Never Cry "Arp!" and Other Great Adventures

Never Cry

Author: Patrick F. McManus

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1996-05-15

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 0805046623

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America's bestselling outdoor humorist for adults presents a collection of 12 stories for middle-grader and junior-high readers about young Pat's misadventures in the Great American Wilderness. City sophisticates, stay away. This is a book for kids who love to start fishing at 4 a.m. (at least they say they do), or those whose best shot was "about 600 feet" (no need to say they missed).


Never Cry "Arp!" and Other Great Adventures

Never Cry

Author: Patrick F. McManus

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 1996-05-15

Total Pages: 105

ISBN-13: 1466809477

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America's best-selling outdoor humorist for adults has a secret following: middle-grade and young-adult readers. Never Cry "Arp!" is a lively collection of twelve stories about young Pat's misadventures in the Great American Wilderness. All the McManus regulars are here: Crazy Eddie Muldoon, the best friend everybody wishes they had (and everybody's mother wishes they didn't); Rancid Crabtree, the good-hearted, if gamey, woodsman; Pat's skunk dog, Strange, who lives up to his name; and Pat's pal, Retch Sweeney, who does, too. This is a book for kids who love to start fishing at 4am (at least they say they do) or for those who prefer to experience the mighty outdoors in the safety of their homes. "Everybody should read Patrick McManus," said the New York Times. Now, everybody can.


Kerplunk!

Kerplunk!

Author: Patrick F. McManus

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2008-09-30

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0743280504

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Presents a collection of curmudgeonly tales on Pacific Northwest country living as enjoyed by both outdoorsmen and armchair enthusiasts, in a volume that explores the lighter side of such topics as gun safes, fly tying, and bird dog flatulence.


The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw

The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw

Author: Patrick F. McManus

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 1990-05-15

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1466809493

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America’s “most gifted outdoor humorist” (Detroit Free Press) regales readers with this collection of gut-busting, man vs. nature tales originally published in such magazines as Field & Stream and Outdoor Living. Patrick F. McManus’s hilarious and comic stories of camping and other nature-oriented activities reach ridiculous proportions in The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw. From teaching his stepfather the methods of madness behind farm work through his best friend’s grandmother’s fear of bears, McManus reveals that human behavior is even wilder than the wilderness.


Gilgamesh to Gierach

Gilgamesh to Gierach

Author: James W. White

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2024-08-02

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13:

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Fish have figured profoundly in both human history and imagination for millennia. They are both gifts of the sea, drawing civilizations to the water, and terrors of the deep, holding revelations of the unconscious and the unknown. Today, fly fishing attracts millions looking to escape modern life and reconnect with some primal, meditative instinct to partake in nature’s offerings. Gilgamesh to Gierach is a collection of three hundred fishing, water, and fish tales spanning four millennia and numerous genres. More than a historical overview, White has distilled this immense topic into threads that flow through time, from legends and literature to nursery rhymes, poems, and humorous fish tales. Anglers will discover fly fishing’s ancient roots and spiritual seekers the fish’s religious and existential implications. Among the included voices are Homer, St. John, Ovid, Brendan the Navigator, Dame Juliana Berners, Shakespeare, Walton, Melville, Yeats, Thoreau, Hemingway, Rodrick Haig-Brown, and Norman Maclean. Whether told in full or, more often, condensed, these stories will leave the reader with a strong sense of the fish’s significance to many of the world’s greatest thinkers. Brimming with jokes, histories, simple folk tales, and great tragedies, this impressive work offers something for everyone.


And No Birds Sang

And No Birds Sang

Author: Farley Mowat

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre

Published: 2012-04-16

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1771000309

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Mowat's gripping account of how a young man, excited by the prospect of battle, is transformed into a war-weary veteran.


Kid Camping from Aaaaiii! to Zip

Kid Camping from Aaaaiii! to Zip

Author: Patrick F. McManus

Publisher: William Morrow & Company

Published: 1979-01-01

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 9780688419103

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Humorous and practical advice on various aspects of camping, presented alphabetically.


Dear Martin

Dear Martin

Author: Nic Stone

Publisher: Ember

Published: 2018-09-04

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1101939524

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"Powerful, wrenching.” –JOHN GREEN, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down "Raw and gripping." –JASON REYNOLDS, New York Times bestselling coauthor of All American Boys "A must-read!” –ANGIE THOMAS, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hate U Give Raw, captivating, and undeniably real, Nic Stone joins industry giants Jason Reynolds and Walter Dean Myers as she boldly tackles American race relations in this stunning #1 New York Times bestselling debut, a William C. Morris Award Finalist. Justyce McAllister is a good kid, an honor student, and always there to help a friend—but none of that matters to the police officer who just put him in handcuffs. Despite leaving his rough neighborhood behind, he can't escape the scorn of his former peers or the ridicule of his new classmates. Justyce looks to the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for answers. But do they hold up anymore? He starts a journal to Dr. King to find out. Then comes the day Justyce goes driving with his best friend, Manny, windows rolled down, music turned up—way up, sparking the fury of a white off-duty cop beside them. Words fly. Shots are fired. Justyce and Manny are caught in the crosshairs. In the media fallout, it's Justyce who is under attack. "Vivid and powerful." -Booklist, Starred Review "A visceral portrait of a young man reckoning with the ugly, persistent violence of social injustice." -Publishers Weekly


Literature & the Learner

Literature & the Learner

Author: Frances S. Goforth

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 664

ISBN-13:

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As a genre text, not an anthology, this text teaches students about literature forms and discusses ways of using literature in the classroom. It is used to give students the background they need to evaluate, select, and use children's literature in their own teaching. A database of current literature is provided with the text and will be updated annually.