5/20/2023 0 Comments George by alex gino sparknotes![]() ![]() However, the book has remained controversial to some parents and teachers, leading it to be listed on the American Library Association's list of the 10 Most Challenged Books of 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 (topping the list in 2018, 2019, and 2020). The novel has received positive feedback from sources such as the New York Times and the National Public Radio for its inclusion of transgender experiences. In 2021, Gino retitled the novel Melissa. Scholastic first published the novel on August 25, 2015, and it has had a mixed reaction because of its LGBT+ content. ![]() Melissa uses the class play, Charlotte's Web, to show her mom that she is a girl by switching roles with her best friend, and playing the part of Charlotte. The rest of the world sees Melissa as George, a boy. The novel tells the story of Melissa, a fourth-grade girl who is struggling to be herself to the rest of the world. Melissa, previously published as George until April 2022, is a children's novel about a young transgender girl written by American author Alex Gino. ![]()
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5/20/2023 0 Comments The kindest lie nancy johnson![]() ![]() Then nothing can stop you." His advice was prescient. That's going to be your ticket to the big leagues someday. ![]() But not with a baby." Ruth's grandfather, too, encouraged her to look to the future: "Study hard and get that piece of paper, girl. You could have been anything you wanted to be in the world. You were smart as a whip from the day you were born. She was aided by her grandmother Ernestine, who told her, "I saw every dream we had for you rotting and dying off. It's not even past." Ambitious and brainy Ruth attempted to bury the experience of giving up her child as a teenage mother. In a stirring novel about secrets and black lives, Ruth Tuttle from small-town Indiana has tried to defy what Faulkner wrote about the past: "The past is never dead. After confessing it out loud, she finds her marriage and her once-sparkling life in chaos. Yale grad Ruth Tuttle has been harboring a horrible secret: She had a baby at 17. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Come closer by sara gran![]() ![]() She dreams of Naamah, a beautiful demon with whom she wades in seas of blood. Her behaviour is threatening her marriage and her career.Ĭoupled with confusing and unsettling dreams and regular black-outs, Amanda begins to suspect the she may have been possessed by a demon. ![]() Things take a turn for the worse when she skips work to go drinking in dive bars, begins to rack up debt buying clothes she would never usually wear and hooks up with random men for sex. These events are out of character but Amanda can at least rationalise her behaviour. A tapping noise can be heard throughout her home she shoplifts a lipstick without realising, or even wanting it she starts smoking again and befriends a stray dog that has taken to following her home from the train station at night. This unsettling opening is just the beginning of a series of strange happenings that threaten to capsize Amanda’s carefully constructed life. ![]() Amanda knows she didn’t write it (although she doesn’t disagree with it), so the question is, who did? He is holding a proposal she left for him the day before, but the innocuous message she left on it has been replaced by an expletive-filled rant revealing her true feelings about him. ![]() So, when she is called into her boss calls her to his office, she is expecting nothing untoward. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Runaway book wendelin van draanen![]() ![]() You want to know why I was crying at recess? That cat Camille is why. More than I have tears to cry, I miss her. I’d been scamming food, she’d been shooting up. ![]() You want a cinquain poem about a most embarrassing moment that actually happened to me? Okay, here you go: Like I can even remember ever being in a real restaurant. “Put your most embarrassing experience in the form of a cinquain poem.” What did you expect me to do? Write the truth? I knew you’d read them out loud and you did! How do you spell idiot? I spell it L-E-O-N-E.ĭid you like my little poem about spilling my milk in a restaurant? Stupid, I know, so give me an F, see if I care. Leone, but face it: You don’t know squat. You think writing will get me out of here? You think words will make me forget about the past? Get real, Ms. Well, I’m trying it, see? And is it making me feel better? NO! Giving me this journal was a totally lame thing to do. ![]() You think you know what I’m going through, you think you know how I can “cope,” but you’re just like everybody else: clueless. I’m trapped in here, trying to sleep under this sorry excuse for a blanket, and I’ve just got to tell you-you don’t know squat. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Kimi no na wa weathering with you![]() Like in the movie, Mitshuha's mother and grandmother have experinced this swap of body which may give us a clue that there may be a chance that we may find out what their story is about. So there may be a chance that movie may be released at late 2021 or spring 2022. The last movie ( weathering in you ) was released in 2019. Makoto Shinkai releases a movie every 3 years. The movie at the end was set in Spring 2022 and we are getting closer to that period of time. From the look of social media, people are all wanting Makoto Shinkai to make a part 2 and I think there will be hope for that ,įor people who have watched Weathering in you, you know what special character there are in there * winks * This now wants me to have a part 2 of Kimi No Na Wa. After watching so many times, i always wonder what will happen between Taki and Mitsuha as at the end, they asked for their names. ![]() ![]() Kimi No Na Wa or Your Name will always be one of my favorite anime movies. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Inglorious empire![]() Supposedly, this trading company was there to help Indians reclaim their national identity, but it was all just a wicked game.