![]() ![]() ![]() Like many books where kids go in search of parents (see: The Lonely Heart of Maybelle Lane), this book has a lot of heart and adventure. Li is a debut author, but this book is so well done, I can’t wait to read whatever she writes next. His parents are divorced, his father is now estranged and apparently a famous comic artist, while his older brother is working after school jobs and hunting for scholarships just to attend college. This is also one of those books with STEM connections that isn’t too “STEM-y.” Ro is obsessed with building the rocket because of the connection with her dad, but because the book switches perspectives, we also learn of Benji’s issues. I loved Ro and Benji so much! These two kids fill a hole in each other’s lives and the mutual help they give each other will make your heart swell throughout the book. But when Benji discovers that a popular comic artist is his estranged father, Ro insists on helping Benji reunite with his father. And for Benji, it’s not getting a failing grade in science by tacking on to Ro’s science project. ![]() For Ro, that’s building the rocket she and her dad always meant to build before he died a year ago. In this debut middle grade book told from two points of view, Ro and Benji become lab partners and form a pact to help each other achieve their goals. ![]() Clues to the Universe follows two kids, Ro and Benji. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His father, General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, was born in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) to Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie, a French nobleman, and Marie-Cessette Dumas, a black slave. Dumas also wrote plays and magazine articles, and was a prolific correspondent.ĭumas was of Haitian descent and mixed-race. Many of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, The Man in the Iron Mask, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne were serialized. For the son, see Alexandre Dumas fils.Īlexandre Dumas, père (French for "father", akin to Senior in English), born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. This note regards Alexandre Dumas, père, the father of Alexandre Dumas, fils (son). ![]() ![]() Katie has cats!ĭon't miss the next Katie the Catsitters- Katie the Catsitter 2: Best Friends for Never and Katie the Catsitter 3: Secrets and Sidekicks!Ī Florida Sunshine State Reader Award nomineeĪ North Carolina Children's Book Award nomineeĪn Indiana Young Hoosier Book Award nomineeĪn Illinois Bluestem Readers’ Choice nominee Also, why is Madeline always out EXACTLY when the city's most notorious villain commits crimes?! Is it possible that Katie's upstairs neighbor is really a super villain? Can Katie wrangle a whole lot of wayward cats, save a best friendship (why is Beth barely writing back? And who's this boy she keeps talking about?!), AND crack the biggest story in the city's history? Some heroes have capes. First, Madeline has 217 cats (!) and they're not exactly. But when Katie gets a job catsitting for her mysterious upstairs neighbor, life get interesting. ![]() ![]() Katie is dreading the boring summer ahead while her best friends are all away at camp-something that's way out of Katie and her mom's budget, UNLESS Katie can figure out a way to earn the money for camp herself. “Readers will revel in the heroic antics.” - The New York Times ![]() Calling all Raina Telgemeier fans! Introducing an irresistible new middle-grade graphic novel series about growing up, friendship, heroes, and cats (lots of cats!)-perfect for fans of Guts, Awkward and Real Friends (not to mention anyone who loves cats!) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is fitting that the final poem in the sequence ends with fire as its thematic element: the fire serves as a Dantean symbol for purgation and renewal. They can also be analysed as roughly corresponding to the four seasons, starting with spring in ‘Burnt Norton’ and running through to winter in ‘Little Gidding’. But also note the formal similarities between the four poems.Įach is linked thematically, in that each of them roughly corresponds to one of the four classical elements: air (‘Burnt Norton’) earth (‘East Coker’) water (‘The Dry Salvages’) and fire (‘Little Gidding’). ‘Little Gidding’ was very clearly written as a poem that would bring together the themes and mood of the previous three poems. And Four Quartets does fit together remarkably effectively as a sequence of poems. He now had two poems he could slot into a sequence, what would become Four Quartets. ‘East Coker’ convinced Eliot that he could still write poetry, and despite his remark downplaying the poem’s merits owing to its popularity, he was clearly proud of it. ![]() ![]() ![]() I would’ve loved to have a book to use as a tool to explain their role. When we started talking to our eldest daughter about her foster carers, she struggled to understand why she lived there. Whatever a child’s memory of that time, it’s important they understand the role of foster carers, and why they lived with them. Others are looked after by several different carers as a result of a number of placement moves. Some children stay with their foster carers for a few months. They provide them with a stable, loving environment until the court decides where their next home will be. It’s often a traumatic and difficult time as they may have moved there from an unsafe home with their birth family.