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Andy, a fourth grader from Indiana, whose mouth runs quicker than his brain, has found himself in trouble again. While hiding out in his mother's car, a tornado hits, and sends him back thousands of years - surrounded by Indians and praying for his life. As he journeys through centuries, he perfects the art of tree-climbing, train-hopping, and landing in just the right spot to be transported to another time. But Andy's free-spirited adventures are tested as he experiences major events in history, where the stormy realities of war, slavery, and racism force him to make life-changing decisions.
While on an archeological dig, David Masters discovers a casket from a carnival from a carnival show containing the "wax" figure of a vampire. When he brings it back to New York, David begins hearing voices and finds himself drawn to the vampires, whom he's named Martin. When a blood tear trickles down Martin's cheek, David touches it, and begins a new, dark life.
It was only a little more than 100 years ago, when Bram Stoker wrote the now famous Dracula, that vampire myths began to achieve their current popularity. Hundreds of books now portray vampires in a variety of non-traditional roles, including aliens from outer space, private detectives, and time travelers. Vampire Readings is an annotated bibliography of 779 entries divided into five sections: Novels; Anthologies and Novellas; Young Adult; Additional Readings; Unread Undead. The largest section is Novels and here, besides a summary of the plot (without spoilers), the author indicates where each novel may fit into other genres such as science fiction/fantasy, mystery, romance, etc. Works by such writers as Anne Rice, Tanya Huff, Christopher Pike, Tanith Lee, Barbara Hambly, Kim Newman, and, of course, Bram Stoker are discussed in Vampire Readings . Separate author and title indexes are included.
Contemporary Readings in Curriculum provides beginning teachers and educational leaders with a series of articles that can help them build their curriculum knowledge base. [This book] provides a historical context of the curriculum field, giving educators a solid foundation for curriculum knowledge; describes the political nature of curriculum and how we must be attentive to the increasingly diverse populations found in our schools; connects the readings to traditional course goals, providing practical applications of curriculum topics; covers cocurricular issues, which have become a major contemporary topic within school systems; enhances the articles with a strong pedagogical framework, including detailed Internet references, questions for each article, topic guides tying each article to course topics, and article abstracts for the instructor. --Publisher description.
By identifying similarities in various books, this annual selection guide helps readers to independently choose titles of interest published in the last year.Each entry describes a separate book, listing everything readers need to know to make selections. Arranged by author within six genre sections, detailed entries provide: Title Publisher and publication dateSeriesNames and descriptions of charactersTime period and geographical settingReview citationsStory typesBrief plot summarySelected other books by the authorSimilar books by different authorsAuthor, title, series, character name, character description, time period, geographic setting and genre/sub-genre indexes are included to facilitate research.
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In this chilling tale of psychological suspense, a young man plagued by a multiple personality disorder must return to his hometown and face the demons that have pursued him throughout his life. Jeff is in for a deadly surprise when he finds that the door to the past is the gateway to hell.
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