In addition to his work as an author, Jon also runs a web-based literacy program called “Guys Read” that is designed to encourage boys, particularly reluctant readers, to get involved with books. He is the author of many boks for children including the New York Times Best Illustrated Book The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales (illustrated by Lane Smith), the Caldecott Honor book The True Story of the Three Little Pigs (illustrated by Lane Smith), and Math Curse (illustrated by Lane Smith). He taught elementary school in New York for ten years in a variety of positions. Jon went to school at Culver Military Academy in Indiana where he was a Lieutenant Albion College in Michigan where he studied to be a doctor and Columbia University in New York, where he received an M.F.A. Multiple award-winning author Jon Scieszka grew up in Flint, Michigan, the second oldest and the nicest of six boys.
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"The most important thing is just to find a book that you can get absorbed in - you want to create a situation for yourself where you can get lost in a book," Stine-Morrow said. The collection contains a mixture of classics and contemporaries as well as diverse characters, styles, and genres, but each book has one thing in common: they're immersive, or easy to get lost in. Stine-Morrow's team and experts at the Champaign Public Library’s Adult Services Department curated a list of page-turners for their older adult participants to read. A team led by Professor Liz-Stine-Morrow found that spending regular amounts of time immersed in a book can help strengthen memory skills in older adults. The Beckman Institute published an article about the study, which is reported in Frontiers in Psychology. This year, Beckman researchers used science to demonstrate that reading is still one of the best things you can do for your brain. Other profanity includes "c-ksucker" and "bitch." The writer is kept drugged for a time, at first with pills, then later with a forced syringe shot into his arm. While forced to write a novel for his captor, the novelist, in a fit of writer's block, types "f-k" repeatedly on the page. In the movie's climactic scene, the two lead characters fight to the death with a gun, lighter fluid, a typewriter, and other heavy objects used for bludgeoning. A character is murdered, shot in the back with a shotgun. While not as bloody as a slasher horror movie, there are some violent moments, including the movie's best-known scene in which the novelist is tied to a bed and "hobbled" with a sledgehammer to both of his ankles. Parents need to know that Misery is a 1990 movie based on a Stephen King novel about a novelist who, after a car accident, is rescued by his "#1 fan," a former nurse who is also a deranged killer. The protagonist, a novelist, has a tradition where he smokes one cigarette with a glass of champagne upon completion of his manuscript, isn't shown smoking.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. The kidnapper repeatedly drugs her victim, with pills and later with a syringe. The series has earned him a Florida Book Award, a YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers selection, a starred review from School Library Journal, and a wealth of sharable knowledge about sequential storytelling. MIKE MAIHACK is the creator of the Cleopatra in Space graphic novels published by Scholastic/Graphix. With help from her teacher Khensu, Cleo learns what it takes to be a great leader, all while trying to figure out how she's going to get her homework done, make friends, and avoid detention! She enrolls in Yasiro Academy, a high-tech school with classes like algebra, biology, and alien languages (which Cleo could do without), and combat training (which is more Cleo's style). When a young Cleopatra (yes, THAT Cleopatra) finds a mysterious tablet that zaps her to the far, REALLY far future, she learns of an ancient prophecy that says she is destined to save the galaxy from the tyrannical rule of the evil Xaius Octavian. Cleopatra in Space 1: Target Practice By Mike Maihack Scholastic Inc ISBN 9780545528429 Hardcover 176 Pages 6.28' x 9.31' Ages 8 to 12 Scholastic Inc ISBN 9780545528436 Paperback 176 Pages 6.04' x 9. Book on Paperback Januby Mike Maihack (Author) 378 ratings 4.1 on Goodreads 8,002 ratings Book 1 of 6: Cleopatra in Space Kindle & Comixology 9.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 19.98 7 Used from 19.98 Paperback 5.65 26 Used from 1. A funny, action-packed graphic novel featuring a young Cleopatra - yes, THAT Cleopatra - who's transported to the future and learns it's up to her to save the galaxy! “My stories are about younger people,” he said, “because the characters are at a formative stage in their lives, struggling to discover who they are and where they fit into the world of people and events around them.” Plot SynopsisĬrabbe opens with Franklin Crabbe being admitted to St. He admitted that he found their lives more interesting as subjects for fiction. Though he spent time teaching adults at the University of British Columbia and in China, he primarily taught school-age teens in a school district north of Toronto. An easy person for all ages to relate to.”