Download or read book Totem Magic Going MAD written by John Griffith and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enrique Salazar and Jasmine Ejeekwa seem like normal sixth-graders. They attend a regular public school, with the usual assortment of friends and bullies. But the two friends share a secret. They are members of Magic User families, which have been entrusted for generations to help the Earth's endangered species without anybody else discovering their special role. These unusual "totem mages" embody the spirit of whatever animal they are born to represent and protect. Jasmine's totem animal is the mountain lion, and Enrique's is the common turkey vulture, which is not actually endangered -- yet. When Jasmine's father, a leader in the Magic User community, is kidnapped by an evil witchdoctor, the two budding totem mages set out to rescue him, and possibly the entire planet. Their journey begins with a dreadlocked, high-spirited, taxi-driving witch who can be instantly summoned -- at great risk -- to provide a wild ride through a magical world at war. Jasmine and Enrique will have to be brave and extremely clever if they hope to survive vicious attacks from the witchdoctor's powerful gang members and the various monsters lurking in the dark corners of this supernatural world. It doesn't help that the only two weapons they possess are Jasmine's oversized, all-seeing glasses and Enrique's magically malfunctioning flip-flops. Even worse, both are on the verge of an abrupt and mysterious preteen mental and physical change that the adult totem mages call going MAD ...

Download or read book Beauty Is Experience written by Emmaly Wiederholt and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauty is Experience is a collaboration between dancer/writer Emmaly Wiederholt and photographer Gregory Bartning. For more than two years, they collected interviews and photographs of dancers over age 50 along the West Coast. Spanning from Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area to Portland and Seattle, the culmination includes over 50 interviews with dancers ranging in age from 50 to 95, and ranging in practice from ballet and Argentine tango to African and contact improvisation.

Download or read book A Very Large Expanse of Sea written by Tahereh Mafi and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature! From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Shatter Me series comes a powerful, heartrending contemporary novel about fear, first love, and the devastating impact of prejudice. It’s 2002, a year after 9/11. It’s an extremely turbulent time politically, but especially so for someone like Shirin, a sixteen-year-old Muslim girl who’s tired of being stereotyped. Shirin is never surprised by how horrible people can be. She’s tired of the rude stares, the degrading comments—even the physical violence—she endures as a result of her race, her religion, and the hijab she wears every day. So she’s built up protective walls and refuses to let anyone close enough to hurt her. Instead, she drowns her frustrations in music and spends her afternoons break-dancing with her brother. But then she meets Ocean James. He’s the first person in forever who really seems to want to get to know Shirin. It terrifies her—they seem to come from two irreconcilable worlds—and Shirin has had her guard up for so long that she’s not sure she’ll ever be able to let it down.

Download or read book Dance Is for Everyone written by and published by . This book was released on 2017-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an alligator shows up to class one day, Mrs. Iraina and her ballet students are very suprised. But she is able to follow along, so they decide it's okay for her to join. The class starts calling her Tanya and even creates a new dance to showcase her larger-than-life talents and big, swishy tail: "The Legend of the Swamp Queen." Tanya has the starring role.

Download or read book Life Is Just a Dance written by Rita B. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-02-13 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOK DESCRIPTION Growing up in a small Southern town in the 50s and 60s was to have truly enjoyed the atmosphere of neighborhoods and large family gatherings. It was a simpler time when neighbors would get together under the shade trees and visit as they performed daily tasks. Children were free to frolic on the grass and build castles in the sand boxes. Raising children in the 70s and 80s was a very different experience. My husband and I both worked outside the home and our sons became latch key kids. The time we did spend together as a family was quality time. We worked hard and played hard together. We took our two sons everywhere with us: on business trips, on all vacations, and outings. They brought so much pleasure to our lives with their imaginations, observations and innocence. They taught us many lessons of life, and I, for one, am so much wiser having experienced things through their eyes and interpretations. During the 90s life seemed harder. There was so much to do and so many problems to solve. The financial situation of having both sons in college was an eye opener. The empty nest was bitter sweet at first. However, it didnt take long to learn to actually love it! But I realized that something was missing from my life. It was joy: the kind of joy that only children can provide. With no hopes of grandchildren in the near future, I reached into my memory cache and found myself recalling the wit and wisdom of days gone by from my own childhood and that of my children. The new millennium brought opportunities to socialize and to strengthen and build friendships. I kept in touch with old friends; and developed new friendships through mutual interests, organizations and situations. Our activities migrated from business meetings and organized social gatherings to dinner parties and girl only get togethers. We celebrated birthdays and generally learned how to have fun again. It was at a dinner party at a friends home that I was baffled when she posed the question: If I were an artichoke plate, where would I be? Of all the questions I had been asked in my life, this truly was the most unusual. It was one of those things that comes right out of left field and hits one on the head. It is these haphazard mysteries of life that come and go so quickly that if we dont latch on to them, they are gone forever. The same goes for hidden treasures at Christmas, imaginary friends, and things considered sacred. As we reach middle age things do start to fall apart; for some its marriage, for some its health, and for others its financial. Men go through midlife crisis, women go through menopause. It is easy to get cynical and lose sight of what is important. But, if we learn to value our friends, to have compassion for others, and to enjoy the serendipity of each day, then Life Is Just a Dance!

