Who Was That Masked Man Anyway

Author : Avi
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545732530
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Was That Masked Man Anyway? written by Avi and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast-paced, madcap adventure from the always surprising raconteur, Avi! It's the spring of 1945 in Brooklyn, and while WWII rages in Europe, sixth grader Frankie Wattleson--inspired by the heroics of The Lone Ranger and other radio show idols--sets out to right the wrongs of the world. Frankie is so caught up in his superhero stories that he becomes convinced the tenant renting his brother's room is a mad scientist. Can Frankie and his trusty sidekick, Mario, save the world from an evil genius? Or will Frankie's mother pull the plug on their schemes before they can save the day?

Author : Avi
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9780606060974
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway? written by Avi and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1994-02-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1940s when nearly everyone else is thinking about World War II, sixth-grader Frankie Wattleson gets in trouble at home and at school because of his preoccupation with his favorite radio programs.

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780547348896
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential Guide to Children's Books and Their Creators written by and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon publication, Anita Silvey’s comprehensive survey of contemporary children’s literature, Children’s Books and Their Creators, garnered unanimous praise from librarians, educators, and specialists interested in the world of writing for children. Now The Essential Guide to Children’s Books and Their Creators assembles the best of that volume in one handy, affordable reference, geared specifically to parents, educators, and students. This new volume introduces readers to the wealth of children’s literature by focusing on the essentials — the best books for children, the ones that inform, impress, and, most important, excite young readers. Updated to include newcomers such as J. K. Rowling and Lemony Snicket and to cover the very latest on publishing and educational trends, this edition features more than 475 entries on the best-loved children’s authors and illustrators, numerous essays on social and historical issues, thirty personal glimpses into craft by well-known writers, illustrators, and critics, and invaluable reading lists by category. The Essential Guide to Children’s Books and Their Creators summarizes the canon of contemporary children’s literature, in a practical guide essential for anyone choosing a book for or working with children.

Author : Margaret Speaker Yuan
Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 1438149085
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Avi written by Margaret Speaker Yuan and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2003 Newbery Award winner for his book Crispin : The Cross of Lead, Avi is one of the foremost children's and young adults' authors read in the classroom today.

Author : Bud Fennell
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1512726494
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I’m A Christian Too! written by Bud Fennell and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When people become Christian, their lives will reflect the salvation they possess. Certainly the Bible doesn’t teach otherwise. The reason we don’t see new life reflected in the lives of so many professing Christians is that they don’t have it! But how could one know? The apostle Paul wrote: “Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you-unless, of course, you fail the test” (2 Corinthians 13:5). So there must be some sort of a test, something to look at in the life of a professing Christian that would give some evidence as to whether or not he or she is a genuine or counterfeit believer. What is it? Are we going to talk about works for salvation? Of course not! But God is about giving us the confidence that Christ is in us. God is not suggesting that we examine ourselves to see if we can pass a test for salvation, but rather, God has us look at the evidence in our lives of salvation. Is there any in your life? If you were accused of being a Christian in a land where it was illegal and you were brought to trial, would there be enough evidence to find you “guilty as charged!” or would you be acquitted? Think about it. Is there anything unique about you that looks Christian? What might that look like? That’s what this book is about. Therefore, it seems it would behoove every professing Christian to give some thought to what I’ve written in this book.

Author : Nicholas P. Higgins
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292779518
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding the Chiapas Rebellion written by Nicholas P. Higgins and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-12-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To many observers in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Mexico appeared to be a modern nation-state at last assuming an international role through its participation in NAFTA and the OECD (Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development). Then came the Zapatista revolt on New Year's Day 1994. Wearing ski masks and demanding not power but a new understanding of the indigenous peoples of Mexico, Subcomandante Marcos and his followers launched what may be the first "post" or "counter" modern revolution, one that challenges the very concept of the modern nation-state and its vision of a fully assimilated citizenry. This book offers a new way of understanding the Zapatista conflict as a counteraction to the forces of modernity and globalization that have rendered indigenous peoples virtually invisible throughout the world. Placing the conflict within a broad sociopolitical and historical context, Nicholas Higgins traces the relations between Maya Indians and the Mexican state from the conquest to the present—which reveals a centuries-long contest over the Maya people's identity and place within Mexico. His incisive analysis of this contest clearly explains how the notions of "modernity" and even of "the state" require the assimilation of indigenous peoples. With this understanding, Higgins argues, the Zapatista uprising becomes neither surprising nor unpredictable, but rather the inevitable outcome of a modernizing program that suppressed the identity and aspirations of the Maya peoples.

