Download or read book That Fernhill Summer written by Colby Rodowsky and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kiara Jones-Birkell knows a lot about the Birkell side of her family, and nothing about the Joneses. The one time she tried to ask about her mother's relatives, her mom turned a spooky greenish-white color and refused to talk to anyone. So it comes as quite a shock when Kiara learns that the grandmother she never knew she had is expected to die at any moment. Suddenly Kiara finds herself on a train heading for Baltimore - and her mother's secret past. There she meets Zenobia, the world's most stubborn grandmother, who is as eruptive as Mount Vesuvius. Kiara can't understand what Zenobia could possibly have against her - is it simply the fact that her skin is dark like mocha latte, while all her cousins are white? Or is there, as Kiara's mother keeps hinting, much more to the story? Told from the point of view of a teenager with spot-on observations and hilarious insights, this is the story of three generations of stubborn - and charmingly funny - women.
Download or read book Gentle Reads written by Deanna J. McDaniel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume recommends some 500 positive, heart-warming stories for young readers—stories of the human spirit and what it can accomplish; stories of loving families surviving crises in positive ways; historical tales full of quick-witted people (especially girls); fairy tales with strong women; true stories of survival; and more. These gentle and uplifting reads span every genre—from science fiction and fantasy, to mysteries, realistic fiction, biographies, and nonfiction. They are Accelerated Reader titles, Reading Counts titles, and Junior Library Guild selections. Primarily intended for grades 5 to 9, this is a list of reading suggestions for the young adult who wants a great read but does not want to be offended. Grades 5-9.
Download or read book Ben and the Sudden Too Big Family written by Colby Rodowsky and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben's philosophy of life is that there are two categories of things that happen, the all-right stuff and the not-all-right stuff. Ben has always lived with just his dad, Mitch, which definitely falls into the all-right category. When Mitch meets Casey and they decide to get married, that turns out to be all right, too. Then Mitch and Casey decide to adopt a baby from China, and Ben isn't sure which category the whole baby thing is going to fit into. After the baby comes home (it's all right), Casey and Mitch announce that the four of them – as a family – are going on vacation with Casey's family. All twenty-three of them! Ben is sure this will not be all right! How eleven-year-old Ben finds his place in a crazy-big family makes this a funny novel about family and what it means to be a part of one.
Download or read book Mixed Heritage in Young Adult Literature written by Nancy Thalia Reynolds and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-03-19 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mixed-heritage people are one of the fastest-growing groups in the United States, yet culturally they have been largely invisible, especially in young adult literature. Mixed Heritage in Young Adult Literature is a critical exploration of how mixed-heritage characters (those of mixed race, ethnicity, religion, and/or adoption) and real-life people have been portrayed in young adult fiction and nonfiction. This is the first in-depth, broad-scope critical exploration of this subgenre of multicultural literature. Following an introduction to the topic, author Nancy Thalia Reynolds examines the portrayal of mixed-heritage characters in literary classics by James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, and Zora Neale Hurston—staples of today's high school English curriculum—along with other important authors. It opens up the discussion of young-adult racial and ethnic identity in literature to recognize—and focus on—those whose heritage straddles boundaries. In this book teachers will find new tools to approach race, ethnicity, and family heritage in literature and in the classroom. This book also helps librarians find new criteria with which to evaluate young adult fiction and nonfiction with mixed-heritage characters.
Download or read book Understanding Diversity Through Novels and Picture Books written by Liz Knowles and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-05-30 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Diversity Through Novels and Picture Books goes beyond the usual multicultural lists and looks at the wide expanse of the diversity of cultures and lifestyles impacting children's lives in America today and identifies good books to have in library collections for them to read. Included are annotated titles with discussion questions from all of the identified cultures and subcultures and annotated teacher/librarian resources, print- and Web-based, as well as an excellent list of topical annotated journal articles. Grades 4-8. Knowles and Smith examine current research on diversity and multiculturalism. They move away from the traditional aspects of multicultural education (food, fashion, folktales, festivals, and famous people) to a focus on novels and pictures books, and realistic fiction to show children with diversity issues that there are others in similar positions. The issue of authenticity (whether the author of the book should be of that culture or merely familiar with the culture) is discussed. Topics include: Ethnicities (Asian, Latino/Hispanic, African/Black, Native American, White/European, Bi/Multiracial), Exceptionalities, Ageism, Socioeconomic Status, Sexual Orientation, Gender, and Religion. The authors provide this valuable resource for libraries, schools, and communities that wish to utilize literature to help diverse students walk in the shoes of others and to match books to children and young adults to heighten understanding and acceptance. Grades 4-8.
Download or read book Sarah s Story written by Sarah Barnes and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-01-24 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memories of a lifetime chronicled in stories, poems, and essays. Explore a childhood from a simpler time and place. A working class neighborhood in Detroit filled with front porch neighbors, vacant lots and baseball games. A teenager's first love along her road to becoming a young wife struggling to raise four children. A story of one woman's journey through life. A story of love from beginning to end. Her story, her decisions, her consequences. Sarah's Story.
