Added by: KundAlini | Karma: 1594.10 | Fiction literature | 26 January 2011
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Shadow Wolf (Wolves of the Beyond, Book 2)
By Kathryn Lasky
The wolf pup Faolan was born with a twisted paw, a slight defect that caused his wolf clan to abandon him in the forest to die. But Faolan, with the help of the grizzly bear who raised him as her own, survived. Now he's made it back to his clan and as a gnaw wolf, the lowest ranking pack member. And the hardships are just beginning. Another gnaw wolf, Heep, is jealous of Faolan and sets him up for failure. As if these humiliations are not enough, Faolon is framed for the murder of a wolf pup.
V. I. Warshawski, private investigator, Chicago, USA. People imagine private detectives to be tired-looking men in raincoats, but Vic is female. She's tough, beautiful, carries a gun - and goes on asking questions until she gets answers. When her cousin Boom Boom dies in an accident, Vic is naturally upset. She wants to know how and why the accident happened, and she isn't satisfied by the answers she gets. So she goes on asking questions . . . and more people start to die.
This series of readers is aimed at students at 6 levels from elementary to advanced. All stages have exercises for classroom or private use, plus a glossary to help with vocabulary. This advanced level book is a thriller which charts a desperate race against time across the frozen Arctic.
Photographs combine with lively illustrations and engaging, age-appropriate stories in Readers, a multilevel reading program guaranteed to capture children's interest while developing their reading skills and general knowledge. Welcome to China takes readers on a whirlwind tour of the world's biggest country, taking a look at its people, its landscape, its culture, and how all of these are changing with the times.
Added by: KundAlini | Karma: 1594.10 | Fiction literature | 25 January 2011
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By Kathryn Lasky
A wolf pup is left to die by his pack because his malformed foot is considered bad luck. A grizzly bear, Thunderheart, whose cubs have been killed, rescues Faolan and nurtures him until her accidental death. As the young wolf continues on alone, he discovers "the Cave Before Time" with wall paintings portraying the history of the wolves and realizes that he must return to his own kind and learn their ways. This anthropomorphic fantasy has a number of the traditional characters found in these tales, such as the young outcast Faolan; the wise and solitary Gwynneth, the owl; and the powerfully maternal Thunderheart.
