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Of Foster Homes and Flies

Author : Chad Lutzke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781535073363
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (733 download)

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Download or read book Of Foster Homes and Flies written by Chad Lutzke and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A neglected 12-year-old boy does nothing to report the death of his mother in order to compete in a spelling bee. A tragic coming-of-age tale of horror and drama in the setting of a hot New Orleans summer. "Disturbing, often gruesome, yet poignant at the same time, Chad Lutzke's OF FOSTER HOMES AND FLIES is one of the best dark coming-of-age tales I've read in years. You'll laugh (sometimes when you know you shouldn't), you'll cry, you'll find yourself wondering how soon you can read more of this guy's work. Highly recommended!" - James Newman, author of MIDNIGHT RAIN, UGLY AS SIN, and ODD MAN OUT "With "Of Foster Homes and Flies" Lutzke is firing on all cylinders. It's a lean mean emotional machine. Coming-of-age presented in a fresh direction. Bearing tremendous emotional weight and heart. It made me cry. " -John Boden, author of JEDI SUMMER and DOMINOES "OF FOSTER HOMES AND FLIES by Chad Lutzke is a lovely addition to the coming of age subgenre. He creates in the character of Denny an authentic young man with passions and foibles, someone easy to relate to and root for. The novella hits all the right notes you expect out of a coming of age tale, while also providing a plot that has originality and surprises." -Mark Allan Gunnells, author of FLOWERS IN A DUMPSTER and THE SUMMER OF WINTERS "Lutzke has a way with words that merges horror and compassion in a single sentence. Reminiscent of Robert McCammon." ~ Joe Mynhardt, Crystal Lake Publishing "...couldn't put it down...absolutely captivating...truly brilliant." ~Bettina Melher, author of THE LIGHT KEEPERS Trilogy

Extraordinary Birds

Author : Sandy Stark-McGinnis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1526603144
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Extraordinary Birds written by Sandy Stark-McGinnis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven-year-old December knows everything about birds, and everything about getting kicked out of foster homes. All she has of her biological mum is the book she left behind, The Complete Guide to Birds, Volume One, and a photo with a message: 'In flight is where you'll find me.' December knows she's truly a bird, just waiting for the day she transforms and flies away to reunite with her mum. The scar on her back must be where her wings have started to blossom – she just needs to practise and to find the right tree. She has no choice; it's the only story that makes sense. When she's placed with Eleanor, a new foster mum who runs a taxidermy business and volunteers at a wildlife rescue, December begins to see herself and what home means in a new light. But the story she tells herself about her past is what's kept December going this long, and she doesn't know if she can let go of it ... even if changing her story might mean that she can finally find a place where she belongs.

Honeybee Democracy

Author : Thomas D. Seeley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140083595X
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Honeybee Democracy written by Thomas D. Seeley and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-20 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How honeybees make collective decisions—and what we can learn from this amazing democratic process Honeybees make decisions collectively—and democratically. Every year, faced with the life-or-death problem of choosing and traveling to a new home, honeybees stake everything on a process that includes collective fact-finding, vigorous debate, and consensus building. In fact, as world-renowned animal behaviorist Thomas Seeley reveals, these incredible insects have much to teach us when it comes to collective wisdom and effective decision making. A remarkable and richly illustrated account of scientific discovery, Honeybee Democracy brings together, for the first time, decades of Seeley's pioneering research to tell the amazing story of house hunting and democratic debate among the honeybees. In the late spring and early summer, as a bee colony becomes overcrowded, a third of the hive stays behind and rears a new queen, while a swarm of thousands departs with the old queen to produce a daughter colony. Seeley describes how these bees evaluate potential nest sites, advertise their discoveries to one another, engage in open deliberation, choose a final site, and navigate together—as a swirling cloud of bees—to their new home. Seeley investigates how evolution has honed the decision-making methods of honeybees over millions of years, and he considers similarities between the ways that bee swarms and primate brains process information. He concludes that what works well for bees can also work well for people: any decision-making group should consist of individuals with shared interests and mutual respect, a leader's influence should be minimized, debate should be relied upon, diverse solutions should be sought, and the majority should be counted on for a dependable resolution. An impressive exploration of animal behavior, Honeybee Democracy shows that decision-making groups, whether honeybee or human, can be smarter than even the smartest individuals in them.

