- Warm and laugh-out-loud funny, and full of his inimitable, pitch-perfect observations, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid is as wondrous an audiobook as Bill Bryson has ever recorded. It will enchant anyone who has ever been young. ©2006 Bill Bryson (P)2006 Random House, inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House, Inc.
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Teachers' Guides
Bill Bryson’s memoir, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid (2006), focuses Bryson’s childhood growing up in Des Moines, Iowa during the 1950s and 1960s. Bryson presents the events of his youth—both within the nuclear family and in the nation as a whole—as seen through the eyes of his childhood alter ego, the Thunderbolt Kid.
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The Thunderbolt Kid
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Concept Maps
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These concept maps span the Gr 4 to 9 curriculum, showing the conceptual progression in a strand across grades, and also the links between strands within a grade.
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