Author: Jami Gigot
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 080753613X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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From Paris to Antarctica, a family finds that a little imagination can go a long way! Sam has a very busy family. Mom works late; Dad's projects pile up. Even Sam's younger sister Marla is always doing something. Everyone in Sam’s family has their own idea of what the perfect vacation would look like. But there’s one thing they all agree on: they just can’t get away right now. So Sam comes up with a different kind of getaway. With a little planning, a few supplies, and a touch of creativity, she finds that her family’s dream vacation wasn’t so far away after all.
Author: Monica Brown
Publisher: Chapter Books
ISBN: 9781098253851
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Levines are going to Peru to visit Lola's aunt, but Lola's and Ben's talent for mischief makes it hard to stay out of trouble. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Chapter Books is an imprint of Spotlight, a division of ABDO.
Author: Diane P. Koenker
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801467721
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
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The Bolsheviks took power in Russia 1917 armed with an ideology centered on the power of the worker. From the beginning, however, Soviet leaders also realized the need for rest and leisure within the new proletarian society and over subsequent decades struggled to reconcile the concept of leisure with the doctrine of communism, addressing such fundamental concerns as what the purpose of leisure should be in a workers' state and how socialist vacations should differ from those enjoyed by the capitalist bourgeoisie.In Club Red, Diane P. Koenker offers a sweeping and insightful history of Soviet vacationing and tourism from the Revolution through perestroika. She shows that from the outset, the regime insisted that the value of tourism and vacation time was strictly utilitarian. Throughout the 1920s and '30s, the emphasis was on providing the workers access to the "repair shops" of the nation's sanatoria or to the invigorating journeys by foot, bicycle, skis, or horseback that were the stuff of "proletarian tourism." Both the sedentary vacation and tourism were part of the regime’s effort to transform the poor and often illiterate citizenry into new Soviet men and women.Koenker emphasizes a distinctive blend of purpose and pleasure in Soviet vacation policy and practice and explores a fundamental paradox: a state committed to the idea of the collective found itself promoting a vacation policy that increasingly encouraged and then had to respond to individual autonomy and selfhood. The history of Soviet tourism and vacations tells a story of freely chosen mobility that was enabled and subsidized by the state. While Koenker focuses primarily on Soviet domestic vacation travel, she also notes the decisive impact of travel abroad (mostly to other socialist countries), which shaped new worldviews, created new consumer desires, and transformed Soviet vacation practices.
Author: Sue Bentley
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698143906
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Becky’s vacation isn’t at all what she expected, and she is feeling lonely. But when she meets magical bunny Arrow, her summer starts looking up.
Author: Christine C. Taing
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1483429717
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Peter, Karen, Brad, Liza, Edward, and Alex have already learned many valuable lessons in their young lives. Through all their challenges, each has come to realize that life is like school, people are the tests, and it is up to them to apply lessons learned to their everyday experiences. In this collection of short stories, each character faces challenges, makes new friends, and embraces differences. Peter is thrilled he is going to Disneyland on a field trip, but first, he must overcome his brother's bullying. Karen is facing an uncertain relationship with her new stepmother. Brad is struggling with dyslexia. Liza is hoping a family announcement won't put a wrench in her plans to go on a dream vacation. As each character attempts to overcome obstacles, their tribulations lead them to some of the happiest places on Earth where they will once again, learn valuable lessons.
Author: Cindy St. John
Publisher: H_ngm_n Books
ISBN: 9780990308270
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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If contemporary experimental poetics had its own Facebook account, it might aspire to Cindy St. John's poetry: missives from a drive-thru carwash, a city bus, a table at a Chili's, poems for those of us who don't know the names of the "stars or the constellations or plants" but who "still / believe in so / many things." - SUSAN BRIANTE There is something radical about these poems-the way they still allow for beauty and hope in an age of cynicism, the way the poet states directly, "I still / believe in so / many things." - GINA MYERS
Author: Stuart J. Murphy
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0064467066
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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This busy family needs a vacation, but they don’t know where to go. Mom and Dad want peace and quiet. Grandma wants to go somewhere hot. Fluffer wants to go somewhere that pets can go, too! The pig-tailed narrator gathers all this data and makes a chart to help determine the perfect vacation destination. Learning math is fun when a vacation is the answer!
Author: Emily Henry
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1984806769
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers and Beach Read comes a sparkling novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations. Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love. Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together. Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven't spoken since. Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees. Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong? Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Newsweek ∙ Oprah Magazine ∙ The Skimm ∙ Marie Claire ∙ Parade ∙ The Wall Street Journal ∙ Chicago Tribune ∙ PopSugar ∙ BookPage ∙ BookBub ∙ Betches ∙ SheReads ∙ Good Housekeeping ∙ BuzzFeed ∙ Business Insider ∙ Real Simple ∙ Frolic ∙ and more!
Author: Monica Brown
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316258385
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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Lola Levine likes writing in her diario, sipping her mom's cafe con leche, eating her dad's matzo ball soup, and playing soccer with her team, the Orange Smoothies. So what if she doesn't always fit in? Lola is fierce on the field, but when a soccer game during recess gets too competitive, she accidentally hurts her classmate Juan Gomez. Now everyone is calling her Mean Lola Levine! Lola feels terrible, but with the help of her family, her super best friend, Josh Blot, and a little "pencil power," she just might be able to turn it all around. In this first book in a series, young readers will be inspired by Lola's big heart and creative spirit as she learns to navigate the second grade in true Lola style!
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Languages : en
Pages : 118
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LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
