Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | E-Books, Kids, Audio | 2 May 2012
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This is a highly imaginative tale of good vs. evil, told from the point of view of young Meg Murry. Meg is smart but rebellious, fiercely protective of her unusual family. She and her brother, Charles Wallace, are about to go on a journey through space and time to find their long absent father, and in the process, confront an evil so powerful that it threatens to engulf them all.
Based on the requirements for the Boy Scouts of America's pioneering merit badge, it covers all of the basics of general pioneering, and is definitely worth looking at. Handy book you can use if you feel the need to build things in your off the grid paradise. Knots, lashings and methods that were absent from or poorly explained in the official merit badge book are included.
Swallows and Amazons begins with the four Walker children, John, Susan, Titty and Roger, holidaying with their mother, infant sister Brigit and a nurse at Holly Howe, a farmhouse on the shores of an unnamed lake in the English Lake District. Receiving permission from their absent father, Commander Walker R.N., they set sail in the dinghy Swallow to camp on a deserted island further down the lake.
Added by: badaboom | Karma: 5366.29 | Fiction literature | 26 September 2010
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Here is the highly anticipated second installment of Philip Pullman's epic fantasy trilogy, begun with the critically acclaimed The Golden Compass. Lyra and Will, her newfound friend, tumble separately into the strange tropical otherworld of Cittàgazze, "the city of magpies," where adults are curiously absent and children run wild. Here their lives become inextricably entwined when Lyra's alethiometer gives her a simple command: find Will's father.
