![]() The green cover stood out (as I was looking for some more environmentally themed books) so I pulled it off the shelf and quietly read the story. I stumbled across this book whilst I was shuffling through the K section of the picture books. ![]() Recommended to children who enjoy wordless picture-books, and to fans of Stephen Michael King. The artwork, which, by necessity, must carry the story, is engaging, and I particularly liked the depiction of the boy's canine companion. I cannot say, in all honesty, that I enjoyed this one quite as much as some of Stephen Michael King's other picture-books - titles like Mutt Dog! and Henry and Amy: Right-Way-Round and Upside Down - but it was still an entertaining little romp. Fortunately for the leafy plant in question, the boy knows just what to do to take care of it, and when the inevitable haircut does come, just where to transplant it. ![]() Racing outside to escape his mother, with her scissors in hand, he instead finds himself a planting pot of sorts, as a bird drops a seed on his head, and it takes root and begins to grow. Told almost entirely through images, with the occasional sound-word thrown in, Australian author/artist Stephen Michael King's Leaf is an engaging tale of a young boy whose desperation to avoid a haircut leads to a very odd development. ![]()
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But as she watches him from afar, she has a sneaking suspicion that he never thinks about her at all. for Thomas Cavendish, the oh-so-lofty duke, to finally get around to marrying her. A mere six months old when the contracts were signed, she has spent the rest of her life waiting. Amelia Willoughby has been engaged to the Duke of Wyndham for as long as she can remember. ![]() ![]() ![]() Although so much research has been done, Stolen Focus is not at all heavy reading and the reader feels a warm sense of inclusion right through. The arguments are presented with solid evidence in a convincing manner and the many episodes that have been included in the book are narrated in an interesting manner. One of the features that makes the book valuable is that it has been exhaustively and excellently researched. ![]() And the reason why humans are unable to resolve problems of varying urgency is that they are unable to focus. You realise long before you reach the last chapter, that the world is facing a serious crisis of attention. So, before you know it, you find yourself settling down with the book and reading it with growing interest and yes, alarm. When you give in to your curiosity - which you are bound to do - and turn the pages of the book, you realise that it is not merely a self-help book to improve your attention span. Stephen Fry, Rutger Bregman, Hilary Clinton, Dr Rangan Chatterjee (of Doctor in the House fame) et al., have made superlative observations about the book. ![]() The blurbs on the back cover of Johann Hari’s Stolen Focus - Why You Can’t Pay Attention grab your attention at once. ![]() ![]() While a book may hint at building mysteries or thickening plots, these threads are not essential to reach a satisfying conclusion to the current episode-which has its own beginning, middle, and end. Instead, the Riyria Revelations was conceived as a single epic tale told through six individual episodes. This saga is neither a string of sequels nor a lengthy work unnaturally divided. Avempartha is the second of a six book series entitled the Riyria Revelations. Once more, what begins with the simple theft of a sword places the two thieves at the center of a firestorm - but this time the outcome could change the future of Elan. While Royce struggles to breech the secrets of an ancient elven tower, Hadrian attempts to rally the villagers to defend themselves against the unseen killer. ![]() In the last book, Avempartha, I was annoyed at Arista as a character. When a destitute young woman hires Royce and Hadrian to help save her remote village from nocturnal attacks, they are once more drawn into the schemes of the wizard Esrahaddon. Nyphron Rising by Michael Sullivan is the third book in the Riyria Revelation series. and Hadrian he has created some of the best characters the genre has seen in some time, and in Avempartha he shows that he knows what to do with them. ![]() ![]() ![]() A series of unexpected events occur, however, and David finds himself at large in the Highlands, seeking the help of the outlaw Alan Breck Stewart, who entangles him in further complications. Ebenezer tricks young David and arranges for him to be kidnapped and taken to be sold into slavery. Expecting to be welcomed, he is shocked by the hostile reception he is given by the old man, who is a hermit much despised by his neighbours. David sets off from his hometown after the death of both of his parents to seek out his sole remaining relative, his uncle Ebenezer. The protagonist of Stevensonâs novel is young David Balfour, who is in his late teens. This rebellion was put down brutally and afterwards the Government imposed strict controls on Highlanders, outlawing many clan leaders. Written in 1886, Kidnapped is an adventure novel set in Scotland in the mid-1700s, not long after the Jacobite rebellion in the Highlands which had attempted to