The Mask of Power: Eruptor Meets the Nightmare King #7

The Mask of Power: Eruptor Meets the Nightmare King #7

Author: Onk Beakman

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2016-05-03

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0451533070

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Eruptor Meets the Nightmare King is the seventh book in the ongoing Mask of Power series of illustrated original novels set in the Skylanders universe. In this installment, Eruptor makes a chilling discovery when he meets his own double frozen in ice! What starts as a cold snap leads to a red-hot adventure, as the Skylanders come face to face with the Nightmare King. The secrets of the Mask of Power unfold further as the series approaches its thrilling conclusion.


Mask of Power

Mask of Power

Author: Onk Beakman

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1101996056

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The saga of the Mask of Power comes to a thrilling conclusion in Trigger Happy Targets the Evil Kaos, the eighth and final book in this series of illustrated original novels set in the Skylanders universe. The race is on to reach the final segment of the Mask of Power! Can Kaos be stopped from piecing the Mask together and using it to terrorize Skylands? There's one giggling, gold-slinging gremlin who sure thinks so! Join Trigger Happy and the other heroic Skylanders in their last stand against Kaos.


The Mask of Power: Stump Smash Crosses the Bone Dragon #6

The Mask of Power: Stump Smash Crosses the Bone Dragon #6

Author: Onk Beakman

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2016-01-05

Total Pages: 133

ISBN-13: 0399542833

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Stump Smash to the rescue! Stump Smash Crosses the Bone Dragon is the sixth book in the ongoing Mask of Power series of illustrated original novels set in the Skylanders universe. These all-new stories feature favorite characters from all the Skylanders video games. In this installment, Stump Smash must lead the Skylanders on a journey that begins in the Giggling Forest and ends with a terrifying battle against an angry dragon.


Skylands' Most Mysterious Conundrums

Skylands' Most Mysterious Conundrums

Author: Grosset & Dunlap

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap

Published: 2015-10-13

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780448487717

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Collects games, puzzles, activities, comics, stories, stickers, postcards, and a poster that feature the characters and worlds of "Skylanders."


The Mysterious Benedict Society: Mr. Benedict's Book of Perplexing Puzzles, Elusive Enigmas, and Curious Conundrums

The Mysterious Benedict Society: Mr. Benedict's Book of Perplexing Puzzles, Elusive Enigmas, and Curious Conundrums

Author: Trenton Lee Stewart

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Published: 2016-06-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780316394758

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This exclusive companion book to the bestselling Mysterious Benedict Society series is a mind-bending collection that will put YOU to the test! With full-color artwork throughout, this companion features ingenious new puzzles, riddles, and brainteasers compiled by Mr. Benedict himself, with the help of Reynie, Kate, Sticky, Constance, and other Society associates. Think you have what it takes to join the Mysterious Benedict Society? Open this book and find out!


Bone Swans

Bone Swans

Author: C.S.E. Cooney

Publisher: Mythic Delirium Books

Published: 2015-07-01

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13:

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Winner of the 2016 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection Contains "The Bone Swans of Amandale," 2015 Nebula Award finalist for Best Novella "C. S. E. Cooney is one of the most moving, daring, and plainly beautiful voices to come out of recent fantasy. She's a powerhouse with a wink in her eye and a song in each pocket." —Catherynne M. Valente, New York Times-bestselling author of the Fairyland novels "These stories are a pure joy. C. S. E. Cooney's imagination is wild and varied, her stories bawdy, horrific, comic, and moving-frequently all at the same time. Her characters are wickedly appealing, and her language—O! her language. Lush, playful, poetic, but never obscure or stilted, it makes her magic more magic, her comedy more comic, and her tragic moments almost unbearable." —Delia Sherman, author of Young Woman in a Garden: Stories "Bone Swans is a joy of feathery bones & ghoulish clowns. I adored every word. Like an eyas cries for meat, I cry for more. C.S.E. Cooney's a major talent and these are major talent stories. Who can resist hero rats, pouting swans, feral children, flying carpets and the Flabberghast? So tongue-tied am I with delight I fall back on the usual cliches: gripping, delightful, insightful, rollicking & lyrical—and yet not one cliche is to be found in Bone Swans, only stories of surpassing delicacy and wit, told by a lady of rare talent. Please, ma'am, might I have some more?" —Ysabeau S. Wilce, Andre Norton Award wining author of Flora's Dare A swan princess hunted for her bones, a broken musician and his silver pipe, and a rat named Maurice bring justice to a town under fell enchantment. A gang of courageous kids confronts both a plague-destroyed world and an afterlife infested with clowns but robbed of laughter. In an island city, the murder of a child unites two lovers, but vengeance will part them. Only human sacrifice will save a city trapped in ice and darkness. Gold spun out of straw has a price, but not the one you expect. World Fantasy Award winner Ellen Kushner has called Cooney's writing "stunningly delicious! Cruel, beautiful and irresistible." Bone Swans, the infernally whimsical debut collection from C. S. E. Cooney, gathers five novellas that in the words of Andre Norton Award winner Delia Sherman are "bawdy, horrific, comic, and moving-frequently all at the same time." Cooney's mentor, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Grand Master Gene Wolfe, proclaims in his introduction that her style is so original it can only be described as "pure Cooney," and he offers readers a challenge: "Try to define that when you've finished the stories in this book." More praise for Bone Swans "Cooney's brilliantly executed collection of five stories is a delicious stew of science fiction, horror, and fantasy, marked by unforgettable characters who plumb the depths of pathos and triumph. ... All of these stories could easily serve as the foundation for novels while also working beautifully at their current length. These well-crafted narratives defiantly refuse to fade from memory long after the last word has been read." —Publishers Weekly, starred review "In five beautifully crafted stories, Cooney builds imaginary worlds full of flying carpets, fairy-tale characters, and children confronted with a postapocalyptic Earth ... Each tale packs in enough plot for a novel, with adventurous characters who brim with wit." —Library Journal, starred review "Writing without ostentation and featuring characters who may be flippant, terse, or even tongue-tied, Cooney produces memorable prose propelled by extraordinary ideas ... Faced with such twisted genius, I'll say no more!" —Locus "A fascinating mashup between the tropes and resonances of the mythic tale with the sensibilities of contemporary action-oriented fantasy: simultaneously lighthearted and serious, full of consequences but also ubiquitous happy endings." —Tor.com


