The Elephants in My Backyard
Title | The Elephants in My Backyard PDF eBook |
Author | Rajiv Surendra |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2016-11-08 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1682450511 |
Rajiv Surendra was filming Mean Girls, playing the beloved rapping mathlete Kevin Gnapoor, when a cameraman insisted he read Yann Martel's Life of Pi. So begins his "lovely and human" (Jenny Lawson, author of Furiously Happy) tale of obsessively pursuing a dream, overcoming failure, and finding meaning in life. “This was a once-in-a-lifetime chance. I found myself standing dangerously close to the edge of a cliff. Far below me was an incredible abyss with no end in sight. I could turn back and safely return to where I had come from, or I could throw caution to the wind, lift my arms up into the air . . . and jump.” —From The Elephants in My Backyard What happens when you spend ten years obsessively pursuing a dream, and then, in the blink of an eye, you learn that you have failed, that the dream will not come true? In 2003, Rajiv Surendra was filming Mean Girls, playing the beloved rapping mathlete Kevin Gnapoor, when a cameraman insisted he read Yann Martel’s Life of Pi. Mesmerized by all the similarities between Pi and himself—both are five-foot-five with coffee-colored complexions, both share a South Indian culture, both lived by a zoo—when Rajiv learns that Life of Pi will be made into a major motion picture he is convinced that playing the title role is his destiny. In a great leap of faith Rajiv embarks on a quest to embody the sixteen-year-old Tamil schoolboy. He quits university and buys a one-way ticket from Toronto to South India. He visits the sacred stone temples of Pondicherry, he travels to the frigid waters off the coast of rural Maine, and explores the cobbled streets of Munich. He befriends Yann Martel, a priest, a castaway, an eccentric old woman, and a pack of Tamil schoolboys. He learns how to swim, to spin wool, to keep bees, and to look a tiger in the eye. All the while he is really learning how to dream big, to fail, to survive, to love, and to become who he truly is. Rajiv Surendra captures the uncertainty, heartache, and joy of finding ones place in the world with sly humor and refreshing honesty. The Elephants in My Backyard is not a journey of goals and victories, but a story of process and determination. It is a spellbinding and profound book for anyone who has ever failed at something and had to find a new path through life.
An Elephant in the Garden
Title | An Elephant in the Garden PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Morpurgo |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 55 |
Release | 2014-10-15 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1783196734 |
An Elephant in the Garden is Simon Reade’s new adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s best-selling children’s novel. 1945. Dresden, Germany. Lizzie, her mother – and an elephant from the zoo, flee the Allied fire-bombing in the end-game of the Second World War. Escaping the Allies’ advance from the West – and also the advancing Russian armies from the East – this extraordinary trio of refugees meet: a downed RAF officer, cowering in a barn; a homeless school choir on the run and their Countess saviour, harbouring them from the Nazis; and the mechanised American cavalry, appearing over the horizon. It is Lizzie’s story – but Marlene, the elephant, is the heroine. Plodding, obdurate, opportunistic, loadbearing, indestructible, cheering – Marlene embodies the stubbornness of the human will and how it will do everything to survive.
An Elephant in My Backyard
Title | An Elephant in My Backyard PDF eBook |
Author | Shobha Viswanath |
Publisher | Karadi Tales Picturebooks |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Daughters |
ISBN | 9788181902405 |
What do you do when a baby elephant follows you home?
An Elephant in the Backyard
Title | An Elephant in the Backyard PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Asiatic elephant |
ISBN |
Describes how special elephants are in the village of Tha Kleng in Thailand and looks at the life of one particular young elephant named Wan Pen.
Lost in the Backyard
Title | Lost in the Backyard PDF eBook |
Author | Alison Hughes |
Publisher | Orca Book Publishers |
Total Pages | 142 |
Release | 2015-04-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1459807960 |
Flynn hates the outdoors. Always has. He barely pays attention in his Outdoor Ed class. He has no interest in doing a book report on Lost in the Barrens. He doesn’t understand why anybody would want to go hiking or camping. But when he gets lost in the wilderness behind his parents’ friends’ house, it’s surprising what he remembers—insulate your clothes with leaves, eat snow to stay hydrated, build a shelter, eat lichen—and how hopelessly inept he is at survival techniques.
Have You Seen Elephant?
Title | Have You Seen Elephant? PDF eBook |
Author | David Barrow |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 33 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1776570081 |
Elephant wants to play hide and seek. See if you can help the others find him--he's very good at hiding This tale of absurdity is perfect for sharing with children who will love finding Elephant (and being faster at it than the boy in the book ). Watch out for the dog and the tortoise, too . . .
Can I Have a Pet Eagle?
Title | Can I Have a Pet Eagle? PDF eBook |
Author | Michou Franco |
Publisher | Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP |
Total Pages | 24 |
Release | 2018-07-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1538217856 |
If people can have pet parakeets, why can't they have a pet eagle? The narrator of this fun book describes important facts about these majestic birds. Readers will find out that these birds of prey, and their supersharp talons, are much better off living in the wild than in our homes. The easy-to-follow sentences allow readers to practice their reading proficiency, while eye-catching photographs help demonstrate key points of the text.