![]() ![]() Like many children are wont to do, these kids’ minds re-invent temptation in the form of a human-sized cat who carries out the children’s own fantasies, getting into more trouble as time goes on. This story tells of such a day, told from the children’s own perspective. A quick cover-up usually wasn’t enough to camouflage the mischief done in her absence. Whether it was dumping the contents of Mum’s pantry into a bowl to make a “cake” or cutting their favourite doll’s hair in the latest ‘do, children’s fun was short-lived when Mum rounded the corner, headed for home. More often than not, children discovered that their freedom was short-lived, and their wisdom level was not quite ready for adulthood. To children home alone, one or two hours seemed to stretch into a day. Children lived for these brief periods of freedom-the promise of adulthood beckoning to them from behind a corner. Seuss’ classic first came out, American mothers would often leave younger children at home for an hour or two while they dashed off to the corner store to pick up a few groceries. What kid wouldn’t wish that a mischievous creature would come into their dreary day with the promise of fun? What kid hasn’t discovered that such promised fun rarely turns out well-especially when a stranger is involved?ĭuring the late 1950s, when Dr. In The Cat in the Hat, Seuss creates a fantasy about a couple of bored children, left home alone for an hour or so on a rainy day, a setting that all kids can relate to. ![]()
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![]() ![]() For me, they are the true magic of this novel. Charlie is messed up on so many levels, but she is also incredibly endearing, as are her boyfriend Vince and her sister Poser. The alluring premise led me to buy this book, but in the end, the endearing characters kept me turning the pages. Charlie is quickly pulled into a mysterious plot involving secret identities, a murderous shadow, and ancient manuscripts about shadows. She tends to make enemies of the wrong people, too. However, she seems drawn to trouble besides working in a bar frequented by criminals, she is also dating a man who cleans up crime scenes for a living. ![]() ![]() The novel follows Charlie Hall, a retired con artist now struggling to make ends meet working as a bartender. Holly Black’s debut adult fantasy novel is a wickedly alluring tale of love, heists, and dark magic-quite literally, because in The Book of Night, shadows can be manipulated, stolen, and even become their own entities. ![]() ![]() Both women have their own secrets – a reformed psychopath and a murky history. It’s lucky for Delia that she’s made two new friends – Jess, a psychiatrist with a talent for brain mapping and Ivy, who runs part of her brother’s business. How can a woman vanish and not be reported until months later? Meanwhile, female detective Delia Carstairs is investigating a series of missing women and getting nowhere. A man starved to death is found which sets off alarm bells for other men who have gone missing recently. It’s somewhat appropriate to read Sins of the Flesh during a long, hot Australian summer because the book opens during a particular hot summer in Holloman, 1969. It’s brutal at times with attitudes that fit the 1960s setting and there’s no shortage of bodies on the streets of Holloman, Connecticut. Fans of her historical novels such as The Thorn Birds may be quite surprised at how different this series is. This is the fifth Carmine Delmonico detective novel that Colleen McCullough has written and I’ve read. Why I chose it: Have been reading the Carmine Delmonico novels since the first one ( On, Off) ![]() Some of the attitudes of characters to homosexuality come as a shock to the modern reader. ![]() ![]() The good: More of Delia, the female detective with a heart of gold and an individual dress sense. Murders and missing women are taunting the detectives – can Carmine Delmonico and his team figure out these twisted events? ![]() ![]() ![]() � and who could blame them? Nat is just that cool. ![]() but things might not be so easy.Olive tries her best to befriend Nat, but it seems like the only thing they have in common is that they both want to hang out with Olive�s friends! Watching as Natasha gets closer with some of her best buds, Olive can�t help but worry that they�re starting to like Nat more than they like her. Everyone wants to be her friend, including Olive. ![]() *************************************************************īook Descriptions: Olive, meet Natasha.There�s a new kid in town! From the moment Natasha sets foot in class, it�s clear she�s one of the coolest kids in sixth grade. The New York Times best-selling author-illustrator Kayla Miller delivers a nuanced look at navigating middle school friendships and the importance of both empathy and respect. ![]() ![]() Award-winning New York Times journalist Margalit Fox's riveting real-life intellectual detective story travels from the Bronze Age Aegean-the era of Odysseus, Agamemnon, and Helen-to the turn of the 20th century and the work of charismatic English archeologist Arthur Evans, to the colorful personal stories of the decipherers. For half a century, the meaning of the inscriptions, and even the language in which they were written, would remain a mystery. When famed archaeologist Arthur Evans unearthed the ruins of a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization that flowered on Crete 1,000 years before Greece's Classical Age, he discovered a cache of ancient tablets, Europe's earliest written records. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative. ![]() ![]() ![]() On campus libraries provide students with access to information without having to make a trip to their area library. Many students in high school do not own a library card for their local area library. Every student should have access to a wide variety of books at any time.