The Prior Quest (Bookania Short Stories): Kendra E. Ardnek: Amazon.com: Kindle Store

The Prior Quest (Bookania Short Stories): Kendra E. Ardnek: Amazon.com: Kindle Store:

Book Description

Publication Date: July 5, 2012

How far will a man go to repay a dept made in his youth? Push au Kim's life was spared by an enemy soldier, and he vowed to someday repay the man. When he finally finds him again, he finds that he has just died, leaving behind three sons.

Well, on to plan B.

Biography

Kendra E. Ardnek has been writing her own stories since she was a toddler. She fell in love with books, drama, and fairy tales at a very young age - and has been filling notebooks with her stories for years. Joining NaNoWriMo gave her an opportunity to be a published author at 16.

She writes her own blog (knittedbygodsplan.blogspot.com), homeschools, cooks, knits, and crafts when she isn't writing stories and acting them out with her younger cousins and siblings.

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Kendra has made up stories as long as she has been able to talk and think - even if most of those stories made no sense at all.  As she started school, her pens and crayons and pencils acted out increasingly elaborate stories and tales.

One day, I suggested she write a "fairy tale allegory" book or series.  We hashed out various ideas and over the next year, it morphed into her first book, "Sew, It's a Quest" in the land of Bookania.

One day, as she was writing and pondering the plot, she asked me to help her writer's block (she does this frequently) and I proposed an Eastern style man based loosely on Attila the Hun and mix it into a fairy tale.  Over the next week, we hashed a basic character and he found his way into "Sew, It's a Quest" with little background.  He really wasn't a very noticeable character - we called him Push au Kim (Poosh au Keem).  He wore an elaborate and strange costume of animal skins - and the most amazing boots.

Over the next year, we developed his background story, which didn't fit into any of the other books she was planning, after all, this story would have happened a decade prior to the Sew Quest.  (Hence the name - The Prior Quest).  Actually, I told her she should call it, Push in Boots.

It's a cute little story - only 10 pages long - and while it doesn't deviate a huge amount from it's "parent fairy tale" ... it serves to set the record straight as to what really happened!

If you haven't guessed by now - it is a rewrite of "Puss in Boots", as well as a similar tale of another land called, "How The Begger Boy Became Count Prio"  (a second reason for being called "The Prior Quest.")

We hope you enjoy her amusing little tale.

It may not be suitable as a bedtime story for a young child - as Push is quite ruthless, and sometimes his actions are violent and alarming.

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Free Books to Read for College Bound Students

This is not intended as a all inclusive list of books that are recommended for college bound children ....

Instead, this is a list of books that you can pick up for free via Kindle, Gutenberg, and Librivox  that are on lists of recommended reading ...

At the bottom of the post, is the link that featured the following books, there will be many more books on that list, which should be available at your local library.

Inclusion on these lists does not mean that your child HAS to read it ... there have been many that I have run across that I felt were better suited for the trash can than inclusion in my child's reading list ... however, parents need to decide that for themselves.



Today's list features books for the 4th - 9th graders.


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Tales of Hans Christian Anderson

http://librivox.org/hans-christian-andersen-fairy-tale-collection-by-hans-christian-andersen/

   http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1597 
http://librivox.org/andersens-fairy-tales-by-hc-andersen/
      http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32571   http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32572
   http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27200 
   http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40283
      http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17860
   http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27000
   http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26491
      http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31103
   http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18604 
   http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12313

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Wizard of Oz  by Frank L. Baum

    http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21179
http://librivox.org/the-wonderful-wizard-of-oz/
http://librivox.org/the-wonderful-wizard-of-oz-by-l-frank-baum/
http://librivox.org/the-wonderful-wizard-of-oz-solo-version-2-by-l-frank-baum/

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The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

   

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/113

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17396

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21585

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8812

http://librivox.org/the-secret-garden-dramatic-reading-by-burnett-frances-hodgson/

http://librivox.org/the-secret-garden-by-frances-hodgson-burnett/

http://librivox.org/the-secret-garden-by-frances-hodgson-burnett-version-2/

http://librivox.org/the-secret-garden-by-frances-hodgson-burnett-2/

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

   

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Alice%E2%80%99s+Adventures+in+Wonderland

https://catalog.librivox.org/search.php?title=Adventures+in+Wonderland&author=&status=all&action=Search

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Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=The+Adventures+of+Pinocchio

https://catalog.librivox.org/search.php?title=The+Adventures+of+Pinocchio&author=&status=all&action=Search