If I Ran the Zoo

Author : Dr. Seuss
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0394800818
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (948 download)

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Download or read book If I Ran the Zoo written by Dr. Seuss and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1950 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerald tells of the very unusual animals he would add to the zoo, if he were in charge.

Stirring the Sheets

Author : Chad Lutzke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781947522084
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Stirring the Sheets written by Chad Lutzke and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An elderly funeral worker, struggling with the loss of his wife, finds an unnatural attraction to a corpse at work resembling his bride in her younger years.A story of desperation, loneliness and letting go.

Fly Boy

Author : Eric Walters
Publisher : Penguin Canada
ISBN 13 : 0143180274
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Fly Boy written by Eric Walters and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robbie's father is a spitfire pilot who was shot down during World War II and is now a POW. At only seventeen, Robbie lies about his identity to enlist in the Royal Canadian Air Force under the guise of going to a boarding school so that his mother doesn't find out. He starts training in Brandon, Manitoba, but after acing all his classes, he's dealt a disappointing blow when he's assigned to be a navigator on a Lancaster. He wanted to be a pilot, just like his father, but the commanders of the air force have other ideas. Robbie is soon on his way to England, where he completes his training on missions bombing German targets in enemy territory. It is during one of these missions that his Lancaster is fired upon and the pilot and many of the crew are shot. It's up to Robbie and his limited piloting experience to save the crew...and himself.

SOUR CANDY

Author : Kealan Patrick Burke
Publisher : Kealan Patrick Burke
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book SOUR CANDY written by Kealan Patrick Burke and published by Kealan Patrick Burke. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At first glance, Phil Pendleton and his son Adam are just an ordinary father and son, no different from any other. They take walks in the park together, visit county fairs, museums, and zoos, and eat together overlooking the lake. Some might say the father is a little too accommodating given the lack of discipline when the child loses his temper in public. Some might say he spoils his son by allowing him to set his own bedtimes and eat candy whenever he wants. Some might say that such leniency is starting to take its toll on the father, given how his health has declined. What no one knows is that Phil is a prisoner, and that up until a few weeks ago and a chance encounter at a grocery store, he had never seen the child before in his life. A novella from the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of THE TURTLE BOY and KIN.

As the Crow Flies

Author : Véronique Tadjo
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 0143027484
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book As the Crow Flies written by Véronique Tadjo and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The narrative of this wonderful gem of a novel weaves together a rich tapestry of characters who are both nameless and faceless, representing everyman and everywoman, to tell stories of parting and return, suffering, healing and desire in a lyrical and moving exploration of the human heart. Like a bird in flight, the reader travels across a borderless landscape composed of tales of daily existence, news reports, allegories and ancestral myths, becoming aware in the course of the journey of the interconnection of individual lives.

Ellen Foster

Author : Kaye Gibbons
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616203021
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Ellen Foster written by Kaye Gibbons and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children.

Skullface Boy

Author : Chad Lutzke
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781724864819
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book Skullface Boy written by Chad Lutzke and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My name is Levi. I'm 16. I've got a skull for a face. And here's how shit went down." Having never been outside the walls of Gramm Jones Foster Care Facility, sixteen-year-old Levi leaves in the middle of the night with an empty backpack and a newfound lust for life. A journey that leads him into the arms of delusional newlyweds, drunkards, polygamists, the dangerous, and the batshit crazy. His destination? Hermosa Beach, California where he's told there is another like him, with the face of a skull. A coming-of-age road trip filled with surreal Lynch-ian encounters exploring the dark, the disturbing, and the lonely in a 1980s world-an epic venture for one disfigured boy struggling to find his place in the world. "This is Huck lighting out for the territories, and kind of documenting an era for us on the way. Only--because it's now not then--he's got a skull face to deal with. As do we all." ~Stephen Graham Jones, author of Mongrels

Defect

Author : Will Weaver
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 142993901X
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Defect written by Will Weaver and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2007-07-24 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maybe it was bad karma. Maybe it was just bad luck. Whatever the reason, fifteen-year-old David was born defective. His bug eyes, pinched face, and hearing aids are obvious, but there is a secret David keeps from everyone, even his foster parents. Because of a thin layer of skin hidden under each arm, David can fly—well, glide is more like it. Terrified of doctors, wary of letting down his guard, David is determined to hide his secret at any cost. But then David meets Cheetah, a girl whose own defect doesn't diminish her spirit, and suddenly his life begins to take wing. In this arresting new novel, Will Weaver creates an unforgettable character on the path to discovering that some blessings can be a curse—and some curses a blessing.

