Author: Monica Vincent
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780582074989
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Longman Originals is a series of graded readers in four stages. All the stories are original - that is to say, written especially for the series. Originated from the Longman Structural Readers, the series aims to offer a stimulating range of modern stories, including detective stories, adventure and romance.
Girl Against the Jungle
Author: Monica Vincent
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780582074989
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Longman Originals is a series of graded readers in four stages. All the stories are original - that is to say, written especially for the series. Originated from the Longman Structural Readers, the series aims to offer a stimulating range of modern stories, including detective stories, adventure and romance.
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780582074989
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Longman Originals is a series of graded readers in four stages. All the stories are original - that is to say, written especially for the series. Originated from the Longman Structural Readers, the series aims to offer a stimulating range of modern stories, including detective stories, adventure and romance.
Girl Against the Jungle
Author: Monica C. Vincent
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780582798212
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A teenage girl finds herself the sole survivor of an airplane crash in the Peruvian jungle. A reader for students of English as a foreign language.
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780582798212
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A teenage girl finds herself the sole survivor of an airplane crash in the Peruvian jungle. A reader for students of English as a foreign language.
When I Fell From the Sky
Author: Juliane Koepcke
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1857889452
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
On Christmas Eve 1971, the packed LANSA flight 508 from Lima to Pucallpa was struck by lightning and went down in dense jungle hundreds of miles from civilization. Of its 93 passengers, only one survived. Juliane Koepcke, the seventeen-year-old child of famous German zoologists. She'd been thrown from the plane two miles above the forest canopy, but had sustained only a broken collarbone and a cut on her leg. With incredible courage, instinct and ingenuity, she survived three weeks in the "green hell" of the Amazon - using the skills she'd learned in assisting her parents on their research trips into the jungle - before coming across a loggers hut, and, with it, safety. Now she tells her fascinating story for the first time, and in doing so tells us about her 'Gerald Durrell' childhood - with a menagerie of wild, exotic and sometimes dangerous pets - about how she learned to survive at her parents ecological station deep in the rainforest and about her present-day commitment to this wildlife as a biologist and dedicated environmentalist.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1857889452
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
On Christmas Eve 1971, the packed LANSA flight 508 from Lima to Pucallpa was struck by lightning and went down in dense jungle hundreds of miles from civilization. Of its 93 passengers, only one survived. Juliane Koepcke, the seventeen-year-old child of famous German zoologists. She'd been thrown from the plane two miles above the forest canopy, but had sustained only a broken collarbone and a cut on her leg. With incredible courage, instinct and ingenuity, she survived three weeks in the "green hell" of the Amazon - using the skills she'd learned in assisting her parents on their research trips into the jungle - before coming across a loggers hut, and, with it, safety. Now she tells her fascinating story for the first time, and in doing so tells us about her 'Gerald Durrell' childhood - with a menagerie of wild, exotic and sometimes dangerous pets - about how she learned to survive at her parents ecological station deep in the rainforest and about her present-day commitment to this wildlife as a biologist and dedicated environmentalist.
The Jungle Book
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Grasshopper Jungle
Author: Andrew Smith
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101590068
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
A 2015 Michael L. Printz Honor Book Winner of the 2014 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction "Raunchy, bizarre, smart and compelling." --Rolling Stone “Grasshopper Jungle is simultaneously creepy and hilarious. Reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut’s in “Slaughterhouse Five,” in the best sense.” --New York Times Book Review In the small town of Ealing, Iowa, Austin and his best friend, Robby, have accidentally unleashed an unstoppable army. An army of horny, hungry, six-foot-tall praying mantises that only want to do two things. This is the truth. This is history. It’s the end of the world. And nobody knows anything about it. You know what I mean. Funny, intense, complex, and brave, Grasshopper Jungle brilliantly weaves together everything from testicle-dissolving genetically modified corn to the struggles of recession-era, small-town America in this groundbreaking coming-of-age stunner.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101590068
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
A 2015 Michael L. Printz Honor Book Winner of the 2014 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction "Raunchy, bizarre, smart and compelling." --Rolling Stone “Grasshopper Jungle is simultaneously creepy and hilarious. Reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut’s in “Slaughterhouse Five,” in the best sense.” --New York Times Book Review In the small town of Ealing, Iowa, Austin and his best friend, Robby, have accidentally unleashed an unstoppable army. An army of horny, hungry, six-foot-tall praying mantises that only want to do two things. This is the truth. This is history. It’s the end of the world. And nobody knows anything about it. You know what I mean. Funny, intense, complex, and brave, Grasshopper Jungle brilliantly weaves together everything from testicle-dissolving genetically modified corn to the struggles of recession-era, small-town America in this groundbreaking coming-of-age stunner.
