Author: James Leck
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1554537401
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Iona High School's self-styled private eye Jack Lime investigates a disappearing quarterback, a stolen painting, and a stolen comic book.
The Further Adventures of Jack Lime
Author: James Leck
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1554537401
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Iona High School's self-styled private eye Jack Lime investigates a disappearing quarterback, a stolen painting, and a stolen comic book.
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1554537401
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Iona High School's self-styled private eye Jack Lime investigates a disappearing quarterback, a stolen painting, and a stolen comic book.
The Adventures of Jack Lime
Author: James Leck
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1771380675
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
A filmnoir novel featuring a hardboiled, narcoleptic teenage PI who solves mysteries for his fellow high schoolers.
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1771380675
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
A filmnoir novel featuring a hardboiled, narcoleptic teenage PI who solves mysteries for his fellow high schoolers.
The Adventures of Jack Lime
Author: James Leck
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1554533643
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
A film-noir novel featuring a hard-boiled, narcoleptic teenage PI who solves mysteries for his fellow high schoolers.
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1554533643
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
A film-noir novel featuring a hard-boiled, narcoleptic teenage PI who solves mysteries for his fellow high schoolers.
After Dark
Author: James Leck
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1771383445
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Fifteen-year-old slacker Charlie Harker is stuck in the sleepy town of Rolling Hills for the summer, helping his mom renovate his great-grandfather's creaky old inn. It's not entirely dull, thanks to Charlie's new neighbor Miles Van Helsing, who insists there's paranormal activity happening in Rolling Hills. Charlie chalks it up to Miles being the town nutcase. But many townspeople are falling prey to a mysterious illness, and wisecracking Charlie quickly gets wise: there's something sinister going on in Rolling Hills.
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1771383445
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Fifteen-year-old slacker Charlie Harker is stuck in the sleepy town of Rolling Hills for the summer, helping his mom renovate his great-grandfather's creaky old inn. It's not entirely dull, thanks to Charlie's new neighbor Miles Van Helsing, who insists there's paranormal activity happening in Rolling Hills. Charlie chalks it up to Miles being the town nutcase. But many townspeople are falling prey to a mysterious illness, and wisecracking Charlie quickly gets wise: there's something sinister going on in Rolling Hills.
Get Those Guys Reading!
Author: Kathleen A. Baxter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Want to identify fiction books that boys in grades three through nine will find irresistible? This guide reveals dozens of worthwhile recommendations in categories ranging from adventure stories and sports novels to horror, humorous, and science fiction books. In Get Those Guys Reading!: Fiction and Series Books that Boys Will Love, authors Kathleen A. Baxter and Marcia A. Kochel provide compelling and current reading suggestions for younger boys—information that educators, librarians, and parents alike are desperate for. Comprising titles that are almost all well-reviewed in at least one major professional journal, or that are such big hits with kids that they've received the "stamp of approval" from the most important reviewers, this book will be invaluable to anyone whose goal is to help boys develop a healthy enthusiasm for reading. It includes chapters on adventure books; animal stories; graphic novels; historical fiction; humorous books; mystery, horror, and suspense titles; science fiction and fantasy; and sports novels. Within each chapter, the selections are further divided into books for younger readers (grades 3–6) and titles for older boys in grades 5–8. Elementary and middle school librarians and teachers, public librarians, Title One teachers, and parents of boys in grades 3–9 will all benefit greatly from having this book at hand.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Want to identify fiction books that boys in grades three through nine will find irresistible? This guide reveals dozens of worthwhile recommendations in categories ranging from adventure stories and sports novels to horror, humorous, and science fiction books. In Get Those Guys Reading!: Fiction and Series Books that Boys Will Love, authors Kathleen A. Baxter and Marcia A. Kochel provide compelling and current reading suggestions for younger boys—information that educators, librarians, and parents alike are desperate for. Comprising titles that are almost all well-reviewed in at least one major professional journal, or that are such big hits with kids that they've received the "stamp of approval" from the most important reviewers, this book will be invaluable to anyone whose goal is to help boys develop a healthy enthusiasm for reading. It includes chapters on adventure books; animal stories; graphic novels; historical fiction; humorous books; mystery, horror, and suspense titles; science fiction and fantasy; and sports novels. Within each chapter, the selections are further divided into books for younger readers (grades 3–6) and titles for older boys in grades 5–8. Elementary and middle school librarians and teachers, public librarians, Title One teachers, and parents of boys in grades 3–9 will all benefit greatly from having this book at hand.
