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Mr. Chickee's Funny Money
Mr. Chickee, the genial blind man in the neighborhood, gives 9-year-old Steven a mysterious bill with 15 zeros on it and the image of a familiar but startling face. Could it be a quadrillion dollar bill? Could it be real? Well, Agent Fondoo of the U.S. Treasury Department and his team of Secret Gov... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
Mr. Chickee's Messy Mission
Steven and his best friend Russell are back!When Russell's dog, Rodney Rodent, jumps into a mural to chase a demonic-looking gnome and disappears, the Flint Future Detectives are on the case. With the secret password (Bow-wow-wow yippee yo yippee yay!) Steven, Richelle, and Russell enter the mural t... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Bud, Not Buddy
"It's funny how ideas are, in a lot of ways they're just like seeds. Both of them start real, real small and then... woop, zoop, sloop... before you can say Jack Robinson, they've gone and grown a lot bigger than you ever thought they could." <P><P> So figures scrappy 10-year-old philosopher Bud-... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
Mr. Chickee's Messy Mission
Steven and his best friend Russell are back! When Russell's dog, Rodney Rodent, jumps into a mural to chase a demonic-looking gnome and disappears, the Flint Future Detectives are on the case. With the secret password (Bow-wow-wow yippee yo yippee yay!) Steven, Richelle, and Russell enter the mura... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Bucking the Sarge
Luther T. Farrell has got to get out of Flint, Michigan. <p><p> As his best friend Sparky says, “Flint’s nothing but the Titanic.” <p> And his mother, a.k.a. the Sarge, says, “Take my advice and stay off the sucker path.” <p> The Sarge milked the system to build an empire of slum housing and g... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2004 -
Bud, Not Buddy (Journeys 2014)
It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him: he's got a suitcase filled with his own important, secret things; he's the author of Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Mark... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
Elijah of Buxton
11-year-old Elijah is the first child born into freedom in Buxton, Canada, a settlement of runaway slaves just over the border from Detroit. Things change when a former slave steals money from Elijah's friend, who has been saving to buy his family out of slavery in the South. Elijah embarks on a dan... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963: Instructional Guides For Literature
The Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree about the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan—from Christopher Paul Curtis, author of Bud, Not Buddy, a Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott Award Winner.Enter the hilarious world of ten-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. There's M... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
The Mighty Miss Malone
"We are a family on a journey to a place called wonderful" is the motto of Deza Malone's family. Deza is the smartest girl in her class in Gary, Indiana, singled out by teachers for a special path in life. But the Great Depression hit Gary hard, and there are no jobs for black men. When her beloved ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Christopher Paul Curtis 3-Book eomni: The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963; Bud, Not Buddy; The Mighty Miss Malone
From the Newberry Medal and Corretta Scott King Award winning author, three bestselling novels that have been called &“a modern classic&” by NPR and &“marvelous&” by The New York Times are now available for the first time in one ebook collection!Included in this set are three cherished and unforgett... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1995 -
The Madman of Piney Woods
Bestselling Newbery Medalist Christopher Paul Curtis delivers a powerful companion to his multiple award-winning ELIJAH OF BUXTON. Benji and Red couldn't be more different. They aren't friends. They don't even live in the same town. But their fates are entwined. A chance meeting leads the boys to d... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Elijah of Buxton
Master storyteller Christopher Paul Curtis's Newbery Honor novel, featuring his trademark humor, unique narrative voice, and new cover art--now in paperback!<P><P> Eleven-year-old Elijah lives in Buxton, Canada, a settlement of runaway slaves near the American border. He's the first child in town... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
The Journey of Little Charlie
Twelve-year-old Charlie is down on his luck: His sharecropper father just died and Cap'n Buck -- the most fearsome man in Possum Moan, South Carolina -- has come to collect a debt. <P><P>Fearing for his life, Charlie strikes a deal with Cap'n Buck and agrees to track down some folks accused of ste... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963
A wonderful middle-grade novel narrated by Kenny, 9, about his middle-class black family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. When Kenny's 13-year-old brother, Byron, gets to be too much trouble, they head South to Birmingham to visit Grandma, the one person who can shape him up. And they happ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1995 -
The Slave Dancer
Newbery Medal Winner: A young Louisiana boy faces the horrors of slavery when he is kidnapped and forced to work on a slave ship in this iconic novel. Thirteen-year-old Jessie Bollier earns a few pennies playing his fife on the docks of New Orleans. One night, on his way home, a canvas is thrown o... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1973 -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin was a sensation upon its publication in 1852. In its first year it sold 300,000 copies, and has since been translated into more than twenty languages. This powerful story of one slave's unbreakable spirit holds an important place in American history, as it helped solidify the anti-... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2002 -
Newbery Medal Winners Three-Book Collection: Bud, Not Buddy; Moon Over Manifest; When You Reach Me
Three Newbery Medal winners—Christopher Paul Curtis&’s Bud, Not Buddy, Clare Vanderpool&’s Moon Over Manifest, and Rebecca Stead&’s When You Reach Me—come together in this collection that&’s perfect for catching up on old favorites and discovering new ones. Whether you&’re looking for an escape or... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
Guys Read: "What? You Think You Got It Rough?"