The Real and Imaginary Adventures of Jace the Jungle Girl
Author: Jay Japes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781514355664
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Warning: Strong Sexual Content! Peril! Bondage! Gosh! All three of the popular Jace episodes that originally appeared in The Boundaries collections on the Kindle, edited and expanded, plus a brand new tale ... Jungle Girl Photoshoot -- She asks a photographer buddy to help her make a kinky calendar for her boyfriend ... Things get out of hand, in the woods. Jungle Girl, Her Soldier Boy & Savage Brute ... Jace engineers a challenging contest between two rivals. Hot Cop vs Jungle Girl ... Against her will, a policewoman gets caught up in one of Jace's wild roleplays. And it excites her. Jace the Jungle Girl & the Tiger Tribe ... ALL NEW. Jace meets monster men in the Last Jungle. And this time -- for her, at least -- it isn't pretend.>> For this revised print edition, we've stuck in a second bonus story, in which Jace encounters Marion Glaive, an adventurous scientist strangely reminiscent of the heroine from a popular computer game ...
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781514355664
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Warning: Strong Sexual Content! Peril! Bondage! Gosh! All three of the popular Jace episodes that originally appeared in The Boundaries collections on the Kindle, edited and expanded, plus a brand new tale ... Jungle Girl Photoshoot -- She asks a photographer buddy to help her make a kinky calendar for her boyfriend ... Things get out of hand, in the woods. Jungle Girl, Her Soldier Boy & Savage Brute ... Jace engineers a challenging contest between two rivals. Hot Cop vs Jungle Girl ... Against her will, a policewoman gets caught up in one of Jace's wild roleplays. And it excites her. Jace the Jungle Girl & the Tiger Tribe ... ALL NEW. Jace meets monster men in the Last Jungle. And this time -- for her, at least -- it isn't pretend.>> For this revised print edition, we've stuck in a second bonus story, in which Jace encounters Marion Glaive, an adventurous scientist strangely reminiscent of the heroine from a popular computer game ...
Red Jungle
Author: Kent Harrington
Publisher: Polis Books
ISBN: 1947993615
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A riveting noir thriller from Kent Harrington set in Guatemala, Red Jungle stems from the author's intimate knowledge of the modern-day country and its legacy of 100 years of political tyranny. Russell Cruz-Price was the child of an elite family of American father and a high-society Guatemalan mother. After his mother’s murder at an early age, supposedly at the hands of communist insurgents, cheated him out of a normal childhood, Russell has come to view the world as a hostile place. Educated at U.S. military school and college, Russell is a financial reporter sent to Guatemala to cover a politically chaotic and increasingly dangerous economy, where prices are crashing and the policies mandated by Washington and the IMF have failed to keep the country from the brink of disaster. While on assignment, Russell befriends a young German archaeologist, Gustav Mahler, who believes that a priceless treasure from Mayan antiquity -- the legendarily lost "Red Jaguar" -- can be unearthed on a certain failing coffee plantation. The two men pool their resources and enter the jungle in pursuit of fame and riches. In the search for fortune, Russell will gamble his all in a game where not only his future, but that of the entire country of Guatemala is at stake.
Publisher: Polis Books
ISBN: 1947993615
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A riveting noir thriller from Kent Harrington set in Guatemala, Red Jungle stems from the author's intimate knowledge of the modern-day country and its legacy of 100 years of political tyranny. Russell Cruz-Price was the child of an elite family of American father and a high-society Guatemalan mother. After his mother’s murder at an early age, supposedly at the hands of communist insurgents, cheated him out of a normal childhood, Russell has come to view the world as a hostile place. Educated at U.S. military school and college, Russell is a financial reporter sent to Guatemala to cover a politically chaotic and increasingly dangerous economy, where prices are crashing and the policies mandated by Washington and the IMF have failed to keep the country from the brink of disaster. While on assignment, Russell befriends a young German archaeologist, Gustav Mahler, who believes that a priceless treasure from Mayan antiquity -- the legendarily lost "Red Jaguar" -- can be unearthed on a certain failing coffee plantation. The two men pool their resources and enter the jungle in pursuit of fame and riches. In the search for fortune, Russell will gamble his all in a game where not only his future, but that of the entire country of Guatemala is at stake.
