The Ghost of Able Mabel

The Ghost of Able Mabel
Author: Penny Dolan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2003
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 9780439978460

Able Mabel is huge and horrible. She's a thief and a pirate... and she's a ghost! Many years ago she stole a box of gold from Sam's old grandad-and now Sam wants it back. No matter that Mabel won't let it go without a fight...

Choosing and Using Fiction and Non-Fiction 3-11

Choosing and Using Fiction and Non-Fiction 3-11
Author: Margaret Mallett
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2019-10-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351385348

Choosing and Using Fiction and Non-Fiction 3-11 is a guide for primary teachers to the many kinds of texts children encounter, use and enjoy in their nursery and primary school years, providing an invaluable insight into the literature available. Addressing important issues and allowing for the voices of teachers, reviewers and children to be heard, it contains suggestions of best practice which offer a more creative approach to learning. Including both fiction and non-fiction, with genres ranging from picturebooks to biographies, this fully updated second edition features: New coverage on recent books Discussion of new changes in concepts of literacy, particularly focused on technological advances in moving image media and virtual worlds The balance between print and screen-based texts on developing children’s visual and multimodal literacy Annotated booklists for each genre for different age groups New sections on equality, diversity and translation Exploring fiction, non-fiction and poetry, Choosing and Using Fiction and Non-Fiction 3-11 is an invaluable resource, supporting teachers as they help children on their journey to becoming insightful and critical readers of non-fiction, and sensitive and reflective readers of fiction.

The Ghost of Able Mabel

The Ghost of Able Mabel
Author: Penny Dolan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 9780439954853

A young boy pits his wits against a malevolent ghost to retrieve his grandfather's treasure.

Praiseworthy

Praiseworthy
Author: Alexis Wright
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 518
Release: 2024-02-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0811238024

An astonishing and monumental masterpiece from the towering Australian writer Alexis Wright whose “words explode from the page” (The Monthly) In a small town in the north of Australia, a mysterious cloud heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ancestors. A crazed visionary looks to donkeys to solve the global climate crisis and the economic dependency of the Aboriginal people. His wife, seeking solace from his madness, follows the dance of butterflies and scours the internet to find out how her Aboriginal/Chinese family could be repatriated to China. One of their sons, named Aboriginal Sovereignty, is determined to commit suicide. The other, Tommyhawk, wishes his brother dead so that he can pursue his dream of becoming white and powerful. Praiseworthy is an epic which pushes allegory and language to its limit; a unique masterpiece that bends time and reality, opening new literary vistas; a cry of outrage against oppression and disadvantage; and a fable for the end of days.

Ghost Horse

Ghost Horse
Author: Eleanor Allen
Publisher: Hippo Bks
Total Pages: 84
Release: 1998
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 9780590197090

Ever since she fell off a pony Shona has been afraid of horses. When a beautiful, ghostly stallion needs her help will Shona be able to overcome her fear? Suggested level: primary.

The Time of the Ghosts

The Time of the Ghosts
Author: Gillian Polack
Publisher: Next Chapter
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2021-12-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Ghosts trail after us. They are our fears and the shape of our hates. We bring them into our lives and into our homes. Poltergeists and the spirits of drowned girls; malicious presences and portents; cat vampires and roaming bushrangers. These ghosts haunt Canberra - these ghosts can kill. Lil is elegant and troubled. Ann has just retired and is about to divorce: she sees vistas of nothingness in her future. Mabel is wedded to her garden. Kat is fifteen and has tried hard to drop out of life. It takes these four women, one cup of tea at a time, to face the ghosts and other supernatural beings in Canberra. But can they face down the darkness and keep Canberra's streets clear of danger?

Utopian Vistas

Utopian Vistas
Author: Lois Palken Rudnick
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 1998-02-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0826326935

Winner of the 1996 Gaspar Perez de Villegra Award from the Historical Society of New Mexico Mabel Dodge Luhan, hostess and visionary, made Taos, New Mexico, a center for artists and utopians when she moved there in 1917 and began inviting friends to visit her. Now available in paperback, Utopian Vistas is a chronicle of the house Luhan built in Taos and the poets, painters, photographers, film-makers, writers, educators, and visionaries whose lives and works were affected by the house and its environs. Lois Rudnick weaves a complex tapestry depicting American countercultures in New Mexico from the 1920s to the 1990s. "Should be required reading for art historians,film historians, ex-Beats and hippies, their children and grandchildren, and anyone interested in the possibility of making an imperfect America perfect at last."--Karal Ann Marling