Dig

Author : A.S. King
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101994924
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dig written by A.S. King and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Michael L. Printz Medal ★“King’s narrative concerns are racism, patriarchy, colonialism, white privilege, and the ingrained systems that perpetuate them. . . . [Dig] will speak profoundly to a generation of young people who are waking up to the societal sins of the past and working toward a more equitable future.”—Horn Book, starred review “I’ve never understood white people who can’t admit they’re white. I mean, white isn’t just a color. And maybe that’s the problem for them. White is a passport. It’s a ticket.” Five estranged cousins are lost in a maze of their family’s tangled secrets. Their grandparents, former potato farmers Gottfried and Marla Hemmings, managed to trade digging spuds for developing subdivisions and now they sit atop a million-dollar bank account—wealth they’ve refused to pass on to their adult children or their five teenage grandchildren. “Because we want them to thrive,” Marla always says. But for the Hemmings cousins, “thriving” feels a lot like slowly dying of a poison they started taking the moment they were born. As the rot beneath the surface of the Hemmings’ white suburban respectability destroys the family from within, the cousins find their ways back to one another, just in time to uncover the terrible cost of maintaining the family name. With her inimitable surrealism, award winner A.S. King exposes how a toxic culture of polite white supremacy tears a family apart and how one determined generation can dig its way out.

Author : Cynan Jones
Publisher : Coffee House Press
ISBN 13 : 1566893941
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dig written by Cynan Jones and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jones's sense of place is acute, and his passion for the landscape—for its colors, its creatures, its textures, its scents—is absolutely magnetic."—Sarah Waters "A dark, tense, and vital short novel. . . . Profound, powerful, and utterly absorbing."—The Guardian "It is a book about the essentials: life and death, cruelty and compassion. It is a book that will get in your bones, and haunt you."—Daily Telegraph "Cynan Jones's fourth novel, The Dig, is an extraordinarily powerful work—not in spite of its brevity but because of it. . . . In its marriage of profound lyricism and feeling for place, deep human compassion and unflinching savagery, this brief and beautiful novel is utterly unique."—Financial Times Built of the interlocking fates of a badger-baiter and a farmer struggling through lambing season, The Dig unfolds in a stark rural setting where man, animal, and land are at loggerheads. There is no bucolic pastoral here: this is pure, pared-down rural realism, crackling with compressed energy, from a writer of uncommon gifts. Cynan Jones was born near Aberaeron, Wales, in 1975. He is the author of three novels, The Long Dry (winner of a Betty Trask Award, 2007), Everything I Found on the Beach (2011), and The Dig (2014), winner of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. He is also the author of Bird, Blood, Snow (2012), the retelling of a medieval Welsh myth. The Dig is his first novel published in the United States.

Author : Penny Dale
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763658715
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dinosaur Dig written by Penny Dale and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dinosaurs from one to ten use construction equipment to dig, shovel, roll, and scrape as they build a fun surprise.

Author : Margaret Mayo
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805079852
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dig Dig Digging written by Margaret Mayo and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-08-08 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Based on the picture book Dig dig digging, originally published in England in 2001 by Orchard Books."--Back cover.

Author : John Preston
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590517806
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dig written by John Preston and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE BASIS FOR THE NETFLIX FILM STARRING CAREY MULLIGAN, RALPH FIENNES, AND LILY JAMES A literary adventure that tells the story of a priceless buried treasure discovered in England on the eve of World War II In the long, hot summer of 1939, Britain is preparing for war, but on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind. Mrs. Pretty, the widowed owner of the farm, has had her hunch confirmed that the mounds on her land hold buried treasure. As the dig proceeds, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary find. This fictional recreation of the famed Sutton Hoo dig follows three months of intense activity when locals fought outsiders, professionals thwarted amateurs, and love and rivalry flourished in equal measure. As the war looms ever closer, engraved gold peeks through the soil, and each character searches for answers in the buried treasure. Their threads of love, loss, and aspiration weave a common awareness of the past as something that can never truly be left behind.

Author : Andrea Griffing Zimmerman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152167851
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dig! written by Andrea Griffing Zimmerman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Michael Siemsen
Publisher : Fantome Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0983446903
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dig written by Michael Siemsen and published by Fantome Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-10 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mysterious woven metal artifact is found at a paleontological dig in Africa. Mystified experts, confounded by the impossible timeline they get from traditional dating methods, call upon a stubborn nineteen-year-old with a unique talent. Matthew Turner's gift is also his curse: When he touches any object, his awareness is flooded with the thoughts and feelings of those who touched it before him. It is a talent that many covet, some fear, and almost no one understands. Despite being exploited as a child and tormented by the unpleasant experiences imprinted on him from the various items he has "read," Matthew agrees to travel from New York to the forests of Kenya. There, threatened by unknown enemies and helped by a beautiful but prickly ally who begins to understand his strange ability, he journeys back in geological time to make a discovery so shocking that it forces us to rewrite all human history.

Author : Cindy Jenson-Elliott
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442441275
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dig In! written by Cindy Jenson-Elliott and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dig in to this vibrant picture book that celebrates all the surprises found down in the dirt! I dig in the dirt...and find a seed. Seed waits. I dig in the dirt...and find a spider. Spider runs. Explore all of the creepy, crawly, dirty, muddy, green, and growing things that can be found outside in the garden. From pill bugs to worms to leafy green sprouts, young readers will love discovering the muddy garden habitat within the pages of this book—and outside in their own backyards! This sweet and playful celebration of outdoor exploration is a perfect read aloud for story time.

Author : Kari Cornell
Publisher : Millbrook Press (Tm)
ISBN 13 : 151243065X
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dig In! written by Kari Cornell and published by Millbrook Press (Tm). This book was released on 2018 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Presents twelve gardening projects using leftover scraps from cooking, including growing celery from stubs, growing a bulb of garlic from a single clove, and growing a ginger plant from a root"--Amazon.com.

Author : Mac Barnett
Publisher : Candlewick
ISBN 13 : 0763662291
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sam and Dave Dig a Hole written by Mac Barnett and published by Candlewick. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2015 Caldecott Honor Book With perfect pacing, the multi-award-winning, New York Times best-selling team of Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen dig down for a deadpan tale full of visual humor. Sam and Dave are on a mission. A mission to find something spectacular. So they dig a hole. And they keep digging. And they find . . . nothing. Yet the day turns out to be pretty spectacular after all. Attentive readers will be rewarded with a rare treasure in this witty story of looking for the extraordinary — and finding it in a manner you’d never expect.