Author : Jon Voelkel
Publisher : Darby Creek
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 26,17 MB
Release : 2010-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1606840711
When his archaeologist parents go missing in Central America, fourteen-year-old Max embarks on a wild adventure through the Mayan underworld in search of the legendary Jaguar Stones, which enabled ancient Mayan kings to wield the powers of living gods. Includes cast of characters, glossary, facts about the Maya cosmos and calendar, and a recipe for chicken tamales.
Author : Julia S. Charles
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 17,49 MB
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1469659581
In this study of racial passing literature, Julia S. Charles highlights how mixed-race subjects invent cultural spaces for themselves—a place she terms that middle world—and how they, through various performance strategies, make meaning in the interstices between the Black and white worlds. Focusing on the construction and performance of racial identity in works by writers from the antebellum period through Reconstruction, Charles creates a new discourse around racial passing to analyze mixed-race characters' social objectives when crossing into other racialized spaces. To illustrate how this middle world and its attendant performativity still resonates in the present day, Charles connects contemporary figures, television, and film—including Rachel Dolezal and her Black-passing controversy, the FX show Atlanta, and the musical Show Boat—to a range of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary texts. Charles's work offers a nuanced approach to African American passing literature and examines how mixed-race performers articulated their sense of selfhood and communal belonging.
Author : M. Haw
Publisher : Springer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 20,28 MB
Release : 2016-10-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 0230552315
Between the microscopic world of quarks and atoms, and the macroscopic (observable) one of pebbles and planets, there is another world, strangely neglected by science. It is inhabited by things like pollen, DNA and viruses. Physicist Mark Haw tells the story of how scientists finally saw the restless middle world, having ignored it for so long.
Author : Breyten Breytenbach
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,29 MB
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1608460142
An acclaimed South African writer, freedom fighter, and artist illuminates the labyrinth of our political present.
Author : J&P Voelkel
Publisher : Darby Creek ™
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 16,76 MB
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 160684377X
The epic conclusion to the exciting Jaguar Stones series and a rip-roaring adventure into the heart of North America! With his parents in jail and the Maya Death Lords in possession of all five Jaguar Stones, fourteen-year-old Max Murphy is pretty sure that he'll never get to leave the rainforest. But the Lords of Death have a problem—a new king calling himself Great Sun claims to have the Jaguar Stones, too. And they want Max to prove the guy's a fraud. Or else. Now, Max, and Lola, the mysterious girl who befriends him, are off on another wild adventure that will take them from Central America to New Orleans and up the Mississippi to the lost city at the heart of North America's past. But one thing Max should have learned after all of his dealings with the Death Lords—they never keep their promises.
Author : Hiromi Goto
Publisher : Coteau Books
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 29,58 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781550501834
One day Sayuri and her little brother Keiji explore the dark root cellar and are transported from Ganola AB to Middle World, a woodland full of figures from Japanese folklore.
Author : George Crews McGhee
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 29,91 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Lois Lowry
Publisher : HMH Books For Young Readers
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 50,95 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0358129400
From two-time Newbery medalist and living legend Lois Lowry comes a moving account of the lives lost in two of WWII's most infamous events: Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima. With evocative black-and-white illustrations by SCBWI Golden Kite Award winner Kenard Pak. Lois Lowry looks back at history through a personal lens as she draws from her own memories as a child in Hawaii and Japan, as well as from historical research, in this stunning work in verse for young readers. On the Horizon tells the story of people whose lives were lost or forever altered by the twin tragedies of Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima. Based on the lives of soldiers at Pearl Harbor and civilians in Hiroshima,On the Horizon contemplates humanity and war through verse that sings with pain, truth, and the importance of bridging cultural divides. This masterful work emphasizes empathy and understanding in search of commonality and friendship, vital lessons for students as well as citizens of today's world. Kenard Pak's stunning illustrations depict real-life people, places, and events, making for an incredibly vivid return to our collective past. In turns haunting, heartbreaking, and uplifting,On the Horizonwill remind readers of the horrors and heroism in our past, as well as offer hope for our future.
Author : Alexander Yates
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 22,35 MB
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1481419811
Upon their father's death, Tess and her younger brother Axel leave New York for their grandparents' home in Finland, where they learn that a bear they both saw is the spirit of their mother, the strange man with her is the keeper of souls, and he wants Axel, already plagued with the disease that killed their mother, to replace him.
Author : Various
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 17,55 MB
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0763675547
Combines evocative photographs and illustrations in a treasury of stories by 11 international writers that were inspired by artifacts connected to World War I. Illustrated by the Kate Greenaway Medal-winning artist of A Monster Calls.
