Publisher :McFarland Release Date :2013-05-11 ISBN 13:1476605661 Total Pages :208 pages Rating :4.7/5 (476 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt “Throw the book away” :
Download or Read book “Throw the book away” written by Amie A. Doughty and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-05-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: Children’s literature is an excellent way to educate children, on everything from social behavior and beliefs to attitudes toward education itself. A major aspect of children’s literature is the importance of books and reading. Books represent adult authority. This book examines the role that books, reading and writing play in children’s fantasy fiction, from books that act as artifacts of power (The Abhorsen Trilogy, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Harry Potter) to interactive books (The Neverending Story, Malice, Inkheart) to books with character-writers (Percy Jackson, Captain Underpants). The author finds that although books and reading often play a prominent role in fantasy for children, the majority of young protagonists gain self-sufficiency not by reading but specifically by moving beyond books and reading.
Publisher :McFarland Release Date :2013-12-09 ISBN 13:0786475544 Total Pages :256 pages Rating :4.8/5 (786 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt The Vampire Goes to College :
Download or Read book The Vampire Goes to College written by Lisa A. Nevárez and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-12-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: "This collection of original essays presents pedagogical tools, methods, and approaches for incorporating the figure of the vampire into the learning environment of the college classroom. The essays foster collaboration and dialogue across different disciplines, and serve as a collective resource for those who would teach the vampire"--
Publisher :Penguin Release Date :2007-10-02 ISBN 13:1440620016 Total Pages :256 pages Rating :4.4/5 (44 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt Midnight Alley :
Download or Read book Midnight Alley written by Rachel Caine and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: Claire Danvers's college town may be run by vampires but a truce between the living and the dead made things relatively safe. For a while. Now people are turning up dead, a psycho is stalking her, and an ancient bloodsucker has proposed private mentoring. To what end, Claire will find out. And it's giving night school a whole new meaning. Watch a Windows Media trailer for this book.
Publisher :Penguin Release Date :2007-04-03 ISBN 13:1101128666 Total Pages :256 pages Rating :4.0/5 (11 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt The Dead Girls' Dance :
Download or Read book The Dead Girls' Dance written by Rachel Caine and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: Claire has her share of challenges. Like being a genius in a school that favors beauty over brains; homicidal girls in her dorm, and finding out that her college town is overrun with the living dead. On the up side, she has a new boyfriend with a vampire-hunting dad. But when a local fraternity throws the Dead Girls' Dance, hell is really going to break loose. Watch a Windows Media trailer for this book.
Publisher :Penguin Release Date :2008-06-03 ISBN 13:1440631565 Total Pages :256 pages Rating :4.4/5 (44 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt Feast of Fools :
Download or Read book Feast of Fools written by Rachel Caine and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: Watch a Windows Media trailer for this book.
Publisher :Penguin Release Date :2006-10-03 ISBN 13:110112850X Total Pages :256 pages Rating :4.0/5 (11 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt Glass Houses :
Download or Read book Glass Houses written by Rachel Caine and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation, where the popular girls never let her forget just where she ranks in the school's social scene: somewhere less than zero. When Claire heads off-campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room may not be much better. Her new roommates don't show many signs of life. But they'll have Claire's back when the town's deepest secrets come crawling out, hungry for fresh blood. Watch a Windows Media trailer for this book.
