Author: Loreen Leedy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781890817244
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Publisher:
ISBN: 9780439597432
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Explains various animal expressions that employ similes, metaphors, idioms, and proverbs.

Author: Carlyn Beccia
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547529244
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 53

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It wasn’t too long ago that people tried all sorts of things to help sick people feel better. They tried wild things like drinking a glass full of millipedes or putting some mustard on one's head. Some of the cures worked, and some of them…well, let’s just say that millipedes, living or dead, are not meant to be ingested. Carlyn Beccia takes readers on a colorful and funny medical mystery tour to discover that while times may have changed, many of today’s most reliable cure-alls have their roots in some very peculiar practices, and so relevant connections can be drawn from what they did then to what we do now.

Author: Martin Waddell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780582121744
Category : Readers (Elementary)
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Designed to fit the National Curriculum, the English 5-14 Guidelines in Scotland and the Northern Ireland Guidelines for English, this is part of the Longman Book Project. The project aims to enable teachers throughout the primary school to teach: language; fiction; and non-fiction. The project also offers practical guidance and in-built record keeping and assessment. It is carefully structured, enabling all teachers throughout the primary school to teach reading and language with success and understanding.

Author: Karma Wilson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416927271
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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There's a frog on the log in the middle of the bog. A small, green frog on a half-sunk log in the middle of the bog....

Author: John Himmelman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781484402733
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Listen closely to the sounds, often very loud, that frogs make without ever opening their mouths. Together they make a concert!

Author: Joyce Sidman
Publisher: Clarion Books
ISBN: 0358064767
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 45

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"With magical, concise and perceptive poems, Newbery-Honor winning author Joyce Sidman captures the life of a tree frog in an intimate and moving way. A master of the science note, her fascinating sidebars help bind the twin poems together and ground our perspective. We learn how treefrogs have sticky toe pads, how they still themselves when in danger, how they can change from green to gray to camouflage themselves - even how they eat their own skins, which is full of nutrients. The narrator's connection with this small creature brings solace, comfort, and a sense of mystery"--

Author: Lorrie Moore
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307816907
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this moving, poignant novel by the bestselling author of Birds of America—and a master of American fiction—we share a grown woman’s bittersweet nostalgia for the wildness of her youth. "An enchanting novel." —The New York Times The summer Berie was fifteen, she and her best friend Sils had jobs at Storyland in upstate New York where Berie sold tickets to see the beautiful Sils portray Cinderella in a strapless evening gown. They spent their breaks smoking, joking, and gossiping. After work they followed their own reckless rules, teasing the fun out of small town life, sleeping in the family station wagon, and drinking borrowed liquor from old mayonnaise jars. But no matter how wild, they always managed to escape any real danger—until the adoring Berie sees that Sils really does need her help—and then everything changes.

Author: Keith Faulkner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781843570547
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 6

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Lift the flaps book. 2-5yrs.

Author: Brian Levack
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300195389
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 519

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A fascinating, wide-ranging survey of the history of demon possession and exorcism through the ages. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the era of the Reformation, thousands of Europeans were thought to be possessed by demons. In response to their horrifying symptoms—violent convulsions, displays of preternatural strength, vomiting of foreign objects, displaying contempt for sacred objects, and others—exorcists were summoned to expel the evil spirits from victims’ bodies. This compelling book focuses on possession and exorcism in the Reformation period, but also reaches back to the fifteenth century and forward to our own times. Entire convents of nuns in French, Italian, and Spanish towns, thirty boys in an Amsterdam orphanage, a small group of young girls in Salem, Massachusetts—these are among the instances of demon possession in the United States and throughout Europe that Brian Levack closely examines, taking into account the diverse interpretations of generations of theologians, biblical scholars, pastors, physicians, anthropologists, psychiatrists, and historians. Challenging the commonly held belief that possession signals physical or mental illness, the author argues that demoniacs and exorcists—consciously or not—are following their various religious cultures, and their performances can only be understood in those contexts. “Riveting [and] readable . . . must-reading for students of history, psychology and religion.” —Publishers Weekly “Levak, a distinguished historian of early modern witchcraft, now sets exorcism in a long historical perspective, providing the most comprehensive and scholarly overview of the theme yet published.” —Peter Marshall, Times Literary Supplement