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2) Stuck
Author
Language
English
Description
When Floyd's kite gets stuck in a tree, he tries to knock it down with increasingly larger and more outrageous things.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
This thorough guide by an expert kitemaker includes easy-to-follow, illustrated instructions for creating and flying more than fifty kites. An easy and comprehensive introduction for anyone interested in these amazing flyers, the book opens with the history and science of kites, followed by a section on kite construction and flying. Organized according to kite types, Greger's book includes chapters on everything from simple bag kites to Vietnamese,...
4) Karen's kite
Author
Series
Baby-sitters little sister volume 47
Language
English
Description
Ms. Colman's class is making kites for their kite-flying contest. Whoever's kite stays up the longest gets a prize.
9) The kite
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Language
English
Description
Curious George loves a good windy day. There are many things he can practice flying--like a kite. Now if only he doesn't get carried away!
12) Just a kite
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Language
English
Description
Hoping to participate in the Critterville Kite Flying Contest, Little Critter busily attempts to fly a kite and finds the activity more challenging than anticipated.
14) Super Duck
Author
Language
English
Description
When, in rhyming text, Duck and his long-suffering friends, Frog, Sheep and Goat, attempt to fly a kite, chaos results. Frog is pulled into the sky as the kite flies away and Duck jumps to rescue him.
17) Flight
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Series
Publisher
F. Watts,col. ill. ;F. Watts
Language
English
Description
Explores fundamental principles of flight and how they can be used in art. Includes projects of building kites, parachutes, and model aircraft.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Description
Stunning, hypnotic, spare, The Seal Wife is the masterly new novel by Kathryn Harrison, “a writer of extraordinary gifts” (Tobias Wolff). Set in Alaska in 1915, it tells the story of a young scientist’s consuming love for a woman known as the Aleut, a woman who never speaks, who refuses to reveal so much as her name.
Born and educated in midwestern cities, Bigelow is sent north by the United States government to establish a weather observatory...
20) Bird
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Language
English
Description
Miranda, a small, delicate girl easily carried off by the wind, lands at Bourne Manor on the coast of Lake Champlain and is raised by the dour Wysteria Barrows, but she begins to believe rumors that the Manor is cursed and, aided by a new friend and kites secreted in an attic, seeks to escape.
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