National Geographic Kids Funny Fillin: My Haunted House Adventure

National Geographic Kids Funny Fillin: My Haunted House Adventure
Author: National Geographic Kids
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2015-08-04
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1426320647

Based on the wildly popular National Geographic Kids magazine department "Funny Fill-In," a long-running hit, this fun, interactive book challenges kids to think about words in creative ways, and to write their own wild and wacky stories. Do you dare enter the haunted house? Come inside to see what ghastly frights and terrors await. Filled with excitement and hilarity, this compositional challenge lets you tell your very own story starring...YOU! Combining National Geographic Kids' photography and illustrations in colorful laugh-out-loud pages, this engaging, entertaining, and educational book takes you on an adventure through the wild west and invites you to enter a new world imaginatively by combining your story with theirs.

My Flying Adventure

My Flying Adventure
Author: National Geographic Kids
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2015-08-04
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1426320655

A huge tornado takes you and your friend by surpise and you're swept up into the skies! Try not to panic, you never know what will be behind the next cloud! Filled with excitement and hilarity, this compositional challenge lets you tell your very own story starring...YOU! Combining National Geographic Kids' photography and illustrations in colorful laugh-out-loud pages, this engaging, entertaining, and educational book takes you on an adventure through the sky and invites you to enter a new world imaginatively by combining your story with theirs.

My National Parks Adventure

My National Parks Adventure
Author: National Geographic Kids
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2016-02-09
Genre: Games
ISBN: 1426323034

Filled with excitement and hilarity, this compositional challenge lets you tell your very own story set in America's National Parks surrounded exciting wildlife and famous landmarks, starring... you! Combining National Geographic Kids' photography and illustrations in colorful laugh-out-loud pages, this engaging, entertaining, and educational book introduces you to America's treasure?the National Parks.

My Bugs Adventure

My Bugs Adventure
Author: National Geographic Kids
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2015-12-08
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1426321996

Get ready to spin webs with spiders, wriggle with worms, and caper with catydids--this is the world of BUGS, and you're in it. This colorful fill-in-the-blanks book is filled with laugh-out-loud illustrations, fun facts, and cool photos. And you're invited to join the buggy adventure by telling your very own story starring...YOU! There are lots more adventures, so collect them all.

My Mythology Adventure

My Mythology Adventure
Author: National Geographic Kids
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2015-12-08
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1426321988

Based on the wildly popular National Geographic Kids magazine department "Funny Fill-In," a long-running hit, this fun, interactive book challenges kids to think about words in creative ways, and to write their own wild and wacky stories. Get ready to meet the heroes and heroines of Greek legend in this action-packed mythological adventure. Filled with excitement and hilarity, this compositional challenge lets you tell your very own story starring...YOU! Combining National Geographic Kids' photography and illustrations in colorful laugh-out-loud pages, this engaging, entertaining, and educational book takes you on an adventure through the wild west and invites you to enter a new world imaginatively by combining your story with theirs.

Tenacity in Children

Tenacity in Children
Author: Sam Goldstein
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2021-04-10
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 3030650898

Tenacity in Children examines how multiple generations of parents and caregivers raised children to become successful adults. Until relatively recent times in human history, there were no schools or organized institutions, nor were there parenting books. Rather, caregivers depended on the seven important instincts that evolved across tens of thousands of years in the human species. This volume highlights the ways in which these instincts are more important than ever in preparing children for tomorrow’s successes. Key areas of coverage include individual chapters devoted to examining each of the seven instincts – intuitive optimism, intrinsic motivation, compassionate empathy, simultaneous intelligence, genuine altruism, virtuous responsibility, and measured fairness – as well as practical strategies to guide children in acquiring and fine-tuning these essential human instincts. Tenacity in Children provides a solid foundation to prepare children for a resilient and happy future. It offers well-defined guideposts for adults committed to providing every child with the opportunity to access, strengthen, and employ these instincts as they negotiate childhood and passage into adult life. This book also serves as a rich resource for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in mental health and public health disciplines as well as many interrelated fields as we all strive to promote the well-being of children. The collaboration of these two esteemed psychologists has been impacting on our field for decades. This new book continues that tradition. – Richard D. Lavoie, M.A., M.Ed. Author of It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend: Helping Children with Learning Disabilities Find Social Success Tenacity in Children is the perfect balance between concepts, knowledge, scientific discourse, practical ideas and touching stories that truly illustrate the principles shared in the book. This book should reach the hands of every person dedicated to working with children. – Encarni Gallardo, MBA, CBM Executive Director, Children’s Service Society of Utah Written in an easy-to-read, narrative style, Drs. Goldstein and Brooks impart their innovative concept of Tenacity in Children along with its seven essential instincts by using heartwarming stories, personal and professional insights, research, and wisdom. – Joyce C. Mills, Ph.D. Co-author of Therapeutic Metaphors for Children and the Child Within Visit our website at www.tenacityinchildren.com

