Author: Claudia Gray
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007355319
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
On her first day at Evernight Academy, Bianca knows she doesn't fit in. She's not like the other students: sleek, beautiful, almost predatory, Bianca finds herself magnetically drawn to another outsider, Lucas, who seems to be hiding a dark secret. Can Bianca find out what Lucas is trying so hard to hide?
Evernight
Author: Claudia Gray
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007355319
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
On her first day at Evernight Academy, Bianca knows she doesn't fit in. She's not like the other students: sleek, beautiful, almost predatory, Bianca finds herself magnetically drawn to another outsider, Lucas, who seems to be hiding a dark secret. Can Bianca find out what Lucas is trying so hard to hide?
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007355319
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
On her first day at Evernight Academy, Bianca knows she doesn't fit in. She's not like the other students: sleek, beautiful, almost predatory, Bianca finds herself magnetically drawn to another outsider, Lucas, who seems to be hiding a dark secret. Can Bianca find out what Lucas is trying so hard to hide?
Claudia
Author: Barbara Brooks Wallace
Publisher: Dissertation.com
ISBN: 9780595153381
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In her three popular Claudia books, Barbara Brooks Wallace has created stories that have appealed to boys and girls alike. Misunderstood by her parents, snubbed by a former best friend, on the “outs” at school because of unjust rumors, and finally, forbidden by her family from playing with her only remaining friend, Claudia’s story comes to such a satisfying conclusion kids have written that they wish this would happen to them! “Funny all the way through—dialogue, situations, descriptions.” —Young Readers Review NLAPW Children’s Book Award International Youth Library “Best of the Best”
Publisher: Dissertation.com
ISBN: 9780595153381
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In her three popular Claudia books, Barbara Brooks Wallace has created stories that have appealed to boys and girls alike. Misunderstood by her parents, snubbed by a former best friend, on the “outs” at school because of unjust rumors, and finally, forbidden by her family from playing with her only remaining friend, Claudia’s story comes to such a satisfying conclusion kids have written that they wish this would happen to them! “Funny all the way through—dialogue, situations, descriptions.” —Young Readers Review NLAPW Children’s Book Award International Youth Library “Best of the Best”
Claudia's Book (The Baby-Sitters Club Portrait Collection)
Author: Ann M. Martin
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338092782
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! Ugh. So this is my autobiography. All the eighth-graders at SMS have to write one. Even though I'm not good at writing, it's been cool remembering when I was little. I have lots of good memories of growing up here on Bradford Court, across the street from my friends Kristy and Mary Anne. Like my sixth birthday. First it was good, then it was bad, then it was good again. And the time I was afraid of the tooth fairy! I probably won't get an A on this assignment. I never do. But I have to admit that this is one project that's actually been fun.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338092782
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! Ugh. So this is my autobiography. All the eighth-graders at SMS have to write one. Even though I'm not good at writing, it's been cool remembering when I was little. I have lots of good memories of growing up here on Bradford Court, across the street from my friends Kristy and Mary Anne. Like my sixth birthday. First it was good, then it was bad, then it was good again. And the time I was afraid of the tooth fairy! I probably won't get an A on this assignment. I never do. But I have to admit that this is one project that's actually been fun.
I, Claudia
Author: Mary McCoy
Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab& 8482
ISBN: 151244846X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
"Over the course of her high school years, awkward Claudia McCarthy finds herself unwittingly drawn into the dark side of her school's student government, with dire consequences"--
Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab& 8482
ISBN: 151244846X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
"Over the course of her high school years, awkward Claudia McCarthy finds herself unwittingly drawn into the dark side of her school's student government, with dire consequences"--
Time Warped
Author: Claudia Hammond
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 1770892133
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
We are obsessed with time. However hard we might try, it is almost impossible to spend even one day without the marker of a clock. But how much do we understand about time, and is it possible to retrain our brains and improve our relationship with it? Drawing on the latest research from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and biology, and using original research on the way memory shapes our understanding of time, acclaimed writer and broadcaster Claudia Hammond delves into the mysteries of time perception. Along the way, she introduces us to an extraordinary array of colourful characters willing to go to great lengths in the interests of research, such as the French speleologist Michel, who spends two months in an ice cave in complete darkness. Time Warped shows us how to manage our time more efficiently, speed time up and slow it down at will, plan for the future with more accuracy, and, ultimately, use the warping of time to our own advantage.
