Scram, Kid

Scram, Kid
Author: Ann McGovern
Publisher: StarWalk Kids Media
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2014-06-30
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1630833681

Of all the things there were to do on Saturday mornings in the park, playing baseball was what Joe wanted most to do that day. He found a game going, and asked if he could play. "Scram kid," said one of the boys. And then began Joe's angry, wide-awake dream. Each time he tried to get into the game and couldn't, he pictured himself getting even by yelling back at them twice as hard and by being twice as mean.

Those Five Kids

Those Five Kids
Author: Marlon Cozier
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2017-01-13
Genre:
ISBN: 1681819708

Secrets are meant to be kept secret! Just before he begins fourth grade, Frankie Bennett goes to Sea Sight Elementary School to get ready for the new school year. After picking up his class schedule, he overhears a woman in the school lobby talking to her son about finding a student there named Joey Fallon. The mother knows Joey has a secret she must learn. She tells her son to trick Joey into revealing the secret being protected by Joey and his family. As it happens, Frankie is Joey’s cousin, so he warns Joey about the woman and her son. Joey gets help from Frankie, his older brother Jake, and their two friends, Matt and Baron. Those Five Kids team up to investigate the mysterious kid, wanting to learn why he and his mother must know Joey’s secret.

The S Files

The S Files
Author: Rebecca Linam
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2015-04-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1491761695

Warning!!! What you are about to read is a complete and truthful account of the world of espionage. Forget everything you thought you knew about spies. What you thought you knew is totally wrong. For example, did you know that... *...the Russian Spy Agency employed seven-year-old spies? *...the American Spy Agency’s top scientist, Dr. Pepper, cloned its most successful agents? *...the Japanese Spy Agency developed a type of cheese that boosted its agents’ success rates by up to 25%? *...the Spanish Spy Agency invented its famous tickle torture? *...the Flemish Spy Agency uncovered a Martian plot to take over the world? *...the Phlegmish Spy Agency was responsible for many major flu outbreaks during the Cold War? You might also think that backwards Russian pig-Latin is not a real spy code, but it’s listed in the Russian Spy Agency handbook. This book explains how it really happens. This is spying in its true, exposed form. (This book will self-destruct when you finish reading it.)

Standards-Based Comprehension Strategies & Skills

Standards-Based Comprehension Strategies & Skills
Author: Christine Dugan
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2006-07-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780743904254

This series ensures that students learn necessary reading skills by offering a variety of texts combined with targeted lessons to practice and reinforce comprehension and fluency. The fiction and nonfiction passages prepare students for the type of reading found on most standardized tests.

Spirou & Fantasio - Volume 9 - The Dictator and the Mushroom

Spirou & Fantasio - Volume 9 - The Dictator and the Mushroom
Author: Franquin
Publisher: Cinebook
Total Pages: 65
Release: 2015-10-23T00:00:00+02:00
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1849188386

After the Marsupilami causes a series of disasters, Spirou and Fantasio finally resolve to bring the strange animal back to its birth place, Palombia. Unfortunately, it’s a nation in turmoil they find upon their arrival. The military is all-powerful, rumours of impending war are growing and a ruthless tyrant has seized power. To counter the dictator’s plans, the two adventurers’ only weapon is the Count of Champignac’s latest outrageous invention: a mushroom extract that makes metals go soft...

Scramble on the Edge

Scramble on the Edge
Author: Kerry L. Hyman
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2009-02-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1477173315

