My Room Is a Zoo!

My Room Is a Zoo!
Author: Jerry Ruff
Publisher: Amicus Ink
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2021
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781681525723

An alphabet of rowdy toy animals employ all the bedtime delay tactics they can muster to keep a little boy from sleeping.

Career Math

Career Math
Author: Hope Martin
Publisher: Good Year Books
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2007-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1596471255

Any teacher who has heard students ask, "When are we ever going to use this?" will appreciate this collection of math activities based on the work done in food preparation, medicine, meteorology, personal fitness, and the zoo. Teacher pages set up full instructions for 34 activities driven by reproducible student handouts and correlated to NCTM standards. A workbook containing all the handouts allows teachers to conveniently collect a students work. Grades 5-8. Bibliography. Suggested resources. Answer keys with full solutions. Illustrated. Good Year Books. 154 pages.

SIMILES AND METAPHORS

SIMILES AND METAPHORS
Author: NARAYAN CHANGDER
Publisher: CHANGDER OUTLINE
Total Pages: 93
Release: 2024-01-11
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

THE SIMILES AND METAPHORS MCQ (MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS) SERVES AS A VALUABLE RESOURCE FOR INDIVIDUALS AIMING TO DEEPEN THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF VARIOUS COMPETITIVE EXAMS, CLASS TESTS, QUIZ COMPETITIONS, AND SIMILAR ASSESSMENTS. WITH ITS EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF MCQS, THIS BOOK EMPOWERS YOU TO ASSESS YOUR GRASP OF THE SUBJECT MATTER AND YOUR PROFICIENCY LEVEL. BY ENGAGING WITH THESE MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS, YOU CAN IMPROVE YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE SUBJECT, IDENTIFY AREAS FOR IMPROVEMENT, AND LAY A SOLID FOUNDATION. DIVE INTO THE SIMILES AND METAPHORS MCQ TO EXPAND YOUR SIMILES AND METAPHORS KNOWLEDGE AND EXCEL IN QUIZ COMPETITIONS, ACADEMIC STUDIES, OR PROFESSIONAL ENDEAVORS. THE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS ARE PROVIDED AT THE END OF EACH PAGE, MAKING IT EASY FOR PARTICIPANTS TO VERIFY THEIR ANSWERS AND PREPARE EFFECTIVELY.

American Zoo

American Zoo
Author: David Grazian
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2017-12-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0691178429

A close-up look at the contradictions and wonders of the modern zoo Orangutans swing from Kevlar-lined fire hoses. Giraffes feast on celebratory birthday cakes topped with carrots instead of candles. Hi-tech dinosaur robots growl among steel trees, while owls watch animated cartoons on old television sets. In American Zoo, sociologist David Grazian takes us on a safari through the contemporary zoo, alive with its many contradictions and strange wonders. Trading in his tweed jacket for a zoo uniform and a pair of muddy work boots, Grazian introduces us to zookeepers and animal rights activists, parents and toddlers, and the other human primates that make up the zoo's social world. He shows that in a major shift away from their unfortunate pasts, American zoos today emphasize naturalistic exhibits teeming with lush and immersive landscapes, breeding programs for endangered animals, and enrichment activities for their captive creatures. In doing so, zoos blur the imaginary boundaries we regularly use to separate culture from nature, humans from animals, and civilization from the wild. At the same time, zoos manage a wilderness of competing priorities—animal care, education, scientific research, and recreation—all while attempting to serve as centers for conservation in the wake of the current environmental and climate-change crisis. The world of the zoo reflects how we project our own prejudices and desires onto the animal kingdom, and invest nature with meaning and sentiment. A revealing portrayal of comic animals, delighted children, and feisty zookeepers, American Zoo is a remarkable close-up exploration of a classic cultural attraction.

Get Out of My Room!

Get Out of My Room!
Author: Jason Reid
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2017-01-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 022640935X

Teenage life is tough. You’re at the mercy of parents, teachers, and siblings, all of whom insist on continuing to treat you like a kid and refuse to leave you alone. So what do you do when it all gets to be too much? You retreat to your room (and maybe slam the door). Even in our era of Snapchat and hoverboards, bedrooms remain a key part of teenage life, one of the only areas where a teen can exert control and find some privacy. And while these separate bedrooms only became commonplace after World War II, the idea of the teen bedroom has been around for a long time. With Get Out of My Room!, Jason Reid digs into the deep historical roots of the teen bedroom and its surprising cultural power. He starts in the first half of the nineteenth century, when urban-dwelling middle-class families began to consider offering teens their own spaces in the home, and he traces that concept through subsequent decades, as social, economic, cultural, and demographic changes caused it to become more widespread. Along the way, Reid shows us how the teen bedroom, with its stuffed animals, movie posters, AM radios, and other trappings of youthful identity, reflected the growing involvement of young people in American popular culture, and also how teens and parents, in the shadow of ongoing social changes, continually negotiated the boundaries of this intensely personal space. Richly detailed and full of surprising stories and insights, Get Out of My Room! is sure to offer insight and entertainment to anyone with wistful memories of their teenage years. (But little brothers should definitely keep out.)

