But it also demonstrates one young woman’s strength as she navigates the disappointment and unbearable pains of adolescence, of first love and first heartbreak, of friendships broken and rebuilt, and while learning to embrace a power of survival she never knew she had hidden within her heart. Told in four parts-freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior year-this provocative debut reveals the deep cuts of trauma. Nothing makes sense anymore, and she knows she’s supposed to tell someone what happened but she can’t. What she thought she knew to be true, is now lies. What Eden once loved-who she once loved-she now hates. But the night her brother’s best friend rapes her, Eden’s world capsizes. Starting high school didn’t change who she was. ABOUT THE BOOK In the tradition of SPEAK, this extraordinary debut novel “is a poignant book that realistically looks at the lasting effects of trauma on love, relationships, and life” (School Library Journal, starred review).
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The story of an unlikely friendship between Raymie, Beverly and Louisiana with the commonality that each young girl has lost a parent, or both. This book is poignant, funny, and profound. DiCamillo's deftness as a storyteller has never been so breathtaking I repeatedly laughed out loud, only to find my laughter catch on tears. How to explain what this book is about? The great truth it tells is that children can and do ponder the deepest mysteries about the meaning of life, and they find their answers in unexpected places. Each has her sights set on the Little Miss Central Florida Tire 1975 competition, each for her own reasons. Three little girls, each with her own personal heartbreak casting a shadow on her life, meet at baton-twirling class. Kate DiCamillo returns to her Winn-Dixie roots in this perfect gem of a novel. 5/24/2023 0 Comments Halloween night 2 rl stineBrenda is still a drama queen yelling "shrilly". Halley is still a skanky boyfriend stealer. Stine has received numerous awards of recognition, including several Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Awards, and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the NEA's Read Across America program. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history. Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences. National Book Foundation award for Young People’s Literature.Rowdy is extremely supportive of Junior’s art, and Junior thinks this proves his and Rowdy’s friendship. Junior loves drawing cartoons, and many of his drawings are included in the book. Junior’s parents are alcoholics and his sister, Mary, spends all her time in the family basement. Even today, other Indians on the reservation or, as Junior calls it, the “rez,” bully him and call him names like “hydrohead.” Junior’s best friend, Rowdy, often promises to protect him, but Rowdy’s own violent tendencies sometimes prevent him from being all that helpful. Worst of all, as a small child, he had seizures. He had too many teeth and had to have some removed, and he is far-sighted in one eye and near-sighted in the other. The early condition, however, left Junior with a lisp and stutter. How doctors predicted he would die from complications of hydrocephalus-his being born with excess spinal fluid on the brain. (“Junior”) tells about his early life on the Spokane Indian reservation. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian Synopsis:Īrnold Spirit Jr. When a Hero escapes from his book and goes in search of his author, Claire must track and capture him with the help of former muse and current assistant Brevity and nervous demon courier Leto.īut what should have been a simple retrieval goes horrifyingly wrong when the terrifyingly angelic Ramiel attacks them, convinced that they hold the Devil's Bible. Her job consists mainly of repairing and organizing books, but also of keeping an eye on restless stories that risk materializing as characters and escaping the library. Many years ago, Claire was named Head Librarian of the Unwritten Wing- a neutral space in Hell where all the stories unfinished by their authors reside. Synopsis: In the first book in a brilliant new fantasy series, books that aren't finished by their authors reside in the Library of the Unwritten in Hell, and it is up to the Librarian to track down any restless characters who emerge from those unfinished stories. 5/24/2023 0 Comments The sandman vol 1Also included are a new introduction by DC President & Publisher Paul Levitz and an afterword by Gaiman. 