Author: Jeanne Willis
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Down syndrome
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Life isn't going so well for 19-year-old Will. His mother is always nagging him about the lucky knit hat that he never takes off; his mother's boyfriend has forbidden Will to play "Wild Thing"--the only song he knows--on the guitar; and he just got fired from his job at Burger King. But Will's luck changes when he moves into a flat with Chrissy, James, and Rocko and gets a new job at the local park. At the park Will meets Zara, a gypsy girl whose family is camping there illegally. Will has never been happier. Until his mother threatens to ruin everything by revealing Will's childhood secret. Is Will and Zara's love for each other strong enough to survive? "From the Hardcover edition."
Author: Elizabeth Ezra
Publisher: Floris Books
ISBN: 1782504583
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109
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Ruby McCracken's life is OVER. Her parents have forced her to move to the Ordinary World and that means -- new home, new school and worst of all, no magic! Seriously?! A witch without magic? That's LITERALLY tragic. Ruby has to leave behind her broomstick (and walk everywhere -- YUCK!) and her friends (no more watching Hex Factor together on a Saturday night). She's absolutely STARVING with no snack spell, and there's no way to get revenge on the mean girls at her boring new school without a good curse. Despite her best witching efforts, the Ordinary World remains tragically magic-deprived, until Ruby receives a mysterious hext that seems to offer an answer. That is, if she can figure out what it means and, more importantly, who sent it. Packed with great humour, loveable characters and witty banter, Ruby McCracken: Tragic Without Magic is perfect for fans of Witchworld and The Worst Witch.
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Author: Michael Z. Newman
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231513526
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 421
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America's independent films often seem to defy classification. Their strategies of storytelling and representation range from raw, no-budget projects to more polished releases of Hollywood's "specialty" divisions. Yet understanding American indies involves more than just considering films. Filmmakers, distributors, exhibitors, festivals, critics, and audiences all shape the art's identity, which is always understood in relation to the Hollywood mainstream. By locating the American indie film in the historical context of the "Sundance-Miramax" era (the mid-1980s to the end of the 2000s), Michael Z. Newman considers indie cinema as an alternative American film culture. His work isolates patterns of character and realism, formal play, and oppositionality and the functions of the festivals, art houses, and critical media promoting them. He also accounts for the power of audiences to identify indie films in distinction to mainstream Hollywood and to seek socially emblematic characters and playful form in their narratives. Analyzing films such as Welcome to the Dollhouse (1996), Lost in Translation (2003), Pulp Fiction (1994), and Juno (2007), along with the work of Nicole Holofcener, Jim Jarmusch, John Sayles, Steven Soderbergh, and the Coen brothers, Newman investigates the conventions that cast indies as culturally legitimate works of art. He binds these diverse works together within a cluster of distinct viewing strategies and invites a reevaluation of the difference of independent cinema and its relationship to class and taste culture.
Author: Grenville Turner
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 0740798502
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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This is the story of the history-making hat that has been a part of Australian life since 1912. In Akubra Is Australian for Hat, Grenville Turner takes us on a journey with this unique Australian institution. Aussies have lived, loved, and died under their Akubras, and wearing one has been a longstanding tradition throughout the continent. The Akubra does it all. It provides shade from the harsh Australian sun, works as a fan on a hot day, keeps snakes at bay, serves as a water jug for a horse, and swats away flies. It can even be worn as a hat. Go figure. This book isn't just about history. Its tone is witty and lighthearted, and breathes that famous Aussie attitude--you'll have no worries as long as you have your Akubra in hand (or on head.)
Author: Ida Tomshinsky
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1479799092
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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This is a standard reference for anyone who is interested in the history of essential fashion accessory – the hat. The hats always were used to protect, to express identity, to express identity, and to attract or to influence others. Main developments in the timeline of hats from ancient past to modern present, including the phenomenon of the must-have accessory covering the top of the head.
Author: Hamilton Wright Mabie
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473398789
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 772
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This wonderful collection of stories for children, contains a wealth of classic tales adapted for the younger reader. It includes 'Don Quixote', Gulliver's Travel', 'The Arabian Nights', 'The Pilgrim's Progress', 'Robinson Crusoe', and many more. It is an excellent work for exposing youngsters to great works of literature in a form easily understood by the developing mind. Accompanying our republication of this volume, we have included a brand new introductory biography on the editor of the work, American Essayist, Hamilton Wright Mabie.
