Made By Maxine

Author : Ruth Spiro
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525553169
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Made by Maxine written by Ruth Spiro and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Maxine, an inspiring young maker who knows that with enough effort and imagination (and mistakes), it's possible to invent anything. Maxine loves making new things from old things. She loves tinkering until she has solved a problem. She also loves her pet goldfish, Milton. So when it's time for her school's pet parade, she's determined to create something that will allow Milton to march with the other animals. Finally, after trying, trying, and trying again, she discovers just the right combination of recycled odds and ends to create a fun, functional--and absolutely fabulous--solution to her predicament.

Author : Ruth Spiro
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399186298
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Made by Maxine written by Ruth Spiro and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Maxine, an inspiring young maker who knows that with enough effort and imagination (and mistakes), it's possible to invent anything. Maxine loves making new things from old things. She loves tinkering until she has solved a problem. She also loves her pet goldfish, Milton. So when it's time for her school's pet parade, she's determined to create something that will allow Milton to march with the other animals. Finally, after trying, trying, and trying again, she discovers just the right combination of recycled odds and ends to create a fun, functional--and absolutely fabulous--solution to her predicament.

Author : Ruth Spiro
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984815989
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maxine and the Greatest Garden Ever written by Ruth Spiro and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best friends Maxine and Leo combine their maker and artistic skills to create (and save!) the ultimate garden in this empowering, STEM-focused picture book After sketching and plotting and planting, Maxine and Leo know they've made The Greatest Garden Ever! But they're not the only ones who think so. Soon, all sorts of animals make their way in, munching on carrots and knocking over pots. When Leo and Maxine can't agree on a way to deter these unwelcome critters, it looks like there's more on the line than saving their garden--they just might need to save their friendship too.

Author : Maxine Beneba Clarke
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 1536221686
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Patchwork Bike written by Maxine Beneba Clarke and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The words and images in this snapshot story pulse with resourceful ingenuity, joyful exuberance, and layered meanings.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) When you live in a village at the edge of the no-go desert, you need to make your own fun. That's when you and your brothers get inventive and build a bike from scratch, using everyday items like an old milk pot (maybe Mum is still using it, maybe not) and a used flour sack. You can even make a license plate from bark if you want. The end result is a spectacular bike, perfect for whooping and laughing as you bumpetty bump over sand hills, past your fed-up mum and right through your mud-for-walls home. A Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner, this joyous story from Maxine Beneba Clarke, beautifully illustrated by street artist Van Thanh Rudd, is now available as an ebook.

Author : Ellen Hopkins
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593108639
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Closer to Nowhere written by Ellen Hopkins and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins's poignant middle grade novel in verse about coming to terms with indelible truths of family and belonging--now in paperback! For the most part, Hannah's life is just how she wants it. She has two supportive parents, she's popular at school, and she's been killing it at gymnastics. But when her cousin Cal moves in with her family, everything changes. Cal tells half-truths and tall tales, pranks Hannah constantly, and seems to be the reason her parents are fighting more and more. Nothing is how it used to be. She knows that Cal went through a lot after his mom died and she is trying to be patient, but most days Hannah just wishes Cal never moved in. For his part, Cal is trying his hardest to fit in, but not everyone is as appreciative of his unique sense of humor and storytelling gifts as he is. Humor and stories might be his defense mechanism, but if Cal doesn't let his walls down soon, he might push away the very people who are trying their best to love him. Told in verse from the alternating perspectives of Hannah and Cal, this is a story of two cousins who are more alike than they realize and the family they both want to save.

