Download or read book A Chair for My Mother written by Vera B. Williams and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic and heartwarming picture book was written and illustrated by the celebrated Vera B. Williams and was named a Caldecott Honor Book by the American Library Association. "A tender knockout. It's rare to find much vitality, spontaneity, and depth of feeling in such a simple, young book."—Kirkus Reviews Vera Williams tells of a young girl who, along with her waitress mother, saves coins in a big jar in hopes that they can someday buy a new chair for their apartment, the kind of chair her mother deserves after being on her feet all day in the Blue Tile Diner. Into the jar also goes the money Grandma saves whenever she gets a bargain at the market. There hasn't been a comfortable place to sit in the apartment since a fire in their previous apartment burned everything to "charcoal and ashes." Friends and neighbors brought furniture to their new apartment downstairs, but no one brought anything big or soft or comfortable. Finally the jar is full, the coins are rolled, and in the book's crowning moment, mother, daughter, and Grandma search four different furniture stores, and after carefully trying several chairs, like Goldilocks, they find the chair they've been dreaming of at last. Vera Williams enhances this story about family, community, and the power of working together toward a common goal with her signature folk art-inspired paintings. A Chair for My Mother has sold more than a million copies and is an ideal choice for reading and sharing at home and in the classroom. "A superbly conceived picture book expressing the joyful spirit of a loving family."—The Horn Book Vera B. Williams's beloved picture book favorites include: "More More More," Said the Baby Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart A Chair for Always A Chair for My Mother Cherries and Cherry Pits Music, Music for Everyone Something Special for Me Stringbean's Trip to the Shining Sea Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe
Download or read book Imaginary Playmates and Other Mental Phenomena of Children written by Nathan Albert Harvey and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grandmother s Chair MISSING written by Ann Herbert Scott and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Drifting Again Miss Ludy s Story written by Nila Gott and published by Nila Gott. This book was released on 2010-06-23 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ludy, a slave girl, flees from a Caribbean slave uprising to Philadelphia,1793. She is alone and sick from Yellow Fever, but is saved by three orphaned Haines children who take her home and care for her. She vows to always watch over all Haineses with a gift she has of "drifting" when needed. She escapes from a plantation, lives with Cherokees, and experiences the Trail of Tears.
Download or read book Christian Advocate written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Communicating with Children and Their Families Responding to Need and Protection written by Liz Davies and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2013-08-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good communication skills are essential for effective social work practice. This book brings current, relevant and contested areas of social work practice to life by using scripts from real life situations to demonstrate every day scenarios social workers encounter when communicating with children and their families. Each chapter takes a key aspect of communication: engagement; negotiation; investigation; use of power and persistence and presents it in a context of good professional practice. It also examines the common pitfalls that workers could fall into and contextualises the script through comparison with a contemporary case study. Relevant theoretical frameworks, legislation, policy and ethical dilemmas are included for each situation. This engaging and innovative book gives social work students and professionals a thorough understanding of the best ways to communicate with children and their families in complex and challenging situations. The book also has relevance to other professionals such as those working in health, education, police and the voluntary sector.
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Download or read book Miss Chloe written by A. J. Verdelle and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Passionate, personal, insightful, testy, and unique.” —Kirkus (starred review) "Verdelle offers us testimony in praise and consideration of life as a literary citizen and Black woman alongside the guiding light of Toni Morrison. This is a holy testimony, indeed, one that deserves to be amen'd forever.” —Jason Reynolds, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author "Verdelle gives us the greatest gift—our beloved ancestor returned to us—generous and alive, remembered and revered. So grateful for this book in the world.” —Jacqueline Woodson, author of Another Brooklyn "If you let a black girl loose in a library, you may not recognize the woman who emerges." —from Miss Chloe Toni Morrison, born Chloe A Wofford, was a towering figure in the world of literature when she entered A.J. Verdelle’s life. Their literary friendship was a young writer’s dream—simultaneously exhilarating, intimidating, fulfilling, and challenging. The relationship crossed generations, spanned several cycles in life, exhibited high and low notes, reached and dipped and found its way. Like many women friends, these two writers imagined and built a relationship that was responsive, inventive, and engaged. Miss Chloe powerfully situates the risks writers face and the freedom they find when they put Black women’s lives into words. Verdelle chronicles her grief at Morrison’s passing, and finds comfort in Morrison’s astute advice—wisdom Verdelle didn’t always recognize at the time. In this pensive and intricately lyrical book, Verdelle honors Morrison among the cultural greats, while illuminating and celebrating the power of language, legacy, and genius. A. J. Verdelle is the award-winning author of the novel, The Good Negress. She teaches Creative Writing at Morgan State University and at the MFA program at Lesley University.
