![]() ![]() The report confirmed with statistics and personal stories what I already felt in my own schooling experiences and what I witnessed as a mentor. One major barrier was the pervasiveness of stereotypes that adversely impact the educational experiences of African American girls. I was also deeply moved by the 2014 NAACP report “ Unlocking Opportunity for African American Girls: A Call to Action for Educational Equity.” The report explored the barriers African American girls face. ![]() I drew from several of these relationships to write Piecing Me Together. ![]() From being a daughter, a friend, a mentee, a mentor, a teacher-I’ve had such meaningful and complicated relationships. What inspired you to write Jade’s story? I was inspired by all of the friendships I’ve had with women. SLJ chats with Watson about her stirring YA novel. 14, 2017) explores the strong relationships among Black women, poverty and privilege, and the power of art. The acclaimed author Renée Watson’s Piecing Me Together (Bloomsbury Feb. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Maybe it was the story? Maybe it was the cast? Maybe it was the fact that watching normal life is unusually thrilling when your current normality consists of nothing more than a commute from your bed to your desk and back again (with a break at 5pm to watch a shoddy government PowerPoint, of course). Like so many others, I joined the ‘Sally Rooney Fan Club’ back in 2020 after Normal People began competing with covid in the race to take over the world. Somewhere along the way Conversations with Friends stumbles off the trail ![]() Unfortunately, as we all know, it so rarely does. With the same writers, directors, and production team back to put the pages on the screen, I’ve been anxiously waiting to see if lightning could strike twice. After the smash hit of Normal People two years ago, Conversations with Friends is BBC Three’s new Sally Rooney adaptation. ![]() ![]() ![]() Shraya is the poet-optometrist, correcting our vision and letting us see our identities without rose-coloured glasses, but with naked optics. This beautiful collection is the rawest consideration of race, racism, and identity that I've read in a while.Įven this page is white demands that all of us account for our visions of 'colour' and/or 'race' frontally and peripherally, with ocular proofs. Shraya writes on, through, and about skin and color - and the meanings we make of both. ![]() Rollie Pemberton, former Edmonton Poet LaureateĪ stark, bold poetry debut. Autostraddle ("Best Queer and Feminist Books of the Year")Įven this page is white is a provocative meditation on what it means to grow up anything other than white in Canada, tackling institutional racism and sexual identity from a unique viewpoint, all delivered with astute observation and trenchant insight. This debut poetry collection beautifully illuminates everyday racism across a multitude of spaces, and explores color and identity. Shani Mootoo, author of Moving Forward Sideways like a Crab and Cereus Blooms at NightĮven this page is white illuminates the beauty of a life lived on the edges of whiteness's blank page. Like a Durga goddess, Shraya juggles with deft hands the multiple aspects of desire, race, gender, queerness, and contemporary pop culture. This brave and very contemporary lyrical collection dares to ask the unspoken yet screaming questions, to finish the sentence that hurts, that reveals, that provokes, that celebrates. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kristen Gregory: Is sick of being the only poor girl in Westchester. but she is worried about the size of her clothing budget. But what happens when she sees the cuh-yutest pair of Ralph Lauren sunglasses? No pain, no Spain.ĭylan Marvil: After going overboard at the Westchester Mall, Dylan isn't worried about the size of her clothes. Her reward? An all-expenses-paid trip to the Spanish Riviera. But when the plan to bug her ex-BFF backfires big-time, she may find herself headed for a Merry Kissmass-whether she likes it or not.Īlicia Rivera: Promised her parents she wouldn't shop at awl between Thanksgiving and Christmas. ![]() Not that she'd ever admit it, but she's nervous! To distract herself, Massie focuses on getting revenge on Claire for ditching the Pretty Committee. Massie Block: The holidays are just around the corner, and the only thing Massie doesn't want for Christmas is a lip-kiss from her ninth-grade crush, Landon. Summary: Sugar, spice, and everything lice. I Loathe You, Boys R Us, These Boots are Made for Stalking Other books in this series: The Clique, Best Friends For Never, Revenge of the Wannabees, Invasion of the Boy Snatchers, The Pretty Committee Strikes Back, Dial L for Loser, It's Not Easy Being Mean, Sealed with a Diss, Bratfest at Tiffany's, P.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() Until his death at the age of 90, on November 26, 2013, Leiter was not well known beyond industry circles. (Image credit: © Saul Leiter Foundation, Howard Greenberg Gallery) Names like Hokusai, Tawaraya Sōtatsu and Hon’ami Kōetsu, with their use of calligraphy, block statements of colour, and ma – a Japanese spatial concept of negative space, ‘the nothingness where, infact, everything happens’, as the Japanese historian Kōtarō Iizawa terms it. He became immersed in the ornate minimalism of Japanese art, particularly the revolutionary ukiyo-e printmakers of the 18th and 19th centuries. Leiter’s early paintings are awash with colour, in the lineage of expressionists like Willem de Kooning or Franz Kline and impressionists like Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard. ![]() Leiter was fascinated by abstract art, and, at the age of 23, to the horror of his devout family, he dropped out of theology school, got the bus to New York, found a home in the Manhattan’s East Village and enrolled in art school. ![]() Leiter dutifully did so, spending his early twenties immersed in the teachings of the Talmud at a theology school in Cleveland.