Author:
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547688520
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
This fun follow-up to "Welcome to Zanzibar Road" contains five new stories featuring Mama Jumbo, Little Chico, and their friends on Zanzibar Road in an African village. Full color.
Next Stop--Zanzibar Road!
Author:
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547688520
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
This fun follow-up to "Welcome to Zanzibar Road" contains five new stories featuring Mama Jumbo, Little Chico, and their friends on Zanzibar Road in an African village. Full color.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547688520
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
This fun follow-up to "Welcome to Zanzibar Road" contains five new stories featuring Mama Jumbo, Little Chico, and their friends on Zanzibar Road in an African village. Full color.
Next Stop
Author: Glen Finland
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101577002
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
The summer David Finland was twenty-one years old, he and his mother, Glen, navigated the Washington, D.C., Metro trains. Every day. David has autism, and the hope was that if he could learn the train lines, maybe he could get a job. And if he could get a job, then maybe he could move out on his own. And maybe his parents’ marriage could get the jump start it so desperately needed. Maybe. A candid portrait of a differently abled young man poised at the entry to adulthood, Next Stop recounts the complex relationship between a child with autism and his family as he steps out into the real world alone for the first time. This personal narrative of a mother’s perpetually tested hope is a universal story of how our children grow up and how we learn to let go and reclaim our lives, no matter how hard that may be.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101577002
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
The summer David Finland was twenty-one years old, he and his mother, Glen, navigated the Washington, D.C., Metro trains. Every day. David has autism, and the hope was that if he could learn the train lines, maybe he could get a job. And if he could get a job, then maybe he could move out on his own. And maybe his parents’ marriage could get the jump start it so desperately needed. Maybe. A candid portrait of a differently abled young man poised at the entry to adulthood, Next Stop recounts the complex relationship between a child with autism and his family as he steps out into the real world alone for the first time. This personal narrative of a mother’s perpetually tested hope is a universal story of how our children grow up and how we learn to let go and reclaim our lives, no matter how hard that may be.
Next Stop
Author: Ivan Sanchez
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416562761
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Beyond the safety of New York City's news headlines, Next Stop is a train ride into the heart of the Bronx during the late eighties and early nineties at the height of the crack epidemic, a tumultuous time when hip-hop was born and money-hungry slumlords were burning down apartment buildings with tenants still inside. From one stop to the next, this gritty memoir follows Ivan Sanchez and his crew on their search for identity and an escape from poverty in a stark world where street wars and all-night symphonies of crime and drug-fueled mayhem were as routine as the number 4 train. In the game, the difference between riches and ruin was either a bullet or a lucky turn away. Almost driven insane by the poverty, despair, and senseless violence, Ivan left it all behind and moved to Virginia, but the grotesque images and voices of the dead continued to haunt him. This book honors the memories of those who died. At times heartbreakingly sad and brutal, Next Stop shares with a whole new generation the insights and hard lessons Ivan learned.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416562761
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Beyond the safety of New York City's news headlines, Next Stop is a train ride into the heart of the Bronx during the late eighties and early nineties at the height of the crack epidemic, a tumultuous time when hip-hop was born and money-hungry slumlords were burning down apartment buildings with tenants still inside. From one stop to the next, this gritty memoir follows Ivan Sanchez and his crew on their search for identity and an escape from poverty in a stark world where street wars and all-night symphonies of crime and drug-fueled mayhem were as routine as the number 4 train. In the game, the difference between riches and ruin was either a bullet or a lucky turn away. Almost driven insane by the poverty, despair, and senseless violence, Ivan left it all behind and moved to Virginia, but the grotesque images and voices of the dead continued to haunt him. This book honors the memories of those who died. At times heartbreakingly sad and brutal, Next Stop shares with a whole new generation the insights and hard lessons Ivan learned.
Next Stop Grand Central
Author: Maira Kalman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 069811888X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
At Grand Central Station, Chief of Police George Coppola finds lost people, and Mr. Chidchester, head of the Lost and Found, finds lost dogs. Marino Marino makes oyster stew, while thinking up interesting math problems. A man in a porkpie hat buys cherry pies. Maira Kalman's stylized artwork, along with entertaining text, brilliantly captures the excitement of Grand Central Station, "the busiest, fastest, biggest place there is."
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 069811888X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
At Grand Central Station, Chief of Police George Coppola finds lost people, and Mr. Chidchester, head of the Lost and Found, finds lost dogs. Marino Marino makes oyster stew, while thinking up interesting math problems. A man in a porkpie hat buys cherry pies. Maira Kalman's stylized artwork, along with entertaining text, brilliantly captures the excitement of Grand Central Station, "the busiest, fastest, biggest place there is."
Next Stop, Reloville
Author: Peter T. Kilborn
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 142993803X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
An eye-opening investigation of the growing phenomenon of "Relos," the professionals for whom relocation is a way of life Drive through the newest subdivisions of Atlanta, Dallas, or Denver, and you'll notice an unusual similarity in the layout of the houses, the models of the cars, the pastimes of the stay-at-home moms. But this is not your grandparents' suburbia, "the little houses made of ticky-tacky"—these houses go for half a million dollars and up, and no one stays longer than three or four years. You have entered the land of Relos, the mid-level executives for a growing number of American companies, whose livelihoods depend on their willingness to uproot their families in pursuit of professional success. Together they constitute a new social class, well-off but insecure, well traveled but insular. Peter T. Kilborn, a longtime reporter for The New York Times, takes us inside the lives of American Relos, showing how their distinctive pressures and values affect not only their own families and communities but also the country as a whole. As Relo culture becomes the norm for these workers, more and more Americans—no matter their jobs or the economy's booms and busts—will call Relovilles "home."
