![]() As an educator, she was the recipient of several grants from the Brooklyn Arts Council for her community-based programs for teen girls in both Brooklyn and Haiti. ![]() Her writing has been published in The New York Times Book Review, the Horn Book Magazine, and The Rumpus, among others. Ibi has appeared on CBS This Morning and The Reid Out alongside Yusef Salaam, and on PBS’s Book View Now. Her most recent books are STAR CHILD: A BIOGRAPHICAL CONSTELLATION OF OCTAVIA ESTELLE BUTLER, and OKOYE TO THE PEOPLE: A BLACK PANTHER NOVEL for Marvel. Her debut picture book, THE PEOPLE REMEMBER, received a Coretta Scott King Book Honor Award. Ibi is the editor of BLACK ENOUGH: STORIES OF BEING YOUNG & BLACK IN AMERICA. Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five, which was also shortlisted for the U.K.’s Yoto Carnegie Medal. Times Book Prize-winning PUNCHING THE AIR with prison reform activist Dr. ![]() Ibi Zoboi is the New York Times Bestselling author of AMERICAN STREET, a National Book Award Finalist PRIDE, a contemporary remix of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and MY LIFE AS AN ICE CREAM SANDWICH, her middle-grade debut. She is also the co-author of the Walter Award and L.A. ![]()
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![]() POPULAR CHILDREN'S BOOK AUTHOR: Created by Derek Munson who has directly shared his children's stories with over 100,000 kids across the globe. ![]() TEACHERS PICK BOOK LIST: Ideal as a read aloud book for elementary schools, and featured on LeVar Burton's Reading Rainbow, this book is recommended by experts for children who are reading independently and transitioning to longer books. SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING BOOKS: Enemy Pie is a wonderful addition to books like The Invisible Boy, The Name Jar, and The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be that teach important lessons on kindness, empathy, respect, and friendship. In this funny yet endearing children's book, filled with charming illustrations, kids learn about dealing with conflict as well as the difficulties, and ultimate rewards, of making new friends. Derek Munson works as a writer, speaker, and all-around daydreamer. But part of the secret recipe is spending an entire day playing with the enemy! ![]() Luckily, Dad had a surefire way to get rid of enemies: Enemy Pie. ![]() That is, until Jeremy Ross moved into the house down the street and became neighborhood enemy number one. ![]() "An impressive picture story book about friendship, judgment, and bullying."- Ripple Kindness Project A Reading Rainbow Book! Enemy Pie serves up a sweet lesson as one little boy learns an effective recipe for turning a best enemy into a best friend. ![]() ![]() The high interest - low vocabulary format of these novels is perfect for reluctant readers and is sure to keep students motivated to read. ![]() Titles include: This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall, Go Jump in the Pool, Beware the Fish!, Macdonald Hall Goes Hollywood, Why Did the Underwear Cross the Road. Comprehension is the main focus, with multiple choice and questions designed to ensure students understand why they are reading. Reading with Gordon Korman is a series of five exciting and interesting titles that provide a framework for this new approach to reading. These worksheets can be used on their own, or paired with the individual resources. This FREE chapter slice includes a section from our Reading with Gordon Korman title.Įnjoy 12 FREE worksheets from our Reading with Gordon Korman title. ![]() ![]() Genres Science Fiction FictionShort StoriesFantasySpaceYoung AdultNovella. ![]() It is included as a bonus story in Binti: The Complete Trilogy. The Binti Series Book 1: Binti Book 2: Binti: Home Book 3: Binti: The Night Masquerade At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Binti: Sacred Fire Nnedi Okorafor 3.60 682 ratings67 reviews This short story, set between the events of Binti and Binti: Home, tells of Bintis experiences at Oomza University. Don't miss this essential concluding volume in the Binti trilogy. Once again it is up to Binti, and her intriguing new friend Mwinyi, to intervene-though the elders of her people do not entirely trust her motives-and try to prevent a war that could wipe out her people, once and for all. Book 3: Binti: The Night Masquerade PRAISE FOR BINTI 'Binti is a supreme read about a sexy, edgy Afropolitan in space It's a wondrous combination of extra-terrestrial adventure and age-old African diplomacy. Far from her village when the conflicts start, Binti hurries home, but anger and resentment has already claimed the lives of many close to her. Unfortunately, although her people are peaceful on the whole, the same cannot be said for the Khoush, who fan the flames of their ancient rivalry with the Meduse. This was a story of how a girl relies on her intellect, intuition, and empathy to promote peace and harmony between races and technologies. Binti has returned to her home planet, believing that the violence of the Meduse has been left behind. ![]() The concluding part of the highly-acclaimed science fiction trilogy that began with Nnedi Okorafor's Hugo- and Nebula Award-winning BINTI. ![]() ![]() ![]() No, that does not mean I am fat (very well built actually), but rather I am obsessive about my books and my reading. ![]() So when I started back in on comics about a year or so ago, I was surprised to find that if I wanted to have any degree of believability as a comic fan, I had to expand my reading past the “big two” and on to publishers like Vertigo, Image, and Oni.Īnd so, as I intended, we come now to the focus of this review: Oni Press’s Queen & Country, written by Greg Rucka.Īnd the tag line of this review is simple, “if you haven’t read this you haven’t read comics!”