![]() ![]() In his new book, Nick takes a humorous, inspiring, and fascinating trip to America’s frontier to celebrate the people, landscape, and stories, both historically and today, that have made it great-and, working together, will keep it that way. Nick Offerman has always loved the United States of America-not just the people and the history, but the actual land itself. A literary journey to America’s frontier inspired by three journeys Nick has taken in the recent past-one a hiking trip with friends George Saunders and Jeff Tweedy, one in the farms of Illinois and in the UK with famed shepherd James Rebanks, and one in an Airstream trailer with his wife, Megan-Nick Offerman’s new narrative exploration of nature and the outdoors and the outdoors will be perfect for his millions of fans. ![]()
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![]() This year will mark the 150th anniversary of that auspicious day. His picture book about June 19, or Juneteenth, will encourage a new generation of children to celebrate, ask questions and remember. Floyd Cooper’s Juneteenth for Mazie beautifully illustrates and celebrates a memorable day in American history.Now it’s Mazie’s turn to celebrate who she is and to remember the accomplishments of her ancestors. Each generation carries that dream to improve their lives. Mazie learns from her father that many African-Americans struggle to stand as equals with white people. After freedom arrives, Grandpa Mose and many others continue to work and are paid, but equality is still a long way off. “We will celebrate the day your great-great-great-grandpa Mose, crossed into liberty.” Grandpa Mose works hard in the cotton fields along with many slaves in Galveston, Texas, until that joyful day in 1865, when word of their emancipation finally reaches the slaves. Her father tells her about a big celebration she will attend the next day - Juneteenth. Synopsis: Mazie is restless because it’s bedtime and she can’t go where she wants, have what she wants or do what she wants. Opening: Mazie wants to play outside, but it is too late. ![]() Themes: Juneteenth, Celebrating freedom from slavery, Passing down family history Capstone for Young Readers, Fiction, Jan.1, 2015 ![]() ![]() ![]() We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. If it is multi volume set, then it is only single volume, if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. ![]() As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. This book is printed in black & white, sewing binding for longer life, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. Reprinted in 2023 with the help of original edition published long back. ![]() Unique Leather Bound Edition having Spine and corners bind with leather with Golden Leaf Printing on round spine. 326 CHOOSE ANY COLOR OF YOUR CHOICE WITHOUT ANY EXTRA CHARGES, JUST CLICK ON MORE IMAGES FOR OPTIONAL COLORS and inform us your choice through mail. ![]() ![]() ![]() where she’s been walking the deck with first-class passengers, like her aunt and uncle. This time, Sam is having recurring dreams about the Titanic. ![]() But having survived one curse, she never thought she’d find herself at the center of a new one. ![]() Samantha Mather knew her family’s connection to the infamous Salem Witch Trials might pose obstacles to an active social life. The Titanic meets the delicious horror of Ransom Riggs and the sass of Mean Girls in this follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller How to Hang a Witch, in which a contemporary teen finds herself a passenger on the famous “ship of dreams”-a story made all the more fascinating because the author’s own relatives survived the doomed voyage. ![]() ![]() And what they don't know is that Maddy still has another secret. The popular white class president convinces her Black superstar quarterback boyfriend to ask Maddy to be his date, leaving Maddy wondering if it's possible to have a normal life.īut some of her classmates aren't done with her just yet. She has been passing for white her entire life at the behest of her fanatical white father, Thomas Washington.Īfter a viral bullying video pulls back the curtain on Springville High's racist roots, student leaders come up with a plan to change their image: host the school's first integrated prom as a show of unity. Until the morning a surprise rainstorm reveals her most closely kept secret: Maddy is biracial. And she's dealt with it because she has more pressing problems to manage. ![]() Maddy did it.Īn outcast at her small-town Georgia high school, Madison Washington has always been a teasing target for bullies. ![]() When Springville residents-at least the ones still alive-are questioned about what happened on prom night, they all have the same explanation. Jackson ramps up the horror and tackles America’s history and legacy of racism in this YA novel following a biracial teenager as her Georgia high school hosts its first integrated prom. ![]() ![]() ![]() Reading Notebooks (for intermediate students) students at the stations clean up rotate on their own while you call your next group! use a timer and make every minute in your daily schedule count! Set your timer for 20 minutes for each guided reading group. Another question that teachers ask about managing Guided Reading time is how do I get it all done? Jan Richardson clearly says. On pages 18-22 Richardson lays out a few ideas for how to manage your students at while they are working independently. Students in second grade on up can use individual choice boards or learning contracts to manage their time. ![]() this ensures that there is at least one or two students that they can ask questions or seek help from. ![]() You must also have routines set in your classroom so that students will know what it means to work independently