Author: Catherine Bateson
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
ISBN: 0702256277
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Rain May and her mum escape their old inner-city life for a dream house in the country. But there are more than a few suprises in store - like discovering a platypus or the fun of fridge poetry and phenomenally bright eleven-year-old, Captain Daniel, who lives next door. Together these unlikely friends adventure where no one has gone before.
Rain May and Captain Daniel
Author: Catherine Bateson
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
ISBN: 0702256277
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Rain May and her mum escape their old inner-city life for a dream house in the country. But there are more than a few suprises in store - like discovering a platypus or the fun of fridge poetry and phenomenally bright eleven-year-old, Captain Daniel, who lives next door. Together these unlikely friends adventure where no one has gone before.
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
ISBN: 0702256277
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Rain May and her mum escape their old inner-city life for a dream house in the country. But there are more than a few suprises in store - like discovering a platypus or the fun of fridge poetry and phenomenally bright eleven-year-old, Captain Daniel, who lives next door. Together these unlikely friends adventure where no one has gone before.
Rain May and Captain Daniel
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Stranded in Boringsville
Author: Catherine Bateson
Publisher: Holiday House
ISBN: 9780823421138
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Following her parents separation, 12-year-old Rain moves with her mother to the country. There she befriends the unpopular boy who lives next door, and also seeks a way to cope with her feelings toward her father and his new girlfriend.
Publisher: Holiday House
ISBN: 9780823421138
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Following her parents separation, 12-year-old Rain moves with her mother to the country. There she befriends the unpopular boy who lives next door, and also seeks a way to cope with her feelings toward her father and his new girlfriend.
Rain
Author: Cynthia Barnett
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0804137110
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Rain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the world's water. Yet this is the first book to tell the story of rain. Cynthia Barnett's Rain begins four billion years ago with the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of climate change. It weaves together science—the true shape of a raindrop, the mysteries of frog and fish rains—with the human story of our ambition to control rain, from ancient rain dances to the 2,203 miles of levees that attempt to straitjacket the Mississippi River. It offers a glimpse of our "founding forecaster," Thomas Jefferson, who measured every drizzle long before modern meteorology. Two centuries later, rainy skies would help inspire Morrissey’s mopes and Kurt Cobain’s grunge. Rain is also a travelogue, taking readers to Scotland to tell the surprising story of the mackintosh raincoat, and to India, where villagers extract the scent of rain from the monsoon-drenched earth and turn it into perfume. Now, after thousands of years spent praying for rain or worshiping it; burning witches at the stake to stop rain or sacrificing small children to bring it; mocking rain with irrigated agriculture and cities built in floodplains; even trying to blast rain out of the sky with mortars meant for war, humanity has finally managed to change the rain. Only not in ways we intended. As climate change upends rainfall patterns and unleashes increasingly severe storms and drought, Barnett shows rain to be a unifying force in a fractured world. Too much and not nearly enough, rain is a conversation we share, and this is a book for everyone who has ever experienced it.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0804137110
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Rain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the world's water. Yet this is the first book to tell the story of rain. Cynthia Barnett's Rain begins four billion years ago with the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of climate change. It weaves together science—the true shape of a raindrop, the mysteries of frog and fish rains—with the human story of our ambition to control rain, from ancient rain dances to the 2,203 miles of levees that attempt to straitjacket the Mississippi River. It offers a glimpse of our "founding forecaster," Thomas Jefferson, who measured every drizzle long before modern meteorology. Two centuries later, rainy skies would help inspire Morrissey’s mopes and Kurt Cobain’s grunge. Rain is also a travelogue, taking readers to Scotland to tell the surprising story of the mackintosh raincoat, and to India, where villagers extract the scent of rain from the monsoon-drenched earth and turn it into perfume. Now, after thousands of years spent praying for rain or worshiping it; burning witches at the stake to stop rain or sacrificing small children to bring it; mocking rain with irrigated agriculture and cities built in floodplains; even trying to blast rain out of the sky with mortars meant for war, humanity has finally managed to change the rain. Only not in ways we intended. As climate change upends rainfall patterns and unleashes increasingly severe storms and drought, Barnett shows rain to be a unifying force in a fractured world. Too much and not nearly enough, rain is a conversation we share, and this is a book for everyone who has ever experienced it.
