While having a sister like Ramona is not easy, it’s hard not to love family. However, when she discovers that her mom and Aunt Beatrice had funny childhood experiences of their own, Beezus may realize that all sibling relationships have their challenges. The ruined cake-and potentially ruined birthday celebration-are the last straw. She takes one bite out of every apple in a box, enjoys walking her pretend lizard named Ralph, invites 15 kids to her house without permission, and ruins two birthday cakes made for Beezus’s tenth birthday. Ramona likes to wear her handmade rabbit ears and pretend to be the Easter Bunny. She is constantly testing Beezus’s patience and causing embarrassing problems, the kind of problems that cause the girls not to get along. Ramona is four years old and has a big imagination. A movie titled Ramona and Beezus is based on many books in the Ramona series. Beezus and Ramona is published in multiple languages worldwide as part of an eight-book series. Sister or no sister, Beezus and Ramona is a hilarious book about a nine-year-old girl named Beezus, short for Beatrice, and her relationship with her younger sister Ramona. Raise your hand if you find her annoying. Raise your hand if you have an older sister. Raise your hand if you have a little sister.
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She also fears the case may have a connection with her computer genius niece, Lucy. It appears she’s been murdered, mere weeks before the trial in her $100 million lawsuit against her former financial manager, and Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta doubts it’s a coincidence. A body, oddly draped in an unusual cloth, has just been discovered inside the sheltered gates of MIT, and it’s suspected the identity is that of missing computer engineering grad student Gail Shipton, last seen the night before at a trendy Cambridge bar. With unparalleled high-tension suspense and the latest in forensic technology, Patricia Cornwell once again proves her exceptional ability to surprise-and to thrill-in this electrifying Kay Scarpetta novel. The banter flows freely and the tension stays high while Nax contends with his growing attraction to both Rion and Case. As the five flee from planet to planet with terrorists on their tail, they build a believable friendship. By the time they team up with Asra, a Bengali Muslim hijabi girl and talented hacker, they’ve been framed for the assault and have only days to save the colonies. When terrorists attack the station, Nax steals their shuttle to escape, along with three other Academy washouts: Rion, a rich black boy from London with an interest in politics Zee, a blonde, athletic trans girl from Kazakhstan who’s skilled at medicine and surgery and Case, a former child genius and tech prodigy with two moms (one Latinx, one Asian) who suffers from panic attacks. Wannabe pilot Nax Hall is mortified at failing out of the program on his first day. A diverse crew of space academy washouts cracks wise and kicks ass while racing against time to save Earth colonies from terrorists.īy the year 2194, space colonization is a fact of life, and future colony officers train at the Ellis Station Academy on the moon. What do you do when your goddess is murdered? If you’re a former temple assassin with a huge price on your head like Aral Kingslayer, you go into the shadow jack business, solving problems and doing odd jobs on the fringes of the underworld in Tien. Or is it? When Aral delivers the message, he gets the biggest surprise of his new life, and maybe, just maybe, the chance to forge a future where he won’t have to be ashamed of himself. Not until a young woman named Maylien hires him to deliver a secret message.Ī simple enough job. He doesn’t much like what he’s become, and Triss likes it even less, but Aral doesn’t see any way out. Now he’s a shadow jack, a free lance problem solver who makes his living out of odd jobs on the wrong side of the law. Before his life fell apart and he crawled into the whiskey bottle. Before the wanted posters and the sentence of death. Before they murdered his goddess and burned her temple to the ground. With his familiar, a living shadow named Triss, at his side, he killed for a cause, never for money. Fallen Blade is a six book series beginning with Broken Blade and ending with Darkened Blade.Īral Kingslayer was an assassin once upon a time, perhaps the best in the world, one of the fabled Blades of Namara, goddess of Justice. Did your impression of Christopher change as the story progressed? Why or why not?ģ. What was your first impression of Christopher Lane when he was introduced in the story, sitting in the school office waiting for the principal? Use descriptions from the book to support your answer. What is a prologue and what importance is the prologue to this particular story?Ģ. It seems that age twelve is a special time for the human brain, which is capable of remarkable feats-as also evidenced by Chris’s peers Ernest and Mortimer Genver, who, at the direction of their vengeful and manipulative mother, are testing the boundaries of the human mind.