The Glass Boy
The Glass Boy

Author: Julian Magovern

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published: 2018-11-27

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 1789016193

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‘Nobody’ is a typical, inquisitive boy looking for friendship, except he is made of glass and completely see-through, which makes him invisible to everyone he meets. On his quest through a desert landscape, he discovers there are lots of advantages to his ‘invisibleness’. He can get close to every living thing, “count the freckles under a lion’s chin …strum the whiskers of a desert mouse...warm his toes under a nesting grouse.” But none of these encounters result in real friendship. Loneliness drives him to seek friendship in some unlikely creatures that aren’t always what they seem. From mud flicking elephants to a groaning rock to grooving gerbils to a close encounter with a cold-blooded murderer to a superficial stick-on friend who scarpers at the first sign of trouble. Sadly, the simple-minded creatures of the desert are unable to connect footprints in the sand with a mysterious voice. Even when disaster strikes, for them there is nothing to see because, “…there’s no mess when you’re a crumpled heap of invisibleness.” When all hope seems lost, he makes a remarkable discovery.

The Glass Boy
The Glass Boy

Author: H. C. Tharsing

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2010-06-25

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781453645918

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Part mythic quest, part novel of contemporary life, "The Glass Boy" offers rare literary and philosophic adventure that can send the mind happily reeling.

Brownsmith’s Boy
Brownsmith’s Boy

Author: George Manville Fenn

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2020-07-29

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 3752368233

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Reproduction of the original: Brownsmith’s Boy by George Manville Fenn

The Store Boy
The Store Boy

Author: Horatio Alger

Publisher: VM eBooks

Published: 2016-07-24

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13:

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CHAPTER I BEN BARCLAY MEETS A TRAMP CHAPTER II BEN AND HIS MOTHER CHAPTER III MRS. BARCLAY'S CALLERS CHAPTER IV UNPLEASANT BUSINESS CHAPTER V PROFESSOR HARRINGTON'S ENTERTAINMENT CHAPTER VI TWO YOUNG RIVALS CHAPTER VII THE TRAMP MAKES ANOTHER CALL CHAPTER VIII SQUIRE DAVENPORT'S FINANCIAL OPERATION CHAPTER IX A PROSPECT OF TROUBLE CHAPTER X BEN GOES TO NEW YORK CHAPTER XI THE MADISON AVENUE STAGE CHAPTER XII BEN'S LUCK CHAPTER XIII A STARTLING EVENT CHAPTER XIV BEN SHOWS HIMSELF A HERO CHAPTER XV BEN LOSES HIS PLACE CHAPTER XVI BEN FINDS TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT CHAPTER XVII WHAT THE LETTER CONTAINED CHAPTER XVIII FAREWELL TO PENTONVILLE CHAPTER XIX A COOL RECEPTION CHAPTER XX ENTERING UPON HIS DUTIES CHAPTER XXI AT THE THEATER CHAPTER XXII A MYSTERIOUS LETTER CHAPTER XXIII BEN'S VISIT TO THIRTY-FIRST STREET CHAPTER XXIV BEN ON TRIAL CHAPTER XXV CONRAD TAKES A BOLD STEP CHAPTER XXVI MR. LYNX, THE DETECTIVE CHAPTER XXVII THE TELLTALE TICKET CHAPTER XXVIII MRS. HILL'S MALICE CHAPTER XXIX SOME UNEXPECTED CHANGES CHAPTER XXX BEN "GOES WEST" CHAPTER XXXI MR. JACKSON RECEIVES A CALL CHAPTER XXXII BEN SELLS THE FARM CHAPTER XXXIII GOOD NEWS CHAPTER XXXIV CONRAD GOES INTO WALL STREET CHAPTER XXXV TURNING THE TABLES CHAPTER XXXVI A LETTER FROM ROSE GARDINER CHAPTER XXXVII BEN'S VISIT TO PENTONVILLE CHAPTER XXXVIII CONCLUSION

The Green Glass Sea
The Green Glass Sea

Author: Ellen Klages

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2008-05-01

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 144063713X

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It is 1943, and 11-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is traveling west on a train to live with her scientist father—but no one, not her father nor the military guardians who accompany her, will tell her exactly where he is. When she reaches Los Alamos, New Mexico, she learns why: he's working on a top secret government program. Over the next few years, Dewey gets to know eminent scientists, starts tinkering with her own mechanical projects, becomes friends with a budding artist who is as much of a misfit as she is—and, all the while, has no idea how the Manhattan Project is about to change the world. This book's fresh prose and fascinating subject are like nothing you've read before.