Author: Kay Arthur
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
ISBN: 0736931309
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Boy, Have I Got Problems! Invites kids to role-play advice columnists. As the columnist "prepares" advice for a variety of problems, including a broken leg suffered during basketball and a friend who hurts other people's feelings, he or she will discover the best answers from the book of James—and how to apply them.
Boy, Have I Got Problems!
Author: Kay Arthur
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
ISBN: 0736931309
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Boy, Have I Got Problems! Invites kids to role-play advice columnists. As the columnist "prepares" advice for a variety of problems, including a broken leg suffered during basketball and a friend who hurts other people's feelings, he or she will discover the best answers from the book of James—and how to apply them.
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
ISBN: 0736931309
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Boy, Have I Got Problems! Invites kids to role-play advice columnists. As the columnist "prepares" advice for a variety of problems, including a broken leg suffered during basketball and a friend who hurts other people's feelings, he or she will discover the best answers from the book of James—and how to apply them.
Broken Arrow Boy
Author: Adam Moore
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780933849242
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Adam Moore describes how he suffered a serious brain injury and recovered with medical help and family support.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780933849242
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Adam Moore describes how he suffered a serious brain injury and recovered with medical help and family support.
A Boy and His Tank
Author: Leo Frankowski
Publisher: Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN: 1618242172
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
AND THE STREETS WERE MADE OF GOLD. . . He Was a Rugged, Hardened Combat Veteran Who Had Gone to Hell and Back¾in Virtual Reality! Now He Had to Face the Real Thing.. . The planet New Kashubia started out as a gas giant, but when its sun went supernova, lighter elements were blasted into space. All that was left was a ball of heavy metals, heated to 8,000 degrees. As it cooled, tungsten solidified first at the surface, and layers of other metals continued down to a ball of mercury at the center. The sun meanwhile evolved into a pulsar with a deadly beam of radiation that baked the planet's surface. The New Kashuhians lived inside the planet, in tunnels drilled in a thousand foot thick layer of solid gold. Still without carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, or even dirt, the colonists were the poorest people in the universe. But when they combined virtual reality with tank warfare, giving their warriors symbiosis with their intelligent tanks, neither war nor the galaxy would ever be the same. Not to mention sex... At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). "When I teach science fiction, I use Frankowski's books as an example of how to do it right." ¾Gene Wolfe ". . . the action is gripping, and there are plenty of novel twists and ironic moments." ¾Locus "A Boy and His Tank is a literate military adventure laced with political allegory¾and a great deal of fun." ¾Starlog "... a likeable adventure story . . . [with] appeal to general readers as well as those drawn specifically to military SF." ¾Science Fiction Chronicle
Publisher: Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN: 1618242172
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
AND THE STREETS WERE MADE OF GOLD. . . He Was a Rugged, Hardened Combat Veteran Who Had Gone to Hell and Back¾in Virtual Reality! Now He Had to Face the Real Thing.. . The planet New Kashubia started out as a gas giant, but when its sun went supernova, lighter elements were blasted into space. All that was left was a ball of heavy metals, heated to 8,000 degrees. As it cooled, tungsten solidified first at the surface, and layers of other metals continued down to a ball of mercury at the center. The sun meanwhile evolved into a pulsar with a deadly beam of radiation that baked the planet's surface. The New Kashuhians lived inside the planet, in tunnels drilled in a thousand foot thick layer of solid gold. Still without carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, or even dirt, the colonists were the poorest people in the universe. But when they combined virtual reality with tank warfare, giving their warriors symbiosis with their intelligent tanks, neither war nor the galaxy would ever be the same. Not to mention sex... At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). "When I teach science fiction, I use Frankowski's books as an example of how to do it right." ¾Gene Wolfe ". . . the action is gripping, and there are plenty of novel twists and ironic moments." ¾Locus "A Boy and His Tank is a literate military adventure laced with political allegory¾and a great deal of fun." ¾Starlog "... a likeable adventure story . . . [with] appeal to general readers as well as those drawn specifically to military SF." ¾Science Fiction Chronicle
A Troublesome Boy
Author: Paul Vasey
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN: 1554982014
