![]() ![]() ![]() We would love to share you enjoying the resources online, you can do this by tagging WalkerBooksYA and readingagency on social media using the hashtag #BLOODMOON. Blood Moon is an extraordinary YA novel in verse about the online shaming of a teenage girl. There is a video of Lucy Cuthew introducing Blood Moon here. Both shocking and uplifting, it cuts to the heart of what it is to be a teenager today and shows the power of friendship to find joy in even the darkest skies. As the online shaming takes on a horrifying life of its own, Frankie begins to wonder: is her life over?īlood Moon is a punchy, vivid and funny story of first-time love, hormone-fuelled sexuality and intense female friendships – whilst addressing, head-on, the ongoing exploitation of young girls online and the horror of going viral. But soon a graphic meme goes viral, turning an innocent, intimate afternoon into something disgusting, mortifying and damaging. During astronomy-lover Frankie’s first sexual experience with the quiet and lovely Benjamin, she gets her period. Blood Moon is an extraordinary YA novel in verse about the online shaming of a teenage girl. ![]()
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![]() ![]() For Your Viewing Pleasure: Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Culture.Feminist Performance Festival Roundtable (2011).“Feminism, Utopia, and Performance”: The Progressives Corner (2012).Performing Que(e)ries Part IV: Holly Hughes in conversation with Jill Dolan (2013).“What Makes a Jewish Theatre Artist” (2013).Teaching and Mentoring, for Grad Students and New Faculty. ![]() “Feminist Performance Criticism and the Popular: Reviewing Wendy Wasserstein” (2008).“Colleague-Criticism: Performance, Writing, and Queer Collegiality” (2009).“On ‘Publics’: A Feminist Constellation of Keywords” (2011).“Casual Racism and Stuttering Failures: An Ethics for Classroom Engagement” (2012).“Performing Jewishness In and Out of the Classroom” (2012).“Feeling Women’s Culture: Women’s Music, Lesbian Feminism, and the Impact of Emotional Memory” (2012).“To Teach and to Mentor: Toward Our Collective Future” (2013). ![]() ![]() Respect is not asked but rightfully earned.Do not settle for something "good enough." If you think something can be done better or can be done excellently, then do it with all your heart. I always say this to my former and existing staff, and my children. Create an environment where people can openly communicate with you and that you will hear them out and truly listen. Judging people harshly only generates fear and anxiety. You have to treat your people with fairness, empathy, and respect. Because fear of failure, fear of rejection, fear of being disliked will only destroy creativity and success. ![]() Courage to take risks, to make difficult decisions, to engage in difficult conversations, to admit your own mistakes, and the courage to innovate and disrupt the norm.
![]() ![]() Amid the conflict and desolation of post-Communist Albania, teenage boys Agim and Bujar share restless dreams of escape. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Hardcover. It is also a search through shifting gender and social personae, for acceptance and love.īut faced with marginalization at home and only precarious means of escape and survival, what chance do the young pair have of forging a new life? Pursued by memories of home and echoes of folk tales, they risk losing themselves in the struggle to leave their pasts behind. This is the beginning of a journey across cities, borders and identities, from the bazaars of Tirana to the monuments of Rome and the drag bars of New York. Desperate for a chance to shape their own lives, they flee. When his fearless friend Agim is discovered wearing his mother's red dress and beaten with his father's belt, he persuades Bujar that there is no place for them in their country. ![]() His father is dying and his homeland, Albania, bristles with hunger and unrest. 'A novel that dazzles and mesmerizes, and the reader, upon finishing, may have the extraordinary sensation that his or her own dreams have been scattered along the journey, beckoning for rereading' Yiyun Liīujar's world is collapsing. ' Crossing will devour you this is some fierce, dazzling, and heartbreaking s**t' NoViolet Bulawayo ![]() ![]() Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (declined) (1926).The 7 chapters correlate to the seven deadly sins. The structure of the novel resembles Dante's Divine Comedy.įrancis Phelan is the journeyman as Dante is the journeyman throughout The Inferno. In 2009, produced an audio version of Ironweed, narrated by Jonathan Davis as part of its Modern Vanguard line of audiobooks. In 1986, Audio Partners produced an audiobook version of Ironweed, read by Jason Robards. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Actor in a Leading Role (for Nicholson) and Best Actress in a Leading Role (for Streep). Major portions of the film were shot on location in Albany. Kennedy wrote the screenplay for the 1987 film version directed by Héctor Babenco and starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. The novel features characters that are present in some of Kennedy's other Albany Cycle books. The novel focuses on Francis's return (after being gone twenty-two years) to Albany over the triduum of All Hallows Eve, All Saints' Day, and All Souls' Day moreover, a surreal element is added to the narrative as Phelan sees and tries to interact with dead people from his troubled past. ![]() Ironweed is set during the Great Depression and tells the story of Francis Phelan, a bum originally from Albany, New York, who left his family after accidentally killing his infant son. ![]() ![]() It is included in the Western Canon of the critic Harold Bloom. ![]() It received the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and is the third book in