Mr. Black and Slobber Monkey

Mr. Black and Slobber Monkey
Author: Casey Renee Klippel
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2019-04-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1796029718

Mr. Black and Slobber Monkey are characters my son came up with when he was three years old right after my daughter, Emmie, was born. She slobbered over everything; as she got bigger, she loved getting into her big brother’s toys. Mr. Black was always my son’s superhero name, and he named his little sister Slobber Monkey. Mr. Black is in a mission to find to capture her and find out why she’s slobbering so much. Mr. Black has superpowers like super speed and magical chocolate milk that kills other powers. The chocolate milk also turns to quicksand! Slobber Monkey is very sneaky and has a flying saucer car that she can turn off and on with a bubble shield surrounding it.

Welcome to Wonderland #2: Beach Party Surf Monkey

Welcome to Wonderland #2: Beach Party Surf Monkey
Author: Chris Grabenstein
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2017-05-23
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0553536125

From Chris Grabenstein, the bestselling author of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library and coauthor with James Patterson of I Funny, House of Robots, and Treasure Hunters, comes the second hilarious, fun-in-the-sun adventure in his new illustrated series about all the wacky things that happen when you live in a motel! There’s always something wacky happening when you live in a motel, and P.T. (named after P. T. Barnum, of course) has grown up at the world’s wackiest! When word gets out that the hottest teen idols in Hollywood (plus current YouTube sensation Kevin the Monkey!) will be filming their next movie—Beach Party Surf Monkey—right in St. Pete’s Beach, Florida, P.T. and his friend Gloria know that the Wonderland would be the perfect location. Now they just have to convince the producers! But when things start to go wrong (crazed fans? missing stars?), it will take all of Gloria’s business genius and P.T.’s wild stories to save the movie before both it and the Wonderland are all washed up! BONUS: Includes fun extras like P.T. and Gloria’s Famous Fact-or-Fiction Quiz: Movie Edition

The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep
Author: Raymond Chandler
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2022-08-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Hidden Empire

Hidden Empire
Author: Orson Scott Card
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2010-12-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780765359711

This stand-alone sequel to Card's "New York Times"-bestselling novel "Empire" continues the author's message about the dangers of extreme political polarization and the need to reassert moderation and mutual citizenship ("Booklist").

The House on Mango Street

The House on Mango Street
Author: Sandra Cisneros
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2013-04-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0345807197

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago • Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. “Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage...and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.” —The New York Times Book Review The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. “In English my name means hope,” she says. “In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting." Told in a series of vignettes—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous—Cisneros’s masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time. Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street or Toni Morrison’s Sula, it makes a world through people and their voices, and it does so in language that is poetic and direct. This gorgeous coming-of-age novel is a celebration of the power of telling one’s story and of being proud of where you're from.

The Black Book of Secrets

The Black Book of Secrets
Author: F. E. Higgins
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2010-07-14
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1429930802

A boy arrives at a remote village in the dead of night. His name is Ludlow Fitch—and he is running from a most terrible past. What he is about to learn is that in this village is the life he has dreamed of—a safe place to live, and a job, as the assistant to a mysterious pawnbroker who trades people's deepest, darkest secrets for cash. Ludlow's job is to neatly transcribe the confessions in an ancient leather-bound tome: The Black Book of Secrets. Ludlow yearns to trust his mentor, who refuses to disclose any information on his past experiences or future intentions. What the pawnbroker does not know is, in a town brimming with secrets, the most troubling may be held by his new apprentice.

Dr. Mary's Monkey

Dr. Mary's Monkey
Author: Edward T. Haslam
Publisher: TrineDay
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2014-07-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1937584984

This new updated edition is not only hard cover for long life, but it contains an additional 25 pages of revelations from the author including documents from the FBI, CIA, CDC, and NOPD, plus the actual crime scene photos of the Mary Sherman murder. You'll see why we say this is the "Hottest cold case in America." The 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher sets the stage for this gripping exposÉ of medical professionals enmeshed in covert government operations over the course of three decades. Following a trail of police records, FBI files, cancer statistics, and medical journals, this revealing book presents evidence of a web of medical secret-keeping that began with the handling of evidence in the JFK assassination and continued apace, sweeping doctors into cover-ups of cancer outbreaks, contaminated polio vaccine, the arrival of the AIDS virus, and biological weapon research using infected monkeys.

Leveled Books (K-8)

Leveled Books (K-8)
Author: Irene C. Fountas
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2006
Genre: Education
ISBN:

For ten years and in two classic books, Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell have described how to analyze the characteristics of texts and select just-right books to use for guided reading instruction. Now, for the first time, all of their thinking and research has been updated and brought together into Leveled Books, K-8 to form the ultimate guide to choosing and using books from kindergarten through middle school. Fountas and Pinnell take you through every aspect of leveled books, describing how to select and use them for different purposes in your literacy program and offering prototype descriptions of fiction and nonfiction books at each level. They share advice on: the role of leveled books in reading instruction, analyzing the characteristics of fiction and nonfiction texts, using benchmark books to assess instructional levels for guided reading, selecting books for both guided and independent reading, organizing high-quality classroom libraries, acquiring books and writing proposals to fund classroom-library purchases, creating a school book room. In addition, Fountas and Pinnell explain the leveling process in detail so that you can tentatively level any appropriate book that you want to use in your instruction. Best of all, Leveled Books, K-8 is one half of a new duo of resources that will change how you look at leveled books. Its companion-www.FountasandPinnellLeveledBooks.com-is a searchable and frequently updated website that includes more than 18,000 titles. With Leveled Books, K-8 you'll know how and why to choose books for your readers, and with www.FountasandPinnellLeveledBooks.com, you'll have the ideal tool at your fingertips for finding appropriate books for guided reading. Book jacket.

The Mulatta and Mr. Fly

The Mulatta and Mr. Fly
Author: Miguel Angel Asturias
Publisher: New York : Delacorte Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1967
Genre: Guatemala
ISBN:

A woodcutter in Latin America trades his wife to Tazol, the Corn Demon, in return for infinite wealth and a voluptuous Mulata.