5/11/2023 0 Comments Starfish by lisa fipps summary![]() ![]() This charming, though at times heart-wrenching novel-in-verse is a story of healing and self-advocacy that readers won't soon forget. The verbal violence tips over into physical when peers remove bolts from Ellie's desk and it collapses on her as she tries to sit down, resulting in minor injury. While this book is ultimately hopeful, verbal abuse in the form of bullying and rejection from family and peers is at times intensely cruel. But the rules aren't protecting her from her bullies, and Ellie realizes if things are going to change, it'll have to start with her. ![]() Middle schooler Ellie lives by the "Fat Girl Rules" - don't wear bright colors, don't move so fast that your body jiggles, make yourself as small as possible, and on and on. Parents need to know that Lisa Fipp's novel-in-verse, Starfish, takes on anti-fat bias, bullying, and self-acceptance. ![]() Bullying kids call Ellie directly or refer to her as "thing," "lard butt," "big, fat loser," "blubberbelly," and "disgusting whale." Most of the verbal harassment is whale-themed, as when her classmates do things like push other students away as she walks down the hall and say, “Watch out, make way, thar she blows!" and all the students press themselves up against the walls as she passes.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Language in your kid's entertainment guide. ![]()
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5/11/2023 0 Comments Jennifer doudna the code breaker![]() Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn’t become scientists, she decided she would. ![]() As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. You can read this before The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race written by Walter Isaacson which was published in. ![]() Brief Summary of Book: The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson ![]() ![]() ![]() Surrounded by family, friends, and a famous pathologist from the Home Office-and making spectacular use of Harriet’s beloved Gipsy Moth, Blithe Spirit-Flavia will do anything, even take to the skies, to land a killer. Following a trail of clues sparked by her discovery of a reel of film stashed away in the attic, she unravels the deepest secrets of the de Luce clan, involving none other than Winston Churchill himself. Who was this man, what did his words mean, and why were they intended for Flavia? Back home at Buckshaw, the de Luce’s crumbling estate, Flavia puts her sleuthing skills to the test. Moments later, he is dead, mysteriously pushed under the train by someone in the crowd. Yet upon the train’s arrival in the English village of Bishop’s Lacey, Flavia is approached by a tall stranger who whispers a cryptic message into her ear. On a spring morning in 1951, eleven-year-old chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce gathers with her family at an abandoned railway station, awaiting the arrival of her long-lost mother, Harriet. On a spring morning in 1951, eleven-year-old chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce gathers with her family at the railway station, awaiting the return of her long-lost mother, Harriet. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Books by samantha downing![]() Millicent’s husband initially relishes the idea of a suspicion-free killing spree, but quickly learns that resurrecting the local bogeyman has consequences. to match that of Owen Oliver Riley, a notorious local serial killer who escaped conviction. Millicent was supposed to have immediately killed and dumped Lindsay in a swamp, but she now claims that in order to distract the authorities, she changed their m.o. This revelation shocks the book’s 39-year-old unnamed narrator, since he and his wife, Millicent, were the ones who abducted Lindsay as part of a ploy to spice up their marriage. Police identify the victim as Lindsay, a young woman who went missing a year earlier and was apparently held captive for months before being strangled. ![]() The discovery of a corpse in an abandoned Woodview, Fla., motel kick-starts Downing’s taut debut. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Benjamin the storyteller![]() ![]() Giving these pieces a place to stand and making them accessible to a wider circle are important contributions. In their introduction, “Walter Benjamin and the Magnetic Play of Words,” Sam Dolbear, Esther Leslie, and Sebastian Truskolaski write that the “short forms” they have gathered “stand in their own right as works of experimental writing.” (ix). ![]() The pieces are short, and the emphasis is on fiction, but the genres that rub shoulders here are varied, ranging from fragments of dream diaries through bits and pieces of novellas to parables, riddles, jokes, aphorisms, and polished short stories. It would be misleading to call this a collection of short stories. The emphasis is on fiction, but works of criticism are included in each of the three sections of the book. This is the first time all of the pieces appear together. Many of the pieces are translated here for the first time many were unpublished in Benjamin’s lifetime. ![]() The Storyteller: Tales Out of Loneliness is a collection of short pieces, both