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Field Trip to the Taiga: The Creeper Diaries, An Unofficial Minecrafters Novel, Book Nine (The Creeper Diaries #9)
by Greyson MannDid someone say “field trip”? Gerald is all in! He’d much rather be exploring the Taiga than sleeping through science class. His buddy Sam is all about spotting polar bears, but Gerald is having way too much fun building igloos and snow golems. His science teacher says there are only two rules—learn something every day, and stay with the group. (That’s adult speak for “don’t get lost.”) When Gerald discovers a secret trapdoor in an igloo, he doesn’t exactly get lost. But . . . if he’s not careful, his classmates might just lose him!
Field Tripped
by Allan WoodrowIt's another pitch-perfect middle-grade novel full of hilarious antics, a field trip gone wrong, and a fifth grade that just can't seem to behave from Allan Woodrow!The fifth graders of Liberty Falls Elementary might be the worst fifth graders ever, but they still get to go on a field trip! They're going to visit the Edward Minks Mansion to learn about the eccentric inventor and founder of their town. Legend has it, there are some undiscovered inventions hidden in the house. The students are eager to find them, and they convince Principal Klein to let them out of writing their essay on Minks if they do. But as Aaron, Eddie, Jessie, and Chloe explore the Minks Mansion, it seems like something strange is going on. Like the adults are missing and someone might be stealing the inventions. But in order to save the inventions and their teachers, the kids might just have to pull some serious pranks to stop the bad guys. Even if it means risking a lifetime of detention.Can the fifth graders save their field trip and the mansion . . . or will this be the last field trip ever in school history?
The Fields: A brilliantly funny, moving read for fans of 'Derry Girls'
by Kevin Maher'A joy to read: fresh, funny, moving and always surprising' Kate Atkinson'Fresh, beguiling and laugh-out-loud funny on every page, this must be the most enjoyable Irish novel since Skippy Dies' GuardianThey'd sit around in a steamy kitchen circle like four mad witches, and dip ginger-snaps into Maxwell House until they went wobbly-warm, and take turns at saying, Jahear about so-and-so, Lord rest his soul, only thirty years old, poor creature?! They were brilliant at it. Scaring the shite out of each other, grinning inside.Jim Finnegan is thirteen years old and life in his world consists of dealing with the helter-skelter intensity of his rumbustious family, taking breakneck bike rides with his best friend, and coveting the local girls from afar - until one day when everything changes.The Fields is an unforgettable story of an extraordinary character: Jim's voice leaps off the page and straight into the reader's heart as he grapples with his unfairly interrupted adolescence.Praise for The Fields:'Heartbreaking and hilarious in equal measures' StylistFunny and heart-warming' Daily Mail'The Fields is crazy mad, lyrical and unforgettable' Red 'Exquisite moments of comedy that anyone with a whiff of Irish heritage will immediately recognise' Sunday Express
Fieles Infieles
by Samuel Cardeal Sebastián Rodolfo PeñaAdelaide y Anderson eran una pareja de ensueño, hasta que a los seis años de casados llegó la crisis de los siete. Para no perderse el uno al otro, ya que todavía se amaban, decidieron adherirse al casamiento abierto, lo que salvó su relación. Pero todo está a punto de desmoronarse cuando sus respectivos amantes les anuncian que se van a casar. En ese momento es que marido y mujer necesitan un plan infalible para impedir el matrimonio que puede decretar el fin de su casamiento.
A Fiend in Need: Book 2
by Jamie ThomsonDirk Lloyd, the Dark Lord trapped in the body of a weedy schoolboy, returns in another darkly hilarious adventure... Brilliantly funny and subversive, this is the Funny Prize-winning Jamie Thomson at his best.Sooz, a 13 yr old girl from Surrey has become the Dark Mistress of Dirk's other worldly kingdom, the Darklands. Thanks to the Ring of Power given to her by Dirk, his minions recognise her as their ruler. Sooz immediately sets about redecorating Dirk's Dark Tower to the taste of a young girl. But Sooz has to face her toughest challenge when an army of fanatical paladins and orcs gather to march against her. Despite their centuries of hostility to each other, they prefer to form an alliance rather than accept Sooz's new regime.And what of Dirk? He continues on slaving away at school, plotting ways to rescue Sooz. Eventually he is able to advise her on life in the Darklands and Sooz is able to hold back the fanatical paladins.
