The Legend Of The Blue Boy

Author : Kayla Phair
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1038300355
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legend of the Blue Boy written by Kayla Phair and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Earth, scorched and tarnished, can no longer sustain life. Geodesic domes protect food plants and produce desperately needed oxygen, while children don breathing tanks for the ride to school. Archer Larson, a bitter, lonely teenager with the legacy of unethical experiments implanted in his body, finds himself drawn from his antisocial funk when a new student joins his class. Something is familiar about her. Why does he feel they’ve met before? Trying to forget the déjà vu slowly overtaking him—as old prophecies of ruin start to sound like memories and the names of people he’s never met start ringing bells—Archer sets aside his disinterest in his classmates. He makes a couple of new friends and reconnects with an old one. But eventually, he realizes what he has to do and disappears back into the most dangerous moment in all of time: the apocalypse. After all, he knows now that if he doesn’t go, the people he’s coming to care about will never be born. It will be a struggle to survive—if he survives at all. But the young man with the bruised and traumatized heart has something to care about now. Meanwhile, left behind in their own time, Archer’s new and old friends try to get to grips with the strange things going on in their school, and face the growing suspicion that there’s a plan behind all of them...

Author : Rakesh Satyal
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 0758245769
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blue Boy written by Rakesh Satyal and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atwelve-year-old Indian American boy believes he is the reincarnation of Krishna and plans to unveil his true identity at the school talent show. Meet Kiran Sharma: lover of music, dance, and all things sensual; son of immigrants, social outcast, spiritual seeker. A boy who doesn’t quite understand his lot—until he realizes he’s a god . . . As an only son, Kiran has obligations—to excel in his studies, to honor the deities, to find a nice Indian girl, and, above all, to make his mother and father proud—standard stuff for a boy of his background. If only Kiran had anything in common with the other Indian kids besides the color of his skin. They reject him at every turn, and his cretinous public schoolmates are no better. Cincinnati in the early 1990s isn’t exactly a hotbed of cultural diversity, and Kiran’s not-so-well-kept secrets don’t endear him to any group. Playing with dolls, choosing ballet over basketball, taking the annual talent show way too seriously…the very things that make Kiran who he is also make him the star of his own personal freak show . . . Surrounded by examples of upstanding Indian Americans—in his own home, in his temple, at the weekly parties given by his parents’ friends—Kiran nevertheless finds it impossible to get the knack of “normalcy.” And then one fateful day, a revelation: perhaps his desires aren’t too earthly, but too divine. Perhaps the solution to the mystery of his existence has been before him since birth. For Kiran Sharma, a long, strange trip is about to begin—a journey so sublime, so ridiculous, so painfully beautiful, that it can only lead to the truth . . . Praise for Blue Boy “Compassionate, moving, funny, and wise, Blue Boy is one of the best debut novels I have read in years.” &mda

Author : Michael P. Spradlin
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0688158358
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legend of Blue Jacket written by Michael P. Spradlin and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2002-10-22 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the Shawnee Indian chief Blue Jacket, who fought against the American colonists.

Author : Benjamin Lewis
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781719961264
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blue Boy: A True Story written by Benjamin Lewis and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the adventure of childhood, two young boys become forever linked. In the small, tight-knit community of Graham, Texas, youngsters Ben and Stephen battle it out in a playground bare-knuckle brawl. When the dust settles and the blood is dried, they find themselves inseparable, too young to fully understand that the precious time they spend with one another is time they escape the heartache of their homes. Written for the screen, Blue Boy is the true story of two boys in small town Texas, experiencing life as they see it, coping with the problems of their parents, and through it all, staying true to one another as they find their place in the world.

Author : Christine Riding
Publisher : National Gallery London
ISBN 13 : 9781857096804
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gainsborough's Blue Boy written by Christine Riding and published by National Gallery London. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated publication explores the lasting influence of Gainsborough's Blue Boy on British art and culture Marking the return of Gainsborough's Blue Boy to the UK exactly 100 years since it left for the United States, this richly illustrated publication will explore the lasting influence of this iconic painting on British art and culture. During the nineteenth century, the painting's fame grew and full-length portraits by Gainsborough and his contemporaries became much sought after by wealthy American collectors. The sale of The Blue Boy to the American railroad magnate and collector Henry E. Huntington in 1921 was unsurprisingly viewed as a national tragedy--emblematic of a shift in economic and cultural power. However, its afterlife, as a permanent ambassador for British art, has undoubtedly fed into ideas of Britain and Britishness--its history, society, culture and character--that still resonate today. Including a select group of paintings that demonstrate the profound influence of Sir Anthony van Dyck and the old master tradition on Gainsborough's practice and identity, Gainsborough's Blue Boy will examine this masterpiece within the context of the National Gallery's collection.

