPhee's twenty-sixth book is a braid of personal history, natural history, and American history, in descending order of volume. Each spring, American shad-Alosa sapidissima-leave the ocean in hundreds of thousands and run heroic distances upriver to spawn. McPhee--a shad fisherman himself--recounts the shad's cameo role in the lives of George Washington and Henry David Thoreau. He fishes with and visits the laboratories of famous ichthyologists; he takes instruction in the making of shad darts from a master of the art; and he cooks shad in a variety of ways, delectably explained at the end of the book. Mostly, though, he goes fishing for shad in various North American rivers, and he "fishes the same way he writes books, avidly and intensely. He wants to know everything about the fish he's after--its history, its habits, its place in the cosmos" (Bill Pride, The Denver Post). His adventures in pursuit of shad occasion the kind of writing--expert and ardent--at which he has no equal.
Author: Heather Pindar
Publisher: Maverick Arts
ISBN: 1848863802
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
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A cautionary tale about what can go wrong when playing tricks on others! The rope bridge swayed and frayed and slipped and dipped a little too much. The Mighty Bitey Piranhas' grins got even bigger. Under a rope bridge in the jungle live the Mighty Bitey Piranhas and they are looking for a snack. When Mouse walks over the bridge on their way to Cougar's party the Mighty Bitey Prianhas have an idea. If they can get the bridge to break they'll have a lovely Mouse-y lunch! When Goat and Bear join Mouse on the bridge the Mighty Bitey think their plan will work wonderfully. But not everything goes to plan, and the Mighty Bitey might have bitten off more than they can chew! A funny picture book perfect for fans of 'Three Billy Goats Gruff'. Suitable for children aged 3-6, this book will bring plenty of joy to any story time.
