![]() ![]() Meanwhile, the nameless ghost’s history, told through disconnected snatches of memory, encompasses heroism, abuse, friendship, and betrayal in a tragedy only redeemed by the heart-rending convergence of their separate narratives. Her bleak and brutal world, limned with the sparest of detail, forges her character: stoic, cynical, with burning compassion at the core in contrast, the rich and mosaic (if capricious and violent) underworld overflows with symbol and metaphor that tease at deeper meanings never made fully explicit. Equal parts dark fantasy, science fiction, and fable, Wasp’s story is structured as a classic hero’s journey. But looking for answers in the land of the dead only reveals that everything Wasp knew was a lie. ![]() After three years as Archivist, Wasp is weary of killing, of loneliness, of hunger, of cruelty, of despair, so she barters with a supersoldier’s ghost to find his long-dead partner in exchange for a chance at escape. In a desolate future, young girls marked by the goddess Catchkeep fight to the death to become Archivist, needed but feared and shunned for her sacred duty to trap, interrogate, and dispatch ghosts. ![]() A ravishing, profane, and bittersweet post-apocalyptic bildungsroman transcends genre into myth. ![]()
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![]() ![]() "Mel Schuit is a picture book enthusiast with an MA in Children’s Literature, an MFA in Writing for Children, and a BA in Studio Art. ![]() "Sing Books with Emily explores the wonderful world of Illustrated Song by researching, archiving, documenting, collecting, advocating, curating, music-making for, and creation and live performance of Illustrated Song with the ultimate goal of enriching the educational, intellectual, and cultural lives of children and the grown ups and communities who love, teach and care for them." She has a million great ideas and insights and I love reading her blog. She blogs about the storytimes she puts together and literacy kits she makes for her EXTREMELY lucky patrons. Mama B says: Storytime Katie is a blog written by a children's librarian in the Chicago suburbs. "We Need Diverse Books is a grassroots organization of children’s book lovers that advocates essential changes in the publishing industry to produce and promote literature that reflects and honors the lives of all young people." We publish articles, reviews, interviews, and discussions examining this topic from various angles-and always from the disabled perspective." ![]() ![]() "Disability in Kidlit is dedicated to discussing the portrayal of disability in middle grade and young adult literature. Read-Aloud Revival RECOMMENDED WEBSITES and BLOGS ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Snow crash de neal stephenson![]() He popularized the concept with his first novel, "Neuromancer," which Insider calls a "futuristic crime caper" that follows a hacker and cyber thief who regains the ability to "jack in" to cyberspace with a miracle cure. Gibson is credited with coining the word cyberspace in his short story "Burning Chrome." He defines it as "widespread, interconnected digital technology," similar to today's internet. Now that we have "algorithms trying to predict people's habits, increased surveillance technology, and even iris and retinal scans," Book Riot said Dick's novella "seems more prescient than ever." Order here. The book anticipates increased police surveillance and profiling nearly half a century later. ![]() The story takes place in a future where technology helps the police arrest criminals before they ever commit a crime. ![]() This 1956 novella was turned into a film, 2002's "Minority Report," and TV series. These are some prescient sci-fi books that accurately predict the future. Intentional or not, when satirizing or commenting on their society, sci-fi books often make eerily accurate predictions about technological advancements and societal changes that have since become a reality. Science fiction authors and, by extension, their work are often ahead of their time. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments The conductors by nicole glover![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the heart of Philadelphia’s Seventh Ward, everyone knows that when there’s a strange death or magical curses causing trouble, Hetty and Benjy are the only ones that can solve the case. With the war over, those skills find new purpose as they solve mysteries and murders that white authorities would otherwise ignore. Hetty Rhodes and her husband, Benjy, were Conductors on the Underground Railroad, ferrying dozens of slaves to freedom with daring, cunning, and magic that draws its power from the constellations. Glover’s worldbuilding, characters, and attention to historical detail create a delightfully genre-bending debut!” - Tananarive Due, American Book Award winner, author of Ghost Summer: Storiesįrom a bold new voice in speculative fiction comes a vibrant historical fantasy of magic and murder set in the aftermath of the Civil War “A seamless blending of magic, mystery, and history. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Death sets sail book![]() ![]() After all, within the society, everyone has a reason to want Theodora dead.ĭaisy and Hazel leap into action to investigate, but this will prove to be their most difficult case yet. ![]() ![]() As well as ten full-length murder mysteries, there are also six mini mysteries featuring these characters. It soon becomes clear to Daisy and Hazel that Theodora’s timid daughter, Hephzibah, who is prone to sleepwalking, is being framed. She eventually comes out to Hazel as she falls for Martita Torrera in book seven, Death In The Spotlight, and begins a relationship with Amina from Deepdean during 'Death Sets Sail'. Three days into the cruise their leader, Theodora Miller, is found dead in her cabin, stabbed during the night. They are hoping to see some ancient temples and a mummy or two…What they get instead is murder.