The Dog Park Detectives
The Dog Park Detectives

Author: Blake Mara

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2024-05-16

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1398524247

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PRE-ORDER BONE OF CONTENTION, THE BRAND NEW DOG PARK DETECTIVES NOVEL, COMING SPRING 2025. Murder is never just a walk in the park . . . When friends Louise and Irina find a dead body in the local park whilst walking their dogs, they are soon drawn into the mystery of who murdered local entrepreneur Phil Creasey. Phil used to be a member of their dog walking community – nicknamed ‘the Pack’ – until the death of his cockapoo, and the Pack feel they owe it to Phil to investigate his death. But with Louise and Irina leading the charge, it isn’t long until they’re neck-deep in local gangs, stolen motorcycles and a disturbing string of poisonings. Have the Pack bitten off more than they can chew, or can they follow their noses and solve the crime? The Dog Park Detectives is a joyous and fur-ociously entertaining murder mystery for fans of dogs and cosy crime, and the first in a pawfully exciting new series that is perfect for fans of Richard Osman and Robert Thorogood. ‘More good dogs than I've ever seen in a single book! Oh, and a grisly, puzzling murder to solve, with lots of twists and red herrings. But really, I'm here for the pooches, and you should be too’ Antony Johnston ‘Howling good fun, with a plot twisty enough to get any dogged armchair detective barking up the wrong tree. I loved it – just don't tell my cats!’ Fiona Leitch ‘Adored The Dog Park Detectives! Brilliantly written, with quirky characters, dogs and a dash of murder, I ripped through this in two sittings. Perfect cosy crime’ Lisa Hall ‘A pacy and entertaining murder mystery that’s a must-read for all dog-loving crime fans. Go the Dog Park Detectives!’ A. K. Turner ‘Totally PAWSOME – I was hooked from the very first page and Mara weaves a special cosy magic throughout with rich characters and a fascinating, twisty plot. A brilliant whodunnit and all delivered with the deftest of touches. Unputdownable!’ Jonathan Whitelaw, author of The Bingo Hall Detectives ‘An absolute delight to read. Like a lovely, summery stroll in the park - specifically the dog park’ Kat Ailes, author of The Expectant Detectives ‘A fun murder mystery with plenty of leads to get tangled and clues to sniff out!’ Sarah Yarwood-Lovett ‘I loved it. As someone allergic to furry animals, it was nice to hang out fictionally with "the Pack" as they sniffed out the evidence and did their best not to tangle up dog leads on their quest to find a murderer. With memorable owners and even bigger dog personalities, this series is set to run and run’ Joy Kluver

Playground Detectives
Playground Detectives

Author: Sally Rippin

Publisher: Hardie Grant Egmont

Published: 2014-03-01

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 174358167X

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In this exciting story from the blockbuster chapter-book series, Billie, Jack, and the rest of the Secret Mystery Club find the culprit! In Playground Detectives, Billie and the Secret Mystery Club have a new case to solve. Who has put leaves in Lola’s sandwich? It’s a real mystery. Soon everyone suspects Benny, but could they have the wrong kid? It’s up to the SMC to find the real culprit! Written by the Australian Children’s Laureate Sally Rippin, Billie B Mysteries is the perfect chapter-book for young detectives. Every engaging story presents a new schoolyard mystery for Billie and the Secret Mystery Club to solve. Together there’s no case they can’t crack! With more than ten million books in print around the world, Billie B Brown has helped a generation of readers love learning to read. Each book is carefully designed with early readers in mind, with the Billie B Mysteries intended as the next step after young readers have a grasp on Billie B Brown. For more wonderful series by Australian Children’s Laureate Sally Rippin, check out the Polly and Buster, Billie B Brown, Hey Jack! and School of Monsters series. Readers will love the other books in the Billie B Mysteries series: Spooky House + Code Breakers Strawberry Thief Stolen Stash + Treasure Hunt

You Are a Social Detective! Teaching Curriculum & Support Guide
You Are a Social Detective! Teaching Curriculum & Support Guide

Author: Pamela Crooke

Publisher: Think Social Publishing

Published:

