Download or read book What Lolo Wants written by Cristina Oxtra and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartwarming story about love beyond words. Every night, Maria and Lolo, her grandfather, draw together. Maria marvels at how Lolo can draw anything: Lola cooking, sampaguita blooming, maya birds perching. One day, though, things start to change. Lolo is not well. And when Maria asks him to draw, he says he needs to rest. Not long after, Lolo begins forgetting people’s names, and soon he cannot find the words for what he wants. Maria tries to find some way to help Lolo communicate – could their shared love of drawing be the answer? This sweet and moving picture book shows the power of art, even when words fail us.
Download or read book Lola Gets a Cat written by Anna McQuinn and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lola wants a cat, but Mommy says taking care of a pet is a lot of work. So Lola does her homework. At the library she finds books about cats and pet care and she and Mommy learn as much as they can. She pretends her stuffed kitty is real and practices taking care of it. When the time comes, Lola is allowed to pick out her new friend at an animal shelter. With patience and care, her kitten settles in at home. Lola is a book-loving favorite, and this delightful story is a new treasure in the series. "This sweet story of first-time pet ownership is sure to appeal to young animal lovers of all kinds and especially to feline fanciers"—Kirkus Reviews "A solid introduction to pet ownership, probably best shared one-on-one"—School Library Journal
Download or read book Merci Su rez Changes Gears written by Meg Medina and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2019 Newbery Medal Thoughtful, strong-willed sixth-grader Merci Suarez navigates difficult changes with friends, family, and everyone in between in a resonant new novel from Meg Medina. Merci Suarez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different. For starters, Merci has never been like the other kids at her private school in Florida, because she and her older brother, Roli, are scholarship students. They don’t have a big house or a fancy boat, and they have to do extra community service to make up for their free tuition. So when bossy Edna Santos sets her sights on the new boy who happens to be Merci’s school-assigned Sunshine Buddy, Merci becomes the target of Edna’s jealousy. Things aren't going well at home, either: Merci’s grandfather and most trusted ally, Lolo, has been acting strangely lately — forgetting important things, falling from his bike, and getting angry over nothing. No one in her family will tell Merci what's going on, so she’s left to her own worries, while also feeling all on her own at school. In a coming-of-age tale full of humor and wisdom, award-winning author Meg Medina gets to the heart of the confusion and constant change that defines middle school — and the steadfast connection that defines family.
Download or read book Intertidal History in Island Southeast Asia written by Jennifer L. Gaynor and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intertidal History in Island Southeast Asia shows the vital part maritime Southeast Asians played in struggles against domination of the seventeenth-century spice trade by local and European rivals. Looking beyond the narrative of competing mercantile empires, it draws on European and Southeast Asian sources to illustrate Sama sea people's alliances and intermarriage with the sultanate of Makassar and the Bugis realm of Boné. Contrasting with later portrayals of the Sama as stateless pirates and sea gypsies, this history of shifting political and interethnic ties among the people of Sulawesi’s littorals and its land-based realms, along with their shared interests on distant coasts, exemplifies how regional maritime dynamics interacted with social and political worlds above the high-water mark.
Download or read book A Silver Lining written by Vergie Manligas and published by Vergie Manligas. This book was released on 2021-06-13 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you find A Silver Lining? This is based on a story of two individuals breathing into two completely different lives. A young girl brought up luxuriously with horses to ride on, a view of vast land, and servants to take care of her needs. A young boy whose thoughts filled with nothing but what food to place on the table for the next meal or if there would be a meal to look forward to. Two young lives intertwined as faith brought them together to face the battle called Life. These are the tales told from an individual's perspective as they surpass each trial depicted in each chapter, and how they found a silver lining in each sacrifice, found love despite, and shared their faith with family and people they met in life. A memoir of LIFE - Love, Inspiration, Faith, and Everything in between.
Download or read book Pump Six and Other Stories written by Paolo Bacigalupi and published by Start Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paolo Bacigalupi's debut collection demonstrates the power and reach of the science fiction short story. Social criticism, political parable, and environmental advocacy lie at the center of Paolo's work. Each of the stories herein is at once a warning, and a celebration of the tragic comedy of the human experience. The eleven stories in Pump Six represent the best Paolo's work, including the Hugo nominee "Yellow Card Man," the nebula and Hugo nominated story "The People of Sand and Slag," and the Sturgeon Award-winning story "The Calorie Man."