A Fiend in Need: Book 2 (Dark Lord #2)
by Jamie ThomsonDirk Lloyd, the Dark Lord trapped in the body of a weedy schoolboy, returns in another darkly hilarious adventure... Brilliantly funny and subversive, this is the Funny Prize-winning Jamie Thomson at his best.Sooz, a 13 yr old girl from Surrey has become the Dark Mistress of Dirk's other worldly kingdom, the Darklands. Thanks to the Ring of Power given to her by Dirk, his minions recognise her as their ruler. Sooz immediately sets about redecorating Dirk's Dark Tower to the taste of a young girl. But Sooz has to face her toughest challenge when an army of fanatical paladins and orcs gather to march against her. Despite their centuries of hostility to each other, they prefer to form an alliance rather than accept Sooz's new regime.And what of Dirk? He continues on slaving away at school, plotting ways to rescue Sooz. Eventually he is able to advise her on life in the Darklands and Sooz is able to hold back the fanatical paladins.
The Fiend Next Door
by Sheila LavelleTrouble with the Fiend is a sequel to My Best Fiend, both by Sheila Lavelle. These funny, poignant and timeless adventures of Charlie and her best 'fiend' Angela are reissued by popular demand for girls aged 6 - 8s.Angela has a knack of getting Charlie into trouble. She's always having fiendish ideas, like the time they hijack the milkman's float, and lock Miss Bridge in the gym shed, and when Angela pretends to kidnap a baby. But in the end Charlie gets her own back with a vengeance.Friend or fiend life is never dull for Charlie when Angela is around!
Fiendish Deeds
by BracegirdleDo you dare set foot in Spooking? It's the terrible town on the hideous hill -- and Joy Wells is a proud resident. A fan of classic horror stories, Joy is convinced that famous author E. A. Peugeot based his spine-tingling tales on Spooking. Take the eerie similarities between the nearby swamp and the setting of his masterpiece, "The Bawl of the Bog Fiend." Could the story be true? Could the bog fiend be on the loose? Things become truly horrifying when Joy learns that Darlington, the despicable suburban city where she is forced to go to school, is planning to build a water park over her beloved bog. It is up to her to safeguard the endangered area and its secrets. Little does she know that there is someone determined to destroy not only the bog but the town of Spooking itself -- and anyone who dares stand in his way. P. J. Bracegirdle spins a yarn of delicious devilry and macabre mayhem in the very first book of The Joy of Spooking trilogy.
Fierce Competition! (DC Super Hero Girls)
by Erica DavidJoin Wonder Woman(TM), Batgirl(TM), and the rest of the DC Super Hero Girls(TM) in an all-new action-packed paperback series!When an athletic competition with the school's super-villains gets way out of hand, young Wonder Woman, Supergirl(TM), and Batgirl team up with a few of their fellow superpowered students to save the day after the school bell rings. This chapter book features humor and action-packed stories and art throughout.
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates: A Novel (Large Print Bks.)
by Tom Robbins"Tom Robbins has a grasp on things that dazzles the brain and he's also a world-class storyteller. " --Thomas Pynchon InFierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, his seventh and biggest novel, the wise, witty, always gutsy Tom Robbins brings onstage the most complex and compelling character he has ever created. Switters is a contradiction for all seasons: an anarchist who works for the government, a pacifist who carries a gun, a vegetarian who sops up ham gravy, a cyberwhiz who hates computers, a robust...
Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from the New Yorker
by David Remnick Henry FinderWhen Harold Ross founded The New Yorker in 1925, he described it as a "comic weekly." And although it has become much more than that, it has remained true in its irreverent heart to the founder's description, publishing the most illustrious literary humorists of the modern era--among them Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx, George S. Kaufman, James Thurber, S. J. Perelman, Peter De Vries, Mike Nichols, Marshall Brickman, Woody Allen, Donald Barthelme, Calvin Trillin, George W. S. Trow, Veronica Geng, Garrison Keillor, Ian Frazier, Roy Blount, Jr., Bruce McCall, Steve Martin, Christopher Buckley, and Paul Rudnick. This anthology gathers together, for the first time, the funniest work of more than seventy New Yorker contributors. Parodists take on not only writers like Hemingway and Kerouac, but TV documentaries, Italian cinema, and etiquette books. (Enough have been published, Robert Benchley maintains, "that there should be no danger of toppling over forward into the wrong soup, or getting into arguments as to which elbow belongs on which arm.") Other pieces offer perspectives on the heights of fame, the depths of social embarrassment, and the ups and downs of love and sex. Such well-loved sketches as Thurber's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" take their place alongside light-hearted essays on food, tennis, and taxis, and flights of fancy that follow an apparently simple premise to the point of no return, and sometimes well beyond. Here you will find large insights (Woody Allen: "Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage") and hard-earned wisdom (Ian Frazier on dating your mom: "Here is a grown, experienced, loving woman--one you do not have to go to a party or a singles bar to meet, one you do not have to go to great lengths to know"). And, not least, a great deal of helpful advice, including Steve Martin's on memory and middle age: "Bored? Here's a way the over-fifty set can easily kill a good half hour: 1. Place your car keys in your right hand. 2. With your left hand, call a friend and confirm a lunch or dinner date. 3. Hang up the phone. 4. Now look for your car keys." A rich selection of humorous verse includes caustic gems by Dorothy Parker, the effortless whimsy of Phyllis McGinley, and Ogden Nash's unforgettable slapstick prosody, as well as forays by luminaries who ought to have known better, like Robert Graves, Elizabeth Bishop, and W. H. Auden.A wonderful gift for others, or a delightful treat for oneself, Fierce Pajamas is a treasury of laughter from a publication described by Auden as "the best comic magazine in existence."