Īfter graduating from the University of Toronto, Bell moved to Orillia, Ontario, and began teaching English literature. In an interview with his publisher, Bell described Crabbe as “rebellious, troubled, idealistic and, at times, a little cranky. Quiet and an avid reader, Bell’s experience in high school is believed to have informed the setting and characterization of Crabbe, although Bell rejected the idea that he was the basis for his protagonist. As a teenager, he attended the New Toronto Secondary School (now the Lakeshore Collegiate Institute). William Bell was born in Toronto on 27 October 1945. “Yes! Sweaty, but that good kind of sex sweat, right? Like when you’re done and you’re starving and you go to the store for ice cream, people take one whiff of you and they know. “Biting,” Sadie adds as she steals one of my fries. I mean the growling, fumbling, grunting-” “…and I’m not talking that kind of ‘Oh you complete me’ bullshit and ‘Can I touch you here’ lovey shit. I take a bite of the sandwich, just so, you know, she’ll continue with this line of thought. It’s partly because my nose is filled with snot over my sorrow, and also because, goddamn it, she’s right. So after Ash says, “You need to be fucked,” I can’t breathe. That’s how bad things really are-I let that slice of salty ham heaven just sit there and get soggy and cold, like my love life. My Monologue of Despair was so all-consuming that I haven’t even taken a bite out of my crisp, gooey Cuban sandwich with garlicky mojo sauce. A divorce I wanted, mind you, but the end of my marriage is devastating. The not-breathing is because I’m winded from giving Ash and Sadie a very long monologue about how desperate and alone I feel now that my divorce is final. Because Lists are Satisfying.Īshley says this to me, and I sorta can’t breathe. A Blur, A Bikini, And A Moment Of TruthĤ0. Brazilian Cheese Puffs Can Fix Everything Except Heartacheģ9. To Whom It May Concern, Those Are My Pantiesģ4. Lush Willows and Flowering Shrubberiesġ9. A few areas were perhaps a bit convenient but overall not bad. That being said, I think the mystery was a pretty decent one. I like the guessing game that comes with these kinds of books but I did see part of the outcome of the novel from the start, so half of the mystery was irrelevant for me. Okay full disclosure, I’m notoriously picky when it comes to thrillers. And she soon finds herself ensnared in the same mysteries that claimed her aunt. She decides to move to Fell and visit the motel, where she quickly learns that nothing has changed since 1982. Upstate New York, 2017. Carly Kirk has never been able to let go of the story of her aunt Viv, who mysteriously disappeared from the Sun Down before she was born. But something isnʼt right at the motel, something haunting and scary. Upstate New York, 1982. Viv Delaney wants to move to New York City, and to help pay for it she takes a job as the night clerk at the Sun Down Motel in Fell, New York. Something hasn’t been right at the roadside Sun Down Motel for a very long time, and Carly Kirk is about to find out why in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls. It is, by any measure, an extraordinary achievement, but the detail sometimes threatens to smother the whole. Lewisohn is now 62, and expects to be well into his seventies before his trilogy is complete. The extended version runs to 1698 pages, and only takes the Beatles up to the end of 1962, and the recording of Love Me Do. Ten years later, he published the first volume. In 2003, at the age of 45, Mark Lewisohn began researching a history of the Beatles. It was 548 pages long, and took Picasso up to the age of 25. John Richardson published the first volume of his biography of Pablo Picasso in 1991. Will he live long enough to reach the end? Caro is still trying to complete the fifth and final volume, which will take LBJ from 1964 to his death in 1973. The audiobook for that one alone takes 32 hours 45 minutes. Each volume is roughly 800,000 words he published volume 4 in 2012. Caro has been working on his biography of LBJ since the mid-1970s. Robert Caro’s biography of President Johnson is so vast that it makes Bailey’s Roth look like a haiku. Even the longest biography is but a tiny fraction of the life it is intended to chronicle. Roth was 85 when he died, so his real life ran to a total of 750,000 hours or so. It takes a total of 31 hours and 46 minutes to listen to on audiobook. One of the longest biographies of recent years, the ill-fated Philip Roth by Blake Bailey, runs to 800 pages. This talk was delivered at the 2019 Edinburgh International Book Festival. However, he soon realised that it was more like that of 'Ranchers/Livestock'. He originally believed that they shared a kind of 'Lord/Servant' relationship. 802,701, where he finds that the state of the human race has changed considerably, and where he discovered two distinct peoples the Eloi, and, the Morlocks. He returns the following week with a tale of how he has used it and where it took him. The story starts with a narrator telling his dinner guests about the Time Traveller's machine and how it allowed him to travel through the fourth dimension, and how he has built such a machine himself. The sci-fi novel that actually gave us the term: 'time machine'. Home Ebooks Articles Buy Collections Donate F.A.Q About Contact Search ☰Īvailable to download for free in PDF, epub, and Kindle ebook formats. Jimmy has already put an ad in the paper and makes the band kick in for the cost. At a band meeting where he introduces Deco to Outspan and Derek, Jimmy tells them they will need to recruit more players for his vision: drums, saxophone, trumpet, keyboards. Jimmy recruits a local man Declan Cuffe, whom everyone calls Deco, to be the singer in the band. His second is to rename the group The Commitments because all the great band names begin with “the.” When formally asked to be their manager, Jimmy agrees. Jimmy believes they should be playing what he considers “soul” music. He advises them to forget about the “art school” songs they’ve been trying to cover and to focus on the basics – sex and politics. Jimmy is open to taking on the challenge of making them a band. They don’t know much about music and are already arguing over the musical direction for the band Outspan and Derek despise Ray’s taste. A third member, Ray, is in the bathroom when this decision is made and isn’t immediately informed. Outspan and Derek ask local audiophile Jimmy Rabbitte to be the manager of their band, And And And. Roddy Doyle’s The Commitments (1987) is told mainly through exchanges of dialogue as the novel tracks the formation, slight rise, and fall of a band in 1980s Dublin attempting to bring soul music to Ireland. |