Escape From Funland

Author : Bill Doyle
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0553521837
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Escape from Funland written by Bill Doyle and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The humor and heart of Modern Family meets wacky contests in book two of this series, which asks: What could be more fun than a fun house? A local theme park called Funland is hosting a huge contest to turn one family’s home into the ultimate fun house. Who wouldn’t want a slide from the bedroom to the backyard, a bumper-car kitchen, or a ball pit for a living room? The Talaska family is eager to compete! And the stakes are high. Their house is falling apart, and they might have to move away from Piedmont Place forever. Cal knows that his family can win, but it won’t be easy. First he and his sister, Imo, need to win a competition at school. Then the whole family has to live at Funland and find a hidden object. Can they really search every corner of the park in just five days? There’s only one way to find out. Let the contest begin!

Author : Bill H. Doyle
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0553521810
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Escape from Funland written by Bill H. Doyle and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2017 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Talaska family enters a contest to win a home makeover.

Author : Bill Doyle
Publisher : Yearling
ISBN 13 : 0525644210
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Escape This Book! Titanic written by Bill Doyle and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Activity book meets adventure in this series that is Choose Your Own Adventure meets I Survived meets doodle book! Doodle, decide, and demolish your way out of history's greatest events--the perfect book for fun and educational summer reading! Reader, beware! Once you open this book, there is no turning back. You will have three chances to survive the Titanic's fateful voyage. Decide which path to take first. Passenger: Exploring the ship is fun! Just don't get caught on the wrong deck when there's an iceberg ahead! Crew Member: You work for a family in first class. Can you persuade them to save you along with their beloved dog? Stowaway: You snuck onto this ship. Can you draw your way onto a lifeboat? In the Escape This Book! series, YOU are the star of history! Doodle your way through adventures as you decide the best path for survival. Don't be afraid to rip or fold a page. . . . Your escape may depend on it!

Author : Gloria Skurzynski
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
ISBN 13 : 1426309724
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mysteries in Our National Parks: Escape From Fear written by Gloria Skurzynski and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Landons are in the Caribbean, in Virgin Islands National Park, to figure out what is destroying the coral reefs and causing the hawksbill sea turtle to disappear. Jack and Ashley find themselves hopelessly entangled in the mysterious life of Forrest Winthrop IV, the adopted son of a U.S. diplomat. Why is he so anxious to save an island woman named Cimmaron? What secret do they share? Follow the action to Jumbie Bay and see what the full moon reveals.

Author : Brian Beacom
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1910022209
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Real Stanley Baxter written by Brian Beacom and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stanley Baxter delighted over 20 million viewers at a time with his television specials. His pantos became legendary. His divas and dames were so good they were beyond description. Baxter was a most brilliant cowboy Coward, a smouldering Dietrich. He found immense laughs as Formby and Liberace. And his sex-starved Tarzan swung in a way Hollywood could never have imagined. But who is the real Stanley Baxter? The comedy actor's talents are matched only by his past reluctance to colour in the detail of his own character. Now, the man behind the mischievous grin, the twinkling eyes and the once-Brylcreemed coiffure is revealed. In a tale of triumphs and tragedies, of giant laughs and great falls from grace, we discover that while the enigmatic entertainer could play host to hundreds of different voices, the role he found most difficult to play was that of Stanley Baxter.

Author : Andrew G. Newby
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031194748
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finland’s Great Famine, 1856-68 written by Andrew G. Newby and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-17 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will provide a thematic overview of one of European history’s most devastating famines, the Great Finnish Famine of the 1860s. In 1868, the nadir of several years of worsening economic conditions, 137,000 people (approximately 8% of the Finnish population) perished as the result of hunger and disease. The attitudes and policies enacted by Finland’s devolved administration tended to follow European norms, and therefore were often similar to the “colonial” practices seen in other famines at the time. What is distinctive about this catastrophe in a mid-nineteenth-century context, is that despite Finland being a part of the Russian Empire, it was largely responsible for its own governance, and indeed was developing its economic, political and cultural autonomy at the time of the famine. Finland’s Great Famine 1856-68 examines key themes such as the use of emergency foods, domestic and overseas charity, vagrancy and crime, emergency relief works, and emigration.

Author : Andrew Nestingen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231165595
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cinema of Aki KaurismŠki written by Andrew Nestingen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1983, Aki Kaurismäki has made classically styled films filled with cinephilic references to film history, influencing Jim Jarmusch, Quentin Tarantino and Wes Anderson. Yet the director is often depicted as the loneliest, most nostalgic of Finns (except when promoting his films, making political statements and running his many businesses). Drawing on revisionist approaches to film authorship, this text links Kaurismäki's work to issues in film aesthetics and history, nostalgia, late modernity, commerce, film festivals, and national cinema.

Author : David White
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469108240
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Funland written by David White and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-01-05 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Words have their own lives independent from their function as describers of ‘real’ worlds. They hold time and place but also can help us imagine new worlds. They preserve our experience against the dismantling force of death ... This is why I’m fascinated with words. As well as a writer, I am a painter and a poet. I teach college art and film classes and work at a variety of tasks looking for satisfaction.

Author : Keith R. Allen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538101521
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interrogation Nation written by Keith R. Allen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book explores the treatment of the millions of refugees and tens of thousands of spies that flooded Germany after World War II. Drawing on newly declassified espionage files, Keith R. Allen uncovers long-hidden interrogation systems that were developed by Germany’s western occupiers to protect internal security and gather intelligence about the Soviet Union. He shows how vetting in the name of public order brought foreign intelligence officials into practically every venue, from train stations to corporate boardrooms to private dwellings, in postwar West Germany. At the heart of efforts to extract insights were extensive, personalized efforts by law enforcement and security officials to manipulate desires and emotions involving dearest family members, closest friends, and trusted colleagues. Linking personal narratives of those interrogated to the international context of postwar politics, Allen reveals a compelling world inhabited by spies and refugees. Allen's study illuminates the places, personalities, and practices of refugee interrogation in one of Europe’s most successful postwar states. As calls for intense scrutiny of refugees have grown dramatically, Allen illustrates how decisions to shortchange the rights of migrants in periods of heightened ideological and military tension may contribute to long-term threats to personal liberties and the rule of law.

Author : Antonia Michaelis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620877384
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Room written by Antonia Michaelis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Achim is eleven years old when he moves from the orphanage to the house by the sea. Here everything is strange and new. But one day he discovers an unusual door that leads to a circular room with walls made of rough stone. The light coming through the window is hazy, as if the room is under water. It is a magic room—which he calls “The Adopted Room”—belonging to another world. And on a bed in the room sits a boy who is waiting to take Achim with him into the realm of the powerful Nameless One. Achim learns that the boy, Arnim, is the long-dead son of Achim’s new parents. When he died in a car accident at the age of four, Arnim was supposed to have become a bird and flown free to the land of the dead, which can be seen through the window of The Adopted Room. But the Nameless One has somehow locked Arnim inside, so he cannot leave. Achim, however, finds he can turn into a bird, slip through the window, and fly across the strange land. And thus begins a journey in which Achim must fight the Nameless One and free Arnim so he can finally leave his parents and they can let go of their grief. Antonia Michaelis’s fresh voice helps to address the delicate issues of death, grief, and mourning, portraying them as an essential part of life. The Secret Room is full of humor and adventure, but also brings to light these difficult life issues in a way that young readers can understand. The first in a trilogy, with its sequel, The Secret of the Twelfth Continent, to follow next spring, this captivating mid-grade novel is sure to become a favorite series with young readers.