![]() This picture book is a perfect small moment narrative! In the beginning, Julian sees mermaids and wants to be like one as well. ![]() Truth be told, I have a group of seventh graders who could find value in this nugget! Integration Ideas Personal Narrative: Small Moment It’s simple, but a lot can be taken from it. This would be a fun book in any primary and elementary classroom. I adore how it is just a story of an event, and not a lesson to be learned or even discussed. While this is clearly a book that bends gender stereotypes, it isn’t brought up as an issue or problem, it just is. In a beautiful, unspoken moment, she helps add to his outfit and takes him to a parade of people dressed up. When he goes home, he dresses up like a mermaid with items found in the house and proudly shows his Grandmother. Jessica Love tells a story of a little boy who wants to dress up like the mermaids he saw on the bus. ![]() The story was handled beautifully – beyond all expectations. Since this is a delicate topic for our culture, I wanted to see how this story would be handled. Definitely the cover and title curiosity on this one. ![]()
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![]() The book wraps up very well, delivering a dramatic and bloody climax. Each character is very different, but important in her own way, and together they make a funny, lovable team. In addition to the brave, level-headed Cinder, the fiery Scarlet, and the sweet, intelligent Cress, we now have Ms beautiful and crazy. In Winter, I loved the title character so much. Lots of funny and touching dynamics, lots of great friendships to remind us that romance isn't everything. I also love how far the relationships have come. She gets the amount of each just right, changing up enough to keep it surprising and exciting, but slotting in many parallels to the original stories that often catch me by surprise and make me smile. I've come to the conclusion that I really like how Meyer balances retelling with the traditional story. ![]() I was a bit concerned seeing as I generally think any YA book over 500 pages feels too long, but I needn't have worried. You know, I actually checked and this is the longest YA book I have ever read at over 820 pages, the second longest being Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix at 766 pages. And this longass final installment was a heart-pounding, fast-paced finale. After finally giving in and picking up Scarlet, even though I hated Cinder, I just haven't been able to get enough of this series. ![]() The last few weeks have been a whirlwind of Lunar Chronicles. “She was prettier than a bouquet of roses and crazier than a headless chicken. ![]() ![]() Louis, MO – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre – St. ![]() ![]() Joseph’s Health Amphitheater at LakeviewĨ/27 – Tinley Park, IL – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre – Chicago, ILĨ/28 – Noblesville, IN – Ruoff Music CenterĨ/31 – Detroit, MI – DTE Energy Music Theatreĩ/2 – Cuyahoga Falls, OH – Blossom Music Centerĩ/3 – Burgettstown, PA – The Pavilion at Star Lakeĩ/5 – St. 8/5 – West Palm Beach, FL – iTHINK Financial AmphitheatreĨ/7 – Tampa, FL – MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre at the FL State FairgroundsĨ/8 – Alpharetta, GA – Ameris Bank AmphitheatreĨ/10 – Raleigh, NC – Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut CreekĨ/14 – Scranton, PA – The Pavilion at Montage MountainĨ/17 – Wantagh, NY – Northwell Health at Jones Beach TheaterĨ/18 – Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts CenterĨ/24 – Darien Center, NY – Darien Lake AmphitheaterĨ/25 – Syracuse, NY – St. ![]() ![]() ![]() Note: Venom #13-15 tie into the War of the Realms event. Check that out if you want to know more about what has happened to Carnage. Note: Web of Venom: Carnage Born references Venomized. ![]() This features the main Venom series as well as the Web of Venom one-shots, annuals, and Venom-centric events. Donny Cates’ Venom Reading Orderīelow is the recommended order for the Donny Cates era of Venom. ![]() Venom (2018 series) #1 cover by Ryan Stegman. It has the recommended reading order for the regular series, specials, and Venom-centric events with plenty of notes along the way. If you’re looking to see what all the fuss is about or to do some background reading before diving into the King in Black event, then this guide is what you need. As a result, Venom has become one of Marvel’s top-selling comics yet again. It’s all due to giving fans a bit of the old along with plenty of new, while also making sure there is interesting character beats mixed in with the symbiote action. But thanks to Donny Cates, Ryan Stegman, and other collaborators, Venom is in a renascence period. ![]() But interest cooled as readers’ tastes changed and beyond the Flash Thompson era Venom was seen as a bit of a relic of its time. With a design by Todd McFarlane, which was then taken to the next level by Erik Larsen, he was so hot with readers that he outgrew the status of Spider-Man villain and was able to sustain his own comics as an anti-hero. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We also have back her hunky love interest and indestructible dude Greg (Fortress) as well as team boss and telekinetic Virgil (Vigilante). I mean, I’m just downright delightful, wouldn’t you agree? Don’t answer that. And yeah, the whole "this has something really odd to do with mythology doesn't it?" vibe only gets stronger as the story progresses! ![]() Oh and she is now officially code-named Vengeance because of apparently reasons. Once again the story rotates primarily around Megaera, or obviously Meg for short, who provides enough snark and 4th wall breaking wit to satisfy your daily intake requirements. Once again author Jamie Jackson has delivered an entertaining adventure in the 2nd book of her AoaVLH series (I warned you last time I wasn't spelling all that out!), namely, "Torment and Tarnish". The zombie rats weren’t just the mindless henchmen of the Rat King I thought they were. ![]() ![]() ![]() has gone bust and now Forrest is flat broke, sweeping floors in a New Orleans strip joint, when a fresh opportunity to play championship football puts him back in the limelight-and in the money. She tells me she's always rooting for me." The Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. ![]() "Whenever I really get stumped, I go visit Jenny's grave. Now he returns in the long-awaited sequel to the book hailed by Larry King as "the funniest novel I have ever read." A little older, and wiser in his unique way, Forrest is still running-this time straight into the age of greed and instant gratification known as the 1980s. ![]() Forrest Gump captured our hearts in the #1 New York Times bestselling novel Forrest Gump, and in the blockbuster film, winner of six Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Actor. ![]() ![]() ![]() They hang out nervously on street corners, smoke cigarettes, seek the attention of young women, and fret about admission to the university, which everyone - especially Youssef’s mother - believes is the ticket to success and freedom from their lot in the slums. ![]() ![]() In the nascent years of the 21st century, in a neighborhood full of “merchants peddling their wares from rickety bicycles” and the “stink of old, refried sardines,” Youssef and his friends face the usual array of nineteen-year-old anxieties. What he finds is more than a genealogical chart and what readers find is more than just a compelling story: Secret Son is a mirror in which our own modern age is reflected. Set in modern-day Morocco, the novel concerns the coming-of-age of Youssef el-Mekki, a young man struggling to establish his identity and livelihood in the slum of Hay An Najat while seeking the father he long thought deceased. But those who imagine Casablanca merely as a city of romance and North African charm may find themselves at a loss to reconcile the spices of their imagination with the brutal realities of poverty and the political and religious corruption Lalami portrays in Secret Son (Algonquin Books, April 2009). ![]() And anyone who has ever imagined its fragrances or color will recognize the setting of Laila Lalami’s second novel. Few places are more evocative of mystery and the exotic than Casablanca. ![]() ![]() ![]() The use of dialect is not overly intrusive (compare "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and a host of grade-B writings from the period up through the 1950s). Style: Chopin writes smoothly and easily, with succulent descriptive passages. I suggest that it was considered unacceptable as much for for its denigration of the roles of wife and mother (at that time) as for its restrained sensuality and "coded" adultery, although I'm sure Eulalie Mackecknie Shinn would have disapproved of the book. The novel "The Awakening" might better be termed "The Abandonment." The sentiments exhibited are conventional romances, although with wit and some insight. Substance: The short stories are entertaining, in the 19th century style, with interesting views of the Louisiana Creole milieu. ![]() ![]() We're just like them.’‘You mean like Kylie and Jason? Torvill and Dean? Sonny and Cher?’‘I think you’ve missed the point, Rachel.’Rachel and Ben. What happens when the one that got away comes back? Find out in this sparkling debut from Mhairi McFarlane.‘Think of the great duos of history. All-star.' 'A compelling, clever story, while still being so ridiculously funny and heartwarming' LUCY VINE 'A plot that gets under your skin, and one. a triumph' KATIE FFORDE 'Mhairi's writing is always just super witty with layered, emotional depth. ![]() Can these two take a crazy risk, face the past and finally find a reason to stay? _ 'Gorgeous, funny, life-affirming' JENNY COLGAN 'Funny, poignant, full of insight. A dream house-share seems like the perfect place to hide, but her unlikely housemate Cal is no stranger to running away himself. Getting married.Her boyfriend's family.Her past. Harriet Hatley is running away from everything. ![]() Driving each other crazy is just the beginning. ![]() I read this with delight and envy' MARIAN KEYES Pre-order now! The brilliant new romcom from the bestselling author of mega-hit, Last Night Two strangers. ![]() ![]() Winner of Fiction of the Year at the British Book Awards Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Shortlisted for the Women's Prize Finalist for the US National Book Award for Fiction When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. ![]() It's one of those books that stays with you forever.' - Dua Lipa The million-copy bestseller, Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life, by the author of To Paradise and The People in the Trees, is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance. 'I'm not exaggerating when I say this novel challenged everything I thought I knew about love and friendship. ![]() |