The Flying Hockey Stick
Title | The Flying Hockey Stick PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Bradfield |
Publisher | Checkerboard Press |
Total Pages | 60 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | Fantasy fiction |
ISBN | 9780528824159 |
Young Barnaby Jones has many adventures as he flies around on his invention--a hockey stick that flies with the aid of an electric fan, an umbrella, and a great many extension cords.
The Flying Hockey Stick
Title | The Flying Hockey Stick PDF eBook |
Author | Jolly Roger Bradfield |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2007-02 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781930900318 |
Barnaby Jones uses his imagination and household supplies, including a hockey stick and fan, to build a craft that he can fly into the sky.
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars
Title | The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars PDF eBook |
Author | Michael E. Mann |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | 450 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 023115254X |
A member of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change examines the fossil-fuel industry's public relations campaign to discredit the science of climate change and deny the reality of global warming.
We Ride Upon Sticks
Title | We Ride Upon Sticks PDF eBook |
Author | Quan Barry |
Publisher | Vintage |
Total Pages | 385 |
Release | 2021-02-16 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0525565434 |
In the town of Danvers, Massachusetts, home of the original 1692 witch trials, the 1989 Danvers Falcons will do anything to make it to the state finals—even if it means tapping into some devilishly dark powers. Against a background of irresistible 1980s iconography, Quan Barry expertly weaves together the individual and collective progress of this enchanted team as they storm their way through an unforgettable season. Helmed by good-girl captain Abby Putnam (a descendant of the infamous Salem accuser Ann Putnam) and her co-captain Jen Fiorenza (whose bleached blond “Claw” sees and knows all), the Falcons prove to be wily, original, and bold, flaunting society’s stale notions of femininity. Through the crucible of team sport and, more importantly, friendship, this comic tour de female force chronicles Barry’s glorious cast of characters as they charge past every obstacle on the path to finding their glorious true selves.
The Magic Hockey Stick
Title | The Magic Hockey Stick PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Maloney |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2001-10-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0142300152 |
Do you believe in magic? Inspired by a real event, this is the fictional tale of a little girl whose parents win Wayne Gretzky's hockey stick at an auction. Tracy does. When she starts using Wayne Gretzky’s hockey stick, won by her parents at a charity auction, she suddenly becomes the best player on her hockey team. She hasn’t become a better player overnight—it’s the magic of The Great One’s stick! But while Tracy’s star is on the rise, Wayne’s is steadily dropping. He’s in the greatest slump of his career. Tracy knows that Wayne needs his magic stick back, but she needs it, too. The question is: Who needs it more? “Even children who have no knowledge of hockey will be entertained by this book and impressed by its message. Maloney and Zekauskas have scored a winning goal with this one.”—School Library Journal
Indian Horse
Title | Indian Horse PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Wagamese |
Publisher | Milkweed Editions |
Total Pages | 158 |
Release | 2018-04-10 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1571319883 |
A First Nations former hockey star looks back on his life as he undergoes treatment for alcoholism in this novel from the author of Dream Wheels. Saul Indian Horse is a child when his family retreats into the woods. Among the lakes and the cedars, they attempt to reconnect with half-forgotten traditions and hide from the authorities who have been kidnapping Ojibway youth. But when winter approaches, Saul loses everything: his brother, his parents, his beloved grandmother—and then his home itself. Alone in the world and placed in a horrific boarding school, Saul is surrounded by violence and cruelty. At the urging of a priest, he finds a tentative salvation in hockey. Rising at dawn to practice alone, Saul proves determined and undeniably gifted. His intuition and vision are unmatched. His speed is remarkable. Together they open doors for him: away from the school, into an all-Ojibway amateur circuit, and finally within grasp of a professional career. Yet as Saul’s victories mount, so do the indignities and the taunts, the racism and the hatred—the harshness of a world that will never welcome him, tied inexorably to the sport he loves. Spare and compact yet undeniably rich, Indian Horse is at once a heartbreaking account of a dark chapter in our history and a moving coming-of-age story. “Shocking and alien, valuable and true… A master of empathy.”—Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Golden Age “A severe yet beautiful novel…. Indian Horse finds the granite solidity of Wagamese’s prose polished to a lustrous sheen; brisk, brief, sharp chapters propel the reader forward.”—Donna Bailey Nurse, National Post (Toronto)
The Hockey Stick Illusion
Title | The Hockey Stick Illusion PDF eBook |
Author | A. W. Montford |
Publisher | Stacey International Publishers |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Climatic changes |
ISBN | 9781906768355 |
From Steve McIntyre's earliest attempts to reproduce Michael Mann's Hockey Stick graph, to the explosive publication of his work and the launch of a congressional inquiry, The Hockey Stick Illusion is a remarkable tale of scientific misconduct and amateur sleuthing. It explains the complex science of this most controversial of temperature reconstructions in layperson's language and lays bare the remarkable extent to which climatologists have been willing to break their own rules in order to defend climate science's most famous finding.