But nobody has it worse than Papa Red did when he was a kid. And you better listen up when he talks. A short story from the acclaimed collection Guys Read: Funny Business, edited by Jon Scieszka.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin was a sensation upon its publication in 1852. In its first year it sold 300,000 copies, and has since been translated into more than twenty languages. This powerful story of one slave's unbreakable spirit holds an important place in American history, as it helped solidify the anti-... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2002 -
Me llamo Bud no Buddy
Bud no quiere regresar al orfanato después de su desastrosa noche en la casa de los Amós; por lo tanto, decide ir en busca del líder de la banda que él cree que es el padre que nunca ha conocido. Los lectores encontrarán irresistible esta conmovedora historia de la época de la Depresión.... More
Language: SPACopyright: 2016 -
Linking Urban and Rural Tourism: Strategies in Sustainability
by Christina T. Cavaliere • Kynda R. Curtis • Dominic Lapointe • Professor Kelly Bricker • Professor Andrew Holden • Karla Boluk • Roslynn Brain • Dana Clark • John D. Delconte • Lauren Duffy • Marika Gon • Gyunghoon Kim • Chantell LaPan • Katherine Lupton • Leah Greden Mathews • Robert Maitland • Acha-Anyi Paul Nkemngu • Christopher Proctor • Alexis SolanoDestinations rely on regional strategies to support and enhance the tourism product through regional partnerships and integration. Integrated tourism is defined as tourism that is explicitly linked to the economic, social, cultural, natural and human structures of the region in which it occurs. Inte... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Antimicrobial Stewardship: Principles and Practice
by Thomas Lodise • John McNelis • Powel Kazanjian • Armen Arshakyan • Cesar Arias • Allison H. Bartlett • Andrew Berti • April Bobenchik • Hugh Booth • Carey-Ann Burnham • Michael Calderwood • Gerald Capraro • Professor Joseph Carreno • Kimberle Chapin • Christopher W Crank • Robert S. Daum • Professor Susan Davis • George Daikos • Tom Dilworth • Christopher D Doern • Professor Gary V Doern • Curtis Donskey • Monica Dorobisz • Ramy Elshaboury • Sandy Estrada • Islam Ghazi • Jennifer Goldman • Blanca Gonzalez • Christopher J Graber • Inge Gyssens • Sajeev Handa • Amy Hanson • Emily L Heil • Elizabeth D Hermsen • Styliani Karanika • Keith S Kaye • Joseph L Kuti • Nicole M Mahoney • Antonis Markogiannakis • Aileen Martinez • Dmitriy Martirosov • Dayna McManus • Renee-Claude Mercier • Jacob Morton • Jose M Munita • Jason Newland • David Nicolau • Jessica Ortwine • Suresh Paudel • Jason Pogue • Warren Rose • John Rotschafer • Michael Ruggero • Michael Samarkos • Nikolaos Sipsas • Harold Standiford • Melvin Stone • Mahlet Tadele • Evangelia Theophano Piperaki • Philip Toltzis • Jeffrey E Topal • Damary Torres • Leonidas Tzouvelekis • Jamie L Wagner • Carla Walraven • Panayiotis ZiakasIn an age where antimicrobial resistance amongst pathogens grows more prevalent, particularly in the hospital setting, antimicrobial stewardship is an evidence-based, proven measure in the battle against resistance and infection. This single comprehensive, definitive reference work is written by a... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017