Bravo Zulu Samantha

Author : Kathleen Benner Duble
Publisher : Holiday House
ISBN 13 : 1682633993
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bravo Zulu, Samantha! written by Kathleen Benner Duble and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Independent-minded Sam does not like the fact that she has to spend a month of her summer vacation at her grandparents' place. Twelve-year-old Sam adores her grandmother, but Grandma will be at work most of the time during Sam's visit, leaving Sam with the Colonel, her prickly grandfather. Sam's relationship with him is shaky at best, and now that the Colonel has had to retire from his career as a military pilot, he is harder than ever to get along with. Sam soon finds that her grandfather's behavior is even stranger than she expected. He keeps disappearing for long stretches of time and won't let Sam go into the old barn. Sam is eager to solve the mystery, but when she discovers that the Colonel is secretly building an airplane, they both have a decision to make. Will Sam let the cat out of the bag and ruin her grandfather's plan? Or will he relent and let Sam help him finish the plane? In this story filled with interesting facts and aeronautical information, author Kathleen Benner Duble skillfully mines the depth and complexity of human relationships and what happens when dreams, once deferred, may finally be realized.

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Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Horn Book Guide to Children's and Young Adult Books written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book School Library Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jennifer Swanson
Publisher : Holiday House
ISBN 13 : 168263180X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Save the Crash-test Dummies written by Jennifer Swanson and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jump in the driver's seat for this entertaining, STEM-filled tour of the history of car production and the science and engineering that makes cars safe. Cars take us to work. To school. To soccer practice. To the grocery store and home again. Can you imagine a world without them? It's not so easy! One of the reasons we can use cars so much in our everyday lives is because they are safe to drive. But that hasn't always been the case. If it weren't for the experiments conducted over decades that involved all kinds of crash test volunteers―dead, alive, animal, or automated―cars as we know them might not be around. And then how would you get to school? Filled with historical photographs, graphics and humorous illustrations, this nonfiction book from science educator and award-winning author Jennifer Swanson will appeal to lovers of all things that go and readers who are interested in getting under the hood and seeing how things work.

Author : Uncle Sam
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781502354761
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tears of a Strong Woman written by Uncle Sam and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-09-12 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauty is relative, but we ought to agree on certain standards to meet world class level. Therefore, in this book, you will meet Dr. Mwape, the man who travelled across the world but at no point did his heart beat faster than formula 1 sports car over any lady. However, the man never believed his naked eyes after seeing Towela`s extra ordinary beauty, the lady who later became his adorable wife. The couple`s dramatic and romantic life style will drive your mind wider and wild while enjoying every move the two and those around them takes. How can a simple but passionate kiss and erotic text message compel the two to seek divorce without considering their two kids? For how long shall women die in cold blood at the hands of their lovers? Does it mean women are the worst culprits were love and romantic relationships are concerned? These and many questions will arise as you sit to enjoy every single page of this simple but master piece work.

Author : Kathleen Benner Duble
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545332516
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phantoms in the Snow written by Kathleen Benner Duble and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this gripping journey, a fifteen-year-old pacifist must decide what he believes as he faces the reality of World War II.The year is 1944, and fifteen-year-old Noah Garrett's parents have died from smallpox. Without any other family nearby, Noah is sent to live with his uncle, whom he has never met, in Camp Hale, Colorado. There is one small problem with this decision: Noah has been raised a pacifist, and Camp Hale is a U.S. military base for a little-known division of winter warfare soldiers called Phantoms. Can a boy who's never seen snow and doesn't believe in war survive among these soldiers?Noah's struggle to resolve his upbringing with the horrors of World War II into a way of life he can believe in takes him on an incredible and riveting journey from the training camp to the frontlines of battle. Based on historical events, the story of Noah and the Phantoms of the Tenth Mountain Division is one of courage and conviction, brotherhood, and the joy in living.

Author : Roméo Dallaire
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 080277976X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children written by Roméo Dallaire and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is my hope that through the pages of this remarkable book, you will discover groundbreaking thoughts on building partnerships and networks to enhance the global movement to end child soldiering; you will gain new and holistic insights on what constitutes a child soldier; you will learn more about girl soldiers, who have not been fully considered in the discussion of this issue; you will discover methods on how to influence national policies and the training of security forces; and you will find practical steps that will foster better coordination between security forces and humanitarian efforts."-Ishmael Beah As the leader of the ill-fated United Nations peacekeeping force in Rwanda, Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire came face-to-face with the horrifying reality of child soldiers during the genocide of 1994. Since then the incidence of child soldiers has proliferated in conflicts around the world: they are cheap, plentiful, expendable, with an incredible capacity, once drugged and brainwashed, for both loyalty and barbarism. The dilemma of the adult soldier who faces them is poignantly expressed in this book's title: when children are shooting at you, they are soldiers, but as soon as they are wounded or killed, they are children once again. Believing that not one of us should tolerate a child being used in this fashion, Dallaire has made it his mission to end the use of child soldiers. Where Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone gave us wrenching testimony of the devastating experience of being a child soldier, Dallaire offers intellectually daring and enlightened approaches to the child soldier phenomenon, and insightful, empowering solutions to eradicate it.

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Total Pages : 746 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Douglas Brinkley
Publisher : New Word City
ISBN 13 : 1612308570
Total Pages : 1007 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Heritage History of the United States written by Douglas Brinkley and published by New Word City. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 1007 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Douglas Brinkley and American Heritage have done a grand job. This is a first-rate book: fair, clear, and enormously welcome." - David McCullough "Douglas Brinkley's one-volume history is a riveting narrative of unique people who have come to call themselves American. There is no dust on these pages as the author brilliantly tells our national story with skill and brevity." In this rich and inspiring book, acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley takes us on the incredible journey of the United States - a nation formed from a vast countryside on whose fringes thirteen small British colonies fought for their freedom, then established a democratic nation that spanned the continent, and went on to become a world power. This book will be treasured by anyone interested in the story of America.

Author : Kirsten Kaschock
Publisher : Coffee House Press
ISBN 13 : 1566892937
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sleight written by Kirsten Kaschock and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sisters Lark and Clef have spent their lives honing their bodies for sleight, an interdisciplinary art form that combines elements of dance, architecture, acrobatics, and spoken word. After being estranged for several years, the sisters are reunited by a deceptive and ambitious sleight troupe director named West who needs the sisters' opposing approaches to the form--Lark is tormented and fragile, but a prodigy; Clef is driven to excel, but lacks the spark of artistic genius. When a disturbing mass murder makes national headlines, West seizes on the event as inspiration for his new performance, one that threatens to destroy the very artists performing it. In language that is at once unsettling and hypnotic, Sleight explores ideas of performance, gender, and family to ask the question: what is the role of art in the face of unthinkable tragedy? Kirsten Kaschock has earned degrees from Yale University, the University of Iowa, Syracuse University, and the University of Georgia. The author of two collections of poetry, Unfathoms and A Beautiful Name for a Girl, she resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she is currently a doctoral fellow in dance at Temple University.