Download or read book Dylan Thomas written by Hannah Ellis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dylan Thomas: A Centenary Celebration is a unique collection of specially commissioned essays celebrating the poet's life and work one hundred years after his birth in 1914. Edited by his granddaughter, Hannah Ellis, who introduces each section by theme, the book is divided into three parts concerning Thomas's early years, later life and his lasting legacy. Highlights include essays from noted biographers Andrew Lycett and David N. Thomas, National Poet for Wales Gillian Clarke on Under Milk Wood, and poetry by Archbishop Emeritus Rowan Williams. The book also includes essays by poet Owen Sheers and BBC Radio 6 presenter Cerys Matthews, as well as numerous testimonies and poems from the likes of former President of the United States Jimmy Carter, Phillip Pullman and actor Michael Sheen. With a foreword by comedian and former Monty Python Terry Jones, Dylan Thomas: A Centenary Celebration is a rich and personal reflection on the lasting legacy of Britain's greatest poet.
Download or read book Multiracial Identity in Children s Literature written by Amina Chaudhri and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Racially mixed children make up the fastest growing youth demographic in the U.S., and teachers of diverse populations need to be mindful in selecting literature that their students can identify with. This volume explores how books for elementary school students depict and reflect multiracial experiences through text and images. Chaudhri examines contemporary children’s literature to demonstrate the role these books play in perpetuating and resisting stereotypes and the ways in which they might influence their readers. Through critical analysis of contemporary children’s fiction, Chaudhri highlights the connections between context, literature, and personal experience to deepen our understanding of how children’s books treat multiracial identity.
Download or read book The Pride of Eve written by Warwick Deeping and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Pride of Eve" by Warwick Deeping is an adventure, romance, and story of growth all wrapped into one. George Warwick Deeping was an English novelist and short story writer, and in this book, he puts his skills to the test. Following Guinevere, Lynette, and more, readers are taken to the English countryside, where magic and wonder are free to roam. Told through a series of small adventures, readers are taken on a journey much grander than they could have expected.
Download or read book Once Below a Time written by Eynel Wardi and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2000-05-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a psychoanalytically enhanced theory of poetics through close readings of Dylan Thomas and Julia Kristeva.
Download or read book Dylan Thomas written by R. B. Kershner and published by Chicago : American Library Association. This book was released on 1976 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Classic Hundred Poems written by William Harmon and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains one hundred of the most anthologized poems in the English language, and includes notes, profiles of the authors, and bibliographic information; presented in chronological order with a glossary, and author, title, and first line indexes.
Download or read book The Poems of Dylan Thomas written by Dylan Thomas and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most complete and current edition of Dylan Thomas' collected poetry in a beautiful gift edition celebrating the centenary of his birth The reputation of Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century has not waned in the fifty years since his death. A Welshman with a passion for the English language, Thomas’s singular poetic voice has been admired and imitated, but never matched. This exciting, newly edited annotated edition offers a more complete and representative collection of Dylan Thomas’s poetic works than any previous edition. Edited by leading Dylan Thomas scholar John Goodby from the University of Swansea, The Poems of Dylan Thomas contains all the poems that appeared in Collected Poems 1934-1952, edited by Dylan Thomas himself, as well as poems from the 1930-1934 notebooks and poems from letters, amatory verses, occasional poems, the verse film script for “Our Country,” and poems that appear in his “radio play for voices,” Under Milk Wood. Showing the broad range of Dylan Thomas’s oeuvre as never before, this new edition places Thomas in the twenty-first century, with an up-to-date introduction by Goodby whose notes and annotations take a pluralistic approach.
Download or read book Where Have the Old Words Got Me written by Ralph Maud and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Dylan Thomas is the one of the most well-known poets of the twentieth century, much of his poetry is considered obscure and difficult, and readers and critics tend to concentrate on those poems that can be most easily understood. Not since the early sixties has there been an attempt to explicate the full corpus of Dylan Thomas's Collected Poems. In Where Have the Old Words Got Me? Ralph Maud tackles Thomas's entire work, giving special attention to more difficult and obscure poems. He makes valuable use of Thomas's letters as edited by Paul Ferris in his authoritative Collected Letters volume, bringing the whole man and his work into view.
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Download or read book Pyrophobia written by Jack Lance and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jason Evans has a perfect life—until he starts receiving messages that claim he’s dead—in this haunting mystery from the bestselling Dutch author of Zone. Despite his fear of fire, life has been smooth sailing for Jason Evans. He has a loving wife, Kayla, a good job, and plenty of friends. There’s nothing standing in the way of his happiness, until an unknown enemy starts sending him strange photographs. The chilling images of a graveyard all have ominous and perplexing messages on the back: “You are dead. You think you’re alive, but you don’t exist.” Jason’s attempt to find out who’s behind the disturbing missives leads him down an increasingly dark and dangerous path—one that makes him realize his life isn’t as picture-perfect as he thinks. Tense and psychologically gripping, Pyrophobia is a horror story that takes one man into the darkest corners of his own mind . . .
Download or read book Guide to the Turf written by Ruff William and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
