![]() ![]() It offers numerous opportunities for parents and teachers to open a dialogue addressing a wide range of interesting and important issues related to general ecology and natural history of bats. In addition to the intriguing storyline, Bats in Trouble is captivating because of the factual information about bats that is embedded throughout.Highly Recommended., Bats in Trouble is a nicely written story suitable for readers 7-9 years of age. The black-and-white pencil drawings are detailed and add appeal#8230A positive, inspiring, and fact-filled addition to an excellent chapter book series., The story empowers children to make a positive difference, no matter what their age. The writing is direct, and the plot is straightforward. ![]() There is also information on wind turbines, and the equilibrium between nature and technology is explored in a relatable way. Readers learn about the many species of bats, their habitats, and migrations. Bats in Trouble is recommended for both school and public libraries.offering a good quality short chapter book that promotes social responsibility and can be used in character building programs and for independent reading., This contemporary story is engaging and stuffed with scientific facts. ![]() ![]() Pamela effectively uses a work of fiction to impart many facts about bats and wind turbines.The black and white illustrations by Kasia Charko are quite pleasing. ![]()
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Will they get the best seats on the coach? ![]() ![]() But then he discovers that Future Ratboy (super-keel superhero TV show) is filmed in the same TV studios! All he has to do is find a way to sneak away and find the set. Perfect for readers aged 7-10 years old and fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Tom Gates, Dennis the Menace and Pamela Butchart's Wigglesbottom Primary series.īarry's class are off on a school trip to see a history of television exhibition, which Barry knows will be comperleeterly rubbish. The ninth book in the brilliant Roald Dahl Funny Prize winning BARRY LOSER series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a book born straight from life lived in Britain below the poverty line - a brutal landscape savaged by universal credit, zero-hours contracts, rising rents and public service funding cuts. In Skint Estate, Cash has found her voice - loud, raw and cutting. Without a stable home, without a steady income, without family support - how do you survive? What had changed? The vulnerable were still at the bottom of the heap, unheard. Years later, she watched Grenfell burn from a women’s refuge around the corner. Skint Estate is the hard-hitting, blunt, dignified and brutally revealing debut memoir about impoverishment, loneliness and violence in austerity Britain - set against a grim landscape of sink estates, police cells, refuges and peepshows - skilfully woven into a manifesto for change.Īlone, pregnant and living in a women’s refuge, Cash Carraway couldn’t vote in the 2010 general election that ushered austerity into Britain. It’s a luxury to afford morals, and if you’re Cash Carraway, you do what you can to survive. Penguin presents the audio edition of Skint Estate, written and read by Cash Carraway. ![]() ![]() Say "hi" at our sister subreddits- SpecArt and SF Videos-and join our reader-managed Goodreads group. The key is that it be speculative, not that it fit some arbitrary genre guidelines. ![]() History, Postmodern Lit., and more are all welcome here. Not sure what counts as speculative fiction? Then post it! Science Fiction, Fantasy, Alt. ![]() Canticle for Leibowitz Rendezvous with Rama Princess of Mars Altered Carbon Foundation Blindsight Accelerando Old Man's War Armor Cities in Flight A Brave New World Children of Dune Stranger in a Strange Land Dhalgren Enders Game Gateway A Fire Upon the Deep Neuromancer A Clockwork Orange Ringworld Diamond Age Lord of Light Hyperion Startide Rising Terminal World The Forever War Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Hunger Games Left Hand of Darkness Man in the High Castle The Martian Chronicles The Player of Games The Shadow of the Torturer Sirens of Titan The Stars my Destination To Your Scattered Bodies GoĪ place to discuss published Speculative Fiction ![]() ![]() Is there romance in This Is Where It Ends? I read this book on and off and read it super slowly.Īuthor Marieke Nijkamp’s debut novel chronicles a heart-wrenching 54 minutes of terror by dropout Tyler Browne, who returns to Opportunity High School the first day of a new semester to take revenge on the classmates he blames for his feelings of loss and abandonment. Trigger warnings: domestic abuse, gun violence, mentions of suicide/depression, attempted rape on a pregnant woman. ![]() Are there any trigger warnings for It Ends With Us? One night, Ryle found Atlas’s number on Lily’s phone. This seemed to be the case as Lily met Ryle’s parents, and she and Ryle decided to get married. However, she knew now that her future was with Ryle. Does daughter of the pirate king have romance?