Author : Avi
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545214912
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Something Upstairs written by Avi and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he moves from Los Angeles to Providence, Rhode Island, Kenny discovers that his new house is haunted by the spirit of a black slave boy who asks Kenny to return with him to the early nineteenth century and prevent his murder by slave traders.

Author : Ralph Keyes
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9781429952477
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Love It When You Talk Retro written by Ralph Keyes and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining and informative book about the fashion and fads of language Today's 18-year-olds may not know who Mrs. Robinson is, where the term "stuck in a groove" comes from, why 1984 was a year unlike any other, how big a bread box is, how to get to Peyton Place, or what the term Watergate refers to. I Love It When You Talk Retro discusses these verbal fossils that remain embedded in our national conversation long after the topic they refer to has galloped off into the sunset. That could be a person (Mrs. Robinson), product (Edsel), past bestseller (Catch-22), radio or TV show (Gangbusters), comic strip (Alphonse and Gaston), or advertisement (Where's the beef?) long forgotten. Such retroterms are words or phrases in current use whose origins lie in our past. Ralph Keyes takes us on an illuminating and engaging tour through the phenomenon that is Retrotalk—a journey, oftentimes along the timelines of American history and the faultlines of culture, that will add to the word-lover's store of trivia and obscure references. "The phrase "drinking the Kool-Aid" is a mystery to young people today, as is "45rpm." Even older folks don't know the origins of "raked over the coals" and "cut to the chase." Keyes (The Quote Verifier) uses his skill as a sleuth of sources to track what he calls "retrotalk": "a slippery slope of puzzling allusions to past phenomena." He surveys the origins of "verbal fossils" from commercials (Kodak moment), jurisprudence (Twinkie defense), movies (pod people), cartoons (Caspar Milquetoast) and literature (brave new world). Some pop permutations percolated over decades: Radio's Take It or Leave It spawned a catch phrase so popular the program was retitled The $64 Question and later returned as TV's The $64,000 Question. Keyes's own book Is There Life After High School? became both a Broadway musical and a catch phrase. Some entries are self-evident or have speculative origins, but Keyes's nonacademic style and probing research make this both an entertaining read and a valuable reference work." --Publishers Weekly

Author : Aram Sinnreich
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262048817
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Life of Data written by Aram Sinnreich and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How data surveillance, digital forensics, and generative AI pose new long-term threats and opportunities—and how we can use them to make better decisions in the face of technological uncertainty. In The Secret Life of Data, Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert explore the many unpredictable, and often surprising, ways in which data surveillance, AI, and the constant presence of algorithms impact our culture and society in the age of global networks. The authors build on this basic premise: no matter what form data takes, and what purpose we think it’s being used for, data will always have a secret life. How this data will be used, by other people in other times and places, has profound implications for every aspect of our lives—from our intimate relationships to our professional lives to our political systems. With the secret uses of data in mind, Sinnreich and Gilbert interview dozens of experts to explore a broad range of scenarios and contexts—from the playful to the profound to the problematic. Unlike most books about data and society that focus on the short-term effects of our immense data usage, The Secret Life of Data focuses primarily on the long-term consequences of humanity’s recent rush toward digitizing, storing, and analyzing every piece of data about ourselves and the world we live in. The authors advocate for “slow fixes” regarding our relationship to data, such as creating new laws and regulations, ethics and aesthetics, and models of production for our data-fied society. Cutting through the hype and hopelessness that so often inform discussions of data and society, The Secret Life of Data clearly and straightforwardly demonstrates how readers can play an active part in shaping how digital technology influences their lives and the world at large.

Author : Enrique Florescano
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292786549
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico written by Enrique Florescano and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico, noted Mexican scholar Enrique Florescano’s Memoria mexicana becomes available for the first time in English. A collection of essays tracing the many memories of the past created by different individuals and groups in Mexico, the book addresses the problem of memory and changing ideas of time in the way Mexicans conceive of their history. Original in perspective and broad in scope, ranging from the Aztec concept of the world and history to the ideas of independence, this book should appeal to a wide readership.