Kennedy's Albany Cycle. Ironweed is a 1983 novel by William Kennedy. ![]() ![]() The editorial department of Kodansha Novels called it a shinhonkaku mystery. In 1986, he married Fuyumi Ono, and the following year, while still a student at the university, he made his debut as a writer with The Decagon House Murders. In 1982, he entered the graduate course at the same university, majoring in deviant behavior theory. In the winter of his fourth year of university, he entered the Ranpo Edogawa Prize with a prototype work for what would later become The Decagon House Murders, and was selected in the first round. ![]() Among his classmates in the club was Fuyumi Ono, whom he would later marry, as well as Takemaru Abiko and Rintarou Norizuki, who would later also become authors. ![]() He was a member of the Kyoto University Mystery Club. During the summer vacation of his sixth year of elementary school, he wrote ten short mystery stories as part of his initial study on Boy Detective Club by Ranpo Edogawa.Īfter graduating from Kyoto Prefectural Katsura High School in 1979, he entered the Faculty of Education at Kyoto University. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her work frequently appears in literary magazines, and she has also been featured in the Mainichi Shimbun. 6 on its head, in three collectible 3-in-1 omnibus editions featuring extra-large. The same series won the Shogakukan Children's Publication Culture Award in 2005. She published "Hotaru-kan Monogatari" as her first novel.Īsano received the Noma Prize for Juvenile Literature in 1997 for her book series Battery, which has been adapted into a film. She graduated from Aoyama Gakuin college and majored in literature. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. She started writing the children's novels when she was in college. 6 by Atsuko Asano - Books on Google Play No. She wrote the children's novel series Telepathy Shōjo Ran and the manga series The Manzai Comics. ![]() Atsuko Asano (あさの あつこ Asano Atsuko ?, born 1954 in Okayama Prefecture) is a Japanese writer. ![]() ![]() “The book is a sense of urgency, a call to the public that kids cannot be left on their own to come forward,” she says. “I truly believe that when we’re broken and vulnerable and open to sharing our stories, God uses those stories and builds a bridge with them.” “God gave me a special invitation to go back to that assignment to write stories about children who’ve been compromised, and what we can do to try and bring them to wholeness again,” Robinson Sammons says. Since retiring three years ago, she’s reconnected with her “original passion” to write a book helping foster healing and hope. Her years working as a youth center director and gymnastics coach in Devils Lake introduced her to many high-risk kids and domestic issues.įor 15 additional years, Robinson Sammons consulted with schools, collaborating with educators all over the world in best-practices instruction. Robinson Sammons, currently a Floridian, spent most of her life in North Dakota, where she developed a lifelong passion for education. ![]() ![]() ![]() “I’ve really just followed that inner voice, and felt the Holy Spirit guiding me through this process.” “It’s a peaceful feeling, even with a heavy topic like this,” she says. Originally set to release in April, Child Abuse Prevention Month, the book has been slightly delayed, but Robinson Sammons says she trusts in God’s timing. Though each story is unique, she says, all include the common ingredients of vulnerability and accessibility. ![]() "One Story Many Voices" by Laurie Robinson Sammons. ![]() ![]() ![]() Faint soiling to boards, some bumping to corners. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white line drawings by Lawson. Original quarter tan cloth, red pictorial paper boards. A wonderful work, in which the beauty of nonconformity still reads as subversive. ![]() Although he hadn't meant for the book to carry an ideological message, Leaf received angry letters claiming he was "deliberately corrupting children of an impressionable age" (quoted in Davis). The first collaboration of Lawson and Leaf, FERDINAND was a hit with children but caused controversy among adults: the story of the bull who would rather smell the flowers than fight with the other bulls was read politically in the context of the Spanish Civil War. First English edition of the pacifist children's classic, banned in Franco's Spain at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. ![]() ![]() ![]() During those stays, Suleika felt she had limited time left on this earth so she decided to do something meaningful while she still could. ![]() Thus began a tremendously painful journey of chemotherapy, clinical trials, a bone marrow transplant, waiting for biopsy results, and interminably long stays at the cancer ward in hospitals. When the diagnosis came down like a heavy anvil, she was, understandably, shattered. It started with an intolerable itch all over her body, followed by mouth sores and extreme fatigue. It is learning to embrace the people I love now instead of protecting against a future gutted by their loss.” (P.312) This passage from Suleika Jaouad’s inspiring memoir, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted, resonated so much with me that I had to write it down.Īt the tender age of twenty-two, when Suleika’s peers were looking forward to their futures, she was diagnosed with leukemia with a 35 percent chance of survival. It is learning to confront ghosts and to carry what lingers. Healing is figuring out how to coexist with the pain that will always live inside of you, without pretending it isn’t there or allowing it to hijack your day. But I’m learning that’s not how it works. It meant putting your pain behind you, leaving it in the past. ![]() “I used to think healing meant ridding the body and heart of anything that hurt. ![]() |