The Nora Notebooks, Book 3: The Trouble with Friends

The Nora Notebooks, Book 3: The Trouble with Friends
Author: Claudia Mills
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-03-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0385391706

The final book in the Nora Notebooks series finds Nora trying to navigate the unscientific matter of making friends with someone you have nothing in common with. Nora Alpers, fourth-grade scientist, likes things to be just so. Her ant farm, her hobbies, her friends. So when Coach Joe, her teacher, informs the class that all the students have to try something new and write a report about it, Nora is not pleased. She is even less pleased when her classmate Emma seems to decide that befriending Nora will be her “new” thing. Does Emma really want to be friends or is this just an assignment for school? Nora, meanwhile, has to figure out her own new thing. Will she discover that she has interests outside of science or will all her efforts end up being nothing but trouble? Praise for the Nora Notebooks series: “Will resonate with children who have a passion for something out of the ordinary.” —Publishers Weekly, starred “Readers will be drawn into the story by the sincere and realistic characters Mills has created, as well as the pleasing and appealing illustrations found in every chapter.” —School Library Journal “Middle-grade readers will hope for more Nora Notebooks soon.” —Kirkus Reviews

The Nora Notebooks, Book 3: The Trouble with Friends

The Nora Notebooks, Book 3: The Trouble with Friends
Author: Claudia Mills
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2017-03-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0385391722

The final book in the Nora Notebooks series finds Nora trying to navigate the unscientific matter of making friends with someone you have nothing in common with. Nora Alpers, fourth-grade scientist, likes things to be just so. Her ant farm, her hobbies, her friends. So when Coach Joe, her teacher, informs the class that all the students have to try something new and write a report about it, Nora is not pleased. She is even less pleased when her classmate Emma seems to decide that befriending Nora will be her “new” thing. Does Emma really want to be friends or is this just an assignment for school? Nora, meanwhile, has to figure out her own new thing. Will she discover that she has interests outside of science or will all her efforts end up being nothing but trouble? Praise for the Nora Notebooks series: “Will resonate with children who have a passion for something out of the ordinary.” —Publishers Weekly, starred “Readers will be drawn into the story by the sincere and realistic characters Mills has created, as well as the pleasing and appealing illustrations found in every chapter.” —School Library Journal “Middle-grade readers will hope for more Nora Notebooks soon.” —Kirkus Reviews

The Trouble with Friends

The Trouble with Friends
Author: Claudia Mills
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2017
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0385391692

"Nora Alpers, 4th grade scientist, tackles her most difficult subject yet, making friends with someone you have nothing in common with"--

The Nora Notebooks, Book 2: The Trouble with Babies

The Nora Notebooks, Book 2: The Trouble with Babies
Author: Claudia Mills
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2016-08-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0385391684

"The thought-provoking reflections on personality and growth add insight and discussability."--The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Fourth grade scientists are not meant to be babysitters. The second book in the Nora Notebooks finds Nora Alpers in unfamiliar territory. Nora Alpers has just become a ten-year-old aunt. To prepare for the new arrival, Nora has been writing down baby-related facts in her special notebook, just like she does with her favorite subject: ants. She likes the idea that someone who studies the A-N-T is also an A-U-N-T, even though she doesn’t know anything about taking care of babies. A new family member isn’t the only thing stressing Nora out. At school, Nora has to write journals in the voice of a pioneer on the Oregon Trail and prepare for the annual science fair. Science is normally Nora’s best subject—until Nora ends up being paired with science-hating, cat-obsessed Emma! How will Nora ever learn to be a good aunt if she’s trying to survive the Oregon Trail and arguing against Emma’s unscientific science-fair ideas? Readers will welcome the return of Nora who Publishers Weekly called “delightful[ly] enterprising” in a starred review.

The Trouble with Ants

The Trouble with Ants
Author: Claudia Mills
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Ants
ISBN: 9780385391627

"Science-obsessed fourth grader Nora wants to be like her scientist family and publish a professional research paper on her favorite subject: her ant farm!"--

Nora and Mrs. Mind-Your-Own Business

Nora and Mrs. Mind-Your-Own Business
Author: Johanna Hurwitz
Publisher: StarWalk Kids Media
Total Pages: 99
Release: 2012-10-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1623342694

Nora has made friends with all the people in her building--almost. Cranky Mrs. Ellsworth, whom Nora has nicknamed Mrs. Mind-Your-Own-Business, just won't be friendly. Then one day Mommy needs a baby-sitter for Nora and Teddy. No one can take the job...except Mrs. Mind-Your-Own-Business! Teddy is scared, but Nora is curious. Will Mrs. Mind-Your-Own-Business become their friend at last?

The Finnegans Wake Notebooks at Buffalo

The Finnegans Wake Notebooks at Buffalo
Author: James Joyce
Publisher:
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2001
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

The Finnegans Wake Notebook Edition is a fully integrated and cross-referenced edition of all the extant work-books compiled by Joyce after the completion of Ulysses. It will be published as a series of fascicles, one per authorial notebook, three per scribal notebook, fifty-five in all. This will make individual notebooks available to scholars as they appear and allow critical feedback, laying the foundations for an electronic edition that will be prepared simultaneously. The editorial aim is to bring together all of the information relevant to each note in as concise and simple a way as possible. The Finnegans Wake Notebook Edition will provide a reference library of comprehensively quoted source material-in effect an annotated digest of Joyce's working library-which will serve as a new starting point not just for exegesis of Finnegans Wake, but also for biographical, textual, and literary criticism of Joyce. Furthermore, the Edition will allow for a reconstruction of Joyce's intellectual concerns and compositional habits during the drafting of Work in Progress / Finnegans Wake.

Pet Disasters

Pet Disasters
Author: Claudia Mills
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2011
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0375868739

Nine-year-old Mason's parents keep trying to get him a pet, but until he and his best friend Brody adopt a three-legged dog, he is not interested.

Mason Dixon: Fourth-Grade Disasters

Mason Dixon: Fourth-Grade Disasters
Author: Claudia Mills
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2011-11-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0375899596

Here's the second entry in veteran author Claudia Mills' charming middle-grade series, which finds the lovably sardonic title character starting the fourth grade, which he's dreading: everyone in fourth grade is expected to join the school choir. And sing. In front of everyone. Mason can't think of many things he enjoys less than singing. But performing in front of other people might come close; Mason devises a foolproof plan that will keep him out of the spotlight on concert night. Of course, in the world of Mason Dixon, there is no such thing as a foolproof plan. There is only disaster.

The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce

The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce
Author: Derek Attridge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2004-06-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 110749494X

This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Joyce contains several revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Joyce's politics, a fresh sense of the importance of his engagement with Ireland, and the changes wrought by gender studies on criticism of his work. This Companion gathers an international team of leading scholars who shed light on Joyce's work and life. The contributions are informative, stimulating and full of rich and accessible insights which will provoke thought and discussion in and out of the classroom. The Companion's reading lists and extended bibliography offer readers the necessary tools for further informed exploration of Joyce studies. This volume is designed primarily as a students' reference work (although it is organised so that it can also be read from cover to cover), and will deepen and extend the enjoyment and understanding of Joyce for the new reader.