Author : Safety Dave
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 22,76 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Safety education
ISBN : 1452072183
Safety Dave & Daisy begin their first bus adventure together. Since its Daisy's first time on the bus, Safety Dave needs to teach her the rules about riding the bus before it arrives.
Author : Dave McNutt
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 49,56 MB
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781477287194
A bully is someone who intentionally directs physical or verbal aggression or harassment toward another person. Often times, the behavior is intended to gain power over or dominate another individual. Bullying has become one of the leading forms of violence in our society. It is estimated that between 15 and 30 percent of students are bullies or victims. Bullying has become a widespread problem in our schools and communities. It impacts many people every day and can cause lifelong damage to its victims. It can affect the way children feel about themselves. It also can hinder development and progress at school; unfortunately, bullying exists everywhere. Bullying is a behavior that can include repeated name-calling, threatening and hurtful behavior, hitting, kicking, teasing, pushing, or other actions that make people feel uncomfortable.
Author : Mo Willems
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,92 MB
Release : 2023-04-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1368090230
Mo Willems, #1 New York Times best-selling creator and three-time Caldecott Honoree, presents the 20th anniversary edition of the book that started it all: Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, now featuring an exclusive board game! Finally, a book you can say "no" to! When the Bus Driver takes a break from his route, a very unlikely volunteer springs up to take his place—a pigeon! But you've never met a pigeon like this one before. As the Pigeon pleads, wheedles, and begs his way through the book, readers answer back and decide his fate. Mo Willems' hilarious picture book was awarded a 2004 Caldecott Honor and has been inducted into the Picture Book Hall of Fame. Now, twenty years later, readers can amp up the fun in an all-new board game featuring the Pigeon! Players drive their bus pieces around town. The first player to get to the Bus Depot wins, but remember—don't let the Pigeon drive the bus! Say “No!” to all the Pigeon books! The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late! The Pigeon Wants a Puppy! The Duckling Gets a Cookie!? The Pigeon HAS to Go to School! For Mo’ amazing books, check out these other great series: Knuffle Bunny Elephant & Piggie Unlimited Squirrels
Author : David Chariandy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 33,89 MB
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1635572002
"A brilliant, powerful elegy from a living brother to a lost one, yet pulsing with rhythm, and beating with life." --Marlon James "Highly recommend Brother by David Chariandy--concise and intense, elegiac short novel of devastation and hope." --Joyce Carol Oates, via Twitter WINNER--Toronto Book Award WINNER--Rogers' Writers' Trust Fiction Prize WINNER--Ethel Wilson Prize for Fiction In luminous, incisive prose, a startling new literary talent explores masculinity, race, and sexuality against a backdrop of simmering violence during the summer of 1991. One sweltering summer in the Park, a housing complex outside of Toronto, Michael and Francis are coming of age and learning to stomach the careless prejudices and low expectations that confront them as young men of black and brown ancestry. While their Trinidadian single mother works double, sometimes triple shifts so her boys might fulfill the elusive promise of their adopted home, Francis helps the days pass by inventing games and challenges, bringing Michael to his crew's barbershop hangout, and leading escapes into the cool air of the Rouge Valley, a scar of green wilderness where they are free to imagine better lives for themselves. Propelled by the beats and styles of hip hop, Francis dreams of a future in music. Michael's dreams are of Aisha, the smartest girl in their high school whose own eyes are firmly set on a life elsewhere. But the bright hopes of all three are violently, irrevocably thwarted by a tragic shooting, and the police crackdown and suffocating suspicion that follow. Honest and insightful in its portrayal of kinship, community, and lives cut short, David Chariandy's Brother is an emotional tour de force that marks the arrival of a stunning new literary voice.
Author : David Nicholls
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 43,91 MB
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307739309
NOW A NETFLIX SERIES • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • TWO PEOPLE. ONE DAY. TWENTY YEARS. • What starts as a fleeting connection between two strangers soon becomes a deep bond that spans decades. • "[An] instant classic. . . . One of the most ...emotionally riveting love stories you’ll ever encounter." —People It’s 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. Over twenty years, snapshots of that relationship are revealed on the same day—July 15th—of each year. They face squabbles and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. Dex and Em must come to grips with the nature of love and life itself. As the years go by, the true meaning of this one crucial day is revealed. "[A] surprisingly deep romance...so thoroughly satisfying." —Entertainment Weekly
Author : Laura Numeroff
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 47,7 MB
Release : 2005-09-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0060283270
If you give a pig a party,she's going to ask for someballoons. When you give her the balloons, she'll want to decorate the house. When she's finished, she'll put on her favorite dress. Then she'll call all her friends -- Mouse, Moose, and more. The little pig from If You Give a Pig a Pancake is back, and this time she wants to throw a great big party! Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond have created another winning story for this beloved character in the tradition of the best-selling If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.
