Author: Celeste Irizarry
Publisher: Celeste Irizarry
ISBN: 0998221910
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Follow the adventures of a young dark magician as he discovers mystical portals, magic spheres and friendships in quest to conquer the parallel world known as Earth. Uncover the hidden secrets and perilous challenges that await our young magician. Who is friend or foe? Will he succeed in his quest to conquer and destroy the Earth or will he save it from certain doom? Come along for an exciting adventure and discover the truth behind the magic.
The Misadventures of a Young Dark Magician
Author: Celeste Irizarry
Publisher: Celeste Irizarry
ISBN: 0998221910
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Follow the adventures of a young dark magician as he discovers mystical portals, magic spheres and friendships in quest to conquer the parallel world known as Earth. Uncover the hidden secrets and perilous challenges that await our young magician. Who is friend or foe? Will he succeed in his quest to conquer and destroy the Earth or will he save it from certain doom? Come along for an exciting adventure and discover the truth behind the magic.
Publisher: Celeste Irizarry
ISBN: 0998221910
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Follow the adventures of a young dark magician as he discovers mystical portals, magic spheres and friendships in quest to conquer the parallel world known as Earth. Uncover the hidden secrets and perilous challenges that await our young magician. Who is friend or foe? Will he succeed in his quest to conquer and destroy the Earth or will he save it from certain doom? Come along for an exciting adventure and discover the truth behind the magic.
Land of the Unknown
Author: Celeste Irizarry
Publisher: Celeste Irizarry
ISBN: 0998221929
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
An innocent peek into a secret lab transports our trio into a perilous world with strange beings and dinosaurs. They must uncover the mysteries of this land and find their way back before it is too late. Twists and turns will keep you guessing who is really behind the so-called accident and what it means to our young lost souls.
Publisher: Celeste Irizarry
ISBN: 0998221929
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
An innocent peek into a secret lab transports our trio into a perilous world with strange beings and dinosaurs. They must uncover the mysteries of this land and find their way back before it is too late. Twists and turns will keep you guessing who is really behind the so-called accident and what it means to our young lost souls.
The Misadventures of the Magician's Dog
Author: Frances Sackett
Publisher: Holiday House
ISBN: 0823430030
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Peter Lubinsky doesn't even like dogs and can't understand why he asked for one for his birthday. But it turns out that this pet, whom Peter calls The Dog, can talk and do magic--and he needs Peter's help. In return, The Dog promises to teach Peter conjuring and to help him bring his father home from the Middle East, where he is deployed with the air force. Soon Peter finds himself flying through the air on a mission to rescue The Dog's master. But as Peter's magical powers grow, he finds himself filled with dark anger. A bedroom full of dinosaur fossils, a waiter who was formerly a mouse, and an epic battle of magicians make for a thrilling read. This imaginative middle-grade fantasy is about the power of love and enchantment.
Publisher: Holiday House
ISBN: 0823430030
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Peter Lubinsky doesn't even like dogs and can't understand why he asked for one for his birthday. But it turns out that this pet, whom Peter calls The Dog, can talk and do magic--and he needs Peter's help. In return, The Dog promises to teach Peter conjuring and to help him bring his father home from the Middle East, where he is deployed with the air force. Soon Peter finds himself flying through the air on a mission to rescue The Dog's master. But as Peter's magical powers grow, he finds himself filled with dark anger. A bedroom full of dinosaur fossils, a waiter who was formerly a mouse, and an epic battle of magicians make for a thrilling read. This imaginative middle-grade fantasy is about the power of love and enchantment.
