Author: Lois Lowry
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547344937
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
It's Future Job Day at Sam's nursery school, and Sam decides to dress up as a Zookeeper. But he wants to be more than that... he wants to be important, interesting, and more than ordinary: the Chief of Wonderfulness. Will he find a way to be the Chief of Wonderfulness as he teaches his classmates about all the different animals? Hilarious and charming, Zooman Sam is perfect for readers new and old, and for anyone who still asks themselves the question: "What do I want to be when I grow up?"
Zooman Sam
Author: Lois Lowry
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547344937
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
It's Future Job Day at Sam's nursery school, and Sam decides to dress up as a Zookeeper. But he wants to be more than that... he wants to be important, interesting, and more than ordinary: the Chief of Wonderfulness. Will he find a way to be the Chief of Wonderfulness as he teaches his classmates about all the different animals? Hilarious and charming, Zooman Sam is perfect for readers new and old, and for anyone who still asks themselves the question: "What do I want to be when I grow up?"
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547344937
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
It's Future Job Day at Sam's nursery school, and Sam decides to dress up as a Zookeeper. But he wants to be more than that... he wants to be important, interesting, and more than ordinary: the Chief of Wonderfulness. Will he find a way to be the Chief of Wonderfulness as he teaches his classmates about all the different animals? Hilarious and charming, Zooman Sam is perfect for readers new and old, and for anyone who still asks themselves the question: "What do I want to be when I grow up?"
See You Around, Sam!
Author: Lois Lowry
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547344759
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Sam Krupnik, mad at his mother because she won't let him wear his newly acquired plastic fangs in the house, decides to run away.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547344759
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Sam Krupnik, mad at his mother because she won't let him wear his newly acquired plastic fangs in the house, decides to run away.
All About Sam
Author: Lois Lowry
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547345402
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Sam Krupnik finally gets to tell his version of life with his big sister, Lowry's popular Anastasia Krupnik.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547345402
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Sam Krupnik finally gets to tell his version of life with his big sister, Lowry's popular Anastasia Krupnik.
Attaboy, Sam!
Author: Lois Lowry
Publisher: Yearling Books
ISBN: 0440408164
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Sam Krupnik sets out to concoct a special perfume as a surprise for his mother's birthday, a fragrance that is to be made up of all her favorite smells.
Publisher: Yearling Books
ISBN: 0440408164
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Sam Krupnik sets out to concoct a special perfume as a surprise for his mother's birthday, a fragrance that is to be made up of all her favorite smells.
Anastasia Krupnik
Author: Lois Lowry
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547345623
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Anastasia's tenth year has some good things, like falling in love and really getting to know her grandmother, and some bad things, like finding out about an impending baby brother.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547345623
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Anastasia's tenth year has some good things, like falling in love and really getting to know her grandmother, and some bad things, like finding out about an impending baby brother.
