![]() ![]() ![]() I kept it, and I had it in my writing folder. All seven showed up, telling me about the first day of school."Īnd so I took that piece of paper and I kept it. All of a sudden, I had these characters come to me. I was thinking about the school year, my students, the projects we had done, the things that had happened along the way. I think this was maybe a day when I was being a good son and helping my mom. "I was in my mother's garden," he tells NPR's Michele Norris. He keeps the students and his readers on their toes with a steady stream of math puzzles and wordplay.īuyea said the idea for a story with seven swirling voices came to him one day while he was working outside. Terupt's compassion shines through without turning sappy. His ear for schoolyard patter is spot on. And for seven students in particular, he is the center of their universe - a sage who gives them advice and confidence and helps them overcome obstacles and rivalries.Īuthor Rob Buyea spent six years teaching in an elementary classroom, where he had a front-row seat on student life. Terupt is a popular fifth-grade teacher at Snow Hill elementary school. ![]() It shows two mittened hands holding a snowball - a snowball responsible for a life-altering accident. ![]() Terupt and you'll see it is the perfect book for December. Not to judge a book by its cover, but just take one look at the jacket of Because of Mr. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Because of Mr. ![]()
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![]() Her mom was tender and caring and Layken's recaps of her dad only showed how great a man he was. Layken's family was so close-knit and affectionate. The real reason behind their mother's decision to move is so heart-wrenching. ![]() Slammed is the story of Layken, whose father passes away due to heart-attack after which Layken, her mother and her littler brother, Kel move to Michigan. It is the kind of book that makes your heart melt. It is an adorably messed up read, which I love love love! It is a super nice and super sad story about love and loss. It was such an emotional, pleasant and lovely read. I was so totally looking forward to reading Slammed and when I actually got to it, I knew why. I can't put into words how enthralling it was to read it. ![]() The book was everything that I thought it would be, in the sense that it had everything I look for in a book and it made me feel everything I like to feel when reading a book yet there was an indescribably unpredictable aspect to it that made it the perfect read. ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel's young protagonist is a white American who has picked up bigoted attitudes from his family back on Curaçao. While the nonstop action is part of The Cay's popularity, the book is also a coming-of-age story that addresses more serious issues, such as race relationships. ![]() Since its publication in 1969, The Cay has won nearly a dozen different literary awards and remains a staple of elementary and middle school classrooms. A tough situation for the novel's characters, to be sure, but all this genre-bending action means double the excitement for adventure-hungry Shmoopers. Instead of running from Nazis, they now have to worry about food, shelter, and weathering massive tropical tempests. Phillip and his companions have to deal with a whole new set of problems. Making matters worse, he ends up stranded on a remote cay with only a West Indian man named Timothy and a cat named Stew for company. ![]() ![]() Phillip is injured during the blast, which causes him to go blind. Just as he is fleeing the island with his mother, his ship is torpedoed by a German submarine. Our protagonist is an American boy named Phillip who is about to experience first-hand the harsh realities of war. The action is set during World War II and begins on Curaçao, a Caribbean island off the coast of Venezuela. Author Theodore Taylor's children's novel is both a gripping war story and a classic desert-island tale of survival. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Whatever its purpose, Fear of Flying is not a great piece of literature. The effect? - A bunch of women still bound by the same social-sexual rules and mores, now left with prematurely sagging breasts. ![]() It has the same effect as when women declared their freedom by burning bras. I am simply stating that the book feels artless and ostentatious. This does not mean I view her book as pornographic and without purpose. Women are not freed by dehumanizing our sexual decisions and experiences. Lawrence composed a beautiful and passionate piece of literature, where Erica Jong described sexual freedom by using coarse phrases, repetitively. The major disparity between these two books is literary. The difference being, Lady Chatterly desired sexual freedom and choice and Isadora (FOF protagonist) had it. What I cannot figure out is this – why was there such a commotion over Fear of Flying? Hadn’t anyone read Lady Chatterly’s Lover? The binding force between these two novels is the mind-body relationship to be a whole woman one must feel actively alive in both areas. Yet, this was the age of the 60’s to early 70’s, with free love and a casual sense of commitment. Show More attitude towards STD’s is frightening. ![]() ![]() "Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. Lewis proposes that all loves are a search for, perhaps a conflict with, and sometimes a denial of, love of God. It is written with a deep perception of human beings and a background of excellent scholarship. Lewis has "done it again." This time with a book beginning with the premise "God is Love" and analyzing the four loves man knows well, but often understands little, Affection, Friendship, Eros and Charity, exploring along the way the threads of Need-Love and Gift-Love that run through all. ![]() ![]() ![]() The ever-popular and highly readable C.