Wrestling is one of the most grueling combative contests in sports. The challenge is the one-on-one battle inside the 38 circle. It can be a tough challenge that takes everything you have; both physically, and mentally. What does it take to train and condition to compete against the best, straining every fiber against a determined, skilled adversary for six long minutes? What price are you willing to pay to prepare for such a battle? When have you done enough to gain that rare commodity: confidence? Let Kerry L. Hymans Scramble on the Edge take you on a fascinating wrestling adventure. The story revolves around a bunch of high school wrestlers who work hard to reach their wrestling goals set in a town whose in-crowd finds their fulfillment in the pursuit of instant gratification. Driven by the fanatical coach of the feeder program whose passion is fueled from the regrets of his own squandered youth, they buy into a radical wrestling commitment that propels them to the top. The story focuses on Jason Grable, a wrestler who has done everything right in his pursuit of a State Wrestling Title only to find adversity from places he never expected: a jealous co-captain, an indifferent school culture, academic deadlines and time restraints, a girlfriend who doesnt get it, and even his high school coach. Everything comes to a head during his final post season, juggling crisis upon crisis, careening on a collision course with the returning State Champ. It is a story about wrestling, but it is a compelling study of the energy it takes to propel a program from obscurity to the top, and the human bonds forged in an atmosphere of total commitment, love and the power of friendship. It is also a story of betrayal and the politics of high school sports.

Waiting for Ricky Tantrum

Waiting for Ricky Tantrum
Author: Jules Lewis
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2010-10-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459704940

Long-listed for the 2011 ReLit Awards Jim Myers is a painfully shy kid living in Toronto’s west end Bloorcourt Village. Rarely is he able to muster enough courage to say anything beyond "ya" or "dunno." After school he hangs around with his neighbour and only friend, Oleg Khernofsky, playing basketball against a NO PARKING sign in a laneway. In the evenings, he haunts Nicky’s Diner, a restaurant owned by Oleg’s uncle. On the first day of junior high, Jim crosses paths with Charlie Crouse, a brash, mouthy kid full of wild stories about his past. Charlie takes Jim under his wing and introduces him to the electronic strip poker machine at the Fun Village Arcade in Koreatown, a Queen Street hooker who calls herself Steffi Graf, and the diverse sounds and utterances of his landlord’s three lovers. As Jim and Charlie’s friendship grows, however, the realities of looming adulthood seep into their lives with surprising consequences.

The Angry Tree

The Angry Tree
Author: James Lentz
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 47
Release: 2018-05-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1640822763

Imagine yourself all alone with no one to talk to. Not because you won't, but because you can't. The sun rises, and the sun sets. Everything around you is changing, but you stay the same. The angry tree seems as if he has always been angry. The kind of anger that is so angry that no one dare come near him. We all have our heroes that we hope come to save us, but in this life, we sometimes can end up finding comfort where we least expect it. The biggest question the angry tree can ask himself is . . . can he ever be happy again?

The Housewife Assassin's Hollywood Scream Play

The Housewife Assassin's Hollywood Scream Play
Author: Josie Brown
Publisher: Signal Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2014-03-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0989558843

Lights, cameras and non-stop action! When Donna and Jack are placed on Interpol's Most Wanted list, they go on the lam by accepting an offer to act as espionage experts on a movie set.

The Authority

The Authority
Author: Ramona Finn
Publisher: Relay Publishing
Total Pages: 331
Release:
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN:

When everything she’s ever known is a lie, one young woman must make a choice that could change the course of history. Glade Io is torn between two worlds. She’s a trained killing machine—selected by the ruthless Authority to be a Datapoint, a tech-enabled agent of the state who eliminates threats to the human colonies throughout the solar system in the Culling. But her time among rogue colonists called the Ferrymen has convinced her that The Authority has far more sinister plans in store, and all the justifications they fed to her are lies. Vowing to help the rebels fight The Authority from the inside, Glade must sabotage a captured Ferryman ship that The Authority is planning to use to attack the Ferrymen stronghold. Though Glade is drawn to the brave leader of the Ferrymen, Kupier, she has older loyalties as well. Her friend and mentor Dahn Enceladus is charismatic and ambitious, but although Glade cares for him, she can no longer trust him. Her younger sisters are also in danger of facing Datapoint testing, and now she’s being forced into an upgrade she cannot refuse. But help is about to arrive in an unlikely form: a ghost from her distant past.