Ībout this Series A young adult adventure series set on the high seas with plenty of romance, Daughter of the Pirate King tells the story of Alosa, a 17 year-old pirate who’s captaining a mission to retrieve an ancient treasure map. In my own little summary, this book is about Autumn, who was always known as the weird girl in school, but she had one friend, and at moments in her life, she began to realize her love for that one friend, Finn, who’s also Autumn’s next door neighbour, and who’s mom is best friends with Autumn’s mom.Īges 14–up. ![]() ![]() Who is the main character in if he had been with me? ![]() ![]() ![]() The “hour” is code for the Paschal Mystery, Jesus’ passage through death to life. But why the aloof and off-putting words? The best explanation, in my judgment, is that this is a narrative device that serves to highlight the importance of Jesus’ “hour” and that shows the relation between what he does at Cana and what will transpire in that hour. Mary is presented here as the new Eve, the new representative of the human race, with whom God is seeking union. At the outset of his ministry, Jesus declined his mother’s request at the wedding of Cana saying, “Woman, how does your concern affect me? My hour has not yet come.” ![]() Friends, in today’s Gospel, as the Lord anticipates his glorification on the cross, he prays, “Father, the hour has come.” The “hour” was a focal point of Jesus’ entire life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() OL12433W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 83.49 Pages 214 Ppi 300 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0786285044 The Face on the Milk Carton is a young adult mystery novel written by author Caroline B. Urn:lcp:faceonmilkcarton00coon:epub:742db102-3c81-4f92-9a77-f6a7b3365e31 Extramarc University of Alberta Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier faceonmilkcarton00coon Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0xp80b4h Isbn 0440220653Ĩ9018311 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition But as Janie Johnson glanced at the face of the ordinary little girl with her hair in tight pigtails, wearing a dress with a narrow white collar-a three-year-old who had been kidnapped twelve years before from a. COONEY is the bestselling author of more than thirty young adult books, including the million-copy plus bestseller, The Face on the Milk Carton. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:55:14 Boxid IA118403 Boxid_2 BWB220140829 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donor No one ever really paid close attention to the faces of the missing children on the milk cartons. ![]() ![]() ![]() I found an online book with an equation that is a bit different (page 161 of 318): And no one checked to see that the equation was printing correctly. ![]() ![]() This publisher may not have been aware there was an equation in the data file for the book. Fiction publishers do not normally print advanced mathematical equations. I think I understand why the equation might get corrupted. This does not appear to me to be a proper equation, I suspect that it has been corrupted. In my book (HarperTorch, 2000 Jul, page 194 of 377) the equation is: That meant he'd become stupid again, as sure as The passage (near the middle of the book): The second equation ends with an equal sign and may have something to do with HHGTTG. In the scene where Detritus the troll is in the Pork Futures Warehouse, two equations are mentioned. Could someone with an early edition of Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett, first published by Victor Gollancz Ltd in 1993, please answer with Detritus' equation? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ****spoiler ahead*** And then when he betrayed his best (and only) friend, Marcus, by abducting his fiancee Lillian, I was so pissed at him!***end of spoiler*** Now how was Lisa Kleypas going to redeem this devilish rake and make me fall in love with him? And how was he ever going to find love with shy, timid Evie? ![]() Sure, he was wickedly handsome (and he knew it!) with his blond, 'fallen angel' looks, and he was funny and charming, but he seemed to have no ambition in life except to go about seducing anything in a skirt. Vincent was introduced in It Happened One Autumn, I had my doubts about him. But when the hero of this book, 32-year-old Sebastian, Lord St. I've always loved the stammering, shy, yet beautiful red-headed 'Wallflower' character of Evie Jenner, and could hardly wait to read her story. What a truly beautiful, romantic book, with so many sigh-worthy moments, so many humorous moments, lots of wickedly sexy dialogue.and featuring some very satisfying emotional growth from both the hero and heroine. ![]() |