set Bonnie Prince Charlie on the throne. Â 24 in the Guardianâs Best 100 Novels in English (2015) ![]() Standard EbooksĨ1,542 words (4 hours 57 minutes) with a reading ease of 74.73 (fairly easy) Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson - Free ebook download - Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. ![]() ![]() ![]() The authors' candid narrative richly depicts Virginia's passage from a childhood filled with demoralization to a young woman who sees her life through new eyes. Along the way, though, she employs her imagination, persistence, and hard-won wisdom to recover her strength and freedom. Narrating in a singular, authentic voice, Virginia dreams of escape, but her broken identity leaves her directionless. Notes 'A Junior Library Guild selection'-Jkt. Other contributors Farinango, Maria Virginia. Published New York : Delacorte Press, c2011. While the living conditions are an improvement over her family's small farm, she endures physical and verbal abuse and is denied an education. Title The Queen of Water / Laura Resau and Mara Virginia Farinango. As is common for ind gena girls her age, Virginia is sent to live with a wealthy mestizo couple in her case, Ni o Carlitos and his wife, Doctorita and she babysits their children and serves as their maid for eight years. This compelling collaboration between Resau (The Ruby Notebook) and Farinango who met while Resau was teaching English at a community college is based on Farinango's tumultuous upbringing in Ecuador as part of an ind gena (indigenous) family, forced to live under the thumb of the mestizos (the Spanish upper class). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sera, Neela, Ling, Becca, Ava, and Astrid, I loved their friendship, their sisterhood so, so much. Not necessarily the romantic ones, those I found a bit rushed and wasn’t really attached to, but the relationship between friends. My favorite aspect of this series will always be the relationships. Because if the six of us lose faith in one another, we’ve lost everything.” “A little while ago, I lost faith in myself. It was a conclusion that was satisfying, but still left a few unanswered questions. Sea Spell was a great finale to a series that I ended up liking way more than I thought I would. “Just because you failed today doesn’t mean you’ve failed forever. –Possible Spoilers! Read at your own risk!– Will Sera ever see her beloved home–and her beloved Mahdi–again, or will the Volneros take over the mer realms while Orfeo takes on the gods themselves? Nothing less than the fate of the underwater world is at stake in this breathtaking finale. ![]() But without the ability to songcast, how will Astrid be able to defeat the most powerful mage in history? Meanwhile, Serafina and her Black Fins train goblin troops for battle against her uncle Vallerio’s death riders. Orfeo possesses one of the six talismans that the merls need in order to keep the monster locked up forever. At the end of Dark Tide, Book 3 in the Waterfire Saga, Astrid leaves her mermaid friends to confront her ancestor, Orfeo, the evil force behind the rise of the monster Abbadon. ![]() ![]() ![]() The first in a four-book series, Frogspell revisits the magical time of King Arthur with a story that is fresh, funny, well-plotted and perfectly paced. ![]() ![]() There's no way Max's unpredictable frogspell could be of any use! Or is there. But events take an unexpected turn when Max enters the Novices' Spell-Making Competition and finds himself helping Merlin fight an evil sorceress. So when he accidentally invents a spell that turns people into frogs, it seems his wish might come true. Max Pendragon is probably the worst squire in King Arthur's kingdom - he'd much rather train to be a wizard instead. Scholastic Canada Ltd | ISBN 9781443124775 Paperback 160 Pages | 5.09" x 7.8" | Ages 7 to 9Ī young, accident-prone wizard-in-training meets up with characters from Camelot in this magical series bursting with thrills, spills, and spells! ![]() ![]() ![]() I have made this my God box (I just mistyped God as Dog – that works, too). ![]() I like this idea.įor my birthday last week, a dear friend gave me a lovely wooden box with the tree of life and birds carved into the top. It could be anything, a glove box, a crayon box. Lamott says she has a “God box” that she puts her prayers into, then closes the lid and lets whatever universal power is out there take care of it. I can’t see where I’m going, I’m getting more lost, more afraid, more clenched. These prayers say, ‘Dear Some Something, I don’t know what I’m doing. “Most good, honest prayers remind me that I am not in charge,” she writes, “that I cannot fix anything, and that I open myself to being helped by something, some force, some friends, some something. But, she says, just uttering the simple entreaty, “help,” can shift things within us, can allow us to give over the suffering to something bigger than we are, and that can make all the difference in our ability to handle whatever we face. We all go through difficulties, and most of us will not be spared life’s harshest experiences. She had me close to tears with the first section on “Help,” because what she describes is so perfectly the human condition. ![]() |