Inside Hudson Pickle
Author: Yolanda Ridge
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1771389524
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
A spot on the basketball team isnÍt the only thing HudsonÍs looking for. Cut from AAA hockey, seventh-grader Hudson Pickle needs to make the basketball team. But, after having an asthma attack at the first tryout, his chances arenÍt looking good. Then itÍs discovered that his uncle Vic has a genetic respiratory illness. Could this mean Hudson has something worse than asthma? And while this DNA mystery is being unraveled, will the truth about what happened to his father finally be revealed as well? Sometimes the pains of growing up come from unexpected places. And so do the rewards.
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1771389524
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
A spot on the basketball team isnÍt the only thing HudsonÍs looking for. Cut from AAA hockey, seventh-grader Hudson Pickle needs to make the basketball team. But, after having an asthma attack at the first tryout, his chances arenÍt looking good. Then itÍs discovered that his uncle Vic has a genetic respiratory illness. Could this mean Hudson has something worse than asthma? And while this DNA mystery is being unraveled, will the truth about what happened to his father finally be revealed as well? Sometimes the pains of growing up come from unexpected places. And so do the rewards.
The Further Adventures of Eddie Dickens
Author: Philip Ardagh
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571310540
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Eddie Dickens finds himself far from home in the heathery highlands of Scotland for some Further Adventures embracing a whole host of new characters and firm favourites such as Malcolm the stuffed stoat. Including Dubious Deeds, Horrendous Habits and The Final Curtain, fans of Philip Ardagh will gobble up this great gift edition.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571310540
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Eddie Dickens finds himself far from home in the heathery highlands of Scotland for some Further Adventures embracing a whole host of new characters and firm favourites such as Malcolm the stuffed stoat. Including Dubious Deeds, Horrendous Habits and The Final Curtain, fans of Philip Ardagh will gobble up this great gift edition.
The Adventures of Jack Lime
Author: James Leck
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1554533651
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
A film-noir novel featuring a hard-boiled, narcoleptic teenage PI who solves mysteries for his fellow high schoolers.
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1554533651
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
A film-noir novel featuring a hard-boiled, narcoleptic teenage PI who solves mysteries for his fellow high schoolers.
Pandora's Curse
Author: Jack Du Brul
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780451409638
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
A deadly fifty-year-old secret from World War II, hidden away at a top-secret Nazi submarine base, could spell disaster for the modern world when a ruthless corporate mercenary plans to hold the entire world hostage, unless geologist Philip Mercer and his colleague, Anika Klein, can stop him. Original.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780451409638
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
A deadly fifty-year-old secret from World War II, hidden away at a top-secret Nazi submarine base, could spell disaster for the modern world when a ruthless corporate mercenary plans to hold the entire world hostage, unless geologist Philip Mercer and his colleague, Anika Klein, can stop him. Original.
Limekiller
Author: Avram Davidson
Publisher: Or All the Seas with Oysters Publishing LLC.
ISBN: 9781955676212
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Avram Davidson's six Jack Limekiller stories create a rich and colorful world where the magical and inexplicable coexist with the outboard motor and the escalation of the American war in Vietnam. British Hidalgo is "a place that you can put your arms around" - welcoming and friendly to the visitor, but uncanny beings dwell in the bush and roam along its coast. Afloat and ashore, Jack Limekiller, master of the working sailboat Saccharissa, encounters ghosts of the colonial past and monsters far older. Set in the imaginary Central American colony of British Hidalgo (a fictionalized British Honduras / Belize), originally published in various magazines, It includes a preface by Grania Davis, introductions by Lucius Shepard and Peter S. Beagle, and concluding material by Henry Wessells, the author, Grania Davis and Ethan Davidson.
Publisher: Or All the Seas with Oysters Publishing LLC.
ISBN: 9781955676212
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Avram Davidson's six Jack Limekiller stories create a rich and colorful world where the magical and inexplicable coexist with the outboard motor and the escalation of the American war in Vietnam. British Hidalgo is "a place that you can put your arms around" - welcoming and friendly to the visitor, but uncanny beings dwell in the bush and roam along its coast. Afloat and ashore, Jack Limekiller, master of the working sailboat Saccharissa, encounters ghosts of the colonial past and monsters far older. Set in the imaginary Central American colony of British Hidalgo (a fictionalized British Honduras / Belize), originally published in various magazines, It includes a preface by Grania Davis, introductions by Lucius Shepard and Peter S. Beagle, and concluding material by Henry Wessells, the author, Grania Davis and Ethan Davidson.