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![]() * "Salma's artistic creativity and gumption awaken Lily to the power of imagination, the importance of embracing change and knowing when to let go of the past, and the rewards of venturing beyond one's comfort zone." - Publishers Weekly, starred review Should an outsider like Salma really participate in the pageant - and possibly win?Set amongst the blueberry barrens and by the sea, this is a gorgeous new novel by Newbery Honor author Cynthia Lord that tackles themes of prejudice and friendship, loss and love. ![]() But when Salma decides to run in the upcoming Blueberry Queen pageant, they'll have to face some tough truths about friendship and belonging. ![]() After their initial chance meeting, Salma and Lily bond over painting bee boxes for Lily's grandfather, and Salma's friendship transforms Lily's summer. Salma, the daughter of migrant workers, is in the small town with her family for the blueberry-picking season. When Lily's blind dog, Lucky, slips his collar and runs away across the wide-open blueberry barrens of eastern Maine, it's Salma Santiago who manages to catch him. ![]() This powerful middle-grade novel from the Newbery Honor author of Rules explores a friendship between a small-town girl and the daughter of migrant workers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maya Jackson is bridal gown designer working for one of the top brands in New York. Goodreads | Barnes & Noble | Kobo | Amazon Nice start to this series as I’m now more curious. The imperfect ending was deliciously perfect. ![]() I also liked how despite her skepticism about some of the practices, she didn’t reject them and culled their essences. I enjoyed learning about Analyn’s rich culture, both mysteries to me and completely tantalizing. It gave Analyn clarity when her own insecurities were blocking her vision. They were over the top but underneath all of that outward craziness was sound wisdom. If one of the objectives of this story was to introduce some of the rich cultures of the South Carolina Lowcountry, then message thoroughly received! Analyn made me jumpy with her excessive need for perfection that was only tempered by her zany but intriguing grandmothers with their infusion of African and Filipino cultural beliefs. Even her unconventional grandmothers are delivering questions that she’s struggling to answer. ![]() But unknown nagging doubts are troubling her, sending her into panic attacks and more. ![]() Analyn Richards is a wedding planner on the eve of her own nuptials, one she’s planned to the nth degree. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In my research, I have found that integrated computing solves three major hurdles to teaching computer science education in K-12 schools.įitting a new academic discipline into an already crowded curriculum can be a challenge. ![]() I work with faculty and students in teacher training programs to create and test integrated computing activities across all academic subjects. For example, students can use integrated computing activities to create geometric patterns in math, simulate electromagnetic waves in science and create chatbots for literary characters in language arts.Īs a professor of learning technologies, I have been designing integrated computing activities for K-12 students for the past five years. ![]() Integrated computing teaches computer science skills like programming and computer literacy within traditional courses. These barriers include a lack of qualified computer science teachers, a lack of funds and a focus on courses tied to standardized tests. However, a new approach to computer science education-called integrated computing-addresses the main barriers that schools face when adding computer science education. ![]() ![]() Perhaps this is why Mitchell’s Über-novel is such a timely project: the novel’s expansiveness invites us to see our likenesses among others, our standpoints in relation to society, and the fact that these things are historical, not static. For Mitchell, no subject or genre seems out of bounds: a historical novel of a Dutch trading post in 19th-century Japan or of the 1960s’ psychedelic rock scene, a narrative of a young poet, a Matryoshka construction of distant pasts and futures, or his own Middle-earth-sized fantasy.Įspecially as our world increasingly re-compartmentalizes, the novel can offer an antidote to the often narrow, and narrowing, narratives on which we lean to make sense of our individual realities, beliefs, politics, and values. Mitchell’s novels offer us micro- and macro- at once, bounded reality and expansive universe. ![]() His novels, each a stand-alone narrative, accrete into an ongoing meta-project he calls an Über-novel. ![]() AFTER ABOUT HALF A MILLENNIUM, what does the novel still do for us? David Mitchell has some answers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Select the quantity of the product you desire and click the "Add" button. Read Less Below is a list of products arranged by condition. Parker's business risks have always paid off, but now she'll have to take the chance of a lifetime with her heart' His passionate kisses always catch her off guard, much like her growing feelings for him. But as a good friend of Parker's brother, Mal knows that moving from minor flirtation to major hookup is a serious step.No man has rattled Parker in a long time, but the motorcycle-riding, raven-haired Mal seems to have a knack for it. 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Nora Roberts (born Eleanor Marie Robertson on October 10, 1950) is an American author of more than 225 romance novels. #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts cordially invites you to meet childhood friends Parker, Emma, Laurel, and Mac ' the founders of Vows, one of Connecticut's premier wedding planning companies.Parker Brown turned the quartet's childhood game of Wedding Day into their dream jobs. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I want you so trained to my touch that your breathing hitches when I walk into the room. ![]() I want you aching for what will happen when I next put my hands on you. 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So when Hazel says, “C’mon, sis, you can be real with me,” and asks Nella to tell her about what it’s really like to work at Wagner, Nella obliges. ![]() When glamorous Hazel wafts into the office - all locs and colorful blazers, looking “very Erykah-meets-Issa” - Nella thinks her dreams have finally come true. ![]() Nella longs for someone she can make ironic eye contact with after experiencing yet another microaggression from one of her coworkers. And Wagner, like most publishers, is staffed almost entirely by white people. ![]() She’s an editorial assistant at the prestigious publisher Wagner Books, struggling to climb the ladder and become an editor herself. Nella’s been the only Black girl in her office for two years now. Early on in The Other Black Girl, a nimble-witted new horror satire by debut novelist Zakiya Dalila Harris, Nella Rogers feels ready to bond with her new office mate. ![]() ![]() ![]() Scythe is the first novel of a thrilling new series by National Book Award–winning author Neal Shusterman in which Citra and Rowan learn that a perfect world comes only with a heavy price. These teens must master the “art” of taking life, knowing that the consequence of failure could mean losing their own. ![]() Now Scythes are the only ones who can end life-and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the population under control.Ĭitra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe-a role that neither wants. Two teens must learn the “art of killing” in this Printz Honor–winning book, the first in a chilling new series from Neal Shusterman, author of the New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology.Ī world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. ![]() ![]() Written with love and humor, brimming with good advice and revealing anecdotes, and grounded in the latest research, this book” will make you laugh even as it makes you wise in the ways of being an effective, enthusiastic parent. ![]() – Empower themselves and respect diversityįrom eliciting a giggle during baby’s first game of peekaboo to cracking jokes with a teenager while hanging out at the mall, “Playful Parenting is a complete guide to using play to raise confident children. – Express and understand complex emotions From eliciting a giggle during babys first game of peekaboo to cracking jokes with a teenager while hanging out at the mall, Playful Parenting is a complete. Through play we join our kids in “their world-and help them to: That’s why “playful parenting” is so important and so successful in building strong, close bonds between parents and children. ![]() Cohen points out, play is children’s way of exploring the world, communicating deep feelings, getting close to those they care about, working through stressful situations, and simply blowing off steam. Playful Parenting means joining children in their world of play, focusing on connection and confidence, giggling and roughhousing, and following your childs. Have you ever stepped back to watch what really goes on when your children play? As psychologist Lawrence J. ![]() |