![]() ![]() ![]() Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. ![]() After winning the New York state finals in the Planet's Funniest Kid Comic Contest, Jamie's off to Boston to compete in the national semi-finals. Can Jamie pass up the big competition for the sake of his friends and family? Middle schooler Jamie Grimm has big dreams of being the best stand-up comic in the world - and he won't let the fact that he's in a wheelchair get in his way. But when one of his best buddies runs into trouble at school and a sudden family health scare rears its head, Jamie has to put his comedic ambitions on hold and stand by the people he cares about. After winning the New York state finals in the Planet's Funniest Kid Comic Contest, Jamie's off to Boston to compete in the national semi-finals. 'While on a mission to win the Planets Funniest Kid Comic regional competition, New York middle schooler Jamie Grimm copes with rival comics and bullies, a buddy in trouble, and a sudden family emergency, all with a sense of humor and a loyal group of friends'-Provided by publisher. Middle schooler Jamie Grimm has big dreams of being the best stand-up comic in the world - and he won't let the fact that he's in a wheelchair get in his way. ![]()
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![]() Through envisioning cultural tools and social strategies for transitioning to a post-carbon world, these stories offer inspiration and guidance for how we might address our very real problems- not just through magical new technology, but through cultural shifts that make use of the technology we already have. The first list includes short stories, novels, and poems that take the more positive, visionary approach to the subject of climate change, focusing on fighting and adapting to climate change. Below, we offer two lists of literature and novels to consider reading and discussing with students. ![]() However, some authors also imagine ways that humanity might manage to respond positively to the crisis. Most climate fiction, or cli-fi, paints a bleak future. ![]() (Read about my experiences teaching climate fiction.) Fiction exploring the possibilities of a changed and changing climate can be a powerful way to make these abstract futures more immediate for ourselves and our students. ![]() ![]() Part of the challenge of climate change is that the apocalyptic consequences of our carbon use are emerging slowly and globally, rather than in a single newsworthy disaster, making it difficult to muster the vision and motivation to fight it. ![]() ![]() OL831000W Pages 42 Ppi 300 Republisher_date 20191212212127 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 157 Scandate 20191209182056 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780808533832 Tts_version 3. There are also writing prompts, writing templates, and craft templates associated with each story. This interactive reading activities will draw your students in and help you teach them key literacy skills. ![]() ![]() Kids will connect to this book with ease and reflect on their own birthdays. ![]() It's time for a birthday party, but Amy's invitation goes missing. Included in this unit are flip booklets for each story so that students can answer comprehension questions. A Letter to Amy by Ezra Jack Keats is so sweet. A Letter to Amy is a 1968 childrens picture book by American author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 05:37:22 Boxid IA1734421 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier These are activities and crafts based on some popular books by Ezra Jack Keats. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Adams is a brisk and solid plotter, and has an easy hand with creating characters who are easy to root for. When the creator of the list is revealed, there isn’t much in the way of surprise, but it gains emotional resonance after Adams links the list to a late-breaking tragic event. ![]() As time passes, Mukesh and Aleisha become good friends, with Mukesh and his granddaughter, Priya, joining in on a reading list Aleisha found tucked in a returned book, which includes such classics as To Kill a Mockingbird, Little Women, and Beloved. After Londoner Mukesh’s wife, Naina, dies, he picks up the book she was reading before she died, The Time-Traveler’s Wife, hoping “to turn the black letters and yellowed pages into a letter from Naina to him.” When he later returns the book to the library, he meets the restless and prickly 17-year-old library worker Aleisha, who reluctantly took the job after encouragement from her troubled older brother, also a bookworm. Adams’s winsome debut follows a widower who takes up reading in order to honor the memory of his wife. ![]() ![]() The following year it was republished in an inexpensive one-volume edition and became a huge critical and financial success. Illustrated By: Christopher Clark Format: Hardcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, London octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229),Pages 528 ISBN: Unknown Blackmore experienced difficulty in finding a publisher, and the novel was first published anonymously in 1869, in a limited three-volume edition of just 500 copies, of which only 300 sold. He has been described as "proud, shy, reticent, strong-willed, sweet-tempered, and self-centred." Apart from his novel Lorna Doone, which has enjoyed continuing popularity, his work has gone out of print. Blackmore, often referred to as the "Last Victorian", was a pioneer of the movement in fiction that continued with Robert Louis Stevenson and others. He won acclaim for vivid descriptions and personification of the countryside, sharing with Thomas Hardy a Western England background and a strong sense of regional setting in his works. ![]() Blackmore, was one of the most famous English novelists of the second half of the nineteenth century. ![]() Blackmore Richard Doddridge Blackmore (7 June 1825 ? 20 January 1900), known as R. Western Moors Edition Please see photos as part of condition report 1882 1st Edition (Thus), LORNA DOONE A Romance of Exmoor By R.D. Good - 16 Colour Illustrations by Christopher Clark. ![]() ![]() ![]() This forces Miryem to take matters into her own hands. Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father’s inability to collect his debts has left his family on the edge of poverty. Spinning Silver is a brilliantly vivid retelling of Rumpelstiltskin. I had to do the work first, not knowing.” “But I had not known that I was strong enough to do any of those things until they were over and I had done them. It’s well-deserved, and Spinning Silver rightfully deserves the gorgeous cover art (US edition) illustrated by Nico Delort. ![]() This high rating you’re seeing is not a fairytale. Spinning Silver is one of the best standalone novels I’ve read. So here I am, nodding my head and adding my opinion to their praises they were all 100% right. She said that Spinning Silver is one of the best standalone novels she has ever read. And then, another good friend of mine-Mary-who also disliked Uprooted decided to sent me a copy of Spinning Silver. However, after hearing from many readers-one of them being my friend, Elliot Brooks-who disliked Uprooted that Spinning Silver worked wonderfully for them, my curiosity was piqued. ![]() I consider Uprooted one of the worst fantasy novels I’ve read, and I had no motivation in trying out more of Novik’s works for five years. Honestly speaking, I never intended to read Spinning Silver. It’s been exactly five years since I’ve read Uprooted by Naomi Novik. If Uprooted is my Hell, then Spinning Silver is my Heaven.įive years. Published: 10th July 2018 by Del Rey (US) & Pan Macmillan (UK) ![]() ![]() ![]() But they do click, and the shaky footing upon which the book begins stabilizes into a strong story as it enters its endgame. The Once and Future Witches is the picture of the painting-the scope is a shade too small, lacking crucial context, and the stakes and the characters don’t quite click until late in the novel. You feel like you can’t fully appreciate it without seeing it in person, but you can still recognize the artistry. The picture isn’t great: the painting isn’t fully in frame, and it’s slightly out-of-focus. Imagine someone goes to an art museum and takes a picture of a remarkable painting. Her follow-up, The Once and Future Witches, doesn’t quite capture the same magic-but calling it a sophomore slump doesn’t give it enough credit. ![]() Harrow’s debut, The Ten Thousand Doors of January, made it clear that she was a writer to watch. I received an ARC of The Once and Future Witches from Redhook Books in exchange for an honest review.Īlix E. ![]() ![]() ![]() Perfectly voiced by Connor Brannigan, he has a wonderful range of character voices and is fantastic at building atmosphere with his tone. This wasn’t necessarily my favourite from this author, but still excellent. All of his books are reasonably short, but they fit in such a lot of action in the space, really entertaining reads. It made me laugh in places due to the absurdity of it all, but I like that about it, it’s unapologetically peculiar and fun. Horrifying, gory and a wild ride, this is a surreal, futuristic and dystopian tale with some amazing characters and a fast paced, compelling plot. Of course, being William Pauley III I expected this to be weird as all hell off the bat and it was. He will find Mungden and The Purple Television if it’s the last thing he does. Mungden has stolen an artefact known as The Purple Television from the Japanese Government and Qoser has been tasked with its return due to his unique skillset. Casting his eyes around - cueball and all, he begins asking the patrons of Crunchy Saloon if they know where Mungden is, only to be met with staunch silence. In search of a man named Mungden, Qoser and his troop of mopes enter a bar in the town of Chorizo, Nevada. Qoser is an assassin from planet Japan, capable of peeling flesh from bone and creating quenchless rips from one universe through to another, he thinks of this other universe as ‘The Doom Magnetic’. Read 33 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's only now that things really start to get bad when his military contract is reactivated and he's tasked with a critical, a possibly suicidal mission into enemy territory.Įvery primary character in the book, from Mykl himself to Ripley and Blackhart himself are extremely well fleshed out, interesting and fantastically voiced by Nigel Peever, each given a real sense of identity and more than a little snark. That is, until a ship full of marines rescues him from certain death only to then get into a battle with a ship full of space pirates, Mykl has to rely on his military training to survive and capture the dreaded Blackhart! ![]() Shortly afterwards the starships drive explodes, killing his two remaining crew and leaving his marooned in deep space with no hope of survival. The story revolves around Mykl, ex-combat pilot turned down-on-his-luck cargo captain who begins the book afloat in space after most of his crew, for reasons unknown, mutiny and fly off in the ships sole shuttle. Sheesh, where to start with this book? Simply put, it has everything! There's adventure, space battles, fistfights, pirates and, of course. ![]() ![]() While Fantasy is my primary love in literature, I have always enjoyed a good science fiction yarn and when this one came to me via the narrator I figured it may just satisfy an itch I'd been having of late. ![]() ![]() ![]() It becomes increasingly likely that these killings are to lure Anita away from the protection of her various bonded lovers, and the Harlequin, the Mother’s henchmen, are faster than any lycanthrope Anita has faced before. The Mother of All Darkness, the first vampire, had her body destroyed but not the spirit, and has been after Anita’s body and many powers for the past year. This time she’s treading the line between working for the police and trying to keep them away from whoever or whatever is slicing apart lone weretigers. ![]() ![]() Recently released, Hit List is Laurell K Hamilton’s 20th novel in her Anita Blake series, following the life and many loves of Anita - a necromancer, vampire hunter, and police marshal, amongst others. ![]() |