![]() ![]() Now she's faced with her biggest challenge yet. In Shining Night, Lena's overnight fame as an actress continues to pull her into the spotlight, while teaching her what it means to shine for God. If you enjoy Shining Night, check out the first two books in the Lena in the Spotlight series: How will Lena and her besties help the children at the hospital face their challenges? When Lena's favorite music artist, Mallory Winston, sends her a gift box filled with photos and memories of their time on tour together, Lena finds out that the hospital they visited is closing and many of the children and friends she met there may not receive the ongoing care they need. ![]() ![]() suited for summer reading, as a birthday or Christmas gift, or as inspirational reading.perfect for young fans of realistic fiction.In this fiction story that will appeal to young girls who have big dreams, Lena's story continues as she must determine how to best use her fame for the greater good. Shining Night is book three in the Faithgirlz series Lena in the Spotlight, written by Alena Pitts, star of The War Room and tween blogger of For Girls Like You, and co-written with her mother, editor and author Wynter Pitts. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Read more unconscious in his arms when he falls asleep. All he has to live by are his wits and the small aides he has picked up along the way – technological advantages from techno-utopias, sedatives to escape dangerous worlds, and stimulants to extend his stay in pleasant ones. Sometimes he wakes up in technological utopias, and other times in the bombed-out ruins of collapsed civilizations. He has no control over his destination and never knows what he will see when he opens his eyes. Every time Zax Delatree falls asleep, he travels to a new reality. ![]() Description for Doors of Sleep: Journals of Zaxony Delatree (The Journals of Zaxony Delatree) Paperback. ![]() ![]() When Odysseus finally comes home after enduring hardships, overcoming monsters, and sleeping with goddesses, he kills her suitors and-curiously-twelve of her maids. ![]() Left alone for twenty years when Odysseus goes off to fight in the Trojan War after the abduction of Helen, Penelope manages, in the face of scandalous rumors, to maintain the kingdom of Ithaca, bring up her wayward son, and keep over a hundred suitors at bay, simultaneously. In Homer's account in The Odyssey, Penelope-wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy-is portrayed as the quintessential faithful wife, her story a salutary lesson through the ages. Now that all the others have run out of air, it's my turn to do a little story-making. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Roosevelt wanted to expand American influence. During his tenure he oversaw the construction of new battleships, the implementation of new technology, and laid the groundwork for new shipyards, all with the goal of projecting America’s power across the oceans. The head of the department, John Long, had a competent but lackadaisical managerial style that allowed Roosevelt a great deal of freedom that Roosevelt used to network with such luminaries as military theorists Alfred Thayer Mahan and naval officer George Dewey and politicians such as Henry Cabot Lodge and William Howard Taft. In return for Roosevelt’s support of the Republican nominee, William McKinley, in the 1896 presidential election, McKinley appointed Roosevelt as Assistant Secretary of the Navy. foreign policy, would have long-term consequences. Roosevelt’s emphasis on developing the American navy, and on Latin America as a key strategic area of U.S. Though the Spanish-American War had begun under the administration of William McKinley, Roosevelt, the hero of San Juan Hill, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Vice-President, and President, was arguably the most visible and influential proponent of American imperialism at the turn of the century. Under the leadership of President Theodore Roosevelt, the United States emerged from the nineteenth century with ambitious designs on global power through military might, territorial expansion, and economic influence. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The thrillers don’t have monsters, nothing supernatural, aren’t preachy, and usually have someone chasing after the main character. The Silent Corner is a thriller in the best Dean Koontz style, and one I finished in just a few sittings. ![]() I know Dean doesn’t like to be pegged to a particular genre, but in all the years that I’ve been reading his work, I’ve found that in most cases, each novel falls into one of five categories: Science Fiction (Dark Symphony, Demon Seed, Lightning), Suspense (Whispers, House of Thunder, Key to Midnight), Horror (Watchers, Shadowfires, 77 Shadow Street), Fantastics (Odd Thomas, From the Corner of His Eye), and Thrillers (The Face of Fear, Shattered, Dark Rivers of the Heart.) Sure, there are exceptions (Hanging On) and you can quibble with me on even some of my examples, but in the end, the horror is my favorite followed by the thrillers in a very close second. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In an attempt to help me assuage this fear and sort through my sense of disorientation, I decided to reread The Peripheral, William Gibson’s 2014 novel that imagines a twenty-second century in which a powerful quantum computer rumored to be located in China has enabled the creation of “stubs,” or alternative timelines. For months I lay awake at night and in the still-dark hours of the morning in terror. The real world was elsewhere, on the other timeline we had split away from, where Hillary Clinton had been elected president and, though things were hardly great, we at least weren’t hurtling toward the nuclear apocalypse I was certain that our president-elect was eventually going to stumble into. ![]() At the same time, I felt that what was happening was unreal. Suddenly, I could see clearly the country as it really is for the first time: systematically racist, and with a sizable population determined to maintain white supremacist and misogynist hierarchies. After the 2016 presidential election, I had the uncanny feeling that we had veered into a different, darker timeline and were hurtling away from the future I had expected. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this volume, she solves two murders for a Virgo and a Scorpio and the Leo story starts at the very end of this volume, likely concluding in volume 2. She uses her mother’s ring to call upon the zodiac spirits to help her solve crimes. Lili’s mother was a psychic who went missing and her father is a rather derpy police officer. This series is about the western zodiac, of which, I honestly know more about. One of my all time favorite manga series was the family drama, Fruits Basket, which was about the Sohma family who were cursed to be the twelve signs of the Chinese Zodiac. ![]() ![]() I’ve been interested in astrology my whole life so I love it when fictional worlds are based on or have some connection to the zodiac. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As part of a comprehensive language and literacy curriculum, these thoughtfully planned read-aloud experiences will increase young children’s critical literacy skills and put your preschoolers on the path to become lifelong readers! Sample Pages Read-Alouds Sample Pages Teachers GuideĮach booklet in Let’s Read It Again! comprises multiple read-aloud activities, with a specific literacy focus, for repeated readings of each book. ![]() ![]() Let’s Read It Again! includes lesson plans for multiple readings of 20 high-quality children’s books - a carefully curated selection of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry texts - and a teacher’s guide to support classroom practice. Let’s Read It Again! Interactive Read-Alouds gives you the tools and strategies you need so that you can enthusiastically read that favorite book again and again, making each read-aloud an interactive and engaging literacy experience for both you and the children. “Let’s read it again!” If you’re a preschool teacher, you’ve undoubtedly heard this phrase more than once and perhaps have wondered, “Again? Really?” In fact, research shows that multiple readings of the same book support the development of children’s comprehension, vocabulary, and other critical literacy skills. ![]() ![]() ![]() Working in her booth at the market, Cinder removes the mechanical foot that her human body has outgrown and waits on her android, Iko, to bring her a new, larger one. The few people who know that she is a cyborg shun her. Despite her success, Cinder avoids telling people that she is a cyborg, as cyborgs are treated poorly. After his death, her stepmother, Adri, treats her cruelly and forces her to work to support the entire family.Ĭinder becomes a successful mechanic in the city of New Beijing, 126 years after the end of World War IV. Told that she was orphaned by the same accident that injured her, she is taken in by an inventor, Linh Garan. Parts of Cinder’s natural body have been replaced with mechanical ones, and she has a computer interface in her brain. Linh Cinder is a teenage girl who, as a result of an accident at a very young age, is now a cyborg. ![]() ![]() For this reason he is emotionally isolated, another theme that is explored in the novel.Ĭhristopher Isherwood was an English-American novelist who passed away at the age of eighty-two in 1986. The novel also deals with many difficult topics, the chief of which is homosexuality and the way in which homosexuals were made to hide their identity and their sexual orientation, especially in the Britain that George grew up in where he could have been arrested and imprisoned just for being gay. George plans on killing himself but over the course of the day comes into contact with a number of people who gradually change the way he feels about the world, and his perception of it. George is middle-aged and emotionally remote, still mourning the loss of his lover one year previously. The novel is set in Southern California during 1962 and tells the story of George, a British professor working at a university in Los Angeles. ![]() We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own.Ī Single Man is a novel by English-American author Christopher Isherwood written in 1964. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() |