Author: Tom Birdseye
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497645921
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Fifth-grader Patrick can’t read, but when the new girl next door encourages him to overcome his fears and try, he starts believing he isn’t so stupid after all Patrick Lowe has always loved imagining his own fantastic stories of brave knights and dragons. Unfortunately, every time he tries to read, his father’s voice pops up in his head telling him he’s stupid, and the words on the page suddenly become too blurry to see. By his fifth grade year, Patrick has stopped trying to read altogether. He doesn’t think he needs any friends, but his new next-door neighbor Celina just won’t leave him alone. As Patrick and Celina slowly become friends, Celina starts reading The Sword and the Stone to him every afternoon. Patrick is entranced by this mythical world of white knights and vicious beasts, magic and adventure, but no matter how hard he tries, he himself still cannot read. But when Celina betrays his trust, Patrick finds himself betting to the class bully that he can read a story to the entire school. Patrick is determined to show everyone that he’s no dummy, but can he get past his own fears and finally learn to read?
Death Is Stupid
Author: Anastasia Higginbotham
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781948340397
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
An invaluable tool for kids to discuss death, explore grief, and honor the life of loved ones.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781948340397
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
An invaluable tool for kids to discuss death, explore grief, and honor the life of loved ones.
Of All the Stupid Things
Author: Alexandra Diaz
Publisher: Egmont USA
ISBN: 1606842927
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
When a rumor starts circulating that Tara's boyfriend Brent has been sleeping with one of the guy cheerleaders, the innuendo doesn't just hurt Tara. It marks the beginning of the end for an inseparable trio of friends. Tara's training for a marathon, but also running from her fear of abandonment after being deserted by her father. Whitney Blaire seems to have everything, but an empty mansion and absentee parents leave this beauty to look for meaning in all the wrong places. And Pinkie has a compulsive need to mother everyone to make up for the mom she's never stopped missing. This friendship that promised to last forever is starting to break under the pressure of the girls' differences. And then new-girl Riley arrives in school with her long black hair, athletic body, and her blasé attitude, and suddenly Tara starts to feel things she's never felt before for a girl--and to reassess her feelings about Brent and what he may/may not have done. Is Tara gay--or does she just love Riley? And can her deepest friendships survive when all of the rules have changed?
Publisher: Egmont USA
ISBN: 1606842927
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
When a rumor starts circulating that Tara's boyfriend Brent has been sleeping with one of the guy cheerleaders, the innuendo doesn't just hurt Tara. It marks the beginning of the end for an inseparable trio of friends. Tara's training for a marathon, but also running from her fear of abandonment after being deserted by her father. Whitney Blaire seems to have everything, but an empty mansion and absentee parents leave this beauty to look for meaning in all the wrong places. And Pinkie has a compulsive need to mother everyone to make up for the mom she's never stopped missing. This friendship that promised to last forever is starting to break under the pressure of the girls' differences. And then new-girl Riley arrives in school with her long black hair, athletic body, and her blasé attitude, and suddenly Tara starts to feel things she's never felt before for a girl--and to reassess her feelings about Brent and what he may/may not have done. Is Tara gay--or does she just love Riley? And can her deepest friendships survive when all of the rules have changed?
Just Call Me Stupid
Author: Tom Birdseye
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497645921
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Fifth-grader Patrick can’t read, but when the new girl next door encourages him to overcome his fears and try, he starts believing he isn’t so stupid after all Patrick Lowe has always loved imagining his own fantastic stories of brave knights and dragons. Unfortunately, every time he tries to read, his father’s voice pops up in his head telling him he’s stupid, and the words on the page suddenly become too blurry to see. By his fifth grade year, Patrick has stopped trying to read altogether. He doesn’t think he needs any friends, but his new next-door neighbor Celina just won’t leave him alone. As Patrick and Celina slowly become friends, Celina starts reading The Sword and the Stone to him every afternoon. Patrick is entranced by this mythical world of white knights and vicious beasts, magic and adventure, but no matter how hard he tries, he himself still cannot read. But when Celina betrays his trust, Patrick finds himself betting to the class bully that he can read a story to the entire school. Patrick is determined to show everyone that he’s no dummy, but can he get past his own fears and finally learn to read?
