Author: Lyle Durst
Publisher: Kadavy, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
Benny Proctor is eager to make a good impression this last week of junior high. His sleek new Oakley’s should do the trick. This short story (~2,800 words) is about the terrors of growing up, and the bittersweet taste of love requited a little too late. EXCERPT Benny had never asked a girl out. He got by on his good looks. Throughout much of his junior high career, his classmates had called him "Vinnie," based upon the best friend from the TV show, Doogie Howser, M.D. Girls would comment on his dimples, and call him "cute," which he hated – he would have preferred to have looked "cool." In this way, every few months, a girl's friend would ask Benny if he wanted to "go with" said friend. This didn't mean they would go anywhere. Benny would talk to her on the phone every night for a few months. That was about how long, Benny surmised, it took for them to realize deep down he was really a nerd. Try as he did to hide it, it came out of him, like the time Jamie Longton's friend, April, called and asked him what he was doing. Benny had excitedly shared that he had built a makeshift slingshot by forming a kneadable eraser around a rubber band, and stretching said rubber band over the edge of a wooden ruler, pulling back the payload. April had been silent a moment, before she had diplomatically explained to Benny she had been calling on Jamie's behalf – to dump him.
Welcome to the Jungle, Kids!
Author: Lyle Durst
Publisher: Kadavy, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
Benny Proctor is eager to make a good impression this last week of junior high. His sleek new Oakley’s should do the trick. This short story (~2,800 words) is about the terrors of growing up, and the bittersweet taste of love requited a little too late. EXCERPT Benny had never asked a girl out. He got by on his good looks. Throughout much of his junior high career, his classmates had called him "Vinnie," based upon the best friend from the TV show, Doogie Howser, M.D. Girls would comment on his dimples, and call him "cute," which he hated – he would have preferred to have looked "cool." In this way, every few months, a girl's friend would ask Benny if he wanted to "go with" said friend. This didn't mean they would go anywhere. Benny would talk to her on the phone every night for a few months. That was about how long, Benny surmised, it took for them to realize deep down he was really a nerd. Try as he did to hide it, it came out of him, like the time Jamie Longton's friend, April, called and asked him what he was doing. Benny had excitedly shared that he had built a makeshift slingshot by forming a kneadable eraser around a rubber band, and stretching said rubber band over the edge of a wooden ruler, pulling back the payload. April had been silent a moment, before she had diplomatically explained to Benny she had been calling on Jamie's behalf – to dump him.
Publisher: Kadavy, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
Benny Proctor is eager to make a good impression this last week of junior high. His sleek new Oakley’s should do the trick. This short story (~2,800 words) is about the terrors of growing up, and the bittersweet taste of love requited a little too late. EXCERPT Benny had never asked a girl out. He got by on his good looks. Throughout much of his junior high career, his classmates had called him "Vinnie," based upon the best friend from the TV show, Doogie Howser, M.D. Girls would comment on his dimples, and call him "cute," which he hated – he would have preferred to have looked "cool." In this way, every few months, a girl's friend would ask Benny if he wanted to "go with" said friend. This didn't mean they would go anywhere. Benny would talk to her on the phone every night for a few months. That was about how long, Benny surmised, it took for them to realize deep down he was really a nerd. Try as he did to hide it, it came out of him, like the time Jamie Longton's friend, April, called and asked him what he was doing. Benny had excitedly shared that he had built a makeshift slingshot by forming a kneadable eraser around a rubber band, and stretching said rubber band over the edge of a wooden ruler, pulling back the payload. April had been silent a moment, before she had diplomatically explained to Benny she had been calling on Jamie's behalf – to dump him.
The President of the Jungle
Author: André Rodrigues
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1984814753
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
In this fabulous and funny introduction to how elections work, the animals decide they are tired of their king and that it is time to vote for a president. Lion may be King of the jungle, but lately he only seems to care about himself. His subjects are fed up, so they decide to try something new--hold an election! Once Owl explains the rules, the fun begins, and Snake, Sloth, and Monkey all announce they will be candidates. But oh no, Lion is going to run too! It's a wild campaign season as the animals hold rallies, debate, and even take a selfie or two, trying to prove why they'd make the best president of the jungle. This funny, non-partisan story features lively illustrations, a helpful glossary, and colorful characters who have an infectious enthusiasm for the election process.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1984814753
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
In this fabulous and funny introduction to how elections work, the animals decide they are tired of their king and that it is time to vote for a president. Lion may be King of the jungle, but lately he only seems to care about himself. His subjects are fed up, so they decide to try something new--hold an election! Once Owl explains the rules, the fun begins, and Snake, Sloth, and Monkey all announce they will be candidates. But oh no, Lion is going to run too! It's a wild campaign season as the animals hold rallies, debate, and even take a selfie or two, trying to prove why they'd make the best president of the jungle. This funny, non-partisan story features lively illustrations, a helpful glossary, and colorful characters who have an infectious enthusiasm for the election process.
