Middleworld

Middleworld PDF Author: Jon Voelkel
Publisher: Darby Creek
ISBN: 1606840711
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 437

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When his archaeologist parents go missing in Central America, fourteen-year-old Max embarks on a wild adventure through the Mayan underworld in search of the legendary Jaguar Stones, which enabled ancient Mayan kings to wield the powers of living gods. Includes cast of characters, glossary, facts about the Maya cosmos and calendar, and a recipe for chicken tamales.

Middleworld

Middleworld PDF Author: Jon Voelkel
Publisher: Darby Creek
ISBN: 1606840711
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 437

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Book Description
When his archaeologist parents go missing in Central America, fourteen-year-old Max embarks on a wild adventure through the Mayan underworld in search of the legendary Jaguar Stones, which enabled ancient Mayan kings to wield the powers of living gods. Includes cast of characters, glossary, facts about the Maya cosmos and calendar, and a recipe for chicken tamales.

That Middle World

That Middle World PDF Author: Julia S. Charles
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469659581
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 243

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In this study of racial passing literature, Julia S. Charles highlights how mixed-race subjects invent cultural spaces for themselves—a place she terms that middle world—and how they, through various performance strategies, make meaning in the interstices between the Black and white worlds. Focusing on the construction and performance of racial identity in works by writers from the antebellum period through Reconstruction, Charles creates a new discourse around racial passing to analyze mixed-race characters' social objectives when crossing into other racialized spaces. To illustrate how this middle world and its attendant performativity still resonates in the present day, Charles connects contemporary figures, television, and film—including Rachel Dolezal and her Black-passing controversy, the FX show Atlanta, and the musical Show Boat—to a range of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary texts. Charles's work offers a nuanced approach to African American passing literature and examines how mixed-race performers articulated their sense of selfhood and communal belonging.

Notes from the Middle World

Notes from the Middle World PDF Author: Breyten Breytenbach
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 9781608460144
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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An acclaimed South African writer, freedom fighter, and artist illuminates the labyrinth of our political present.

Middle World

Middle World PDF Author: M. Haw
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230552315
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 203

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Between the microscopic world of quarks and atoms, and the macroscopic (observable) one of pebbles and planets, there is another world, strangely neglected by science. It is inhabited by things like pollen, DNA and viruses. Physicist Mark Haw tells the story of how scientists finally saw the restless middle world, having ignored it for so long.

The River Of No Return

The River Of No Return PDF Author: J&p Voelkel
Publisher: Baile Press
ISBN: 9781734201536
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Deep in the jungle, Max and Lola battle a zombie army, mutant cave spiders, and even the ancient Maya Lords of Death

The Lost City

The Lost City PDF Author: J&P Voelkel
Publisher: Darby Creek ™
ISBN: 160684377X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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The epic conclusion to the exciting Jaguar Stones series and a rip-roaring adventure into the heart of North America! With his parents in jail and the Maya Death Lords in possession of all five Jaguar Stones, fourteen-year-old Max Murphy is pretty sure that he'll never get to leave the rainforest. But the Lords of Death have a problem—a new king calling himself Great Sun claims to have the Jaguar Stones, too. And they want Max to prove the guy's a fraud. Or else. Now, Max, and Lola, the mysterious girl who befriends him, are off on another wild adventure that will take them from Central America to New Orleans and up the Mississippi to the lost city at the heart of North America's past. But one thing Max should have learned after all of his dealings with the Death Lords—they never keep their promises.

Envoy to the Middle World

Envoy to the Middle World PDF Author: George Crews McGhee
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 498

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The Winter Place

The Winter Place PDF Author: Alexander Yates
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481419811
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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Upon their father's death, Tess and her younger brother, Axel, leave New York for their grandparents' home in Finland, where they learn that a bear they both saw is the spirit of their mother, the strange man with her is the keeper of souls, and he wantsAxel, already plagued with the disease that killed their mother, to replace him.

The Water of Possibility

The Water of Possibility PDF Author: Hiromi Goto
Publisher: Coteau Books
ISBN: 9781550501834
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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One day Sayuri and her little brother Keiji explore the dark root cellar and are transported from Ganola AB to Middle World, a woodland full of figures from Japanese folklore.

Scat

Scat PDF Author: Carl Hiaasen
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0440421047
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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Carl Hiaasen takes us deep in the Everglades with an eccentric eco-avenger, a ticked-off panther, and two kids on a mission to find their missing teacher. Florida—where the animals are wild and the people are wilder! Bunny Starch, the most feared biology teacher ever, is missing. She disappeared after a school field trip to Black Vine Swamp. And, to be honest, the kids in her class are relieved. But when the principal tries to tell the students that Mrs. Starch has been called away on a "family emergency," Nick and Marta just don't buy it. No, they figure the class delinquent, Smoke, has something to do with her disappearance. And he does! But not in the way they think. There's a lot more going on in Black Vine Swamp than any one player in this twisted tale can see. It’s all about to hit the fan, and when it does, the bad guys better scat. “Ingenious . . . Scat won’t disappoint Hiaasenphiles of any age.” —The New York Times “Woohoo! It’s time for another trip to Florida—screwy, gorgeous Florida, with its swamps and scammers and strange creatures (two- and four-legged). Our guide, of course, is Carl Hiaasen.” —DenverPost.com