for an extended amount of time !! It is best to have students work in workstation groups that are a range of leaners. ready to use, right there in your guided reading area. You will need to have all of your teaching materials, including leveled text, magnetic letters, dry erase board and markers, paper, lesson plans and notebooks, and any other materials that you use on a daily basis. ![]() In order to have success teaching at the guided reading table, two things need to be in place. Teach Routines, Independence and Build Stamina ![]() ![]() ![]() īut when the two outcasts finally meet, assumptions will be replaced by surprises, deceit by desire-and a meeting of minds between two schemers may lead to a meeting of hearts-if the secrets of their pasts don’t tear them apart. However, in need of an heir, Adam will use the arrangement to his advantage. Clearly Mia must resemble an aging matron, or worse. Nobody except Mia’s father, the desperate Duke of Carlisle. Now there isn’t a peer in England willing to let his daughter marry the dangerously handsome man the ton calls The Murderous Marquess. Dangerous by Minerva Spencer is the first book in her series The Outcasts. Īdam de Courtney’s first two wives died under mysterious circumstances. Fortunately, Mia is no longer a girl, but a clever woman with a secret-and a plan of her own. No doubt her potential groom is a demented octogenarian. Worst of all is her ashamed father’s ultimatum: marry a man of his choosing or live out her life in seclusion. ![]() ![]() Now the sultan is dead and Mia is back in London facing relentless newspapermen, an insatiably curious public, and her first Season. Lady Euphemia Marlington hasn’t been free in seventeen years-since she was captured by Corsairs and sold into a harem. ![]() ![]() ![]() Its layers, and its twisting between the antique and the futuristic, are suggested here in Paul Arditti’s delicately thrumming sound design and by Luke Halls’s videos and Jon Clark’s lighting, which swirl over and transform Bob Crowley’s sets: placid-looking woodcut scenery seems to splinter and break apart as a great flood (the Bible is never far from Pullman’s agnostic mind) rushes across the stage.Īmong the speed there is inwardness. ![]() Pullman’s novel, set before His Dark Materials, with Lyra as a baby being protected by potboy and potgirl Malcolm and Alice, swims between the familiar and the fantastic: it is a rush of climate catastrophe, adventure, alethiometers, Oxford cityscapes, pubescent stirrings and the repressions imposed by an ironclad Christian regime. This is only one of the ways in which Nicholas Hytner’s exciting production (co-directed with Emily Burns and James Cousins) gets things right. ![]() “How do you know about the uncertainty principle?” “I live in a pub.” Clear and swift, it brings an extra bounce of humour to the tangle of speculation and saltiness that makes the novel at once provoking and compelling. I s Bryony Lavery Philip Pullman’s daemon? Her adaptation of La Belle Sauvage goes to the heart of the first volume of Pullman’s Book of Dust trilogy and, daemon-like, expresses its essence. ![]() ![]() All of the usual conventions of middle grade books are subverted, ignored, or parodied, with a bit of a wink and a smile. There are more important things than normalcy - like kindness, generosity, good humor, courage and loyalty. ![]() The underlying message of the book, which is rarely made explicit but which informs every element, is that when no one is normal then the whole idea of "normal" is meaningless. It turns out no one and nothing in Topsea is normal, so Davy's quest to be "normal" is doomed before it starts. ![]() Davy is anxious about fitting in and just wants to be normal. Davy and his Mom have moved to a new town to start a new life. The premise, though, is straightforward, which is the best way to set up a bizarro book. And that's what you get here.Īnd it's a singular and unapologetically odd book. By "bizarro" I mean deadpan, tongue in cheek, low key, understated, unpredictable inside/out books. There are silly books, and wacky books, and nutsy books, and, or course, farty and poopy books, but good bizarro is rare. ![]() It's very hard to find a good bizarro middle grade book. ![]() ![]() ![]() While recreational readers will appreciate the drama and poignancy of Eichar's solid depiction of this truly eerie and enduring mystery, pickier researchers may question the lack of bibliography or notes to indicate exact sources, which makes the accuracy of his re-creation of certain events difficult to judge. Mountain of the Dead The Dyatlov Pass Incident By: Keith McCloskey Narrated by: Curt Bonnem Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins 4.1 (13 ratings) Try for 0. Through his research into the many bizarre and seemingly unexplainable aspects of the tragedy, he attempts to rule out previously suggested causes such as an avalanche, an attack by a native tribe, Soviet weapons testing, and even aliens. The author ably pieces together a detailed chronicle of this haunting incident, using official case files, interviews, journals, and other evidence. ![]() ![]() Eichar, a television documentary producer, investigates the mysterious events leading to the untimely deaths of these experienced outdoor adventurers, whose frozen bodies were found later by search parties, some with severe injuries and one lacking a tongue. In 1959, nine young Russians set off on a doomed ski trip in the wintry Ural Mountains, never to return. The Dyatlov Pass incident resulted in nine unsolved, mysterious deaths Keith McCloskey attempts to decipher the bizzare events that led up to that night and the subsequent aftermathIn January 1959, 10 experienced young skiers set out to travel to a mountain named Mount Otorten in the far north of Russia. ![]() |