Jack and Nancy
Jack and Nancy

Author: Quentin Blake

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2012-10-25

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 144812087X

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Jack and Nancy wish they could fly to faraway lands, and on one very windy day their wish comes true! A magical tale of adventure - and finding your way home - from the nation's favourite illustrator, Quentin Blake. Jack and Nancy love to hear the sailors tell of adventures far away. But one day, they are walking on the cliffs and it starts to rain, so Jack puts up his umbrella. But the wind picks up and WHOOOOSH they are blown away to an exotic island! They explore for a bit, and even meet a parrot, but there are no sign of any ships to get them home. How will they get home? "Blake is beyond brilliant . . . I've never met a child who doesn't love Quentin Blake" - Daily Telegraph Quentin Blake is one of Britain's best-loved and most successful author-illustrators, and was made the first Children's Laureate in 1999. He has won the Whitbread Award, the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration, and the Kate Greenaway Medal. among others.

The Sea of Trolls
The Sea of Trolls

Author: Nancy Farmer

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2008-12-09

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 184739731X

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Jack is an apprentice bard and just beginning to learn the secrets of his mysterious master, when he and his little sister are captured by Viking chief, Olaf One-Brow, and taken to the court of Ivar the Boneless. Ivar is married to a half-troll named Frith, an evil and unpredictable queen with a strange power over her husband's court. Jack is sent on to the kingdom of the trolls, where he has to find the magical well and undo the charm he has cast on Frith. He is accompanied by Thorgill, a shield maiden, aged 12, who wants to be a berserker when she grows up. Together, they are set for a magical and exciting adventure.

The Spellman Files
The Spellman Files

Author: Lisa Lutz

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2009-01-27

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 1416594175

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Izzy Spellman, a twenty-eight-year-old amalgamation of Nancy Drew and Bridget Jones, launches her career as a private investigator while working for the firm of her outlandishly dysfunctional family. A first novel. Reprint.

The Islands of the Blessed
The Islands of the Blessed

Author: Nancy Farmer

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2015-08-25

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 1481443100

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Two years after their adventures in The Land of the Silver Apples, the apprentice bard Jack and his Viking companion Thorgil confront the malevolent spirit of a vengeful mermaid and begin a quest that casts them among the fin folk of Notland.

For Spacious Skies
For Spacious Skies

Author: Nancy Churnin

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Published: 2020-04-01

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 0807525294

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A Mighty Girl's 2020 Books of the Year The true story of the unconventional woman and her enduring song about the spirit of America. Katharine Lee Bates first wrote the lines to "America the Beautiful" after a stirring visit to Pikes Peak in 1893. But the story behind the song begins with Katharine herself, who pushed beyond conventional expectations of women to become an acclaimed writer, scholar, suffragist, and reformer. Katharine believed in the power of words to make a difference, and in "America the Beautiful," her vision of the nation as a great family, united from sea to shining sea, continues to uplift and inspire us all.

My Jack-o'-lantern
My Jack-o'-lantern

Author: Nancy J. Skarmeas

Publisher: Ideals Publications

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780824941178

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Gordie has to wait until Halloween to see how the pumpkin from his grandfather's farm will become a jack-o-lantern.

Martin & Anne
Martin & Anne

Author: Nancy Churnin

Publisher: Creston Books

Published: 2021-03-01

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 1954354029

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Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr. were born the same year a world apart. Both faced ugly prejudices and violence, which both answered with words of love and faith in humanity. This is the story of their parallel journeys to find hope in darkness and to follow their dreams.

Bioshelters, Ocean Arks, City Farming
Bioshelters, Ocean Arks, City Farming

Author: Nancy Jack Todd

Publisher: Random House (NY)

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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Proposes the use of biology -- incorporating principles inherent in the natural world -- as a design for human settlements. The New Alchemy Institute on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, founded by the authors, is one of a number of projects in ecological design described in this book.

In the Arms of Evil
In the Arms of Evil

Author: Carlton Smith

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2010-03-30

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 1429935480

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Nancy Jean Siegel of Maryland became addicted to gambling during her first marriage. Sneaking off to Atlantic City—and sinking deeper and deeper into debt—she began stealing identities, conning family members, and leaving two ex-husbands buried in bills. Then she sold cemetery plots door-to-door and met Jack Watkins, a man thirty years her senior. He not only bought a grave site from the attractive younger woman, he leased a car for her, sold his house and gave her the proceeds. But Nancy wanted more... Watkins' body was found in a steamer trunk near the Appalachian Trail. Half-naked and strangled, he remained unidentified for more than six years. Meanwhile, Nancy cashed his Social Security checks and opened new lines of credit under his name. By the time the police tracked her down, she had committed bank fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, and more. New York Times bestselling author Carlton Smith takes you inside the greed, the gambling, and one gruesome murder—to question the very nature of evil...