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 1770892133
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
We are obsessed with time. However hard we might try, it is almost impossible to spend even one day without the marker of a clock. But how much do we understand about time, and is it possible to retrain our brains and improve our relationship with it? Drawing on the latest research from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and biology, and using original research on the way memory shapes our understanding of time, acclaimed writer and broadcaster Claudia Hammond delves into the mysteries of time perception. Along the way, she introduces us to an extraordinary array of colourful characters willing to go to great lengths in the interests of research, such as the French speleologist Michel, who spends two months in an ice cave in complete darkness. Time Warped shows us how to manage our time more efficiently, speed time up and slow it down at will, plan for the future with more accuracy, and, ultimately, use the warping of time to our own advantage.
Wasp Queen
Author: Claudia Cortese
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781625579607
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poetry. Women's Studies. "Claudia Cortese has given to Lucy what Anne Carson has given to Geryon: a life as desperate and fraught as our own, which is to say, a human rendition of the poetic potential. Here, memory is a potent point of inner excavation, where the threshold of danger and love are often one beam, a beam in which Cortese navigates with harrowingly deft eyes and ears, where Lucy, like so many of us citizens of earth and flesh, 'shines like a gun.' WASP QUEEN possesses something permanent and searing at its core: the will to live, even thrive, despite the shackles of childhood, despite even oneself. I finished this book only to read it all over again, finding and losing myself, gladly, at every turn." --Ocean Vuong
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781625579607
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poetry. Women's Studies. "Claudia Cortese has given to Lucy what Anne Carson has given to Geryon: a life as desperate and fraught as our own, which is to say, a human rendition of the poetic potential. Here, memory is a potent point of inner excavation, where the threshold of danger and love are often one beam, a beam in which Cortese navigates with harrowingly deft eyes and ears, where Lucy, like so many of us citizens of earth and flesh, 'shines like a gun.' WASP QUEEN possesses something permanent and searing at its core: the will to live, even thrive, despite the shackles of childhood, despite even oneself. I finished this book only to read it all over again, finding and losing myself, gladly, at every turn." --Ocean Vuong
Citizen
Author: Claudia Rankine
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555973485
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
* Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry * * Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book Award * ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Boston Globe, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, NPR. Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly, Slate, Time Out New York, Vulture, Refinery 29, and many more . . . A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric. Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV-everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform, and stay alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging, Rankine argues, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenship. In essay, image, and poetry, Citizen is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary, often named "post-race" society.
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555973485
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
* Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry * * Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book Award * ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Boston Globe, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, NPR. Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly, Slate, Time Out New York, Vulture, Refinery 29, and many more . . . A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric. Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV-everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform, and stay alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging, Rankine argues, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenship. In essay, image, and poetry, Citizen is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary, often named "post-race" society.
Claudia
Author: Pamela Hendricks Frautschi
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491748745
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Every family has one, the person whose very existence often perplexes and challenges. In this family, Claudia serves that role. A self-proclaimed spirit on the path to enlightenment and joy, her eager dismissal of her more mundane human element has caused no small amount of tension for spectators on the sidelines. On the surface, her journey to Nirvana should be charming, but in reality, its been a profoundly disruptive roadblock to family harmony and her relationship with her siblings. Frustrated by her own familys inability to embrace her needs, Claudia lashes out again and again. Claudia considers realism an evasion and reality a lie that serves no purpose other than to disrupt the pursuits of her spiritual dreams. This is not the easiest mind-set to grow up with, but its what the narrator and her family experience. The narrators own quest for understanding, purpose, and compassion for her inscrutable older sister inspire her own internal explorations. In sharing these tales, she finds strength and comfort, humor and empathy, and, most importantly, solutions and closure. An emotional account of the impact a decision can have on a family, Claudia is the story of an older sisters ironically self-centered quest for Nirvana at all costs.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491748745
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Every family has one, the person whose very existence often perplexes and challenges. In this family, Claudia serves that role. A self-proclaimed spirit on the path to enlightenment and joy, her eager dismissal of her more mundane human element has caused no small amount of tension for spectators on the sidelines. On the surface, her journey to Nirvana should be charming, but in reality, its been a profoundly disruptive roadblock to family harmony and her relationship with her siblings. Frustrated by her own familys inability to embrace her needs, Claudia lashes out again and again. Claudia considers realism an evasion and reality a lie that serves no purpose other than to disrupt the pursuits of her spiritual dreams. This is not the easiest mind-set to grow up with, but its what the narrator and her family experience. The narrators own quest for understanding, purpose, and compassion for her inscrutable older sister inspire her own internal explorations. In sharing these tales, she finds strength and comfort, humor and empathy, and, most importantly, solutions and closure. An emotional account of the impact a decision can have on a family, Claudia is the story of an older sisters ironically self-centered quest for Nirvana at all costs.
