Author: Marjorie Blain Parker
Publisher: Kids Can Press
ISBN: 9781553377641
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Today Riley's family is celebrating Jasper's Day. Everything they do will be in honor of Jasper --- sort of like a birthday. But it isn't Jasper's birthday. The old dog's cancer has gotten really bad. Riley knows they can't let him suffer any longer, but letting go will be the hardest thing he's ever had to do. Marjorie Blain Parker's tender story is filled with smiles, tears and the joy of special memories, and Janet Wilson's gentle pastels capture the depth of love shared by a boy and his dog. Together, they speak of acceptance, remembrance and the importance of cherishing life's every moment.
Author: Marjorie Blain Parker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781550749571
Category : Death
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The tender story, illustrated in gentle pastels, of a boy who has to say good-bye to a favorite pet.
Author: Jill Robinson
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN: 1627530053
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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For years Jasper, a moon bear, lived a miserable existence, held captive in a cage by bear farmers in rural China. The farmers extracted the bile from Jasper's body and sold it to be used in traditional medicines. It's a horrific practice and conducted on thousands of moon bears each year. But now Jasper has the chance to be free and live a life away from pain and torture. In 2000, Animals Asia, an animal welfare organization, rescued Jasper and other captive moon bears, taking them to its Moon Bear Rescue Centre. Here veterinarians attended to the bears' wounds, hoping to give them some chance of a peaceful existence in the animal sanctuary. But after so many years of abuse Jasper's wounds, both physical and mental, are extensive. Can Jasper mend his body and mind and finally enjoy the life he was meant to live?
Author: Richard Eaton
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1426974140
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Jasper Caine, failed eastern banker, decides to make his new home in the Hiute Wilderness area in Colorado. When his companion, a horse named Genevieve, deserts him for two Forest Rangers on a game count wilderness trip, Jasper decides to trail them and entice Genevieve back. Since Jasper obtained the horse without the formality of informing the previous owner, he is blocked from just asking the rangers for Genevieves return. A chance encounter with would be Mountain Man, Homer Funtzt AKA as Jim Bridger, brings together two bumblers proving the concept that two are only fractionally as effective as one, at least in this case. Their combined efforts will set the Hiute Wilderness Area back about a hundred years.
Author: Laura Rankin
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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It's suppertime, and a little girl named Ann has just enough time to sketch Merl and Jasper, an adorable cat and dog, before being called to dinner. But Ann isn't the only one who's hungry, so are Merl and Jasper! And since supper isn't brought to them, they have to go find supper. What better place for a paper dog and cat to look than on the pages of Ann's favorite books. Young readers will love seeing familiar fairy tale characters as Merl and Jasper follow their noses (and stomachs) up the beanstalk and down to the bottom of the sea--until they discover that the perfect supper is up to them and their imaginations. Without sacrificing the pure fun of a good story, memorable characters, and exhilarating illustrations, Laura Rankin ("Handmaid Alphabet) cleverly conveys the idea that books are food for the soul.
Author: Ron Gibbs
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578005553
Category : Agates
Languages : en
Pages : 239
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Author: Nick Butterworth
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
ISBN: 9781844562626
Category : Big books
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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On Monday Jasper finds a bean. In spite of all the attention he lavishes on it, the bean will just not grow. This deceptively simple story encompasses a wealth of material to stimulate children's learning and imagination - days of the week, the passing of time, what plants need to grow, magical beanstalks and giants! This audio version by Timothy Spall - with specially composed music - will enchant listeners, and also provides a perfect complement to the book for all adults using it with children learning to read. The second side has the reading without music and with page-turn signals.
Author: James M. Jasper
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022656181X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 295
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In Donald Trump’s America, protesting has roared back into fashion. The Women’s March, held the day after Trump’s inauguration, may have been the largest in American history, and resonated around the world. Between Trump’s tweets and the march’s popularity, it is clear that displays of anger dominate American politics once again. There is an extensive body of research on protest, but the focus has mostly been on the calculating brain—a byproduct of structuralism and cognitive studies—and less on the feeling brain. James M. Jasper’s work changes that, as he pushes the boundaries of our present understanding of the social world. In The Emotions of Protest, Jasper lays out his argument, showing that it is impossible to separate cognition and emotion. At a minimum, he says, we cannot understand the Tea Party or Occupy Wall Street or pro- and anti-Trump rallies without first studying the fears and anger, moral outrage, and patterns of hate and love that their members feel. This is a book centered on protest, but Jasper also points toward broader paths of inquiry that have the power to transform the way social scientists picture social life and action. Through emotions, he says, we are embedded in a variety of environmental, bodily, social, moral, and temporal contexts, as we feel our way both consciously and unconsciously toward some things and away from others. Politics and collective action have always been a kind of laboratory for working out models of human action more generally, and emotions are no exception. Both hearts and minds rely on the same feelings racing through our central nervous systems. Protestors have emotions, like everyone else, but theirs are thinking hearts, not bleeding hearts. Brains can feel, and hearts can think.
Author: James M. Jasper
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226394735
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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In Restless Nation, James M. Jasper isolates a narrative that lies very close to the core of the American character. From colonial times to the present day, Americans have always had a deep-rooted belief in the "fresh start"—a belief that still has Americans moving from place to place faster than the citizens of any other nation.
Author: Craig Silvey
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375896783
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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A Michael L. Printz Honor Book Charlie Bucktin, a bookish thirteen year old, is startled one summer night by an urgent knock on his bedroom window. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in their small mining town, and he has come to ask for Charlie's help. Terribly afraid but desperate to impress, Charlie follows him into the night. Jasper takes him to his secret glade, where Charlie witnesses Jasper's horrible discovery. With his secret like a brick in his belly, Charlie is pushed and pulled by a town closing in on itself in fear and suspicion. He locks horns with his tempestuous mother, falls nervously in love, and battles to keep a lid on his zealous best friend. In the simmering summer where everything changes, Charlie learns why the truth of things is so hard to know, and even harder to hold in his heart.
