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Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Horn Book Guide to Children's and Young Adult Books, Fall 2000
The Horn Book Guide to Children's and Young Adult Books
Author: Pilar Ramirez and the Escape from Zafa
Author: Julian RandallPublisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 125077411X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The Land of Stories meets Dominican myths and legends come to life in Pilar Ramirez and the Escape from Zafa, a blockbuster contemporary middle-grade fantasy duology starter from Julian Randall. Fans of Tristan Strong and The Storm Runner, here is your next obsession. "A breathtaking journey . . . readers better hold on tight." —Kwame Mbalia, New York Times bestselling author of the Tristan Strong series Twelve-year-old Pilar Violeta “Purp” Ramirez’s world is changing, and she doesn’t care for it one bit. Her Chicago neighborhood is gentrifying and her chores have doubled since her sister, Lorena, left for college. The only constant is Abuela and Mami’s code of silence around her cousin Natasha—who vanished in the Dominican Republic fifty years ago during the Trujillo dictatorship. When Pilar hears that Lorena’s professor studies such disappearances, she hops on the next train to dig deeper into her family's mystery. After snooping around the professor's empty office, she discovers a folder with her cousin’s name on it . . . and gets sucked into the blank page within. She lands on Zafa, an island swarming with coconut-shaped demons, butterfly shapeshifters, and a sinister magical prison where her cousin is being held captive. Pilar will have to go toe-to-toe with the fearsome Dominican boogeyman, El Cuco, if she has any hope of freeing Natasha and getting back home. "Magic awaits around every corner in Zafa. Nonstop action and plenty of heart create a story worth escaping into." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Choosing Books for Children
Author: Peter HollindalePublisher: Elektrohas
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Beschouwingen over het kind en zijn lectuur in verschillende leeftijdsgroepen, gevolgd door boekenlijsten.
Prairie Lotus
Author: Linda Sue ParkPublisher: Clarion Books
ISBN: 132878150X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
In this compelling, emotionally engaging novel set in 1880, a half-Chinese girl and her white father try to make a home in Dakota Territory, in the face of racism and resistance.
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
Author: Dara HornPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393531570
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Winner of the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice Finalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal, Chicago Public Library, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living. Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewish culture—and increasingly in response to a recent wave of deadly antisemitic attacks—Horn was troubled to realize what all of these assignments had in common: she was being asked to write about dead Jews, never about living ones. In these essays, Horn reflects on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the mythology that Jewish family names were changed at Ellis Island, the blockbuster traveling exhibition Auschwitz, the marketing of the Jewish history of Harbin, China, and the little-known life of the "righteous Gentile" Varian Fry. Throughout, she challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths, and so little respect for Jewish lives unfolding in the present. Horn draws upon her travels, her research, and also her own family life—trying to explain Shakespeare’s Shylock to a curious ten-year-old, her anger when swastikas are drawn on desks in her children’s school, the profound perspective offered by traditional religious practice and study—to assert the vitality, complexity, and depth of Jewish life against an antisemitism that, far from being disarmed by the mantra of "Never forget," is on the rise. As Horn explores the (not so) shocking attacks on the American Jewish community in recent years, she reveals the subtler dehumanization built into the public piety that surrounds the Jewish past—making the radical argument that the benign reverence we give to past horrors is itself a profound affront to human dignity.
Martha Speaks: Good Luck, Martha! (Reader)
Author: Susan MeddaughPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547770472
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
Martha worries that her recent bouts of bad luck might be contagious! Uh-oh. Martha walked under a ladder—and then she broke a mirror—so now she thinks she’s jinxed! Helen tries to explain that all the accidents are just coincidence. But when a nearby toddler stumbles and a waiter takes a clumsy spill, Martha worries that her bad luck might be rubbing off on everybody else. Will Martha be spreading bad luck for seven whole years? Includes a "Test Your Knowledge" activity on common superstitions.
Intellectual Freedom for Teens
Author: Kristin Fletcher-SpearPublisher: American Library Association
ISBN: 0838912524
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
It’s important for YA librarians to understand the types of challenges occurring in libraries around the nation and to be ready to deal with such challenges when they occur.
Writing Young Adult Fiction For Dummies
Author: Deborah HalversonPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470949546
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Your hands-on, friendly guide to writing young adult fiction With young adult book sales rising, and bestselling authors like J.K. Rowling and Stephenie Meyer exploding onto the scene, aspiring YA writers are more numerous than ever. Are you interested in writing a young adult novel, but aren't sure how to fit the style that appeals to young readers? Writing Young Adult Fiction For Dummies gives you tricks of the trade and proven tips on all the steps to write a YA book, from developing an idea to publication. Unique writing exercises to help you find your own authentic teen voice Tips to avoid when submitting manuscripts How to break into the flourishing young adult market With the help of this step-by-step guide, you'll have all the skills to write an inspiring and marketable young adult novel.
Sheehan
Author: Terry TruemanPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477181830
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
SHEEHAN: HEARTBREAK AND REDEMPTION is a re-publication of the 1992 poem that inspired the Printz Honor novel STUCK IN NEUTRAL by Terry Trueman. In the second part of this e-book, based onthe 2007 Xlibris edition,is an extensive interview that includes 23 photographs relating to the real life story of Truemans son Henry Sheehan, the creation of the poem, and the remarkable history of thenovel STUCK IN NEUTRAL, an internationally beloved best seller. Soon this book will be updated with anew interview segment, in e-book format,available at www.terrytrueman.comand other e-book distributors.