1 collects issues #1-20 of THE SANDMAN and features completely new coloring, approved by the author on the first 18 issues, as well as a host of never-before-seen extra material including the complete original Sandman proposal, a gallery of character designs from Gaiman and the artists who originated the look of the Sandman, and the original script for the World Fantasy Award-winning THE SANDMAN #19, "A Midsummer Night's Dream," together with reproductions of the issue's original pencils by Charles Vess. The first of four beautifully designed slipcased volumes, THE ABSOLUTE SANDMAN VOL. Now, DC Comics is proud to present this comics classic in an all-new Absolute Edition format. In PRELUDES and NOCTURNES, an occultist attempting to capture Death to bargain for eternal life traps her younger brother Dream instead. By the time it concluded in 1996, it had made significant contributions to the artistic maturity of comic books and become a pop culture phenomenon in its own right. A rich blend of modern myth and dark fantasy in which contemporary fiction, historical drama and legend are seamlessly interwoven, THE SANDMAN is also widely considered one of the most original and artistically ambitious series of the modern age. THE SANDMAN, written by New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman, was the most acclaimed comic book title of the 1990s. 5/23/2023 0 Comments The complete persepolis sparknotesShe studies in a French co-educational school with non-religious teaching and her parents being very liberal and open to western ideas. When this takes place, she gleefully sees the unfolding of the Islamic Revolution and the rise of religious extremism that takes its toll on the young girls. The movement is about ousting Shah and sending him into exile. She immediately reverts to the political orientation of her family, which leads her to take part in the existing political mobilization against the regime of Shah. Tehran was ruled by Shah, the dictator who imprisoned many Princes one among them was Marjane’s grandfather who happened to be a Persian Prince.Īs a member of an elite social class, Marji is mostly involved in reading books and educational material which make her come to know western political thoughts. It happens that the author goes through the turbulent period of religious extremism and the ensuing war between Iran and Iraq. The novel is set in the 80s, detailing the experience of the young girl during the turbulent periods of the Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Iran when she first learns about the veil and status of women. The storyline of the first book introduces a ten-year-old girl, Marjane, who happens to be the protagonist of the novel. An asteroid some seven miles across slammed into the Earth, leaving a geologic wound over 50 miles in diameter. The cause of this disaster was identified decades ago. Tyrannosaurus rex will be toppled from their throne, along with every other species of non-avian dinosaur no matter their size, diet, or disposition. In a matter of hours, everything here will be wiped away. A Triceratops horridus ambles along the edge of the forest. It's a sunny afternoon in the Hell Creek of ancient Montana 66 million years ago. Picture yourself in the Cretaceous period. Life's losses were sharp and deeply-felt, but the hope carried by the beings that survived sets the stage for the world as we know it now. In The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, Riley Black walks readers through what happened in the days, the years, the centuries, and the million years after the impact, tracking the sweeping disruptions that overtook this one spot, and imagining what might have been happening elsewhere on the globe. 5/23/2023 0 Comments What my bones know book reviewStephanie Foo’s life is changed forever when she learns her diagnosis of C-PTSD (complex post traumatic stress disorder), which can be described as: a learned set of responses and a disruption of important developmental tasks due to repeated trauma. What My Bones Know was easy to read, despite its sometimes harrowing first person account of physical and emotional child abuse. One thing that stood out right off the bat is that it's written from a client’s perspective, rather than the often pedantic nature of books written by therapists and researchers. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo, an acclaimed Malaysian-American radio journalist, had me staying up too late, squeezing in one more chapter. “Powerful, enlightening, and hopeful, What My Bones Know is a brave narrative that reckons with the hold of the past over the present, the mind over the body-and examines one woman’s ability to reclaim agency from her trauma.”įor the first time in a long time, I recently finished a book that I couldn’t put down. 5/23/2023 0 Comments Hyperion cantos series“An essential part of any science fiction collection.” - Booklist Product Details “An essential part of any science fiction collection.” - Booklist “Simmons’s own genius transforms space opera into a new kind of poetry.” - The Denver Post generously conceived and stylistically sure-handed.” - The New York Times Book Review In sheer scope and complexity it matches, and perhaps even surpasses, those of Isaac Asimov and James Blish.” - The Washington Post Book World “Dan Simmons has brilliantly conceptualized a future 700 years distant. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands. Each carries a desperate hope-and a terrible secret. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of their lives. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. On the world called Hyperion, beyond the reach of galactic law, waits a creature called the Shrike. A stunning tour de force filled with transcendent awe and wonder, Hyperion is a masterwork of science fiction that resonates with excitement and invention, the first volume in a remarkable epic by the multiple-award-winning author of The Hollow Man. |