Author: Lawrence J. Taylor
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816519262
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Drawing on two summers spent with the kids who live in drainage tunnels connecting Nogales, Sonora and Nogales, Arizona, the authors present a verbal and pictoral portrait of the displaced and sometimes heroic young people whose stories add a human dimension to the world of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Tunnel Kids
Author: Lawrence J. Taylor
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816519262
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Drawing on two summers spent with the kids who live in drainage tunnels connecting Nogales, Sonora and Nogales, Arizona, the authors present a verbal and pictoral portrait of the displaced and sometimes heroic young people whose stories add a human dimension to the world of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816519262
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Drawing on two summers spent with the kids who live in drainage tunnels connecting Nogales, Sonora and Nogales, Arizona, the authors present a verbal and pictoral portrait of the displaced and sometimes heroic young people whose stories add a human dimension to the world of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Tunnels (Tunnels #1)
Author: Roderick Gordon
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545381258
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
The New York Times Bestseller! The story of an outcast boy, his eccentric dad, and the scary underground world they discover through secret TUNNELS.14-year-old Will Burrows has little in common with his strange, dysfunctional family. In fact, the only bond he shares with his eccentric father is a passion for archaeological excavation. So when Dad mysteriously vanishes, Will is compelled to dig up the truth behind his disappearance. He unearths the unbelievable: a secret subterranean society. "The Colony" has existed unchanged for a century, but it's no benign time capsule of a bygone era--because the Colony is ruled by a cultlike overclass, the Styx. Before long--before he can find his father--Will is their prisoner....
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545381258
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
The New York Times Bestseller! The story of an outcast boy, his eccentric dad, and the scary underground world they discover through secret TUNNELS.14-year-old Will Burrows has little in common with his strange, dysfunctional family. In fact, the only bond he shares with his eccentric father is a passion for archaeological excavation. So when Dad mysteriously vanishes, Will is compelled to dig up the truth behind his disappearance. He unearths the unbelievable: a secret subterranean society. "The Colony" has existed unchanged for a century, but it's no benign time capsule of a bygone era--because the Colony is ruled by a cultlike overclass, the Styx. Before long--before he can find his father--Will is their prisoner....
Tunnel Kids (englisch)
Author: Werner J. Egli
Publisher: ARAVAIPA
ISBN: 3038642207
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
If you live in a floodwater tunnel beneath the busy streets of Nogales, you don't have much of a life. Your only chance is to get to the end of the tunnel – on the other side of the border. In the mid-1990's, Santiago Molina, a Tzotzil boy from Chiapas, sets out through Mexico to the two cities of Nogales separated by the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona and Sonora. Leaving his childhood behind, the road he follows turns into a nightmare, leading him to the tunnels that harbor kids like Santiago, most of them without a future – but still with a dream.
Publisher: ARAVAIPA
ISBN: 3038642207
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
If you live in a floodwater tunnel beneath the busy streets of Nogales, you don't have much of a life. Your only chance is to get to the end of the tunnel – on the other side of the border. In the mid-1990's, Santiago Molina, a Tzotzil boy from Chiapas, sets out through Mexico to the two cities of Nogales separated by the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona and Sonora. Leaving his childhood behind, the road he follows turns into a nightmare, leading him to the tunnels that harbor kids like Santiago, most of them without a future – but still with a dream.
The Tunnel
Author: Anthony Browne
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406313291
Category : Brothers and sisters
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Scornful of his younger sister's fears, a young boy decides to explore a tunnel forcing her to go after him when he doesn't return. Suggested level: junior, primary.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406313291
Category : Brothers and sisters
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Scornful of his younger sister's fears, a young boy decides to explore a tunnel forcing her to go after him when he doesn't return. Suggested level: junior, primary.
The Channel Tunnel
Author: Sandy Donovan
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 9780822546924
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
A history of the building of the Channel Tunnel, which connects England and France, with emphasis on the difficulties of digging a tunnel where some engineers said it could not be done.
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 9780822546924
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
A history of the building of the Channel Tunnel, which connects England and France, with emphasis on the difficulties of digging a tunnel where some engineers said it could not be done.
Dig a Tunnel
Author: Ryan Ann Hunter
Publisher: Scholastic Incorporated
ISBN: 9780439176729
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Simply describes a variety of tunnels, how they are built and how they are used.
Publisher: Scholastic Incorporated
ISBN: 9780439176729
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Simply describes a variety of tunnels, how they are built and how they are used.
Tunnel Vision
Author: Susan Adrian
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250047927
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
When Jake Lukin, eighteen, reveals his psychic ability, he's forced to become a government asset in order to keep his mother and sister safe, but Rachel, the girl he likes, tries to help him live his own life instead of tunneling through others.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250047927
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
When Jake Lukin, eighteen, reveals his psychic ability, he's forced to become a government asset in order to keep his mother and sister safe, but Rachel, the girl he likes, tries to help him live his own life instead of tunneling through others.
The Tunnel
Author: Brian Wildsmith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780192722881
Category : Toy and movable books
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
A bilingual book to celebrate the opening of the Channel Tunnel. Two moles, one French, one English, decide to dig a hole under the English Channel to see each other. The book has a hole running through it, and a moveable wheel in the middle.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780192722881
Category : Toy and movable books
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
A bilingual book to celebrate the opening of the Channel Tunnel. Two moles, one French, one English, decide to dig a hole under the English Channel to see each other. The book has a hole running through it, and a moveable wheel in the middle.
Tunnel in the Sky
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416505512
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
High school students enter a time gate to an unknown planet for a survival test, but something goes wrong and they have to learn to survive by their own resourcefulness.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416505512
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
High school students enter a time gate to an unknown planet for a survival test, but something goes wrong and they have to learn to survive by their own resourcefulness.
The Janitor's Boy
Author: Andrew Clements
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689850514
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Ordinarily, no one would have imagined that Jack Rankin would vandalize a desk. But this was not an ordinary school year for Jack.... When Jack Rankin learns that he is going to spend the fifth grade in the old high school -- the building where his father works as a janitor -- he dreads the start of school. Jack manages to get through the first month without the kids catching on. Then comes the disastrous day when one of his classmates loses his lunch all over the floor. John the janitor is called in to clean up, and he does the unthinkable -- he turns to Jack with a big smile and says, "Hi, son." Jack performs an act of revenge and gets himself into a sticky situation. His punishment is to assist the janitor after school for three weeks. The work is tedious, not to mention humiliating. But there is one perk, janitors have access to keys, keys to secret places....
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689850514
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Ordinarily, no one would have imagined that Jack Rankin would vandalize a desk. But this was not an ordinary school year for Jack.... When Jack Rankin learns that he is going to spend the fifth grade in the old high school -- the building where his father works as a janitor -- he dreads the start of school. Jack manages to get through the first month without the kids catching on. Then comes the disastrous day when one of his classmates loses his lunch all over the floor. John the janitor is called in to clean up, and he does the unthinkable -- he turns to Jack with a big smile and says, "Hi, son." Jack performs an act of revenge and gets himself into a sticky situation. His punishment is to assist the janitor after school for three weeks. The work is tedious, not to mention humiliating. But there is one perk, janitors have access to keys, keys to secret places....