![]() ![]() Laura Lemanski is a graduate student in Curriculum and Instruction whose favorite things include stacks of books and pounds of Swedish Fish. Harper-Collins Resources: Book trailer, activity guide and moreĪuthor Spotlight: Drew Daywalt (interview) ![]() Far from heavy-handed, Daywalt and Rex deliver a message of bravery and friendship wrapped up in a rip-roaring action-packed adventure story of which legends are made. This imaginative story is a laugh-out-loud read, especially for those who readily resort to rock-paper-scissor decision making. ![]() The large, striking fonts showcase the frenetic battle sequences as readers are transported from the kingdom, to the Empire of Mom’s Home Office to the Kitchen Realm and beyond as our warriors search for worthy opponents. With Rock challenging a brash peach to a battle with silly slams like “You, sir, look like a fuzzy little butt,” it is hard not to snort with delight, especially when reading aloud to young audiences. With vibrant illustrations, Rex is able to take the familiar and make it strange in this uproarious adventure. But, oh no! In The Legend of Rock, Paper, Scissors, it is much more exciting in Drew Daywalt’s and Adam Rex’s take on the exciting legend that starts in “the Kingdom of Backyard.” Dewalt and Rex introduce us to the key players we thought we knew. The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors reveals the epic tale behind everyone’s favourite. ![]() A laugh-out-loud funny new children’s book from the author of The Day the Crayons Quit. Note: This item is eligible for FREE Click and Collect without a minimum order subject to availability. You thought you knew the story: rock beats scissors, scissors beats paper, paper beats rock. £6.99 16 Used from £1.37 13 New from £5.13. ![]()
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6/10/2023 0 Comments Book the wicked deep![]() Goodreads Best of the Month for March 2018 And she will be forced to choose: save Bo, or save herself. And death comes swiftly to those who cannot resist the call of the sisters.īut only Penny sees what others cannot. ![]() Penny and Bo suspect each other of hiding secrets. The townspeople turn against one another. Mistrust and lies spread quickly through the salty, rain-soaked streets. But this year, on the eve of the sisters’ return, a boy named Bo Carter arrives unaware of the danger he has just stumbled into. Like many locals, seventeen-year-old Penny Talbot has accepted the fate of the town. Now, for a brief time each summer, the sisters return, stealing the bodies of three weak-hearted girls so that they may seek their revenge, luring boys into the harbor and pulling them under. Stones were tied to their ankles and they were drowned in the deep waters surrounding the town. Where, two centuries ago, three sisters were sentenced to death for witchery. Hocus Pocus and Practical Magic meets the Salem Witch trials in this haunting story about three sisters on a quest for revenge-and how love may be the only thing powerful enough to stop them. ![]() “Eerie and enchanting.” -Jessica Spotswood, author of The Cahill Witch Chronicles “A story about the redemptive power of love.” -Amber Smith, New York Times bestselling author of The Way I Used to Be “Prepare to be bewitched.” -Paula Stokes, author of Girl Against the Universe “Complex and sweetly satisfying.” - Booklist “A wickedly chilling debut.” - School Library Journal ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Qiu miaojin![]() ![]() I had my old schema (which offered a peephole, really) to blame for my decision to leave this woman, to kill her and preserve her body in this sarcophagus, where she’d stay mine forever. It was the one in which Shui Ling had been entombed, and across the front, it read: This woman is madly in love with me. It didn’t take long to spot the largest sarcophagus. Inside the world of my tomb, everyone else was dead, I alone survived, and that was the reason for my sorrow. I’d never before unearthed so much of myself, and so suddenly at that. ![]() That was my Atlantis, the kingdom I’d built in the name of separation. I’d long been tending their graves-secretly visiting and mourning during the day, going out and erecting a cross on starry nights, lying inside and awaiting my own death on starless nights. “I’d taken everyone I loved and killed them off in my heart, one by one. ![]() ![]() ![]() Resigned to his fate, Blakey tosses his revolver out of the barn door and surrenders to the police. He forgives the girl and, after much prompting from Kathy, promises she will see him again. Convinced that she has let Jesus down, Kathy sneaks behind the structure and apologies to Blakey that she can no longer protect him. The children of the village, perhaps 100 of them by now in on the secret, converge on the barn. When the news finally reaches an adult, Kathys father, the police are called in to apprehend the criminal. Most of the children in the nearby small town eventually become aware that "Jesus" is living in the barn, complicating Kathys attempt at keeping it a secret. We learn from a poster that he is wanted for murder. The fugitive makes no attempt to correct their mistake, especially when he discovers the eldest child, Kathy, is determined to protect him from discovery by the local police. The bearded man, referred to as "Blakey" by the police, is mistaken for Jesus Christ by the children, who are influenced by stories they have heard at Sunday school. The plot follows the lives of three Lancashire farm children who discover a fugitive hiding in their barn. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Originally published in 1864, Jules Verne's classic remains critically acclaimed for its style and imaginative visions. The expedition descends into an extinct volcano toward a sunless sea, where they encounter a subterranean world of luminous rocks, antediluvian forests, and fantastic marine life - a living past that holds the secrets to the origins of human existence. Professor Lidenbrock can't resist the opportunity to investigate, and with his nephew Axel, he sets off across Iceland in the company of Hans Bjelke, a native guide. ClarkeĪn adventurous geology professor chances upon a manuscript in which a 16th-century explorer claims to have found a route to the earth's core. "The reason Verne is still read by millions today is simply that he was one of the best storytellers who ever lived." - Arthur C. