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Phillip is excited when the Germans invade the small island of Curaçao. War has always been a game to him, and he’s eager to glimpse it firsthand–until the freighter he and his mother are traveling to the United States on is torpedoed.
When Phillip comes to, he is on a small raft in the middle of the sea. Besides Stew Cat, his only companion is an old West Indian, Timothy. Phillip remembers his mother’s warning about black people: “They are different, and they live differently.”
But by the time the castaways arrive on a small island, Phillip’s head injury has made him blind and dependent on Timothy.
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quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Award-winning author Nikki Grimes's beloved novel in verse Garvey's
Choice is now a graphic novel, imaginatively and dramatically
illustrated by Little Shaq artist Theodore Taylor III. Garvey's
father has always wanted Garvey to be athletic, but Garvey is
interested in astronomy, science fiction, reading-anything but
sports. Feeling like a failure, he comforts himself with food.
Garvey is kind, funny, smart, a loyal friend, and he is also
overweight, teased by bullies, and lonely. When his only friend
encourages him to join the school chorus, Garvey's life changes.
The chorus finds a new soloist in Garvey, and through chorus,
Garvey finds a way to accept himself and a way to finally reach his
distant father-by speaking the language of music instead of the
language of sports. Garvey's Choice was a School Library Journal
Best Book, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book, a Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry
Award Honor Book, and a Paterson Prize for Books for Young People
Honor Book. With Theodore Taylor III's full-color illustrations,
this graphic novel edition is enthralling and inspiring.
Meet Charles S. Parker, an unsung yet trailblazing Black scientist
who made major contributions to the fields of botany (the study of
plants) and mycology (the study of fungi) in this inspiring
STEM/STEAM picture book biography. In 1882, Black botanist and
mycologist Charles S. Parker sprouted up in the lush, green Pacific
Northwest. From the beginning, Charles’s passion was plants, and
he trudged through forests, climbed mountains, and waded into lakes
to find them. When he was drafted to fight in World War I, Charles
experienced prejudice against Black soldiers and witnessed the
massive ecological devastation that war caused. Those experiences
made him even more determined to follow his dreams, whatever the
difficulties, and to have a career making things grow, not
destroying them. As a botanist and teacher, Charles traveled the
United States, searching for new species of plants and fungi. After
discovering the source of the disease killing peach and apricot
trees, Charles was offered a job at Howard University, the famed
historically Black college where he taught the next generation of
Black scientists—men and women—to love plants and fungi as much
as he did.
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The Cay (Paperback)
Theodore Taylor
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R191
R145
Discovery Miles 1 450
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Phillip is excited when the Germans invade the small island of Curaçao. War has always been a game to him, and he’s eager to glimpse it firsthand–until the freighter he and his mother are traveling to the United States on is torpedoed.
When Phillip comes to, he is on a small raft in the middle of the sea. Besides Stew Cat, his only companion is an old West Indian, Timothy. Phillip remembers his mother’s warning about black people: “They are different, and they live differently.”
But by the time the castaways arrive on a small island, Phillip’s head injury has made him blind and dependent on Timothy.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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The Cay (Paperback)
Theodore Taylor; Illustrated by Kenny McKendry
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R215
R168
Discovery Miles 1 680
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Phillip is excited when the Germans invade the small island of
Curacao. War has always been a game to him and he's eager to
witness it first hand - until the freighter he and his mother are
travelling on to the USA is torpedoed. Philip wakes to find himself
adrift on a small raft in the middle of the ocean with an old West
Indian man. Together they become marooned on a tiny deserted
island.
Before there was hip hop, there was DJ Kool Herc.
On a hot day at the end of summer in 1973 Cindy Campbell threw a
back-to-school party at a park in the South Bronx. Her brother,
Clive Campbell, spun the records. He had a new way of playing the
music to make the breaks--the musical interludes between
verses--longer for dancing. He called himself DJ Kool Herc and this
is "When the Beat Was Born." From his childhood in Jamaica to his
youth in the Bronx, Laban Carrick Hill's book tells how Kool Herc
came to be a DJ, how kids in gangs stopped fighting in order to
breakdance, and how the music he invented went on to define a
culture and transform the world.
Available for the first time in a Yearling edition, the classic, inspiring story of a dog who triumphs against all odds, by the bestselling author of The Cay.
Helen adored her beautiful golden Labrador from the first moment he was placed in her arms, a squirming fat sausage of creamy yellow fur. As her best friend, Friar Tuck waited daily for Helen to come home from school and play. He guarded her through the long, scary hours of the dark night. Twice he even saved her life.
Now it's Helen's turn. No one can say exactly when Tuck began to go blind. Probably the light began to fail for him long before the alarming day when he raced after some cats and crashed through the screen door, apparently never seeing it. But from that day on, Tuck's trouble--and how to cope with it--becomes the focus of Helen's life. Together they fight the chain that holds him and threatens to break his spirit, until Helen comes up with a solution so new, so daring, there's no way it can fail.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1864 Edition. The Story Of
His Life, Including A Selection From His Characteristic Speeches,
Now For The First Time Gathered Together.
To Which Is Added In Memorium By Charles Dickens And A Sketch, By
Anthony Trollope.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingAcentsa -a centss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age,
it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia
and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally
important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to
protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for e
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
To Which Is Added In Memorium By Charles Dickens And A Sketch, By
Anthony Trollope.
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