5/13/2023 0 Comments Allies by alan gratz summaryIncludes a 14-page author’s note that gives additional information on many different aspects of D-Day and World War II that are touched upon in the story. Although Dee is the main character, others get a few chapters so that readers get to know quite a few characters in depth before they all meet up on the evening of June 6. The reader gradually learns about Dee’s early life and the events that brought him to D-Day–events that could easily have led him to be fighting for the other side. As the events of the day unfold, he has many narrow escapes and crosses paths with a wide variety of characters from Canada, France, Algeria, Germany, and, of course, the United States. Summary: 16-year-old Dee Carpenter isn’t quite sure what he’s doing landing on Omaha Beach at the start of D-Day.
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Ha! –would a madman have been so wise as this? And then, when my head was well in the room, I undid the lantern cautiously –oh, so cautiously –cautiously (for the hinges creaked) –I undid it just so much that a single thin ray fell upon the vulture eye. It took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening so far that I could see him as he lay upon his bed. Oh, you would have laughed to see how cunningly I thrust it in! I moved it slowly –very, very slowly, so that I might not disturb the old man's sleep. And every night, about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it –oh so gently! And then, when I had made an opening sufficient for my head, I put in a dark lantern, all closed, closed, so that no light shone out, and then I thrust in my head. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded –with what caution –with what foresight –with what dissimulation I went to work! I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Crossover basketball bookJD has a bald head, and he loves to place bets. He is a good dunker too, but he sometimes thinks that the world revolves around him. Josh, who goes by the nickname Filthy McNasty on the court, loves his dreads, English, and language. They play basketball, but they have their differences. This is especially true when they realize that breaking the rules comes at a price. The twins must come to terms with growing up on and off the court. But once JD falls in love with the new girl at school, Josh can’t help but feel left out, and their bond starts to unravel. The Crossover tells the story of Josh and Jordan (aka JD) Bell – twin 13-year-olds who love playing basketball and excel at it too. I can easily see why it’s fun, honest, and heartbreaking. Additionally, Disney+ will produce a series based on the novel. It won the Newbery Medal in 2015, and it’s the only one of the batch that’s written in verse. For 2022, The Crossover by Kwame Alexander was one of the titles that we picked for a multitude of reasons. As a Children’s Librarian, one of the tasks that I have to do every year is host Battle of the Books for 5th graders. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Finding Grace by Becky CitraMagnus' theatre, but Zeus agrees to help only if three riddles can be solved. In Jeremy and the Enchanted Theater (Orca, 2004), illustrated by Jessica Milne, the protagonist travels to Mount Olympus with an orange cat named Aristotle to save Mr. Eventually sent to live with her grandmother in West Vancouver, Asia untangles the mystery of her mother's disappearance. When Ira has a heart attack and his interfering son Harry arrives, Asia begins to see a ghost at a neighboring farm. Her novel Never to be Told (Orca, 2006) concerns a young girl name Asia who lives with elderly Ira and his wife Maddy on a remote farm at Cold Creek in northern B.C. Strawberry Moon is part of her Max and Ellie series set in Upper Canada in the early 1800s. As a primary school teacher living on a ranch in Bridge Lake, B.C., Becky Citra followed her children's novel, My Homework is In the Mail! (Orca Book, 1999), with a young adult novel, The Runaway (Orca $7.95), Dog Days (Orca, 2003) and Strawberry Moon (Orca, 2005). If (beardless) Johnson is to blame, so are journalists and cultural historians, who have cemented the profession’s status as bone-dry and monastic. In truth, the annals of lexicography abound with beardless men, many of today’s leading lexicographers are women, and the makers of dictionaries are a fairly worldly bunch – as likely to be into American criminal slang as they are to be obsessed with tracking 19th‑century uses of the word “plimsoll”. Johnson alleged that “to make dictionaries is dull work”, and this self-deprecating line has proved tenacious: mostly we think that dictionaries are necessary yet unexciting, and that the people who make them are the same – men with beards (but no tattoos) who wear shoes that look like Cornish pasties. W hat does the word “lexicographer” call to mind? A toiling collector of verbiage? A harmless drudge, absorbed in tracing the origins of vocabulary? Both of those images come courtesy of Samuel Johnson, who in the 1750s compiled what is regarded as the first good dictionary of English. The Satanic Verses were withdrawn on the grounds that the devil had sent them to trick Muhammad into thinking they came from God, and devout Muslims deny that these verses ever existed. These verses permitted prayer to three pre-Islamic Meccan goddesses, which is a stark violation of Islamic monotheism. The novel's title refers to the Satanic Verses, a group of verses from the Qur'an that