Download or read book Playing With Light written by Beatriz Rivera and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2000-06-30 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Rebecca, a well-to-do Cuban-American woman, decides that sheÍd like to revive the old Cuban tradition of the tertulia, or womenÍs get-together, her best friend dashes her hopes, explaining that in todayÍs career-driven world even her friends require a compelling reason to come from all over Miami to casually meet and chat. At last, the ingenious Becky hits upon the idea of a reading group, and the book selected is a historical novel about nineteenth-century Cuba: the saga of an aristocratic dress-manufacturing clan, the Santa Cruz family. The novel is called . . . Playing with Light. Oddly, as they get ever deeper into the story of the Santa Cruzesespecially Tico and Lolostrange things begin to happen to the reading group. Everyone seems to be . . . sucked in . . . and affected (not necessarily pleasantly) by the saga. (ñWhatÍs for dinner, Mommy?î ñGet a slice of salami out of the refrigerator, dear. CanÍt you see IÍm reading?î) As two worlds, from two different centuries, begin to intertwine in odd ways, and her friends begin to . . . well, to disappear, actually . . . Rebecca canÍt help but wonder what sheÍs gotten herself into. Beatriz Rivera has written an entrancing and wonderfully ambitious novel that places her in the first rank of writers of her generation.
Download or read book Seeing Red written by Lone Mørch and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeing Red: A Women’s Quest for Truth, Power, and the Sacred is an intimate memoir about one woman’s search for personal power—a journey of climbing inner and outer mountains that takes her to the holy Mt. Kailas in Tibet, through a seven-year marriage, and into the arms of the fierce goddess Kali, where she discovers her powerful, feminine self. This is the story of Denmark native Lone Mørch’s transformation—a story of love and passion, and also a story of self-betrayal. After realizing that she’s given up on herself, Mørch has to strip herself bare, lose everything she's held dear, and tear down everything she's ever built in order to reclaim her life and sense of self. As much a memoir about coming into one’s own as it is a love affair with the Himalayas, Seeing Red takes the reader on an unforgettable journey of creation and destruction.
Download or read book Mango Seasons written by Michelle Cruz Skinner and published by Anvil Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the afternoon, while I'm on the porch, the rains begin. This first rain is only a sprinkle and the ground quickly drinks it up. My children, who are playing in the yard, look to the sky, wanting more. Their hair glistens . . . A breeze, cooled by the rain, passes across the house. I hold my hands to my face and smell on them the mango flowers I sliced. I must have a little sweetness in my life, I think, not damp hands and indifferent kisses.
Download or read book The Big If written by Sharisse Coulter and published by Sharisse Coulter. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Runaway Daughter in God s Hand written by Milagros Duran Davis and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millie, the oldest of twelve children, grew up in the only house on a small island in the Philippines. Her days were spent doing chores and helping with the children. It was a hard life, and food was often scarce. They did what had to be done in order to survive day by day. This was how Millie felt life was for everyone, because that was all she knew. Millie's life changed as she got older, and her father noticed her growing into a beautiful young woman. At night, she would roll herself inside her floor mat to protect herself from her father's attempts to have his way with her. She felt the only way she could survive was to run away from home. It was difficult for her to leave her mother and siblings, because she loved them and knew she was the one who did most of the hard work for the family. Several times her attempts to escape ended with her father and mother finding her and bringing her back. It was by the hand of God that she was finally able to escape for good. God guided Millie through good times and bad times. The Lord always provided what and whom she needed as Millie found her way on her own. This was when Millie truly realized it was God who was taking care of her, because God was always a step ahead of her. Millie went through difficult times, but God always created something good from a bad situation.
Download or read book The Gift of Choice written by Consuelo R. Jackson and published by TEACH Services, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come to the group of islands poetically dubbed as the "Pearl of the Orient Seas," where in the early 1900s, American missionaries found fertile hearts for the Gospel seed to grow.This two-in-one book chronicles the beginning and the growth of the Adventist work in the Phillippines, focusing on the lives of Leon Z. Roda and Alfonso P. Roda, father-and-son. Read their poignant and romantic lives and find the re-enactment of the great controversy between Christ and Satan.Written in novel style, it portrays the father-and-son passion for the literary arts--music, poetry, the Scriptures, and the inspired writings of Ellen G. White. May the reader find not only comfort but entertainment and inspiration as well from its pages.
