![]() ![]() "Full of insight about race and ethnicity, this graphic novel intercuts the thrilling wins and crushing defeats of one high school team with basketball’s own turbulent history." - New York Times, from "The 25 Best Children’s Books of 2020" ![]() Listed as a New York Times, Washington Post, Amazon, Forbes, School Library Journal, Booklist, and Publishers Weekly 2020 book of the year. What he doesn’t know yet is that this season is not only going to change the Dragons’s lives, but his own life as well. He knows he has to follow this epic to its end. Once Gene gets to know these young all-stars, he realizes that their story is just as thrilling as anything he’s seen on a comic book page. Each victory brings them closer to their ultimate goal: the California State Championships. The men’s varsity team, the Dragons, is having a phenomenal season that’s been decades in the making. He lost interest in basketball long ago, but at the high school where he now teaches, it's all anyone can talk about. ![]() ![]() As a kid, his friends called him “Stick” and every basketball game he played ended in pain. And the hero always wins.īut Gene doesn’t get sports. Gene understands stories-comic book stories, in particular. In his latest graphic novel, Dragon Hoops, New York Times bestselling author Gene Luen Yang turns the spotlight on his life, his family, and the high school where he teaches. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() When her father’s military position provides Rosalind the opportunity to meet the Prince of Wales, she has the chance to tell him about the injustice she witnesses in the streets of India. The two worlds are colliding, and despite what Rosalind has been raised to think, she begins to resent the heavy hand of British rule. The world where followers of Gandhi surround her, and the streets are full of poverty and the whispers of independence. And then there is the world of her homeland-or the land that feels like home, anyway. There is the world of her heritage-English to the core, with a strict father who is a major in the British Indian Army, a muted mother, and a tutor to educate her within the walls of the luxurious estate her family occupies. Rosalind inhabits two worlds in 1920s India. Rosalind is caught between two worlds as Gandhi’s nonviolent revolution takes hold in this standalone companion to Small Acts of Amazing Courage. ![]() ![]() ![]() They arrive on Stanley's birthday - or is it? What do they want and why do they want to turn Stanley's quite world upside down? ![]() ![]() Set in a dilapidated seaside boarding house the mysterious Stanley Webber receives a visit from two sinister strangers, Goldberg and McCann. Receiving a dramatic new re-imagining from the team behind Waiting for Godot, and following a two-year celebration of the works of Harold Pinter in the West End, this darkly-comic masterpiece will perform in Milton Keynes Theatre from Tuesday 9th to Saturday 13th June. Starring Michelle Collins who will play Meg Boles, Tristan Gemmill in the role of Goldberg and Paul Hickey who will play McCann. Mark Goucher and Everyman Theatre Cheltenham present Harold Pinter’s comedy of menace, The Birthday Party. Harold Pinter’s comedy of menace, The Birthday Party, starring Michelle Collins comes to Milton Keynes Theatre on Tuesday 9th to Saturday 13th June. ![]() ![]() ![]() A solid start that concludes with the promise of Sam's power growing greater and darker, secrets getting deeper, and more fun to follow. McBride pulls no punches and hits where readers will least expect it the story can be gory and violent, but isn't gratuitously graphic. With help from Brid, a teenage werewolf/fey hybrid who is Douglas's prisoner, and a ghost named Ashley, Sam must figure out how to escape Douglas, keep his loved ones alive, and use his power while avoiding its more horrific aspects. Sam turns out to be a necromancer too, making him Douglas's target for either slavery or death. College dropout Sam is underwhelmed by his life as a fast food fry cook, when a game of potato hockey behind the restaurant goes awry and throws him into the sights of an evil and powerful necromancer named Douglas Montgomery. That might seem pretty normal, but Ashley died years ago and now she’s. Matt’s childhood friend, Ashley, has been stopping by a lot lately. ![]() It is also available for free from various places, detailed on the authors website. A title this good has a lot to live up to, and debut author McBride proves she's largely up to the task in this scary and irreverent romp. This short story is included in 'Necromancer', along with an excerpt from Hold Me Closer, Necromancer. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a breathtaking page-turner, where Ruth cranks up the suspense quotient page by page. This is a book you can read at one sitting over the two long weekends we’ve had around the end of 2020 and that’s exactly what I did. The murderer is one among them, but who’s it? Conclusion – Book Review – One By One And then more people go missing or are found dead… One by One! ![]() The biggest motive? As old as time itself – Money! There’s an imminent Buyout offer on the table, which will make millionaires out of the few stakeholders, but some of them are resisting the loss of ownership and control. Meanwhile, one of the party, who was out skiing, does not return… In the aftermath of that, there is finger pointing, suspicions and motives being tossed about amongst the small group. It has affected the entire region and disaster management teams are working round the clock to help all they can. But as usual, fate has other plans, as a massive avalanche strikes couple of days into their retreat! It cuts of all contact with the outside world, including cell phone connections and they are totally locked in behind tonnes of snow and no help imminent. