![]() ![]() There are also messages about gap years, college, travel, and open communication between friends and between older kids and their parents. The books contains positive messages about LGBTQ youth and how support and friendship are necessary for teens to feel safe coming out. ![]() There's a smattering of strong language (including "f-k" and "s-t") and several references to passionate kisses, friends who fool around and have had sex but remain "just friends," hooking up with new people, and loss of virginity, but none of it is graphic or crude. Although the emphasis is on the protagonists' platonic friendship, they each have romantic relationships causing them trouble. Parents need to know that You Know Me Well is a dual-point-of-view realistic novel written by acclaimed LGBTQ authors Nina LaCour and David Levithan about a gay junior and a lesbian senior who become fast friends the last week of school. They also drink at a party.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. High schoolers get into and drink at a bar/nightclub with fake IDs. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Not to mention working with the crew members here at Coulson – that’s been ‘icing on the cake’ for me. “Being able to help other people, as well as the earth’s beautiful landscape, is very satisfying. ![]() “This is the most rewarding job that I have had.” Coulson was as a pioneer of the application of the quantum theory of valency to problems of molecular structure, dynamics and reactivity. “Each night we are prepared to end the day at any tanker base we’re assigned to, so we take all of our gear with us on the plane,” Mac said. On December 13, 1910, British applied mathematician and theoretical chemist Charles Coulson was born. The team can fly up to 8 hours a day and they have to be prepared to engage a multitude of different aerial firefighting missions. The aircraft is made ready first thing in the morning and the crew waits in readiness to be dispatched on firefighting missions. There are slow days and busy days for the crews, but a normal routine means being available at the tanker base from around 9am to 6pm, unless elevated fire dangers exist, in which case they stay longer. Mac mentioned that fire was one of the largest wildfires (burning 180,000 acres) in Arizona’s history. Recently they worked on the Telegraph fire near Phoenix, Arizona. Since returning from Australia earlier in the year, Mac and the team have flown aerial firefighting missions in California and Arizona. ![]() ![]() Oxenbury lives with her husband, illustrator John Burningham, in North London. All fall down Item Preview remove-circle. WorldCat reports that Oxenbury's works most widely held in participating libraries are three of her Greenaway Medal runners up, all written by other authors: We're Going on a Bear Hunt (1989), Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig (1993), and Farmer Duck (1991). Helen Oxenbury is the renowned illustrator of many classic picture books, including We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen and The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig by Eugene Trivizas. ![]() ![]() When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. ![]() ![]() Poppy has everything she should want, but she's stuck in a rut. Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. 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. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. She has insatiable wanderlust he prefers to stay home with a book. One last chance to fall in love.Ī sparkling new novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations. A TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON SUMMER READS NOMINEE ![]() ![]() ![]() It is very likely that this edition precedes that with Sonnenschein's imprint in both volumes, and English captions, examples of which are held at Erfurt University and Penn State. ![]() Perthes reused the illustrations from the German edition which still show captions in Gothic script and the page numbers for where they would have appeared in the German edition. The title character is a young orphan who is sent to the Swiss mountains to live with her grandfather. Perthes published the first volume of this English translation under his own imprint, and printed the sheets for the second volume which was published by Sonnenschein in London. Heidi, classic children’s novel by Swiss writer Johanna Spyri, published in two volumes in 188081. ![]() Perthes originally published the German first edition of Spyri's classic of children's literature in 1880-1881. RARE FIRST ENGLISH EDITIONS, not in the British Library, not in the Allison-Shelley Collection of German Literature in Translation at Penn State, apparently no copies recorded in German Union Catalogues, and no copy has been sold at auction in over 30 years. (Spotting, first gathering and one leaf loose in first volume, marginal tear in 6.5 in second volume.) Contemporary green patterned half cloth, spines lettered and ruled in gilt (extremities rubbed, fading of gilt). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After several months at her grandparents’, Ellie decides she needs to find a way to convince her mother that they’ve found a new home…for keeps. The big pie contest at her grandparents’ church helps her to focus on her love of baking, and many of the chapters begin with a letter she’s written to a different chef. Ellie’s nervous about being the new kid, but is delighted to make two new friends–the first real friends her age she’s ever had. When her grandfather’s dementia starts getting worse, Ellie’s mom decides they’re going on an extended visit to help both the grandparents. She has to have an aide who helps her at lunch and going to the bathroom, which, of course, is extremely embarrassing for a 12-year-old. Summary: Ellie is in sixth grade, and having cerebral palsy makes middle school extra tough. Published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers ![]() ![]() ![]() He chose when they had sex Carolyn could only refuseat her peril. He controlled the money she earned as a school teacher. He decided where she lived and how her children would be treated. Over the next fifteen years, Carolyn had eight children and withstood her husbands psychological abuse and the watchful eyes of his other wives who were locked in a constant battle for supremacy.Ĭarolyns every move was dictated by her husbands whims. But arranged plural marriages were an integral part of Carolyns heritage: She was born into and raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the radical offshoot of the Mormon Church that had settled in small communities along the Arizona-Utah border. ![]() When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two years her senior. ![]() ![]() ![]() Agent: Stephen Barbara, InkWell Management. ![]() ![]() Kat and Alex share an intriguing ability to read thoughts and feelings in people and animals, but repetitive hints diminish the impact of the eventual revelation behind their connection. However, it is also let down by some cliché descriptions (“his name trembling on her lips”) and banter. The book is steeped in sorcery and historical detail, and-as might be expected from the author of Sex with Kings and Sex with the Queen-has its share of steamy liaisons. In many ways, this book was meant for me. I have always loved ancient history and mythology, and I love a well done alternate history. ![]() The sprawling cast in this opening book in the Blood of Gods and Royals series (adult nonfiction author Herman’s first novel) includes Kat’s love interest/adopted brother, Jacob Alex’s deceptive sister, Cyn and his mother, the conniving Queen Olympias, who has an unsettlingly erotic relationship with her snakes. Eleanor Herman will discuss her new book Legacy of Kings: Blood of Gods and Royals on August 26 at 6:30 p.m. In Legacy of Kings, Eleanor Herman brings her prowess as a historian and storyteller to the world of ancient Macedonia where a young Alexander the Great is poised to take the throne. In a magic-tinged reimagining of Alexander the Great’s formative years, the 16-year-old heir to the throne of Macedon becomes intrigued by a young woman, Kat, an orphaned peasant who meets the prince after the Blood Tournament, a brutal fighting competition. ![]() ![]() ![]() Opal Koboi, the power-crazed pixie, is plotting to exterminate humankind and become fairy queen. Artemis Fowl is his story he should have done something unpredictable, thrown out writing conventions. ![]() The Fowl's Irish estate is at the center of the action, and Artemis, Holly, and Butler's plans fizzle until Colfer's antihero makes himself sacrificial bait. From New York Times best-selling author, Eoin Colfer, comes book eight in the Artemis Fowl series about a teenage criminal mastermind and his siege against dangerous, tech-savvy fairies. ![]() The plot centers around nemesis Opal Koboi's plot to open a gate that will release not only long-buried warrior faeries bent on revenge against the human race but actual Armageddon. ![]() Don't worry-there's still all the adventure and snarkiness the series is known for: ingenious gadgets humorous sidekicks, like the perpetually gassy Mulch Diggums and faeries who kick. Mofos just sitting there like 'Where the hell are they, being dead is unpleasant'. The principle characters are all there, and the overall feeling is uncharacteristically touching. All in all, though, Colfer has rounded off this final book about the not-always-likable Artemis Fowl in a way readers will appreciate, right down to the clever last lines. Bringing a long-running series to a close is always tricky-no fan is ever entirely happy after all that buildup. ![]() ![]() ![]() The narrator reveals that a girl called Miranda Grope has already vanished into the chocolate river with Augustus Pottle: she is gone for ever, but the greedy boy was reincarnated as Augustus Gloop. Dahl originally intended to send Charlie into the chocolate factory with eight other children, but the number was slimmed down to four. The chapter reveals the original larger cast of characters, and their fates, as well as the original names of some of those who survived into later drafts. "All the way up the sides of the mountain, hundreds of men were working away with picks and drills, hacking great hunks of fudge out of the mountainside … As the huge hunks of fudge were pried loose, they went tumbling and bouncing d own the mountain and when they reached the bottom they were picked up by cranes with grab-buckets, and the cranes dumped the fudge into open wagons." "In the centre of the room there was an actual mountain, a colossal jagged mountain as high as a five-storey building, and the whole thing was made of pale-brown, creamy, vanilla fudge," the chapter reads. ![]() In the chapter Charlie Bucket – accompanied by his mother, not his sprightly grandfather – and the other children are led into the Vanilla Fudge Room, where they face the sinister prospect of the Pounding and Cutting Room. ![]() |