Download or read book Montana s Top Bananas written by Ricardo L García and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-04-27 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine professors and a graduate student tell 35-tales in rhymed verse as they drive a van to a conference from the University of Montana to San Francisco, wedging in one ode to an earthworm, five other poems, and singing two original songs. In the spirit and style of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, they embark on a pilgrimage to reap knowledge at the Holy Grail of computer technology in Silicon Valley with one simple rule: "you can speak at any time so long as you speak in rhyme." The themes of the tales are as diverse as the group of reluctant pilgrims, professors Virgil Vulgate, Smokey Cloud, Inger Johnson, Lupe de Vega, Lolo Sandec, T. Osprey Munsch, Tommy Tornado, Lawrence Carrow, Buster White, and graduate student Jose Roberto, "Bob".
Download or read book Extra Ordinary written by Jon Jory and published by Stage Partners. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incredible things are happening to average teenagers in this collection of two extraordinary one-acts. In The Girl with the Golden Hand, Lolo suddenly acquires a Midas-like gift that turns everything she touches into literal gold. It's not the gift it seems and she must find a way to lift the curse before she loses everything she holds dear. In My Extraordinary Life That Almost Was, Cass's parents reveal a shocking family secret: they’re superheroes. Now that she's turning 18, she has to make a choice: does she want to join them and have limitless powers and abilities but lose all human emotions? Two one-acts, extra ordinary possibilities. The two plays in this collection, The Girl with the Golden Hand and My Extraordinary Life That Almost Was, can also be performed separately. Drama Full-length. 70-80 minutes (each one-act is approximately 35 mins) 17 actors (13f, 4m)
Download or read book The Girl with the Golden Hand written by Jon Jory and published by Stage Partners. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lolo is just your average teenager, until one day she suddenly acquires a Midas-like gift that turns everything she touches into literal gold. Sounds like a dream come true, right? Except she has to wear an oven mitt over her hand at school, her dad is using her as his own personal money mint, and she can’t even hold her boyfriend’s hand without accidentally killing him. With the help of her best friend, Lolo must find a way to lift the curse before she loses everything she holds dear. This play can also be performed as part of the play collection Extra Ordinary, along with the one-act My Extraordinary Life That Almost Was. Drama One-act. 30-35 minutes 9 actors (7f, 2m)
Download or read book Mapping the Land of Upper Loacan written by Frédéric Laugrand and published by Presses universitaires de Louvain. This book was released on 2020-09-18 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is the volume 4 of a series dealing with the culture and traditions of the Ibaloy of Upper Doacan (Itogon, Benguet, Philippines). It is available in Nabaloy and in English. Elders share their stories to a group of youngsters who ask them questions on a variety of topics such as the land, trees, plants, rules, incidents, death rituals and spirits. The book provides the verbatim accounts of these discussions recorded during a workshop that took place at the Senior-Citizen hall in 2019.
Download or read book Lolo s Light written by Liz Garton Scanlon and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers who love The Thing About Jellyfish and Counting By 7s, Lolo's Light is a deeply honest middle grade novel about grief, redemption, and life as a kid facing both. This is a truth about growing up: Once in your life, sometime after your first memory but before you can drive a car, something is going to happen to you that doesn't happen to anyone else you know. It might be something good. It might be something bad, or special, or funny, or shocking. For Millie, it's something really sad. Lolo, her neighbors' infant daughter, dies unexpectedly, suddenly, inexplicably, on the night Millie babysits. It's not Millie's fault. There's nothing she could have done. And there's nothing she can do now. So how does she go on? She does what you'll do. She finds her way. This poignant and profound coming-of-age story portrays a tragic experience of responsibility and its poisonous flip side: guilt. Emotional and important, this is an honest and empathetic portrait of a girl at her most vulnerable—a mess of grief, love, and ultimately, acceptance—who must reckon with those most difficult of demons: death . . . and life. A GREAT WAY TO UNDERSTAND DIFFICULT FEELINGS: Coming to terms with one's responsibility for things both our fault and not is a universal experience that can be difficult to process, particularly when grief is involved. Millie offers a great blueprint for young readers who don't understand the surrounding emotions and need help working through them. A MAIN CHARACTER KIDS WILL LOVE: Millie makes mistakes as she navigates grief. It's often not pretty, but it is very relatable. The author's honest portrayal of this experience will resonate with young readers, whether grieving or not. Perfect for: Middle grade readers Educators and librarians Parents looking for books on loss or grief
