Poppy Or the Snake?

Poppy Or the Snake? PDF Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
ISBN:
Category : Aesop's fables
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Who's got game? An old man who knows how to pay attention or a snake who can trick anyone into trusting a false promise? In the Morrisons' version of this timeless fable, the moral ending is revitalized with a clever new spin.

Poppy Or the Snake?

Poppy Or the Snake? PDF Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
ISBN:
Category : Aesop's fables
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Book Description
Who's got game? An old man who knows how to pay attention or a snake who can trick anyone into trusting a false promise? In the Morrisons' version of this timeless fable, the moral ending is revitalized with a clever new spin.

Who's Got Game?

Who's Got Game? PDF Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743283910
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Three popular tales from Toni and Slade Morrison, Poppy or the Snake? The Lion or the Mouse? and The Ant or the Grasshopper? in one volume. Told with vibrant language and rich in rhythm, these are truly empowering and inspiring tales. Pascal's Lemaitre's ingenious illustrations add sophistication to the Morrison's wry and defiantly ambiguous text, making the Who's Got Game? series a favourite among both adults and children. In these tales anything can happen...and quite often does!

Amigas: She's Got Game

Amigas: She's Got Game PDF Author: Veronica Chambers
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 1423146115
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Amigas have definitely arrived. Fresh out of the spotlight of their first television experience, the team is back and stronger than ever. But the heat is always on in Miami and when they get hired to do an unusual quince for a bratty debutante, the temperature goes sky high.

Who Got Game?: Basketball

Who Got Game?: Basketball PDF Author: Derrick D. Barnes
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
ISBN: 1523527102
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 319

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From superstar author Derrick Barnes, here is a middle-grade celebration of the people and stories that helped shape the game of basketball, from unsung pioneers to unforgettable moments of the game. Capturing all the joy and energy that mark the sport of basketball, bestselling and award-winning superstar author Derrick Barnes shines a light on the amazing ballers, buzzer-beaters, and record-breakers who haven’t always gotten the attention they deserve. Who Got Game? Basketball, the second book in his sports series, following Who Got Game? Baseball, weaves together great storytelling, lively illustrations, and a far-ranging selection of facts, stats, sidebars, and quotes. Middle-grade readers will discover the highest-scoring game in NCAA history. The influential center, George Mikan, who created the modern big man role, and 5'3" Muggsy Bogues, the shortest player ever to star in the pros. The pioneering Senda Berenson Abbott, creator of the women’s game. The legendary Rucker Park b-ball court in Harlem, New York. Plus the first African American players and coaches, greatest comeback victories and earth-shattering slam dunks, longest winning streaks, and so much more. This book will hit you like a three-pointer from half-court!

Who Got Game?: Baseball

Who Got Game?: Baseball PDF Author: Derrick D. Barnes
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
ISBN: 1523505532
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177

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Celebrate the unheralded people and stories that helped shape the game of baseball! Meet unsung pioneers, like John “Bud” Fowler, William Edward White, and brothers Moses Fleetwood Walker and Weld Walker, four African Americans who integrated white teams decades before Jackie Robinson. Discover unforgettable moments, like the time a 17-year old girl named Jackie Mtchell struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Marvel at records. Did you know that Japanese superstar Sadaharu Oh has a whopping 113 more career homers than Hank Aaron? And that’s just for starters! This lively illustrated collection of shiny nuggets of baseball lore will transform you into a superfan who knows the game better than anyone else. Someone who’s got game.

The Ant or the Grasshopper?

The Ant or the Grasshopper? PDF Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 9781476792699
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A hip, sly, exuberant retelling of Aesop's fable, for children of all ages—written by Nobel Prize–winning author Toni Morrison and her son Slade Morrison, and ingeniously illustrated by Pascal Lemaitre. "How can you say I never worked a day? ART is WORK. It just looks like play," so says Foxy G to his buddy Kid A, in Toni and Slade Morrison's sassy, sly tale of friendship, betrayal, and survival—or not. Generation after generation, classic fables, folklore, and myth remain popular because they quicken the imagination of readers and listeners of all ages. We, the creators of the Who's Got Game? series were inspired by the wonder of Aesop's Fables—their vitality, their endless demand for more interpretations. In our versions the original stories are opened up and their moralistic endings reimagined; the victim might not lose; the timid gets a chance to become strong; the fool can gain insight; the powerful may lose their grip. Anything can happen!

The Game

The Game PDF Author: Neil Strauss
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062130110
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 466

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Hidden somewhere, in nearly every major city in the world, is an underground seduction lair. And in these lairs, men trade the most devastatingly effective techniques ever invented to charm women. This is not fiction. These men really exist. They live together in houses known as Projects. And Neil Strauss, the bestselling author and journalist, spent two years living among them, using the pseudonym Style to protect his real-life identity. The result is one of the most explosive and controversial books of the last decade—guaranteed to change the lives of men and transform the way women understand the opposite sex forever. On his journey from AFC (average frustrated chump) to PUA (pick-up artist) to PUG (pick-up guru), Strauss not only shares scores of original seduction techniques but also has unforgettable encounters with the likes of Tom Cruise, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Heidi Fleiss, and Courtney Love. And then things really start to get strange—and passions lead to betrayals lead to violence. The Game is the story of one man's transformation from frog to prince to prisoner in the most unforgettable book of this generation.

The Lion or the Mouse?

The Lion or the Mouse? PDF Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 9781476792682
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In this charmingly subversive reinterpretation of a classic tale, the Morrisons and Pascal Lemaitre take a hilarious look at bullying. The cocky lion, the self-proclaimed "baddest in the land," believes himself invincible until he gets a thorn stuck in his paw. Only a weak little mouse can help him, but then the lion must indulge the mouse's ridiculous pride and appetite for power. Generation after generation, classic fables, folklore, and myth remain popular because they quicken the imagination of readers and listeners of all ages. We, the creators of the Who's Got Game? series were inspired by the wonder of Aesop's Fables—their vitality, their endless demand for more interpretations. In our versions the original stories are opened up and their moralistic endings reimagined; the victim might not lose; the timid gets a chance to become strong; the fool can gain insight; the powerful may lose their grip. Anything can happen!

Butter

Butter PDF Author: Erin Jade Lange
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1619631210
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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Book Description
Unable to control his binge eating, a morbidly obese teenager nicknamed Butter decides to make live webcast of his last meal as he attempts to eat himself to death.

The Most Dangerous Game

The Most Dangerous Game PDF Author: Richard Connell
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN: 8728187490
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Book Description
Sanger Rainsford is a big-game hunter, who finds himself washed up on an island owned by the eccentric General Zaroff. Zaroff, a big-game hunter himself, has heard of Rainsford’s abilities with a gun and organises a hunt. However, they’re not after animals – they’re after people. When he protests, Rainsford the hunter becomes Rainsford the hunted. Sharing similarities with "The Hunger Games", starring Jennifer Lawrence, this is the story that created the template for pitting man against man. Born in New York, Richard Connell (1893 – 1949) went on to become an acclaimed author, screenwriter, and journalist. He is best remembered for the gripping novel "The Most Dangerous Game" and for receiving an Oscar nomination for the screenplay "Meet John Doe".