īut all this experimentation has consequences, and Chris soon finds himself forced to face them-or his new life will be over before it can begin. When Christopher begins at his new school, he is astounded at what he can do. But a mysterious visit from the Ministry of Education indicates that Chris might have some potential after all: He is invited to attend the prestigious Myers Holt Academy. His teachers discount him as a liar and a thief, and his mom doesn’t have the energy to deal with him. No one has any confidence in twelve-year-old Christopher Lane. Delve into the extraordinary abilities of the twelve-year-old mind in this “fast-paced, superhero-tinged spy novel” ( Publishers Weekly), the thrilling start to a middle grade series that expands the possibilities of power. This stint as a medical samaritan doesn't last, as Koscuisko's abilities as a torturer are again called on when the first lieutenant is murdered. He extends this assignment to a general raid on the government's medical supplies to aid the slave population. His medical ability is needed on the planet Burkhayden to save a Nurail slave who has been brutally raped by the ship's first lieutenant. The opposite side to Koscuisko's talent for torture is his job as chief medical officer. He stays on board the starship Ragnarok to protect the Nurail slaves from his cruel Captain, while submitting himself to the Captain's games and exploitation. In "Hour of Judgment'' (Avon, $5.99), she brilliantly uses science fiction's freedom of creation to make a world in which she can explore deep moral conflicts.Īndrej Koscuisko is a tortured torturer. Matthews transforms this battered idea into a platform for something far more interesting than space war stories. 24 - Far future military empires based on royalty and slaves are more often than not quite silly, but Susan R. Military empire good scene for moral conflict Review: Half Bad turned out to be a neat surprise when I read it last year. Nathan himself must warily join forces with some rather suspect “allies” in order to even have a chance of saving Annalise, and their assistance comes in exchange for playing a key role in furthering an agenda that will impact all witches, both Black and White, across Europe. He’ll do anything, even risk death at the hands of the hated, merciless Hunters, to wake Annalise, one of the few people to touch his heart, from the deep sleep that only another witch with highly dubious motives can release her from. To Sum It Up: Nathan may be on the run from the Hunters who want to kill him, but there’s a life that he values more than his own. What Normal People does brilliantly is depict how to try to move forward with grief and how to accept what your life has now become. We believe that the events and themes that take place in Normal People could be familiar to those affected by suicide and could provide comfort to viewers who are bereaved. This is a refreshing watch as we rarely see the handling of men’s mental health issues in mainstream media representations. Following this heartbreaking scene, Connell gets help from his counsellor to process his grief for Rob as well as his treatment for depression. Connell wishes he could have his old life back, with Rob and his school friends in Sligo. Connell is overwhelmed with guilt that he didn’t text Rob back and plays over in his mind that he didn’t see him enough.Īctor Paul Mescal’s portrayal of Connell is brilliant, especially in a very powerful scene where he speaks to a counsellor for the first time. This is escalated further when he hears the news that his school friend Rob has died by suicide. He starts to miss his old life back in Sligo and becomes disengaged with university. Connell’s mental health begins to deteriorate when he moves away from home and begins university in Dublin. The story follows the love story of Marianne and Connell, an unlikely pair, who meet in school and then journey to university together. Sally Rooney’s critically acclaimed novel Normal People and the subsequent BBC TV adaptation realistically depicts men’s mental health and Ireland’s suicide epidemic. However, be careful if sharing the poems with the younger students. Offensive Language- This collection of poems doesn't offer any degrading vocabulary. Although I probably wouldn't begin this type of poetry until possibly Kindergarten students will love the short and exciting ways of creating memorable poems and enjoy the sketches created on each page.Ĭulturally Appropriate- Because all of the pictures are in black pen there are no colors and the characters range from animals to people who all look generally the same which is enticing for any reader. Shel Silverstein tells us all about reflections, messy rooms, blame and being tired in a laughable form that is appropriate for all ages. It is full of fun and nonsense poetry with some rhyming and other poetic qualities. This poetry book is one of my all time favorites. I’ll try again,” I said to myself and started the next exercise! Cross out the words, until you have written a poem, was the instruction for this new exercise. While searching for new inspiration and approaches for my work as a goldsmith, the book suddenly fell into my hands again and I was very surprised to see the exercises I had already done and couldn’t remember at all. After having done some exercises, I put it in a shelf and completely forgot about it -contrary to the explicit use instructions of the author-, who says, that you should always carry it around and do the exercises regularly. About a year ago I bought the notebook “ Steal like an Artist” by Austin Kleon. |