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She told the booksellers and publishers present that following a challenge to her book Esperanza Rising for depicting the social and economic struggles of minorities, she had T-shirts printed with the words "contentious, unacceptable and dangerous" on them, which were taken from the challenge. "I can't do what I do without you," said Muñoz Ryan during her acceptance speech. ![]() Pam Muñoz Ryan won the middle grade award for her book Echo and Jennifer Niven received the young adult award for All the Bright Places. Holm ( Sunny Side Up) and Judy Schachner ( Dewey Bob) also spoke at the awards breakfast, while Marlee Frazee took home the picture book award for The Farmer and the Clown. "Thank you for what you do."Īuthors Jennifer L. ![]() "You are putting books in front of guarded eyes," said Aaron Hartzler, author of the YA novel What We Saw, during the children's award breakfast at the annual Southern California Independent Booksellers Association trade show in North Hollywood on Saturday. ![]() ![]() But while you wait you’ll have the opportunity to pick up a creative pack and take your place at one of our ARTivity tables to decorate a butterfly to be displayed as part of the show, and to make some crafts to take home with you. There will be a queueing system in place to enter the exhibition area. As only one group/bubble of up to six people will be allowed into the exhibition area at a time you’ll have room to explore those interactives with your children without worrying about social distancing. Visiting WOW! Said the Owlīecause of Covid 19, the number of interactives in the exhibition has been reduced. Participants can pick up their materials in advance from 20-21 Visual Arts Centre and follow the live workshop at home, returning their owl sculptures to the gallery to be taken away for firing. And on 14 November there is a live-streamed clay owl making digital workshop led by Karen Raithby of Pentangle Pottery. ![]() Throughout the exhibition there will be family art and craft ARTivities either to complete in the gallery or at home. ![]() ![]() ![]() Until one day when an employee spots her at an airport and the gloves come off. ![]() and the man who can find anyone is unable to find her. Can she ever forgive him? So she runs away. ![]() yeah his wife!!!! She worked at the office as his secretary even though he knew better than to hire her!! Their whole romance is so sweet, but she has some stuff in her past that ends up biting Julian in the backside since he's been hiding so much from her. His past, the way he acts as he does, why he's involved, his wife. He is the Commander of the group and we get to learn so much about him in this book. The Commander is part of the Hidden men of justice series, and it focuses on Julian. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's just a parent playing with their kid. Looking through the book again, there is zero indication of either dog's gender, which I kind of like. ![]() One day, my three-year-old wandered in during the one-year-old's story time and pointed out that the daddy doggy was playing with the baby doggy. The point is, the book has grown on me, and I'm kind of fond of it.Īn aside: During the first few dozen times I read this, I unconsciously assumed the big dog was a mother, and I semi-conciously chose to view the little dog as a boy (since I was reading the book to a boy). Similarly, my one-year-old will now bring the book to me, asking me, in his nonverbal way, to read it. I no longer try for a tune and I know a cadence that flows. Likewise, my one-year-old would at first shake his head "no" when he saw me reach for this particular book (to be fair, he shakes his head "no" at everything, including food or toys that he is, at that very moment, accepting from me). ![]() The first couple times I tried to read this, it felt awkward, because I tried to sing it without any idea for a tune or a rhythm. ![]() ![]() Sophie is very nearly eaten by one (the Bloodbottler) but survives when he spits out the disgusting vegetable she's hiding in. ![]() The other nine Giants are child killers, and downright terrifying. The other protagonist is Sophie, a little orphan girl who the BFG kidnaps (an action he later regrets) because she catches a glimpse of him for fear that she will tell the outside world of his presence- she's terrified at first, but, once she learns he's nice, she's actually quite glad to be out of the horrible orphanage she lived in. He is a Giant, the magic mythological kind who lives in Giant Country and is the only member of his race who doesn't eat humans. "BFG" in this case stands for Big Friendly Giant, and is the name of one of the protagonists. ![]() NO! Not that kind of BFG! Not to be confused with The Notorious B.I.G. ![]() "I is not like the others, I is a nice Giant, I is a freaky Giant. ![]() |