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book About the Past, and selected as an Honor Book by the Society of School Librarians International Teddy can't believe how fast his life has changed in just two years. When he was twelve, his father took off, and then his mother married Henry, a man Teddy despises. But Teddy has no control over his life, and adults make all the decisions, especially in 1959. Henry decides that Teddy should be sent to St. Ignatius Academy for Boys, an isolated boarding school run by the Catholic church. St. Iggy's, Teddy learns, is a cold, unforgiving place — something between a juvenile detention center and reform school. The other boys are mostly a cast of misfits and eccentrics, but Teddy quickly becomes best friends with Cooper, a wise-cracking, Wordsworth-loving kid with a history of neglect. Despite the priests' ruthless efforts to crack down on the slightest hint of defiance or attitude, the boys get by for a while on their wits, humor and dreams of escape. But the beatings, humiliation and hours spent in the school's infamous "time-out" rooms, and the institutionalized system of power and abuse that protects the priests' authority, eventually take their toll, especially on the increasingly fragile Cooper. Then one of the new priests, Father Prince, starts to summon Cooper to his room at night, and Teddy watches helplessly as his friend withdraws into his own private nightmare, even as Prince targets Teddy himself as his next victim. Teddy and Cooper's only reprieve comes on Saturdays, when the school janitor, Rozey, takes the boys to his run-down farmhouse outside of town, the only place where the boys can feel normal -- fishing, playing cribbage, watching the bears at the local dump. But even this can't stop Cooper's downward spiral and eventual suicide. And just when Teddy thinks something good might come out of his friend's tragedy, he finds himself dealing with the ultimate betrayal.
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN: 1554982014
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book About the Past, and selected as an Honor Book by the Society of School Librarians International Teddy can't believe how fast his life has changed in just two years. When he was twelve, his father took off, and then his mother married Henry, a man Teddy despises. But Teddy has no control over his life, and adults make all the decisions, especially in 1959. Henry decides that Teddy should be sent to St. Ignatius Academy for Boys, an isolated boarding school run by the Catholic church. St. Iggy's, Teddy learns, is a cold, unforgiving place — something between a juvenile detention center and reform school. The other boys are mostly a cast of misfits and eccentrics, but Teddy quickly becomes best friends with Cooper, a wise-cracking, Wordsworth-loving kid with a history of neglect. Despite the priests' ruthless efforts to crack down on the slightest hint of defiance or attitude, the boys get by for a while on their wits, humor and dreams of escape. But the beatings, humiliation and hours spent in the school's infamous "time-out" rooms, and the institutionalized system of power and abuse that protects the priests' authority, eventually take their toll, especially on the increasingly fragile Cooper. Then one of the new priests, Father Prince, starts to summon Cooper to his room at night, and Teddy watches helplessly as his friend withdraws into his own private nightmare, even as Prince targets Teddy himself as his next victim. Teddy and Cooper's only reprieve comes on Saturdays, when the school janitor, Rozey, takes the boys to his run-down farmhouse outside of town, the only place where the boys can feel normal -- fishing, playing cribbage, watching the bears at the local dump. But even this can't stop Cooper's downward spiral and eventual suicide. And just when Teddy thinks something good might come out of his friend's tragedy, he finds himself dealing with the ultimate betrayal.
Eye Can Write
Author: Jonathan Bryan
Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Ltd.
ISBN: 1911600796
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
Can you imagine not being able to speak or communicate? The silence, the loneliness, the pain. But, inside you disappear to magical places, and even meet your best friend there. However, most of the time you remain imprisoned within the isolation. Waiting, longing, hoping. Until someone realises your potential and discovers your key, so your unlocking can begin. Now you are free, flying like a wild bird in the open sky. A voice for the voiceless. Jonathan Bryan has severe cerebral palsy, a condition that makes him incapable of voluntary movement or speech. He was locked inside his own mind, aware of the outside world but unable to fully communicate with it until he found a way by using his eyes to laboriously choose individual letters, and through this make his thoughts known. In Eye can Write, we read of his intense passion for life, his mischievous sense of fun, his hopes, his fears and what it's like to be him. This is a powerful book from an incredible young writer whose writing ability defies age or physical disability - a truly inspirational figure. Foreword by Sir Michael Morpurgo A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to Jonathan Bryan's charity, Teach Us Too. http://www.teachustoo.org.uk/
Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Ltd.