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Chouette by claire oshetsky![]() ![]() Not only does the baby seem to direct her thoughts, behaviors, and speech, as well as render her body ripe with the smell of rotting meat, but at a rehearsal the baby “hijacks fingers” until she concedes and plays a piece the baby approves of.Īfter realizing that her career will need to be put on hold for some time-she can’t risk performing, plus her stench makes being in public a challenge-Tiny becomes totally consumed by caring for the owlet. A professional musician, Tiny is attuned to the fact that the creature gestating inside her can’t possibly be human. From the very first line, we know we’re in an unreal reality, yet Tiny’s question to her unborn child-”How could such a thing come to pass between woman and owl?”-echoes with a sense of wonder and possibility. ![]() Right away, Oshetsky asks us to suspend our disbelief. Through her experience we see motherhood and associated notions of sacrifice, compassion, and belonging upended and redefined. For Tiny is not with child per se-not a human child, but rather an owlet, the offspring of an affair she has with a wild female owl in a dream. Equal parts magical realist and radical feminist, the novel follows the plight of Tiny, a woman whose journey through pregnancy and motherhood vies with the most dramatic of Hollywood depictions. If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, then Claire Oshetsky’s delightfully disturbing novel, Chouette, offers a nonplanetary paradigm through which to view the female experience: the bestial. ![]() ![]() “Now, you know how some white folks feel about Black bodies,” Miss Pope tells Civil. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play ![]() ![]() The book, written from Civil’s first-person point of view, opens in 2016, as Civil nears retirement and reflects on what she learned over the course of her career. In 1973, a new nursing graduate, Civil Townsend, meets the girls as part of her work with the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic. In Take My Hand, the preteen girls are named Erica and India. The Relf sisters were mentally disabled children, 12 and 14 years old, respectively, when they were surgically sterilized without their knowledge. This is the context, and backdrop, of Dolen Perkins-Valdez’s affecting new novel, Take My Hand, which hones in on the horrific forced annual sterilization of between 100,000 and 150,000 recipients of welfare benefits in the 1970s, inspired by the true story of Minnie Lee and Mary Alice Relf. The history of medical mistreatment of Black people and the poor by medical professionals is as long as the history of medicine in the Americas, and unfortunately, Alabama is the home base for many of these atrocities. ![]() ![]() ![]() Told with equal measures of humor and heartbreak, Commonwealth is a meditation on inspiration, interpretation, and the ownership of stories. ![]() Their childhood becomes the basis for his wildly successful book, ultimately forcing them to come to terms with their losses, their guilt, and the deeply loyal connection they feel for one another. When, in her twenties, Franny begins an affair with the legendary author Leon Posen and tells him about her family, the story of her siblings is no longer hers to control. Spending summers together in Virginia, the Keating and Cousins children forge a lasting bond based on a shared disillusionment with their parents and the strange and genuine affection that grows among them. ![]() Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny's mother, Beverly - thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families. Summary: One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Where this description contains a link to another party's website for further information on the product, please note that Ocado has no control over and no liability for the contents of that website. Ocado is therefore unable to accept liability for any incorrect information. If you do require precise ingredient information you should consult the manufacturer, whose contact details will appear on the packaging or label. ![]() You should note that products and their ingredients are subject to change. While we have taken care in preparing this summary and believe it is accurate, it is not a substitute for your reading the product packaging and label prior to use. This page serves as a summary for information purposes only, and are designed to enhance your shopping experience on the Ocado website. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Sarah's Choice by Pegg Thomas![]() ![]() I then email the author and ask how much is involved. I can handle a lot in fiction, but that one thing is just too hard for me to get past, so I tend not to keep going when I see it coming. In her first book of the Forts of Refuge series, Sarah’s Choice, I got a chapter or two in and realized that Sarah was about to be raped. ![]() Because of this, you see a raw, gritty side to historical fiction that is often glossed over in books that prefer to dwell on a kinder, gentler past. If they did good things that don’t fit the current narrative… she shows that, too. If historical people did terrible things… she shows it. One of the things I love most about Pegg Thomas’ writing is that she doesn’t shy away from things that aren’t exactly popular. ![]() If You Love Authentic Historical Fiction, Don’t Miss This Author Note: links may be affiliate links, providing me with a small commission at no extra expense to you. As a “Colonial to Post Civil War” author, her books span a good bit of history, but they all hold one thing in common–strong women, true history, everyone on all sides of coins coming out looking as bad and good as human nature can be and as history reflects. ![]() Since then, she’s gone on to publish other historical books. Shortly afterward, I read her book in one of the Barbour collections (Lighthouses) and I loved her book (and it was almost if not the only one I loved in the collection). I first “met” Pegg, when we started chatting over an amazing debut author. ![]() |