Publisher : Release Date :2010 ISBN 13: Total Pages : pages Rating :4.0/5 ( users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt School Library Journal :
Download or Read book School Library Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis:
Publisher :Penguin Release Date :2012-05-01 ISBN 13:110158534X Total Pages :400 pages Rating :4.0/5 (11 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt Black Dawn :
Download or Read book Black Dawn written by Rachel Caine and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: With its eclectic mix of vampire and human citizens, Morganville, Texas, has always been a risky place to call home. But with the invasion of the vampire’s deadliest enemy, Morganville isn’t just in danger—it’s dying… Ever since the draug—mysterious creatures that prey on vampires—took over Morganville, the lives of student Claire Danvers and her friends have been thrown into turmoil. Most of the town’s residents have evacuated, but Claire, Shane, Eve and Michael have chosen to stay and fight. Using the city’s water system to spread, the draug have rapidly multiplied. Things in Morganville look grim, especially since vampire Amelie—the town founder—has been infected by the master draug’s bite. Now, if Claire and her friends don’t figure out how to cure Amelie and defeat the draug, it looks like Morganville will become little more than a ghost town…
Publisher :Bloomsbury Publishing Release Date :2022-05-19 ISBN 13:135021566X Total Pages :288 pages Rating :4.5/5 (35 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt Postfeminism and Contemporary Vampire Romance :
Download or Read book Postfeminism and Contemporary Vampire Romance written by Lea Gerhards and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: In this book, Lea Gerhards traces connections between three recent vampire romance series; the Twilight film series (2008-2012), The Vampire Diaries (2009-2017) and True Blood (2008-2014), exploring their tremendous discursive and ideological power in order to understand the cultural politics of these extremely popular texts. She uses contemporary vampire romance to examine postfeminist ideologies and discuss gender, sexuality, subjectivity, agency and the body. Discussing a range of conflicting meanings contained in the narratives, Gerhards critically looks genre's engagement with everyday sexism and violence against women, power relations in heterosexual relationships, sexual autonomy and pleasure, (self-) empowerment, and (self-) surveillance. She asks: Why are these genre texts so popular right now, what specific desires, issues and fears are addressed and negotiated by them, and what kinds of pleasures do they offer?
Publisher : Release Date :2008-02 ISBN 13:9780835247498 Total Pages : pages Rating :4.4/5 (247 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt Bowker's Guide to Characters in Fiction 2007 :
Download or Read book Bowker's Guide to Characters in Fiction 2007 written by and published by . This book was released on 2008-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis:
Publisher :Penguin Release Date :2009-06-02 ISBN 13:1101060077 Total Pages :256 pages Rating :4.0/5 (11 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt Carpe Corpus :
Download or Read book Carpe Corpus written by Rachel Caine and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: Read Rachel Caine's posts on the Penguin Blog In the small college town of Morganville, vampires and humans lived in (relative) peace-until all the rules got rewritten when the evil vampire Bishop arrived, looking for the lost book of vampire secrets. He's kept a death grip on the town ever since. Now an underground resistance is brewing, and in order to contain it, Bishop must go to even greater lengths. He vows to obliterate the town and all its inhabitants-the living and the undead. Claire Danvers and her friends are the only ones who stand in his way. But even if they defeat Bishop, will the vampires ever be content to go back to the old rules, after having such a taste of power?
Publisher :Penguin Release Date :2009-01-06 ISBN 13:1440660859 Total Pages :256 pages Rating :4.4/5 (44 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt Lord of Misrule :
Download or Read book Lord of Misrule written by Rachel Caine and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: In the college town of Morganville, vampires and humans coexist in (relatively) bloodless harmony. Then comes Bishop, the master vampire who threatens to abolish all order, revive the forces of the evil dead, and let chaos rule. But Bishop isn’t the only threat. Violent black cyclone clouds hover, promising a storm of devastating proportions as student Claire Danvers and her friends prepare to defend Morganville against elements both natural and unnatural. Watch a Windows Media trailer for this book.
