The Shooting Star

Author: Shivya Nath
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN: 9353052653
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 182

Book Description
Shivya Nath quit her corporate job at age twenty-three to travel the world. She gave up her home and the need for a permanent address, sold most of her possessions and embarked on a nomadic journey that has taken her everywhere from remote Himalayan villages to the Amazon rainforests of Ecuador. Along the way, she lived with an indigenous Mayan community in Guatemala, hiked alone in the Ecuadorian Andes, got mugged in Costa Rica, swam across the border from Costa Rica to Panama, slept under a meteor shower in the cracked salt desert of Gujarat and learnt to conquer her deepest fears. With its vivid descriptions, cinematic landscapes, moving encounters and uplifting adventures, The Shooting Star is a travel memoir that maps not just the world but the human spirit.

Shooting Stars

Author: LeBron James
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 059383044X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
The celebrated memoir from LeBron James - a poignant, thrilling tale of the power of teamwork to transform young lives, including his own "A book that will incredibly move and inspire you.” —Jay-Z "A heartwarming story of boys who became men, teammates who became brothers, players who became champions, wonderfully told through the maturing eyes of basketball's greatest star." — John Grisham Before LeBron James was an NBA superstar, he was just a kid from Akron, Ohio, who loved to play basketball on a team called the Shooting Stars. This is the story of how this motley group of ten-year-olds grew into a team and became men together - surviving the challenges of inner city America and enduring jealousy, hostility, exploitation, and the consequences of their own overconfidence in their quest to win a national championship. Shooting Stars is a poignant, thrilling tale of the power of teamwork to transform young lives.

Shooting Star

Author: Fredrick L. McKissack
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416996400
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
A natural-born athlete, Jomo Rogers has talent that is easy to spot on the football field, and local reporters are taking notice. But the buzz keeps focusing on his potential, on his promise. Jomo doesn’t want to be the “next big thing.” He wants to be the real deal . . . in as little time as possible. He adopts a new workout regimen, complete with more weights, longer runs—and steroids. A gritty, witty, and eloquent youngadult debut, Shooting Star takes on the sports headlines and brings to the page a young man whose drive is about to make his life spiral out of control.

Shooting at the Stars

Author: John Hendrix
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN: 1613126883
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

Book Description
Shooting at the Stars is the moving story of a young British soldier on the front lines during World War I who experiences an unforgettable Christmas Eve. In a letter to his mother, he describes how, despite fierce fighting earlier from both sides, Allied and German soldiers ceased firing that evening and came together on the battlefield to celebrate the holiday. They sang carols, exchanged gifts, and even lit Christmas trees. But as the holiday came to a close, they returned to their separate trenches to await orders for the war to begin again. Award-wining creator John Hendrix wonderfully brings the story of the Christmas Truce of 1914 to life with his signature style, interweaving detailed illustrations and hand-lettered text. His telling of the story celebrates the humanity that can persist during even the darkest periods of our history.

Thomas and the Shooting Star

Author: Wilbert Awdry
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780375815232
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
One restless night, Thomas looks out and sees a shooting star flash by. Determined to see where it went, Thomas sets out into the darkened countryside. The strange nighttime sights and noises add up to a wonderful after-dark adventure for Thomas.

Alice's Shooting Star

Author: Tim Kennemore
Publisher: Eerdmans Young Readers
ISBN: 0802853374
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
Middle sister Alice helps her family recognize that her exuberant younger sister Rosie's accounts of her day are creative stories rather than lies.

Annie Oakley, the Shooting Star

Author: Charles Parlin Graves
Publisher: Facts On File
ISBN: 9780791014486
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 86

Book Description
The story of how Phoebe Ann Moses became Annie Oakley, the famous trick shooter and entertainer.

Like a Shooting Star

Author: Rino Alaimo
Publisher: Familius
ISBN: 9781944822804
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
When a young boy's father doesn't return from the war, the lonely boy wishes upon a shooting star--one that turns out to be a little firefly who, try as she might, just can't fly. Touched by the boy's earnest wish, the firefly undertakes a courageous journey to bring the boy's father home.

Shooting Stars

Author: Seth Kingston
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1725318601
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24

Book Description
Enchanted readers will learn that when a meteoroid or space rock enters Earth's atmosphere, it creates the streak of light called a meteor. This book explains how meteors form, what meteor showers are, and what meteorites are. Fact boxes provide readers with additional fun information, while detailed diagrams and a graphic organizer depict the information presented in the narrative in a concise and easy-to-understand way.

The Genius of Jewish Celebrities

Author: Dr. Robert Yaronne
Publisher: Robert Yaronne
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
This book unlocks the secrets to the hidden personalities of the most famous Jewish superstars in the world. You'll be astonished to see what is revealed as he delves into and deciphers the mystery of the psyches of some of the greatest minds in entertainment, politics, science, sports, finance, literature and philosophy. In this revolutionary, insiders look into the life of the star, Dr. Yaronne uncovers never before exposed details of celebrity lives from Hollywood to Israel, and beyond. The information within this book contains the key to the secrets that their handwriting can't hide.