![]() ![]() Watch an exclusive Behind the Scenes interview with author Joanna Ho to discover how she was inspired to work in education, how important the principles of anti-bias and equity are in all aspects of her work, and what she hopes students take away from her book.First grade teacher Jean Ilano and second grade teacher Genevieve Shek share how they use the Book of the Week in their classrooms to teach figurative language and social-emotional lessons in Book Talks.Take a brain break with the Book Boys as they perform an original music video to celebrate what makes us all special! Play it for your class as a brain break between lessons or after recess or lunch.Here are some teacher-created resources to help you share Eyes That Kiss in the Corners with your students: ![]() With beautiful illustrations and lyrical text, Eyes That Kiss in the Corners carries a powerful message of self-affirmation and encourages readers to embrace their families, their cultures, and most importantly, themselves. She was chosen as one of several students to attend a weekend leadership program that included deep discussions on racism and systems of oppression, and today, all of her work in education and as an author is carried under an umbrella of inclusion and equity. Joanna is also a vice principal of a high school in the San Francisco Bay Area and says that her interest in education actually started when she was in high school. ![]()
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![]() ![]() What happens at the end of Gregor the Overlander? Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane is the second book in Suzanne Collins’s children’s novel series The Underland Chronicles. Which is the second book in the Underland Chronicles? Gregor the Overlander Collection: Books 1-5 (Underland Chronicles, The) – Kindle edition by Collins, Suzanne. Who is the author of Gregor the Overlander? Luxa is the queen of Regalia and one of the main characters of The Underland Chronicles. Read all five books in the New York Times bestselling Gregor: The Underland Chronicles! Is there a Gregor the Overlander book 6?Ī: gregor the overlander book 6. In this action-packed and masterful series, Suzanne Collins unfolds the fate of the Underland and its great warrior, Gregor the Overlander. How many Gregor the Overlander books are there? ![]() The action and adventure continue in the second book in Suzanne Collins’s masterful New York Times bestselling Underland Chronicles! ![]() Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane (The Underland Chronicles #2): Gregor The Overlander And The Prophecy Of Bane. Is there a sequel to Gregor the Overlander series? Publication Order of Underland Chronicles Books Gregor the Overlander What is the order of the Gregor the Overlander series? 4 What kind of awards did Gregor the Overlander win?.3 Who is the author of Gregor the Overlander?.2 Is there a Gregor the Overlander book 6?. ![]() 1 What is the order of the Gregor the Overlander series?. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I just wish the author would post smth about it. My most anticipated release of 2020 (if you don't count "Midnight Sun", which I didn't count as Midnight Sun was announced on May 4th, half-way into 2020), and it seems as though it was postponed until 2021. ![]() The series that USA Today called "bright, electric, and imaginative" continues: Aurora Pavan rises to take her throne in this third installment of the Stormheart series by New York Times bestselling author Cora Carmack. If only she can keep the new darkness inside her at bay. She was no longer the girl who was ready to change the world, ready to rule.īut she's the queen now all the same. The Aurora Pavan who came home from that confrontation was not the same girl that had braved the wildlands and joined a rebellion. The Stormlord-the man who wielded the same magic as she, but with the intent to destroy rather than save. She wanted Pavan to be a home that welcomed everyone-remnants, stormhunters, and witches included.įor the first time in her life, she did not dread the duty into which she was born. She wanted to protect her people, not because they paid taxes, but because they deserved to live without fear. ![]() ![]() “But he betrayed me, too, by how he behaved behind closed doors at the show we both cared about so much.”Įven to Couric, the news came as a shock. “I know Matt thinks I betrayed him, and that makes me sad,” Couric writes. 26, recounts in raw terms her difficulty processing what she learned about the man she worked beside on most weekday mornings from 1997 to 2006. Couric today is less visible after a series of jobs that didn't quite work out, while Lauer was fired from the “Today” show in 2017 after stories about sexual misconduct emerged.Ĭouric's book, which is out Oct. ![]() Yet as the drive-by suggests, much can change in 20 years. Once the king and queen of morning television, Matt and Katie were regular “guests” in the homes of millions of Americans, delivering the news with friendly banter. Couric writes in her new memoir, “Going There,” that she realized then that the television partners would never speak again. ![]() NEW YORK (AP) - On a summer day in the Hamptons last year, Katie Couric and her husband, John Molner, went out for a walk and saw a familiar white jeep drive by with Matt Lauer at the wheel. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maureen is ostensibly recording the events of the book while held in prison alongside Pixel, the eponymous character of The Cat Who Walks Through Walls. The book is a memoir of Maureen Johnson Smith Long, mother, lover, and eventual wife of Lazarus Long. Other books in the cycle include Methuselah's Children, Time Enough for Love, The Number of the Beast, and The Cat Who Walks Through Walls. ![]() It is the final part of the " Lazarus Long" cycle of stories, involving time travel, parallel dimensions, free love, voluntary incest, and a concept that Heinlein named pantheistic solipsism, or 'World as Myth': the theory that universes are created by the act of imagining them, so that somewhere (for example) the Land of Oz is real. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here we meet Carlton, a Ferrari-crashing bad boy known for Prince Harry-like antics Colette, a celebrity girlfriend chased by fevered paparazzi and the man Rachel has spent her entire life waiting to meet: her father. Until: a shocking revelation draws Rachel into a world of Shanghai splendor beyond anything she has ever imagined. But Rachel still mourns the fact that her birthfather, a man she never knew, won't be able to walk her down the aisle. She has a flawless Asscher-cut diamond from JAR, a wedding dress she loves more than anything found in the salons of Paris, and a fiance willing to sacrifice his entire inheritance in order to marry her. On the eve of her wedding to Nicholas Young, heir to one of the greatest fortunes in Asia, Rachel should be over the moon. ![]() ![]() Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians, is back with a wickedly funny new novel of social climbing, secret e-mails, art-world scandal, lovesick billionaires, and the outrageous story of what happens when Rachel Chu, engaged to marry Asia's most eligible bachelor, discovers her birthfather. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Of Lidie Newton), the world of horse racing ( Horse Heaven),Īnd a large land grant university ( Moo). Others haveīeen set in antebellum Kansas ( The All-True Travels and Adventures Her most famous work is perhaps A ThousandĪcres, the Pulitzer Prize winning retelling of King Lear. This, her 12th, tells the story of a NewĮngland man overtaken by greed. Jane Smiley's latest novel, Good Faith tells the tale of those whose tastes ran more to WallĪtwood and Ann Patchett who is not content to sit back and write the ![]() Shaper Hair Spray but in dollars and cents. To others, the excesses of the '80s played out not in cans of Sebastian The Talking Heads played on our local "oldies" station. To hear my former favorites (yes, I'll admit it) Duran Duran and It'sĪ bit disconcerting to someone who graduated from high school in 1984 People over the age of 30 remember the '80s for its excesses, including,īut not limited to, really big hair and really synthesized music. ![]() ![]() ![]() Similar to Lord of the Flies, the novel examines power dynamics and leadership in a similar way. McMurphy's antagonism of Nurse Ratched is the focus of the novel. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest tells the story of McMurphy's ordeal. To avoid going to prison, Randle McMurphy, a convicted felon, faked insanity and was committed to a mental hospital. The story of Jack, Ralph, Piggy, Sam and Eric, and Simon could have ended differently, but if you'd prefer a society where women had a stronger voice (it was written in the 1950s.), here are ten books like Lord of the Flies that are sure to stimulate your mind and leave you wanting more! Interesting Books like Lord of the Flies One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Keseyįor those looking for Lord of the Flies-like books, Ken Kesey's 1962 novel, set in a psychiatric hospital, is a must-read, though perhaps best known for its 1975 film adaptation starring Jack Nicholson. In the end, finding more books like Lord of the Flies can be a difficult task. When it comes to 20th-century literature, William Golding's 1954 novel about the society and demise of a group of young boys stranded on a desert island is among the most significant. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A bald old man with a terrible temper and a pathetic assistant, he could be the First of the Magi, he could be a spectacular fraud, but whatever he is, he's about to make the lives of Logen, Jezal, and Glokta a whole lot more difficult. His latest trail of corpses may lead him right to the rotten heart of government, if he can stay alive long enough to follow it.Įnter the wizard, Bayaz. ![]() But then Glokta hates everyone: cutting treason out of the Union one confession at a time leaves little room for friendship. Inquisitor Glokta, cripple turned torturer, would like nothing better than to see Jezal come home in a box. But war is brewing, and on the battlefields of the frozen North they fight by altogether bloodier rules. Nobleman Captain Jezal dan Luthar, dashing officer, and paragon of selfishness, has nothing more dangerous in mind than fleecing his friends at cards and dreaming of glory in the fencing circle. Caught in one feud too many, he’s on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian – leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a lot of happy enemies. Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. ![]() ![]() My historical imagination doesn’t generally extend that far back in time. ![]() Ruth’s more scholarly How to Be a Tudor riveted me–and I didn’t expect it to. Scrupulously researched, totally authentic, and with its own contemporary narrative playing out within an accurate reconstruction of Tudor England, this is a fantastic glimpse into history, as it was lived.” You’ll follow Ruth and her co-stars “as they discover how to build a pigsty, brew their own ale, forge their own machinery, and keep a Tudor household. ![]() Tudor Monastery Farm is the official companion volume to the series. Time for a little binge-watching (or reading!)! Below, you will find a sample episode from each series, along with the companion book and a link to watch more episodes on YouTube. A couple of them also have companion books that give you the nitty-gritty–sometimes literally–in print. All of the series have episodes you can watch on YouTube for free. They’re all re-creations of rural life in a certain time period: the Tudor era, Victorian era, Edwardian era (which many of us know better as the Downton Abbey era) and even World War II. Ruth Goodman is known to BBC watchers as the woman who brings history to life in several documentary series. ![]() ![]() What was it like to live in the Tudor age or the 1940s? Would you rather “watch” the answer or “read” it? Well, you can do both with these popular BBC historical documentary series and their companion books. ![]() |