Publisher :ABC-CLIO Release Date :2015-09-29 ISBN 13:1440834512 Total Pages :392 pages Rating :4.4/5 (44 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt Encountering Enchantment: A Guide to Speculative Fiction for Teens, 2nd Edition :
Download or Read book Encountering Enchantment: A Guide to Speculative Fiction for Teens, 2nd Edition written by Susan Fichtelberg and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: The most current and complete guide to a favorite teen genre, this book maps current releases along with perennial favorites, describing and categorizing fantasy, paranormal, and science fiction titles published since 2006. • Encompasses a wide selection of speculative fiction genres to suit a broad spectrum of readers in grades 6–12 • Identifies award-winning titles, grade levels, book club potential, and alternative media formats and provides complete bibliographic information for each title • Includes interviews with prominent authors that convey the perspectives of the creators of the worlds into which readers are drawn • Covers some children's literature and some adult novels that are popular with young adults • Offers a detailed subject index with an extensive number of access points
Publisher :ABC-CLIO Release Date :2014-06-19 ISBN 13:1440803897 Total Pages :381 pages Rating :4.4/5 (44 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt Encyclopedia of the Zombie: The Walking Dead in Popular Culture and Myth :
Download or Read book Encyclopedia of the Zombie: The Walking Dead in Popular Culture and Myth written by June Michele Pulliam and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: A fascinating read for anyone from general readers to hardcore fans and scholars, this encyclopedia covers virtually every aspect of the zombie as cultural phenomenon, including film, literature, folklore, music, video games, and events. The proliferation of zombie-related fiction, film, games, events, and other media in the last decade would seem to indicate that zombies are "the new vampires" in popular culture. The editors and contributors of Encyclopedia of the Zombie: The Walking Dead in Popular Culture and Myth took on the prodigious task of covering all aspects of the phenomenon, from the less-known historical and cultural origins of the zombie myth to the significant works of film and literature as well as video games in the modern day that feature the insatiable, relentless zombie character. The encyclopedia examines a wide range of significant topics pertaining to zombies, such as zombies in the pulp magazines; the creation of the figure of the zuvembie to subvert decades of censorship by the Comics Code of Authority; Humans vs. Zombies, a popular zombie-themed game played on college campuses across the country; and annual Halloween zombie walks. Organized alphabetically to facilitate use of the encyclopedia as a research tool, it also includes entries on important scholarly works in the expanding field of zombie studies. • Provides comprehensive coverage of topics about or relating to zombies in film, literature, folklore, and popular culture • Features work from contributors who are dedicated scholars, authors, or fans in the zombie genre of work • Supplies dates with all names and works to give readers a sense of the historical context and evolution of zombie lore • Includes concept entries—for example, comedy, free will, and weapons—that place works in a logical, thematic context
Publisher :ABC-CLIO Release Date :2012 ISBN 13:1598846531 Total Pages :126 pages Rating :4.9/5 (598 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt Read On-- Speculative Fiction for Teens :
Download or Read book Read On-- Speculative Fiction for Teens written by Jamie Kallio and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2012 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: This guide offers exciting new reading paths for students who enjoy fantasy, science fiction, and paranormal themes. With over 350 titles organized into their primary appeal characteristics and scores of thematic lists, librarians and educators will benefit from lists of contemporary selections specifically written for teens. * A plethora of reading lists organized by theme, topic, and popularity * Bibliographic information and concise descriptions for each title
Publisher :CreateSpace Release Date :2011-08-01 ISBN 13:9781463776633 Total Pages :314 pages Rating :4.7/5 (776 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt P. N. Elrod Lunchtime Reading Omnibus :
Download or Read book P. N. Elrod Lunchtime Reading Omnibus written by Patricia Nead Elrod and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: PREVIEW! Excerpts from ALL stories: http://www.vampwriter.com/E-EXCERPTS.htm Elrod's picked 15 of her favorite short works for this multi-genre collection spanning 15 years of publication. Also included is a never before published VAMPIRE FILES story, featuring her urban fantasy vampire PI, Jack Fleming! Each story has been polished afresh for this anthology, with pages of new material added. Titles: 1. A Night at the (Horse) Opera (Vampire Files, Fleming) 2. The Breath of Bast (Vampire Files), Ecsott) 3. Bossman (Original mystery, no vamps) 4. Slaughter (Vampire Files, Fleming & Gordy) 5. The Devil's Mark (Original historical vampire) 6. You'll Catch Your Death (Vampire Files) 7. Izzy's Shoe-In (Historical mystery introducing Izzy DeLeon, fearless girl reporter!) 8. The Quick Way Down (Vampire Files, Fleming and Gordy) 9. The Scottish Ploy (Original romance/mystery) 10. Grave-Robbed (Vampire Files, Fleming) 11. The Company You Keep (Vampire Files, Gabriel Kroun) 12. Death in Dover (Jonathan Barrett before he got vamped, historical mystery) 13. Drawing Dead (ALL NEW VAMPIRE FILES, Fleming) 14. King of Shreds and Patches (Hamlet from a different point of view, mystery) 15. Fugitive (Science fiction/space opera) 16. BONUS STORY! The Wind Breathes Cold (Quincey Morris: Vampire) REVIEWS OF ELROD'S OTHER BOOKS: This entertaining first installment in a new series by the author of The Vampire Files offers deft touches of wit, beauty and suspense. - Publisher's Weekly. "Elrod knows how to pace the action without resorting to caricature. These characters, including the vampires, believable...a pleasure to know!" - Library Journal "Clever characterization, wicked wit, and palatable mayhem...[an] entertaining detective romp" --Publisher's Weekly "Filled with snappy action and sharp dialogue, and featuring a likable hero, Elrod's latest is certain to be a hit with the fang-loving crowd." - Booklist "Characters are well-drawn, the good and the bad ... The book's chief joys are the voice of Jonathan and the portrayal of Tory life during the American revolution." - LOCUS Elrod ups the stakes (pun intended) in this latest, and best installment of the Jack Fleming saga. Chills, thrills, and dark doings in '30s Chicago, heralded by the arrival of a darkly fascinating new vampire character with a deadly secret. Elrod takes her universe into unexplored territory with Dark Road Rising." - Rachel Caine, author of the Morganville Vampire series "The book is as dark and decadent as blood and chocolate. The writing pops, and Jack Fleming is a narrator to die for." --Caitlin Kittredge, author of the Nocturne City series. "The setting is captivating, the characters are original, and the plot will leave you hungry for more." --Lori Handeland, author of The Nightcreature series "Dark Road Rising kept me up all night. A satisfying, smart, genuinely savvy read-with a lot of bite!" --Lilith Saintcrow, author of the Dante Valentine series.
