Dancing Through the Snow

Dancing Through the Snow PDF Author: Jean Little
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1443119873
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Jean Little's poignant novel about an abandoned girl, and the dog who helps teach her how to trust again. Ten-year-old Min has had a long history of foster care since she was abandoned at age three. Now, let go by yet another foster family, Min continues to build a protective wall around herself. Her newest caregiver, a former Children's Aid doctor, sees past Min's hardened shell and tries to find a way to reach her...and does, finally, by taking in a sick, neglected dog that has escaped from a puppy mill. While watching the dog recover and open its heart to its new owners, Min comes out of her own shell. Readers will rejoice as Min opens her heart and allows herself to be a part of a loving family, to make friends and to finally stand up to the taunts of a bully, whose hurtful words have contributed to her lack of self-esteem.

Dancing Through the Snow

Dancing Through the Snow PDF Author: Jean Little
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1443119873
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Book Description
Jean Little's poignant novel about an abandoned girl, and the dog who helps teach her how to trust again. Ten-year-old Min has had a long history of foster care since she was abandoned at age three. Now, let go by yet another foster family, Min continues to build a protective wall around herself. Her newest caregiver, a former Children's Aid doctor, sees past Min's hardened shell and tries to find a way to reach her...and does, finally, by taking in a sick, neglected dog that has escaped from a puppy mill. While watching the dog recover and open its heart to its new owners, Min comes out of her own shell. Readers will rejoice as Min opens her heart and allows herself to be a part of a loving family, to make friends and to finally stand up to the taunts of a bully, whose hurtful words have contributed to her lack of self-esteem.

Snow Dance

Snow Dance PDF Author: Lezlie Evans
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780439163415
Category : Picture books for children
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Children eagerly wait for the snow to begin to fall, and when it does, they spend a day of fun playing in it.

Dressed for a Dance in the Snow

Dressed for a Dance in the Snow PDF Author: Monika Zgustova
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
ISBN: 1590511840
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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Named a Notable Translated Book of the Year by World Literature Today A poignant and unexpectedly inspirational account of women’s suffering and resilience in Stalin’s forced labor camps, diligently transcribed in the kitchens and living rooms of nine survivors. The pain inflicted by the gulags has cast a long and dark shadow over Soviet-era history. Zgustová’s collection of interviews with former female prisoners not only chronicles the hardships of the camps, but also serves as testament to the power of beauty in face of adversity. Where one would expect to find stories of hopelessness and despair, Zgustová has unearthed tales of the love, art, and friendship that persisted in times of tragedy. Across the Soviet Union, prisoners are said to have composed and memorized thousands of verses. Galya Sanova, born in a Siberian gulag, remembers reading from a hand-stitched copy of Little Red Riding Hood. Irina Emelyanova passed poems to the male prisoner she had grown to love. In this way, the arts lent an air of humanity to the women’s brutal realities. These stories, collected in the vein of Svetlana Alexievich’s Nobel Prize-winning oral histories, turn one of the darkest periods of the Soviet era into a song of human perseverance, in a way that reads as an intimate family history.

A Revolution in Movement

A Revolution in Movement PDF Author: K. Mitchell Snow
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813072735
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Honorable Mention, Latin American Studies Association Mexico Section Best Book in the Humanities A Revolution in Movement is the first book to illuminate how collaborations between dancers and painters shaped Mexico’s postrevolutionary cultural identity. K. Mitchell Snow traces this relationship throughout nearly half a century of developments in Mexican dance—the emulation of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in the 1920s, the adoption of U.S.-style modern dance in the 1940s, and the creation of ballet-inspired folk dance in the 1960s. Snow describes the appearances in Mexico by Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova and Spanish concert dancer Tortóla Valencia, who helped motivate Mexico to express its own national identity through dance. He discusses the work of muralists and other visual artists in tandem with Mexico’s theatrical dance world, including Diego Rivera’s collaborations with ballet composer Carlos Chávez; Carlos Mérida’s leadership of the National School of Dance; José Clemente Orozco’s involvement in the creation of the Ballet de la Ciudad de México; and Miguel Covarrubias, who led the “golden age” of Mexican modern dance. Snow draws from a rich trove of historical newspaper accounts and other contemporary documents to show how these collaborations produced an image of modern Mexico that would prove popular both locally and internationally and continues to endure today.

The Snow Ball

The Snow Ball PDF Author: Albert Ramsdell Gurney
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822213185
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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THE STORY: Cooper Jones is a middle-aged realtor whose failing marriage and uninspiring job have left him prey to feelings of nostalgia. Over the objections of his wife, Liz, a pragmatic, no-nonsense advocate for the homeless, he is persuaded by hi

Dashing Through the Snow

Dashing Through the Snow PDF Author: Sherry Shahan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780761302087
Category : Junior Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author and photographer Sherry Shahan takes readers along as another 150-mile Jr. Iditarod race begins. It's February in Alaska-subzero temperatures, unpredictable weather, and other challenges lie ahead on the trail. But lots of practice and experience has prepared these adventurous young mushers and their teams of dogs to expect the unexpected.

Winter Dance

Winter Dance PDF Author: Marion Dane Bauer
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544313348
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 43

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A fox wonders how he should prepare for the coming winter, but what other animals advise will not work for him until another fox comes to his aid.

Snow Lane

Snow Lane PDF Author: Josie Angelini
Publisher:
ISBN: 1250150922
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207

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In 1985 Massachusetts, fifth-grader Annie wants to shape her own future but as the youngest of nine, she is held back by her hand-me-down clothing, a crippling case of dyslexia, and a dark family secret.

Snow Dance

Snow Dance PDF Author:
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455612000
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Eager for a day off from school, Ruthie invents a song and dance in hopes of bringing about a big snowfall, and soon the entire school is dancing with her.

Dancing in the Red Snow

Dancing in the Red Snow PDF Author: Elizabeth Cain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781491739716
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Rancher Hank Rose loses his parents in a freak lightning storm on the Nevada desert three weeks before his Iroquois wife, Susan Sun, gives birth to their only child. Just as their daughter, Sunny, returns some joy to their lives, she is kidnapped at age four. Sunny suffers numbing mind-control and physical abuse for eight years before she is found, barely educated and terrified of a world she has never known, her only friend a German shepherd, named Paraíso. After she is rescued from a locked car during a California heat wave, Sunny reunites with her parents, who are naturally ecstatic to see her again. But as happy as they are, Sunny struggles to find her place in a life she barely remembers and Hank wrestles with a past he would rather forget. After Sunny finally chooses an austere path of religious service, her parents fear they have lost her again, but in the end, Sunny-without conscious intent-lays to rest old grievances of her father and her grandparents, and surprisingly, her kidnapper's pain as well. Dancing in the Red Snow is the compelling tale of a girl's incredible journey through childhood with a vengeful abductor and the years after as she embarks on a daring path to healing.