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Land of Dreams
by Joan Lowery NixonIn 1902 sixteen-year-old Kristin travels with her family from Sweden to a new life in Minnesota, where she finds herself frustrated by the restrictions placed on what girls of her age are expected or allowed to do.
Land of Hope
by Joan Lowery NixonRussian immigrant Rebekah Levinsky hopes desperately that her dream will come true in America. On the difficult ocean journey to the "land of opportunity" she meets two other girls--Kristin Swensen from Sweden and Rose Carney from Ireland. The three quickly become friends as they share their visions of the future and endure life on the overcrowded ship. Once they reach Ellis Island the girls must separate and Rebekah and her family settle in New York on the Lower East Side. Instead of finding streets paved with gold, they slave seven days a week in a sweatshop. Will Rebekah find the courage to conquer the odds and find happiness in the United States of America?
Land of Hunters: Earth's Most Fearsome Predators
by Clive GiffordExplore seas, swamps, deserts and mountains, from the earliest life on Earth to our present day, and get up close to our planet's all-time deadliest predators.Join the hunt with Velociraptor, defend your prey with mighty Smilodon, see how you measure up to the biggest shark of all time and take to the skies with some of the world's most incredible birds of prey.A stunning central gatefold opens to reveal a timeline of life on Earth and the size of these incredible hunters.
Land of Hunters: Earth's Most Fearsome Predators
by Clive GiffordExplore seas, swamps, deserts and mountains, from the earliest life on Earth to our present day, and get up close to our planet's all-time deadliest predators.Join the hunt with Velociraptor, defend your prey with mighty Smilodon, see how you measure up to the biggest shark of all time and take to the skies with some of the world's most incredible birds of prey.A stunning central gatefold opens to reveal a timeline of life on Earth and the size of these incredible hunters.
Land of Loss (Everworld #2)
by K. A. ApplegateDavid, Jalil, April and Christopher have been pulled into a world that defies everything they once believed. Wolves the size of elephants, beings who consider themselves immortals, mythological gods. It all started with Senna. Now she's missing. David and the others don't know if she's in Everworld. They don't even know if she's alive. Alive...in the human sense.
Land of Promise
by Joan Lowery NixonRose Carney, a young girl from Ireland, befriends Rebecca, from Russia, and Kristen, from Sweden, during the long journey to America. They part ways at Ellis Island and Rose continues onto a new life in Chicago.
Land of Promise (The Days of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Book #8)
by T. L. TedrowAfter devastating events in San Francisco, several Chinese families plan to make Mansfield their new home. Because part of the community views foreigners with contempt, the town is split over the arrival of the Chinese families. Laura hopes a moving Thanksgiving ceremony will bring the town back together and allow the Chinese residents to see Mansfield as the land of promise they hoped it would be.
Land of the Cranes
by Aida SalazarNine-year-old Betita knows she is a crane. Papi has told her the story, even before her family fled to Los Angeles to seek refuge from cartel wars in Mexico. The Aztecs came from a place called Aztlan, what is now the Southwest US, called the land of the cranes. They left Aztlan to establish their great city in the center of the universe-Tenochtitlan, modern-day Mexico City. It was prophesized that their people would one day return to live among the cranes in their promised land. Papi tells Betita that they are cranes that have come home.Then one day, Betita's beloved father is arrested by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) and deported to Mexico. Betita and her pregnant mother are left behind on their own, but soon they too are detained and must learn to survive in a family detention camp outside of Los Angeles. Even in cruel and inhumane conditions, Betita finds heart in her own poetry and in the community she and her mother find in the camp. The voices of her fellow asylum seekers fly above the hatred keeping them caged, but each day threatens to tear them down lower than they ever thought they could be. Will Betita and her family ever be whole again?
Land of the Dragons
by Rod MorrisKomodo dragons are the world's biggest lizard, and they are just as fierce as the dragons you read about in storybooks. A big male Komodo dragon can be over ten feet long! There are over three thousand of these giant lizards living on Komodo--they really are the rulers of the island.
Land of the Pharaohs (The Adventures of Toby Digz)
by David HernandezCutting-edge art paired with stories of fantastical adventure and biblical fact make the all-new Toby Digz series a must-have for young readers. Kids will relate to Toby's predicaments and his quirky sense of humor. Parents will love the fact that Bible stories and biblical truths are woven throughout these tales of adventure. With a little help from their imaginations, Toby and his friends crawl through the makeshift cave in his tree house to find an ancient world of adventure. As Toby and the gang venture back in time, they meet major Bible heroes and learn-up close and personal-about the culture and history of biblical times.