Author : Maxine Bedat
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593085973
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unraveled written by Maxine Bedat and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award A groundbreaking chronicle of the birth--and death--of a pair of jeans, that exposes the fractures in our global supply chains, and our relationships to each other, ourselves, and the planet Take a look at your favorite pair of jeans. Maybe you bought them on Amazon or the Gap; maybe the tag says "Made in Bangladesh" or "Made in Sri Lanka." But do you know where they really came from, how many thousands of miles they crossed, or the number of hands who picked, spun, wove, dyed, packaged, shipped, and sold them to get to you? The fashion industry operates with radical opacity, and it's only getting worse to disguise countless environmental and labor abuses. It epitomizes the ravages inherent in the global economy, and all in the name of ensuring that we keep buying more while thinking less about its real cost. In Unraveled, entrepreneur, researcher, and advocate Maxine Bédat follows the life of an American icon--a pair of jeans--to reveal what really happens to give us our clothes. We visit a Texas cotton farm figuring out how to thrive without relying on fertilizers that poison the earth. Inside dyeing and weaving factories in China, where chemicals that are banned in the West slosh on factory floors and drain into waterways used to irrigate local family farms. Sewing floors in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are crammed with women working for illegally low wages to produce garments as efficiently as machines. Back in America, our jeans get stowed, picked, and shipped out by Amazon warehouse workers pressed to be as quick as the robots primed to replace them. Finally, those jeans we had to have get sent to landfills--or, if they've been "donated," shipped back around the world to Africa, where they're sold for pennies in secondhand markets or buried and burned in mountains of garbage. A sprawling, deeply researched, and provocative tour-de-force, Unraveled is not just the story of a pair of pants, but also the story of our global economy and our role in it. Told with piercing insight and unprecedented reporting, Unraveled challenges us to use our relationship with our jeans--and all that we wear--to reclaim our central role as citizens to refashion a society in which all people can thrive and preserve the planet for generations to come.

Author : Bob Graham
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 1536217700
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maxine written by Bob Graham and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Max has a little sister! Fans of Bob Graham's beloved superhero family will want to meet its newest family member, Maxine, who flies high with her own sense of style.

Author : Mjoseth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781393828655
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chronicles of Mad Maxine written by Mjoseth and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chronicles of Mad Maxine tells one woman's story of training to be a lady wrestler at the Fabulous Moolah's School of Professional Wrestling. The novel, set on the 30-acre training camp in Columbia, South Carolina, is a fictionalized account of author Jeannine Mjoseth's experiences in the mid-1980s, when she became skilled at flying head scissors, the soaring suplex and the body slam. Both hardcore wrestling fans and people who've never seen a match will thrill to the raw action both inside and outside of Camp Moolah's training ring. The novel's main character, Pippi, is a passionate young reporter who wants to infiltrate the world of professional wrestling for a live-it, write-it journalism project. But she doesn't just observe the world of slaps, punches and bumps and she can't betray trainees with whom she's developed deep friendships. Instead, she throws herself into training and emerges as Mad Maxine, a 6'2" grappler with a mohawk. At the head of the enterprise is the Fabulous Moolah, an infamous lady wrestler turned manager who has clawed her way to the top from dirt-poor beginnings. Pippi gets a hard lesson about her deceitful ways during her first match for the World Wrestling Federation. Meanwhile, Pippi accepts a dangerous freelance assignment covering a KKK rally for an African American newspaper. Her wrestling and journalism worlds collide when the KKK invades Camp Moolah. Pippi and her wrestling buddies make a narrow escape from the Fabulous Moolah's clutches and speed to Albuquerque. Their mission: to rescue an underaged wrestler who Moolah has pimped out to a podiatrist with a taste for straining lady muscles.

Author : Maxine Brown
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1557289344
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking Back to See written by Maxine Brown and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2009-12-30 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revealing, entertaining window on the music of the ’50s and ’60s

Author : Maxine Swann
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781594483110
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flower Children written by Maxine Swann and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A work of stunning lyricism and intense originality' (Mary Gordon, author of Pearl). From an award-winning short story writer comes this spare, lively, moving novel, quickly embraced by critics and readers, portraying the strangely celebrated and unsupervised childhood of four hippie offspring in the 1970's and 80's. Based on the author's own upbringing, Flower Children tells the story of four children growing up in rural Pennsylvania, impossibly at odds with their surroundings. In time, as the sheltered utopia their parents have created begins to collapse, the children long for structure and restraint-and all their parents have avoided.