Books with title Joe Smith

Meet Kelly Smith, Ultimate Football HeroBy the time Kelly Smith was nine years old, she was already so good she was running rings around the boys at her local club and scoring goals for fun. But angry parents complained she was making their sons look silly, and Kelly had to move to a girls' team. From that day, she knew she had to be twice as skillful and brave as any boy to succeed in the game she loved. Smith is the story of how the girl from Watford refused to be held back, and became an Arsenal superstar and the England women's national team's top scorer.

"Leon Garfield is unmatched for sheer, exciting storytelling." --Lloyd AlexanderThis brilliant, picaresque novel follows the adventures of an illiterate young ragamuffin known only as Smith. Smith picks the pocket of a stranger, only to witness immediately the strangers murder. Smiths booty from the theft is an Important Document, no doubt worth quite a lot to somebody, which is proved by the pursuit of Smith by two very shady characters. Smith artfully dodges them and winds up in the odd company of a wealthy blind man, who takes Smith into his home and provides him with an education. But this new comfort is lost when Smith himself is suspected of the very murder he witnessed. Smith was a Boston Globe--Horn Book Honor Book, winner of the Phoenix Award, and a Carnegie Honor Book.

This comprehensive new monograph on the influential British artist-filmmaker―renown for his playful and formally ingenious subversion of the everyday world―contains essays by Ian Christie, Martin Herbert, Kathrin Meyer, and Ethan de Seife. Herbert's text provides an incisive overview of Smith's work over the past four decades while Christie examines Smith's oeuvre within the context of English eccentricity. Meyer's essay discusses Smith's film The Black Tower in relation to absence and abstraction while de Seife looks at cinematic scale through the prism of Smith's Gargantuan.The publication includes a complete fully illustrated filmography spanning 84 pages, with images and synopses from nearly fifty film and video works made between 1972 and 2012.Copublished with Mousse PublishingContributorsIan Christie, Martin Herbert, Kathrin Meyer, and Ethan de Seife

This biography introduces young readers to the life of Englishman John Smith. Readers learn about Smith's childhood, education, and the many battles he fought as a soldier for France, Netherlands, and Austria. Smith's meeting with explorer Henry Hudson is introduced. The book also explains that Smith sailed to North America for King James I of England, trying to find a waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Readers learn of Smith's bravery in the New World; his explorations of the Chesapeake Bay, the Potomac River, and the James River; and his claim that Pocahontas saved his life. Readers also discover that Smith saved Jamestown from failure. Smith's life after Jamestown is also discussed, as is his devotion to being a writer, a mapmaker, a trader, a leader, and an entrepreneur. The book explains that Smith is credited with mapping and naming New England. And, he is remembered as a writer, mapmaker, trader, and entrepreneur. Full-color photos, an index, a timeline, a map, discussion questions, bold glossary terms, and phonetics accompany easy-to-read text and allow readers to follow Smith's journeys.

Josie Smith is the irrepressible little girl who's been on Granada TV in several series. She's the one who's jealous of her best friend Eileen (who always gets whatever she wants). She's also the one who gets into trouble all the time, but generally seems to come up smelling of roses! In this book Josie Smith saves up for a birthday present, runs away from home and steals a ginger cat.

"Leon Garfield is unmatched for sheer, exciting storytelling." --Lloyd AlexanderThis brilliant, picaresque novel follows the adventures of an illiterate young ragamuffin known only as Smith. Smith picks the pocket of a stranger, only to witness immediately the strangers murder. Smiths booty from the theft is an Important Document, no doubt worth quite a lot to somebody, which is proved by the pursuit of Smith by two very shady characters. Smith artfully dodges them and winds up in the odd company of a wealthy blind man, who takes Smith into his home and provides him with an education. But this new comfort is lost when Smith himself is suspected of the very murder he witnessed. Smith was a Boston Globe--Horn Book Honor Book, winner of the Phoenix Award, and a Carnegie Honor Book.