Muhammad - who is meant to be morally infallible - allegedly mistook for divine revelation. "The Satanic Verses" was inspired by the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, whom Rushdie renames "Mahound" - a derogatory term used by the English during the Crusades. The book explores themes of dislocation, the nature of good and evil, doubt, and the loss of religious faith. Reviled by much of the international Muslim community, the novel was banned in India and protested across the world for its portrayal of certain sensitive topics such as the wives of the chief. In 1989, the year after Rushdie published The Satanic Verses, a novel that imagines a fictional version of the Prophet Muhammad, the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini, issued a. As they fall from the sky, one of the actors is transformed into the archangel Gabriel, while the other morphs into the devil. Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses rapidly became one of the most widely known and controversial books in the world when it was published in 1988. Published in 1988, "The Satanic Verses" follows two Indian Muslim actors who magically survive a plane hijacking. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Michael twitty the cooking geneRecipe cards and contests immortalized home cooks with their favorite dishes, either in their communities or in magazines aimed at increasingly literate women. Colorful and chemically wondrous, the new foods were aesthetically pleasing ( if deliberately bland) and, unlike the foods of the past, they were easy to make - a few bowls, and busy wives were done.Īnd with each dish, as Shapiro noted, you could tweak things to make it a part of you. In her excellent 1986 work, " Perfection Salad," Laura Shapiro uses the eponymous recipe as a means to view the 20th century set foods that put science and convenience at the fingertips of homemakers. The key ingredients in most gross American holiday foods are gelatin and canned fruit. Is it a salad, a dessert or both? KabordaM / Getty Images/iStockphoto They are, at their best, gelatin-based delicacies that twerk for your viewing pleasure more then your gastronomical delight. One of the things you'll often hear about these holiday staples-from-a-can - with the possible exception of the ever-so-slightly more natural green bean casserole, comprised of canned cream of mushroom soup, frozen beans and topped with prepackaged fried onions- is that people don't eat them as much as they display them. 5/13/2023 0 Comments The zuni man woman by will roscoeNonetheless, Matilda and We’wha forged an enduring friendship, and the anthropologist immediately identified We’wha as someone remarkable. At this point, the Zuni tribe had little contact with Western colonists, and no Zuni people spoke English. The Stevensons met and befriended We’wha in Zuni, which is ancestral territory located in the Southwest of North America. We’wha arrived in Washington in December of 1885 with Matilda Coxe Stevenson and James Stevenson, a husband-and-wife team of anthropologists who had been doing research for the newly-formed Bureau of Ethnology. More recent scholarship coined the term Two Spirit "as a means of unifying various gender identities and expressions of Native American / First Nations / Indigenous individuals." Existing outside of the Western gender binary, lhamana have always inhabited a special role in Zuni society, as intermediaries between men and women, who perform special cultural and spiritual duties. Alongside being a pottery maker and cultural ambassador, We’wha was a lhamana, who in the Zuni tradition are male-bodied people who also possess female attributes. had never seen a person quite like We’wha. (Source: Wikipedia)īefore 1885, We’wha had never seen a city, and the city of Washington, D.C. 5/13/2023 0 Comments 1492 charles mannWhy the longevity boom will make us sorry to be aliveĪ top expert says America's approach to protecting itself will only make matters worse. Our correspondent flouts the Three Laws of Tourism there- and has a spectacular trip The author finds himself in hot water at a Japanese onsen. New technology and a little-known energy source suggest that fossil fuels may not be finite. Yes, Unconventional Fossil Fuels Are That Big of a DealĪnd the evidence is solid that they are well on their way to changing the world's energy choices.No matter how much we wish it were otherwise, the economics favor burning fossil fuels. No, Really: We're Going to Keep Burning Oil-and Lots of It.Here's how we can move beyond the impasse. Economists tell us that minimal fixes will get us through. How to Talk About Climate Change So People Will ListenĮnvironmentalists warn us that apocalypse awaits. Is There Still a Good Case for Water Fluoridation? What history can tell us about the long-term effects of the coronavirus His books include 1491, based on his March 2002 cover story, and The Wizard and the Prophet. Mann is a contributing writer at The Atlantic. 5/13/2023 0 Comments How to draw comics in marvel wayEither way, you always need some such thing upon which to rest your sheet of illustration paper. This can be a drawing table or merely a flat board which you hold on your lap. We use 2-ply Bristol board, large enough to accommodate artwork 10" x 15".ĭrawing board. For everyone who says "1 can't draw a straight line without a ruler." Now you've no excuse! Invaluable for drawing borders and keeping lines parallel. 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