Author: Sally Prue
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408153432
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
An engaging, well-written, humorous story about a perennially popular subject. James and the Alien Experiment is a comedy about a boy who is kidnapped by aliens. They're quite well-meaning aliens though, who want to improve his rather useless human body - which proves not to be entirely a bad thing (just mostly a bad thing). Ross is given super-strength, super-brains and super-speed and in the end he succeeds in sorting out his truly loathsome form teacher.
James and the Alien Experiment
Author: Sally Prue
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408153432
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
An engaging, well-written, humorous story about a perennially popular subject. James and the Alien Experiment is a comedy about a boy who is kidnapped by aliens. They're quite well-meaning aliens though, who want to improve his rather useless human body - which proves not to be entirely a bad thing (just mostly a bad thing). Ross is given super-strength, super-brains and super-speed and in the end he succeeds in sorting out his truly loathsome form teacher.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408153432
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
An engaging, well-written, humorous story about a perennially popular subject. James and the Alien Experiment is a comedy about a boy who is kidnapped by aliens. They're quite well-meaning aliens though, who want to improve his rather useless human body - which proves not to be entirely a bad thing (just mostly a bad thing). Ross is given super-strength, super-brains and super-speed and in the end he succeeds in sorting out his truly loathsome form teacher.
James and the Alien Experiment
Author: Sally Prue
Publisher: Chivers Children's Audio Books
ISBN: 9781405675390
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
James is kidnapped by aliens. They're quite well-meaning aliens though - they want to improve his rather useless human body by giving him superpowers. He chooses super-speed, super-brains and super-strength. But has he got more than he asked for?
Publisher: Chivers Children's Audio Books
ISBN: 9781405675390
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
James is kidnapped by aliens. They're quite well-meaning aliens though - they want to improve his rather useless human body by giving him superpowers. He chooses super-speed, super-brains and super-strength. But has he got more than he asked for?
Alien Summer #1
Author: James S. Murray
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593226127
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
"An exciting series opener."—Kirkus From the mind of Murr from the Impractical Jokers comes a new hilarious, action-packed series about a world of bizarre creatures, wacky gadgets, and four kid interns at the most interesting place on Earth: Area 51! It's the first day of summer vacation, and Viv Harlow just wants to relax with her friends at the beach before they all go to different high schools next year. She is definitely not interested in visiting her mom's office, even if Director Harlow works at the famous Area 51. But when an alarm sounds beneath the secret base and a whole race of aliens escape, she's about to get much more than she bargained for. Viv, Charlotte, Ray, and Elijah (who Viv is totally NOT crushing on) will have to work together, gear up with gadgets, and even protect a baby alien to save the day and defend Area 51. The debut middle-grade series from Murr of the Impractical Jokers, Area 51 Interns is filled with enough high-tech hijinks, bizarre creatures, and laugh-out-loud humor (plus an extra color insert full of gadgets) to make even alien skeptics hooked for more!
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593226127
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
"An exciting series opener."—Kirkus From the mind of Murr from the Impractical Jokers comes a new hilarious, action-packed series about a world of bizarre creatures, wacky gadgets, and four kid interns at the most interesting place on Earth: Area 51! It's the first day of summer vacation, and Viv Harlow just wants to relax with her friends at the beach before they all go to different high schools next year. She is definitely not interested in visiting her mom's office, even if Director Harlow works at the famous Area 51. But when an alarm sounds beneath the secret base and a whole race of aliens escape, she's about to get much more than she bargained for. Viv, Charlotte, Ray, and Elijah (who Viv is totally NOT crushing on) will have to work together, gear up with gadgets, and even protect a baby alien to save the day and defend Area 51. The debut middle-grade series from Murr of the Impractical Jokers, Area 51 Interns is filled with enough high-tech hijinks, bizarre creatures, and laugh-out-loud humor (plus an extra color insert full of gadgets) to make even alien skeptics hooked for more!