Fierce Pretty Things: Stories (Blue Light Books)
by Tom HowardThis debut story collection from the Tobias Wolff Award–winning author &“is streaked with fantasy that deconstructs society&’s lost and wasted lives&” (Publishers Weekly). In these eight darkly comic stories, acclaimed author Tom Howard explores the conflicting instincts for tenderness and violence that mark his character&’s lives. A brother and sister wander the pier after a deadly plague destroys most of humanity. A high school bully struggles to overcome his demons. A man in the grips of dementia is visited by his children&’s ghosts. The people in these tales grapple with past mistakes, trying to navigate their way toward redemption and resurrection. Though they often fail, they strive with ferocious hearts as their voices guide us through schoolyards, cemeteries, drive-in theaters, and the rich landscapes of their own imaginations.
Una fierecilla indomable (Bat Pat #33)
by Roberto Pavanello¡Por todos los mosquitos! Acompaña al murciélago detective Bat Pat y a los hermanos Silver: Leo, Martin y Rebecca en esta gran aventura. ¡¡¡HOLA!!! SOY BAT PAT.OS VOY A CONTAR UNA HISTORIA QUE OS PONDRÁ LOS PELOS DE PUNTA...¿ESTÁIS PREPARADOS? Sabíais que los murciélagos tenemos el oído extremadamente sensible, ¿verdad? Entonces entenderéis mi sufrimiento si os cuento que... ¡¡Leo se ha apuntado a clases de canto!! Mientras, Rebecca ha recogido de la calle a un adorable cachorro. Pero el enterrador lo ha raptado y encerrado con unos perros peligrosos. Con Rebecca, Martin y Leo deberemos rescatarlo... ¡Suerte que el canto amansa a las fieras!
A FIERY BAPTISM
by Lynne GrahamWhy had Rafael Alejandro come back?In the five years since her marriage ended, Sarah Alejandro has kept herself and her beloved twins out of the lime light and away from men like her husband. But now he's walked back into her life with the same whirlwind of passion that he once ruthlessly used to seduce her. Rafael hasn't changed, he's still the thrillingly dangerous man she fell in love with. But Sarah won't let the desire that still burns between them ignite-she can't. Not if she is to keep her heart from going up in flames...again!
La fiesta de los nadie
by Flor InfanteEste libro es una invitación a su fiesta, a tu fiesta: la fiesta de todos los nadie. La fiesta de los nadie es una invitación a transitar el caos y el orden de una vida que es la de Flor Infante, pero podría ser la tuya, la de todos. Es una invitación a reír, llorar, bailar, abrazar, soltar, compartir, perdonar y, sobre todo, pensarse. Con su mirada camaleónica de actriz y comediante, Flor recorre una serie de episodios en la vida de un nadie: desde el nacimiento, el desarrollo y la enfermedad, hasta la búsqueda vocacional, el enamoramiento, la ruptura y las andanzas de la maternidad. En ese camino, propone «saltar al vacío sin red». Dar juntos un salto íntimo y arries-gado, repleto de humor, epifanías, amores y despedidas.