īut an interest in another kind of deity kept pulling at him. His family expected him to follow his father – to attend theology school and become a Rabbi. ![]() Saul Leiter was born in 1923 in Pittsburgh, the son of a renowned Jewish theological scholar. ![]() ![]() ![]() The action is set in several diverse Islands in what seems to be a world-spanning Archipelago known as the Myriad long dominated by benthos-dwelling savage "gods", now seemingly dead after a revolt of the human population. ![]() (1973- ) UK author who after an early appearance in SFinx (May 1995) began to professionally publish work of genre interest with "Shining Man" in The Dream Zone for January 2001 her works are usually and correctly thought of as fantasy, and adhere closely to fantasy conventions as to landscape and history, though the daedal Underground culture described very fully in A Face Like Glass ( 2012) is hauntingly akin to sf novels set in similar Pocket Universes after some holocaust the eventual discovery of the surface world here has all the poignance and thrill of the Conceptual Breakthrough central to much sf.Įven more tellingly, a more recent novel, Deeplight ( 2019), perhaps at some cost to the free flow of seemingly spontaneous invention in earlier tales, obdurately fixes all that happens to the underlying structure of the world of the tale, which is sufficiently coherent to engender a sense that an Alternate Cosmos is being described, certainly as far as the Physics governing the interior flow of ocean is concerned. ![]() ![]() ![]() Young readers will appreciate Brianna’s insistence on the truth, whether in evaluating her bat mitzvah options or deciding if new friends are truly interested in getting to know her or only in receiving an invitation to a big party. Always alert to adult inconsistencies, Brianna responds to her mother’s assertion that a bat mitzvah is a “family tradition” with a factual correction her mother’s bat mitzvah had actually been the first in their family. Lively and humorous pictures work together with text told from Brianna’s perspective, as she struggles to reconcile her ambivalence about the performative aspects of this event with questions of her commitment to life as part of a Jewish community.īrianna’s account of her bat mitzvah unfolds in flashbacks, beginning with her mother’s original attempt to convince her that the ceremony should be part of Brianna’s future. Brianna’s questions about the meaning of the religious ceremony form the core of the book, but Libenson also integrates concerns about friendship, family conflicts, and financial realities into her compelling coming-of-age story. Becoming Brianna, the most recent book in the Emmie & Friends series of diverse graphic novels, explores the joys and difficulties of middle school through the lens of Brianna’s upcoming bat mitzvah. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Angelina Ballerina name and character and the dancing Angelina logo are trademarks of HIT Entertainment Limited, Katharine Holabird, and Helen Craig. © 2020 Helen Craig Ltd and Katharine Holabird. With Katharine Holabird’s lively writing and Helen Craig’s charming illustrations, Angelina Ballerina will have young readers leaping with delight. Thimble, a local store owner and Angelina’s neighbor, Mrs. ![]() ![]() Join Angelina Ballerina and dance all around the lovely town of Chipping Cheddar as she and her friends gather for a summer festival in this shaped 8x8 storybook with a sparkly cover-perfect for ballerinas of all ages!Īngelina Ballerina and her friends are so excited for the summer festival in the town square! Come along as Angelina introduces us to all of her favorite mouselings! We’ll meet: Angelina’s best friend, Alice ballet teacher, Miss Lilly Miss Quaver, the ballet school pianist her mom, dad, and sister, Polly her cousin, Henry Mrs. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was one of the most interesting reading experiences of my life. It took me a while to realise what was happening but when I did, it blew me away. But it’s not what you think… OVERALL STAR RATING In the dark forest at the end of Needless Street, lies something buried. You think you know what’s inside the last house on Needless Street. And an ordinary house at the end of an ordinary street.Īll these things are true. Without further ado, let’s get into it! THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET by CATRIONA WARD – DECEMBER 2021 I’ll also leave the answers to the trivia questions at the very bottom of the post, so if you wish to guess without being spoiled, do not scroll to the end until you’re ready. Please include all of your answers and opinions down below. Then I will share the discussion topics and trivia questions. I’ll give a quick plot summary plus my overall star/scare-factor ratings. You can find the IGTV video for this talk on my bookclub Instagram page. Today I’m going to discuss the book in the same way I normally do the IGTV videos. Quick Reminder: This month we are reading ‘ The Book Of Accidents’ by Chuck Wendig. Welcome back to the bookclub! In December, we read The Last House On Needless Street by Catriona Ward for The You’ll Read Too Bookclub! If you wish to access all of the latest updates/information, click here. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With no weapons to destroy The One or the Blade ship, Jake orders his crew to ram their ship, The Rachel, into the Blade ship. But as unbelievable as it sounds, something even stranger has happened. Well, as normal as possible considering he can morph animals, and he's in a war against parasitic aliens. Any good Animorphs fan fic on the Net today is proof that the series could. Ax's first officer Menderash-Postill-Fastill, who survived the assault, returned to Earth to inform Jake, who along with Menderash, recruited Tobias, Marco, Santorelli and Jeanne Gerard on an unofficially sanctioned mission into Kelbrid space, where they were found by The One. Applegate, Katherine Applegate 3.68 2,161 ratings85 reviews Jake is just a normal kid. and yeah, I remember being confused when I first read it. A few years later, The One attacked the Intrepid and kidnapped Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill, whom he assimilated. Shortly after the end of the Andalite-Yeerk War, The One encountered the Blade ship, allowing the remnants of the morph-capable Yeerk Empire to live so long as they became subservient to him. In that shifting alien face was every corruption, every evil, and such power that it seemed impossible it could be present in just the narrow confines of the onrushing Blade ship." ― Marco ![]() I saw what he saw, and I felt as if my brain was shutting down. " Jake stared back at the foul thing on the screen. ![]() |