Into the Jungle
Author: Erica Ferencik
Publisher: Pocket Books
ISBN: 1982123567
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
In this “hypnotic, violent, unsparing” (A.J. Banner, USA TODAY bestselling author) thriller from the author of the “haunting, twisting thrill ride” (Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author) The River at Night, a young woman leaves behind everything she knows to take on the Bolivian jungle, but her excursion abroad quickly turns into a fight for her life. Lily Bushwold thought she’d found the antidote to endless foster care and group homes: a gig teaching English in Cochabamba, Bolivia. As soon as she could steal enough cash for the plane, she was on it. But the program was a scam. And bonding with other broke, rudderless girls in the local youth hostel wasn’t the answer. Falling crazy in love with Omar, a savvy, handsome local who’d left his life as a hunter in Ayachero—a remote jungle village—to try city life: this was the last thing Lily could have imagined. When Omar learns that a jaguar had killed his four-year-old nephew in Ayachero, he gives Lily a choice: stay alone in the unforgiving city, or travel to the last in the ever-more-isolated string of river towns in the jungles of Bolivia. Thirty-foot anacondas? Puppy-sized spiders? Vengeful shamans with unspeakable powers? None of it matters to love-struck Lily. She follows Omar to a ruthless new world of lawless poachers, bullheaded missionaries, and desperate indigenous tribes driven to the brink of extinction. To survive, Lily must navigate the jungle—and all its residents—using only her wits and resilience. “Gripping, breathtaking, and exquisitely told—Into the Jungle pulls you into another world, returning you forever transformed” (Wendy Walker, USA TODAY bestselling author).
Publisher: Pocket Books
ISBN: 1982123567
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
In this “hypnotic, violent, unsparing” (A.J. Banner, USA TODAY bestselling author) thriller from the author of the “haunting, twisting thrill ride” (Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author) The River at Night, a young woman leaves behind everything she knows to take on the Bolivian jungle, but her excursion abroad quickly turns into a fight for her life. Lily Bushwold thought she’d found the antidote to endless foster care and group homes: a gig teaching English in Cochabamba, Bolivia. As soon as she could steal enough cash for the plane, she was on it. But the program was a scam. And bonding with other broke, rudderless girls in the local youth hostel wasn’t the answer. Falling crazy in love with Omar, a savvy, handsome local who’d left his life as a hunter in Ayachero—a remote jungle village—to try city life: this was the last thing Lily could have imagined. When Omar learns that a jaguar had killed his four-year-old nephew in Ayachero, he gives Lily a choice: stay alone in the unforgiving city, or travel to the last in the ever-more-isolated string of river towns in the jungles of Bolivia. Thirty-foot anacondas? Puppy-sized spiders? Vengeful shamans with unspeakable powers? None of it matters to love-struck Lily. She follows Omar to a ruthless new world of lawless poachers, bullheaded missionaries, and desperate indigenous tribes driven to the brink of extinction. To survive, Lily must navigate the jungle—and all its residents—using only her wits and resilience. “Gripping, breathtaking, and exquisitely told—Into the Jungle pulls you into another world, returning you forever transformed” (Wendy Walker, USA TODAY bestselling author).
The Second Jungle Book
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: Castrovilli Giuseppe
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Presents the further adventures of Mowgli, a boy reared by a pack of wolves, and the wild animals of the jungle. Also includes other short stories set in India.
Publisher: Castrovilli Giuseppe
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Presents the further adventures of Mowgli, a boy reared by a pack of wolves, and the wild animals of the jungle. Also includes other short stories set in India.
Lady Tigers in the Concrete Jungle
Author: Dibs Baer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1643132903
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Violence was a way of life for the girls of Mott Middle School in the South Bronx. Some woke up to it at home, and others dodged it on the way to school. Vicious physical fights broke out in classrooms, hallways, and bathrooms. These girls filed their fingernails into sharp points because they had to be ready to go at any time. Then a new coach joined the ranks at Mott Middle, and a new program began: girl's softball. Astacio offers the girls the time and attention they need to take their first steps to success. As they learned to throw, hit and field, they also dealt with the foul balls life threw at them: unwanted pregnancies, abusive boyfriends, and unsupportive families. But the biggest challenge they faced was learning to think and act like a team, not just a bunch of fierce girls against each other—and the world. Lady Tigers is a story of coming together with faith, courage, and new-found values to overcome fear, violence, and doubt. These girls have ushered in a new confidence and pride not only in themselves, but in their school, the faculty, and their friends. And while not all of them have continued down this new path, many are now the first in their families to go to college and are beginning to see how being a Lady Tiger will always be a part of their lives.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1643132903
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Violence was a way of life for the girls of Mott Middle School in the South Bronx. Some woke up to it at home, and others dodged it on the way to school. Vicious physical fights broke out in classrooms, hallways, and bathrooms. These girls filed their fingernails into sharp points because they had to be ready to go at any time. Then a new coach joined the ranks at Mott Middle, and a new program began: girl's softball. Astacio offers the girls the time and attention they need to take their first steps to success. As they learned to throw, hit and field, they also dealt with the foul balls life threw at them: unwanted pregnancies, abusive boyfriends, and unsupportive families. But the biggest challenge they faced was learning to think and act like a team, not just a bunch of fierce girls against each other—and the world. Lady Tigers is a story of coming together with faith, courage, and new-found values to overcome fear, violence, and doubt. These girls have ushered in a new confidence and pride not only in themselves, but in their school, the faculty, and their friends. And while not all of them have continued down this new path, many are now the first in their families to go to college and are beginning to see how being a Lady Tiger will always be a part of their lives.