[PDF] The Carnival eBook

Author : Jessie Foley
Publisher : Elephant Rock Productions, Inc.
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,36 MB
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0989515591

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It's 1993, and Generation X pulses to the beat of Kurt Cobain and the grunge movement. Sixteen-year-old Maggie Lynch is uprooted from big-city Chicago to a windswept town on the Irish Sea. Surviving on care packages of Spin magazine and Twizzlers from her rocker uncle Kevin, she wonders if she'll ever find her place in this new world. When first love and sudden death simultaneously strike, a naive but determined Maggie embarks on a forbidden pilgrimage that will take her to a seedy part of Dublin and on to a life- altering night in Rome to fulfill a dying wish. Through it all, Maggie discovers an untapped inner strength to do the most difficult but rewarding thing of all, live. The Carnival at Bray is an evocative ode to the Smells Like Teen Spirit Generation and a heartfelt exploration of tragedy, first love, and the transformative power of music. The book won the 2014 Helen Sheehan YA Book Prize.

Author : Philip Preece
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 29,27 MB
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1434216152

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When Ben tries to hide from bullies at a carnival, he is drawn into a sideshow that promises to make his dreams of popularity and good grades come true, if only he signs a contract agreeing to give up a few minutes of his time.

Author : Ed Swazinski
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 18,7 MB
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 147772060X

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Algebra is a foundational concept in the study of mathematics, and readers will delight in learning the principles of operations and algebraic thinking in a relatable and engaging way. Topics such as adding and subtracting within 20, using algebraic principles to solve equations and word problems, and understanding the relationship between addition and subtraction will give beginning math students a firm grasp on basic math concepts. Readers will go on an adventure to the carnival, where they will apply properties of operations to add and subtract fun things in a colorful and exciting carnival surrounding. This volume satisfies CCSS Math Standard 1.OA.B.3. This book should be paired with "At the Amusement Park" (9781477721513) from the InfoMax Math Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.

Author : Brigitte Luciani
Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 41,67 MB
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 146774204X

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Can badgers and foxes get through a long, hard winter together? Badgers like to plan for the future. Foxes like to live in the moment. When badgers and foxes are cooped up in one burrow all winter, disagreements are bound to happen. When Mrs. Fox's parents move in, food supplies get tight, and Grandpa Fox's big plans for adventures weigh on everyone's nerves. But Grandpa Fox also remembers an old tradition?a carnival to remind winter that it must make way for spring. A party might be just the thing to help the animals make it through a cold, dark season . . .

Author : José I. Suárez
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 36,88 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780838634912

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"The application of Bakhtin's critical theories to Gil Vicente has helped in understanding the genre and plot-compositional traits and sources of Vicente's drama. Until now, these have been virtually ignored by Vicentine scholars, most of whom have limited themselves to biographical/historical approaches in an effort to explain the playlets as products of a particular epoch - the Middle Ages and/or the Renaissance - and the corresponding literary modes. The author concludes that it is not the subjective memory of the playwrights but the objective memory of the genre in which they compose their plays that preserves its fundamental characteristics through the centuries, characteristics that derive from the incursion of the popular element into the realm of literary creation." "Direct in its presentation, this study presents a concise and scholarly synthesis of Peninsular drama from its origins and the impact that the popular element had on its formation, and it will continue to be regarded as an original facet in the overall complexity of Vicentine studies."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Charles Platter
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,67 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 080189333X

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The comedies of Aristophanes are known not only for their boldly imaginative plots but for the ways in which they incorporate and orchestrate a wide variety of literary genres and speech styles. Unlike the writers of tragedy, who prefer a uniformly elevated tone, Aristophanes articulates his dramatic dialogue with striking literary and linguistic juxtapositions, producing a carnivalesque medley of genres that continually forces both audience and reader to readjust their perspectives. In this energetic and original study, Charles Platter interprets the complexities of Aristophanes' work through the lens of Mikhail Bakhtin's critical writing. This book charts a new course for Aristophanic comedy, taking its lead from the work of Bakhtin. Bakhtin describes the way multiple voices—vocabularies, tones, and styles of language originating in different social classes and contexts—appear and interact within literary texts. He argues that the dynamic quality of literature arises from the dialogic relations that exist among these voices. Although Bakhtin applied his theory primarily to the epic and the novel, Platter finds in his work profound implications for Aristophanic comedy, where stylistic heterogeneity is the genre's lifeblood.

Author : Camille Saint-Saëns
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 16,61 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486404129

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Fourteen pieces -- scored for flute/piccolo, clarinet, glass harmonica (tuned glass bowls), xylophone, two pianos, and strings -- paint delightful musical portraits of a lion, chickens, turtles, an elephant, kangaroos, and the immensely popular swan.

Author : London Lovett
Publisher : Wild Fox Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 20,84 MB
Release : 2019-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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Spring is in the air. Flowers are blooming, birds are singing, Jackson's kisses keep coming, and despite the occasional moodiness of her ghostly housemate, Sunni is looking forward to the season. It's spring break in Firefly Junction and the Stockton Traveling Carnival has come to town. Sunni finds herself saddled with an uninspiring story assignment. But in between the mix of sugary carnival treats, scream-inducing rides and timeless arcade games, someone murders Madame Cherise, the fortune teller, and Sunni's assignment takes a wild turn. Book 5 of the Firefly Junction Cozy Mystery series. A full-length cozy mystery with a fun paranormal twist! 1. Death in the Park 2. Killer Bridal Party 3. Murder at the Inn 4. A Humbug Holiday 5. Calamity at the Carnival 6. Double Trouble 7. Havoc at Wildwood Manor 8. Fatal Feud 9. Trick or Trouble 10. A Crafty Killing 11. Death at the Museum

Author : A. Paul Dileski
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 24,40 MB
Release : 2012-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466949872

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As he began to dump his grandfather's body in the channel off the coast of Uwajima, a dazzling white light seared the entire western horizon on an August morning, 1945, in southern Japan. Moments later, a rumbling wave of hot air rolled over Fuyuki. The lightning light and the rumbling hot wind foretold the fifteen-year-old fisherman that his miserable life was now going to become intolerable. Ten thousand miles away on the western side of the International Date Line, below the equator, in the port city of Valparaiso, Chile, a tall young man, Paul, was playing canasta with his grandfather, father, and brother at an old inn when the doors from the kitchen sprang open and his mother walked out and asked his grandfather, "What's an atomic bomb, Dad?" On that same Monday evening, as Paul was playing cards at Zona del Pescar, 4,000 miles away, north of the equator on the island of Cuba, a pretty young lady, about twelve years old, asked her father, "What's an 'automatic' bomb?" "Never heard of it. Why do you ask, Patricia?" "It was on the radio." And so began a chain reaction that would culminate December 1963 for Patricia and Paul.