Skandar and the Unicorn Thief

Skandar and the Unicorn Thief

Author: A.F. Steadman

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2022-05-03

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 1665912758

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A New York Times bestseller! Soar into a breathtaking world of heroes and unicorns as you’ve never seen them before in this “unexpected, suspenseful, and heartwarming” (Kirkus Reviews) middle grade debut perfect for fans of the Percy Jackson and Eragon series! Skandar Smith has always yearned to leave the Mainland and escape to the secretive Island, where wild unicorns roam free. He’s spent years studying for his Hatchery exam, the annual test that selects a handful of Mainlander thirteen-year-olds to train to become unicorn riders. But on the day of Skandar’s exam, things go horribly wrong, and his hopes are shattered…until a mysterious figure knocks on his door at midnight, bearing a message: the Island is in peril and Skandar must answer its call. Skandar is thrust into a world of epic sky battles, dangerous clashes with wild unicorns, and rumors of a shadowy villain amassing a unicorn army. And the closer Skandar grows to his newfound friends and community of riders, the harder it becomes to keep his secrets—especially when he discovers their lives may all be in graver danger than he ever imagined.


The Caboose who Got Loose

The Caboose who Got Loose

Author: Bill Peet

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1980-02

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9780395287156

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Tired of being last on the smoky, noisy train, Katy wishes for some way to escape the endless track.


How and Why to Read and Create Children's Digital Books

How and Why to Read and Create Children's Digital Books

Author: Natalia Kucirkova

Publisher: UCL Press

Published: 2018-12-03

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1787353494

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How and Why to Read and Create Children's Digital Books outlines effective ways of using digital books in early years and primary classrooms, and specifies the educational potential of using digital books and apps in physical spaces and virtual communities. With a particular focus on apps and personalised reading, Natalia Kucirkova combines theory and practice to argue that personalised reading is only truly personalised when it is created or co-created by reading communities. Divided into two parts, Part I suggests criteria to evaluate the educational quality of digital books and practical strategies for their use in the classroom. Specific attention is paid to the ways in which digital books can support individual children’s strengths and difficulties, digital literacies, language and communication skills. Part II explores digital books created by children, their caregivers, teachers and librarians, and Kucirkova also offers insights into how smart toys, tangibles and augmented/virtual reality tools can enrich children’s reading for pleasure. How and Why to Read and Create Children's Digital Books is of interest to an international readership ranging from trainee or established teachers to MA level students and researchers, as well as designers, librarians and publishers. All are inspired to approach children’s reading on and with screens with an agentic perspective of creating and sharing. Praise for How and Why to Read and Create Children's Digital Books 'This is an exciting and innovative book – not least because it is freely available to read online but because its origins are in primary practice. The author is an accomplished storyteller, and whether you know, as yet, little about the value of digital literacy in the storymaking process, or you are an accomplished digital player, this book is full of evidence-informed ideas, explanations and inspiration.' Liz Chamberlain, Open University 'At a time when children's reading is increasingly on-screen, many teachers, parents and carers are seeking practical, straightforward guidance on how to support children's engagement with digital books. This volume, written by the leading expert on personalised e-books, is packed with app reviews, suggestions and insights from recent international research, all underpinned by careful analysis of digital book features and recognition of reading as a social and cultural practice. Providing accessible guidance on finding, choosing, sharing and creating digital books, it will be welcomed by those excited by the possibilities of enthusing children about reading in the digital age.' Cathy Burnett, Professor of Literacy and Education, Sheffield Hallam University


Mcdp 1-3 Tactics

Mcdp 1-3 Tactics

Author: Department of Defense

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-05-22

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9781546814177

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This publication is about winning in combat. Winning requires many things: excellence in techniques, an appreciation of the enemy, exemplary leadership, battlefield judgment, and focused combat power. Yet these factors by themselves do not ensure success in battle. Many armies, both winners and losers, have possessed many or all of these attributes. When we examine closely the differences between victor and vanquished, we draw one conclusion. Success went to the armies whose leaders, senior and junior, could best focus their efforts-their skills and their resources-toward a decisive end. Their success arose not merely from excellence in techniques, procedures, and material but from their leaders' abilities to uniquely and effectively combine them. Winning in combat depends upon tactical leaders who can think creatively and act decisively.