Author : Rene C. Capone
Publisher : Blurb
ISBN 13 : 9781640085442
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legend of Hedgehog Boy written by Rene C. Capone and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Legend of Hedgehog Boy, a 168 page comic book by writer & artist Rene Capone, conjures up all of the classic children's tales of young and lost souls fleeing into their imaginations in order to escape the cold, harsh nature of reality. And like Peter, Alice, and Dorothy before him, we're presented with a brash and courageous hero who doesn't submit to torment and strives to find freedom and happiness despite the predominant darkness of his past.This hero is Hedgehog Boy, a young man who escaped from an abusive home. The tormented child spent his nights huddled in a cold cellar and saw salvation only in the ultimate end of suicide. But before all was truly lost, he pulled himself back from the brink and fled to the woods. And, as the rules of fantasy and magical realism dictate, the woods the boy finds refuge in quietly shift into a land of the imagination. There the boy skins a hedgehog and dons the spiky mantle as a crown of independence. He also meets Frank the Bear, a wounded teddy who bleeds stuffing; because he has no fingers, Frank cannot even mend his own injury. Hedgehog Boy offers his help, and a friendship is born.The unfortunate truth is that suffering and innocence senselessly abounds in the world. Children are too often the victims-children who seek refuge just as Hedgehog Boy did. Enter Kitty: another young man with a dark past who wanders into the woods and finds his way to Hedgehog Boy and Frank. No, Kitty is not the boy's given name; rather, it's the name of his rebirth. Hedgehog Boy skins a cat and offers it to his new friend as a fresh identity. Kitty accepts freely and of hesitation.

Author : Francesco Sedita
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593206207
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legend of the Lost Boy written by Francesco Sedita and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The action-packed Pathfinders Society saga comes to a thrilling climax in this can't-miss installment! Perfect for fans of the Last Kids on Earth and Lumberjanes series. In their newest adventure, the Pathfinders are in for a wild time--literally! Unwittingly transported fifty years into the past, Kyle, Vic, Harry, Beth, and Nate desperately try to find a way back to their own time while attempting to avoid questions about who--and from when--they are. A mysterious map and a reckless river journey takes them straight into danger and beyond, where the present and the past collide in otherworldly ways. Will the Pathfinders find their way home, or will they be trapped in this not-so-groovy era forever? Electrifying artwork by Eisner-Award-winning artist Steve Hamaker brings the action, friendships, and intrigue to life in this exciting graphic novel series.

Author : Lyman Frank Baum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mother Goose in Prose written by Lyman Frank Baum and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of twenty-two nursery rhymes, including "Old King Cole" and "Little Bo-Peep," fashioned into full-length stories by the author of "The Wizard of Oz."

Author : Scott O'Dell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0395069629
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Island of the Blue Dolphins written by Scott O'Dell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1960 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far off the coast of California looms a harsh rock known as the island of San Nicholas. Dolphins flash in the blue waters around it, sea otter play in the vast kep beds, and sea elephants loll on the stony beaches. Here, in the early 1800s, according to history, an Indian girl spent eighteen years alone, and this beautifully written novel is her story. It is a romantic adventure filled with drama and heartache, for not only was mere subsistence on so desolate a spot a near miracle, but Karana had to contend with the ferocious pack of wild dogs that had killed her younger brother, constantly guard against the Aleutian sea otter hunters, and maintain a precarious food supply. More than this, it is an adventure of the spirit that will haunt the reader long after the book has been put down. Karana's quiet courage, her Indian self-reliance and acceptance of fate, transform what to many would have been a devastating ordeal into an uplifting experience. From loneliness and terror come strength and serenity in this Newbery Medal-winning classic.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1613100108
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of the Good Little Boy written by Mark Twain and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: