The Helper's Apprentice - Couverture rigide

Pickhardt, C E

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 059567657X ISBN 13 : 9780595676576

Editeur : iUniverse, 2006

Synopsis

"Write it down," you said, and so I have. Just keep in mind, it's been a while, and memory has ways of playing tricks, which is where I'll start since that is where Professor Skye began with me. Professor who? Let me explain.

Thus begins a young boy's account of his surprising adventures and unorthodox education as the apprentice of Professor Jackson Skye, the "Helping Investigator," who enlists the boy in helping others solve problems so that he can learn to solve his own.

Beginning his career in elementary school, the trainee works on over forty cases involving a multicultural cast of memorable characters. He graduates from his apprenticeship in high school after he solves the hardest case of all.

Based on real-life problems young people encounter, the cases in The Helper's Apprentice instruct, entertain, and encourage young readers to reflect on their own lives.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Too bad Professor Skye wasn't around to help. Professor Skye. Did he mean what he had said? That I would be his apprentice? Probably not. But I wished he had. I never even got to thank him for helping find my money.

Of course, I told my mom and sister about Professor Skye, but they thought this was more of my pretending. More of my stories. Just because I liked to make things up, Mom sometimes found it hard believing me. Oh, I'd tell the truth all right, but then I'd add some make-believe to make the truth even better. If I took extra long before getting something done, it was because the clocks got tired and slowed down to take a rest. "Tell me another story that's a little closer to the truth," my Mom would say. "One that I won't have such a hard time believing." So I'd take out some of the make-believe, even though the story was never near as good. But not this time. Professor Skye had been real!

Biographie de l'auteur

C. E. Pickhardt, PhD, is a published author, graphic artist, and psychologist in private counseling and lecturing in Austin, Texas. He has published books about parenting, children's and adult fiction, adult self-help, and books of illustrated psychology.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: iUniverse
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 059567657X
• ISBN 13: 9780595676576
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 524
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible