Download or read book When Mama Braids My Hair written by Monique Duncan and published by Sweet Pea Books. This book was released on 2018-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Mama Braids My Hair captures a young girl's experience of having her hair braided and the bond it creates with her mother. The tradition of African hair braiding is more than just a Sunday routine. Come join Nikki on an adventure as she is transformed into an Egyptian queen, a Nigerian goddess, a Zulu warrior, and a Maasai girl. While young girls throughout the African Diaspora can relate to getting their hair braided in intricate styles, it is also an ancient ritual that is a large part of their history. Readers will enjoy going on an adventure with the main character and learning about the origins of popular braided hairstyles worn today.

Download or read book All Girls Should Know How to Braid written by Tonya Holloway and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-04-07 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stacy Bell was a typical eighties teenager. She had a colossal crush on Michael Jackson and teaching herself to break-dancewas a daily ritual. Like most girls her age, she fantasized about being the prettiest, most fashionable, and the most popular seventh grader at Forest Hill Middle. The key to making her dreams a reality was being noticed by the cutest eighth grade boy in school. Desperate to fit in, Stacy and her best friend, Tomeka (who is well known), conspire to make Stacy's dream a reality. Their weapon of choice is a Golden Girl perm hair kit. However, to Stacy's surprise, an unexpected road block has halted her plans for a glamorous makeover. This setback causes more agony than fame; spiraling Stacy's confidence to an all time low. A continuous chain of unfortunate events forces Stacy to regret ever revealing her secret crush. Her friendship with Tomeka is in limbo, a mysterious note may blow her cover, and to make matters worse, she is unprepared for an unanticipated class presentation. What appears to be shear tragedy leads Stacy to a completely new world and allows her to take an introspective journey of discovery.

Download or read book Just Me written by KiKi Chatman and published by Page Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2020-03-15 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just Me takes you on the journey of a fatherless daughter and a motherless child. Thirteen-year-old Reyna Lexington's life is turned upside down when she finds her mother in a relationship with a man named Blue. Once Reyna and Blue's worlds collide, everything spirals out of control. With nowhere to turn and not knowing who to trust, Reyna finds herself in a bind she cannot get herself out of. As her biggest secret unfolds right before her eyes, she is forced to face the music, a song she never even chose to sing. How will Reyna get out of it? Will she find someone to help save her in time? Will she save herself? Find out how it all started in the 1990s with Just Me.

Download or read book Mama Do You Love Me written by Barbara M. Joosse and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beautifully illustrated children’s book, a heartwarming tale of motherly love unfolds in the Arctic north. In a timeless and universal story, a child tests the limits of independence and comfortingly learns that a parent's love is unconditional and everlasting. The lyrical text introduces young readers to a distinctively different culture, while at the same time showing that the special love that exists between parent and child transcends all boundaries of time and place. The story is complemented by graphically stunning illustrations featuring whales, wolves, puffins, and sled dogs. This tender and reassuring book is one that both parents and children will turn to again and again.

Download or read book On a Green Twig written by Anna Spencer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a Green Twig is the memoir of Anna Klein Spencer who grew up in Germany during the Depression and World War II. Her lively, richly detailed recollections of rustic life in a Rheinland village provide invaluable perspective about German life before and after Hitler, Nazism and World War II. This personal account tells how a young girl's family life and her community were turned upside down by world events. It offers a lesson in how perseverance and courage can transform tragedy and misfortune into a new lease on life - on a green twig.

Download or read book Night Owl Night written by Susan Edwards Richmond and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-08 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring introduction to capture-and-release research, this mother-daughter story about owl conservation will spark curiosity in young nature, bird, and science lovers. Sova’s mother is a scientist who studies birds and their migratory patterns. Each night she goes into the woods to conduct research, and finally Sova is old enough to join her. Securing headlamps, Sova and her mother head into the woods to capture, measure, and release saw-whet owls. Through the quiet night, Sova learns about the patience, persistence, and excitement that comes with conservation efforts and scientific research. This heartwarming mother-daughter story is the perfect primer to conservation, science, and amazing owls!

Download or read book Escape written by Elaine Blair and published by Amazon Pro Hub. This book was released on 2022-07-02 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dresden, Germany was nicknamed the Florence on the Elbe River because of its beautiful Baroque buildings and cultural history. On February 13, 1945 that history was changed when British and American bombers attacked an unprotected city and created a Firestorm during three waves of bombing in 24 hours. Blond haired, blue-eyed Frieda Jacobsmeyer, her Mama, and Nana sat in the basement of the apartment building during the first wave of terror. Across town, her Jewish friend, Walther Goldschmidt, his Mother, and Father used the bombing as an opportunity to escape Dresden and their upcoming deportation to a work camp. Who will survive the Dresden firebombing? Who will survive the Gestapo that looks for Jewish families that left Dresden during the bombings? While the sparks fly in Dresden, what sparks are ignited between Frieda and Walther in their flight and fight for survival?

Download or read book Food Justice Activism and Pedagogies written by Eileen E. Schell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-02-13 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this edited collection, contributors analyze the literacies, rhetorics, and pedagogies needed to transform food systems and create sustainable food systems. Scholars of rhetoric, interdisciplinary food studies, and sociology will find this book of particular interest.