Land of the Spring Dragon: A Branches Book (Dragon Masters #14)
by Tracey WestDrake travels to a secret fairy world to save the Kingdom of Bracken!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!Drake's kingdom is in trouble -- a terrible earthquake has destroyed Bracken's crops! A magical Spring Dragon has the power to save the kingdom and regrow the crops, but he lives deep inside a secret fairy world. To find the Spring Dragon, Drake must pass a series of tests given by a Dragon Master named Breen. But the fairy world is full of confusing tricks and mysterious riddles! Can Drake save his kingdom?
Landaga Ni Kokaru
by Ramkrushna ChaudhariThe story of the lamb and the foxy. One day lamb was thirsty and went to the river. He saw a fox, he was dangerous. Fox scared him.
Lande sconosciute: Libro Fantasy, Suspense e Avventure (Collana: Corvi e Draghi #1)
by A. P. HernándezFuori dalle mura di Düré si sta sviluppando la più grande minaccia che l'umanità abbia mai affrontato. Dopo tanti anni di pace, l'oscurità rinasce, la dea Thënda lascia il regno delle ombre. Lord Tovel, in segreto, sceglie otto dei suoi uomini più valorosi e affida loro una missione: raggiungere Nebula e chiedere l'aiuto di Re Fird. Rodrik e i suoi uomini dovranno lasciare la sicurezza offerta dalle mura di Düré e affrontare un viaggio pieno di intrighi, magia e pericoli.
Landed
by Milly LeeFather looked serious. "One wrong answer, and you might be sent back to China." Like his older brothers before him, Sun is ready to move to America, the place known as Gum Saan, Gold Mountain. His father warns him, though, that passage to America will not be easy. Because of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, new immigrants like Sun are detained at Angel Island, where they must pass a difficult test before they can land. In preparation, Sun studies maps of his village and memorizes facts about his house and his family. But as the test draws near, the maps' compass points swirl in his memory, and Sun worries that he will lose his direction and be turned away. Based on a true story from the author's father-in-law, Landed vividly recounts an amazing chapter in Chinese American history.
Landforms
by Andrew NofsingerThis book talks about different landforms in our earth like grasslands, glaciers, deserts etc.
Landmark Hip Hop Hits (Hip-Hop Hitmakers)
by Carol EllisHip-hop music began in the neighborhoods of the Bronx, New York, during the 1970s and grew to become a major cultural influence all over the world. Hip-hop has evolved through both individual innovation and technological breakthroughs. Landmark Hip-Hop Hits traces the development of this musical genre through discussion of its biggest hits and most important stars, from early songs like "Rapper's Delight" and "The Message" to contemporary hits by performers like Jay-Z, Drake, Eminem, Nicki Minaj, and Lil Wayne. The songs discussed in this book had an important part to play in shaping the history of the hip-hop movement over the past five decades.
Landry Park
by Bethany Hagen<P>"Downton Abbey" meets The Selection in this dystopian tale of love and betrayal <P>Sixteen-year-old Madeline Landry is practically Gentry royalty. Her ancestor developed the nuclear energy that has replaced electricity, and her parents exemplify the glamour of the upper class. <P> As for Madeline, she would much rather read a book than attend yet another debutante ball. But when she learns about the devastating impact the Gentry lifestyle--her lifestyle--is having on those less fortunate, her whole world is turned upside down. <P>As Madeline begins to question everything she has been told, she finds herself increasingly drawn to handsome, beguiling David Dana, who seems to be hiding secrets of his own. <P>Soon, rumors of war and rebellion start to spread, and Madeline finds herself at the center of it all. Ultimately, she must make a choice between duty--her family and the estate she loves dearly--and desire.
Landscape As Urbanism: A General Theory
by Charles WaldheimIt has become conventional to think of urbanism and landscape as opposing one another--or to think of landscape as merely providing temporary relief from urban life as shaped by buildings and infrastructure. <P><P>But, driven in part by environmental concerns, landscape has recently emerged as a model and medium for the city, with some theorists arguing that landscape architects are the urbanists of our age.
