Author : Amy Adeney
Publisher : EK Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,99 MB
Release : 2021-02-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781925820515
Emma is desperate to join Carly's Cartwheel Club. But is being in Carly's club as much fun as Emma thinks it will be? A clever exploration of the social bullying conducted by 'frenemies' that is so often experienced by primary school-aged girls.
Author : Tracy Peterson
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 37,56 MB
Release : 2021-03-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781944528126
Lively Sloan loves to make up dances, put on shows, and do art. But as she heads into first grade, nothing frustrates her more than reading. In math, the numbers go together right in her brain, but no matter how hard she looks at letters, and no matter how many times her teacher and parents say "focus," she would much rather do cartwheels. She feels sad that she isn't "with" her class and isn't reading the "right way." Then, she finds out that she has dyslexia. Join Sloan on her journey to learn to read, gain confidence, and find her own special kind of smart. Cartwheels is a great story for opening conversations and explaining the basics of dyslexia to children.
Author : Nancy Warren
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 37,82 MB
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1426808003
Ex-spouses are perfectly capable of playing it cool professionally...aren't they? One year ago Mike Lundquist was a nobody sports writer. Now he's the hot racing columnist. And he's genuinely shocked to spot his ex-wife swapping canapés with the guys. What's she doing on his turf? Taylor Robinson knows the media. She knows NASCAR...and she's determined to be the best PR flack this side of the Smokies. Her swagger lasts all of two hours, though-until she discovers the one reporter she has to woo is her ex-husband! If they're going to work together they'd better play fair. Especially since there's nothing cool about their feelings for each other....
Author : Jayanti Tamm
Publisher : Crown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 33,34 MB
Release : 2009-04-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 030745164X
In this colorful, eye-opening memoir, Jayanti Tamm offers an unforgettable glimpse into the hidden world of growing up “cult” in mainstream America. Through Jayanti’s fascinating story–the first book to chronicle Sri Chinmoy–she unmasks a leader who convinces thousands of disciples to follow him, scores of nations to dedicate monuments to him, and throngs of celebrities (Sting, Pope John Paul II, Nelson Mandela) to extol him. When the short, bald man in flowing robes prophesizes Jayanti to be the “Chosen One,” her life is forever entwined with the charismatic guru Sri Chinmoy, who declares himself a living god. A god who performs sit-ups and push-ups in front of thousands as holy ritual, protects himself with a platoon of bodyguards, and bans books, TV, and sex. Jayanti’s unusual and increasingly bizarre childhood is spent shuttling between the ashram in Queens, New York, and her family’s outpost as “Connecticut missionaries.” On the path to enlightenment decreed by Guru, Jayanti scrubs animal cages in his illegal basement zoo, cheerleads as he weight lifts an elephant in her front yard, and trails him around the world as he pursues celebrities such as Princess Diana and Mother Teresa. But, when her need for enlightenment is derailed by her need for boys, Jayanti risks losing everything that she has ever known, including the person that she was ordained to be. With tenderness, insight, and humor, Jayanti explores the triumphs and trauma of an insider who longs to be an outsider, her hard-won decision to finally break free, and the unique challenges she confronts as she builds a new life.
Author : Beth Mills
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books ®
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 15,57 MB
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1541564383
In her debut picture book, Beth Mills offers a pitch-perfect look at recess, friendship, and being a good sport. First grader Ella McKeen is the undisputed kickball queen until a new girl named Riya shows up—and shows her up at recess. How does Ella handle losing? By throwing herself on the grass and screaming while the rest of the class watches her fall apart. Yikes!
Author : Amy Adeney
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 39,61 MB
Release : 2021-10
Category : Art teachers
ISBN : 9781922385444
Serafina is Tilda's new art teacher. Serafina wears super arty clothes, cool jangly earrings and has a real artistic spirit. Tilda is keen to show Serafina that she has an artistic spirit too. But when Serafina starts giving Tilda's good friend Binky all the attention Tilda feels confusible. That's right, confused and invisible. Tilda starts to question her artistic skills, and is soon running her own art class to help her get better at drawing. But will all Tilda's drawing practice really help her true artistic spirit shine through?
Author : Irena Kobald
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 16,51 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0544432282
When a little girl nicknamed "Cartwheel" moves to a different country with her family to be safe she has a hard time adjusting to her new home.
Author : Gopal Muthusami
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 46,32 MB
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1482871769
Santosh, a young engineering graduate, goes from a city to his backward, native village in Thanjavur, South India, to start a small manufacturing factory and farm his ancestral lands. Set in the mid-1970s, the story describes Santosh's serious and humorous interactions with the local folk and their idiosyncrasies, his attempts at farming, the obstacles he faces from the local authorities, the machinations of his dishonest caretaker Govindraj who has been looking after his family's property for many years and embezzling their money and how Santosh struggles to cope with the various adverse situations that continually confront and challenge him.
Author : Bonnie Bryant
Publisher : Skylark
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 40,42 MB
Release : 2013-02-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0307825884
Stevie Lake, Carole Hanson, and Lisa Atwood are hoping to compete in a prestigious horse show. To that end, they are doing everything they can to stay on stable owner Max Regnery's good side—including doing extra chores around Pine Hollow such as exercising stable horses, like Samson. Veronica diAngelo is sure that she'll be making the trip to the horse show—just as she's sure that she'll be bringing home a blue ribbon. And of course, Veronica has no intention of lifting a finger to help anyone. The Saddle Club would love to beat Veronica, but how? She and her horse are tough competition. Then Lisa takes Samson over a jump. He's a natural. Now the Saddle Club has to keep their "secret weapon" under wraps and teach Veronica a lesson she won't forget.
Author : Carolyn Quinn
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 48,36 MB
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1617038539
Hers is the show business saga you think you already know--but you ain't seen nothin' yet. Rose Thompson Hovick, mother of June Havoc and Gypsy Rose Lee, went down in theatrical history as "The Stage Mother from Hell" after her immortalization on Broadway in Gypsy: A Musical Fable. Yet the musical was 75 percent fictionalized by playwright Arthur Laurents and condensed for the stage. Rose's full story is even more striking. Born fearless on the North Dakota prairie in 1891, Rose Thompson had a kind father and a gallivanting mother who sold lacy finery to prostitutes. She became an unhappy teenage bride whose marriage yielded two entrancing daughters, Louise and June. When June was discovered to be a child prodigy in ballet, capable of dancing en pointe by the age of three, Rose, without benefit of any theatrical training, set out to create onstage opportunities for her magical baby girl--and succeeded. Rose followed her own star and created two more in dramatic and colorful style: "Baby June" became a child headliner in vaudeville, and Louise grew up to be the well-known burlesque star Gypsy Rose Lee. The rest of Mama Rose's remarkable story included love affairs with both men and women, the operation of a "lesbian pick-up joint" where she sold homemade bathtub gin, wild attempts to extort money from Gypsy and June, two stints as a chicken farmer, and three allegations of cold-blooded murder--all of which was deemed unfit for the script of Gypsy. Here, at last, is the rollicking, wild saga that never made it to the stage.