Zoos

Zoos
Author: K. Lee
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2005-11-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0230503802

In this book, Keekok Lee asks the question, 'what is an animal, and how does our treatment of it within captivity affect its status as a being ?' This ontological treatment marks the first such approach in looking at animals in captivity. Engaging with the moral questions of zoo-keeping (is it morally justified to keep a wild animal in captivity?) as well as the ontological (what is it that we conserve in zoos after all? A wild animal or its shadow?), Lee develops her own original hypothesis, centred around the concept of 'immuration' - defining this in contrast to domestication - and thereby provides a unique addition to the growing body of work on animal ethics.

Would Somebody Please Send Me to My Room!

Would Somebody Please Send Me to My Room!
Author: Bob Schwartz
Publisher: Glenbridge Publishing Ltd.
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2005
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780944435571

Bob Schwartz reminds us of the necessity, no matter how harried or confusing things are, to appreciate the humor in the day-to-day nature of family life. Bob gives parents a reason to laugh as he navigates the unexpected twists and turns of parenthood every mom and dad has experienced - such as that feeling of panic when you hear the toilet being flushed and immediately followed by your child's less than reassuring yell of "Uh-oh!" Or the admonition to your five-year-old of, "No, you can't have the leftover cotton candy for breakfast, even if you do pour milk over it." Perhaps parents also need the reassurance that Bob offers. In looking back on his initial years of parenthood, Bob writes, "There was one word that sprang to mind - Naive. That's French for 'Buddy, you don't even have a clue.'" If you, like Bob, are entirely clueless at the beginning of parenthood, there's hope for the future. For while imparting crucial information to his children like "the shower curtain goes inside the bathtub; don't put marbles into the garbage disposal, and it's not a great idea to see how many peas you can stick up your nose," Bob did learn things like how to navigate the challenging world of school carpool pickup without infuriating the power hungry fifth grade Safety Patrol. And you, like Bob, might also make some headway with the linguistic parental challenge of cracking the grunt communication code of teenagers. Bob Schwartz tackles these problems and more. He tells us that the purpose of his essays is to have us embrace the humor of parenthood and the fun of family life. "Let laughter be the fuel for this thrilling, and yes indeed, sometimes pandemonium-producing journey." Book jacket.

The Mysteries of Culver House

The Mysteries of Culver House
Author: Patrick Bird
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2015-03-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0996479546

Why would anyone want to leave the city for a tiny rural town? 13 year old Julie can barely believe her misfortune. Gone will be the benefits of modern 1973 America and in exchange they will be forced to live in a one room, dirt-floored shack with no electricity, no running water, and an outhouse. Julie is certain that this is what she faces. Never mind that her mother laughs while telling Julie that her doom and gloom mental images just aren't so. Julie knows that her life is over. What will Julie and her annoyingly optimistic sister Jessie find when they arrive in Haculanee? Will there be adventures to experience and mysteries to solve, or will Julie's worst fears be proven right?

Megan goes to the zoo

Megan goes to the zoo
Author: Owen Jones
Publisher: Tektime
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2022-08-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8835441862

In Megan Goes to the Zoo, our psychic teen’s parents take her to the zoo one sunny Bank Holiday. Megan wanders around with her huge ghost tiger, Grrr, and finds herself empathising with the animals. Grrr has fun playing with the captive tigers in their cage, and Megan is sure that she exchanges thoughts with an elephant that is bored with giving rides to ungrateful customers. The Psychic Megan Series consists of twenty-three novelettes about a young girl's growing realisation that she is able to do things that none of her family can. Megan is twelve years old in the first volume. She has two seemingly insurmountable problems. Her mother is frightened of her daughter's latent abilities and not only will not help her but actively discourages her; and she can’t find a teacher to help her develop her supernatural, psychic powers. For she wants not only to know what it is possible to do and how to do it, but to what end she should put her special abilities. Megan is a good girl, so it would seem obvious that she would tend towards using her powers for good, but it is not always easy to do the right thing even if you know what that is. These stories about Megan will appeal to anyone who has an interest in psychic powers, the supernatural and the paranormal and is between the ages of ten and a hundred years old. In Megan Goes to the Zoo, our psychic teen’s parents take her to the zoo one sunny Bank Holiday. Megan wanders around with her huge ghost tiger, Grrr, and finds herself empathising with the animals. Grrr has fun playing with the captive tigers in their cage, and Megan is sure that she exchanges thoughts with an elephant that is bored with giving rides to ungrateful customers. Translator: Owen Jones PUBLISHER: TEKTIME

The Fragile World

The Fragile World
Author: Paula Treick DeBoard
Publisher: MIRA
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2014-10-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0778316769

The Kaufmans have always considered themselves a normal, happy family. Curtis is a physics teacher at a local high school. His wife, Kathleen, restores furniture for upscale boutiques. Daniel is away at college on a prestigious music scholarship, and twelve-year-old Olivia is a happy-go-lucky kid whose biggest concern is passing her next math test. And then comes the middle-of-the-night phone call that changes everything. Daniel has been killed in what the police are calling a "freak" road accident, and the remaining Kaufmans are left to flounder in their grief. The anguish of Daniel's death is isolating, and it's not long before this once-perfect family finds itself falling apart. As time passes and the wound refuses to heal, Curtis becomes obsessed with the idea of revenge, a growing mania that leads him to pack up his life and his anxious teenage daughter and set out on a collision course to right a wrong.