Comedy-Horror Films
Author: Bruce G. Hallenbeck
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786453788
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Fun and fright have long been partners in the cinema, dating back to the silent film era and progressing to the Scary Movie franchise and other recent releases. This guide takes a comprehensive look at the comedy-horror movie genre, from the earliest stabs at melding horror and hilarity during the nascent days of silent film, to its full-fledged development with The Bat in 1926, to the Abbott and Costello films pitting the comedy duo against Frankenstein's Monster, the Mummy and other Universal Studio monsters, continuing to such recent cult hits as Shaun of the Dead and Black Sheep. Selected short films such as Tim Burton's Frankenweenie are also covered. Photos and promotional posters, interviews with actors and a filmography are included.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786453788
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Fun and fright have long been partners in the cinema, dating back to the silent film era and progressing to the Scary Movie franchise and other recent releases. This guide takes a comprehensive look at the comedy-horror movie genre, from the earliest stabs at melding horror and hilarity during the nascent days of silent film, to its full-fledged development with The Bat in 1926, to the Abbott and Costello films pitting the comedy duo against Frankenstein's Monster, the Mummy and other Universal Studio monsters, continuing to such recent cult hits as Shaun of the Dead and Black Sheep. Selected short films such as Tim Burton's Frankenweenie are also covered. Photos and promotional posters, interviews with actors and a filmography are included.
Henry James and the "Aliens"
Author: Gert Buelens
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004485597
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Henry James and the “Aliens” intervenes substantially in current debates in James studies, most notably in the key areas of cultural studies, ethnic studies and queer studies. Focusing throughout on questions of identity, and most prominently on how the latter is given shape in the very form of the late style, the book finds that James’s response to the ethnic other can be grasped neither as an attempt to police, supervise and master the other, nor as a politics of non-identical surrender to that other. Instead, there is a continuum of identity—akin to the “criminal continuity” that James registers throughout the American scene—in which self and other, native and alien, subject and object adopt alternate roles of control and submission. Both are at times in possession of the American scene and possessed by that scene. Jamesian sexual identity, too, proves to be constantly reconstituted in transitive processes of signification that make it impossible to fix the “I” or the “other” within a fixed framework—be that framework a heterosexual or a homosexual one. The eroticism that strikingly informs the late James can therefore only be captured, if at all, under the rubric of the “queer.”
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004485597
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Henry James and the “Aliens” intervenes substantially in current debates in James studies, most notably in the key areas of cultural studies, ethnic studies and queer studies. Focusing throughout on questions of identity, and most prominently on how the latter is given shape in the very form of the late style, the book finds that James’s response to the ethnic other can be grasped neither as an attempt to police, supervise and master the other, nor as a politics of non-identical surrender to that other. Instead, there is a continuum of identity—akin to the “criminal continuity” that James registers throughout the American scene—in which self and other, native and alien, subject and object adopt alternate roles of control and submission. Both are at times in possession of the American scene and possessed by that scene. Jamesian sexual identity, too, proves to be constantly reconstituted in transitive processes of signification that make it impossible to fix the “I” or the “other” within a fixed framework—be that framework a heterosexual or a homosexual one. The eroticism that strikingly informs the late James can therefore only be captured, if at all, under the rubric of the “queer.”
I Live in a Mad House
Author: Kaye Umansky
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408153351
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Following his star turn in I am a Tree Tim is back for more comic fun. This time he's spending half term cleaning cars, and screaming toddlers have taken over his home. He's not happy. Luckily his friend Flora is on hand to help out and have a joke with. Things start to look up. Until, that is, they encounter a very angry customer and a very wet Rottweiler. But in this comedy, who will have the last laugh?
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408153351
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Following his star turn in I am a Tree Tim is back for more comic fun. This time he's spending half term cleaning cars, and screaming toddlers have taken over his home. He's not happy. Luckily his friend Flora is on hand to help out and have a joke with. Things start to look up. Until, that is, they encounter a very angry customer and a very wet Rottweiler. But in this comedy, who will have the last laugh?
