Download or read book The Girl who Wouldn t Wear Glasses written by Nola Turkington and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1996 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lulama is the princess in her school play. She should wear her new glasses. But if she wears them, will the handsome prince kiss her? A story set in South Africa.

Download or read book Girl with Glasses written by Marissa Walsh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marissa Walsh's hilarious look at a life behind glass is both a poignant personal journey and a wry, insightful exploration of just what it means to be a glasses-wearing kind of girl. Being a Girl with Glasses isn't just a style choice; it's a way of life. If you've ever had your specs steam up when walking into a bar, squinted into the sun on the soccer field, or laid eyes on a new haircut only after your locks are strewn across the floor, you know what it's like to be a GWG. Marissa Walsh has worn glasses since third grade. Now—ten pairs of glasses, one pair of prescription sunglasses, and endless pairs of contacts later—she has fully embraced her four-eyed fate. As she recounts her optic history through the lenses of each pair of glasses—from the Sergio Valentes and the Sally Jessy Raphaels to the pseudo John Lennons and the dreaded health plan specs—at last she found them...the perfect pair. Peppered with pop culture references and complete with appendixes of resources, classic GWG moments, and helpful tips on finding the right frames for your face, Girl with Glasses will give you reason to commiserate with your short-sighted sisters and celebrate your less-than-perfect vision.

Download or read book Girl Behind Dark Glasses written by Jessica Taylor-Bearman and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2019-09-04 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a darkened world, bound by four walls, a young woman called Jessica tells the tale of her battle against the M.E Monster. The severest form of a neuro immune disease called Myalgic Encephalomyelitis went to war with her at just 15 years old. From beneath her dark glasses, Jessica glimpses a world far different from the one she remembers as a teenage school girl. This true story follows her path as she ends up living in hospital for years with tubes keeping her alive. This harrowing story follows the highs and lows of the disease and being hospitalised, captured through her voice activated technology diary called `Bug' that enables her to fulfil her dream of one day becoming an author. It provides a raw, real-time honesty to the story that would be impossible to capture in hindsight.

Download or read book Girls Who Wear Glasses written by Jennifer Inglis and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes you need to take a chance...on yourself.Plus-sized Rachel Simon has settled into her life. But in a lifetime of not quite fitting in, and battling demon food issues, she has given up on finding love, despite the well-meaning nagging of her close circle of friends.Now, Rachel has received some big news: a fashion blog, which she secretly wrote on the side, has caught the eye of a major fashion magazine, who not only wants her to write a column but is giving her an award at an upcoming banquet. The problem? She used her best friend Lisa's picture on her bio and believes they expect a tall, beautiful blonde to walk through the doors of the magazine.Rachel asks Lisa to pose as her at an upcoming meeting, as well the awards banquet, believing that she would lose everything if the magazine knew someone who looks like Rachel was behind the writing. Then, she meets Nathan: cute, smart, and just a little bit weird. However, she's convinced men like him don't ask out "fat girls" like her and places him decidedly in the Friend Zone. Then to her dismay, Rachel discovers that Lisa has decided to date him.Along her journey toward love, self-acceptance, and being true to oneself, Rachel finds that sometimes, "Men Do Make Passes At Girls Who Wear Glasses."

Download or read book Rosie s Glasses written by Dave Whamond and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A special pair of glasses alters how a little girl sees the world. In this wordless picture book, Rosie wakes up in a monochrome world, with a dark cloud over her head. As she plods through her day, mishaps thwart her, noises assault her ã and the rain makes everything worse. But then Rosie finds a pair of strange glasses. When she puts them on, her world is transformed into vivid color, and her dark cloud disappears. Are the glasses magic? Or could it be that changing how we look at the world can change the way we experience it? Who needs rose-colored glasses? Happiness is in the eye of the kid!

Download or read book Cool Kids Wear Glasses Coloring Book Edition written by Teddy O'Malley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-29 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mandy Harper, one of the meanest girls ever, viciously ruled the school. She decided who was in and who was out. At least, that was until Kayla Littlebe started standing up to her. One day, Mandy found out she might need glasses. Would she still be able to rule the school, or would her new glasses help her see the error of her ways?

Download or read book The Hired Girl written by Laura Amy Schlitz and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction A 2016 Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Award Winner Winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz brings her delicious wit and keen eye to early twentieth-century America in a moving yet comedic tour de force. Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends? Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks a new, better life for herself—because maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and cooking for six dollars a week can become what a farm girl could only dream of—a woman with a future. Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz relates Joan’s journey from the muck of the chicken coop to the comforts of a society household in Baltimore (Electricity! Carpet sweepers! Sending out the laundry!), taking readers on an exploration of feminism and housework; religion and literature; love and loyalty; cats, hats, and bunions.

Download or read book You Don t Have a Clue written by Sarah Cortez and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2011-04-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of suspenseful short fiction by Latino authors for teenagers.

Download or read book My Glasses written by Floyd Stokes and published by . This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MY GLASSES is about a little girl who did not want to wear glasses at first. But after her vision got worse, she had a change of heart. In the end, she had a great time picking out and wearing her new glasses. She learned that glasses help you see better and can also be a cool accessory. The book also has interesting facts about glasses and eyes.

