Author: Patricia Kokinos
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1935278568
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Bureaucracy, corruption, self-serving agendas, power politics . . . Is that enough to cause a school administrator to commit suicide? Constance Demetrios is determined to find out exactly what happened as she plunges into the mystery of her bosss death, struggling with a convoluted school system that just isnt about kids anymore. As bizarre events threaten to engulf her, too, Connie comes upon a startling discovery that transforms her own life and shows her how deep the changes need to go to rescue ourselves, our schools, and our kids. Can we wake up in time to save the future? Engaging characters and other literary delights, wrapped in a wonderful puzzle. A great choice for book clubs! -Fran Halpern, Beyond Words on KCLU (NPR) Highly recommended... -Jim Cox, Midwest Book Review "The writing crackles with authenticity, and paints a fascinating word portrait A moving and informative read. -Writers Digest
Angel Park
Author: Patricia Kokinos
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1935278568
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Bureaucracy, corruption, self-serving agendas, power politics . . . Is that enough to cause a school administrator to commit suicide? Constance Demetrios is determined to find out exactly what happened as she plunges into the mystery of her bosss death, struggling with a convoluted school system that just isnt about kids anymore. As bizarre events threaten to engulf her, too, Connie comes upon a startling discovery that transforms her own life and shows her how deep the changes need to go to rescue ourselves, our schools, and our kids. Can we wake up in time to save the future? Engaging characters and other literary delights, wrapped in a wonderful puzzle. A great choice for book clubs! -Fran Halpern, Beyond Words on KCLU (NPR) Highly recommended... -Jim Cox, Midwest Book Review "The writing crackles with authenticity, and paints a fascinating word portrait A moving and informative read. -Writers Digest
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1935278568
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Bureaucracy, corruption, self-serving agendas, power politics . . . Is that enough to cause a school administrator to commit suicide? Constance Demetrios is determined to find out exactly what happened as she plunges into the mystery of her bosss death, struggling with a convoluted school system that just isnt about kids anymore. As bizarre events threaten to engulf her, too, Connie comes upon a startling discovery that transforms her own life and shows her how deep the changes need to go to rescue ourselves, our schools, and our kids. Can we wake up in time to save the future? Engaging characters and other literary delights, wrapped in a wonderful puzzle. A great choice for book clubs! -Fran Halpern, Beyond Words on KCLU (NPR) Highly recommended... -Jim Cox, Midwest Book Review "The writing crackles with authenticity, and paints a fascinating word portrait A moving and informative read. -Writers Digest
Making the Team
Author: Dean Hughes
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780679804260
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Three third-grade rookies who make the Little League baseball team aren't immediately accepted by the older players.
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780679804260
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Three third-grade rookies who make the Little League baseball team aren't immediately accepted by the older players.
Angel & Hannah
Author: Ishle Yi Park
Publisher: One World
ISBN: 059313432X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
The sweeping, unforgettable story of an interracial couple in 1990s New York City who are determined to protect their love against all odds—a reimagining of Romeo and Juliet “Triumphant . . . sensuous, tender, and faceted like cut glass.”—Cathy Park Hong, award-winning author of Minor Feelings Hannah, a Korean American girl from Queens, New York, and Angel, a Puerto Rican boy from Brooklyn, fall in love in the spring of 1993 at a quinceañera: under a torn pink streamer loose as a tendril of hair—lush— his eyes. Darkluminous. Warm. A blush floods her. Hannah sucks in her breath, but can’t pull back. Music fades. A hush ~ he’s a young buck in the underbrush, still in a disco ball dance of shadow & light Their forbidden love instantly and wildly blooms along the Jackie Robinson Expressway. Told across the changing seasons, Angel & Hannah holds all of the tension and cadence of blank verse while adding dynamic and expressive language rooted in a long tradition of hip-hop and spoken word, creating new and magnetic forms. The poetry of Angel and Hannah’s relationship is dynamic, arresting, observant, and magical, conveying the intimacies and sacrifices of love and family and the devastating realities of struggle and loss.
Publisher: One World
ISBN: 059313432X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
The sweeping, unforgettable story of an interracial couple in 1990s New York City who are determined to protect their love against all odds—a reimagining of Romeo and Juliet “Triumphant . . . sensuous, tender, and faceted like cut glass.”—Cathy Park Hong, award-winning author of Minor Feelings Hannah, a Korean American girl from Queens, New York, and Angel, a Puerto Rican boy from Brooklyn, fall in love in the spring of 1993 at a quinceañera: under a torn pink streamer loose as a tendril of hair—lush— his eyes. Darkluminous. Warm. A blush floods her. Hannah sucks in her breath, but can’t pull back. Music fades. A hush ~ he’s a young buck in the underbrush, still in a disco ball dance of shadow & light Their forbidden love instantly and wildly blooms along the Jackie Robinson Expressway. Told across the changing seasons, Angel & Hannah holds all of the tension and cadence of blank verse while adding dynamic and expressive language rooted in a long tradition of hip-hop and spoken word, creating new and magnetic forms. The poetry of Angel and Hannah’s relationship is dynamic, arresting, observant, and magical, conveying the intimacies and sacrifices of love and family and the devastating realities of struggle and loss.