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 14851
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Share the joy of reading to your little ones and take them into the magical land of dragons, fairies, elves and fantasies with this meticulously edited collection:_x000D_ Dragon Tales:_x000D_ My Father's Dragon_x000D_ The Reluctant Dragon_x000D_ The Book of Dragons_x000D_ Animal Tales & Fables:_x000D_ The Tale of Peter Rabbit_x000D_ The Tale of Benjamin Bunny..._x000D_ Mother West Wind Series_x000D_ The Burgess Bird Book for Children_x000D_ The Burgess Animal Book for Children_x000D_ The Velveteen Rabbit_x000D_ Uncle Wiggily's Adventures & Other Tales_x000D_ Little Bun Rabbit_x000D_ Mother Goose in Prose_x000D_ Lulu's Library_x000D_ The Jungle Book..._x000D_ White Fang_x000D_ Black Beauty_x000D_ The Story of Doctor Dolittle..._x000D_ Aesop Fables_x000D_ The Panchatantra_x000D_ Russian Picture Fables for the Little Ones_x000D_ The Russian Garland_x000D_ Fairy tales & Fantasies:_x000D_ Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen_x000D_ Complete Fairy Tales of Brothers Grimm_x000D_ Complete Fairy Books of Andrew Lang_x000D_ Peter Pan_x000D_ Five Children and It..._x000D_ Alice in Wonderland_x000D_ Through the Looking Glass_x000D_ The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Collection_x000D_ At the Back of the North Wind_x000D_ The Princess and the Goblin_x000D_ Tanglewood Tales_x000D_ The Happy Prince and Other Tales_x000D_ All the Way to Fairyland_x000D_ Friendly Fairies..._x000D_ Old Peter's Russian Tales_x000D_ Childhood Adventures:_x000D_ Robin Hood_x000D_ Pinocchio_x000D_ Gingerbread Man_x000D_ Little Women_x000D_ The Secret Garden_x000D_ A Little Princess_x000D_ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer_x000D_ Journey to the Centre of the Earth_x000D_ Treasure Island..._x000D_ Anne of Green Gables Collection..._x000D_ The Wind in the Willows_x000D_ The Box-Car Children_x000D_ The Railway Children_x000D_ Oliver Twist_x000D_ David Copperfield..._x000D_ Classics Retold_x000D_ The Iliad of Homer _x000D_ Odysseus_x000D_ The Arabian Nights Entertainments_x000D_ Viking Tales_x000D_ Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table_x000D_ Chaucer for Children_x000D_ Tales from Shakespeare_x000D_ Don Quixote_x000D_ The Pilgrim's Progress_x000D_ Robinson Crusoe_x000D_ Voyage to Lilliput_x000D_ Little Goody Two-Shoes & Mrs Margery Two-Shoes_x000D_ Charles Dickens' Children Stories_x000D_ The Story of Hiawatha_x000D_ Uncle Tom's Cabin_x000D_ Pocahontas
Author: Thomas Joseph Coyne
Publisher: Plano, Tex. : Business Publications
ISBN:
Category : Managerial economics
Languages : en
Pages : 3522
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Author: Homer
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 752
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This carefully edited collection of The Greatest World Classics Retold for Children has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Table of Contents: The Iliad of Homer Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca (Homer) The Arabian Nights Entertainments (Andrew Lang) Viking Tales (Jennie Hall) Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table (Andrew Lang) Chaucer for Children: A Golden Key (Geoffrey Chaucer) Tales from Shakespeare (Charles and Mary Lamb) Don Quixote (Miguel Cervantes) The Pilgrim's Progress (John Bunyan) Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe) Gulliver's Travels: Voyage to Lilliput (Jonathan Swift) Little Goody Two-Shoes &Mrs Margery Two-Shoes (Oliver Goldsmith) Charles Dickens' Children Stories (Charles Dickens) The Story of Hiawatha (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Winston Stokes) Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe) The Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith (E. Boyd Smith)