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The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Wind+Willows+Grahame

https://catalog.librivox.org/search.php?title=The+Wind+in+the+Willows&author=&status=all&action=Search

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Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm

      

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Grimm+Fairy+Tales

https://catalog.librivox.org/search.php?title=Grimm+Fairy+Tales&author=&status=all&action=Search

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The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

   

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=The+Jungle+Book+Kipling

https://catalog.librivox.org/search.php?title=The+Jungle+Book&author=&status=all&action=Search

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Tales from Shakespeare by Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb

 

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Tales+from+Shakespeare+Lamb

https://catalog.librivox.org/search.php?title=Tales+from+Shakespeare&author=Lamb&status=all&action=Search

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The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

   

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/501

https://catalog.librivox.org/search.php?title=Doctor+Dolittle&author=&status=all&action=Search

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Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery

   The Anne Stories: 11 Books, Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Chronicles of Avonlea, Plus Audiobooks     ....   99 cents

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Anne+of+Green+Gables

https://catalog.librivox.org/search.php?title=Anne+of+Green+Gables&author=&status=all&action=Search

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The Railway Children by E. Nesbit

   http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1874

http://librivox.org/railway-children-by-e-nesbit/

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Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

      

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Black+Beauty+Sewell

https://catalog.librivox.org/search.php?title=Black+Beauty&author=&status=all&action=Search

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Heidi by Johanna Spyri

   http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Heidi

https://catalog.librivox.org/search.php?title=Heidi&author=&status=all&action=Search

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Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss

      

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Swiss+Family+Robinson

https://catalog.librivox.org/search.php?title=Swiss+Family+Robinson&author=&status=all&action=Search

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Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

   http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Little+Women+Alcott

https://catalog.librivox.org/search.php?title=Little+Women&author=&status=all&action=Search

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The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

      (a prequal)

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=The+Last+of+the+Mohicans

https://catalog.librivox.org/search.php?title=The+Last+of+the+Mohicans&author=&status=all&action=Search

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Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

                     

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Robinson+Crusoe

https://catalog.librivox.org/search.php?title=Robinson+Crusoe&author=&status=all&action=Search

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

   http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23

http://librivox.org/narrative-of-the-life-of-frederick-douglass-by-frederick-douglass/

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

            

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=The+Adventures+of+Sherlock+Holmes

https://catalog.librivox.org/search.php?title=The+Adventures+of+Sherlock+Holmes&author=&status=all&action=Search

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The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1184

https://catalog.librivox.org/search.php?title=The+Count+of+Monte+Cristo&author=&status=all&action=Search

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Poems by Robert Frost

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Robert+Frost

https://catalog.librivox.org/search.php?title=&author=Robert+Frost&status=all&action=Search

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6539

http://librivox.org/the-hunchback-of-notre-dame-by-victor-hugo/

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=The+Legend+of+Sleepy+Hollow

https://catalog.librivox.org/search.php?title=The+Legend+of+Sleepy+Hollow&author=&status=all&action=Search

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The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

   

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=The+Story+of+My+Life+Keller

https://catalog.librivox.org/search.php?title=The+Story+of+My+Life&author=Keller&status=all&action=Search

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The Call of the Wild by Jack London

   

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Call+of+the+Wild+London

https://catalog.librivox.org/search.php?title=Call+of+the+Wild&author=&status=all&action=Search

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Le Mort d'Arthur  by Sir Thomas Malory

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Le+Morte+d%E2%80%99Arthur

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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10148

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26467

http://librivox.org/the-merry-adventures-of-robin-hood-by-howard-pyle/

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Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

   http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/82

http://librivox.org/ivanhoe-by-sir-walter-scott/

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Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

   

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Frankenstein

https://catalog.librivox.org/search.php?title=Frankenstein&author=&status=all&action=Search

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Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

   

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Treasure+Island+stevenson

https://catalog.librivox.org/search.php?title=Treasure+Island&author=&status=all&action=Search

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Tom+Sawyer

https://catalog.librivox.org/search.php?title=+Tom+Sawyer&author=&status=all&action=Search

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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

https://catalog.librivox.org/search.php?title=+Leagues+Under+the+Sea&author=&status=all&action=Search

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Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster

   

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Daddy-Long-Legs

https://catalog.librivox.org/search.php?title=+Daddy-Long-Legs&author=&status=all&action=Search

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The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=The+War+of+the+Worlds+Wells

https://catalog.librivox.org/search.php?title=The+War+of+the+Worlds&author=&status=all&action=Search

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