Viminy Crowe's Comic Book

2017-01-03 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Marthe Jocelyn
Release : 2017-01-03
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 934/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Viminy Crowe's Comic Book by : Marthe Jocelyn

Download or read book Viminy Crowe's Comic Book written by Marthe Jocelyn. This book was released on 2017-01-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback. From two of Canada's most renowned children's authors comes a hilarious, action-packed comic adventure novel! When chubby, geeky Wylder Wallace spills lunch on cool and aloof Addy Crowe at Toronto's Comicon, she dashes to the bathroom, leaving behind the latest issue of her uncle's steampunk comic hit: FLYNN GOSTER in GOLD RUSH TRAIN. Wylder, a fan of the Flynn comics, opens this new one eagerly, astounded to see the girl who was just yelling at him inside the comic. Fascinated, he follows Addy into the bathroom, and the adventure begins ... Is there a personality conflict? Oh, yes. Addy wants to go home; Wylder wants to stay and explore the world of Viminy Crowe's comic book. Do things go wrong? You bet they do, from the very start, when Addy loses her pet rat, Catnip, and almost gets shot by a Red Rider. All the while the actual comic book story is going on around them. The train carries a fortune from the Yukon goldfields, and both dashing Flynn Goster (hero of a thousand disguises and thief extraordinaire) and villainous Professor Aldous Lickpenny (criminal genius, aided by malevolent robots but somewhat hampered by doltish nephew Nevins) have plans to steal the gold. There's romance too -- Flynn's old flame, the brilliant aviatrix, Isadora Fortuna, is traveling across Canada with her balloon, and her strangely familiar protégée Nelly Day. Addy and Wylder navigate the story with the aid of the comic book itself. Every page turn sends them to a different setting, from the Banff Springs Hotel to an alligator-wrestling arena in Florida. But when they finally find a portal back to the real world, catastrophe follows ... A hilarious thrill-ride of a story that will have kids laughing and on the edge of their seats with every turn of the page.

"This Is a Great Book!"

2015-10-08 Education

Author : Larry Swartz
Release : 2015-10-08
Genre : Education
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 118/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book "This Is a Great Book!" written by Larry Swartz. This book was released on 2015-10-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This Is a Great Book!” champions the belief that having a wide range of “great” books to read is essential to students’ becoming readers — both inside the classroom, and beyond. Based on extensive research, this highly readable book explores a range of recommended titles that cover a spectrum of developmental stages, from early chapter books to young adult novels. The 101 literacy events outlined within include a wealth of practical strategies: more than fifty reproducible activities, assessment profiles, and inventories for easy classroom use. Committed to nurturing the love of reading, this passionate book invites readers to dig deeper by responding through writing, discussion, the arts, media, and more. Special attention is given to the world of leisure reading, where readers make choices based on their preferences and tastes as they build a lifelong interest in fiction that will enrich their lives.

Picture-Book Professors

2018-10-31 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Melissa Terras
Release : 2018-10-31
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 325/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Picture-Book Professors written by Melissa Terras. This book was released on 2018-10-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is academia portrayed in children's literature? This Element ambitiously surveys fictional professors in texts marketed towards children, who are overwhelmingly white and male, tending to be elderly scientists. Professors fall into three stereotypes: the vehicle to explain scientific facts, the baffled genius, and the evil madman. By the late twentieth century, the stereotype of the male, mad, muddlehead, called Professor SomethingDumb, is formed in humorous yet pejorative fashion. This Element provides a publishing history of the role of academics in children's literature, questioning the book culture which promotes the enforcement of stereotypes regarding intellectual expertise in children's media. This title is also available, with additional material, as Open Access.

Downside Up

2016-09-13 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Richard Scrimger
Release : 2016-09-13
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 451/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Downside Up written by Richard Scrimger. This book was released on 2016-09-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fred is a sixth-grader reeling from the loss of his beloved dog, Casey. Every day he walks home from school bouncing Casey's old worn-out tennis ball. One day, the ball falls down a sewer grate, and Fred can't bear to leave it down there. He pries open the grate and stumbles down. Through the sewer, Fred enters a parallel universe: Casey is alive, his mom and sister are happier, and there's a version of Fred who's happier too. Spending time with Casey, Fred feels joy for the first time since his dog's death, but he slowly realizes that the loss of Casey is masking an even greater loss: the death of Fred's father. Fred brings his sister, Izzy, to this upside-down world of lost things in the hope of finding their father and bringing him back. Can everything that is lost be found again?

Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen: The Dead Man in the Garden

2022-10-18 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Marthe Jocelyn
Release : 2022-10-18
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 783/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen: The Dead Man in the Garden written by Marthe Jocelyn. This book was released on 2022-10-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For young detective Aggie Morton and her friend Hector, a spa stay becomes a lot more thrilling when TWO dead bodies are found in this third book in the Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen series, inspired by the life of Agatha Christie as a child and her most popular creation, Hercule Poirot. For fans of Enola Holmes. Aspiring writer Aggie Morton is ready to enjoy an invigorating trip to a Yorkshire spa, where her widowed mother can take the waters and recover from a long mourning period. Having solved yet another murder and faced extreme peril with her best friend Hector over Christmas, Aggie’s Morbid Preoccupation is on alert when rumors abound about the spa's recently deceased former patient . . . and then another body appears under mysterious circumstances. Together with Grannie Jane, and often in the company of George, a young patient at the spa, Aggie and Hector take a closer look at the guests and staff of the Wellspring Hotel, and venture into the intriguing world of the local undertaker. Has there been a murder—or even two? As Aggie and Hector ignite their deductive skills, their restful trip takes a sudden, dangerous turn.

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