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Author: Pilegard, Virginia Walton
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Published:
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9781455613823
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When a hostile army attacks the warlord's palace in ancient China, Chuan and his friend, Jing Jing, find an ingenious way to scare them off using simple kites.
Author: Virginia Pilegard
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Published: 2000-02-29
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13: 9781455613854
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A MAY/JUNE 2000 BOOKSENSE '76 SELECTIONACCELERATED READER PROGRAM SELECTION"The use of foreshortening and a wide variety of camera angles makes each page a visual surprise. The emotions so clearly portrayed on each character's face echo those of the reader, who will finish this book with a broad smile."--Children's Literature "This handsome picture book will be useful for encouraging children to play around with geometry at home or in the classroom."--Booklist In China, a beautiful ceramic tile lies shattered on the ground, and the artist who dropped it is sentenced to the land's worst punishment. The fierce warlord will execute the artist unless some wise person can put the seven pieces back together. That person will then be invited to live in the castle. Both locals and strangers from far away wait their turns for a chance to solve the warlord's puzzle. After learning why these people are waiting to enter the castle, a peasant boy convinces his poor but wise father to join the line. This little boy starts them off on the first step to solving the puzzle--entering the contest.
Author: Pilegard, Virginia Walton
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9781455613793
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →While traveling to an important feast in ancient China, Chuan and his friend Jing Jing devise a water "alarm" clock to make sure their party reaches the emperor's palace before rival warlords. Includes a brief history of water clocks and instructions for making one.
Author: Khaled Hosseini
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2008-09-18
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 074758589X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A riveting and powerful story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship and an indestructible love
Author: Virginia Walton Pilegard
Publisher: Warlord's
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781565548633
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Clever young Chuan comes to the rescue of his father and in the process invents the abacus. Illustrations.
Author: Virginia Walton Pilegard
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781589803787
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →While traveling to an important feast in ancient China, Chuan and his friend Jing Jing devise a water "alarm" clock to make sure their party reaches the emperor's palace before rival warlords. Includes a brief history of water clocks and instructions for making one.
Author: Jon Scieszka
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1995-10-01
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 0670861944
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Did you ever wake up to one of those days where everything is a problem? You have 10 things to do, but only 30 minutes until your bus leaves. Is there enough time? You have 3 shirts and 2 pairs of pants. Can you make 1 good outfit? Then you start to wonder: Why does everything have to be such a problem? Why do 2 apples always have to be added to 5 oranges? Why do 4 kids always have to divide 12 marbles? Why can't you just keep 10 cookies without someone taking 3 away? Why? Because you're the victim of a Math Curse. That's why. But don't despair. This is one girl's story of how that curse can be broken.
Author: Niloofar Rahmani
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2021-07-06
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1641603372
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"As a young Afghan woman who dreamed of becoming an air force pilot, Niloofar Rahmani confronted far more than technical challenges; she faced the opprobrium of an entire society." —Pamela Constable, author of Playing with Fire and former Kabul and Islamabad bureau chief for the Washington Post The true story of Niloofar Rahmani and her determination to become Afghanistan's first female air force pilot—as seen on Anderson Cooper and ABC News In 2010, for the first time since the Soviets, Afghanistan allowed women to join the armed forces, and Rahmani entered Afghanistan's military academy. Rahmani had to break through social barriers to demonstrate confidence, leadership, and decisiveness—essential qualities for a pilot. She performed the first solo flight of her class—ahead of all her male classmates—and in 2013 became Afghanistan's first female fixed-wing air force pilot. The US State Department honored Rahmani with the International Women of Courage Award and brought her to the United States to meet Michelle Obama and fly with the US Navy's Blue Angels. But when she returned to Kabul, the danger to her and her family had increased significantly. Rahmani and her family are portraits of the resiliency of refugees and the accomplishments they can reach when afforded with opportunities
Author: Khaled Hosseini
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781594483172
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day.
Author: Virginia Pilegard
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 33
ISBN-13: 1455603821
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the second century, B.C., a scholar and his son are forced to flee the palace of China's first emperor, and while living in exile the boy discovers that a great terra-cotta army is being built.
