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The Jumping-Off Place is a children's novel by Marian Hurd McNeely about homesteading in South Dakota.It is set on the Dakotan prairie in the early 1900s. The novel, illustrated by William Siegel was first published in 1929 and was a retrospective Newbery Honor recipient for 1930.
The books are often compared to Robert A. Heinlein's juvenile novels. [2] The books in the series include: Jumping Off the Planet (2000), Bouncing Off the Moon (2001) and Leaping to the Stars (2002). A fourth book, long mooted by the author, finally became 2020's Hella. [3]
Flaming Carrot Comics and Burden's spin-off Mysterymen project went on to forsake the elitist, perfection-oriented traditional superheroes with characters who were blue-collar, second-string, roughnecks and goofballs with mediocre powers: outcasts that couldn't make it into the major leagues but saved people, risked everything and fought evil.
Although it is often stated that the Northern trails began in certain cities on the Missouri River, pioneers following any of the three trails typically left from one of three "jumping off" points on the Missouri's steamboat serviced river ports: Independence, Missouri, Saint Joseph, Missouri, or Council Bluffs, Iowa. (Once known as Kanesville ...
The Moby Thesaurus II contains 30,260 root words, with 2,520,264 synonyms and related terms – an average of 83.3 per root word. Each line consists of a list of comma-separated values, with the first term being the root word, and all following words being related terms. Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain in 1996.
Nowadays, this tradition has been carried on by adventurous folk who jump off various other objects: a diving board, a bungee-jumping cliff, a deck into a large pile of leaves. You’ve probably ...
He abused his wife, Mary, and David to the point where they both left him. Brian Cox – An NSA agent who attempts to capture David after witnessing him jump, going as far as kidnapping Millie. Sergeant Washburn – An NYPD officer and an abusive husband. He tries to get David arrested after David jumps him away from his abused wife.
In the sequels of the series the main characters discover different principles to their capabilities of jumping. In Jumper, David realizes that he is changing momentum when he jumps, both because he can jump off of a cliff and, after picking up great speed, he can jump to a perfect standstill. He also realizes that jumping is opening a hole ...