![]() ![]() ![]() Now she has no one but her doll Amanda.īut there's another friend, one who only comes on misty nights. Even her parents seem to forsake her in favor of their newborn daughter. Her disability, coupled with her new and uncharacteristic resentment over it, causes her few friends to abandon her while the other children in town mock and avoid her, leaving her lonely and even more bitter. ![]() ![]() Things take a turn for the worse when Michelle falls over the edge of a cliff and injures her hip. But strange things have occurred ever since they arrived, such as the disgusting stain in June's art studio that can't be scrubbed away, or the mysterious, disturbing paintings that appear on her blank canvases each night, or the antique doll that Michelle finds in the attic. Cal Pendleton, his pregnant wife June, and their adopted twelve-year-old daughter Michelle come to Paradise Point, where they live in a Big Fancy House overlooking the sea. Was it an accident? Suicide? Or did it have something to do with the cruel schoolchildren who taunted her until she lost her sense of direction? Comes the Blind Fury is an extremely creepy 1980 horror novel by John Saul.Įxactly Exty Years Ago in the charming small town of Paradise Point, a gentle blind girl took a walk along the seaside cliffs near her home and vanished forever. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() There's no big coming-out scene, no 'convert the lone homophobe' drama, no storyline cooked up just to educate the reader about the gay experience. Morris 2018 Finalist "Check, Please! is very much a thing of our time in its approach to gay identity and romance. Ukazu blends a series of tropes (coming-of-age, coming out, an outsider finding acceptance) into one coherent, amusing tale." - Publishers Weekly, A Boston Globe Best Children's Book of 2018 YALSA William C. ![]() Volume two can't come fast enough" - Booklist, starred review " The art relies on thick linework and facial shots to tell the story, playing to Ukazu's knack for pithy, personality-showing dialogue. The Check, Please! series:" Check, Please! is just a great, character-driven, multi-layered story that is unlike anythiing else in mainstream media right now." - Den Of Geek, "Ukazu, who began Bitty's story as an uberpopular webcomic, folds in plenty of hockey terms and highlights team camaraderie while skillfully dismantling themes of toxic masculinity.A slow-burn same-sex romance is just the icing on the cake (sorry-pie) in this irresistibly fun and utterly charming sports story. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was interesting to see the change in the character of Frey throughout the book. One was raised a socialite princess and the other a trained killer. There is Frey and Rafi twins who have completely different upbringings. Let’s just say that I devoured this book! It was action packed and full of intriguing characters. I will keep my review short and sweet because I fear if I get too into it I will give away some vital points. Uglies is one of my favorites series and I have been anxiously awaiting Impostors. Review: When I heard there was going to be a new Scott Westerfeld book set in the world of Uglies I was beyond excited. As the stakes grow higher and higher, Frey must decide whether she can trust him – or anyone in her life.” Everyone thinks she’s her sister – but Col, the son of a rival leader, is starting to get close enough to tell the difference. Frey has never been out in the world on her own – until her father sends her in Rafi’s place to act as collateral for a dangerous deal. While Rafi has been taught to charm, Frey has been taught to kill. This is because Frey is Rafi’s double, raised in the shadows of their rich father’s fortress. ![]() but very few people have ever seen them together. Description:“Frey and Rafi are inseparable. ![]() ![]() ![]() Includes a brief biography of Dahl as well as questions and a timeline to fill in.PDF file with lessons and activity ideas exploring Roald Dahl’s process as a writer, particularly how he drew inspiration from the world around him.Roald Dahl’s Imaginormous Challenge – Lesson Plan.A set of activities comparing the lives of Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake. ![]() Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake Activities.Series of lessons is aimed at developing literacy skills using Minecraft to create Dahl's most memorable settings.Minecraft: Wonderful World of Roald Dahl.Great site with free information for teachers, parents, and students.Designed to get students interested in reading and have a good time learning about an author.Lots of activity ideas for your classroom!.Non-commercial site created to assist teachers in finding and using resources online.Teach students how to use the Internet for research, and then send email for comments/questions.If you’d like to contribute, please contact me. ![]() They’re organized by topic, with general education and Dahl resources first, books next, and shortstories last. This page features all the lesson plans and classroom ideas I’ve collected. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This book is intended for research, PhD students, and academics, serving as a continuation of her earlier work, “Artificial Intelligence in Digital Marketing – The Next Big Technological Break,” which was published in 2017. Maria also provides detailed algorithms, documentations, and case studies on utilizing the new generation of AI search engines and her own new type of search engine. Maria delves into the development of search engines since the early days of the internet, including her predictions for their future. “The Search Engine Revolution” takes readers on a journey through the early days of search engines, tracing their evolution to the present day and beyond. London, UK- Maria Johnsen, a renowned multilingual digital marketing expert, author, filmmaker and CEO of Golden Way Media, has released her latest book, “ The Search Engine Revolution: From Past to Present and Beyond.” This book is the result of Maria’s extensive research, personal reflections, and innovative ideas concerning search engines. ![]() ![]() LONDON, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, April 24, 2023/ / - Maria Johnsen Launches New Book, “ The Search Engine Revolution: From Past to Present and Beyond,” Detailing the Evolution of Search Engines and Predicting Their Future Maria Johnsen published 43 fiction and non fiction books.” ![]() ![]() ![]() Lost in the forest, Hansel and Gretel come across a cottage made of candy. Hansel is optimistic that he and his sister will have no trouble getting home, but to his dismay, discovers that forest birds have eaten the sunflower seeds. Eventually the stepmother tells the children cover their eyes, pretending she has a surprise for them, and abandons them. Hansel picks up a sunflower, and drops its seeds on the way to mark their path. The next day, the stepmother takes the children into the forest. Hansel and Gretel overhear their conversation. (When the children protest, the stepmother replies, "I should worry! Nuts to you!") The stepmother then talks to the father about taking the children deep in the forest to be abandoned. One day the stepmother is irritated by the food shortage, and makes the children go to bed without dinner. Although they have little resources, they are happy. ![]() Hansel (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit) and Gretel are two simple children who live with their father and stepmother. The film is an adaptation of the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel by the Brothers Grimm, and is one of the few Oswald shorts in which he plays a different character. ![]() The Candy House is a 1934 short animated film by Walter Lantz Productions featuring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was created by a research team led by Professor Justin Smith, Director of the Cinema and Television History Institute, working closely with the George Eliot Archive and the George Eliot Fellowship. The rich resource, which traces the production history of the landmark series, shot on location in the Lincolnshire town of Stamford, is furnished with over 300 multi-media assets, almost 500 notes and 41 editorial commentaries. It brings together over 50 years' worth of documents (screenplays, notes, letters, research materials) by celebrated screenwriter Andrew Davies and it takes visitors on a journey, from the novel to the final tv production, through layers of scripts, correspondence, interviews, photographs and audio and video clips. The team has created a new interactive website that shows, in detail, how George Eliot’s classic novel, Middlemarch, was adapted, by one of Britain's most admired television dramatists, as a 6-part BBC serial in 1994. Researchers at the University of Nottingham and De Montfort University Leicester have revealed exactly how a renowned screenwriter turned a classic novel into a hit BBC television drama. ![]() ![]() ![]() To help young people understand homelessness, Lois Peterson has written the non-fiction book Shelter: Homelessness in Our Community (Orca $24.95) for ages 9 – 12 or older. In Beyond Repair (Orca, 2011), young Cam decides to stalk the man who killed his father with a pickup truck, when the killer starts showing up at Cam's house, his work and his sister's school. ![]() Silver Rain (Orca, 2010) is the story of eleven-year-old Elsie, who is abandoned by her father during the Depression and lives in the garage behind her old house with her grandmother. While he waits to be claimed by a father he barely remembers, Kevin imagines a better life as a tough cowboy named Knuckles McGraw who rides a horse named Burlington Northern. In The Ballad or Knuckles McGraw (Orca $7.95) by retired Surrey librarian Lois Peterson, an eight-year-old named Kevin, abandoned by his mother, who left him a good-bye note in his lunch bucket, takes comfort for his fantasy of becoming a cowboy to counteract the shock of living in a foster home with a pierced and tattooed teenager named Ice and a mute girl named Breezy. ![]() ![]() Here again Lahiri displays her deft touch for the perfect detail - the fleeting moment, the turn of phrase - that opens whole worlds of emotion. In The Namesake, Lahiri enriches the themes that made her collection an international bestseller: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations. Among the many other awards and honors it received were the New Yorker Debut of the Year award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the highest critical praise for its grace, acuity, and compassion in detailing lives transported from India to America. Her stories are one of the very few debut works - and only a handful of collections - to have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. ![]() ![]() How can he not love the beautiful pregnant omega who seeks comfort in his arms every night? Iker seems to need him, and Elias wants to give him the world. Loving a golden-collared boy is foolish, but Elias falls anyway. It demands pleasure and warmth, and only one man’s embrace feels right. ![]() Except now that he’s pregnant, his body has its own will. He stays under the king’s protection and doesn’t ever want to depend on an alpha again. Will the boy like him? Even love him one day?_ĭisgraced and banished by his first mate, Iker found safe haven at the palace. But he doesn’t want his new husband to fear him. After being celibate for years, Hector craves to touch the pretty omega and take what’s lawfully his. He stands barefoot in the middle of the cottage, his eyes down, quiet and docile like a good omega groom. The boy knows what awaits him-he’ll be collared and claimed. He found him, paid the dowry, and today, he finally brings his new husband home. Hector has been saving money so he could afford a mate. ![]() |