Author: Vanessa Brantley-Newton
Publisher: Dragonfly Books
ISBN: 0593568796
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
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An ode to the girl with scrapes on her knees and flowers in her hair, and every girl in between, this exquisite treasury will appeal to readers of Dear Girl and I Am Enough and have kids poring over it to find a poem that's just for them. I am a canvas Being painted on By the words of my family Friends And community From Vanessa Brantley-Newton, the author of Grandma's Purse, comes a collection of poetry filled with engaging mini-stories about girls of all kinds: girls who feel happy, sad, scared, powerful; girls who love their bodies and girls who don't; country girls, city girls; girls who love their mother and girls who wish they had a father. With bright portraits in Vanessa's signature style of vibrant colors and unique patterns and fabrics, this book invites readers to find themselves and each other within its pages. "A dynamic, uplifting, and welcoming world of girls."--Kirkus "Thoughtful, inclusive, and celebratory"--Publishers Weekly "Bursting with positivity, this would be a great book to use in primary school classrooms when discussing issues of friendship, diversity, and self-esteem."--Booklist
Author: Autumn Dodson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781736987803
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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This book is about a girl who finally has a teacher who looks like her.
Author: Nancy J. Cavanaugh
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1492604283
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Just Like Me is the perfect book for middle school girls and doubles as an adoption book for kids, as three adopted sisters navigate their relationship with one another while at summer camp. From the award-winning author of This Journal Belongs to Ratchet, comes a funny, uplifting summer camp story about unlikely friendships and finding your place in the world, making this the perfect growing up book for girls. Told through a mix of traditional narrative and journal entries, don't miss this funny, surprisingly sweet summer read! Who eats Cheetos with chopsticks?! Avery and Becca, my "Chinese Sisters," that's who. We're not really sisters—we were just adopted from the same orphanage. And we're nothing alike. They like egg rolls, and I like pizza. They wave around Chinese fans, and I pretend like I don't know them. Which is not easy since we're all going to summer camp to "bond." (Thanks, Mom.) To make everything worse, we have to journal about our time at camp so the adoption agency can do some kind of "where are they now" newsletter. I'll tell you where I am: At Camp Little Big Lake in a cabin with five other girls who aren't getting along, competing for a camp trophy and losing (badly), wondering how I got here...and where I belong. Told through a mix of traditional narrative and journal entries, don't miss this funny, surprisingly sweet summer read! "A tender and honest story about a girl trying to find her place in the world, and the thread that connects us all."—Liesl Shurtliff, author of Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin "A heartwarming story about the universal struggle of yearning to be an individual while longing to fit in."—Karen Harrington, author of Sure Kinds of Crazy
Author: Amie Klempnauer Miller
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807001511
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 249
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After ten years of talking about having children, two years of trying (and failing) to conceive, and one shot of donor sperm for her partner, Amie Miller was about to become a mother. Or something like that. Over the next nine months, as her partner became the biological mom-to-be, Miller became . . . what? Mommy’s little helper? A faux dad? As a midwestern, station wagon–driving, stay-at-home mom—and as a nonbiological lesbian mother—Miller both defines and defies the norm. Like new parents everywhere, she wrestled with the anxieties and challenges of first-time parenthood but experienced pregnancy and birth only vicariously. Part love story, part comedy, part quest, Miller’s candid and often humorous memoir is a much-needed cultural roadmap for becoming a parent, even when the usual categories do not fit.
Author: Archie Morrison
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1469753634
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 381
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"Just Like Me: Beyond the Thousand-Yard Stare" contains battle scenes as vivid as those in a Tom Hanks movie and psychic twists and turns reminiscent of Hitchcock. — Don Duncan, retired journalist and World War II Army veteran "Just Like Me" is an exciting, riveting read. It will do much to further the understanding of the emotional turmoil resulting from war. — Carol Lodmell, retired educator This open and honest story is, I like to think, a freeing of some of Archie Morrison's demons into the ether to dilution and impotence. I like to think, too, that in its expression of hope, it is also about man seeking something much better than the worst he can do to others (and himself). It helps express, not just Archie's aspirations, but ours as well. — Richard Prince, retired dentist and Vietnam Navy veteran Archie Morrison creates an account of an unbelievable friendship that becomes believable when we see that it is built on truths that war diminishes but does not extinguish. — Denzil Walters, retired teacher and editor; World War II Navy veteran
Author: Julia Moerman
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 152553050X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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While playing with his social worker in the playroom of the hospital's cancer ward, a young boy peers through a hospital room window and spots a girl who looks just like him! She has no hair on her head, a tube in her nose, and she is wearing a hospital gown. During his stay at the hospital, the boy continues to look through the girl's window and discovers that she is diagnosed with cancer, misses her friends, and is afraid of medicine just like him! The boy doesn't feel as lonely knowing that there is someone else going through the same things he is going through in the hospital.
Author: Mary Hoffman
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
ISBN: 9781845078744
Category : Christmas stories
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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When Tyler and his family are putting up the Christmas decorations, Tyler takes a look at the Christmas-tree angel, and asks, “Why are they always pink? Aren't there any black angels?” It's a question that no one can answer - not even his friend, Carl. And when Tyler starts combing the shops for a black angel, there are none to be found. But, late on Christmas Day, a surprise delivery from Santa convinces Tyler that there are angels just like him.
Author: Walter Dean Myers
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
ISBN: 1430130253
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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"Dion Graham's confident, enthusiastic narration powerfully depicts a young African-American boy who is beginning to identify who he is in the world. Quincy Tyler Bernstine adds a dynamic array of female voices. No detail is overlooked in this production.... Realistic sound effects link the audio to the pictures and reflect the story's urban setting."-AudioFile
Author: Marvina Sims
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1504928326
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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All Lives Matter is a compilation of various lifestyle situations expressed via poetry. Certain poems are Marvina Sims personal testimonies. Marvinas motivation comes from speaking directly with people and from worldwide occurrences. Be it diseases, substances, or divine intervention, everything in the world serves a purpose. Entities have either helped people, created barriers, or both. Accomplishments and devastations on one side of the world influence lives on the opposite end of the globe. The most disturbing is the demise of human lives. Although death is a requirement for everybody and for anything living, a killer, human or otherwise, is essential to make death happen. The reason All Lives Matter exists is because humans, as well as various organisms, are important to making an impact on one another. As a result, humans are more equal than not, proving that there is not one being living that is above any other.
Author: Randy Pausch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340978504
Category : Cancer
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