Author : Jeanne Liedtka
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 12,52 MB
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0231545851
Facing especially wicked problems, social sector organizations are searching for powerful new methods to understand and address them. Design Thinking for the Greater Good goes in depth on both the how of using new tools and the why. As a way to reframe problems, ideate solutions, and iterate toward better answers, design thinking is already well established in the commercial world. Through ten stories of struggles and successes in fields such as health care, education, agriculture, transportation, social services, and security, the authors show how collaborative creativity can shake up even the most entrenched bureaucracies—and provide a practical roadmap for readers to implement these tools. The design thinkers Jeanne Liedtka, Randy Salzman, and Daisy Azer explore how major agencies like the Department of Health and Human Services and the Transportation and Security Administration in the United States, as well as organizations in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom, have instituted principles of design thinking. In each case, these groups have used the tools of design thinking to reduce risk, manage change, use resources more effectively, bridge the communication gap between parties, and manage the competing demands of diverse stakeholders. Along the way, they have improved the quality of their products and enhanced the experiences of those they serve. These strategies are accessible to analytical and creative types alike, and their benefits extend throughout an organization. This book will help today's leaders and thinkers implement these practices in their own pursuit of creative solutions that are both innovative and achievable.
Author : Ken Follett
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 1138 pages
File Size : 43,51 MB
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0451474023
Ken Follett's extraordinary historical epic, the Century Trilogy, reaches its sweeping, passionate conclusion. In Fall of Giants and Winter of the World, Ken Follett followed the fortunes of five international families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—as they made their way through the twentieth century. Now they come to one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the 1960s through the 1980s, from civil rights, assassinations, mass political movements, and Vietnam to the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment, revolution—and rock and roll. East German teacher Rebecca Hoffmann discovers she’s been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives. . . . George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department and finds himself in the middle of not only the seminal events of the civil rights battle but a much more personal battle of his own. . . . Cameron Dewar, the grandson of a senator, jumps at the chance to do some official and unofficial espionage for a cause he believes in, only to discover that the world is a much more dangerous place than he'd imagined. . . . Dimka Dvorkin, a young aide to Nikita Khrushchev, becomes an agent both for good and for ill as the United States and the Soviet Union race to the brink of nuclear war, while his twin sister, Tanya, carves out a role that will take her from Moscow to Cuba to Prague to Warsaw—and into history.
Author : Pamela Rose Gardner Scee
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 32,62 MB
Release : 2020-12-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1664214887
n 1964, the United States is healing from the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The Beatles’ “British Invasion” distracts a country in mourning. Against this backdrop, young Pam deals with the guilt she’s feeling from spying on her parents. Pam takes some time away from trying to discover the secret her mom and dad are hiding. She enjoys just being a kid as she and her friends encounter the village’s tyrant and enjoy many adventures together. When mistakes come to light, Pam and her older brother John learn some important lessons. The love of their family and the realization of God’s unconditional love reaffirm the immense value of life. Based on true events, Daisy Days of Spring will have you giggling and on edge as you learn what it was like to grow up during a different time in the historic village of Brownville, New York.
Author : David Bellavia
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 30,35 MB
Release : 2012-12-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1471105873
On 8 November 2004, the largest battle of the War on Terror began, with the US Army's assault on Fallujah and its network of tens of thousands of insurgents hiding in fortified bunkers, on rooftops, and inside booby-trapped houses. For Sgt. David Bellavia of 3rd Platoon, Alpha Company, it quickly turned into a battle on foot, from street to street and house to house. On the second day, he and his men laid siege to a mosque, only to be driven to a rooftop and surrounded, before heavy artillery could smash through to rescue them. By the third day, Bellavia charges an insurgent-filled house and finds himself trapped with six enemy fighters. One by one, he shoots, wrestles, stabs, and kills five of them, until his men arrive to take care of the final target. It is one of the most hair-raising battle stories of any age -- yet it does not spell the end of Bellavia's service. It would take serveral more weeks before the Battle of Fallujah finally came to a close, with Bellavia, miraculously, alive. In the words of the author: "HOUSE TO HOUSE holds nothing back. It is a raw, gritty look at killing and combat and how men react to it. It is gut-wrenching, shocking and brutal. It is honest. It is not a glorification of war. Yet it will not shy from acknowledging this: sometimes it takes something as terrible as war for the full beauty of the human spirit to emerge."
