![]() Uncle Fong uses the paintbrush to return to China, to the village of his childhood, and Grandfather wants to visit the Lady on the Moon. Now he, Grandfather, and Uncle Fong can wish for anything they want. Suling Wang has worked in illustration, animation, and multimedia design for several years. HarperTrophy, 4. Laurence Yep once again expertly weaves the spirit of magic and a contemporary San Francisco Chinatown setting in a whimsical novel that explores how the. With his new paintbrush, whatever he paints becomes real. ![]() He lives in Pacific Grove, California, with his wife, the writer Joanne Ryder. He attended Marquette University, graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and received his PhD from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Laurence Yep is the acclaimed author of more than sixty books for young people and a winner of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award. Yep grew up in San Francisco, where he was born. Yep, and was named a New York Public Library's "One Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing" and a Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book. His illustrious list of novels includes the Newbery Honor Books Dragonwings and Dragon's Gate The Earth Dragon Awakes: The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, a Texas Bluebonnet Award nominee and The Dragon's Child: A Story of Angel Island, which he cowrote with his niece, Dr. ![]() ![]() Laurence Yep is the acclaimed author of more than sixty books for young people and a winner of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Having admitted that, I recognize that I may have gone into this story with hopes raised too high. She is, thus far, my all time favorite Disney villain. ![]() I am honestly shocked that Disney would allow their name to be attached to such a poorly constructed piece of work. The most difficult thing to follow is the flow of the story, as it constantly jumps around in time and place, with no real rhyme or reason. The dialogue is contrived and forced at times. The descriptions of people, places, and things are never enough to leave a lasting impression. Her character is poorly fleshed out, and Ariel is almost completely nonexistent in the story. Ursula really only makes cameo appearances throughout the book, and often she isn't even directly in the scene, but being observed from an enchanted mirror. At first I didn't find this to be a problem, but the more I realized this story is not actually about Ursula, and instead about the three witches and Tulip, the more frustrated I became. To be fair, I had not read the first two books in the series, so I came in at the end of the story for the three odd sisters. When I try and think about anything redeemable this book offered, I come up blank. I don't think I have ever given a 1 star review on here before, but this book was so disappointing and poorly written, that I had no other choice. ![]() ![]() ![]() The BAFTA award-winning actor and writer will be sharing personal. ![]() What follows is a rollicking cross-country adventure, rife with unforgettable characters, vivid scenery and suspense that will keep readers flying through the pages. Michaela Coel just announced the release of her debut book, Misfits: A Personal Manifesto, due for release in September. Before they’re able to leave, though, Emmett discovers two stowaways who traveled out of the detention center with him and now insist he take them to New York instead. When Emmett arrives at his Nebraska home, his neighbors aren’t pleased about the fact that he didn’t serve his full sentence, and his little brother, Billy, is convinced the mother who abandoned them is now in San Francisco-and that they need to go find her. ![]() Eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson has done 15 months at a juvenile work camp for involuntary manslaughter when he’s released early to deal with his father’s death and the foreclosure of the family farm. Best-selling author Amor Towles follows up his internationally acclaimed 2016 novel A Gentleman in Moscow with another captivating piece of historical fiction, this one transporting readers to 1950s Americana. ![]() ![]() These aetia create a particularly meaningful present moment: one that testifies to the different types of divine time and its interaction with human time-including the complex model of time embodied by Hecate and the linearity of time introduced by Zeus-and implicates the audience in the stability of this new order of the world. ![]() In Hesiod’s Theogony, three aetia that explicitly invoke the poet’s present revolve around the central event of the work, the birth of Zeus: the origin of Hecate’s powers, Zeus’ marking the start of his reign by planting the stone that his father Cronus had swallowed instead of himself in the earth of Delphi, and Prometheus’ theft of fire. While tying the time of men and the time of gods together in a shared ‘ever since then’, the aetion also marks a growing divide between the two, providing a vivid stratigraphy of Iliadic time. ![]() ![]() The aetiological story of Ate, told by Agamemnon in Book 19 of the Iliad, establishes a connection between the crucial moment when the main conflict of the epic is resolved and an important moment of transition on Olympus. ![]() ![]() ![]() Petrova, forever ostracised in the world of dance, offers hope to any girl who has ever felt unremarkable or talentless. Hers is a moral fable that all girls could do with remembering. Pauline’s fall from grace was one of the most shocking turns, I felt, which I have reminded myself of every time I have felt the flush of success. ![]() Unlike so many books these days, where the heroine is not only beautiful, brave and ultimately some kind of superhuman goddess, these girls’ flaws are all too recognisable in ourselves. And Posy, the precocious, hilarious baby dancer.īut for me, what really brings these girls alive is, for all their fantastic talents, their imperfections. There is the eldest, Pauline, famous for her “pink and white complexion” - for how many years have I longed for those rosy cheeks, for that soft golden Alice in Wonderland style hair! Then Petrova, who, in her disdain for all things theatrical and her two left feet, is probably my most likely contemporary. They are all chalk and cheese to each other, yet they have all at some stage been my favourite. Perhaps it is because their lives are so holistically narrated that by the end of the book, you consider them almost your own sisters. ![]() ![]() I think what made this book so attractive to me was the girls themselves. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ken’s new book, The Evening and the Morning, will be published in September 2020. World Without End, the sequel to The Pillars of the Earth, proved equally popular when it was published in 2007. It reached number one on best-seller lists everywhere and was turned into a major television series produced by Ridley Scott, which aired in 2010. In 1989, Ken’s epic novel about the building of a medieval cathedral, The Pillars of the Earth, was published. ![]() ![]() It remains one of Ken’s most popular books. A World War II thriller set in England, this book earned him the 1979 Edgar Award for Best Novel from the Mystery Writers of America. Ken’s first major success came with the publication of Eye of the Needle in 1978. Subsequently, he worked for a small London publishing house, Everest Books, eventually becoming Deputy Managing Director. He started his career as a reporter, first with his hometown newspaper the South Wales Echo and then with the London Evening News. Over 170 million copies of the 36 books he has written have been sold in over 80 countries and in 33 languages.īorn on June 5th, 1949 in Cardiff, Wales, the son of a tax inspector, Ken was educated at state schools and went on to graduate from University College, London, with an Honours degree in Philosophy – later to be made a Fellow of the College in 1995. Ken Follett is one of the world’s most successful authors. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Occasional mentions of alcohol are realistic for the times, as is Eel's job in a brewery, but there's no description of characters drinking villainous characters who consume alcohol don't make it look attractive. One character kissses another on the forehead. ![]() Villains kidnap and beat Eel, and a kitten is in danger before Eel comes to the rescue. Death is a frequent topic, and there's some description of sick people. Parents need to know that The Great Trouble offers great historical insight into a cholera epidemic in 1850s London, seen through the eyes of loyal, hardworking, 12-year-old orphan Eel. Sibert Honor book and a YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction finalist. A villainous adult smells of beer and tobacco, among other unpleasant odors.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. Titanic: Voices from the Disaster was a Robert F. Adult friend Jake fell on hard times after developing a gin problem abusive stepfather Bill mentions going to the pub a couple of times, and, although he's not seen drinking, he's described as drinking gin in the past and probably being drunk. He and other kids drink ginger beer and cider, which may have been alcoholic at the time, but no alcoholic effects are mentioned. Main character Eel lives and works in a brewery. ![]() ![]() ![]() But it is in each other, and in themselves, that they find the trust, the courage, the hope to break the cycle. As each searches for real love and true family, they find themselves pulled toward the one person who links them together Kristina, Bree, mother, addict. Doubt and loneliness overwhelm her, and she, too, teeters on the edge of her mother s notorious legacy. To her, family is only abuse at the hands of her father s girlfriends and a slew of foster parents. Summer doesn t know about Hunter, Autumn, or their two youngest brothers, Donald and David. And the consequences of her decisions suggest that there s more of Kristina in her than she d like to believe. When her aunt gets married, and the only family she s ever known crumbles, Autumn s compulsive habits lead her to drink. ![]() Autumn lives with her single aunt and alcoholic grandfather. He’s struggling to understand why his mother left him, when he unexpectedly meets his rapist father, and things get even more complicated. Hunter is nineteen, angry, getting by in college with a job at a radio station, a girlfriend he loves in the only way he knows how, and the occasional party. They share only a predisposition for addiction and a host of troubled feelings toward the mother who barely knows them, a mother who has been riding with the monster, crank, for twenty years. Hunter, Autumn, and Summer three of Kristina Snow’s five children live in different homes, with different guardians and different last names. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dani’s papers are forged, and I can’t figure out what the problem is because part of her notoriety in the school is that she’s from a tough place but has done well. Anywho, the Medio police crack down and are demanding every girl’s papers because letting the protestors in was an inside job. Read that setup in many a book, and I s’pose this is author Tehlor Kay Mejia’s way of describing today’s wealth/health gap between rich and poor. Okay, so the audiobook opens with a protest of people from the other side of the wall, the impoverished side, bewailing the injustice of living and dying desperate lives in squalor even as people in Medio (The “chosen” and powerful side of this island all are living on), are wealthy, healthy, and it’s unfair… blah blah blah. Lemme explain: Marriages of the powerful have a Primera, who is the stalwart and hyper rational wife in this triangle, and a Segunda, who nurtures the husband, is his sexual mate, has his children. ![]() As marriages in Medio, the Chosen side of the wall, are triangles, her Segunda is Carmen, her archenemy. Our heroine is Dani Vargas, a girl, er, young woman, who is the top Primera in her school, coming from the slums, rising to an outstanding marriage to a political bigwig. Let’s start with what We Set the Dark on Fire is about: Kinda on the fence about this one-has its pluses, has its minuses… By: Tehlor Kay Mejia / Narrated By: Kyla Garcia ![]() ![]() ![]() But Sephy’s baby will be a mixed-race child, its father a nought – in a world where the two classes are divided by colour and never treated as equals. An Eye for An Eye (novella) – Can two wrongs ever make a right? Sephy is a Cross – the daughter of a top politician and a member of the ruling class.Until the first steps are taken towards more social equality and a limited number of Noughts are allowed into Cross schools… Against a background of prejudice and distrust, intensely highlighted by violent terrorist activity by Noughts, a romance builds between Sephy and Callum… ![]() The two have been friends since early childhood. Callum is a nought – a ‘colourless’ member of the underclass who were once slaves to the Crosses. Noughts and Crosses – Sephy is a Cross – a member of the dark-skinned ruling class.Noughts and Crosses is now a BBC TV Show starring Jack Rowan and Masali Baduza. Their love will lead both of them into terrible danger. She’s dark-skinned and lives a life of privilege. It’s speculative fiction about two star-crossed lovers fighting for a more just world. It’s an alternative history in which native African people colonised the European people. ![]() What is the Noughts and Crosses series about?Ĭoming from British author Malorie Blackman, Noughts & Crosses is a series of young adult novels. Affiliate disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, we may earn commissions from qualifying purchases from Amazon. ![]() |