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Author
Publisher
Wordsong, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Keet knows the only good thing about moving away from her Alabama home is that she'll live near her beloved grandfather. When Keet starts school, it's even worse than she expected, as the kids tease her about her southern accent. Now Keet, who can 'talk the whiskers off a catfish,' doesn't want to open her mouth. Slowly, though, while fishing with her grandfather, she learns the art of listening. Gradually, she makes her first new friend. But just...
23) A Hard Life
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Greek
Description
Kalliopi Kalogerou has spent her whole life in the Greek village of Ano Ravenia where she was born in 1900. Simple witness of the century, she lived through Turkish domination and successive occupations linked to different wars. This film is exclusively devoted to her life story.
Author
Language
English
Description
Discover the Magic of Storytelling for Young Hearts Are you inspired to create stories that spark a child's imagination, touch their hearts, and leave a lasting impact? "Unlocking Imagination" is your essential guide to crafting enchanting children's books that will captivate and inspire. What You'll Find Inside: Step-by-Step Guidance: This book takes you on a journey from concept to publication, offering a clear and practical roadmap for aspiring...
26) Life of Pi
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A young Pi Patel, overcoming a cataclysmic shipwreck, finds himself stranded on a lifeboat with the last survivor, a ferocious Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.
27) The giant-slayer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her eight-year-old neighbor is stricken with polio in 1955, eleven-year-old Laurie discovers that there is power in her imagination as she weaves a story during her visits with him and other patients confined to iron lung machines.
Author
Language
English
Description
In Rest Area, Clay McLeod Chapman offered a view into the lives of Southern Gothic monstrosities. Now, the 40 tales of Nothing Untoward delve into the depraved minds of those madmen and women who drift along the periphery of humankind. Sometimes darkly humorous, sometimes strangely heartbreaking, these stories explore the domestic horrors of the everyday, finding terror within our own households.
Haunting and hilarious, these sharply tuned diatribes...
Author
Language
English
Description
John McDonald has been making people laugh for decades with his humorous yarns poking fun at people from away, people from Maine, and life in general. Following up the wildly popular A Moose and a Lobster Walk into a Bar, the "Dean of Maine Storytelling" offers a new collection of stories that will make you laugh till you cry and cry till you laugh.
Here's a new round of classic stories brimming with half-truths, stretched truths, and wry observations...
Author
Language
English
Description
At the core, this book is about the adequacy of interaction. This concept came about as I once watched an interactive film and realized that when the player decides what a game character should do, it makes a chimera of the character, making the whole exercise pointless. The idea was to identify rules to follow in order to prevent that consequence.As it turns out, when you take this adequacy train of thought to its logical end, identifying what the...
Author
Language
Français
Description
Théâtre de nulle part, œuvre qui regroupe six grandes pièces. Venus d'ailleurs : Une histoire de spationaute , Le savon de Marseille : On croirait entendre Galabru en l'Abbé Martin , Black-out lunaire : O est passée la lune, Monsieur le Président ? Geronimo : Heureusement que le Président Philippe Ramonc a une sœur qui a un don pour lui venir en aide. Séance plénière : Plus d'enfants, le pourquoi du comment. Rapport MID : Visite d'ennui...
34) Ghetto Klown
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In this graphic-novel adaptation of his award-winning Broadway memoir, John Leguizamo lays bare his life story, sharing memories of his early years as an actor on stage, on television, and in major motion pictures opposite some of Hollywood’s biggest stars, such as Al Pacino, Patrick Swayze, and Steven Seagal, and working for directors Baz Luhrmann and Brian De Palma. Leguizamo opens up about his loves and marriages, while addressing self-doubt...
Author
Language
English
Description
Create a new life by crafting your very own personal fairytale.
You will learn all you need to know to manifest the life of your dreams.
Do you have goals and dreams and desires that call to you for manifestation? Any things about you that you would like to change?
You can change yourself, your habits, your character and your entire life with the simple process of creating a Fairytale.
This is not complicated and there is no need to dig up anything...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Introducing "From Blank Page to Published Author: A Guide to Writing Your First Novel" - the ultimate resource for anyone who has ever dreamed of writing a novel, but didn't know where to start.Whether you're a seasoned writer looking to hone your craft or a complete newbie wondering how to even begin, this comprehensive eBook will guide you every step of the way. You'll learn the skills and techniques you need to turn your ideas into a polished manuscript.Inside,...
Author
Language
English
Description
A stunning and timely creative call-to-arms combining four extraordinary written pieces by Neil Gaiman illustrated with the striking four-color artwork of Chris Riddell.
"The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before."-Neil Gaiman. Drawn from Gaiman's trove of published speeches, poems, and creative manifestos, Art Matters is an embodiment of this remarkable multi-media artist's vision-an exploration of...
Author
Language
English
Description
Veteran script consultant Jill Chamberlain knows that most first-time screenwriters don't understand how to tell a story. These writers may have snappy dialogue, interesting characters, and clever plot devices-but what they deliver isn't a story. It's a situation. In order to explain the difference, Chamberlain created the Nutshell Technique, a method whereby writers identify eight dynamic, interconnected elements that are required to successfully...
Author
Series
Mermaid tales volume 8
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While preparing for a unit on storytelling, the mermaids of Trident Academy learn of a legendary pirate treasure in their own city and Pearl decides to find it, despite a warning that it is guarded by a ghost.
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