Author: Sally Bayley
Publisher: William Collins
ISBN: 9780008318888
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
No Boys Play Here
There Are No Children Here
Author: Alex Kotlowitz
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307814289
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A moving and powerful account by an acclaimed journalist that "informs the heart. [This] meticulous portrait of two boys in a Chicago housing project shows how much heroism is required to survive, let alone escape" (The New York Times). "Alex Kotlowitz joins the ranks of the important few writers on the subiect of urban poverty."—Chicago Tribune The story of two remarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago's Henry Horner Homes, a public housing complex disfigured by crime and neglect.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307814289
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A moving and powerful account by an acclaimed journalist that "informs the heart. [This] meticulous portrait of two boys in a Chicago housing project shows how much heroism is required to survive, let alone escape" (The New York Times). "Alex Kotlowitz joins the ranks of the important few writers on the subiect of urban poverty."—Chicago Tribune The story of two remarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago's Henry Horner Homes, a public housing complex disfigured by crime and neglect.
All That Work and Still No Boys
Author: Kathryn Ma
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587298783
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
How do we survive our family, stay bound to our community, and keep from losing ourselves? In All That Work and Still No Boys, Kathryn Ma exposes the deepest fears and longings that we mask in family life and observes the long shadows cast by history and displacement. Here are ten stories that wound and satisfy in equal measure. Ma probes the immigrant experience, most particularly among northern California’s Chinese Americans, illuminating for us the confounding nature of duty, transformation, and loss. A boy exposed to racial hatred finds out the true difference between his mother and his father. Two old rivals briefly lay down their weapons, but loneliness and despair won’t let them forget the past. A young Beijing tour guide with a terrible family secret must take an adopted Chinese girl and her American family to visit an orphanage. And in the prize-winning title story, a mother refuses to let her son save her life, insisting instead on a sacrifice by her daughter. Intimate in detail and universal in theme, these stories give us the compelling voice of an exciting new author whose intelligence, insight, and wit impart a sense of grace to the bitter resentments and enduring ties that comprise family love. Even through the tensions Ma creates so deftly, the peace and security that come from building and belonging to one’s own community shine forth.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587298783
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
How do we survive our family, stay bound to our community, and keep from losing ourselves? In All That Work and Still No Boys, Kathryn Ma exposes the deepest fears and longings that we mask in family life and observes the long shadows cast by history and displacement. Here are ten stories that wound and satisfy in equal measure. Ma probes the immigrant experience, most particularly among northern California’s Chinese Americans, illuminating for us the confounding nature of duty, transformation, and loss. A boy exposed to racial hatred finds out the true difference between his mother and his father. Two old rivals briefly lay down their weapons, but loneliness and despair won’t let them forget the past. A young Beijing tour guide with a terrible family secret must take an adopted Chinese girl and her American family to visit an orphanage. And in the prize-winning title story, a mother refuses to let her son save her life, insisting instead on a sacrifice by her daughter. Intimate in detail and universal in theme, these stories give us the compelling voice of an exciting new author whose intelligence, insight, and wit impart a sense of grace to the bitter resentments and enduring ties that comprise family love. Even through the tensions Ma creates so deftly, the peace and security that come from building and belonging to one’s own community shine forth.
The Book with No Pictures
Author: B. J. Novak
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0803741715
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
A #1 New York Times bestseller, this innovative and wildly funny read-aloud by award-winning humorist/actor B.J. Novak will turn any reader into a comedian—a perfect gift for any special occasion! You might think a book with no pictures seems boring and serious. Except . . . here’s how books work. Everything written on the page has to be said by the person reading it aloud. Even if the words say . . . BLORK. Or BLUURF. Even if the words are a preposterous song about eating ants for breakfast, or just a list of astonishingly goofy sounds like BLAGGITY BLAGGITY and GLIBBITY GLOBBITY. Cleverly irreverent and irresistibly silly, The Book with No Pictures is one that kids will beg to hear again and again. (And parents will be happy to oblige.)
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0803741715
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
A #1 New York Times bestseller, this innovative and wildly funny read-aloud by award-winning humorist/actor B.J. Novak will turn any reader into a comedian—a perfect gift for any special occasion! You might think a book with no pictures seems boring and serious. Except . . . here’s how books work. Everything written on the page has to be said by the person reading it aloud. Even if the words say . . . BLORK. Or BLUURF. Even if the words are a preposterous song about eating ants for breakfast, or just a list of astonishingly goofy sounds like BLAGGITY BLAGGITY and GLIBBITY GLOBBITY. Cleverly irreverent and irresistibly silly, The Book with No Pictures is one that kids will beg to hear again and again. (And parents will be happy to oblige.)
Girl With Dove: A Life Built By Books
Author: Sally Bayley
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008226873
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
‘The word “mesmerising” is frequently applied to memoirs, but seldom as deservedly as in the case of Girl With Dove’ Financial Times ‘Reading is a form of escape and an avid reader is an escape artist...’ Brilliantly original, funny and clever Honor Clark, Spectator, Book of the Year
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008226873
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
‘The word “mesmerising” is frequently applied to memoirs, but seldom as deservedly as in the case of Girl With Dove’ Financial Times ‘Reading is a form of escape and an avid reader is an escape artist...’ Brilliantly original, funny and clever Honor Clark, Spectator, Book of the Year
I'm Not Just a Scribble
Author: Diane Alber
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780991248247
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Scribble, the book's main character, never thought he was different until he met his first drawing. Then, after being left out because he didn't look like everyone else, Scribble teaches the drawings how to accept each other for who they are which enables them to create amazing art together!"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780991248247
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Scribble, the book's main character, never thought he was different until he met his first drawing. Then, after being left out because he didn't look like everyone else, Scribble teaches the drawings how to accept each other for who they are which enables them to create amazing art together!"--Provided by publisher.
No, David!
Author: David Shannon
Publisher: Cartwheel Books
ISBN: 9781338299588
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This brand-new board book celebrates 20 years of the bestselling, Caldecott-winning classic featuring America's favorite trouble maker! Full color.
Publisher: Cartwheel Books
ISBN: 9781338299588
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This brand-new board book celebrates 20 years of the bestselling, Caldecott-winning classic featuring America's favorite trouble maker! Full color.
No Boys Play Here
Author: Sally Bayley
Publisher: William Collins
ISBN: 9780008318925
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
'Nobody writes like Sally Bayley' Lemn Sissay 'Original and moving ... To be read by all educationalists' Kate Clanchy From the brilliantly original and critically acclaimed Sally Bayley, a literary story of working class childhood, absent or broken men and the power of literature to save and rebuild a world.
Publisher: William Collins
ISBN: 9780008318925
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
'Nobody writes like Sally Bayley' Lemn Sissay 'Original and moving ... To be read by all educationalists' Kate Clanchy From the brilliantly original and critically acclaimed Sally Bayley, a literary story of working class childhood, absent or broken men and the power of literature to save and rebuild a world.
The Shakespeare Phrase Book
Author: John Bartlett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1058
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1058
Book Description
The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare
Author: Mary Cowden Clarke
Publisher: London : Bickers
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Publisher: London : Bickers
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description