Download or read book Regency Miss written by Alix Melbourne and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Regency era second-chance romance between an heiress with a secret and a man with the power to ruin her—or make her fall in love with him. Alicia Tiernay has spent enough time around disenchanted society wives to know what marriage really means for women: a lonely life of tending children while the men carry on with their mistresses. Spinsterhood seems a far better fate to the unconventional Miss Tiernay. But before she chooses a solitary life, Alicia surrenders to a night of passion with a dashing stranger. Now an heiress who may do as she pleases, Alicia enters London society only to find herself in the arms of masked man at a Masquerade Ball, whom she realizes is none other than her mystery lover. It’s one thing to have a member of the town know her shameless secret. It’s quite another not to know his true identity. Is it Robert St. Clair, the rogue she cannot seem to resist? Or Lord Fane, a wealthy dandy whose flirtations with Alicia appear to be nothing more than an amusing dalliance? Or is it some other man with intentions far worse, like destroying her reputation once and for all? Suddenly Alicia’s youthful transgression feels all too dangerous and just as perilous as her growing feelings for a most unsuitable man.
Download or read book Reawakening Miss Calverley written by Sylvia Andrew and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nameless beauty on his doorstep… Lord Aldhurst rescues a cold, dazed lady one stormy night—and now the nameless beauty is residing in his home! He’ll shelter her until she remembers where she comes from, but James can’t deny how much he’d like her to stay—as mistress of his mansion! London’s most sought-after debutante! Horrified at her growing feelings for her handsome protector, she flees to London, where she regains her status as the Ton’s most sought-after debutante. Until she sees James’s shocked and stormy face across a ballroom…
Download or read book The Drama Magazine written by Charles Hubbard Sergei and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Lost Girls written by Jessica Chiarella and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of PopSugar's Best Books of 2021 When her true-crime podcast becomes an overnight sensation, a young woman is pulled into the web of a case that may offer a surprising connection to her own sister's disappearance years earlier. It's been more than twenty years since Marti Reese's sister, Maggie, disappeared. Only eight-years-old at the time, Marti can't remember what happened, just that Maggie got into a car and never returned. After years of grief and countless false leads, Marti is coping as best she can: abandoning her marriage, drinking to forget, and documenting her never-ending search via a true-crime podcast. But when the podcast becomes an unexpected hit and Marti thinks she's finally ready to put it all behind her, a mysterious woman calls with new information that could lead her down a dangerous path. For years, Ava Vreeland has been fighting to overturn her brother's murder conviction. After finding strange similarities between the two cases, Ava is certain there's a connection between the murder and Maggie's disappearance, one that could prove her brother's innocence. Together, Marti and Ava embark on a quest for the truth, but the more Marti digs, the more she's shaken by the answers she might find, and what it is she's even searching for...
Download or read book The Land of Stories Beyond the Kingdoms written by Chris Colfer and published by Little Brown Bks Young Readers. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairy tales are just the beginning. The Masked Man is on the loose in the Land of Stories, and it's up to Alex and Conner Bailey to stop him . . . except Alex has been thrown off the Fairy Council, and no one will believe they're in danger. With only the help of the ragtag group of Goldilocks, Jack, Red Riding Hood, and Mother Goose and her gander, Lester, the Bailey twins discover the Masked Man's secret scheme: he possesses a powerful magic potion that turns every book it touches into a portal, and he is recruiting an army of literature's greatest villains! So begins a race through the magical Land of Oz, the fantastical world of Neverland, the madness of Wonderland, and beyond. Can Alex and Conner catch up to the Masked Man, or will they be one step behind until it's too late? Fairy tales and classic stories collide in the fourth adventure in the bestselling Land of Stories series as the twins travel beyond the kingdoms!
Download or read book Sheer Surrender written by Hikaru Kitabayashi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-03-10 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Japanese entertainer and intellectual with a social conscious faces the problem of how to protect himself from a younger, very predatory, female of great beauty and greater ego who has decided that she should save him from a lifetime of being gay by making him her exclusive property, a thought which greatly frightens him. The man's greater-than-life grandmother, acting as a "deus ex machina" who matches her grandson up with the one man he could never forget and the young lady with an up and coming professional who loves her intensely, saves the day and forces everyone to accept a happy ending whether they like it or not.
Download or read book The Mandie Collection written by Lois Gladys Leppard and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for lifelong Mandie fans and readers just getting to know her, Volume Six of the MANDIE COLLECTION takes readers on one exciting ride after another. Everywhere Mandie goes, mystery and adventure find her. Volume Six features Mandie and the Invisible Troublemaker, Mandie and Her Missing Kin, and Mandie and the Schoolhouse's Secret.