Fiesta de patinetas: Crónicas de la Primaria Carver, Libro 2 (The Carver Chronicles #2)
by Karen EnglishRichard no ve las horas de mostrar sus ollies en la fiesta de cumpleaños de su amigo en el parque de patinetas, pero una nota de su maestra sobre una tarea incompleta amenaza con arruinar sus planes. ¿Podrá Richard lograr posponer la firma de la nota hasta después de la fiesta (y enfrentar sus consecuencias)? ¿O eso solo le traerá más problemas?Esta serie de libros infantiles sobre un variado grupo de alumnos de primaria, escritos por Karen English, autora galardonada con el premio Coretta Scott King, ofrecen una narración precisa, personajes y situaciones con los que identificarse, y mucha acción. Los lectores emergentes y los flamantes lectores independientes se reconocerán en estas graciosas historias de la escuela y la familia.
¡Una fiesta de pijamas! (Daniela DivertiGuay #Volumen 1)
by Daniela DivertiGuayEsta va a ser la mejor fiesta de pijamas ¡DE LA HISTORIA! Llega la aventura más increíble de Daniela Divertiguay. Mis primas Valeria, Martina y yo queremos invitar a todas mis amigas a casa, pero primero tenemos que convencer a mi madre y a mi tita. Total, es solo una fiesta con amigas... ¿qué podría salir mal? ¡No te pierdas la aventura más divertiguay!
Fiesta de pizzas: Crónicas de la Primaria Carver, Libro 6 (The Carver Chronicles #6)
by Karen EnglishRichard y sus amigos están a tan solo cuatro días de marcar un récord por su excelente comportamiento y de ganar una fiesta de pizzas en el aula cuando ocurre el desastre: su adorada maestra se enferma y ocupa su lugar el suplente que es estricto y malo. ¿Se frustrarán sus sueños de una fiesta de pizzas cuando el suplente sospeche que algunos han estado haciendo trampa?Third grader Richard and his friends are just four days away from setting a record for excellent behavior and earning a classroom pizza party when disaster strikes—their beloved teacher is out sick, and the strictest, meanest substitute has taken her place! Not even the best-behaved kid can live up to this sub&’s impossible standards. Will their dreams of pizza be dashed after all their hard work?
Fiesta secreta de pizza
by Adam Rubin* “With a casually diverse cast of characters, Secret Pizza Party is a sure hit for primary-grade kids, who will appreciate the subtle humor and absurdity.”—School Library Journal, starred reviewHow does Racoon love pizza? Oh, let him count the ways. He loves the gooey cheesy-ness, salty pepperoni-ness, sweet sweet tomato-ness, and of course the crispity crunchity crust. But someone is always chasing poor Raccoon away from his favorite food with a broom! What's a hungry raccoon to do? Plan an elaborate secret pizza party, of course! But shhh! It’s a secret! In fact, you should probably just forget I told you. Nope, no secret pizza party happening here.You didn’t already tell all your friends, did you? Uh oh . . .Fans of Jon Klassen and Mo Willems's humor will gobble up this quirky ode to the lengths we will go to for our heart's desire.
Fifteen Minutes of Shame
by Lisa DailyView our feature on Lisa Daily's Fifteen Minutes of Shame. What happens when America’s favorite dating expert finds out on national television that her husband is cheating on her? Darby Vaughn’s fifteen minutes of fame quickly becomes fifteen minutes of shame when the story of her divorce is splashed across supermarket tabloids. If Darby takes her philandering husband back, her career will be over. If she doesn’t, she’ll lose the only man she’s ever loved. As she rebuilds her life with help from her girlfriends, Darby has to make some tough choices, but she stays true to her heart every step of the way. .
Fifteen Years of a Dancer's Life: With Some Account of her Distinguished Friends
by Loie FullerAt a time when Art Nouveau was all the rage, Fuller burst upon the scene as its living embodiment. A new kind of dancer whose simple movements were highly expressive, she created a fantasy world of dazzling shapes and light play. Every mixed-media artist today owes a debt to her pioneering use of electrical lighting and her synthesis of music, color, light and fabric.—Anna Kisselgoff. The New York TimesLoïe Fuller began her theatrical career as a professional child actress and later choreographing and performing dances in burlesque, vaudeville, and circus shows. Although Fuller became famous in America, she felt that she was not taken seriously by the public. After a warm reception in Paris during a tour, Fuller remained in France and became a regular performer at the Folies Bergère with works such as Fire Dance; she became the embodiment of the Art Nouveau movement. Fuller’s pioneering work attracted the attention, respect, and friendship of many French artists and scientists, including Jules Chéret, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, François-Raoul Larche, Henri-Pierre Roché, Auguste Rodin, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Marie Curie. More a theatrician than a dancer, Fuller invented many effects we still use today: the stage surrounded in black curtains to focus attention on the performer; the color-wheel; scenic projection; and, “specials” that are individual lights used to emphasize an effect. She took pieces out of the stage floor, replacing them with glass panels and upwardly directed lights. Fuller held many patents related to stage lighting including chemical compounds for creating color gel and the use of chemical salts for luminescent lighting and garments. She was also a member of the French Astronomical Society. Fuller is responsible for the European tours of the early modern dancers, introducing Isadora Duncan to Parisian audiences and developing the acceptance of modern dance as a serious art form.-Uni of Washington.