A Peculiar Peril
Author: Jeff VanderMeer
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 0374308896
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A Peculiar Peril is a head-spinning epic about three friends on a quest to protect the world from a threat as unknowable as it is terrifying, from the Nebula Award–winning and New York Times bestselling author of Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer. Jonathan Lambshead stands to inherit his deceased grandfather’s overstuffed mansion—a veritable cabinet of curiosities—once he and two schoolmates catalog its contents. But the three soon discover that the house is filled with far more than just oddities: It holds clues linking to an alt-Earth called Aurora, where the notorious English occultist Aleister Crowley has stormed back to life on a magic-fueled rampage across a surreal, through-the-looking-glass version of Europe replete with talking animals (and vegetables). Swept into encounters with allies more unpredictable than enemies, Jonathan pieces together his destiny as a member of a secret society devoted to keeping our world separate from Aurora. But as the ground shifts and allegiances change with every step, he and his friends sink ever deeper into a deadly pursuit of the profound evil that is also chasing after them.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 0374308896
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A Peculiar Peril is a head-spinning epic about three friends on a quest to protect the world from a threat as unknowable as it is terrifying, from the Nebula Award–winning and New York Times bestselling author of Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer. Jonathan Lambshead stands to inherit his deceased grandfather’s overstuffed mansion—a veritable cabinet of curiosities—once he and two schoolmates catalog its contents. But the three soon discover that the house is filled with far more than just oddities: It holds clues linking to an alt-Earth called Aurora, where the notorious English occultist Aleister Crowley has stormed back to life on a magic-fueled rampage across a surreal, through-the-looking-glass version of Europe replete with talking animals (and vegetables). Swept into encounters with allies more unpredictable than enemies, Jonathan pieces together his destiny as a member of a secret society devoted to keeping our world separate from Aurora. But as the ground shifts and allegiances change with every step, he and his friends sink ever deeper into a deadly pursuit of the profound evil that is also chasing after them.
Surreal Entanglements
Author: Louise Economides
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000388344
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This edited collection approaches the most pressing discourses of the Anthropocene and posthumanist culture through the surreal, yet instructive lens of Jeff VanderMeer’s fiction. In contrast to universalist and essentializing ways of responding to new material realities, VanderMeer’s work invites us to re-imagine human subjectivity and other collectivities in the light of historically unique entanglements we face today: the ecological, technological, aesthetic, epistemological, and political challenges of life in the Anthropocene era. Situating these messy, multi-scalar, material complexities of life in close relation to their ecological, material, and colonialist histories, his fiction renders them at once troublingly familiar and strangely generative of other potentialities and insight. The collection measures VanderMeer’s work as a new kind of speculative surrealism, his texts capturing the strangeness of navigating a world in which "nature" has become radically uncanny due to global climate change and powerful bio-technologies. The first collection to survey academic engagements with VanderMeer, this book brings together scholars in the fields of environmental literature, science fiction, genre studies, American literary history, philosophy of technology, and digital cultures to reflect on the environmentally, culturally, aesthetically, and politically central questions his fiction poses to predominant understandings of the Anthropocene.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000388344
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This edited collection approaches the most pressing discourses of the Anthropocene and posthumanist culture through the surreal, yet instructive lens of Jeff VanderMeer’s fiction. In contrast to universalist and essentializing ways of responding to new material realities, VanderMeer’s work invites us to re-imagine human subjectivity and other collectivities in the light of historically unique entanglements we face today: the ecological, technological, aesthetic, epistemological, and political challenges of life in the Anthropocene era. Situating these messy, multi-scalar, material complexities of life in close relation to their ecological, material, and colonialist histories, his fiction renders them at once troublingly familiar and strangely generative of other potentialities and insight. The collection measures VanderMeer’s work as a new kind of speculative surrealism, his texts capturing the strangeness of navigating a world in which "nature" has become radically uncanny due to global climate change and powerful bio-technologies. The first collection to survey academic engagements with VanderMeer, this book brings together scholars in the fields of environmental literature, science fiction, genre studies, American literary history, philosophy of technology, and digital cultures to reflect on the environmentally, culturally, aesthetically, and politically central questions his fiction poses to predominant understandings of the Anthropocene.
The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
Author: Issa Rae
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476749078
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
An introvert braves the cybersex, the pitfalls of eating out alone, the difficulties of weight gain, and other hurdles faced by shy people living in a world that urges us to be cool as "J" humorously recounts her life in all its awkward glory.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476749078
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
An introvert braves the cybersex, the pitfalls of eating out alone, the difficulties of weight gain, and other hurdles faced by shy people living in a world that urges us to be cool as "J" humorously recounts her life in all its awkward glory.
Half Magic
Author: Edward Eager
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152020682
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher Description
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152020682
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher Description
Student Handbook
Author: Gorton Carruth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780835227650
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1304
Book Description
"A Hudson Group book." Includes index. A one-volume short-entry encyclopedia containing information about the characters, plots, authors, and other topics found in classic and contemporary books for young readers.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780835227650
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1304
Book Description
"A Hudson Group book." Includes index. A one-volume short-entry encyclopedia containing information about the characters, plots, authors, and other topics found in classic and contemporary books for young readers.