Īlso travelling on the SS Hatshepsut is a mysterious society called the Breath of Life: a group of genteel English ladies and gentlemen who believe themselves to be reincarnations of the ancient pharaohs. The ninth and final novel in the number-one bestselling, award-winning Murder Most Unladylike series. Daisy and Hazel take their detective skills to the Nile River in Egypt in this thrilling ninth and final novel in the Murder Most Unladylike series.ĭaisy Wells and Hazel Wong are in Egypt taking a cruise along the Nile. ![]() ![]() ![]() I LOVE the dramatic element of this Mitten story mask activity. This activity looks like it’s engaging and easy to set up.Ĭircle time after reading the story will be super memorable with the live retelling featured here.įor younger children, a Mitten story-based invitation to play opens up lots of opportunities to explore the storyline. ![]() I’ve listed these math and literacy activities for The Mitten in order of the age/grade level of students.įirst up is a Montessori inspired mitten activity for toddlers or young preschoolers. Whether you’re using it as a one-day activity, as part of a Jan Brett author study, or for a mitten theme unit, you’re sure to love at least one of these 20+ activities that go with The Mitten. This cozy picture book is perfect for teaching sequencing and story retelling, making predictions, and developing vocabulary. Raise your hand if you love Jan Brett! Her now-classic version of The Mitten is a favorite classroom read aloud every winter. Includes crafts, printable resources, games and more for preschool, kindergarten, and elementary students. Inside: The Mitten activities to go with the picture book by Jan Brett. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments The long call ann cleeves![]() The Long Call follows the story of Detective Inspector Matthew Venn, who returns along with his husband Jonathan to the small North Devon community where he grew up - and which he hasn't seen in two decades after the strict evangelical community in which he was raised rejected him. ![]() She is likely best known to Anglophiles as the author of the books that went on to be adapted into the megapopular Veraand Shetland mystery series, and it looks as though this latest effort may well continue on in that successful vein. The four-part series is based on the new "Two Rivers" series of novels from author Ann Cleeves, first published in 2019. Buzzy crime drama The Long Call is officially coming to Britbox this October - just a few short days after its initial U.K. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments The reaper man terry pratchett![]() ![]() The post of Senior Wrangler was an unusual one, as was the name itself. There seemed to be more Mustrum Ridcully than one body could reasonably contain. it took him several minutes to understand any new idea put to him, and this is a very valuable trait in a leader, because anything anyone is still trying to explain to you after two minutes is probably important and anything they give up after a mere minute or so is almost certainly something they shouldn’t have been bothering you with in the first place. ![]() ![]() YOU FEAR TO DIE? ‘It’s not that I don’t want…I mean, I’ve always…it’s just that life is a habit that’s hard to break…’ (RM) ![]() (There was, of course, a present before the present now, but that was also the present. …in the house of Death there is no time but the present. This is probably fine from the species’ point of view, but from the perspective of the actual individuals involved it can be a real pig… (RM) That there’s nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial andĮrror to give a species moral fibre and, in some cases, backbone. Their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way NatureĪnd organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Topdog underdog play![]() ![]() ![]() On television, Hawkins starred as Eric Carter in FOX’s 24: Legacy opposite Miranda Otto and Jimmy Smits, as well as on the hit show The Walking Dead. ![]() Jackson Universal Pictures’ Non-Stop Winter’s Tale for Warner Bros. Other film credits include Michael Bay’s 6 Underground, opposite Ryan Reynolds and Melanie Laurent Christoph Waltz’s directorial debut, Georgetown, opposite Waltz, Annette Bening, and Vanessa Redgrave as civil rights leader Stokley Carmichael in Spike Lee’s Blackkklansman Kong: Skull Island opposite Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, John Goodman, and Samuel L. Dre in the 2015 film, Straight Outta Compton. His breakout film performance was as hip-hop legend Dr. Chu’s feature film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award-winning musical, In The Heights. Recently, Hawkins portrayed Macduff in Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, opposite Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, and Brendan Gleeson, among others, for which he received the African-American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) Award for Best Supporting Actor. ![]() A Tony Award nominee for his 2017 performance in John Guare’s Six Degrees of Separation, Corey Hawkins made his Broadway debut as Tybalt in David Leveaux’s revival of Romeo and Juliet opposite Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pinkney is a graduate of Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications and is a former member of the Newhouse School's Board of Trustees. Her books have won the Coretta Scott King Award and been a Coretta Scott King Honor book, have been ALA Notable Books five times, School Library Journal best books three times, New York Times Editor's Choice and Notable books, and more. She is vice president and editor-at-large for Scholastic Trade Books. ![]() In addition to her work as an author, Pinkney has had a career as a children's book publisher and editor, including as founder of the Jump at the Sun imprint at Hyperion Books for Children, the Disney Book Group (now Disney Publishing Worldwide). Andrea Davis Pinkney (born 1963) is the author of numerous books for children and young adults, including picture books, novels, works of historical fiction and nonfiction who writes about African-American culture. ![]() |