House-flies and how They Spread Disease

Author : C. Gordon Hewitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book House-flies and how They Spread Disease written by C. Gordon Hewitt and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fly Little Bird, Fly!

Author : Donna Nordmark Aviles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781932852073
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Fly Little Bird, Fly! written by Donna Nordmark Aviles and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holding tight to one another, vowing never to be separated, Oliver and Edward board the Orphan Train headed west to find a new home.

When Stone Wings Fly

Author : Karen Barnett
Publisher : Kregel Publications
ISBN 13 : 0825477646
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book When Stone Wings Fly written by Karen Barnett and published by Kregel Publications. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pitch-perfect research and incomparable heart paint every corner of the brilliantly colored canvas of When Stone Wings Fly. Readers, get ready: your newest split-time fiction experience rests in the hands of a master."--Rachel McMillan, author of The Mozart Code Kieran Lucas's grandmother is slipping into dementia, and when her memory is gone, Kieran's last tie to the family she barely knows will be lost forever. Worse, flashbacks of her mother's death torment Granny Mac and there's precious little Kieran can do to help. In 1931, the creation of the new Great Smoky Mountains National Park threatens Rosie McCauley's home. Rosie vows the only way the commission will get her land is if they haul her off in a pine box. When a compromise offers her and her disabled sister the opportunity to stay for Rosie's lifetime, her acceptance sets her apart from the other mountain folk. And the bond she's forming with ornithologist and outsider Benton Fuller only broadens the rift. Eighty-five years later, Kieran heads back to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to find answers to her great-grandmother's mysterious death and bring peace to Granny Mac before it's too late. Park Historian Zach Jensen may be the key to locating both the answers. But what Kieran needs clashes with the government regulations Zach is sworn to uphold. Can she trust God for a solution to heal this generations-old wound? "Barnett's tale set in the Great t Smoky Mountains flows as smooth as wildwood honey. The two timelines are stitched together like alternating blocks of a quilt passed down through the decades, keeping family connected and rooted." --Sarah Loudin Thomas, award-winning author of The Right Kind of Fool

Billy's New Home

Author : Valerie Busic
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781882021154
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Billy's New Home written by Valerie Busic and published by . This book was released on 1998-05-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mailbox

Author : Audrey Shafer
Publisher : Yearling
ISBN 13 : 0440421349
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Mailbox written by Audrey Shafer and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2008-08-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of Unbroken and Flags of Our Fathers, The Mailbox is a sympathetic portrayal of veterans and the burdens they carry throughout their lives. Vernon Culligan had been dead to the town of Draydon, Virginia, so long that when the crusty Vietnam vet finally died, only one person noticed. Twelve-year-old Gabe grew up in the foster care system until a social worker located his Uncle Vernon two years before. When he comes home to discover that his uncle has died of a heart attack, he's terrifed of going back into the system--so he tells no one. The next day, he discovers a strange note in his mailbox: I HAVE A SECRET. DO NOT BE AFRAID. And his uncle's body is gone. Thus begins a unique correspondence destined to save the two people that depended on Vernon for everything. Through flashbacks, we learn about Gabe and Vernon's relationship, and how finding each other saved them both from lives of suffering. But eventually, Vernon's death will be discovered, and how will Gabe and the mystery note writer learn to move forward? The Mailbox is not a story about death--though it begins with a death. It's also not a story about Vietnam vets, although the author works with Vietnam veterans and wrote this novel, in part, to illuminate their sacrifices and suffering. The Mailbox is a story about connections--about how two people in need can save each other. Praise for The Mailbox: Junior Library Guild Selection A Bank Street College Best Children's Books of the Year A Librarians' Choices Booklist Selection “Shafer’s narrative is heartfelt, earnest and moving. . . and conveys the power of memory to help heal wounds.”—Kirkus Reviews “Warm and moving, it is an evocative picture of the weblike nature of human existence and the interconnectedness of seemingly disparate experiences.”—School Library Journal

Phoenix Island

Author : John Dixon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476738637
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Phoenix Island written by John Dixon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a tough sixteen-year-old boxing champ sentenced to an isolated boot camp discovers it is actually a mercenary training facility turning "throwaway children" into scientifically enhanced killers, he risks everything to save his friends and stop a madman bent on global destruction.