His Name in Fire
Author: Catherine Bateson
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702234781
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
His Name in Fire is told from three points of view Molly a circus worker employed to engage bored and disaffected local youth - to put on a circus performance; Matthew a teenager and son of TJ the local blues man. Matthew is in love with Emma the snakeman s daughter. Emma is new to the town, a loner who is trying to come to terms with her mother s rejection.Each of these characters are confronting a major crisis in their lives and trying to make sense out of them. Set against the backdrop of a country town the very real issues of unemployment, lack of educational opportunities, lack of facilities, drought and poverty in outback Australia are skilfully woven into the narrative without ever being preachy.His Name in Fire is a celebration of community in a country town. It is a beautiful novel about relationships, love and trust.
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702234781
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
His Name in Fire is told from three points of view Molly a circus worker employed to engage bored and disaffected local youth - to put on a circus performance; Matthew a teenager and son of TJ the local blues man. Matthew is in love with Emma the snakeman s daughter. Emma is new to the town, a loner who is trying to come to terms with her mother s rejection.Each of these characters are confronting a major crisis in their lives and trying to make sense out of them. Set against the backdrop of a country town the very real issues of unemployment, lack of educational opportunities, lack of facilities, drought and poverty in outback Australia are skilfully woven into the narrative without ever being preachy.His Name in Fire is a celebration of community in a country town. It is a beautiful novel about relationships, love and trust.
Crossing Boundaries with Children's Books
Author: Doris Gebel
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810852037
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
This annotated bibliography-organized geographically by world region and country, describing nearly 700 books representing 73 countries-is a valuable resource for librarians, teachers, and anyone else seeking to promote international understanding through children's literature. It is the third volume sponsored by the United States Board on Books for Young People. The first, Carl M. Tomlinson's Children's Books from Other Countries (1998) is a compendium of international children's literature with annotations of both in and out of print books published between 1950 and 1996. Susan Stan's The World Through Children's Books (2002) was the second and it included books published between the years 1997 and 2000. Crossing Boundaries includes international children's books published between 2000 and 2004, as well as selected American books set in countries other than the United States. Editor Doris Gebel has compiled an important tool for providing stories that will help children understand our differences while simultaneously demonstrating our common humanity.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810852037
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
This annotated bibliography-organized geographically by world region and country, describing nearly 700 books representing 73 countries-is a valuable resource for librarians, teachers, and anyone else seeking to promote international understanding through children's literature. It is the third volume sponsored by the United States Board on Books for Young People. The first, Carl M. Tomlinson's Children's Books from Other Countries (1998) is a compendium of international children's literature with annotations of both in and out of print books published between 1950 and 1996. Susan Stan's The World Through Children's Books (2002) was the second and it included books published between the years 1997 and 2000. Crossing Boundaries includes international children's books published between 2000 and 2004, as well as selected American books set in countries other than the United States. Editor Doris Gebel has compiled an important tool for providing stories that will help children understand our differences while simultaneously demonstrating our common humanity.
The Diary of Captain Daniel Roe
Author: Daniel Roe
Publisher: Worcester : Blanchard Press
ISBN:
Category : Brookhaven (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Family history of Daniel Roe (1740-1820) born in Port Jefferson, New York, died in Westfields, now Selden, Long Island, New York. Daniel was married to Deborah Brewster.
Publisher: Worcester : Blanchard Press
ISBN:
Category : Brookhaven (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Family history of Daniel Roe (1740-1820) born in Port Jefferson, New York, died in Westfields, now Selden, Long Island, New York. Daniel was married to Deborah Brewster.
Painted Love Letters
Author: Catherine Bateson
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 0702258156
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
And bigger than all of that, I knew that sometimes you had to do the impossible like eat oysters or go shopping even when you could hardly breathe because that is what people did when they truly loved one another and it had nothing to do with freckles or anklebones or lipstick." Dave is dying. Chrissie, Mum, Nan and Badger are going to be left behind. Because sometimes life is like that. "painted love letters" ... a story of the heart.
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 0702258156
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
And bigger than all of that, I knew that sometimes you had to do the impossible like eat oysters or go shopping even when you could hardly breathe because that is what people did when they truly loved one another and it had nothing to do with freckles or anklebones or lipstick." Dave is dying. Chrissie, Mum, Nan and Badger are going to be left behind. Because sometimes life is like that. "painted love letters" ... a story of the heart.
The”Glorious Old Third” A History of the Third Michigan Infantry 1855 to 1927
Author: Steve Soper
Publisher: Steve Soper
ISBN: 0978786106
Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 789
Book Description
Publisher: Steve Soper
ISBN: 0978786106
Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 789
Book Description
Junior High School Library Catalog
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Publisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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