The Pencil Project
Title | The Pencil Project PDF eBook |
Author | James Ryan Orr |
Publisher | Develop Africa |
Total Pages | 64 |
Release | 2017-11-24 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
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Compulsively readable, The Pencil Project is an emotionally engaging story that will draw you in and inspire you to change the world. Colleen is a girl who wants to do something that is real, real and big, real and big and world-changing. When her fourth-grade teacher, Mr. Kent gives a class project to ‘Change the World’ Colleen, along with her classmates, accept the challenge with astonishing results. When Colleen hears about school kids in Africa who do not have access to pencils and other school supplies, she begins a pencil drive. What began as a school project soon takes on a life of its own, growing into something that is real, real and big, real and big and world-changing. Nadege is one of the kids in Africa who received Colleen’s pencils. This inspires her to work hard to become the best she can be. Nadege’s quest for knowledge and her desire to change the world leads her to the US. In an unforeseen twist, the ripples caused by Colleen’s pencil project touch their lives in ways they could never imagine.
The Pencil Test
Title | The Pencil Test PDF eBook |
Author | James Guilford |
Publisher | iUniverse |
Total Pages | 290 |
Release | 2009-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1440166439 |
Kendry wants a life as hearty and remarkable as the lives of the black girls...Kendry wants to smoke marijuana and be bold enough to announce it on a crowded train. Kendry wants the black girls' struggles, their tragedies, and their poverty and resilience. Kendry wants to stand among them and complain sassily about her mother. Most of all, Kendry wants to be their friend. Kendry wants to belong. As the daughter of a drug-addict and a victim of school bullying, Kendry Clare longs for a better life. Her mother's financial ruin provides Kendry with just this opportunity. On her first day at Paul Lawrence Dunbar, an all-black high school, Kendry tells a reckless lie that initiates a chain of events that catapults her into popularity and, ultimately, controversy.
The Camera and the Pencil
Title | The Camera and the Pencil PDF eBook |
Author | Marcus Aurelius Root |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 488 |
Release | 1864 |
Genre | Daguerreotype |
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Super Turbo vs. the Pencil Pointer
Title | Super Turbo vs. the Pencil Pointer PDF eBook |
Author | Edgar Powers |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 144 |
Release | 2021-06-29 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 153447840X |
In this third installment of the Super Turbo graphic novel series, Turbo and the Superpet Superhero League set their sights on a dangerous new foe—an electric pencil sharpener! There’s a new super villain at Sunnyview Elementary. It’s shiny, it’s metal, and it’s (possibly) trying to bury Turbo alive in pencil shavings! Why are the students of Classroom C so excited about this new addition to their room—can’t they see how EVIL it really is? The stakes are higher than ever as Super Turbo and his superpet pals face off against their most fiendish foe yet. Can they outwit this cunning contraption before it’s too late? This graphic novel adaptation of the Super Turbo chapter book features fun, bright, full-color panels that bring the story to life better than ever before—but with all the same humor and action that readers have come to expect from Super Turbo!
How Is a Pencil Made?
Title | How Is a Pencil Made? PDF eBook |
Author | Angela Royston |
Publisher | Capstone Classroom |
Total Pages | 36 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781403466471 |
Gives readers a step-by-step guide to how pencils are made.
When I Grow up I Want to be a Pencil
Title | When I Grow up I Want to be a Pencil PDF eBook |
Author | Kathleen Church-Scoufaras |
Publisher | Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | 48 |
Release | 2010-09-08 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1453560513 |
Jack has an imagination the size of a T-Rex. When Jack grows up he wants to be a . . . Pencil. Join Jack in pursuing his dream and learning there is nothing wrong with being different.
Drawing and Sketching in Pencil
Title | Drawing and Sketching in Pencil PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur L. Guptill |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | 208 |
Release | 2012-03-08 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0486136485 |
Introductory guide offers clear, concise instruction on composition, outline, proportion, perspective, light and shade, more. Its 66 illustrations encompass numerous subjects — mainly architectural, but also people, animals, and landscapes — and a variety of techniques.