Abducted
Author: Susan A. Clancy
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674029577
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
They are tiny. They are tall. They are gray. They are green. They survey our world with enormous glowing eyes. To conduct their shocking experiments, they creep in at night to carry humans off to their spaceships. Yet there is no evidence that they exist at all. So how could anyone believe he or she was abducted by aliens? Or want to believe it? To answer these questions, psychologist Susan Clancy interviewed and evaluated "abductees"--old and young, male and female, religious and agnostic. She listened closely to their stories--how they struggled to explain something strange in their remembered experience, how abduction seemed plausible, and how, having suspected abduction, they began to recollect it, aided by suggestion and hypnosis. Clancy argues that abductees are sane and intelligent people who have unwittingly created vivid false memories from a toxic mix of nightmares, culturally available texts (abduction reports began only after stories of extraterrestrials appeared in films and on TV), and a powerful drive for meaning that science is unable to satisfy. For them, otherworldly terror can become a transforming, even inspiring experience. "Being abducted," writes Clancy, "may be a baptism in the new religion of this millennium." This book is not only a subtle exploration of the workings of memory, but a sensitive inquiry into the nature of belief.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674029577
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
They are tiny. They are tall. They are gray. They are green. They survey our world with enormous glowing eyes. To conduct their shocking experiments, they creep in at night to carry humans off to their spaceships. Yet there is no evidence that they exist at all. So how could anyone believe he or she was abducted by aliens? Or want to believe it? To answer these questions, psychologist Susan Clancy interviewed and evaluated "abductees"--old and young, male and female, religious and agnostic. She listened closely to their stories--how they struggled to explain something strange in their remembered experience, how abduction seemed plausible, and how, having suspected abduction, they began to recollect it, aided by suggestion and hypnosis. Clancy argues that abductees are sane and intelligent people who have unwittingly created vivid false memories from a toxic mix of nightmares, culturally available texts (abduction reports began only after stories of extraterrestrials appeared in films and on TV), and a powerful drive for meaning that science is unable to satisfy. For them, otherworldly terror can become a transforming, even inspiring experience. "Being abducted," writes Clancy, "may be a baptism in the new religion of this millennium." This book is not only a subtle exploration of the workings of memory, but a sensitive inquiry into the nature of belief.
Something Slimy on Primrose Drive
Author: Karen Wallace
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9781598891133
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Boris and Anaconda Wolfbane dream of a safe, ordinary life for their family. But the Wolfbanes are far from ordinary.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9781598891133
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Boris and Anaconda Wolfbane dream of a safe, ordinary life for their family. But the Wolfbanes are far from ordinary.
Ghosts Away
Author: Sue Purkiss
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9781598891157
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Young ghosts Spooker, Goof, and Holly are off to a remote Scottish castle. But the castle is already haunted!
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9781598891157
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Young ghosts Spooker, Goof, and Holly are off to a remote Scottish castle. But the castle is already haunted!
ALIENS BELIEVE TOO!
Author: Brian Hiller
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615173918
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
ALIENS BELIEVE TOO! By Brian Hiller has finally arrived here at Lulu! Created with intense Action...heart pounding Adventure...and hysterical Comedy, promises a story of one which its Readers will never forget.This book is actually adapted from one of Brians's movie screenplays. So if you enjoy movie's you'll enjoy this book. Summary: A daring Newspaper Reporter James Lowery, investigates sightings of strange unidentified lights in the night skies over his community, and in the process is abducted by Aliens and a thought to be missing Earth Science Professor Landin Burke...where in turn learns of a deadly virus set free on Earth by Alien foes, the Tre'toans. James also learns that his very own perfect DNA will be used to create a serum to possibly save all mankind on Earth from annihilation. Embarking on a dangerous journey ten light-years away from Earth, James and his new companions soon find themselves caught in the middle of a full scale war on Silus with the dreaded Tre'toans.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615173918
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
ALIENS BELIEVE TOO! By Brian Hiller has finally arrived here at Lulu! Created with intense Action...heart pounding Adventure...and hysterical Comedy, promises a story of one which its Readers will never forget.This book is actually adapted from one of Brians's movie screenplays. So if you enjoy movie's you'll enjoy this book. Summary: A daring Newspaper Reporter James Lowery, investigates sightings of strange unidentified lights in the night skies over his community, and in the process is abducted by Aliens and a thought to be missing Earth Science Professor Landin Burke...where in turn learns of a deadly virus set free on Earth by Alien foes, the Tre'toans. James also learns that his very own perfect DNA will be used to create a serum to possibly save all mankind on Earth from annihilation. Embarking on a dangerous journey ten light-years away from Earth, James and his new companions soon find themselves caught in the middle of a full scale war on Silus with the dreaded Tre'toans.