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 142993803X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
An eye-opening investigation of the growing phenomenon of "Relos," the professionals for whom relocation is a way of life Drive through the newest subdivisions of Atlanta, Dallas, or Denver, and you'll notice an unusual similarity in the layout of the houses, the models of the cars, the pastimes of the stay-at-home moms. But this is not your grandparents' suburbia, "the little houses made of ticky-tacky"—these houses go for half a million dollars and up, and no one stays longer than three or four years. You have entered the land of Relos, the mid-level executives for a growing number of American companies, whose livelihoods depend on their willingness to uproot their families in pursuit of professional success. Together they constitute a new social class, well-off but insecure, well traveled but insular. Peter T. Kilborn, a longtime reporter for The New York Times, takes us inside the lives of American Relos, showing how their distinctive pressures and values affect not only their own families and communities but also the country as a whole. As Relo culture becomes the norm for these workers, more and more Americans—no matter their jobs or the economy's booms and busts—will call Relovilles "home."
Next Stop Execution
Author: Oleg Gordievsky
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781839014901
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Oleg Gordievsky was the highest ranking KGB officer ever to work for Britain. Gordievsky's autobiography gives a fascinating account of life as a secret agent.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781839014901
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Oleg Gordievsky was the highest ranking KGB officer ever to work for Britain. Gordievsky's autobiography gives a fascinating account of life as a secret agent.
Next Stop, New York City!
Author: Patricia Reilly Giff
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 9780440413622
Category : Arrow, Emily (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
On a field trip to N.Y.C., Emily is named N.Y.C. expert and is afraid to tell her teacher that she is unfamiliar with the city.
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 9780440413622
Category : Arrow, Emily (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
On a field trip to N.Y.C., Emily is named N.Y.C. expert and is afraid to tell her teacher that she is unfamiliar with the city.
Next Stop Hollywood
Author: Steven Martin Cohen
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312357894
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Historically, short stories were a rich source of successful movies and significant films. Classics such as Rear Window, High Noon, Psycho, All About Eve, and Blade Runner began as short stories. Unfortunately, many of the major venues for discovering new talent—The Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, and Mademoiselle—are gone. Today, short stories are again becoming an important basis for major motion pictures and television, with films such as Brokeback Mountain, Good Will Hunting, and Minority Report. One reason short stories are making a Hollywood comeback is Next Stop Hollywood, an organization dedicated to finding both new talent and terrific material. This volume, selected by more than sixty movie-buff readers and advised by an editorial board of Hollywood insiders, picks up where those magazines left off. These very same stories may be at a theater near you in the near future. For anyone who has been disappointed by the movies of our day compared to those of the Golden Era of Hollywood, refresh yourself with these exciting short stories, and the possibilities they hold.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312357894
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Historically, short stories were a rich source of successful movies and significant films. Classics such as Rear Window, High Noon, Psycho, All About Eve, and Blade Runner began as short stories. Unfortunately, many of the major venues for discovering new talent—The Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, and Mademoiselle—are gone. Today, short stories are again becoming an important basis for major motion pictures and television, with films such as Brokeback Mountain, Good Will Hunting, and Minority Report. One reason short stories are making a Hollywood comeback is Next Stop Hollywood, an organization dedicated to finding both new talent and terrific material. This volume, selected by more than sixty movie-buff readers and advised by an editorial board of Hollywood insiders, picks up where those magazines left off. These very same stories may be at a theater near you in the near future. For anyone who has been disappointed by the movies of our day compared to those of the Golden Era of Hollywood, refresh yourself with these exciting short stories, and the possibilities they hold.
Next Stop: Canada
Author: Ginger McDonnell
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 9781433336119
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Presents information about the nation of Canada, covering the land, animals, plants, and culture of the region.
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 9781433336119
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Presents information about the nation of Canada, covering the land, animals, plants, and culture of the region.
Heaven Next Stop
Author: Gunther Bloemertz
Publisher: Sutton
ISBN: 9780750920544
Category : Fighter pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A fascinating "factional' insight into the lives of Luftwaffe fighter pilots during the Second World War. Gunther Bloemertz was one of the legendary 'Abbeville Boys'of Jagdgeschwader 26, who flew Focke Wulf FW 190 day fighters from their base in northern France. In this vivid personal story, Bloemertz describes life and death on the squadron, his fellow pilots and their almost daily duels with the RAF Spitfires and USAAF Flying Fortresses, fought at both ground level and in the stratosphere over the Pas de Calais ..."--Page 4 of cover
Publisher: Sutton
ISBN: 9780750920544
Category : Fighter pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A fascinating "factional' insight into the lives of Luftwaffe fighter pilots during the Second World War. Gunther Bloemertz was one of the legendary 'Abbeville Boys'of Jagdgeschwader 26, who flew Focke Wulf FW 190 day fighters from their base in northern France. In this vivid personal story, Bloemertz describes life and death on the squadron, his fellow pilots and their almost daily duels with the RAF Spitfires and USAAF Flying Fortresses, fought at both ground level and in the stratosphere over the Pas de Calais ..."--Page 4 of cover