Park Street Angels
Author: Christina Nordstrom
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1543422314
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
In the summer of 2006, Christina Nordstrom met Bob Wright, known as Homeless Bob, Homeless by Fire, who sat on a milk crate on the sidewalk outside Park Street Church in Boston. Walking to work one morning, rather than avoiding eye contact, she overcame her fear, crossed the street, and greeted him. She learned how to constructively help him and, with friends Sue Straley and Jonathan Margolis, helped facilitate his progress from Park Street to a permanent home. The story charts their evolving friendship as formerly Homeless Bob adjusted to his new home, and about his death and how he is remembered.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1543422314
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
In the summer of 2006, Christina Nordstrom met Bob Wright, known as Homeless Bob, Homeless by Fire, who sat on a milk crate on the sidewalk outside Park Street Church in Boston. Walking to work one morning, rather than avoiding eye contact, she overcame her fear, crossed the street, and greeted him. She learned how to constructively help him and, with friends Sue Straley and Jonathan Margolis, helped facilitate his progress from Park Street to a permanent home. The story charts their evolving friendship as formerly Homeless Bob adjusted to his new home, and about his death and how he is remembered.
Angel Park
Author: Roberto F. Santiago
Publisher: Tincture
ISBN: 9781590210901
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Angel Park, the debut poetry collection by Roberto F. Santiago, explores the intersections of identity (familial, gender, sexuality, racial, ethnic, spiritual, class, and linguistic) vis-a-vis the vehicles of travel, or motion from the familiar to the new, the loss of innocence that occurs within the process of maturation. "
Publisher: Tincture
ISBN: 9781590210901
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Angel Park, the debut poetry collection by Roberto F. Santiago, explores the intersections of identity (familial, gender, sexuality, racial, ethnic, spiritual, class, and linguistic) vis-a-vis the vehicles of travel, or motion from the familiar to the new, the loss of innocence that occurs within the process of maturation. "
Point Guard
Author: Dean Hughes
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780679833741
Category : Basketball stories
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Jackie Willis hopes to convince the coach of the basketball team in Angel Park that she can play as well as the boys.
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780679833741
Category : Basketball stories
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Jackie Willis hopes to convince the coach of the basketball team in Angel Park that she can play as well as the boys.
Winning Streak
Author: Dean Hughes
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780679804284
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Kenny, the rookie star of Angel Park's Little League baseball team, finds himself in a major slump because he's trying too hard.
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780679804284
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Kenny, the rookie star of Angel Park's Little League baseball team, finds himself in a major slump because he's trying too hard.
The Angel of Knowlton Park (A Joe Burgess Mystery, Book 2)
Author: Kate Flora
Publisher: ePublishing Works!
ISBN: 1614175810
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
"Real-world, intense, deeply flawed characters. Hard story to tell; even harder to read, but worth every minute. A real page turner." ~Terry P., Verified Reviewer Portland, Maine, homicide detective Joe Burgess needs a vacation. But there's a dead child in Knowlton Park. Rolling up on the scene with a canoe on the roof and fishing poles flapping, Burgess finds little Timmy Watts, viciously stabbed, and carefully wrapped in a new blue blanket. Timmy's parents are life-long crooks, his brothers deal drugs and his sister turns tricks. The only one who seems to care is Timmy's hearing-impaired sister, Iris. But she's keeping her secrets. Then Iris disappears, and Burgess is battling against time to keep more children from dying. "The story ramps up on the first page and does not let down until the short post climax." ~Verified Reviewer "This is another amazing book from a skilled author of police procedurals with much more human understanding than the genre usually offers." ~Verified Reviewer THE JOE BURGESS MYSTERIES Playing God The Angel of Knowlton Park Redemption And Grant You Peace Led Astray A Child Shall Lead Them A World of Deceit
Publisher: ePublishing Works!
ISBN: 1614175810
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
"Real-world, intense, deeply flawed characters. Hard story to tell; even harder to read, but worth every minute. A real page turner." ~Terry P., Verified Reviewer Portland, Maine, homicide detective Joe Burgess needs a vacation. But there's a dead child in Knowlton Park. Rolling up on the scene with a canoe on the roof and fishing poles flapping, Burgess finds little Timmy Watts, viciously stabbed, and carefully wrapped in a new blue blanket. Timmy's parents are life-long crooks, his brothers deal drugs and his sister turns tricks. The only one who seems to care is Timmy's hearing-impaired sister, Iris. But she's keeping her secrets. Then Iris disappears, and Burgess is battling against time to keep more children from dying. "The story ramps up on the first page and does not let down until the short post climax." ~Verified Reviewer "This is another amazing book from a skilled author of police procedurals with much more human understanding than the genre usually offers." ~Verified Reviewer THE JOE BURGESS MYSTERIES Playing God The Angel of Knowlton Park Redemption And Grant You Peace Led Astray A Child Shall Lead Them A World of Deceit
Nothing But Net
Author: Dean Hughes
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780679933731
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
A black boy from Los Angeles has some trouble fitting in with the twelve-and-under basketball team in his new, mostly white neighborhood in Angel Park.
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780679933731
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
A black boy from Los Angeles has some trouble fitting in with the twelve-and-under basketball team in his new, mostly white neighborhood in Angel Park.
Romantic Passion
Author: William Jankowiak
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231096874
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Observers from the West, the book contends, have incorrectly projected rigid ethnocentric notions of love and marriage onto cultures around the world. Contributors look beyond each society's "official" institutions to explore expressions of love, offering new perspectives on arranged marriages and polygamy and reexaminging as well the other side of the equation: rejection and grief.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231096874
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Observers from the West, the book contends, have incorrectly projected rigid ethnocentric notions of love and marriage onto cultures around the world. Contributors look beyond each society's "official" institutions to explore expressions of love, offering new perspectives on arranged marriages and polygamy and reexaminging as well the other side of the equation: rejection and grief.