1838 Ergebnisse - Zeige 1781 von 1800.

Kung Pow Chicken isn't just any superhero. He's powerful! He's quick-witted! And ... he's a chicken! In this hilarious series, ordinary Gordon Blue transforms into Kung Pow Chicken. Kung Pow Chicken and his sidekick, Egg Drop, are an avian dynamic duo that fights crime in the city of Fowladelphia"--Provided by publisher.

Keine Beschreibung.

Two lonely boys, one black and one white, meet on the street and become friends.

Even in murder, the music lives on.When rising star Paris Secord (aka DJ ParSec) is found dead on her turntables, it sends the local music scene reeling. No one is feeling that grief more than her shunned pre-fame best friend, Kya, and ParSec's chief groupie, Fuse -- two sworn enemies who happened to be the ones who discovered her body.The police have few leads, and when the trail quickly turns cold, the authorities don't seem to be pushing to...

Includes an excerpt from Curse of the wish eater.

Keine Beschreibung.

From TE Carter, All We Could Have Been is a powerful and heartbreaking look at the assumptions we make about people and how one person's actions can affect everyone around them. Five years ago, Lexi witnessed something that shattered her very core. To cope, she moves from town to town, desperate to hide the darkest of family secrets. In every location, she assumes a new name and flies under the radar as long as she can before anyone figures ou...

In a world on the brink of war, four superpowered teens must learn to work together for peace in Caitlin Lochner's action-packed debut novel, A Soldier and A Liar. Lai Cathwell is good at keeping secrets. As a Nyte, a supernaturally gifted teenager who is feared and shunned by the ungifted, this skill is essential to survival. Orchestrating her own imprisonment to escape military duty has only honed her ability to deceive others. But when rebe...

A father and daughter carve their way across Europe to complete their revenge against the dwindling clan of Vikings that destroyed their lives so many years ago.Elsbeth Dagsdottir has not forgotten the oath her father made to her on that remote Icelandic beach: to deliver revenge upon the Forty Swords clan that burned their village and murdered her mother. It might take them a lifetime of struggle and suffering and loss, but a promise is a pro...

A reference guide to Japanese customs and etiquette from distinguished Japanese ambassador Satoshi Hara, placing these traditions in a context of recent and distant history.

Endless rides, endless junk food, and endless adventure? Who wouldn't want to live in an amusement park? Foreverland is sure to be a big hit with young readers."-Suzanne Selfors, national bestselling author of Wish Upon a Sleepover and Fortune's Magic Farm Nicole C. Kear's Foreverland is a bighearted coming-of-age story about being lost, and finding your way back home again.Margaret is tired of everything always changing. Middle school has gon...

Eye-opening, wise, and filled with triumphant and heartbreaking stories about the wolf population at Yellowstone (as well as some personal anecdotes about dogs), Carl Safina's Beyond Words: What Wolves and Dogs Think and Feel accessibly explores the mysteries of animal thought and behavior for young readers.Weaving decades of field research with exciting new discoveries about the brain, and complete with astonishing photos, Beyond Words offers...

Keine Beschreibung.

This book explores the cultural and mechanical contrivances that subtend the modernist invention and practice of cinema. This book ponders the place of authorial intention in making a movie: how and when does the author break through the technical/narrative framework that defines what movies are and can do. Important films and filmmakers are discussed"--

This book explores the cultural and mechanical contrivances that subtend the modernist invention and practice of cinema. This book ponders the place of authorial intention in making a movie: how and when does the author break through the technical/narrative framework that defines what movies are and can do. Important films and filmmakers are discussed"--

Keine Beschreibung.

The Stunning and Emotional Autobiography of an Auschwitz Survivor

Immensely influential and beloved by artists, writers and theorists alike, Stokes was the last of the great British amateur art historians in the tradition of Ruskin and Berenson, and--as the first art theorist to synthesize aesthetics and psychoanalysis--the first of the moderns.e moderns.

This unflinching exposé of racially biased research--the Alt-Right's "scientific wing"--debunks both old and emerging claims of inborn racial disparities.Racial groups differ in some of their social patterns, but the cause of those differences--nature versus nurture, or genetics versus environment-- remains fiercely debated. For the pro-nature camp-- sometimes aligned with white nationalism and eugenics, and often used to promote ideas of raci...

A young readers' companion to the adult memoir Kid Quixotes by Stephen Haff.Narrated by one extraordinary ten-year-old girl, this inspiring memoir tells the story of a daughter of Mexican American immigrants who finds her voice through the power of words and performance of Cervantes' Don Quixote.When a shy girl named Sarah Sierra first joins an after-school program in her neighborhood, she never expects to travel back in time and discover the ...