įoster carers open their homes and hearts to children who have experienced early life trauma. ![]() The time adopted children spend in foster care is an important part of their history. ![]() ![]() While it may be difficult to envision a race or society (or even a single town, for that matter) where everybody in it is evil, it is a necessary tool when you’re building a world for a role-playing game. While we are no strangers to morality and shades of grey here on Earth, fantasy settings with their roots in gaming have a slightly different outlook: namely that monster sheets have a blank that says “alignment” on it. Starting with Homeland and proceeding through Exile and Sojourn, this trilogy details the life of Drizzt from birth to just before the events of The Crystal Shard.ĭrizzt Do’Urden suffers from a strange affliction: he isn’t evil. As the first book of The Dark Elf Trilogy, it provides back story to Drizzt who appeared pretty much fully-formed and complete in the novel The Crystal Shard. Salvatore, Homeland takes place first chronologically, and it reveals much of the history of one of the most famous characters of the Forgotten Realms, the Dark Elf Drizzt Do’Urden. While not the first book published in the Forgotten Realms by American author R.A. ![]() ![]() Uses infographics to explore an compare animals by their size, speed, life spans, and more.Ībout the Author: Steve Jenkins has illustrated many children"s books, including What Do You Do with a Tail Like This, a Caldecott Honor Book, and The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest, winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. Illustrated with innovative infographs and beautiful full color art, these are books to pore over. From the smallest known species of snake to the sleepiest mammals, Animal Facts By the Numbers provides readers of all ages with the ultimate animal trivia knowledge. In this latest stunning, informative reader in Steve Jenkins's By the Numbers series, we dive deep into the world of animals and insects. In this installment, Jenkins explores a wide range of facts and data about animals all over the world, some familiar, some new, but all fascinating! ![]() From the beloved Caldecott Honor-winning author of What Do You Do with a Tail Like This comes another stunning, informative reader in the By the Numbers series. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Not gonna lie, this is probably the coolest journal you’ll ever see. Wreck This Journal (Black) Expanded Edition With Smith's unique sensibility, readers are introduced to a new way of art- and journal-making, discovering novel ways to escape the fear of the blank page and fully engage in the creative process. Through a series of creative and quirky prompts, acclaimed guerilla artist Keri Smith encourages journalers to engage in destructive acts -poking holes through pages, adding photos and defacing them, painting pages with coffee, coloring outside the lines, and more -in order to experience the true creative process. ![]() ![]() The internationally bestselling phenomenon with more than 10 million copies sold -and an excellent holiday gift! Paint, poke, create, destroy, and wreck-to create a journal as unique as you areįor anyone who's ever had trouble starting, keeping, or finishing a journal or sketchbook comes this expanded edition of Wreck This Journal, a subversive illustrated book that challenges readers to muster up their best mistake- and mess-making abilities to fill the pages of the book -or destroy them. Wreck This Journal is here to inspire you.” - Buzzfeed ![]() ![]() ![]() The creature speaks in a "strange tongue" to two other creatures that have followed him. The creature is small and strikes the TT as beautiful but frail. He notices robed figures in a nearby house who are watching him. The TT finally stops, and he and the machine land in a garden. (Description of his journey will be recounted in present tense.) ![]() ![]() He tells them of his eight days of time travel: The TT (now narrating the story) uses the Time Machine that morning and speeds forward through time. At the next week's dinner, the TT comes in midway through the meal, haggard and limping. He shows them a smaller prototype, and when he pulls a lever, it disappears-into the future, he claims. The Time Traveler (hereafter known as "TT") tells an after-dinner group of men, including the narrator, that he has invented a Time Machine. ![]() ![]() ![]() Life As It Is is a podcast series that features Buddhist practitioners speaking about their everyday lives. In today’s episode of Life As It Is, Tricycle’s editor-in-chief James Shaheen and co-host Sharon Salzberg sit down with Hawken to discuss the Buddhist teachings that underpin his activism, the role of reverence in solving the climate crisis, and how he stays motivated in the face of burnout. ![]() After all, writes Hawken, if we want to save the world, we have to create a world worth saving. In his new book, Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation, Hawken offers a model of climate activism that puts life at the center of every act and decision. In fact, Hawken asserts that if we act together, we can end the climate crisis in decades to come. ![]() But entrepreneur and activist Paul Hawken believes we have less reason to despair than we think. It can be so easy to become demoralized or even apocalyptic about the state of our planet. If you would like to support this offering, please consider donating. Tricycle is pleased to offer the Life As It Is podcast for free. ![]() |