Īs books get banned from schools the limitation of students’ equitable access to resources expands. Schools receive the lists and books disappear from campuses across the state. It seems every year a new list is sent out including books they believe are not fit for students to read. ![]() Krause is looking to remove books with topics of race, teen pregnancy, abortion and homosexuality from school campuses.Ĭonversations on banning books are not new. In the letter Krause asked school districts to report how many copies of each book they had, how much money they spent on the books and where on campus the books are located. Matt Krause sent a letter to school districts across the state providing a 16-page list of approximately 850 book titles. Associate Editor Laura Gill comments on Krause’s proposal and why it is important to understand the decision that falls in parents’ laps. Among this list are National Book Award Winner Between the World and Me by Brie Spangler, All American Boys by Jason Reynolds, Roe v. Matt Krause deemed unfit for students to read on Oct. ![]() School districts state-wide received a list of approximately 850 books State Rep. ![]() ![]() ![]() …every comfort I could imagine was at my fingertips. ![]() Her “WOE IS MEEEE” attitude was exhausting. She is extremely irritating and naive, and won’t shut up about her arrogant, murderous, rapist father. In particular, I found Elektra’s chapters to be infuriating. Because of this, I found myself becoming increasingly frustrated with the story due to the perpetuation and acceptance of sexism that these women faced, rather than having them fight back against it. What I had thought was going to be a feminist reimagining of Greek mythology turned out to be a faithful retelling, just from the perspective of these women. I had some serious issues with this book. Why the book is only titled Elektra, I couldn’t tell you. It was one of the shortest books I owned and I was looking for another quick read, but I am very much a mood reader and I don’t think I was in the right headspace for this book.Įlektra by Jennifer Saint is told from the POV of three different women in Greek mythology: Cassandra, a princess of Troy who has the gift of foresight but goes mad due to being cursed so that no one believes her prophesies Clytemnestra, the wife of Agamemnon who is the king of all the Greeks and Elektra, the youngest daughter of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon. ![]() The reason I chose to read this book now was for length rather than content, which I regret. ![]() ![]() Students will be able to articulate how they feel when they experience certain emotions. Kids Yoga Story Read AloudMy Many Colored Days by Dr Seuss Kumarah Kids Yoga 1.14K subscribers Subscribe 2.5K views 2 years ago A fun yoga lesson and read aloud along with the endearing book. Be sure to say the scarf color when it is chosen. My Many Colored Days Download lesson plan Grade Second Grade Third Grade Subject Social emotional Mindfulness View aligned standards RL.1.4 SL.2.1.a Learning Objectives Students will be able to use a variety of feeling words. Play dress up, and dress up stuffed animals with scarves. Play the complete music pieces for longer movement experiences. Switch colors and repeat this activity on many days. Read the story again, moving the matching scarf to the music for each page. Make air pathways with them, then walk and turn with the scarves. How this color relates to the story – “(gray)…does not move.”Įxplore the scarf colors. Joyful Times Spent with Parents, Teachers, Caregivers, Books, Music, and Movement.How?Read the book to your child(ren).ĭiscuss how the gray tulle scarves look, feel and flow differently than the other scarves. Use the kit to reinforce:Color Recognition.Small Kit: 10 – 25″ creative movement scarves of each color above.One for each hand, or enough for an early childhood class. Group includes: 20 durable 25” square, washable nylon scarves – 2 of each of the following 11 colors: red, orange, yellow, kelly green, royal blue, purple, brown, pink, grey, black. ![]() The board book My Many Colored Days, by Dr. ![]() ![]() It's an epic, acclaimed and bestselling run that you will want to revisit again and again! The first 33 issues of BATMAN from the New 52 era by writer Scott Snyder, artist Greg Capullo and others are collected in this new hardcover! These are the tales that introduced the deadly Court of Owls, brought back The Joker (minus his face!), delved into the Dark Knight's past in "Zero Year," and plunged Gotham City into darkness, courtesy of the Riddler! Art by Greg Capullo, Jonathan Glapio, Rafeal Albuerque, Becky Cloonan, Andy Clarke, Sandu Florea, Jason Fabok, Jock, Andy Kubert, Alex Maleev, Sandra Hope, Danny Miki, Wes Craig, Craig Yeung, Drew Geraci, Jack Purcell, MNarc Deering, Dustin Nguyen, and Derek Fridolfs. Written by Scott Snyder, James TynionIV, Marguette Bennett, and Ray Fawkes. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pulp magazine editors and writers emphasized a gritty realism in the new genre. She shows that although the work of pulp fiction authors like Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Erle Stanley Gardner have become "classics" of popular culture, the hard-boiled genre was dominated by hack writers paid by the word, not self-styled artists. Relying on pulp magazine advertising, the memoirs of writers and publishers, Depression-era studies of adult reading habits, social and labor history, Smith offers an innovative account of how these popular stories were generated and read. Smith examines the culture that produced and supported this form of detective story through the 1940s. The "hard-boiled" stories published in Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, and Clues featured a new kind of hero and soon challenged the popularity of the British mysteries that held readers in thrall on both sides of the Atlantic. In the 1920s a distinctively American detective fiction emerged from the pages of pulp magazines. ![]() |