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() Come on up to the attic of Shel Silverstein and let the light bring you home. ![]() You will talk with Broiled Face, and find out what happens when Somebody steals your knees, you get caught by the Quick-Digesting Gink, a Mountain snores, and They Put a Brassiere on the Camel. Here in the attic you will find Backward Bill, Sour Face Ann, the Meehoo with an Exactlywatt, and the Polar Bear in the Frigidaire. ![]() Here in the attic you will find Backward Bill, Sour Face Ann, the Meehoo with an Exactlywatt, and the Polar Bear in the Frigidaire. A Light in the Attic delights with remarkable characters and hilariously profound poems in a collection readers will return to again and again. A Light in the Attic delights with remarkable characters and hilariously profound poems in a collection readers will return to again and again. This digital edition also includes twelve poems previously only available in the special edition hardcover. NOW AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK! From New York Times bestselling author Shel Silverstein, the creator of the beloved poetry collections Where the Sidewalk Ends, Falling Up, and Every Thing On It, comes an imaginative book of poems and drawingsa favorite of Shel Silverstein fans young and old. ![]() ![]() I’m excited to present this first book to you at last: a different type of Brandon Sanderson story, one I wrote when there were no time constraints, no expectations, and no limits on my imagination. She urged me to share it with the world-and alongside three other secret novels, with the support of readers worldwide it grew into the biggest Kickstarter campaign of all time. I started writing this in secret, as a novel just for my wife. The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple. Amid the spore oceans where pirates abound, can Tress leave her simple life behind and make her own place sailing a sea where a single drop of water can mean instant death? 1 New York Times Bestselling author Brandon Sanderson brings us deeper into the Cosmere Universe with a standalone adventure that will appeal to fans of The Princess Bride. But when his father takes him on a voyage to find a bride and disaster strikes, Tress must stow away on a ship and seek the Sorceress of the deadly Midnight Sea. ![]() The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple pleasures of collecting cups brought by sailors from faraway lands and listening to stories told by her friend Charlie. ![]() ![]() ![]() #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson expands his Cosmere universe shared by The Stormlight Archive and Mistborn with a new standalone novel for everyone who loved The Princess Bride. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Glennon now offers a new way of journaling, one that reveals how we can stop striving to meet others’ expectations-because when we finally learn that satisfying the world is impossible, we quit pleasing and start living. Untamed has been described as “a wake-up call” (Tracee Ellis Ross), “an anthem for women today” (Kristen Bell), and a book that “will shake your brain and make your soul scream” (Adele). With Untamed, Glennon Doyle-writer, activist, and “patron saint of female empowerment” ( People)-ignited a movement. I created Get Untamed: The Journal as an interactive experience in charting our own way-so we can let burn that which is not true and beautiful enough and get started building what is.” -Glennon Doyle “We must stop asking people for directions to places they’ve never been. Every life is an unprecedented experiment. ![]() This stunning hardcover journal is a bold, interactive guide to discovering and creating the truest, most beautiful lives, families, and world we can imagine, based on the #1 New York Times bestseller Untamed. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her heels were this year’s style, but she wouldn’t be able to run in them. Still watching Jenks, I surreptitiously edged away from Marsha’s tense, middle-class office professionalism. I doubted Marsha was having second thoughts, but disobeying your master vampire could have lethal consequences. The moist-dirt smell of damp pavement was a hint under the light but growing scent of frightened vampire coming from near my elbow. The sporadic traffic at the end of the alley was enough to cover the sound of Jenks’s wings, but I could hear them in my memory as the pixy hovered before a pollution-grimed window. High in the sun, dragonflylike wings threw back the glow with the transparent sheen of glittery tissue paper. Neck craned, I squinted up between the shadowed apartments. Select interviews/events associated with The Witch With No Name tour: To save Ivy's soul and the rest of the living vampires, to keep the demonic ever after and our own world from destruction, Rachel Morgan will risk everything.įormally Nicolas, Schuler Books is proud to partner with Kim Harrison to provide signed copies of all available books. She's lost friends and lovers and family, and an old enemy has become something much more.īut power demands responsibility, and world-changers must always pay a price. She's crossed worlds, channeled gods, and accepted her place as a day-walking demon. She's faced vampires and werewolves, banshees, witches, and soul-eating demons. Rachel Morgan's come a long way from the clutzy runner of Dead Witch Walking. ![]() ![]() She gasped and clasped her hands over her chest. ![]() "Her eyes were huge and darkly shadowed, and her skin was milky white. Following a white cat with no shadow, Ashely finds herself outside a house that doesn't exist anymore, and there, in the past, she meets Louisa: When the old landlady happens to see it, she is furious, and demands that Ashley hand it over too her, and Ashley has no choice to obey.īut it's real owner is still waiting for her doll, beyond the overgrown garden. Then, partly buried, they find a box, and in the box is a beautiful old doll, interred there long ago. There she meets Kristi, the little girl who lives next door, and hears from her that this garden is haunted-every summer, a white cat appears, and in the night, a child can be heard crying.But its charms are too great to resist, and soon Ashley and Kristi are busy clearing away weeds, making a place for themselves. Part of the garden is well-cared for, but it is the overgrown tangle of weeds and roses at the other end that draws Ashley. ![]() When Ashley and her mother move into the upstairs apartment carved out of a grumpy old lady's house, they are hoping to make a new life for themselves, one without Ashley's dad, who had recently died of cancer. ![]() ![]() It's also a very fast read, great for a nine year or ten year old girl who likes spooky books. The Doll in the Garden: A Ghost Story, by Mary Downing Hahn (1989, middle grade, 128pp), is both time slip and ghost story. ![]() |