Death's Acre
Author: William Bass
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101204729
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
“Fans of the forensics-oriented novels of such mystery writers as Kathy Reichs and Patricia Cornwell...not to mention television series like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, will make an eager audience for this one.”—Booklist On a patch of land in the Tennessee hills, human corpses decompose in the open air, aided by insects, bacteria, and birds, unhindered by coffins or mausoleums. This is Bill Bass’s “Body Farm,” where nature takes its course as bodies buried in shallow graves, submerged in water, or locked in car trunks serve the needs of science and the cause of justice. In Death’s Acre, Bass invites readers on an unprecedented journey behind the gates of the Body Farm where he revolutionized forensic anthropology. A master scientist and an engaging storyteller, Bass reveals his most intriguing cases for the first time. He revisits the Lindbergh kidnapping and murder, explores the mystery of a headless corpse whose identity astonished police, divulges how the telltale traces of an insect sent a murderous grandfather to death row—and much more. INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101204729
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
“Fans of the forensics-oriented novels of such mystery writers as Kathy Reichs and Patricia Cornwell...not to mention television series like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, will make an eager audience for this one.”—Booklist On a patch of land in the Tennessee hills, human corpses decompose in the open air, aided by insects, bacteria, and birds, unhindered by coffins or mausoleums. This is Bill Bass’s “Body Farm,” where nature takes its course as bodies buried in shallow graves, submerged in water, or locked in car trunks serve the needs of science and the cause of justice. In Death’s Acre, Bass invites readers on an unprecedented journey behind the gates of the Body Farm where he revolutionized forensic anthropology. A master scientist and an engaging storyteller, Bass reveals his most intriguing cases for the first time. He revisits the Lindbergh kidnapping and murder, explores the mystery of a headless corpse whose identity astonished police, divulges how the telltale traces of an insect sent a murderous grandfather to death row—and much more. INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS
Gooney Bird Greene
Author: Lois Lowry
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 054748898X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Two-time Newbery Medalist Lois Lowry introduces a new girl in class who loves being the center of attention and tells the most entertaining “absolutely true” stories. There’s never been anyone like Gooney Bird Greene at Watertower Elementary School. What other new kid comes to school wearing pajamas and cowboy boots one day and a polka-dot T-shirt and tutu on another? From the moment Gooney Bird Greene arrives at Watertower Elementary School, her fellow second graders are intrigued by her unique sense of style and her unusual lunches. So when story time arrives, the choice is unanimous: they want to hear about Gooney Bird Greene. And that suits Gooney Bird just fine, because, as it turns out, she has quite a few interesting and "absolutely true" stories to tell. Through Gooney Bird and her tales, the acclaimed author Lois Lowry introduces young readers to the elements of storytelling. This book encourages the storyteller in everyone.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 054748898X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Two-time Newbery Medalist Lois Lowry introduces a new girl in class who loves being the center of attention and tells the most entertaining “absolutely true” stories. There’s never been anyone like Gooney Bird Greene at Watertower Elementary School. What other new kid comes to school wearing pajamas and cowboy boots one day and a polka-dot T-shirt and tutu on another? From the moment Gooney Bird Greene arrives at Watertower Elementary School, her fellow second graders are intrigued by her unique sense of style and her unusual lunches. So when story time arrives, the choice is unanimous: they want to hear about Gooney Bird Greene. And that suits Gooney Bird just fine, because, as it turns out, she has quite a few interesting and "absolutely true" stories to tell. Through Gooney Bird and her tales, the acclaimed author Lois Lowry introduces young readers to the elements of storytelling. This book encourages the storyteller in everyone.
Zooman and the Sign
Author: Charles Fuller
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573618451
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
"'Zooman" is black teen in Philadelphia who senselessly terrorizes his community wit hour regard to race. His most recent crime is killing a 12 year-old girl on a street filled with witnesses, all of who are afraid to talk.The dead girl's father posts a sign accusing the entire community of cowardice in the face of the ever escalating violence." -- Cover [p. 4].
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573618451
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
"'Zooman" is black teen in Philadelphia who senselessly terrorizes his community wit hour regard to race. His most recent crime is killing a 12 year-old girl on a street filled with witnesses, all of who are afraid to talk.The dead girl's father posts a sign accusing the entire community of cowardice in the face of the ever escalating violence." -- Cover [p. 4].
Overthrow
Author: Stephen Kinzer
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805082409
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
An award-winning author tells the stories of the audacious American politicians, military commanders, and business executives who took it upon themselves to depose monarchs, presidents, and prime ministers of other countries with disastrous long-term consequences.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805082409
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
An award-winning author tells the stories of the audacious American politicians, military commanders, and business executives who took it upon themselves to depose monarchs, presidents, and prime ministers of other countries with disastrous long-term consequences.
Attaboy, Sam!
Author: Lois Lowry
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547345526
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
In this second book about Anastasia Krupnik's younger brother, Sam concocts a perfume made of his mother's favorite smells to honor her request for only homemade gifts for her birthday.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547345526
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
In this second book about Anastasia Krupnik's younger brother, Sam concocts a perfume made of his mother's favorite smells to honor her request for only homemade gifts for her birthday.