![]() Her father, Charles, is a widower, as her mother died giving birth to a baby boy that didn't survive. Her diary includes several aspects of her daily life, including events that happened at school, recipes, jokes, and family stories. Catherine Hall explains that the journal was brought back from Boston to her home in Meredith, New Hampshire, as a gift from her father. It was her last year on her family's farm, the year her father remarried, and the year she lost her best friend. ![]() The story opens with a letter to Catherine from her great-grandmother, Catherine Hall Onesti, explaining that she is giving her the journal that she received on her fourteenth birthday. Atheneum Books first published the novel for young readers in 1979. ![]() The journal, which records a single, tumultuous year in Catherine's life, has been passed down to her great-granddaughter and namesake. ![]() Blos features the fictional journal of Catherine, a young girl living in New England before the Civil War. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Popisho is a masterful delight: a playful love story, a portrait of community, a boldly sensual meditation on desire and addiction, and a critique of the legacies of corruption and colonialism. Before it comes, before the end of the day, this wildly imaginative narrative will take us across the islands, their history, and into the lives of unforgettable characters. And graffiti messages from an unknown source are asking hard questions. The governor's daughter, Sonteine, is getting married, her father demanding a feast out of turn. Anise, his long lost love, is on a march toward reckoning with her healing powers. ![]() Xavier Redchoose is the macaenus of his generation, anointed by the gods to make each resident one perfect meal when the time is right. A place of stunning beauty and incorrigible mischief, destiny and mystery, it is also a place in need of change. Somewhere far away―or maybe right nearby―lies an archipelago called Popisho. From the gods: a thing that felt so inexpressibly your own. An uproarious, sensual novel, Leone Ross's Popisho conjures a world where magic is everywhere, food is fate, politics are broken, and love awaits.Įveryone in Popisho was born.with a little something.The local name for it was cors. ![]() ![]() This book is good for children 9 years old and above because it takes you on an adventure and there is comic relief at every turn. When everything goes wrong and the Sound of Music might get cancelled, will Jake show his good side or will he stay the teenager who burned down his school? You will have to read to find out. But one day Jake finds his passion: Acting. is almost sure this kid is bad through and through. The Applewhites are determined to find the good in Jake Semple. ![]() The Applewhites crave craziness and chaos. The Applewhites are a VERY creative family. Wits End is run by a huge family called the Applewhites. ![]() ![]() Now the only place for him to go is Wits End-Furniture Factory, Art Gallery, Dance Studio, Goat Compound, and Creative Academy. Rumor has it he burned down his old school. This book is about a juvenile tween named Jake Semple. ![]() ![]() ![]() The treaty opened doors for diplomacy while honoring the cultural and religious values of the people. As it ended in 1648, leaders gathered and constructed the Peace of Westphalia, a treaty that reassigned territories and, in the spirit of the Roman republic, gave the right to the various delegates to rule over their own lands and people. In 1618, a collection of wars began, known as the Thirty Years’ War, and spread throughout Central Europe. ![]() Not until the rise of the Roman empire did the world see a government that was fragmented, with city-states ruled individually under the larger umbrella of the emperor. (Introduction, ePUB)įrom the earliest societies, order was most quickly and efficiently maintained by a central leadership. In his book, World Order, renowned diplomat and political scientist, Henry Kissinger, defines it as an inexorably expanding cooperative order of states observing common rules and norms, embracing liberal economic systems, forswearing territorial conquest, respecting national sovereignty, and adopting participatory and democratic systems of governance. World order is traditionally defined as a system controlling events in the world. ![]() ![]() Recounting the wildest tales of racism from their parents, their siblings, and Amber’s nieces and nephews, this intergenerational look at ludicrous (but all too believable) everyday racism as experienced across age, gender, and appearance will have you gasping with shock and laughter in turn. ![]() Now, the dynamic duo makes it clear-Lacey isn’t the only one in the family with ridiculous encounters to share! Amber and Lacey have many more uproarious stories, both from their own lives and the entire Ruffin family. With equal parts heart and humor, she and her sister Lacey Lamar shared some of the eye-opening and outrageous experiences Lacey had faced in Nebraska in their first book. ![]() But for the Ruffin family and many others, there has been one constant that connects them: racism hasn’t gone anywhere.įrom her raucous musical numbers to turning upsetting news into laughs as the host of The Amber Ruffin Show or in her Late Night with Seth Meyers segments, Amber is no stranger to finding the funny wherever she looks. ![]() A new collection of hilarious, intergenerational anecdotes full of absurd detail about everyday experiences of racism from the New York Times bestselling authors of You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey, comedian Amber Ruffin and her sister Lacey.