īy nature I am a book work of extreme proportions. They have names like Fables, DMZ, Sandman, and more. To be frank, even though I’m Josh, very few of these comics however are DC or Marvel related. Similarly, there are a fleet of other books that are added to that list once you desire to review comics as I do. For example, if you haven’t read Watchmen or The Dark Knight Returns, whether you liked them or not, you are just not a comic book geek. 1 Trade PaperbackĪrt by Steve Rolston, Brian Hurtt, Leandro FernandezĪs a comic book geek, newly arrived to the scene, one has to be careful to have read all that is necessary for that title. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The plan involves psychic time travel, both for Alcide and for Argenis, a brilliant artist who has had the misfortune to be born into an era when anyone with money, contacts and tech can become a famous artist without any drawing skill. She has foreseen that the seas can be saved through the intervention of an avatar of the orisha, Olokun, who, if you remember my review of David Mogo: Godhunter, is genderfluid. His quest leads him to become a maid to Esther Escudero, President Bona’s spiritual advisor. We first encounter Acilde, a young trans man who will do whatever is necessary to get hold of a shot of Rainbow Bright, a legendary new drug that performs gender reassignment without the need for surgery. Our story begins in 2027 at which point the Caribbean is an ecological disaster zone. ![]() Given that this is a big anemone, it can be dangerous to humans. Being an anemone, it hunts by use of stinging cells (nematocysts) on its tentacles. The tentacle(s) of the title belong to Condylactis gigantea, the Giant Caribbean Sea Anemone. Tentacle is the English translation of that book, and her first work to become available in English. Her novel, La mucama de Omicunlé, won the Grand Prize of the Association of Caribbean Writers in 2017, the first Spanish-language book to do so. She hails from the Dominican Republic and in addition to being one of the Caribbean’s foremost writers she’s also a singer-songwriter with her own band, Los Mysterios. Rita Indiana is the pen name of Rita Indiana Hernández Sánchez. ![]() ![]() ![]() 'A uniquely charming mixture of whimsy and the macabre that completely won me over ' Helen Hoang, author of The Kiss Quotient Packed with earnest characters, wit, action, and reluctant yearning, this is easily my favourite fantasy romance of the year' Jen DeLuca, author of Well Met ' The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy broke my heart, put it back together, then tucked me into bed with a forehead kiss. ![]() ![]() Praise for The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy: Set in a world equally full of magic and demigods as it is donuts and small-town drama, this utterly unique fantasy is sure to sweep you off your feet. Little does Hart know he's baring his soul to the person who infuriates him most. Much to his surprise, he receives an anonymous reply, and a tentative friendship is born. She's been single-handedly keeping Birdsall & Son Undertakers afloat in defiance of sullen jerks like Hart-ache Hart, the man with a knack for showing up right when her patience is thinnest.Īfter yet another run-in with Merciless Mercy, Hart finds himself penning a letter addressed simply to "A Friend". It's an unforgiving job, and he's got nothing but time to ponder his loneliness. Hart is a marshal, tasked with patrolling the magical wilds of Tanria. The Princess Bride meets You've Got Mail in this enchantingly quirky, completely refreshing fantasy with a rom-com-worthy premise, perfect for readers of T he House in the Cerulean Sea. 'Romantic, wildly creative, and utterly charming, The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy is a fantasy unlike any I've read before' Lana Harper, author of Payback's a Witch ![]() ![]() ![]() The Break was so much fun to write, partly because my main character Rowan is a crime novelist, and we share a similar process. Or if I think I do, I’m almost always wrong. ![]() Many readers are surprised to learn that I have no idea who my killer is when I start writing my novels. (At least, in my opinion! And hopefully in the reader’s opinion, too.) I had to come up with different reasons and motivations for them to do what they eventually did in the novel, and it turned out more layered and satisfying. I finally gave up on two characters who I thought were going to become romantically involved, and I ended up finding it much more satisfying that they never felt that way about each other. That happened while I was writing The Break. ![]() Sometimes I think two characters will do something (like become romantically involved) but no matter how many times I put them in a scene together, they won’t do it. I definitely don’t do that! I write like I’m watching a movie: I have a general sense of where characters should go next, but when I throw them all in a scene together, I’m often very surprised by what they do. I love reading about other writers’ writing processes, and I’m always in awe of writers who outline every book and know each plot point before they start writing. ![]() ![]() ![]() Also German book (Suhrkamp, 2020) adaptation in Aeon The Vulnerable World Hypothesis, in Global Policy. ![]()
![]() With irresistible rhyming language and bright, whimsical illustrations, this perfect read-aloud by internationally acclaimed author Mem Fox will weave its way into the hearts of young children everywhere. Everyone is delighted as, one by one, the townspeople are transformed into giant playful animals. It tumbles and bounces through the air and makes magic wherever it lands. Book Synopsis One fine day, from out of town-and without any warning at all-a magic hat appears in the sky. With whimsical full-color illustrations and rhyming language, this book makes an ideal read-along. Then a wizard arrives looking for his hat. About the Book One day, without warning, a magic hat drops into town from the sky, delighting the townspeople who, one by one, are transformed into giant playful animals by the hats magic. ![]() |
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