Comet's Nine Lives

Comet's Nine Lives

Author: Jan Brett

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2016-04-26

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 0399549285

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It all begins when Comet walks away from the lighthouse close to his birthplace on Nantucket Island. He visits a garden, a bookstore, a boat, and a party, and at each place he gets into trouble and loses one of his lives. Comet starts to worry. He longs for a home, a place where he’ll be safe. Will he find one before he uses up all nine lives?


Comet the Cat

Comet the Cat

Author: Amber King

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published: 2016-12-15

Total Pages: 12

ISBN-13: 1508134006

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Bright, colorful photos support decodable text, guiding beginning readers to identify, recognize, and use the /k/ sound. Featuring high-frequency words, this authentic nonfiction text also gives emerging readers the opportunity to read for information while reinforcing basic phonemic sounds. Readers will enjoy the story of how a very special cat named Comet is rescued from the cold. This nonfiction phonics title is paired with the fiction phonics title Kayla Goes Camping: Practicing the Hard C / K Sound. The instructional guide on the inside front and back covers provides: * Word List with carefully selected grade-appropriate words featuring the /k/ sound found in the text * Teacher Talk that assists instructors in introducing the /k/ sound * Group Activity that guides students to identify the /k/ sound, decode the words that contain it, and use the words * Extended Activity that provides students with additional opportunities to think about, list, and use words containing the /k/ sound * Writing Activity that guides students to write the letters that make the /k/ sound


The Guest Cat

The Guest Cat

Author: Takashi Hiraide

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2014-01-28

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 0811221512

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A wonderful sui generis novel about a visiting cat who brings joy into a couple’s life in Tokyo A bestseller in France and winner of Japan’s Kiyama Shohei Literary Award, The Guest Cat, by the acclaimed poet Takashi Hiraide, is a subtly moving and exceptionally beautiful novel about the transient nature of life and idiosyncratic but deeply felt ways of living. A couple in their thirties live in a small rented cottage in a quiet part of Tokyo; they work at home, freelance copy-editing; they no longer have very much to say to one another. But one day a cat invites itself into their small kitchen. It leaves, but the next day comes again, and then again and again. Soon they are buying treats for the cat and enjoying talks about the animal and all its little ways. Life suddenly seems to have more promise for the husband and wife — the days have more light and color. The novel brims with new small joys and many moments of staggering poetic beauty, but then something happens…. As Kenzaburo Oe has remarked, Takashi Hiraide’s work "really shines." His poetry, which is remarkably cross-hatched with beauty, has been acclaimed here for "its seemingly endless string of shape-shifting objects and experiences,whose splintering effect is enacted via a unique combination of speed and minutiae."


Cult of the Comet

Cult of the Comet

Author: Gary L Morton

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-07-01

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 098669942X

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Cult of the Comet takes place in a dark future. It features a fallen astronaut turned gritty private eye and a cult leader on a mission to grab interstellar travel. A Motherland Security police state and evil elders rule most of the world. Mutants control the rest. The race is on as a comet, which is the final visitation of an alien race, heads for perihelion at earth. This is a full length novel with action and twists from beginning to end.


Riding on Comets

Riding on Comets

Author: Cat Pleska

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9781940425511

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Riding on Comets is the true story of an only child growing up in a working-class family during the 1950s and '60s. As the family storyteller, Cat Pleska whispers and shouts about her life growing up around savvy, strong women and hard-working, hard-drinking men. Unlike many family stories set within Appalachia, this story provides an uncommon glimpse into this region: not coal, but an aluminum plant; not hollers, but small-town America; not hillbillies, but a hard-working family with traditional values. From the dinner table, to the back porch, to the sprawling countryside, Cat Pleska reveals the sometimes tender, sometimes frightening education of a child who listens at the knees of these giants. She mimics and learns every nuance, every rhythm--how they laugh, smoke, cuss, fight, love, and tell stories--as she unwittingly prepares to carry their tales forward, their words and actions forever etched in her mind. And finally, she discovers a life story of her own.


Shy Willow

Shy Willow

Author: Cat Min

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2021-02-16

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 1646141008

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Willow is shy. VERY shy. Her home is in an abandoned mailbox, and she'd rather stay put. Outside kids scream and soccer balls collide, trees look like monsters, and rain is noisy in a scary kind of way. It's much nicer to stay inside, drawing. But then a young boy drops a letter in Willow's mailbox: it's a note to the moon asking for a special favor. Willow knows that if she doesn't brave the world outside, the letter will never be delivered, and the boy will be heartbroken. Should she try? Can she? Cat Min delivers a breathtakingly illustrated story about shyness, the power of empathy, and what it means to make a friend.


The Alchemist's Cat

The Alchemist's Cat

Author: Robin Jarvis

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2004-08-26

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9781587172571

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Animal fantasy. Sorcery, villainy, murder. 10 yrs+


Maria's Comet

Maria's Comet

Author: Deborah Hopkinson

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-07-23

Total Pages: 19

ISBN-13: 1442484586

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Maria longs to be an astronomer -- wish that burns as brightly as a star. But girls in the nineteenth century don't grow up to be scientists, especially those who are needed at home. Each night when her papa sweeps the sky with his telescope, Maria sweeps the floor below, imagining all the strange worlds he can travel to from the rooftop of their Nantucket home. Then one night Maria finally gets her chance to look through her papa's telescope. For the first time, she beholds the night sky stretching endlessly above her, and her dream of exploring the comets and constellations seems close enough to touch. Loosely based on the childhood of Maria (pronounced ma-RYE-ah) Mitchell, America's first woman astronomer, and illuminated by Deborah Lanino's star-swept illustrations, here is an exquisitely told story of a girl who yearns for adventure beyond her limited circumstances, and sets out to follow her heart.


Snowbone

Snowbone

Author: Cat Weatherill

Publisher: Yearling Books

Published: 2008-11-11

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0440420784

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A wooden girl and her gang of wooden friends set out on a journey to save their people from a dark destiny.


The Comet Assay in Toxicology

The Comet Assay in Toxicology

Author: Diana Anderson

Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry

Published: 2016-10-11

Total Pages: 611

ISBN-13: 1782622896

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Concerns about the adverse effects of chemicals present in the environment have created a need for better systems to assess their potential consequences on human health. One potential solution is the versatile and state-of-the-art Comet assay. Simple, sensitive, rapid and visual, this modern toxicological method allows quantitative and qualitative assessment of DNA damage in single cells. This assay is used in diverse fields ranging from clinical applications, human monitoring and environmental toxicology through to genetic toxicity testing. This updated and revised edition of The Comet Assay in Toxicology provides the latest information on this important tool. It addresses, in-depth, the different protocols, statistical analyses and applications used worldwide. It also includes the guidelines recommended by the Working Group on Comet Assay. The book begins with a review of the genesis of the assay for those new to the technique and goes on to explain procedures followed to assess different types of DNA damage, various applications of the assay, and guidelines for the conduct of the assay in in vitro and in vivo systems. New chapters written for this edition will provide information on the most contemporary approaches and applications, including in silico approaches, on meta-analysis of data and on the application of the Comet Assay in nanotoxicology. This book will serve as both a reference and a guide to students as well as investigators in the biomedical, biochemical and pharmaceutical sciences fields.