Download or read book The Strangest Way written by Robert E. Barron and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Christianity a bland, domesticated religion, unthreatening and easy to grasp? Or is it the most exotic, unexpected, and uncanny of religious paths? For the mystics and saints -- and for Robert Barron who discovered Christianity through them -- it is surely the strangest way. "At its very center, " writes Barron, "is a God who comes after us with a reckless abandon, breaking open his own heart in love in order to include us in the rhythm of his own life." What could be more compelling?

Download or read book The Critic written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book We Heard It When We Were Young written by Chuy Renteria and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We Heard It When We Were Young tells the story of a young boy, first-generation Mexican American, who is torn between cultures: between immigrant parents trying to acclimate to midwestern life and a town that is, by turns, supportive and disturbingly antagonistic.

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Download or read book This Is Just a Test written by Wendy Wan-Long Shang and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosenberg and Wan-Long Shang tell the story of a boy caught in the middle of cultures, friends, and growing up Chinese-Jewish-American in this hilariously witty and heartwarming coming-of-age. David Da-Wei Horowitz has a lot on his plate. Preparing for his upcoming bar mitzvah would be enough work even if it didn't involve trying to please his Jewish and Chinese grandmothers, who argue about everything. But David just wants everyone to be happy.That includes his friend Scott, who is determined to win their upcoming trivia tournament but doesn't like their teammate -- and David's best friend -- Hector. Scott and David begin digging a fallout shelter just in case this Cold War stuff with the Soviets turns south... but David's not so convinced he wants to spend forever in an underground bunker with Scott. Maybe it would be better if Hector and Kelli Ann came with them. But that would mean David has to figure out how to stand up for Hector and talk to Kelli Ann. Some days, surviving nuclear war feels like the least of David's problems.

Download or read book The Dating Game written by Laura J. Burns and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-06-19 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Casey is so single it hurts. Everyone she knows is dating, and she’s tired of being alone. So when Derek and his girlfriend offer to throw a party to help Casey meet eligible guys, Casey jumps at the chance. The only problem? Everyone who shows up at the party is totally weird! Can Casey find a stud among the duds, or will she be stuck in singledom forever?

Download or read book You Kin Do It Chile written by Maxwell Dickinson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: YOU KIN DO IT, CHILE, (You Can Do It, Child) tells of an unusual and poignant relationship between a black, horse trainer in his eighties and a young blond girl growing up on a farm in Tennessee. At a period in history, still affected by resentments and injustices of the Civil War, Maxie and Uncle Sandy cement a bond of friendship that transcends all opinions and established mores of the time. Uncle Sandy, born a slave, rose above his status by educating himself, becoming a world acclaimed Arabian horse trainer and passing on a wisdom and honor to the small child who loved and admired him, which enabled her to succeed in subsequent traumas of adult life. Maxwell's observations and first hand experiences among both aristocrats and farmers, gleaned from ancestors who predated the Civil War, gives credence and color to this touching novel of homecoming. The stories of a southern farm before and during World War II continue to that "far off land," California, where Uncle Sandy accompanies sixty Arabian hosses under his care. Although never having left Tennessee, he joins the family in the monumental move, not wanting his "horses" to go without him. The emotions of him and Maxie are similar and terrifying, facing a lonely ranch life, far from Tennessee. Their deep love for each other reaches an emotional climax when she flies with him on his last trip home.

Download or read book Anything Is Possible written by Joby Martin and published by FaithWords. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From mega-church pastor Joby Martin, an accessible yet theologically-rich look at nine miracles of Jesus and what they teach us about the miraculous power available to every believer. Miracles are impossible. They defy explanation. They can’t be real. And yet, miracles surround us every day. Where we face something that we can’t fix and run out of options. Where the limited and finite ability of man ends and unlimited and infinite will of God begins. Where what is impossible with man is possible with God. In Anything is Possible, Joby Martin, bestselling author and Lead Pastor of The Church of Eleven 22, examines nine miracles of Jesus—the miracle at the wedding of Cana, the story of the cripple at the pool of Bethesda, the feeding of the 5,000, the raising of Lazarus—and shows how each teaches us something unique about how God wants to relate to us. Written with New York Times bestselling author Charles Martin, Anything is Possible is an insightful and spiritually rich look the miracles of Christ, and how the greatest miracles of all changed everything. Ultimately, he encourages readers that God still does miracles today, that believers have access to the incredible power that raised Jesus from the dead, and, ultimately, reminds us not to seek miracles themselves, but the one who performs them.

