Author: Patricia McKissack
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
ISBN: 0307559173
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Side-splittingly funny, spine-chillingly spooky, this companion to a Newbery Honor–winning anthology The Dark Thirty is filled with bad characters who know exactly how to charm. From the author's note that takes us back to McKissack's own childhood when she would listen to stories told on her front porch... to the captivating introductions to each tale, in which the storyteller introduces himself and sets the stage for what follows... to the ten entertaining tales themselves, here is a worthy successor to McKissack's The Dark Thirty. In "The Best Lie Ever Told," meet Dooley Hunter, a trickster who spins an enormous whopper at the State Liar's contest. In "Aunt Gran and the Outlaws," watch a little old lady slickster outsmart Frank and Jesse James. And in "Cake Norris Lives On," come face to face with a man some folks believe may have died up to twenty-seven different times!
Porch Lies
Author: Patricia McKissack
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
ISBN: 0307559173
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Side-splittingly funny, spine-chillingly spooky, this companion to a Newbery Honor–winning anthology The Dark Thirty is filled with bad characters who know exactly how to charm. From the author's note that takes us back to McKissack's own childhood when she would listen to stories told on her front porch... to the captivating introductions to each tale, in which the storyteller introduces himself and sets the stage for what follows... to the ten entertaining tales themselves, here is a worthy successor to McKissack's The Dark Thirty. In "The Best Lie Ever Told," meet Dooley Hunter, a trickster who spins an enormous whopper at the State Liar's contest. In "Aunt Gran and the Outlaws," watch a little old lady slickster outsmart Frank and Jesse James. And in "Cake Norris Lives On," come face to face with a man some folks believe may have died up to twenty-seven different times!
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
ISBN: 0307559173
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Side-splittingly funny, spine-chillingly spooky, this companion to a Newbery Honor–winning anthology The Dark Thirty is filled with bad characters who know exactly how to charm. From the author's note that takes us back to McKissack's own childhood when she would listen to stories told on her front porch... to the captivating introductions to each tale, in which the storyteller introduces himself and sets the stage for what follows... to the ten entertaining tales themselves, here is a worthy successor to McKissack's The Dark Thirty. In "The Best Lie Ever Told," meet Dooley Hunter, a trickster who spins an enormous whopper at the State Liar's contest. In "Aunt Gran and the Outlaws," watch a little old lady slickster outsmart Frank and Jesse James. And in "Cake Norris Lives On," come face to face with a man some folks believe may have died up to twenty-seven different times!
Porch Lies
Author: Pat McKissack
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
ISBN: 9780375936197
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of stories told on the front porch of the authors grandparents' house.
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
ISBN: 9780375936197
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of stories told on the front porch of the authors grandparents' house.
A Brief Guide to Classical Civilization
Author: Stephen P. Kershaw
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1849018006
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
A general introduction to the classical world from its origins to the fall of the Roman Empire. The book focuses on questions of how we know about Classical civilization from archaeology and history; deals with the Mycenaean era and the world of Myth and Epic in Homer's Iliad & Odyssey; gives an outline of Greek history in the 5th & 4th Centuries BC; looks at Greek social life and the alternative model of Sparta, and considers the achievements of the Greeks in their art and architecture, tragedy and comedy. Turning to Rome, it engages with Roman history, the Roman Epic tradition, the fascinating features of Roman social life, analyses Roman satire, explores the urban environment in Pompeii and Herculaneum, and concludes with the End of Rome.
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1849018006
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
A general introduction to the classical world from its origins to the fall of the Roman Empire. The book focuses on questions of how we know about Classical civilization from archaeology and history; deals with the Mycenaean era and the world of Myth and Epic in Homer's Iliad & Odyssey; gives an outline of Greek history in the 5th & 4th Centuries BC; looks at Greek social life and the alternative model of Sparta, and considers the achievements of the Greeks in their art and architecture, tragedy and comedy. Turning to Rome, it engages with Roman history, the Roman Epic tradition, the fascinating features of Roman social life, analyses Roman satire, explores the urban environment in Pompeii and Herculaneum, and concludes with the End of Rome.
The Dark-Thirty
Author: Patricia McKissack
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0593123476
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
With an extraordinary gift for suspense, McKissack brings us ten original, spine-tingling tales inspired by African American history and the mystery of that eerie half hour before nightfall—the dark-thirty.
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0593123476
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
With an extraordinary gift for suspense, McKissack brings us ten original, spine-tingling tales inspired by African American history and the mystery of that eerie half hour before nightfall—the dark-thirty.
Murder in Memphis
Author: Dorris D. Porch
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 9780425201923
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Recounts a family's attempts to solve the murder of one of their kin, a Memphis woman named Deborah Watts, in a case stretching over twenty years, from 1977 to 1997.
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 9780425201923
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Recounts a family's attempts to solve the murder of one of their kin, a Memphis woman named Deborah Watts, in a case stretching over twenty years, from 1977 to 1997.
Keith's Beautiful Homes Magazine
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Languages : en
Pages : 788
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Languages : en
Pages : 788
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Popular Mechanics Handbook for Women
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Category : Home economics
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Category : Home economics
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Qi Men Dun Jia: Feng Shui
Author: Joey Yap
Publisher: Joey Yap Research Group
ISBN: 9670310660
Category : Feng shui
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Publisher: Joey Yap Research Group
ISBN: 9670310660
Category : Feng shui
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Popular Mechanics Magazine
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Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1186
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Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1186
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Keith's Magazine on Home Building
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Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 810
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Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 810
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