![]() Like many of MacDonald's popular stories, his writing is able to raise questions of theology and philosophy in ways that children can understand and learn from. During these adventures, Diamond learns that the North Wind both helps people and creates disaster, an image of God's will through life and death, as everything always ends up okay by the end of the night. After he befriends this kind, maternal-like spirit, she takes him on different adventures that call for the North Wind. In his children's book At the Back of the North Wind, published in 1871, Diamond, a sweet young boy who comes from a poor family, is swept away by the North Wind. His work has influenced many major literary figures, such as Lewis Carroll, G. MacDonald, a Scottish author and Christian minister, is most known for his unique children's fairy tales, blended with lessons on faith and morality. ![]() ![]() ![]() Known as one of the most ethereal children's fantasies by George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind has been a favorite among families for over a century. Like many MacDonald novels, this children's book contains lessons on faith and morality within a fantasy all can enjoy. About the Book In "At the Back of the North Wind," by influential Christian author George MacDonald, a young boy named Diamond befriends the spirit of the North Wind, who takes him on many adventures of both good deeds and chaotic disaster. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Pitt (yes, I too can't help but giggle), it is her meeting with the school board to become the head of the English department. This couldn't happen on any worse of a day for either of the two protagonists since today is the first time in months Hadley's crush has spoken to her, and there is the first I-Hate-Mondays DANCE! As for Ms. In the Freaky Friday, Lindsay Lohan/Jamie Lee Curtis fashion, they finish a sentence together, the room shakes (which only they feel), and then they are transformed. ![]() Pitt makes Hadley try to wing her report and allows her a change in topic, something happens. ![]() Pitt the hippie, eccentric, over-involved teacher who prefers to be called Carol that Hadley can't stand.Īs Ms. ![]() Said assignment is an oral report for none other than Tatum's favorite teacher, Ms. Matters turn horrifying for Hadley when she forgets to write down an assignment in her "Super Student Planner Plus" and her whole world seems to collapse around her. Hadley, even at 13, strives for Stanford as her college destination, but the one thing she also strives to do is become her gorgeous, loved-by-everyone older sister, Tatum. She has a 4.3 GPA (I know, makes me feel terrible for my grades in school!), studies like crazy, and constantly has her nose in a book. Thirteen-year-old Hadley Fox (I so love her name!) is not your average eighth grader. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She died at age 89 August 29, 1979, but the Boxcar Children are still being written about by a team of writers faithful to her vision. Buy Blue Bay Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner, Dirk Gringhuis from Waterstones today Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK. The Alden children became so popular that she wrote 19 adventures about them including Surprise Island, Mystery Ranch, and Snowbound Mystery. She wrote the first Boxcar book in 1924, while home recuperating from an illness, but the version most people are familiar with was originally published in 1942. During World War I, a shortage of teachers prompted the local school board to hire her to teach first grade, a position she held for over 30 years. Due to her poor health, she never finished high school and studied with a tutor. Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup. Gertrude Chandler Warner was born in Putnam, Connecticut on April 16, 1890. Read reviews and buy Blue Bay Mystery - (Boxcar Children Mysteries) by Gertrude Chandler Warner (Paperback) at Target. Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 54119 KB). ![]() ![]() Is someone on the island watching them?ġ online resource (2 audio files) : digital But soon they discover clues that they are not alone. The Aldens are excited to visit a deserted South Seas island. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe Andy Weir’s protagonists do always have the same personality. Sure, maybe Project Hail Mary has its flaws. Honestly, guys, I think I might like this one even more than The Martian… ![]() Your futuristic software has really got to suck if the free online version of a twenty-first century math program knows more about polar coordinates than your computer does…īut anyway, back to the book: From the very beginning, I was absolutely hooked, and then it just kept getting better! Project Hail Mary has everything I ever could have hoped for in an epic science fiction adventure – lots of math, wacky humor, one of the most adorable friendships I’ve ever read about, an alien threat that could mean the end of life on Earth as we know it – and things I didn’t even dream of asking for, like a bunch of language snippets and music trivia that made my inner nerd dance with joy! It constantly had me at the edge of my seat bed because I just couldn’t put it down until I knew how it ended. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "This captivating tale of the rise of this Italian merchant family is seldom portrayed, and it plays out delightfully in this well-written novel."- School Library Journal It soon becomes clear that Catherine will need all the cunning she can muster to command the respect she deserves as one of sixteenth-century France's most powerful queens, in this riveting historical novel in the Young Royals series. But, all too soon, that love is replaced with an engagement to a boy who is cold and aloof. After a childhood spent locked away behind the walls of a convent, she joins the household of the pope, where at last she can be united with her true love. Young Catherine de' Medici is the sole heiress to the entire fortune of the wealthy Medici family. ![]() From the New York Times-bestselling author: She is the wealthiest and most envied girl in all of Italy-but she yearns for freedom. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL – “Full of warmth, love, and support, this is an important story and an essential purchase.” It deals with issues of gender identity and questioning, especially within the larger LGBTQIA+ community and features a cast of queer main characters of color who identify across the spectrum on their gender and sexuality-important intersectional representation not often seen in YA lit. ![]() ![]() But when his plans to get revenge on a transphobic anonymous bully via catfishing lands him in a quasi-love triangle, he’ll learn a thing or two about falling in love-and recognizing the love that may have been there all along.įELIX EVER AFTER is an empowering, compulsively readable trans coming-of-age story with a happy and romantic ending. What’s worse is that, despite being proud of his identity, Felix also secretly fears that he’s one marginalization too many-Black, queer, and transgender-to get his own happily ever after. From National Book, Stonewall, and Lambda Literary Award-winning author Kacen Callender comes a poignant story of identity and self-discovery, layered with romance.įelix Love has never been in love, and he’s painfully aware of the irony. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is a Christian author, who firmly believes in God and incorporates her faith into some of her work.more Her goal for her books is to inspire and give hope. Rae-Beth is a mother to an angel in Heaven.Miss Dakota, whom she honored in Saying Goodbye Without Saying Hello. After many months of deliberation, Rae-Beth decided to trust her sister's word and expand her short story into what we all know and love as The Silenced Series. She’s been writing in some form her entire life, but loving young sister, Audra McGee noticed her talent and gave her the reassurance she needed to start her writing career. ![]() Rae-Beth McGee-Buda resides in the rolling hills of Fairview, West Virginia with her husband, daughter, and son. She is a Christian author, who firmly believes in God and incorporates her faith into some of her work. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Let’s assume you’ve read that post and scrubbed your resume so it’s concise, error-free, legible, and honest. In my last post, “ The Biggest Mistakes I See on Resumes, and How to Correct Them,” I covered the all-too-common mistakes that knock applicants out of consideration at many companies. The sole purpose of a resume is to get you past that first screen and into an interview. I’ll write about some of these - especially unconscious bias - in the future.įor now, I want to focus on the most controllable element of a job search: your resume. As a candidate, you can’t control whether a company requires a work visa, whether some executive’s kid has an inside track on your dream job, or whether your interviewer has some private or unconscious bias that will hurt your chances. There's a ton of unfairness in the job search process. What does this have to do with looking for a job? It goes roughly: “Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” Reinhold Niebuhr wrote a prayer that many of you will recognize. ![]() ![]() ![]() And we try to say, well, that’s the Serbian vampire. He adds that “we use the term ‘vampire’ and then we find all these different cross-cultural examples. “There’s a whole body of literature that doesn’t really make its way into that Western canon that is a little bit closer to the original folk traditions, or certainly vampire myths,” Brady says. But he stresses that author Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel only offers a Western interpretation of the mythical being. ![]() Joel Brady, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh’s University Center for Teaching and Learning and who has come to be known as the ”vampire professor” in certain necks of the woods, acknowledges that Dracula is the GOAT to the most voracious chupacabras of the topic. From TV shows like FX’s What We Do in the Shadows and AMC’s upcoming Interview with the Vampire to movies like next year’s Salem’s Lot and this year’s Morbius, vampire stories will never get old for the entertainment industry.īut those aren’t the only mediums that can stake a claim on the genre. ![]() ![]() ![]() My first instinct is to run over there and poke his eyeballs out with my fingers so he can never look at her again, but I restrain myself, because Anna’s right. I continue my reps when I notice Rex across the gym, staring at Anna intently. Hell, before her, I never wanted a family, or a wife either. ![]() I don’t need her knowing that she’s got my head all twisted up with ideas of things I can never have. Just focusing on the match,” I bite out between rep counts, trying to shield her from what’s really on my mind. It runs in my blood to f*ck up lives, which is what I’ll probably end up doing to Anna, but I’m too much of a selfish prick to walk away from her.Īnna sits on the bench across from me as I lift some free weights, gazing into my eyes. I have to stop thinking like this-I’m poison, and no kid deserves to have a father who will eventually taint them. I rub my face as thoughts of what having my own family with Anna might be like cross my mind. It allows me to see her tenderness on full display. Anna and Liv seem to be hitting it off well, and I love watching her around Kami. We caravanned with Brian and Liv down here to Orlando on Wednesday for Thursday’s live televised event, Thursday Tension. The show must go on, isn’t that how the old adage goes? It’s been two days since I’ve seen Rex, but that doesn’t mean jack. ![]() |