Welcome to the Jungle
Author: Geoffrey T. Holtz
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1429926465
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
The population bomb/a white one for twenty-one days, a pink one for seven/pretty baby/it's a mad mad mad mad world/meet your new family/the warehouse generation/quality time/give a hoot dont pollute/birth of a disease/I was bad because you forgot to give me my pill/teach your chidlren wrong/the feel-good school/what a difference twenty years makes/fallout from the "Movement"/majoring in "Other"/Anxiety U./monkey on our backs/the incredible shrinking paycheck/rent forever/trickling down/inside joke/the free as parents?/mixin' it up/it's a jungle out there
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1429926465
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
The population bomb/a white one for twenty-one days, a pink one for seven/pretty baby/it's a mad mad mad mad world/meet your new family/the warehouse generation/quality time/give a hoot dont pollute/birth of a disease/I was bad because you forgot to give me my pill/teach your chidlren wrong/the feel-good school/what a difference twenty years makes/fallout from the "Movement"/majoring in "Other"/Anxiety U./monkey on our backs/the incredible shrinking paycheck/rent forever/trickling down/inside joke/the free as parents?/mixin' it up/it's a jungle out there
Welcome to the Jungle
Author: Matt London
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698146859
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
WHAT IF YOU BUILT A CONTINENT OF YOUR OWN? AND WHAT IF IT WAS ON A COLLISION COURSE WITH AUSTRALIA? Rick and Evie Lane have finally converted the Great Pacific Garbage Patch into an eighth continent. But their dream of a new homeland for their family turns out to be short-lived. Because when robots from the villainous Condo Corp crash into their continent, a fatal oversight in the building process is revealed: the land mass was never anchored to the ocean floor! Now, the eighth continent is sent barreling toward the coast of Australia, thrusting Rick and Evie’s dreams, 23 million people, and countless plants and animals into jeopardy. If Rick and Evie are ever to get their family back together and have a continent to run—and not run after—they must find a way to root their beloved paradise to the Earth’s crust. Or else everything that they built will go pow like Pangaea! BUILD IT - RUN IT - RULE IT at 8thContinentBooks.com
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698146859
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
WHAT IF YOU BUILT A CONTINENT OF YOUR OWN? AND WHAT IF IT WAS ON A COLLISION COURSE WITH AUSTRALIA? Rick and Evie Lane have finally converted the Great Pacific Garbage Patch into an eighth continent. But their dream of a new homeland for their family turns out to be short-lived. Because when robots from the villainous Condo Corp crash into their continent, a fatal oversight in the building process is revealed: the land mass was never anchored to the ocean floor! Now, the eighth continent is sent barreling toward the coast of Australia, thrusting Rick and Evie’s dreams, 23 million people, and countless plants and animals into jeopardy. If Rick and Evie are ever to get their family back together and have a continent to run—and not run after—they must find a way to root their beloved paradise to the Earth’s crust. Or else everything that they built will go pow like Pangaea! BUILD IT - RUN IT - RULE IT at 8thContinentBooks.com
Discovery Welcome to the Jungle
Author: Lori C. Froeb
Publisher: Parragon
ISBN: 9781474892018
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Discovery Welcome to the Jungle is packed full of fun rain forest facts, more than 90 awesome stickers, and a wonderful sticker-scene poster!
Publisher: Parragon
ISBN: 9781474892018
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Discovery Welcome to the Jungle is packed full of fun rain forest facts, more than 90 awesome stickers, and a wonderful sticker-scene poster!
Sophia's Jungle Adventure
Author: Giselle Shardlow
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781475225488
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
"Join Sophia on her jungle adventure! Fly like a toucan, slither like a snake, and flutter like a butterfly as you act out this journey through a Costa Rican jungle. What else might you see?" --cover.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781475225488
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
"Join Sophia on her jungle adventure! Fly like a toucan, slither like a snake, and flutter like a butterfly as you act out this journey through a Costa Rican jungle. What else might you see?" --cover.
Welcome to the Jungle
Author: Kobena Mercer
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135204772
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Welcome to the Jungle brings a black British perspective to the critical reading of a wide range of cultural texts, events and experiences arising from volatile transformations in the politics of ethnicity, sexuality and "race" during the 1980s. The ten essays collected here examine new forms of cultural expression in black film, photography and visual art exerging with a new generation of black British artists, and interprets this prolific creativity within a sociological framework that reveals fresh perspectives on the bewildering complexity of identity and diversity in an era of postmodernity. Kobena Mercer documents a wealth of insights opened up by the overlapping of Asian, African and Caribbean cultures that constitute Black Britain as a unique domain of diaspora.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135204772
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Welcome to the Jungle brings a black British perspective to the critical reading of a wide range of cultural texts, events and experiences arising from volatile transformations in the politics of ethnicity, sexuality and "race" during the 1980s. The ten essays collected here examine new forms of cultural expression in black film, photography and visual art exerging with a new generation of black British artists, and interprets this prolific creativity within a sociological framework that reveals fresh perspectives on the bewildering complexity of identity and diversity in an era of postmodernity. Kobena Mercer documents a wealth of insights opened up by the overlapping of Asian, African and Caribbean cultures that constitute Black Britain as a unique domain of diaspora.