įamilies may not always see eye to eye we get on each other’s nerves, have different perspectives and lives-especially when we consider how we've grown up in different generations. ![]() ![]() ![]() Which, of course, they will-won't they? One thing's for sure: it will be a summer the Penderwicks will never forget. Tifton is not as pleased with the Penderwicks as Jeffrey is, though, and warns the new friends to stay out of trouble. But the best discovery of all is Jeffrey Tifton, son of Arundel's owner, who quickly proves to be the perfect companion for their adventures. Soon they are busy discovering the summertime magic of Arundel's sprawling gardens, treasure-filled attic, tame rabbits, and the cook who makes the best gingerbread in Massachusetts. ![]() Over one million copies sold, now with a bright new look This summer the Penderwick sisters have a wonderful surprise: a holiday on the grounds of a beautiful estate called Arundel. This series of modern classics about the charming Penderwick family from National Book Award winner and New York Times bestseller Jeanne Birdsall is perfect for fans of Noel Streatfeild and Edward Eager. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lois Lowry is the author of more than forty books for children and young adults, including the New York Times bestselling Giver Quartet and popular Anastasia Krupnik series. This book will encourage the storyteller in everyone. Through Gooney Bird and her tales, the acclaimed author Lois Lowry introduces young readers to the elements of storytelling. And that suits Gooney Bird just fine, because, as it turns out, she has quite a few interesting and absolutely true stories to tell. So when story time arrives, the choice is unanimous: they want to hear about Gooney Bird Greene. Reading Level: 3.9 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 2.0įrom the moment Gooney Bird Greene arrives at Watertower Elementary School, her fellow second-graders are intrigued by her unique sense of style and her unusual lunches. ![]() Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.1" W x 7.4" (0.22 lbs) 128 pagesįeatures: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guaranteeīinding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & EditionsĬlick for more in this series: Gooney Bird Greene Contributor(s): Lowry, Lois (Author), Thomas, Middy (Illustrator) ![]() ![]() Stealing the portrait might just get the attention of the nation.īefore the plot gets anywhere near its Thomas Crown-esque middle stretch, in which the painting is pinched in a nocturnal raid via the gallery bins, co-writers Clive Coleman and Richard Bean take time to set up Bunton and his long-suffering wife, Dorothy (Helen Mirren, dialling back to give extra space to her co-star), as a couple in working-class Newcastle. Access to the telly is, he reasons, the only link many elderly citizens have with their fellow Brits – and the world at large. ![]() With the experience of lockdowns and that Clap for Carers communal spirit fresh in all of our minds, it’s dead easy to rally behind Bunton’s quixotic efforts to secure free TV licences for pensioners – and even his roundabout route to wanted art thief. ![]() The setting harks back to an era of British life that suddenly feels a lot less distant. ![]() The Duke is a film that has one national treasure (Jim Broadbent) playing another national treasure (Geordie cabbie, social campaigner and wannabe playwright Kempton Bunton), who was accused of stealing another national treasure (Goya’s ‘Portrait of the Duke of Wellington’) from the National Gallery in 1961. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first novel will be titled "The Fame Game"Īlthough I will surely never pick up one of Conrad's books for myself, the girl must be doing something right for the publisher to bring her back for a three-book deal. The concept is a spin-off series that will focus on mean-girl Madison Parker and her obsession with fame. Now HarperCollins has announced that they've signed on for another three-book deal with Conrad. The three-part series has landed Conrad on the NY Times Best-Seller list. The 25-year old has penned a surprisingly successful series called " LA Candy" which describes the story of a young girl who moves to Los Angeles to become a reality television star (sound familiar?). The television star first appeared on MTV's "Laguna Beach" and then producers gave LC her own show with the highly-successful "The Hills." But Conrad has bid adieu to the reality television world to focus on her career in fashion design and, more recently, as an author. ![]() ![]() ![]() I read about one woman who made her workspace by using painter’s tape to section off part of her living room. Your space doesn’t have to be made with a desk or a computer. But it’s also that you’ve somehow managed to carve out a spot where you can think and work without judgment, inhibition, or distraction. You may think it’s your determination, zeal, and creative genius. ![]() I couldn’t agree more! The unsung hero of showing up every day and doing your best creative work is your workspace. How might you create a safe space that you can spend time in daily? How might you get creative with where it begins and ends? Find this place and make it your own. This is your sacred space to be by and with yourself. When you are in this space, you are not available. You need a physical space - private, safe, and just for you. It is here, standing at the crossroads of Should and Must, that we feel the enormous reality of our fears, and this is the moment when many of us decide against following our intuition, turning away from that place where nothing is guaranteed, nothing is known, and everything is possible.Įlle lists your workspace as one of the four obstacles that stand in the way of us doing your most important work: our most important work): Money, Time, Space, and Vulnerability: ![]() I read it twice in two days.Įlle writes that there are four obstacles to doing what she calls our “Must” (i.e. This book is fantastic! It’s a super easy read, and it’s so delightful. The Crossroads of Should and Must, by Elle Luna. ![]() |