![]() ![]() I rarely consider what a book will be about until fairly late in the process. Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Award finalist 2015 Red discussion questions within Swing activity guideĬooperative Children’s Book Center Choice 2016Į.B. Red word search, bookmark, discussion questions, group activities ![]() Purchasing links: local bookstore : barnes & noble : amazon Greenwillow Books, 2015, 40 pages, hardcover 978-7-4 He's blue! This funny, heartwarming, colorful picture book about finding the courage to be true to your inner self can be read on multiple levels, and it offers something for everyone! He just can't be red, no matter how hard he tries! Finally, a brand-new friend offers a brand-new perspective, and Red discovers what readers have known all along. His teacher tries to help him be red (let's draw strawberries!), his mother tries to help him be red by sending him out on a playdate with a yellow classmate (go draw a nice orange!), and the scissors try to help him be red by snipping his label so that he has room to breathe. ![]() Red has a bright red label, but he is, in fact, blue. ![]()
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An astrologer emailed me to say she had important news for me concerning events in my immediate future. ![]() ![]() ![]() She’s traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. ![]() Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal-an experience that shocks him to his core. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.Įdwin St. Winner of the 2022 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Science Fiction. ![]() John Mandel € 26.50 This item is currently not available through our suppliers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kendi resolved to invert the trend by "bringing together a community of writers" and encouraging them to both write history and make history, creating an artifact capturing what Black Americans were thinking during that anniversary year. Kendi contemplated how to commemorate the "symbolic birthday of Black America" and the whole 400-year period. ![]() As the 400th anniversary of Black Africans' arrival in British North America approached, Ibram X. A winner or finalist of multiple awards in its print and audiobook editions, Four Hundred Souls has been widely praised by reviewers for its prose and historical content.įrom 1841 to 2019, the vast majority of books telling a history of African America were written by individuals, also almost always male. Conceived and created to commemorate the four hundred years that had passed since the arrival of the first Africans in Virginia, the book concerns African-American history and collects works written by ninety Black writers. ![]() Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019 is a 2021 anthology of essays, commentaries, personal reflections, short stories, and poetry, compiled and edited by Ibram X. ![]() ![]() ![]() Time is precious and it needs to be spent wisely, so having a plan and writing down targets to achieve each day, week and month is so beneficial to progress and leadership. 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So one day they decide to switch places: Disguised as a girl, Thom heads for the convent to learn magic Alanna, pretending to be a boy, is on her way to the castle of King Roald to begin her training as a page.īut the road to knighthood is not an easy one. Though a girl, Alanna has always craved the adventure and daring allowed only for boys her twin brother, Thom, yearns to learn the art of magic. I’ll be a knight.Īnd so young Alanna of Trebond begins the journey to knighthood. “She was still a girl masquerading as a boy, and sometimes she doubted that she would ever believe herself to be as good as the stupidest, clumsiest male.”įrom now on I’m Alan of Trebond, the younger twin. ALANNA: THE FIRST ADVENTURE BY TAMORA PIERCE ![]() |