Download or read book Blue Sky written by D Bryant Simmons and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE MORROW SISTERS COME OF AGE...Belinda, now the mother of six daughters, has three willful teenagers. As Nikki, Mya, and Jackie test boundaries, experimenting with love, sex, and drugs, Belinda tries everything she can think of to rein them in before they go too far. But Morrow blood runs thick and the tighter she pulls the reins, the more her girls rebel. Until she loses her grip completely and secrecy, addiction, and wounds from the past send the Morrow girls hurling down treacherous paths.Notes of Distinction:- 2016 Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist- 2015 Foreword Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards Finalist- One of the best indie books of 2015 (IndieReader)- One of the top 10 indie book covers of 2015 (IndieReader)

Download or read book Echoes of Colorado written by Fern Croley Jones and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My first view of Colorado was from the arms of my maternal grandmother, Mary Clarissa Cade, when I was eight months old. She brought me to Pueblo while my mother hopefully recovered from typhoid fever in far-off Arkansas. Two months later, Mary realized this little girl would be her responsibility from then on, and already Little Fern, as I was called, was determined to call her grandmother "Mama." My view changed as I graduated from my baby crib to following her around the garden in the backyard and learning to identify creeping things along the path. My grandfather, JW Cade, taught me to be seen and not heard and go to bed "with the chickens," which I cheerfully ignored. My uncles and aunts and cousins taught me to feel accepted and honor my parents example of love. As I grew, I realized that Pikes Peak was a beautiful skyline, and my tree swing that hung from the backyard elm tree was a place to not only swing but read and sing and dream. The last view I treasured, even when I finally returned to Arkansas, was at night with the star-studded sky above just as in Colorado, where I dreamed I saw my parents and other dear ones above them looking down at me. Along with the music I learned there, I knew there were angels singing and watching over me, awaiting the time when we would all finally see home.

Download or read book Breakout written by Kate Messner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told in letters, poems, text messages, news stories, and comics--a series of documents Nora collects for the Wolf Creek Community Time Capsule Project--Breakout is a thrilling story that will leave readers thinking about who's really welcome in the places we call home. Nora Tucker is looking forward to summer vacation in Wolf Creek--two months of swimming, popsicles, and brushing up on her journalism skills for the school paper. But when two inmates break out of the town's maximum security prison, everything changes. Doors are locked, helicopters fly over the woods, and police patrol the school grounds. Everyone is on edge, and fear brings out the worst in some people Nora has known her whole life. Even if the inmates are caught, she worries that home might never feel the same. A Mighty Girl Best Book of the Year

Download or read book Ashes written by Kathryn Lasky and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year-old Gabriella Schramm?s favorite pastime is reading. With Adolf Hitler slowly but unstoppably rising to power, Gaby turns to her books for comfort while the world around her changes dramatically: The streets become filled with soldiers, Gaby?s sister?s boyfriend raises his arm in a heil Hitler salute, and the Schramms? family friend Albert Einstein flees the country. When Gaby?s beloved books come under attack, she fears she may have to leave behind the fiction?and the life?she has always cherished.

Download or read book The Rathbones written by Janice Clark and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mercy, fifteen years old, is the last of the Rathbone whaling clan. Her father has been lost at sea for nearly ten years—ever since the last sperm whale was seen off the coast of Connecticut. As Mercy’s memories of her father grow dimmer with each passing day, she spends more of her time in the attic hideaway of her reclusive cousin Mordecai. But when a strange and threatening visitor turns up one night, Mercy and Mordecai are forced to flee and set sail on a journey that will bring them deep into the haunted history of the Rathbone family. From the depths of the sea to the lonely heights of the widow’s walk; from the wisdom of the worn Rathbone wives to the mysterious origins of a sinking island, Mercy and Mordecai’s enchanting journey will bring them to places they never imagined possible.

Download or read book Bett written by Betty Green and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bett is a story of the triumphs of young black baby boomers bravery in the South to push forward during the fifties, sixties, and seventies. Bett is by no means meant to make the grandchildren of African Americans frown on their past or to make the grandchildren of white Americans feel guilty. The goal is to show our youth how a people with very little to work with overcame in spite of it.

Download or read book In Her Rage written by S.L. Baker and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a survivor of childhood sexual abuse? Have you experienced sudden and tragic loss that left you angry and empty inside? Do bad relationships follow you everywhere you go?As a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, victim of sudden and traumatic loss, and expert on bad relationships, Pastor Sabrenah knows all about the impact of trauma and how it shapes behaviors. She transformed herself from a victim to a successful advocate for children and families. However, with all her successes, she still struggled with building trusting relationships. Always attracting the same type of people. Those who required a lot of energy, having the appearance of strength and stability on the outside but severely bruised and hurt on the inside. Toxic relationships were like a magnet she couldn't resist. If this sounds like you, you're probably asking yourself, "Why do I keep ending up with this or that type of relationship?" For Sabrenah, it's called the rescuer's syndrome. Unknowingly, she found herself in situations with a compulsion to rescue others even at the detriment of denying her own needs. It's like a bad habit that's hard to break. Some might call that an addiction. That's what trauma does. It affects who you are until you open your heart and mind to become someone different.

Download or read book My Mama s Drama written by La Jill Hunt and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diane is a beautiful single mother who pulled herself out of the system by working hard so that her children could have everything she didn't. Now she's bitter and jealous, because the daughter she sacrificed twenty years of her youth for is prettier and more intelligent than she'll ever be and about to live the life Diane always dreamed of. Kendra's relationship with her mother takes an even harsher turn when she meets Deon, a handsome, streetwise entrepreneur. He is everything Kendra has ever dreamed of in a man. Now the only thing she has to do is keep her conniving mother as far away from him as possible.

Download or read book Little House on Rocky Ridge written by Roger Lea MacBride and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1894 Laura Ingalls Wilder, her husband, and her seven-year-old daughter Rose leave the Ingalls family in Dakota and make the long and difficult journey to Missouri to start a new life.