Haunting Experiences

Haunting Experiences
Author: Diane Goldstein
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2007-09-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0874216818

Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal belief and cultural tradition on the one hand, and popular and commercial representation on the other, nevertheless continually feed each other. They frequently share space in how people think about the supernatural. In Haunting Experiences, three well-known folklorists seek to broaden the discussion of ghost lore by examining it from a variety of angles in various modern contexts. Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas take ghosts seriously, as they draw on contemporary scholarship that emphasizes both the basis of belief in experience (rather than mere fantasy) and the usefulness of ghost stories. They look closely at the narrative role of such lore in matters such as socialization and gender. And they unravel the complex mix of mass media, commodification, and popular culture that today puts old spirits into new contexts.

The Dog Stars

The Dog Stars
Author: Peter Heller
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2013-05-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307950476

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of The River: In this "end-of-the-world novel more like a rapturous beginning" (San Francisco Chronicle), Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows. His gripping story is "an ode to friendship between two men...the strong bond between a human and a dog, and a reminder of what is worth living for" (Minneapolis Star-Tribune). Hig's wife is gone, his friends are dead, and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, Jasper, and a mercurial, gun-toting misanthrope named Bangley. But when a random transmission beams through the radio of his 1956 Cessna, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a better life exists outside their tightly controlled perimeter. Risking everything, he flies past his point of no return and follows its static-broken trail, only to find something that is both better and worse than anything he could ever hope for.

If All the Seas Were Ink

If All the Seas Were Ink
Author: Ilana Kurshan
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2017-09-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1250121272

**WINNER of the 2018 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the 2018 Sophie Brody Medal for achievement in Jewish literature** **2018 Natan Book Award Finalist** **Finalist for the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in Women's Studies ** The Wall Street Journal: "There is humor and heartbreak in these pages...Ms. Kurshan immerses herself in the demands of daily Talmud study and allows the words of ancient scholars to transform the patterns of her own life." The Jewish Standard:“Brilliant, beautifully written, sensitive, original." The Jerusalem Post:"A beautiful and inspiring book. Both religious and secular readers will find themselves immensely moved by [Kurshan's] personal story.” American Jewish World: “So engrossing I hardly could put it down.” At the age of twenty-seven, alone in Jerusalem in the wake of a painful divorce,Ilana Kurshan joined the world’s largest book club, learning daf yomi, Hebrew for“daily page” of the Talmud, a book of rabbinic teachings spanning about six hundredyears. Her story is a tale of heartache and humor, of love and loss, of marriageand motherhood, and of learning to put one foot in front of the other by turningpage after page. Kurshan takes us on a deeply accessible and personal guided tourof the Talmud. For people of the book—both Jewish and non-Jewish—If All theSeas Were Ink is a celebration of learning, through literature, how to fall in loveonce again.

Lost City of the Incas

Lost City of the Incas
Author: Hiram Bingham
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2010-12-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0297865331

First published in the 1950s, this is a classic account of the discovery in 1911 of the lost city of Machu Picchu. In 1911 Hiram Bingham, a pre-historian with a love of exotic destinations, set out to Peru in search of the legendary city of Vilcabamba, capital city of the last Inca ruler, Manco Inca. With a combination of doggedness and good fortune he stumbled on the perfectly preserved ruins of Machu Picchu perched on a cloud-capped ledge 2000 feet above the torrent of the Urubamba River. The buildings were of white granite, exquisitely carved blocks each higher than a man. Bingham had not, as it turned out, found Vilcabamba, but he had nevertheless made an astonishing and memorable discovery, which he describes in his bestselling book LOST CITY OF THE INCAS.