Download or read book BUCKLEY BATMAN MYNDIE Echoes of the Victorian culture clash frontier written by and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 977 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sounding 7 begins with Echo 107 titled CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN EYES ON THE OZ CULTURE-CLASH FRONTIER followed by echoes on BUCKLEY REVISITED, AFTER THE PROTECTORATE CRUMBLED and WHAT OF PROTECTOR ROBINSON? Echoes follow on salvaging tribal ways, the Merri Creek black orphanage, ‘going round the bend’ at the Asylum and Echo 114: THE CELESTIALS OF VICTORIA, being the resented Chinese gold miners. Exploring the contrasting fate of Batman, La Trobe and Derrimut, leads into echoes on fringe-dwelling, cultural resistance and Oz racism, in particular the mass psychology of racist ideology that culminated with World War 2. After the gold rush era, life and right behaviour at the Healesville Coranderrk mission station and re-thinking William Thomas the Aboriginal Guardian lead to the pleasant notion of civilizing British colonies through sport. The life and exploits of Tom Wills is celebrated in Echo 122: THE MAKING & BREAKING OF VICTORIA’S FIRST SPORTING HERO. Turning to political history, Oz class struggles – convicts, capitalism and nation-building asks the question with Echo 124: WHITHER MARXISM [?] and then BRITISH EMPIRE POLICY REFORMS IN THE 1840s to contain a Chartist-led revolution. Facets of Victorian ‘quality of life’ since the land grab are followed by echoes on the astrology of the 1802 Port Phillip Crown possession claim and an echo titled TOWARDS AN ASTROLOGY OF CIVILIZATION. The Sounding concludes with approaches to researching Aboriginal society, an undergraduate essay on the Dreamtime and finally with Echo 130: A RAINBOW SERPENT BRIDGE. Today in the 21s century, I wonder how differently Oz would have developed if the then ruling British government in Sydney and London had not used censorship to delay the gold rush for almost 40 years! Sounding 8 begins with Echo 131: HISTORY DISTORTION & CENSORSHIP and is backed up with a critique of Britannia’s pirate empire that together spawn two more echoes of doubtful but controversial polemics in 1421 – THE YEAR CHINA DISCOVERED THE WORLD suggesting they were here in Oz many centuries before Captain Cook. Echo 135: THE KADAITCHA SUNG MEETS THE DRUID INHERITANCE pits Palm Islander Sam Watson’s 1990s fiction The Kadaitcha Sung [the ‘clever’ occult Oz Dreamtime] in occult war with the equally ancient European / Celtic / Druid magic in the psyche of the Aryan ‘race’, so to speak. Going even further out on a limb, the focus shifts to recent light shed on ‘dark ages barbarians’ now considered by some historians to have been more culturally refined than the modern city individual. Back in Oz with Echo 137: WHITE MAN’S LAW – BLACKFELLOW LAW and Echo 138: McLEOD’S BUCKET FROM SKULL CREEK brings Western Australia after WW2 into wider awareness with the Pilbara pastoral workers strike of 1946-49 that won half-decent wage rights for Aboriginal stockmen. Moving further north, Echo 141: RECENT ARNHEMLAND CONNECTIONS Part 1: Taming the NT is the stuff of White Australia’s race-based patriotism as depicted in Ion Idriess’s once-mainstream fascist fictions counterpointed by Part 2: James Gaykamangus’s Striving to bridge the chasm: my cultural learning journey. The final echo 142 talks treaty.

Download or read book Age and Dancing written by Diane Amans and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly readable introduction to dance with older people combines key debates and issues in the field with practical guidance, as well as a resources section including numerous 'toolkit materials'. Diane Amans, leading practitioner in Community Dance, provides the ideal beginners' guide for students, practitioners and dance artists alike.

Download or read book Hip Hop on Film written by Kimberly Monteyne and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reclamation and interpretation of a once-dismissed aspect of American film history

Download or read book The Creative Virus written by Michael Joseph and published by immj publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you have a dream where you freely get to be creative, use your imagination or just express yourself? If you're not dead, then neither is your dream. It's never too late to jump back into or start your creative journey. It's time to start suppressing those inner voices that keep saying, "It's a waste of time" and learn the true benefits that being creative, imaginative and expressive can bring. You don't have to leave everything in your life to start this journey. You just have to accept you already have the creative virus and that is a wonderful thing. With this book, I hope to get you to embrace creativity Michael Joseph is a lifelong artist, DJ, author, dancer, performer, creator and part time robot who can't turn off the creative spark. It took over 50 years and a worldwide pandemic for him to realize he already had what he was looking for: a creative life.