A Festival of Literature Ideas


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This informative guide combines important background information for any literature program with innovative ideas to make literature relevant and exciting. A festival for your classroom, this wide variety of activities is a great source of fun and enjoyment for all who participate. Grades 1-6




The Little Bee Charmer of Henrietta Street


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Dublin 1911 When Eliza Kane and her brother Jonty move from the leafy suburbs of Rathmines to a tenement flat on Henrietta Street they are in for a shock. Pigs and ponies in the yard, rats in the hallways and cockroaches or 'clocks' underfoot! When they meet their new neighbour, Annie, a kind and practical teenager and her brothers, and a travelling circus comes to town, offering them both jobs, helping Madam Ada, the bee charmer, and Albert the dog trainer, things start to look up. When a tragedy happens in the tenements, Eliza, Jonty and their new friends spring into action. A tale of family, friendship and finding a new home, with touch of magical bees!




Freedom of Religion, Minorities, and the Law


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The diverse population in England has raised questions about individual and group rights, and how the political and legal system should view diversity. This book sets out and analyses these issues within their legal context, including the 1998 Human Rights Act, the EC Equality Directives, and the UK Equality Bill.




To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever


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An obsessively personal history of the blood feud between North Carolina’s and Duke’s basketball teams and what that rivalry says about class and culture in the South The basketball rivalry between Duke and North Carolina is the fiercest and longest-running blood feud in college athletics, and perhaps in all of sports. To legions of otherwise reasonable adults, it is a conflict that surpasses athletics; it is rich against poor, locals against outsiders, even good against evil. In North Carolina, where both schools reside, it is a way of aligning oneself with larger philosophic ideals—of choosing teams in life—a tradition of partisanship that reveals the pleasures and even the necessities of hatred. As the season unfolds, Blythe, the former longtime literary editor of Esquire and a lifelong Tarheels fan, will immerse himself in the lives of the two teams, eavesdropping on practice sessions, hanging with players, observing the arcane rituals of fans, and struggling to establish some basic human kinship with Duke’s players and proponents. With access to the coaches, the stars, and the bit players, it is both a chronicle of personal obsession and a record of social history.




A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea


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Owls and pussycats, cockles and mussels, golden stockings, wiggly worms and rattlin' bogs - they're all here, and more. Another wonderful collection of rhymes to delight any child, from the author and illustrator Sally Go Round the Stars.




The Novelwriter's Toolkit


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Novel writing is a popular hobby and this book will provide the would-be and starter novelist with all the tools needed to get started. This title includes a thorough grounding in essential fiction writing skills and clear guidance on how to get published from top industry names. It provides a complete glossary of terms and listing of all publishing contacts needed by an author, from book publishers and agents to festivals and online links. It includes tremendous resource of instruction and information that will prove invaluable to the armies of would-be and practising novel writers.




Reading Olympics


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Make reading quality children's literature a fun, exciting activity for your students. Help your students discover an excitement for reading with this timesaving handbook that shows you how to create a reading competition in your classroom or school. First and foremost, this book is an exciting competition that teaches reading skills. Reading Olympics is a fast-paced game that pits small groups of students against each other as they compete by reading books and completing activities. Students practice reading for detail, main ideas, and making inferences. The activities in Reading Olympics teach both reading comprehension and critical thinking skills. This guide is a perfect handbook for any language arts teacher or librarian looking for a fun, timesaving way to help students enjoy reading and learn valuable skills. Reading Olympics includes: a complete Reading Olympics planning calendar and easy-to-follow teacher instructions, suggested reading lists of quality children's literature at each grade level, award certificates, all of the necessary forms needed for scoring and recording student progress, reading comprehension and critical thinking questions for students, and book summaries for teachers for the 48 books used in the competition. This book is much more than a set of activities; it is a complete, ready-to-use reading competition that can be used during a semester or throughout the entire year. Order Reading Olympics and let the competition begin! Grades 3-6




Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2017


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This bestselling guide to all areas of publishing and the media is completely revised and updated every year. The Yearbook is packed with advice, inspiration and practical guidance on who to contact and how to get published. New articles in the 2017 edition on: Stronger together: writers united by Maggie Gee Life writing: telling other people's stories by Duncan Barrett (co-author of the Sunday Times bestseller GI Brides) The how-to of writing 'how-to' books by Kate Harrison (author of the 5:2 Diet titles) Self-publishing Dos and Dont's by Alison Baverstock The Path to a bestseller by Clare Mackintosh (author of the 2015 Let Me Go) Getting your lucky break by Claire McGowan Getting your poetry out there by Neil Astley (MD and Editor at Bloodaxe Books) Selling yourself and your work online by Fig Taylor Then and now: becoming a science fiction and fantasy writer - Aliette de Bodard Writing (spy) fiction - Mick Herron Making waves online - Simon Appleby All articles are reviewed and updated every year. Key articles on Copyright Law, Tax, Publishing Agreements, E-publishing, Publishing news and trends are fully updated every year. Plus over 4,000 listings entries on who to contact and how across the media and publishing worlds In short it is 'Full of useful stuff' - J.K. Rowling Foreword to the 2017 edition by Deborah Levy.







Eurasia's Regional Powers Compared - China, India, Russia


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Taking a long view, and a wide perspective, this book by Japan's leading scholars on Asia and Eurasia provides a comprehensive and systematic comparison of the three greatest powers in the region and assesses how far the recent growth trajectories of these countries are sustainable in the long run. The book demonstrates the huge impact on the region of these countries. It examines the population, resource and economic basis for the countries' rise, considers political, social and cultural factors, and sets recent developments in a long historical context. Throughout, the different development paths of the three countries are compared and contrasted, and the new models for the future of the world order which they represent are analysed.