Muttketeer!

Muttketeer! PDF Author: Bill Crider
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613102193
Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Locked out of the school while Joe and his friends are inside, Wishbone imagines himself as D'Artagnan, a young seventeenth-century Frenchman who achieves his dream of becoming one of the prestigious musketeers who guard the king and his court.

Muttketeer!

Muttketeer! PDF Author: Bill Crider
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613102193
Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Locked out of the school while Joe and his friends are inside, Wishbone imagines himself as D'Artagnan, a young seventeenth-century Frenchman who achieves his dream of becoming one of the prestigious musketeers who guard the king and his court.

The Mutt in the Iron Muzzle

The Mutt in the Iron Muzzle PDF Author: Michael Jan Friedman
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing
ISBN: 9780836823035
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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An intrigue involving the election of class president reminds Wishbone of the twin brother of King Louis XIV of France who must decide if he should risk everything to escape his iron mask and trade it for the king's crown.

A Pup in King Arthur's Court

A Pup in King Arthur's Court PDF Author: Joanne Barkan
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing
ISBN: 9780836825930
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Joe and David publish a sports newsletter using new technology that will be better than the existing paper. The idea of new being better than old reminds Wishbone of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

Dog Days of the West

Dog Days of the West PDF Author: Vivian Sathre
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781570649660
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Dog Overboard!

Dog Overboard! PDF Author: Vivian Sathre
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing
ISBN: 9780836825909
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Wishbone imagines that he is David Balfour, the young Scottish Lowlander bound for adventure in Kidnapped, the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Shotgun Saturday Night

Shotgun Saturday Night PDF Author: Bill Crider
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Sheriff Dan Rhodes knows it's going to be a bad day when Bert Ramsey arrives at the jail with a neatly wrapped arm and lays it on Dan's desk. He has another out in the truck, he tells the sheriff, and "a couple of legs, too, but they don't match up." To Rhodes's relief, the severed limbs—part of a large cache Bert has discovered while clearing brush—are not evidence of a mass murderer at large in Blacklin County, but something more on a par with the usual emergencies the Texas lawman has to deal with: cows loose in the churchyard, ninety-year-old Mrs. Thurman's periodic attacks of "blindness" (which Rhodes cures by sending out a deputy with fresh light bulbs), and the like. Meanwhile, back at the jail, his attenuated employees are bristling about the new deputy, a highly qualified police officer, but a woman, and the air conditioner has collapsed during the heat wave. Plus his personal life has its own problems; does he or does he not want to marry Ivy Daniel? Then Bert Ramsey is shot to death, and serious crime takes over. A tattoo on the body discloses that Ramsey was once a member of Los Muertos, a violent motorcycle gang from the city, and current members of the gang turn up in Blacklin County. There are questions: Where did the town handyman get the money to buy two color television sets, two VCRs, and a houseful of new furniture? Not to mention six thousand dollars in cash rolled up in a sock in Bert's dresser drawer. Dan Rhodes doesn't have access to the high-tech detection methods of city police—and probably wouldn't use them if he had. Dan has to talk to people and sift the facts from the lies. If he is careful, he believes, and keeps it up, he'll usually get results. "Keeping it up" involves tangling with Wyneva Greer, Ramsey's former girlfriend now living with a mysterious newcomer to the town, Buster Cullens. Buster becomes the next murder victim—of the same killer? Rhodes isn't sure. He soon tangles with the bikers, sustaining a certain amount of damage in the process. Dan Rhodes is, in the words of Newgate Callender of The New York Times Book Review, "a quiet man, an honest man and a stubborn man," and it seems that no amount of violence is going to deter him from getting to the bottom of the murders in his relatively peaceful and beautifully evoked Texas county.

Dead on the Island

Dead on the Island PDF Author: Bill Crider
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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PI Truman Smith has become a loner after failing to find his sister Jan during a recent search of Galveston Island. He jogs on the Seawall, plays with his cat, and reads lots of Faulkner books. He is pulled from his self-imposed retirement when his old high school football buddy Dino asks him to find a young girl named Sharon. As Tru begins his investigation, dead bodies begin to appear and Tru himself is attacked. His search for Sharon takes him to all sorts of interesting places on and near the Island. Bill Crider spins a good mystery tale in a wonderful setting with interesting characters and enough plot twists to keep readers guessing until the last few chapters.

Unleashed in Space

Unleashed in Space PDF Author: Alexander Steele
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780606190329
Category : Science fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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John's prize-winning essay gets him six days at Space Camp with Wishbone who, on the first day there, imagines himself as the hero of Jack Williamson's novel, The legion of space, who is on a thirty-first century outer space rescue mission.

Rest in Peace

Rest in Peace PDF Author: Jack MacLane
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 333

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An Evil Secret Danny West knew that something was wrong from the first day his folks moved into the rundown house next to the creepy graveyard. The neighborhood kids would never come over to play. At night, he saw weird shadows prowling around the crumbling tombstones, and heard strange gurgling sounds. But his parents wouldn’t listen to him. They said he had a good imagination… Then bad things started to happen. Terrible, gruesome things that even scared his dad. There was something in the graveyard. Something in the graveyard. Something that no kid could ever have imagined. Something that should have been left alone to Rest In Peace.

Television and Serial Adaptation

Television and Serial Adaptation PDF Author: Shannon Wells-Lassagne
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315524511
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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As American television continues to garner considerable esteem, rivalling the seventh art in its "cinematic" aesthetics and the complexity of its narratives, one aspect of its development has been relatively unexamined. While film has long acknowledged its tendency to adapt, an ability that contributed to its status as narrative art (capable of translating canonical texts onto the screen), television adaptations have seemingly been relegated to the miniseries or classic serial. From remakes and reboots to transmedia storytelling, loose adaptations or adaptations which last but a single episode, the recycling of pre-existing narrative is a practice that is just as common in television as in film, and this text seeks to rectify that oversight, examining series from M*A*S*H to Game of Thrones, Pride and Prejudice to Castle.