Daisy Moon Was Born This Way
Daisy Moon Was Born This Way

Author: Emily Sheehan

Publisher:

Published: 2019-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781760622732

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"You don't wanna fit in. You wanna stand out. Way out. So far out they'd think you were from outer space." Bright eyed and eccentric 14-year-old Daisy Moon is President and Founder of the Bateman's Bay Little Monsters Fan Club. She holds her club meetings inside the dusty beachside bus stop on her front lawn. She's the club's only member. Her 18-year-old brother Noah couldn't be more different. An elite athlete on the cusp of cracking national competitions, his world falls apart when he's caught cheating on a time trial. The both dream big, but are stuck in a world too small. Set in a coastal town, this play draws on Australian iconography of the faded beachside surf club, but turns it on its head by drenching it with pop-culture and contemporary teen attitude.

Shared Knowledge
Shared Knowledge

Author: Class of 2020

Publisher: Badger & Seal

Published: 2021-08-16

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1838144234

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A lot of people know a lot of stuff, and most of us don't get to share the best bits with other people. So this book gets together twenty-one recent graduates to share something they think you should know. Among other things you can learn: Why you should care about Japan's ageing population How a baby is made (after the fun bit) How the English and Scottish dealt with 'witches' Why we should think about disasters a bit differently How performance analysis works in sport Our editors graduated from university in 2008, during the last once in a lifetime financial armageddon. The idea behind this book was to allow recent graduates (who are hitting the real world a full twelve years after it went wrong last time) an opportunity to do something interesting with their time. Our experience tells us the next few years’ worth of graduates will spend a long time being called lazy and stupid for the crime of being born about twenty-one years before it all went pear-shaped. So, for our authors, at least, they will have something to point at that they have achieved to disprove that. But mostly we just wanted to get together twenty-one chapters worth of stuff we didn’t know before.

Daisy and the Moon
Daisy and the Moon

Author: Jane Simmons

Publisher: Orchard Books

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781843623632

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Daisy, the little duck with the big feet, is back in another exciting adventure. It's time for sleep, but Daisy and Pip can see something glowing in the dark. With their new friend Twitch the mouse, they set off in search of the mysterious light.

Shanghai Daisy
Shanghai Daisy

Author: Daisy Kwok

Publisher: Earnshaw Books Limited

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789888552399

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Daisy Kwok's life spanned old Shanghai and modern Shanghai, old China and "New" China, in a way that no other did. This book presents stories written by her of her life--stories from the high-flying years of Old Shanghai, and the desperate drama of the political campaigns in the 1950s and 1960s. Daisy was born in 1908 in Australia, and in 1918 moved to Shanghai with her father who built and owned the Wing On Department Store on Shanghai's main thoroughfare, Nanking Road. For three decades, Daisy led the life of the rich and famous in one of the world's most dazzling cities. Then, after the communist takeover in 1949, she spent three decades being denounced as a "capitalist." Through it all shines Daisy's effervescent personality.

Daisy Miller
Daisy Miller

Author: Henry James

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2011-11-14

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 155111030X

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Henry James’s Daisy Miller was an immediate sensation when it was first published in 1878 and has remained popular ever since. In this novella, the charming but inscrutable young American of the title shocks European society with her casual indifference to its social mores. The novella was popular in part because of the debates it sparked about foreign travel, the behaviour of women, and cultural clashes between people of different nationalities and social classes. This Broadview edition presents an early version of James’s best-known novella within the cultural contexts of its day. In addition to primary materials about nineteenth-century womanhood, foreign travel, medicine, philosophy, theatre, and art—some of the topics that interested James as he was writing the story—this volume includes James’s ruminations on fiction, theatre, and writing, and presents excerpts of Daisy Miller as he rewrote it for the theatre and for a much later and heavily revised edition.

Alabama Moon
Alabama Moon

Author: Watt Key

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Published: 2010-08-03

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1429987650

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In this compelling, action-packed book, Watt Key gives us the thrilling coming-of-age story of the unique and extremely appealing Alabama Moon, the basis for the film of the same name starring Jimmy Bennett and John Goodman. For as long as ten-year-old Moon can remember, he has lived out in the forest in a shelter with his father. They keep to themselves, their only contact with other human beings an occasional trip to the nearest general store. When Moon's father dies, Moon follows his father's last instructions: to travel to Alaska to find others like themselves. But Moon is soon caught and entangled in a world he doesn't know or understand; he's become property of the government he has been avoiding all his life. As the spirited and resourceful Moon encounters constables, jails, institutions, lawyers, true friends, and true enemies, he adapts his wilderness survival skills and learns to survive in the outside world, and even, perhaps, make his home there. This title has Common Core connections. Alabama Moon is a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Curse of the Spider Queen... and Other Family Tales
Curse of the Spider Queen... and Other Family Tales

Author: JR McGarrity

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2018-10-15

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 035914960X

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A huge earthquake opens deep fracking water contaminated caverns and a huge spider creature with the head of a woman and the sting of a scorpion crawls up from the abyss and begins terrorizing and stinging and eating and killing the locals. Ground zero for the humongous chasm in the earth is the old funeral parlor owned by the family of the local sheriff, Jake Trapper. And, amazingly, not so coincidentally, the head of the giant spider woman thing bears a striking resemblance to his long lost cousin, Sara, who vanished in her thirteenth summer, some fifteen years prior, off the face of the planet. Jake Trapper must deal with his own recurring nightmares regarding his missing cousin; conquer his fear of spiders, while all the while attempting to save his relationship with the fiery woman he loves, Ellie. Attempting to mirror the world we live in, my tale explores, depicts, includes: gay, heterosexual, LGBT, even cross-species extraterrestrial characters- all of course, intended in good fun.