fiction and criticism, written by Walter Benjamin between 1906 (when Benjamin was an adolescent) and 1939 (within a year of his death). ![]() ![]() In this article I use the example of an extinct New Zealandwattlebird, the huia, to argue that there are compelling reasons to resurrect certain species if itcan be done. Shapiro’s denial that genuine species de-extinction is possible is based onher assumption that the resurrected organisms would need to be perfectly indistinguishablefrom the creatures that died out. The de-extinct ‘mammoths’ she speaks of are merely ecological proxies formammoths-elephants re-engineered for cold-tolerance by the addition to their genomes of afew mammoth genes. But infact Shapiro both denies this is possible, and denies there would be good reason to do it even ifit were possible. The title of Beth Shapiro’s ‘How to Clone a Mammoth’ contains an implicature: it suggests thatit is indeed possible to clone a mammoth, to bring extinct species back from the dead. ![]() ![]() ![]() While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. ![]() We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. ![]() While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. (This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep.) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I would have been perfectly fine with the book ending the way it did. I was going to give it 2.5 stars, which is a bit generous considering the very slow pacing and shallow characters. It was an average ending for an average book. How is this possible? It was published without it's final chapter, which will not be available until the book hits theaters.ĭon't get me wrong, I thought the ending was a bit abrupt, but it didn't bother me all that much because it still wrapped up the story in a satisfactory manner. I read it front to back, every single page, and yet I still have not finished the book. It has been brought to my attention via the reviews on Amazon that I have not finished this novel. ![]() This was originally going to be a review of Red Riding Hood by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright. ![]() ![]() What they learn might change everything they know about their families, themselves, and each other. But as they follow the gritty underground scene in Berlin to glittering art houses in Prague, Holmes and Watson begin to realize that this is a much more complicated case than a disappearance. Their first contact? August Moriarty (formerly Charlotte’s obsession, currently believed by most to be dead), whose powerful family has been ripping off famous paintings for the last hundred years. The game is afoot once again, and Charlotte is single-minded in her pursuit. On top of everything else, Holmes and Watson could be becoming morethan friends-but still, the darkness in Charlotte’s past is a wall between them.Ī distraction arises soon enough, because Charlotte’s beloved uncle Leander goes missing from the estate-after being oddly private about his latest assignment in a German art forgery ring. But Charlotte isn’t the only Holmes with secrets, and the mood at her family’s Sussex estate is palpably tense. The Last of August In the second brilliant, action-packed book in the Charlotte Holmes series, Jamie Watson and Charlotte Holmes are in a chase across. Jamie Watson and Charlotte Holmes are looking for a winter-break reprieve after a fall semester that almost got them killed. ![]() ![]() In the second brilliant, action-packed book in the Charlotte Holmes series, Jamie Watson and Charlotte Holmes. Watson and Holmes: A match made in disaster. The Last of August (Trade Paperback / Paperback). ![]() ![]() But puzzling clues left behind lead to complex codes, hidden rooms, and a dangerous secret that will turn their world upside down. The Strangers is the first book in Haddix’s newest series, Greystone Secrets. The Strangers is a young adult mystery novel published in 2019 by the American author Margaret Peterson Haddix. She is most well known for writing dystopian adventure series, including the Shadow Children series and the Missing series. ![]() Who, exactly, are these strangers? Before Chess, Emma, and Finn can question their mom about it, she takes off on a sudden work trip and leaves them in the care of Ms. Margaret Peterson Haddix is the author of over 40 books for children and young adults. The other kids share their same first and middle names. Strangers, The (Greystone Secrets 1) by Margaret Peterson Haddix 4. But everything changes when reports of three kidnapped children reach the Greystone kids, and they’re shocked by the startling similarities between themselves and these complete strangers. They’ve been a happy family, just the three of them and their mom. Chess has always been the protector over his younger siblings, Emma loves math, and Finn does what Finn does best-acting silly and being adored. Perfect for fans of A Wrinkle in Time and The City of Ember! What makes you you? The Greystone kids thought they knew. ![]() New York Times bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix takes readers on a thrilling adventure filled with mysteries and plot twists aplenty in this absorbing series about family and friendships. ![]() |