Publisher : Release Date :2020-11-23 ISBN 13: Total Pages :322 pages Rating :4.6/5 (568 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt Drawing Dead and Other Stories :
Download or Read book Drawing Dead and Other Stories written by P.N. Elrod and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: Original title: The P.N. Elrod Lunch Time Reading Omnibus. This is the new reissue with a new cover. Original blurb: P.N. Elrod's picked her favorite short works for this multi-genre collection. Each story has been polished afresh for this anthology, with pages of new material added. Titles: 1. A Night at the (Horse) Opera (Vampire Files, Fleming) 2. The Breath of Bast (Vampire Files), Ecsott) 3. Bossman (Original mystery, no vamps) 4. Slaughter (Vampire Files, Fleming & Gordy) 5. The Devil's Mark (Original historical vampire)6. You'll Catch Your Death (Vampire Files)7. Izzy's Shoe-In (Historical mystery introducing Izzy DeLeon, fearless girl reporter) 8. The Quick Way Down (Vampire Files, Fleming and Gordy) 9. The Scottish Ploy (Original romance/mystery) 10. Grave-Robbed (Vampire Files, Fleming) 11. The Company You Keep (Vampire Files, Gabriel Kroun) 12. Death in Dover (Jonathan Barrett before he got vamped, historical mystery) 13. King of Shreds and Patches (Hamlet from a different point of view, mystery) 14. Fugitive (Science fiction/space opera) 15. The Wind Breathes Cold (Quincey Morris: Vampire) 16. Drawing Dead (Vampire Files, Jack Fleming) REVIEWS OF ELROD'S OTHER BOOKS: "This entertaining first installment in a new series by the author of The Vampire Files offers deft touches of wit, beauty and suspense. - Publisher's Weekly. "Elrod knows how to pace the action without resorting to caricature. These characters, including the vampires, believable...a pleasure to know!" - Library Journal "Clever characterization, wicked wit, and palatable mayhem...[an] entertaining detective romp." --Publisher's Weekly "Filled with snappy action and sharp dialogue, and featuring a likable hero, Elrod's latest is certain to be a hit with the fang-loving crowd." - Booklist "Characters are well-drawn, the good and the bad ... The book's chief joys are the voice of Jonathan and the portrayal of Tory life during the American revolution." - LOCUS P.N. Elrod ups the stakes (pun intended) in this latest, and best installment of the Jack Fleming saga. Chills, thrills, and dark doings in '30s Chicago, heralded by the arrival of a darkly fascinating new vampire character with a deadly secret. Elrod takes her universe into unexplored territory with Dark Road Rising." - Rachel Caine, author of the Morganville Vampire series "The book is as dark and decadent as blood and chocolate. The writing pops, and Jack Fleming is a narrator to die for." --Caitlin Kittredge, author of the Nocturne City series. "The setting is captivating, the characters are original, and the plot will leave you hungry for more." --Lori Handeland, author of The Nightcreature series "Dark Road Rising kept me up all night. A satisfying, smart, genuinely savvy read--with a lot of bite!" --Lilith Saintcrow, author of the Dante Valentine series.