Awakening
Author: Claudia Cangilla McAdam
Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
ISBN: 1622820029
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Age Range: 8 and up Fear drives me forward as I rush down a rocky path in Jerusalem, trying to sort things out even as dusk makes it harder to hurry. Am I really an American girl, cast back to the time of Jesus? Or a delusional Jewish teen, plagued with visions of a place called America, thousands of years in the future? I don't know anymore. But I do know that something awful is about to happen to my Jesus: they're going to arrest him tonight, and kill him. No one believes me; they think I'm crazy. So it's up to me to save him, hurrying down this dark path toward Gethsemane, toward the turning point of all history, the attempt to kill Jesus . . . toward the uncertainty of whether I can actually manage to change the future.
Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
ISBN: 1622820029
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Age Range: 8 and up Fear drives me forward as I rush down a rocky path in Jerusalem, trying to sort things out even as dusk makes it harder to hurry. Am I really an American girl, cast back to the time of Jesus? Or a delusional Jewish teen, plagued with visions of a place called America, thousands of years in the future? I don't know anymore. But I do know that something awful is about to happen to my Jesus: they're going to arrest him tonight, and kill him. No one believes me; they think I'm crazy. So it's up to me to save him, hurrying down this dark path toward Gethsemane, toward the turning point of all history, the attempt to kill Jesus . . . toward the uncertainty of whether I can actually manage to change the future.
Rarities of These Lands
Author: Claudia Swan
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691213526
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A vivid account of Dutch seventeenth-century art and material culture against the backdrop of the geopolitics of the early modern world The seventeenth century witnessed a great flourishing of Dutch trade and culture. Over the course of the first half of the century, the northern Netherlands secured independence from the Spanish crown, and the nascent republic sought to establish its might in global trade, often by way of diplomatic relations with the Ottoman Empire and other Muslim powers. Central to the political and cultural identity of the Dutch Republic were curious foreign goods the Dutch called "rarities." Rarities of These Lands explores how these rarities were obtained, exchanged, stolen, valued, and collected, tracing their global trajectories and considering their role within the politics of the new state. Claudia Swan’s insightful, engaging analysis offers a novel and compelling account of how the Dutch Republic turned foreign objects into expressions of its national self-conception. Rarities of These Lands traces key elements of the formation of the Dutch Republic—artistic and colonialist ventures alike—offering new perspectives on this momentous period in the history of the Netherlands and its material culture.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691213526
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A vivid account of Dutch seventeenth-century art and material culture against the backdrop of the geopolitics of the early modern world The seventeenth century witnessed a great flourishing of Dutch trade and culture. Over the course of the first half of the century, the northern Netherlands secured independence from the Spanish crown, and the nascent republic sought to establish its might in global trade, often by way of diplomatic relations with the Ottoman Empire and other Muslim powers. Central to the political and cultural identity of the Dutch Republic were curious foreign goods the Dutch called "rarities." Rarities of These Lands explores how these rarities were obtained, exchanged, stolen, valued, and collected, tracing their global trajectories and considering their role within the politics of the new state. Claudia Swan’s insightful, engaging analysis offers a novel and compelling account of how the Dutch Republic turned foreign objects into expressions of its national self-conception. Rarities of These Lands traces key elements of the formation of the Dutch Republic—artistic and colonialist ventures alike—offering new perspectives on this momentous period in the history of the Netherlands and its material culture.