Pigeon English

Author : Stephen Kelman
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408815680
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pigeon English written by Stephen Kelman and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku, the second best runner in Year 7, races through his new life in England with his personalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen - blissfully unaware of the very real threat around him. Newly-arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister Lydia, Harri absorbs the many strange elements of city life, from the bewildering array of Haribo sweets, to the frightening, fascinating gang of older boys from his school. But his life is changed forever when one of his friends is murdered. As the victim's nearly new football boots hang in tribute on railings behind fluorescent tape and a police appeal draws only silence, Harri decides to act, unwittingly endangering the fragile web his mother has spun around her family to keep them safe.

Author : Douglas Simonson
Publisher : Bess Press
ISBN 13 : 9781573062503
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pidgin to Da Max written by Douglas Simonson and published by Bess Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alphabetical guide to words and phrases in Hawaiian Pidgin English, with comic strips illustrating usage.

Author : Mo Willems
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781529509960
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! written by Mo Willems and published by . This book was released on 2023-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a bus driver takes a break, he gives the reader just one instruction: "Don't let the pigeon drive the bus!" But, boy, that pigeon tries every trick in the book to get in that driving seat: he whines, wheedles, fibs and flatters. Will you let him drive?

Author : Stephen Kelman
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408826143
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pigeon English written by Stephen Kelman and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister, eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku lives on the ninth floor of a block of flats on a London housing estate. The second best runner in the whole of Year 7, Harri races through his new life in his personalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen - blissfully unaware of the very real threat all around him. With equal fascination for the local gang - the Dell Farm Crew - and the pigeon who visits his balcony, Harri absorbs the many strange elements of his new life in England: watching, listening, and learning the tricks of inner-city survival. But when a boy is knifed to death on the high street and a police appeal for witnesses draws only silence, Harri decides to start a murder investigation of his own. In doing so, he unwittingly endangers the fragile web his mother has spun around her family to try and keep them safe. A story of innocence and experience, hope and harsh reality, Pigeon English is a spellbinding portrayal of a boy balancing on the edge of manhood and of the forces around him that try to shape the way he falls.

Author : Mo Willems
Publisher : Walker Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781844285457
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! written by Mo Willems and published by Walker Books Limited. This book was released on 2005 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simplified Chinese edition of The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! by Mo Willems who received the Caldecott Honor for Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!. Willems is also a Sesame Street script writer and NPR cartoonist. In Simplified Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Author : Dhan Gopal Mukerji
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon written by Dhan Gopal Mukerji and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of Gay-Neck, a carrier pigeon raised and trained by an Indian boy in Calcutta. Gay-Neck flew messages for the Allies in France during World War I.

Author : Patrick Süskind
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241975336
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pigeon written by Patrick Süskind and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pigeon by Patrick Süskind is dark and haunting tale from the author of the bestselling Perfume - now available in ebook for the first time Set in Paris and attracting comparisons with Franz Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe, The Pigeon tells the story of a day in the meticulously ordered life of bank security guard Jonathan Noel. Noel who has been hiding from life since his wife left him for her Tunisian lover - when he opens his front door on a day he believes will be just like any other, he encounters not the desired empty hallway but an unwelcome, diabolical intruder . . . This tense, disturbing follow-up to the bestselling Perfume is a modern classic novella from the much-acclaimed Patrick Süskind

Author : Arthur Ransome
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 1567926398
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pigeon Post written by Arthur Ransome and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1983 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For anyone who loves sailing and adventure, Arthur Ransome's classic Swallows and Amazons series stands alone. Originally published in the UK over a half century ago, these books are still eagerly read by children, despite their length and their decidedly British protagonists. We attribute their success to two facts: first, Ransome is a great storyteller and, second, he clearly writes from first-hand experience. Independence and initiative are qualities any child can understand and every volume in this collection celebrates these virtues. The crew's on holiday for their sixth adventure, and they turn their energies to mining for gold, aided by pigeon messengers Homer, Sophocles, and Sappho. The adventurers comb the nearby hills for a fabled lost claim, while being shadowed by a mysterious figure they dub "squashy hat." Undeterred by drought, sudden brushfires, and the continuing presence of Squashy Hat, the young prospectors persevere in their quest -- with surprising results. Full of the dangers and dark adventures of old mines and forgotten claims, Pigeon Post has an irresistible appeal to the persistent explorer in every child.

Author : Elizabeth Ball Carr
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824881249
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Da Kine Talk written by Elizabeth Ball Carr and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hawaii is without parallel as a crossroads where languages of East and West have met and interacted. The varieties of English (including neo-pidgin) heard in the Islands today attest to this linguistic and cultural encounter. "Da kine talk" is the Island term for the most popular of the colorful dialectal forms--speech that captures the flavor of Hawaii's multiracial community and reflects the successes (and failures) of immigrants from both East and West in learning to communicate in English.

Author : Pamela Odimegwu
Publisher : Pamela Odimegwu
ISBN 13 : 1478158905
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Comparative Analysis of Jamaican Creole and Nigerian Pidgin English written by Pamela Odimegwu and published by Pamela Odimegwu. This book was released on 2012-07-02 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nigerian Pidgin English shows a large number of similarities to Jamaican Creole or Patois. Many phrases and words in Patois are also found in Nigerian Pidgin English. Linguists believe that this is due to the fact that the majority of slaves taken to the New World were from West Africa.Though many comparative studies have been made on Pidgins and Creoles, none or not many have been made specifically on Nigerian Pidgin English and Jamaican Creole. This book examines some of the similarities and differences which exist between Nigerian Pidgin English and Jamaican Creole. The book also investigates whether these two languages do, in fact have a common origin.