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 1936943921

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Long/Detailed: Bring social emotional learning into the classroom! Thousands of schools, clinics, and homes have found the award-winning storybook, You Are a Social Detective! (Winner & Crooke, 2020), to be a practical, engaging addition to their libraries. While simply reading the storybook is educational, the social and emotional concepts are ripe for deeper teaching in whole-class and small-group settings. Piloted and tested over years in large school districts, the You Are a Social Detective! Teaching Curriculum and Support Guideis just the tool you need to bring this important social emotional learning (SEL) into the classroom. Help your students become Social Detectives with this easy-to-use curriculum that fits into your current teaching day. Designed as a companion guide to teach the concepts explored in You Are a Social Detective!more deeply, this curriculum provides 10 structured lesson plans and visual tools to support building students’ social attention, social interpretation, and self-awareness. Discover practical strategies for teaching students to define social situations, make smart guesses, and uncover hidden social expectations. The concepts taught in these 10 lessons support the SEL areas of self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and problem solving for decision making. Each chapter is a lesson plan that includes: • Big picture context for each lesson • Lesson objectives • Key vocabulary to emphasize • Suggestions for how to introduce the lesson • Discussion prompts • Extension activity ideas with photo examples • Writing prompts to extend the learning Appendices includes downloadable and printable activity visuals (Thinksheets) for each lesson, a family letter template, a professional letter template, a literature resource guide, and writing prompts to expand teaching. Also availableincluded: Supplemental PowerPoint Visual Teaching Visuals Tools available online for curriculum purchasers. Each lesson has a short teaching PowerPoint to make your lessons come alive with visuals from the storybook and Turn & Talk activities. Also available are downloadable and printable Thinksheets from the curriculum. These online tools can be used to support large group, small group, or tele-education. The multiple award-winning You Are a Social Detective! is the first book in the Superflex series. It teaches social learners the power of observation, reading context, and interpreting clues to figure out how to respond in ways that meet their social goals.

Billie B Brown
Billie B Brown

Author: Sally Rippin

Publisher:

Published: 2011-10-13

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9781459630086

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The Billie B Brown adventures are perfect for girls who are desperate to begin reading but are bored by daggy school readers! Billie and Jack are camping in Jack's backyard. But it's very dark. And maybe just a little bit scary. Are they really big enough to camp all on their own?

Satan's Playground
Satan's Playground

Author: Paul J Vanderwood

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2010-04-09

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 082239166X

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Satan’s Playground chronicles the rise and fall of the tumultuous and lucrative gambling industry that developed just south of the U.S.-Mexico border in the early twentieth century. As prohibitions against liquor, horse racing, gambling, and prostitution swept the United States, the vice industry flourished in and around Tijuana, to the extent that reformers came to call the town “Satan’s Playground,” unintentionally increasing its licentious allure. The area was dominated by Agua Caliente, a large, elegant gaming resort opened by four entrepreneurial Border Barons (three Americans and one Mexican) in 1928. Diplomats, royalty, film stars, sports celebrities, politicians, patricians, and nouveau-riche capitalists flocked to Agua Caliente’s luxurious complex of casinos, hotels, cabarets, and sports extravaganzas, and to its world-renowned thoroughbred racetrack. Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Louis B. Mayer, the Marx Brothers, Bing Crosby, Charlie Chaplin, Gloria Swanson, and the boxer Jack Dempsey were among the regular visitors. So were mobsters such as Bugsy Siegel, who later cited Agua Caliente as his inspiration for building the first such resort on what became the Las Vegas Strip. Less than a year after Agua Caliente opened, gangsters held up its money-car in transit to a bank in San Diego, killing the courier and a guard and stealing the company money pouch. Paul J. Vanderwood weaves the story of this heist gone wrong, the search for the killers, and their sensational trial into the overall history of the often-chaotic development of Agua Caliente, Tijuana, and Southern California. Drawing on newspaper accounts, police files, court records, personal memoirs, oral histories, and “true detective” magazines, he presents a fascinating portrait of vice and society in the Jazz Age, and he makes a significant contribution to the history of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Grounders
Grounders

Author: Leonard Love Matlick

Publisher: Europa Edizioni

Published: 2022-04-30

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13:

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Grounders are cop slang for easy open and solved cases. A husband kills his wife, a bar-fight with a knife or a gun, cases quickly solved in two or three days. Cops love this and get credit for promotion for easily solving cases. In Grounders the NYPD cops find that this murder of a cook is much more than a simple grounder. It involves the Chinese Tong gangs in NYC, Peruvian rebels who want to overthrow their government by using “magic rocks” that were left from an alien civilization like Stargate in Machu-Picchu, and a love story between a detective and a Tong leader’s granddaughter. Grounders combines everything; murder, love, greed, drugs, and rebels amid the backdrop of detectives trying to solve a murder mystery. Leonard Love Matlick is an engineer, writer, and life-coach. He works designing and maintaining NYPD police precincts. He has previously published Cops lie! and The success and confidence manual.

70 Classic and New Playground Games
70 Classic and New Playground Games

Author: Geneviève Susemihl

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2024-02-01

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13: 3758333512

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The playground is a fantastic place to play. This book contains a collection of 70 all-time favourite classic and new playground games, including ball and circle games, games of tag, games played on a climbing frame, skipping and singing games, memory games and other fun activities. While some games are best played with young learners, others are better suited for older players. Many games are favourite activities at camp and campus. Children are so full of energy and eager for new challenges and experiences. Channel their excitement in positive, stimulating ways. This easy-to-use and valuable resource provides a practical toolkit of ideas to promote active and enjoyable games that help eliminate students' boredom during recess, provide plenty of physical exercise and great fun, encourage healthy competition and create an exciting and social experience for children of all ages. This book is useful for teachers, camp councellors, youth recreational leaders and parents alike. The intructions are easy to follow and the rules are kept simple. Best of all: Everyone can play. The more players, the better! So, let's go outside and play.