Landscape in Children's Literature (Children's Literature and Culture)
by Jane Suzanne CarrollThis book provides a new critical methodology for the study of landscapes in children's literature. Treating landscape as the integration of unchanging and irreducible physical elements, or topoi, Carroll identifies and analyses four kinds of space — sacred spaces, green spaces, roadways, and lapsed spaces — that are the component elements of the physical environments of canonical British children’s fantasy. Using Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising Sequence as the test-case for this methodology, the book traces the development of the physical features and symbolic functions of landscape topoi from their earliest inception in medieval vernacular texts through to contemporary children's literature. The identification and analysis of landscape topoi synthesizes recent theories about interstitial space together with earlier morphological and topoanalytical studies, enabling the study of fictional landscapes in terms of their physical characteristics as well as in terms of their relationship with contemporary texts and historical precedents. Ultimately, by providing topoanalytical studies of other children’s texts, Carroll proposes topoanalysis as a rich critical method for the study and understanding of children’s literature and indicates how the findings of this approach may be expanded upon. In offering both transferable methodologies and detailed case-studies, this book outlines a new approach to literary landscapes as geographical places within socio-historical contexts.
Landslides (Leveled Readers 4.6.2)
by Linda HartleyWhat happens when tons of rocks and dirt slide down a mountain?
Lang Lang: Playing with Flying Keys
by Michael French Lang LangLang Lang started learning to play the piano when he was three years old in Shenyang, China. Today he is one of the world’s most outstanding pianists. In this engrossing life story, adapted by Michael French, Lang Lang not only recounts the difficult, often thrilling, events of his early days, but also shares his perspective on his rapidly changing homeland. He thoughtfully explores the differences between East and West, especially in the realm of classical music and cultural life. Shining through hi...
Langston Hughes
by Montrew DunhamFocuses on the early years of the well-known poet, Langston Hughes, whose writings reflect the everyday experiences of African Americans.
Langston Hughes: Young Black Poet (Childhood of Famous Americans Series)
by Montrew DunhamFocuses on the early years of the well-known poet, Langston Hughes, whose writings reflect the everyday experiences of African Americans.
Language Alone: The Critical Fetish of Modernity
by Geoffrey Galt HarphamHow did the concept of language come to dominate modern intellectual history? In Language Alone, Geoffrey Galt Harpham provides at once the most comprehensive survey and most telling critique of the pervasive role of language in modern thought. He shows how thinkers in such diverse fields as philosophy, psychoanalysis, anthropology, and literary theory have made progress by referring their most difficult theoretical problems to what they presumed were the facts of language.Through a provocative reassessment of major thinkers on the idea of language-Saussure, Wittgenstein, Derrida, Rorty, and Chomsky, among them-and detailed accounts of the discourses of ethics and ideology in particular, Harpham demonstrates a remarkable consensus among intellectuals of the past century and beyond that philosophical and other problems can best be understood as linguistic problems. And furthermore, that a science of language can therefore illuminate them. Conspicuously absent from this consensus, he shows, is any consideration of contemporary linguistics, or any awareness of the growing agreement among linguists that the nature of language as such cannot be known.Ultimately, Harpham argues, the thought of language has dominated modern intellectual history because of its singular capacity to serve as a proxy for a host of concerns, questions, and anxieties-our place in the order of things, our rights and obligations, our nature or essence-that resist a strictly rational formulation. Language Alone will interest literary critics, philosophers, and anyone with an interest in the uses of language in contemporary thought.
Language Around the World: Ways we Communicate our Thoughts and Feelings
by Gill BudgellDiscover fascinating facts about communication in all its forms, from around the world and over timeEngaging factual writing introduces young readers to the most interesting aspects of languages, how they evolve and change over time. Humans&’ use of language is one of our distinguishing features. Language allows us to communicate what we think, what we want, what we feel, and what we have learned. Some 100,000 years ago, humans began speaking. Since then, we have developed nearly 7000 languages. Languages are living things; they evolve and change over time. They even travel! People carry their language with them and spread it. Large language families even have their own family trees, such as Spanish, French, English. Different languages can be mixed and combined to create new languages with similar words, pronunciation, and grammar rules. Languages can even become extinct if they are not shared and learned by each new generation. Spoken languages are not the only way we communicate. Sign language, Morse code, semaphore, smoke signals, computer codes - humans have invented numerous ways of communicating. Sharing feelings, thoughts, and ideas through the power of language is an essential part of being human.