King Arthur
Author: Edward Donald Kennedy
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135367272
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Examining the origins of the Arthurian legend and major trends in the portrayal of Arthur from the Middle Ages to the present, this collection focuses on discussion of literature written in English, French, Latin, and German. Its 16 essays, four published here for the first time, deal with such matters as the search for the historical Arthur; the depiction of Arthur in the romances Erec and Iwein of Hartmann von Aue; the way Arthur is depicted in 19th-century art and the Victorian view of manhood; and conceptions of King Arthur in 20th-century literature. Six of the essays, originally published in French and German, are translated into English especially for this book. Two essays have been substantially revised. An introduction offers a general discussion of the development of the legends in the countries of Europe. Works discussed include medieval and Renaissance chronicles (Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, Wace's Roman de Brut, Polydore Vergil's Anglica Historia, Scottish vernacular and Latin chronicles), medieval romances (the Lancelot en prose, the Mort Artu, the Post-Vulgate Roman du Graal, and works of Chrétien de Troyes, Hartmann von Aue, and Sir Thomas Malory), Spenser's Faerie Queene, Tennyson's Idylls of the King, and T.H. White's Once and Future King. A bibliography lists selected major secondary studies of King Arthur as well as major reference works.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135367272
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Examining the origins of the Arthurian legend and major trends in the portrayal of Arthur from the Middle Ages to the present, this collection focuses on discussion of literature written in English, French, Latin, and German. Its 16 essays, four published here for the first time, deal with such matters as the search for the historical Arthur; the depiction of Arthur in the romances Erec and Iwein of Hartmann von Aue; the way Arthur is depicted in 19th-century art and the Victorian view of manhood; and conceptions of King Arthur in 20th-century literature. Six of the essays, originally published in French and German, are translated into English especially for this book. Two essays have been substantially revised. An introduction offers a general discussion of the development of the legends in the countries of Europe. Works discussed include medieval and Renaissance chronicles (Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, Wace's Roman de Brut, Polydore Vergil's Anglica Historia, Scottish vernacular and Latin chronicles), medieval romances (the Lancelot en prose, the Mort Artu, the Post-Vulgate Roman du Graal, and works of Chrétien de Troyes, Hartmann von Aue, and Sir Thomas Malory), Spenser's Faerie Queene, Tennyson's Idylls of the King, and T.H. White's Once and Future King. A bibliography lists selected major secondary studies of King Arthur as well as major reference works.
The Misadventures of an Amateur Naturalist
Author: Ceinwen Langley
Publisher: Feed The Writer Press
ISBN: 0992474078
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Aspiring young naturalist Celeste Rossan is determined to live a life of adventure and scientific discovery. But when her father loses everything, Celeste’s hopes of ever leaving her home town are dashed… until she sees a narrow opportunity to escape to Paris and attend the 1867 Exposition Universelle. Celeste seizes her chance, but the elements overwhelm her before she can make it five miles. In desperation, she seeks refuge in an abandoned chateau only to find herself trapped inside the den of an unknown species: a predator with an intelligence that rivals any human. It’s the discovery of a lifetime. Or, it will be, if Celeste can earn the beast’s trust without losing her nerve – or her heart – to her in the process. The Misadventures of an Amateur Naturalist is a queer historical fantasy for adventurers of all ages.
Publisher: Feed The Writer Press
ISBN: 0992474078
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Aspiring young naturalist Celeste Rossan is determined to live a life of adventure and scientific discovery. But when her father loses everything, Celeste’s hopes of ever leaving her home town are dashed… until she sees a narrow opportunity to escape to Paris and attend the 1867 Exposition Universelle. Celeste seizes her chance, but the elements overwhelm her before she can make it five miles. In desperation, she seeks refuge in an abandoned chateau only to find herself trapped inside the den of an unknown species: a predator with an intelligence that rivals any human. It’s the discovery of a lifetime. Or, it will be, if Celeste can earn the beast’s trust without losing her nerve – or her heart – to her in the process. The Misadventures of an Amateur Naturalist is a queer historical fantasy for adventurers of all ages.