Fifteenth Summer (Sixteenth Summer)
by Michelle DaltonA teen unexpectedly finds love during a summer vacation at a lake town in this tender romance in the spirit of The Summer I Turned Pretty—now with a beautiful new look!Chelsea isn&’t looking forward to her summer at the lake. It&’s the first time her family has been there since her grandmother died, and she can&’t break out of her funk. But her summer takes a turn for the better when she meets a boy who works in the bookstore. Josh is cute, sweet, funny…and best of all, seems to like her as much as she likes him. As the days pass by in a blur of boat rides, picnics, and stolen kisses, she can&’t believe how lucky she is. No one has ever made her feel so special, or so beautiful. But Chelsea knows her days with Josh are numbered. She&’ll be heading home at the end of the summer—and he&’ll be staying behind. Will this be Chelsea&’s summer of love? Or will it be the summer of her broken heart?
The Fifth Elephant: A Discworld Novel (City Watch #5)
by Terry Pratchett“Pratchett cheerfully takes readers on an exuberant tale of mystery and invention. Along the way, he skewers everything from monarchy to fascism, as well as communism and capitalism, oil wealth and ethnic identities, Russian plays, immigration, condoms, and evangelical Christianity—in short, everything worth talking about.” —Publishers Weekly Elephants, werewolves, and ruby tights (oh my!) collide in this clever Discworld tale rich in mystery, myth, intrigue, and a dollop of diplomacy from the legendary New York Times bestselling author Terry Pratchett.Everyone knows that the world is flat, and supported on the backs of four elephants. But weren’t there supposed to be five? Indeed there were. So where is the fifth elephant?Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork constabulary is the man to find out. A copper through and through, he’s been “invited” to attend a royal function as a diplomat, ambassador to the mysterious, fat-rich country of Uberwald—complete with ruby tights.Of course where cops go, crime follows. An attempted assassination and a theft soon lead to a desperate chase from the low halls of Discworld royalty to the legendary fat mines of Uberwald, where lard is found in underground seams along with tusks and teeth and other precious ivory artifacts. It’s up to the dauntless Vimes to solve the puzzle of the missing pachyderm. After all, that’s what he does.Only there are monsters on his trail—bright, fast, toothy werewolves. And they’re catching up.The Discworld novels can be read in any order but The Fifth Elephant is the 5th book in the City Watch collection.The City Watch series in order:Guards! Guards!Men at ArmsFeet of ClayJingoThe Fifth ElephantNight WatchThud!Snuff
Fifth-Grade Zombies (Goosebumps SlappyWorld)
by R. L. StineThis is Slappy's world -- You only scream in it!When city kid Todd Coates moves from Queens, New York, to live on a Wisconsin farm for a year, he's in for a more than just hanging out with his cousins Mila and Skipper. Strange things begin to happen all around him. But Todd is the only one who sees them. Late at night. In the cornfields. Todd is convinced there is something of the undead variety out there. Will he be able to prove it to his classmates before school is dismissed… permanently?
The Fifth Script: The Lacey Lockington Series - Book One (The Lacey Lockington Mysteries #1)
by Ross H. SpencerIn this &“pugnacious, feisty&” mystery series debut from the author of Death Wore Gloves, a devious killer has it in for a poison penned beauty (Kirkus Reviews). Chicago Detective Lacey Lockington has never been squeamish about taking out a few low lives in the pursuit of justice. But when tabloid columnist Stella Starbright calls him a &“kill-crazy cop,&” he suddenly needs to find a new line of work. Taking a job as a private investigator is a step down, for sure, but his first few cases certainly pique his interest: former &“Stella Starbrights&” are turning up dead on the streets of Chicago, and the current one—the very same Stella who ruined his reputation—is coming to him for protection. Going against his gut, Lacey agrees to keep Stella from sharing the grisly fate of her former namesakes. In the midst of all the madness, Lacey hunts the real killer, someone looking to silence gossip columnists for good. But can Lacey crack the case before another victim gets a headline in the obituaries? &“Ross Spencer is wild, shrewd, mad, and unexpectedly funny.&” —The New York Times