ISBN: 1911600796
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
Can you imagine not being able to speak or communicate? The silence, the loneliness, the pain. But, inside you disappear to magical places, and even meet your best friend there. However, most of the time you remain imprisoned within the isolation. Waiting, longing, hoping. Until someone realises your potential and discovers your key, so your unlocking can begin. Now you are free, flying like a wild bird in the open sky. A voice for the voiceless. Jonathan Bryan has severe cerebral palsy, a condition that makes him incapable of voluntary movement or speech. He was locked inside his own mind, aware of the outside world but unable to fully communicate with it until he found a way by using his eyes to laboriously choose individual letters, and through this make his thoughts known. In Eye can Write, we read of his intense passion for life, his mischievous sense of fun, his hopes, his fears and what it's like to be him. This is a powerful book from an incredible young writer whose writing ability defies age or physical disability - a truly inspirational figure. Foreword by Sir Michael Morpurgo A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to Jonathan Bryan's charity, Teach Us Too. http://www.teachustoo.org.uk/
Life Lines
Author: Joseph Viertel
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743228944
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
From Simon & Schuster, Lines is Joseph Viertel's novel about the Russian Jew following his persecution—and the decisions he's forced to make as a result of it. When an eminent Russian Jewish pediatrician becomes the target of official persecution, he appeals to his American and Israeli cousins and must ultimately choose his future in Russia, America, or Israel.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743228944
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
From Simon & Schuster, Lines is Joseph Viertel's novel about the Russian Jew following his persecution—and the decisions he's forced to make as a result of it. When an eminent Russian Jewish pediatrician becomes the target of official persecution, he appeals to his American and Israeli cousins and must ultimately choose his future in Russia, America, or Israel.
Out of the Blue
Author: Isabel Wolff
Publisher: MIRA
ISBN: 0778313662
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
After years, there isn't much morning show personality Faith doesn't know about her husband, Peter. But a casual remark from Faith's ultra-glam friend plants a seed of doubt, strangling all sense of Faith's contentment.
Publisher: MIRA
ISBN: 0778313662
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
After years, there isn't much morning show personality Faith doesn't know about her husband, Peter. But a casual remark from Faith's ultra-glam friend plants a seed of doubt, strangling all sense of Faith's contentment.
The Visitor
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural education
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural education
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The Only Boy for Me
Author: Gil McNeil
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408825929
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Most people would think Annie Baker had it all: an idyllic life in the country and a fabulous job as a film producer. And so would she, if it weren't for the men in her life. Her six-year-old son Charlie gets traumatised if she buys the wrong kind of sausages. Her tempestuous boss Barney is a Great Director, but keeps getting stuck with dog food commercials, and as for Lawrence, well, he just wants to get her fired. And then she meets Mack... Hilarious and poignant, The Only Boy for Me will make you laugh and cry.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408825929
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Most people would think Annie Baker had it all: an idyllic life in the country and a fabulous job as a film producer. And so would she, if it weren't for the men in her life. Her six-year-old son Charlie gets traumatised if she buys the wrong kind of sausages. Her tempestuous boss Barney is a Great Director, but keeps getting stuck with dog food commercials, and as for Lawrence, well, he just wants to get her fired. And then she meets Mack... Hilarious and poignant, The Only Boy for Me will make you laugh and cry.
What about the Boy?
Author: Gallup
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615431536
Category : Developmentally disabled children
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Nobody knew what hurt little Joseph, and no one was offering a way to help him.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615431536
Category : Developmentally disabled children
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Nobody knew what hurt little Joseph, and no one was offering a way to help him.