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Book Synopsis How Hedley Hopkins Did a Dare... by : Paul Jennings
Download or read book How Hedley Hopkins Did a Dare... written by Paul Jennings and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2005-05-03 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hedley Hopkins has a few problems: he is the new kid at school, straight off the boat from England in the 1950s. The only friends he has made are the kids at the Loony Bin especially bald headed, long armed Victor. But if he could just fulfil a dare and dig out the hideous skull hidden in a grave in the sand dunes, he could impress the bullies at school and become their friend. But Hedley is not so sure. Weird things are happening to his body. Is he being punished for his terrible actions? And if his uptight parents ever found out what he was up to, they might blow up. Full-moon murderers, an open grave, religious conversions and sexual awakening meld sometimes poignantly, sometimes hilariously in this riveting, stunningly original account of growing up in 1950s Australia. This coming of age tale is Paul Jennings at his very best! For more information visit www.doyoudare.com.au
Book Synopsis How Hedley Hopkins Did a Dare, Robbed a Grave, Made a New Friend who Might Not Really Have Been There at All and While He was at it Committed a Terrible Sin which Everyone was Doing Even Though He Didn't Know it by : Paul Jennings
Download or read book How Hedley Hopkins Did a Dare, Robbed a Grave, Made a New Friend who Might Not Really Have Been There at All and While He was at it Committed a Terrible Sin which Everyone was Doing Even Though He Didn't Know it written by Paul Jennings and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 12 year-old Hedley Hopkins has been in Australia for a whole year, but he's finding it hard to fit in. Confusing things keep happening - he can't stop thinking about naked ladies, strange things are happening in his nether regions and the compulsory chat about the facts of life leaves him baffled and embarrassed. So when Ian Douglas issues Hedley with a dare and promises that if he fulfils it, Hedley Hopkins will be a fully fledged member of his gang, Hedley says yes. But he doesn't know quite what he's let himself in for. First, he has to steal a skull from the grave outside the loony bin. Then he has to deal with the 'loonies' - actually a group of kids with learning disabilities, one of whom wants to be his friend. And when the skull starts giving him advice, Hedley knows he's in big trouble. He has to find a way to make peace with the other kids - and return the skull to its rightful owner, before it's too late.
Book Synopsis Paul Jenning's Weirdest Stories by : Paul Jennings
Download or read book Paul Jenning's Weirdest Stories written by Paul Jennings and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2006-10-30 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Jennings' books are enjoyed by millions of children throughout the world. From the hugely popular UnCollected series comes this special selection of tales – a showcase of Paul's storytelling talents at their very best . . . and weirdest!
Book Synopsis Paul Jenning's Spookiest Stories by : Paul Jennings
Download or read book Paul Jenning's Spookiest Stories written by Paul Jennings and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Paul Jennings phenomenon began with the publication of Unreal! in 1985 and, eight million books later, readers all around the world continue to devour his stories. This special edition anthology boasts twenty of Paul's spookiest, fun-filled yarns, hand picked by the author for a spine-tingling reading experience.
Download or read book Unbearable! written by Paul Jennings and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 1994-06-06 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's unbearable . . . The bird's perch is swinging to and fro and hitting me on the nose. I can see my eye in its little mirror. Unbearably weird . . . You have the foulest feet ever. There are flies for lunch. A goat swallows your opal. And you have lived before.
Download or read book Uncanny! written by Paul Jennings and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 1994-06-06 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncanny! I stared at Dad's eyes through the gas mask and remembered our handshake. A deal is a deal. With pounding heart, I walked into the soggy, wet mouth of the dead whale. It's uncanny . . . turning into a dung beetle, catching someone else's tattoos, being in bed with a ghost who tickles, seeing a flying dog.
Download or read book The Last Utopia written by Samuel Moyn and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.
Download or read book Unreal! written by Paul Jennings and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 1994-06-06 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of funny, weird and wacky short stories with strange endings.
Download or read book Round the Twist written by Paul Jennings and published by Puffin. This book was released on 2003-07-17 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you make a cane toad eat a frog? What happens when Linda copies herself? How do kids get parts in TV shows? What does Rabbit do when he is put on FAST FORWARD? What does it feel like to kiss another teenage actor? How do you write a script? The answers will send you round the twist. Three short stories and the low-down on how the television series was made. Fact, fiction and fun from the fantastic pen of Paul Jennings.
Book Synopsis The Reading Bug... and How You Can Help by : Paul Jennings
Download or read book The Reading Bug... and How You Can Help written by Paul Jennings and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2008-03-03 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of the bestselling guide contains a supplementary chapter, plus fully updated booklists. 'No matter where they go, children lost in books will always find their way home.' Your child deserves the best reading teacher in the world. And the one person who will read more than anyone else to help your child learn to read... is you. In this clear and humour-filled guide, Paul Jennings cuts through the jargon and the controversies to show every parent practical and effective ways for helping their child to catch the reading bug. This legendary children's author has spent years teaching, lecturing, writing and parenting. Now you can benefit from his advice. In this book: brilliant booklists for your child - now updated and expandedthe whole reading experience explainedgreat cartoons and anecdotessupplementary chapter on the special reading needs of boys
Book Synopsis Rascal and the Cheese by : Paul Jennings
Download or read book Rascal and the Cheese written by Paul Jennings and published by Picture Puffin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real books for beginners 'Dad,' says Ben. 'The cheese has gone.' Rascal has something in his mouth. Is he a thief? Read a Rascal story to your children and before long they'll read it to you.
