Author: Ann Downer
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9781442472303
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Two young outcast begin to fall in love as they race to destroy a powerful tool on a dangerous journey through the Thirteen Kingdoms. After a young rebellious girl, Caitlin, is accused of witchcraft she is exiled to the Abbey of the Ninthstile. Ordered to escort her is a disappointing ward of the Abbot of Thirdmoon See, The Badger. As the pair of misfits travel through the Thirteen Kingdoms, they notice a mysterious man with red hair is following them. Through Caitlin’s visions, which often haunt her, she is able to see that the man trailing them defeats them at every turn, sparking a sense of fear and urgency. Discovering that the mystery man is after a powerful tool known as the Spellkey and realizing that destroying the tool could end the cruel rulers of the Pentacle, Caitlin and the Badger set off on a dangerous journey as they begin to fall in love.
Author: Ann Downer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439132267
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Author: Ann Downer
Publisher: Pocket Books
ISBN: 9780671876449
Category : Fantasy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Caitlin and The Badger travel through the Thirteen Kingdoms, pursued by a mysterious man with red hair, who seems to defeat them at every turn. The answer to it all seems to be the Spellkey. Finding it and solving its mystery may mean destruction for the cruel rulers of the Pentacle. Skillfully done.--Kirkus, starred review.
Author: Ann Downer
Publisher: Millbrook Press
ISBN: 1512457604
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! On a hot day in the African savannah, a group of elephants searches for food. While foraging they often lose sight of one another. Yet at the end of the day, in one coordinated movement, the elephants suddenly regroup. This coordinated movement—and others like it—has puzzled scientists and caused them to question how elephants communicate with each other. Since the 1990s, scientists have gathered significant data on elephant “talk.” Biologists have determined that elephants use a complex system of communication of at least ten distinct sounds, combined in many variations. Researchers are now asking: what do these sounds mean? As scientists study the elephant sounds that humans can hear, they are also identifying ways elephants communicate through nonverbal behaviors and making sounds too low for human ears. Scientists have realized that elephants even receive messages by using their sensitive feet to feel vibrations in the ground. All of these discoveries are helping elephant researchers better understand elephant behavior. But the elephant’s time as a wild animal is running out. Threatened by habitat loss and illegally hunted for their ivory tusks, elephants are on the brink of extinction. Will understanding elephant talk be the key to saving the species?
Author: Ann Downer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689834004
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Poor Theodora Oglethorpe! Her biologist father has gone off to explore the jungles of Laos without her, her two best friends are away on vacation, and a long, hot, lonely Boston summer is all she has to look forward to. Poor Gideon! Wycca, his pet wyvern, has disappeared through a magic hole in time in search of a place to lay her egg. Kobold, Gideon's rival wizard, wants nothing more than to capture Wycca and turn her against her master. In a desperate attempt to rescue Wycca from Kobold's evil clutches, Gideon follows her through the magic hole...and finds himself transported from his castle in thirteenth-century England to the terrifyingly modern world of Boston, Massachusetts, in the year 2002. Little does Gideon know that what he needs most in order to find his wyvern is stuck to the bottom of Theodora's shoe. And little does Theodora know that Gideon is the reason why her summer vacation has begun to seem a whole lot more interesting...
Author: Ann Downer
Publisher: Arbordale Publishing
ISBN: 1607186225
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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A shark, still in his egg case, sets out to determine what kind of shark he is.
Author: Roxane Gay
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802165737
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 117
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From the New York Times–bestselling author of Hunger and Bad Feminist, a powerful short story collection exploring the Haitian diaspora experience. In Ayiti, a married couple seeking boat passage to America prepares to leave their homeland. A young woman procures a voodoo love potion to ensnare a childhood classmate. A mother takes a foreign soldier into her home as a boarder, and into her bed. And a woman conceives a daughter on the bank of a river while fleeing a horrific massacre, a daughter who later moves to America for a new life but is perpetually haunted by the mysterious scent of blood. Roxane Gay is an award-winning literary voice praised for her fearless and vivid prose, and her debut collection Ayiti exemplifies the raw talent that made her “one of the voices of our age” (National Post, Canada). Praise for Ayiti “Highly dimensioned characters and unforgettable moments. . . . Dismantling the glib misconceptions of her complex ancestral home, Gay cuts and thrills. Readers will find her powerful first book difficult to put down.” —Booklist “The themes explored in Gay’s nonfiction, such as the transactional nature of violence and the ways in which stereotypes of poverty add another layer of dehumanization, are just as potent here. Even her more lyrical mode is filtered through a keen sense of the lost promise of one country and the blinkered privilege of the other. It’s Gay’s unflinching directness—the sense that her characters are in the room with you, telling it like it is—that makes her irresistible.” —Vogue “A set of brief, tart stories mostly set amid the Haitian-American community and circling around themes of violation, abuse, and heartbreak . . . This book set the tone that still characterizes much of Gay’s writing: clean, unaffected, allowing the (often furious) emotions to rise naturally out of calm, declarative sentences. That gives her briefest stories a punch even when they come in at two pages or fewer, sketching out the challenges of assimilation in terms of accents, meals, or ‘What You Need to Know About a Haitian Woman’. . . . This debut amply contains the righteous energy that drives all her work.” —Kirkus Reviews
Author: Stephen Jones
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1472113748
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 93
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In this fantasical issue - Ramsey Campbell's epic story of magic and mystery, The Sustenance of Hoak. Fear-tingling fantasy in David J. Schow's The Embracing. Throat gripping terror by Stephen Gresham. Sorcery from Jessica Salmonson. ...and news and views from the world of fantasy.
Author: Gale Group
Publisher: Gale Cengage
ISBN: 9780787610487
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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This annual selection guide covers new novels in the mystery fiction, science fiction, fantasy, horror, western fiction and romance genres. By identifying similarities in various books, it seeks to help readers to independently choose titles of interest published during 1995 - 1996. Entries are arranged by author within six genre sections, and provide: publisher and publication date; series name and number; description of characters; time/geographical setting; review citation; genre and setting notations; and related books.
Author: Ruth Nadelman Lynn
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1216
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Bibliographic information, grade level, and annotations for nearly 7,500 fantasy books for grades 3-12 are given. The introduction discusses the history of fantasy, and awards presented to fantasy titles are listed.