Download or read book I Really Absolutely Must Have Glasses written by Lauren Child and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-11-12 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lola is going to the optician. She has decided that she absolutely MUST have glasses. Charlie says, ?You?ll only get glasses if you really, really need them.? But Lola says, ?I really DO need them, Charlie.?

Download or read book Princesses Don t Wear Glasses written by Tia Cherie Dammen and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeing is believing in yourself! “[A] light, heartwarming story . . . The themes of self-esteem and feeling different are very relatable” (Online Book Club). The concept for Princesses Don’t Wear Glasses is to communicate to kids that it’s perfectly acceptable to be unique or different. Geared towards the modern girl for building confidence and positive self-image, it shines light on a young princess who thinks that she’s supposed to look a certain way. Illustrated with colorful imagery, the story is driven by the princess’s amazing imagination and she eventually changes her attitude towards being a princess that wears glasses. Princesses can wear glasses, and even braces. They don’t have to look or be one certain way and all girls can be princesses no matter what. “A change in appearance can be difficult for a child to adjust to. Many children have to wear glasses, braces, or other type of health aid. This can create feelings of insecurity and anxiety . . . [A] sweet story about a common issue.” —Online Book Club

Download or read book Optical Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Optical Journal and Review of Optometry written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book No I Don t Need Reading Glasses written by Virginia Ironside and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marie may be 'getting on a bit' but it's certainly not getting her down. Her family around her and a man who loves her means that life is good - but nothing stays the same for long. Marie's golden years are filled with as much drama - love, laughter and tears - as ever. Which just goes to show that getting on a bit does not mean giving up - or even growing up.

Download or read book Lake Success written by Gary Shteyngart and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Spectacular.”—NPR • “Uproariously funny.”—The Boston Globe • “An artistic triumph.”—San Francisco Chronicle • “A novel in which comedy and pathos are exquisitely balanced.”—The Washington Post • “Shteyngart’s best book.”—The Seattle Times The bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story returns with a biting, brilliant, emotionally resonant novel very much of our times. NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND MAUREEN CORRIGAN, NPR’S FRESH AIR AND NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • NPR • The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • Mother Jones • Glamour • Library Journal • Kirkus Reviews • Newsday • Pamela Paul, KQED • Financial Times • The Globe and Mail Narcissistic, hilariously self-deluded, and divorced from the real world as most of us know it, hedge-fund manager Barry Cohen oversees $2.4 billion in assets. Deeply stressed by an SEC investigation and by his three-year-old son’s diagnosis of autism, he flees New York on a Greyhound bus in search of a simpler, more romantic life with his old college sweetheart. Meanwhile, his super-smart wife, Seema—a driven first-generation American who craved the picture-perfect life that comes with wealth—has her own demons to face. How these two flawed characters navigate the Shteyngartian chaos of their own making is at the heart of this piercing exploration, a poignant tale of familial longing and an unsentimental ode to America. LONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION “The fuel and oxygen of immigrant literature—movement, exile, nostalgia, cultural disorientation—are what fire the pistons of this trenchant and panoramic novel. . . . [It is] a novel so pungent, so frisky and so intent on probing the dissonances and delusions—both individual and collective—that grip this strange land getting stranger.”—The New York Times Book Review “Shteyngart, perhaps more than any American writer of his generation, is a natural. He is light, stinging, insolent and melancholy. . . . The wit and the immigrant’s sense of heartbreak—he was born in Russia—just seem to pour from him. The idea of riding along behind Shteyngart as he glides across America in the early age of Trump is a propitious one. He doesn’t disappoint.”—The New York Times

Download or read book Getting Old Sucks If You Let It written by Barbara Leigh Hartenfeld and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have heard before that you begin aging the minute you are born. Pretty depressing dont you think? Aging definitely has its mysteries but it also has a lot of fun surprises-little unexpected twists and turns-that happen when you least expect them and that is what makes this journey we call Life so interesting. There hopefully are a lot of years between birth and the end of life, so my dear friends, I ask that you Enjoy the Journey. Enjoy my journey as I share the wisdom and sense of humor I have been forced to develop in spite of Mother Natures attempt to try my patience every chance she gets. You will find that we women around the world are all sisters on this trip. Aging is inevitable, so why not make the best of it? In my particular journey, there are so many things my mother didnt tell me! As a result, growing older has at times been an agonizing challenge so I am sharing some common sense secrets to make your journey more fun. I have injected humor throughout. After all, if you cant laugh at yourself, who can and still get away with it?

Download or read book Through The Looking Glasses written by Travis Elborough and published by Little, Brown Book Group. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Elegant and multi-focal. Glorious!' Simon Garfield 'It will make you look at specs with fresh eyes' New Statesman 'Lively, engaging and admirably wide-ranging' The Times 'Fascinating' Observer The humble pair of glasses might just be one of the world's greatest inventions, allowing millions to see a world that might otherwise appear a blur. And yet how much do many of us really think about these things perched on the ends of our noses? Through the Looking Glasses traces the fascinating story of spectacles: from their inception as primitive visual aids for monkish scribes right through to today's designer eyewear and the augmented reality of Google Glass. There are encounters with ingenious medieval Italian glassmakers, myopic Renaissance rulers and spectacle-makers, as well as the silent movie star Harold Lloyd, the rock'n'roller Buddy Holly and the full-screen figure of Marilyn Monroe. This is a book about vision and the need for humanity to see clearly, and where the impulse to improve our eyesight has led us.