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497645921
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Fifth-grader Patrick can’t read, but when the new girl next door encourages him to overcome his fears and try, he starts believing he isn’t so stupid after all Patrick Lowe has always loved imagining his own fantastic stories of brave knights and dragons. Unfortunately, every time he tries to read, his father’s voice pops up in his head telling him he’s stupid, and the words on the page suddenly become too blurry to see. By his fifth grade year, Patrick has stopped trying to read altogether. He doesn’t think he needs any friends, but his new next-door neighbor Celina just won’t leave him alone. As Patrick and Celina slowly become friends, Celina starts reading The Sword and the Stone to him every afternoon. Patrick is entranced by this mythical world of white knights and vicious beasts, magic and adventure, but no matter how hard he tries, he himself still cannot read. But when Celina betrays his trust, Patrick finds himself betting to the class bully that he can read a story to the entire school. Patrick is determined to show everyone that he’s no dummy, but can he get past his own fears and finally learn to read?
The Psychological Clinic
Author: Lightner Witmer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exceptional children
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exceptional children
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The Psychological Clinic
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exceptional children
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Vols. 1-12 include section "Reviews and criticism."
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exceptional children
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Vols. 1-12 include section "Reviews and criticism."
The Elements of Expression
Author: Arthur Plotnik
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1936740249
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
More than ever in this completely updated edition, The Elements of Expression helps word users "light up the cosmos or the written page or the face across the table" as they seek the radiance of expressiveness—the vivid expression of thoughts, feelings, and observations. Nothing kills radiance like the murky, generic language dominating today's talk, airwaves, and posts. It tugs at our every sentence, but using it to express anything beyond the ordinary is like flapping the tongue to escape gravity. The Elements of Expression offers an adventurous and inspiring flight into words that truly share what's percolating in our minds. Here writers, presenters, students, bloggers—even well intentioned "Mad Men"—will discover language to convey precise feelings, move audiences, delight and persuade. No snob or scold, the acclaimed word-maven Arthur Plotnik explores the full range of expressiveness, from playful "tough talk" to finely wrought literature, with hundreds of rousing examples. Confessing that we are all "like a squid in its ink" when first groping for luminous expression, he shines his amiable wit on the elements leading, ultimately, to language of "fissionable intensity."
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1936740249
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
More than ever in this completely updated edition, The Elements of Expression helps word users "light up the cosmos or the written page or the face across the table" as they seek the radiance of expressiveness—the vivid expression of thoughts, feelings, and observations. Nothing kills radiance like the murky, generic language dominating today's talk, airwaves, and posts. It tugs at our every sentence, but using it to express anything beyond the ordinary is like flapping the tongue to escape gravity. The Elements of Expression offers an adventurous and inspiring flight into words that truly share what's percolating in our minds. Here writers, presenters, students, bloggers—even well intentioned "Mad Men"—will discover language to convey precise feelings, move audiences, delight and persuade. No snob or scold, the acclaimed word-maven Arthur Plotnik explores the full range of expressiveness, from playful "tough talk" to finely wrought literature, with hundreds of rousing examples. Confessing that we are all "like a squid in its ink" when first groping for luminous expression, he shines his amiable wit on the elements leading, ultimately, to language of "fissionable intensity."
Memoirs
Author: Cold Spring Harbor (N.Y.). Eugenics Record Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Stupid Questions
Author: Philippe Corentin
Publisher: Firefly Books
ISBN: 9780228101321
Category : Parent and child
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
You would think it's obvious. Who hasn't heard "Well, that's a stupid question"? This inviting little book will amuse children who enjoy silliness and we don't think there is one that doesn't. Amusing illustrations of 23 scenarios pulled from real life and from, we'll call it, exaggerated real life. And what child, and adult, doesn't exaggerate from time to time? Are you in a hurry? says the person behind the bathroom door. Too sick for school? Dad asks the spotted green child. Is it too hot? Mom asks the person in the shower. You don't like it? Mom asks from underneath a plate of spaghetti. Some are possible. A few are probable. But most are definitely impossible, except in a child's imagination. So that means they are most certainly funny.