Book Synopsis Trickiest Stories by : Paul Jennings
Download or read book Trickiest Stories written by Paul Jennings and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2008-09-29 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children all over the world can't resist the special magic of a Paul Jennings story - for over twenty years he has entertained and enthralled young readers. This special collection of Paul's trickiest stories proves yet again that he is the master of unexpected twists and turns!
Book Synopsis Paul Jennings' Funniest Stories by : Paul Jennings
Download or read book Paul Jennings' Funniest Stories written by Paul Jennings and published by Penguin Global. This book was released on 2005 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of twenty-five humorous stories about children with unfortunate nicknames, killer foot-odor problems, and plagues of rabbits.
Book Synopsis Best Kept Secret by : Jeffrey Archer
Download or read book Best Kept Secret written by Jeffrey Archer and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Archer, the Clifton Chronicles continues with Best Kept Secret. 1945, London. The vote in the House of Lords as to who should inherit the Barrington family fortune has ended in a tie. The Lord Chancellor's deciding vote will cast a long shadow on the lives of Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington. Harry returns to America to promote his latest novel, while his beloved Emma goes in search of the little girl who was found abandoned in her father's office on the night he was killed. When the general election is called, Giles Barrington has to defend his seat in the House of Commons and is horrified to discover who the Conservatives select to stand against him. But it is Sebastian Clifton, Harry and Emma's son, who ultimately influences his uncle's fate. In 1957, Sebastian wins a scholarship to Cambridge, and a new generation of the Clifton family marches onto the page. But after Sebastian is expelled from school, he unwittingly becomes caught up in an international art fraud involving a Rodin statue that is worth far more than the sum it raises at auction. Does he become a millionaire? Does he go to Cambridge? Is his life in danger? Best Kept Secret, the third volume in Jeffrey Archer's bestselling series, will answer all these questions but, once again, pose so many more.
Book Synopsis The Scientific Revolution by : Steven Shapin
Download or read book The Scientific Revolution written by Steven Shapin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scholarly and accessible study presents “a provocative new reading” of the late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century advances in scientific inquiry (Kirkus Reviews). In The Scientific Revolution, historian Steven Shapin challenges the very idea that any such a “revolution” ever took place. Rejecting the narrative that a new and unifying paradigm suddenly took hold, he demonstrates how the conduct of science emerged from a wide array of early modern philosophical agendas, political commitments, and religious beliefs. In this analysis, early modern science is shown not as a set of disembodied ideas, but as historically situated ways of knowing and doing. Shapin shows that every principle identified as the modernizing essence of science—whether it’s experimentalism, mathematical methodology, or a mechanical conception of nature—was in fact contested by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century practitioners with equal claims to modernity. Shapin argues that this contested legacy is nevertheless rightly understood as the origin of modern science, its problems as well as its acknowledged achievements. This updated edition includes a new bibliographic essay featuring the latest scholarship. “An excellent book.” —Anthony Gottlieb, New York Times Book Review
Book Synopsis Jumpstart! Storymaking by : Pie Corbett
Download or read book Jumpstart! Storymaking written by Pie Corbett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-11-19 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jumpstart! Storymaking is a collection of games and activities to develop the creative process of ‘storymaking’. It focuses upon 'storytelling for writing' as well as creating a whole school culture of storytelling, reading and writing. Storymaking is the process of retelling, innovating and creating new stories. Like the best-selling Jumpstart! Literacy, this book contains imaginative ‘quick-fire' ideas that could be used as creative warm-ups and starters or developed into lessons. There are over 100 provocative and thought-provoking games and activities, intended to ‘jumpstart’ storytelling, reading and writing in any Key Stage 1, 2 or 3 classroom. Practical, easy-to-do and vastly entertaining, the ‘jumpstarts’ will appeal to busy teachers.
Book Synopsis How Hedley Hopkins Did a Dare... by : Paul Jennings
Download or read book How Hedley Hopkins Did a Dare... written by Paul Jennings and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2005-05-03 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hedley Hopkins has a few problems: he is the new kid at school, straight off the boat from England in the 1950s. The only friends he has made are the kids at the Loony Bin especially bald headed, long armed Victor. But if he could just fulfil a dare and dig out the hideous skull hidden in a grave in the sand dunes, he could impress the bullies at school and become their friend. But Hedley is not so sure. Weird things are happening to his body. Is he being punished for his terrible actions? And if his uptight parents ever found out what he was up to, they might blow up. Full-moon murderers, an open grave, religious conversions and sexual awakening meld sometimes poignantly, sometimes hilariously in this riveting, stunningly original account of growing up in 1950s Australia. This coming of age tale is Paul Jennings at his very best!