īribery, stealing, embezzlement, extortion, forced labor, and murder were the primary tools that brought to pass the need for reforms!īut, before we get into that, let’s do a quick recap of the Indian subjugation. Will Durante, a passionate and young American philosopher, who first landed on the shores of India in 1930, discovered the economic calamities induced by the British East India Company. Let’s delve into it! The full-scale loot of India ![]() Tharoor provides a critical overview of the events that shaped India’s historical curve, and uses data in order to illustrate a point. ![]() Indians, in particular, are curious whether their ancestors could have done something to fend the British off, and what were the dire consequences of falling under their rule. Also, there’s rarely a person in the world who knows nothing of India’s history and cultural richness. Most Indians nowadays still feel like the truth about the British “occupation” is somewhat distorted. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is the first edition to explain all the many classical, mythological, and historical references in the text, and to pay due attention to the learning of the three authors, which enabled them to place the infant American republic in a long tradition of self-governing states. ![]() The arguments set down in The Federalist Papers have continuing relevance for the power-sharing basis between individual states and federal government that operates today.The Federalist Papers were written in the winter of 1787-8 with the aim of persuading the citizens of New York to ratify the newly drafted Consitution of the United States written by three leading players in the events of the American Revolution, these 85 essays together represent the most important work of political thought to have come out of America.The Federalist Papers Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, and Lawrence Goldman Oxford World's Classics Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health.The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law. ![]() ![]() As things begin to fall apart and secrets are revealed, will Loretta be able to help her husband reunite their tattered family before it’s too late? Loretta has been a devoted wife to Simon, but she’s beginning to realize that enabling him to give more to the church than to his children was her biggest mistake. ![]() Blessedly, twenty-three-year-old Jonathan, a college graduate and the apple of Simon’s eye, is poised to take his father’s side as associate pastor-or so everyone thinks. These days he’s seeking solace in drugs-even feeding his habit by stealing church offerings. ![]() David, Simon's oldest at twenty-seven, has been spiraling downward ever since a knee injury ended a promising football career. His nineteen-year-old daughter, Rachel, gives new meaning to “baby mama drama.” Crazy in love with her son’s father, she's wreaking havoc on the man’s life, even though he's about to marry another woman. But while the good Reverend’s been busy tending his flock, his family’s gone astray. ![]() ![]() Reverend Simon Jackson has always felt destined to lead and he’s done a good job of it, transforming his small Houston church into one of the most respected and renowned in the region. Award-winning author ReShonda Tate Billingsley delivers a bold and heartwarming story of family and faith about a man who has succeeded as a reverend and failed as a father. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Irresponsible puckboy![]() This is an incredible friends to lovers, my straight best friend, hockey romance. Literally, the first thing I thought when they appeared on the page was “please tell me theirs is the next book” (and I am so pumped it is!!) Losing Tripp? It’s not an option.įINALLLLLLYYYYYY! I have been waiting for Dex and Tripp’s book since they showed up midway through Egotistical Puckboy. This PR nightmare could lose me the only person I’ve ever loved. Not only does it have team management breathing down my neck, but it puts a strain on my friendship with Tripp. According to ex-girlfriends, that makes me “irresponsible.”īut the solution I come up with to get over my fear of commitment might be my dumbest idea yet. What more do I need? To settle down? No thank you. I have hockey, and I have my best friend, Tripp. It’s what I’m known for, and usually I don’t let it get to me. They say Dexter Mitchale is my weakness, but if that’s true, I don’t want to be strong. I can’t leave him in a time of need, even if my friends say it’s my biggest downfall. If there’s one thing I hate more than being hurt, it’s seeing Dex struggle. But when his relationship falls apart and he turns to me for comfort, I cave immediately. ![]() Years of pining have left me exhausted, and I need a break from Dex. The worst part of being in love with my straight best friend is the fact he’s too oblivious to see it. Romance, Adult Contemporary Romance, Sports Romance (Hockey), M/M Romance ![]() ![]() Cameron doesn’t just kiss Irene, she kisses other girls too, and even falls in love with one of them. The coincidental timing – of Cameron’s sexual awakening and her parent’s death – makes for a tangled mess of emotions, one that she struggles throughout the novel to untangle. That might not seem like a shocking secret to be hiding in today’s day and age, but in early ’90s rural Montana? You can understand Cameron’s fervent fear of discovery. Earlier that day, she had been kissing her best friend Irene (and shoplifting with her, too, but that’s by the by). ![]() To her great shame, Cameron’s first reaction upon hearing the news of their death is relief. ![]() Her parents die suddenly, tragically, in a car crash (NOT a spoiler, see the opening line!). The story begins the summer Cameron’s life veers wildly off course. The titular character, Cameron, is a 12-year-old girl living in rural Montana in the early ’90s (actually, in Danforth’s hometown of Miles City). It turns out, The Miseducation Of Cameron Post is a coming-of-age young adult novel. (I’m an affiliate, so if you use a link on this page to get yourself a great read, I’ll earn a small commission!) ![]() Buy The Miseducation Of Cameron Post here. ![]() |