Publisher: Firefly Books
ISBN: 9780228101321
Category : Parent and child
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
You would think it's obvious. Who hasn't heard "Well, that's a stupid question"? This inviting little book will amuse children who enjoy silliness and we don't think there is one that doesn't. Amusing illustrations of 23 scenarios pulled from real life and from, we'll call it, exaggerated real life. And what child, and adult, doesn't exaggerate from time to time? Are you in a hurry? says the person behind the bathroom door. Too sick for school? Dad asks the spotted green child. Is it too hot? Mom asks the person in the shower. You don't like it? Mom asks from underneath a plate of spaghetti. Some are possible. A few are probable. But most are definitely impossible, except in a child's imagination. So that means they are most certainly funny.
A Tipsy Fairy Tale
Author: Peter E. Murphy
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476654506
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
In the wake of his mother's passing, Peter Murphy's childhood plunged into chaos. Suffering from neglect, abuse, and a lack of stability, he endured a series of hardships. Murphy was kidnapped at gunpoint, broke half a dozen ribs in a freak accident, and found himself indebted to the Mafia. While as a young teen he turned to painkillers and alcohol to cope, he also developed an unexpected affinity for poetry that eventually transformed his life. This memoir follows Murphy's journey as he deciphers the grief, shame and loss that permeated his childhood. Still a young man, he left the violence of New York for the bloodstained streets of Northern Ireland during the height of The Troubles. As he unraveled the mystery surrounding his mother's death, he reached his lowest point living in a Welsh commune, with little hope of escaping the throes of substance abuse. Written with poetic insight, Murphy's story is one of redemption, recovery, and finding faith in hardship.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476654506
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
In the wake of his mother's passing, Peter Murphy's childhood plunged into chaos. Suffering from neglect, abuse, and a lack of stability, he endured a series of hardships. Murphy was kidnapped at gunpoint, broke half a dozen ribs in a freak accident, and found himself indebted to the Mafia. While as a young teen he turned to painkillers and alcohol to cope, he also developed an unexpected affinity for poetry that eventually transformed his life. This memoir follows Murphy's journey as he deciphers the grief, shame and loss that permeated his childhood. Still a young man, he left the violence of New York for the bloodstained streets of Northern Ireland during the height of The Troubles. As he unraveled the mystery surrounding his mother's death, he reached his lowest point living in a Welsh commune, with little hope of escaping the throes of substance abuse. Written with poetic insight, Murphy's story is one of redemption, recovery, and finding faith in hardship.
Conquering the Obstacles
Author: Lee Black
Publisher: Lee Black
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
This book actually reveals how to conquer life's obstacles! It is designed to dramatically change your life in some wonderful ways that you never imagined! It tells you exactly the things you need to know, but that includes some things that you do not want to hear. You will be entertained and you will be shocked. But by the end of it you will see that this book is exactly what you needed! If you fear change, a challenge, anything that might make you feel uncomfortable, or anything that might shock you then this is not the book for you. Be content to live surrounded and trapped by life’s obstacles, and continue to exist stuck in servitude to the expectations of others. It really is your choice to be satisfied with having an unfulfilling and boring life, a life of frustration and stress with no clear direction or meaning. But if you dare to expect more from your life then this book is for you! You will receive a gift of knowledge that will allow you to clearly see the world and your path through it, a gift that will enable you to do more and to get more, and a gift that will change the very way you move through each day of your life!
Publisher: Lee Black
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
This book actually reveals how to conquer life's obstacles! It is designed to dramatically change your life in some wonderful ways that you never imagined! It tells you exactly the things you need to know, but that includes some things that you do not want to hear. You will be entertained and you will be shocked. But by the end of it you will see that this book is exactly what you needed! If you fear change, a challenge, anything that might make you feel uncomfortable, or anything that might shock you then this is not the book for you. Be content to live surrounded and trapped by life’s obstacles, and continue to exist stuck in servitude to the expectations of others. It really is your choice to be satisfied with having an unfulfilling and boring life, a life of frustration and stress with no clear direction or meaning. But if you dare to expect more from your life then this book is for you! You will receive a gift of knowledge that will allow you to clearly see the world and your path through it, a gift that will enable you to do more and to get more, and a gift that will change the very way you move through each day of your life!