Welcome to the Symphony
Author: Carolyn Sloan
Publisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN: 0761176470
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Using one of the most famous works in classical music—Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony—here is the perfect way to introduce a young child to the world of classical music. This charming and interactive picture book with its panel of 19 sound buttons is like a ticket to a concert hall, taking readers on a journey from the exciting first moment when the musicians begin tuning up to the end of the first movement (attention newcomers: don’t clap yet!). At each step of the way, readers learn the basics of classical music and the orchestra: What is a conductor? What is a symphony? Who was Beethoven? The different aspects of music: melody, harmony, tempo, theme. And the families of instruments—strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion. But the best part is that every critical idea is illustrated in gorgeous sound. The sound panel allows readers to hear the different parts of the symphony and voices of the music—the famous beginning of the Fifth, what a clarinet sounds like, the difference between a violin and a viola, what a melody is, and what harmony is. Kids will want to match their voices to the A note that tunes the orchestra, dance to the rhythmic passages—and, of course, sing along to da-da-da-daah!
Publisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN: 0761176470
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Using one of the most famous works in classical music—Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony—here is the perfect way to introduce a young child to the world of classical music. This charming and interactive picture book with its panel of 19 sound buttons is like a ticket to a concert hall, taking readers on a journey from the exciting first moment when the musicians begin tuning up to the end of the first movement (attention newcomers: don’t clap yet!). At each step of the way, readers learn the basics of classical music and the orchestra: What is a conductor? What is a symphony? Who was Beethoven? The different aspects of music: melody, harmony, tempo, theme. And the families of instruments—strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion. But the best part is that every critical idea is illustrated in gorgeous sound. The sound panel allows readers to hear the different parts of the symphony and voices of the music—the famous beginning of the Fifth, what a clarinet sounds like, the difference between a violin and a viola, what a melody is, and what harmony is. Kids will want to match their voices to the A note that tunes the orchestra, dance to the rhythmic passages—and, of course, sing along to da-da-da-daah!
Jungle Night (comes with 2 free audio downloads, Yo-Yo Ma, cello)
Author: Sandra Boynton
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
ISBN: 1523513608
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Sandra Boynton and Yo-Yo Ma! Plus snoozing jungle animals! Two celebrated artists come together for JUNGLE NIGHT, a soothing bedtime board book. (Okay, MOSTLY soothing.) The book guides us through the jungle to hear the distinctive, gentle snore of each animal: "Listen to the tiger: ZEEE-ZOOO-HAAA. Listen to the cheetah: CHEE-CHEE-TAAAH." A free downloadable JUNGLE NIGHT recording offers a narration of the book, with each and every animal snore interpreted by the expressive, playful cello of Yo-Yo Ma. He even does the elephant's stop-the-show snore—though admittedly that took Ma's cello PLUS the classic horn salute of the James R. Barker steamship. (Seriously.) All of this fabulousness leads into the coolest lullaby ever: "Jungle Gymnopédie No. 1", a polyrhythmic jungly arrangement by Boynton of Erik Satie's renowned piece, with Yo-Yo Ma on cello, guitar played by Ron Block of Alison Krauss Union Station, and drums by Kevin MacLeod. "Yo-Yo and I chose this piece because it's the most gorgeous and mesmerizing night song imaginable," explains Boynton. "And there was surely nothing else that could get those animals back to sleep after that elephant blast."
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
ISBN: 1523513608
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Sandra Boynton and Yo-Yo Ma! Plus snoozing jungle animals! Two celebrated artists come together for JUNGLE NIGHT, a soothing bedtime board book. (Okay, MOSTLY soothing.) The book guides us through the jungle to hear the distinctive, gentle snore of each animal: "Listen to the tiger: ZEEE-ZOOO-HAAA. Listen to the cheetah: CHEE-CHEE-TAAAH." A free downloadable JUNGLE NIGHT recording offers a narration of the book, with each and every animal snore interpreted by the expressive, playful cello of Yo-Yo Ma. He even does the elephant's stop-the-show snore—though admittedly that took Ma's cello PLUS the classic horn salute of the James R. Barker steamship. (Seriously.) All of this fabulousness leads into the coolest lullaby ever: "Jungle Gymnopédie No. 1", a polyrhythmic jungly arrangement by Boynton of Erik Satie's renowned piece, with Yo-Yo Ma on cello, guitar played by Ron Block of Alison Krauss Union Station, and drums by Kevin MacLeod. "Yo-Yo and I chose this piece because it's the most gorgeous and mesmerizing night song imaginable," explains Boynton. "And there was surely nothing else that could get those animals back to sleep after that elephant blast."
Dinosaurs
Author: North Parade Publishing
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781950951215
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Welcome to the AMAZING land of the DINOSAURS! Bobbly, bumpy, spiky or squishy??? What do these dinosaurs feel like??
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781950951215
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Welcome to the AMAZING land of the DINOSAURS! Bobbly, bumpy, spiky or squishy??? What do these dinosaurs feel like??