![]() Athena is noted for her intelligence, Persephone is mysterious and kind, Artemis is bold and strong, and Aphrodite is "effortlessly beautiful". The series focuses on four primary characters – Athena, Persephone, Aphrodite, and Artemis - as a diverse group of loyal friends. The books are based on Greek mythology and depict the younger generation of the Olympian pantheon as privileged tween students attending Mount Olympus Academy (MOA) to develop their divine skills. The Goddess Girls is a series of children's books written by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams, published by Simon & Schuster under the Aladdin imprint. ![]() ( June 2012) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. ![]() This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. ![]()
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![]() Through her art, Jade begins to act on the realization that she needs to make her own opportunities. Paired with Maxine, Jade initially has high hopes for this mentor-ship, hopes which are dashed when Maxine proves unreliable and Jade begins to wonder if it is she or Maxine who is getting more out of the program. ![]() Hoping to be afforded the opportunity to study abroad so she can utilize her fluent Spanish Skills, Jade is instead offered the chance to be paired with a mentor in the Women to Women program by her school's guidance counselor. Heeding her mother's advice, Jade works to take advantage of every opportunity presented to her. Jade is from a poor neighborhood and is different from the rest of her school. ![]() Jade, who is also the book's narrator, is a sixteen-year-old African American student attending a mostly white private school in Portland, Oregon on a scholarship. The book, a New York Times best seller, was well reviewed and won several awards. The first person novel tells the story of Jade, an ambitious African American high school student. ![]() ![]() Piecing Me Together is a 2017 young adult novel by Renée Watson. ![]() ![]() Learn more by visiting Peg Kehret’s website: www.pegkehret. ![]() This story documents her nine months in the hospital and her continuing road to recovery. Peg reads to him when she’s feeling better, and they listen to The Lone Ranger.Īfter she starts to recover, she is moved back to the Sheltering Arms hospital where she rooms with four other girls who have polio, Dorothy, Shirley, Alice and Renee. Her new room has a roommate named Tommy who is put into an iron lung. After a few days, she is allowed to move out of isolation but all of the things in her room are burned because they may contain the virus. Peg is placed under an oxygen tent to help her breathe a little easier. She spends a little time at Sheltering Arms before she is transferred to University Hospital because she needs a respirator. Her parents take her to the hospital where she is diagnosed with three different kinds of polio. She goes home with a high fever, and around midnight, she starts to vomit. In September 1949, Peg collapses at her school in Minnesota. For younger generations who only know of polio by its vaccine, this book is a well-crafted look at the effects of a disease that was once epidemic and terrifying. ![]() This is a story of strength and courage in the face of an uncertain future. mentioned in the book, as well as a chapter on polio, its history, and its current status. Surviving the initial paralysis brought on by the illness, Peg then had to learn how to walk again. ![]() This 2016-2017 Oregon Battle of the Books selection tells the true story of Peg Kehret, who at age 12 contracted three different kinds of polio. ![]() ![]() ![]() Because of her correspondence with Joan, Imogen’s decades-long marriage blossoms into something new and exciting, and in turn, Joan learns that true love does not always come in the form we expect it to. It is a discovery the women share, not only with each other, but with the men in their lives. ![]() ![]() As the two women commune through their letters, they build a closeness that sustains them through the Cuban Missile Crisis, the assassination of President Kennedy, and the unexpected in their own lives.įood and a good life-they can’t be separated. Imogen lives on Camano Island outside Seattle, writing a monthly column for a Pacific Northwest magazine, and while she can hunt elk and dig for clams, she’s never tasted fresh garlic-exotic fare in the Northwest of the sixties. Joan lives in Los Angeles and is just starting out as a writer for the newspaper food pages. When twenty-seven-year-old Joan Bergstrom sends a fan letter-as well as a gift of saffron-to fifty-nine-year-old Imogen Fortier, a life-changing friendship begins. In the vein of the classic 84, Charing Cross Road and Meet Me at the Museum, this witty and tender novel follows two women in 1960s America as they discover that food really does connect us all, and that friendship and laughter are the best medicine. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kipling was awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907. The one thing that was never possible, if one had read him at all, was to forget him. Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English writer chiefly known for his works on the British rule in India.įive days after Rudyard Kipling’s death on 18 January 1936, George Orwell published a short essay in the New English Weekly as an obituary or as a sort of tribute to the “household god” with whom he had grown up:įor my own part, I worshipped Kipling at thirteen, loathed him at seventeen, enjoyed him at twenty-five and now again rather admire him. ![]() Kipling’s parents considered themselves Anglo-Indians and the complex issue of identity and nationality was a prominent feature in his works as the writer himself wrote in his autobiography. Kipling was named after the Rudyard Lake in Staffordshire, England which his parents loved as a place of beauty. His mother was a lively woman and his father was a sculptor and pottery designer who went on become the Principal of Architectural sculpture at Sir Jamestjee Jeejebhoy School of Art in Bombay. In India, he was born in Bombay, presently called Mumbai to a British Family on 30 December 1865 to Alice Kipling and John Lockwood Kipling. He was born in India and moved with his family to England when he was five years old. ![]() Kipling lived from December 30, 1865, to January 18, 1936. ![]() ![]() She cast the conference calls and project deadlines aside in favor of staying home with her children. But as her family begun to grow, Devney realized that she yearned to slow down somewhat.Īnd that is exactly what she did. ![]() The author did not settle down until she entered the tech industry. She eventually changed her course to economics but even her interest in that arena did not last. If anything she was more interested in becoming a doctor and she even pursued medicine in college. She will also read anything related to Harry Potter.īut even with her thriving interest in reading, it never occurred to Devney Perry to write. ![]() ![]() She has always counted the likes of Nora Roberts, Harper Sloan and Rebecca Yaros amongst her favorites. There was always a hill somewhere that needed skiing.īut Devney also found the time to read. She spent a lot of time playing outside as a child.Īnd she liked to take charge of whatever activities she participated in, whether it was building forts or riding bicycles. She knows she was bossy, as her younger brother has reminded her on numerous occasions. Devney Perry is an American author that writes contemporary romance novels.ĭevney would like to think she was a pretty normal child. ![]() ![]() ![]() She commissions Quinta and Twain to make her a starlight dress and will reward them handsomely enough to make their dreams come true. Soon, their lace catches the eye of the Casorina, the ruler of Severon. Two, they enter the store and discover a book that teaches them how to weave starlight into lace. When Quinta meets Twain outside of the Emporium, two things happen: One, Quinta is sure she’s infatuated with this starlight boy, who uses his charm to hide his scars. ![]() Meanwhile, Quinta, the ordinary daughter of an extraordinary circus performer, chases rumors of the shop, the Vermilion Emporium, desperate for a way to live up to her mother’s magical legacy. On the morning Twain, a lonely boy with a knack for danger, discovers a strand of starlight on the cliffs outside of Severon, a mysterious curiosity shop appears in town. The heart-wrenching story of The Radium Girls meets the enchanting world of Howl’s Moving Castle in a story of timeless love and deadly consequences. ![]() ![]() And I could tell from the way that people waited to comfort him that Milton was a big shot. I guessed, from the way people gathered around him on the temple steps, patted his back, clasped his hands in theirs, that it must have been his father who had died. He now looked exactly like his father, a man I remembered with some affection. ![]() Part of the reason I first noticed you was because you were next to him. You were in the minority that day, you were in our neighborhood and almost everyone else there would have picked me. Why do humans do it the other way? It doesn’t make sense. In the animal kingdom, the male performs for the woman, woos her with his beautiful feathers or flowing mane, is always trying to out-strut the other men. Who won? My hunch is that you gave yourself the crown because you saw a Negro woman, a poor one at that. You scanned the crowd of people on the sidewalk and your eyes caught mine, if only for a moment, then dropped away. I could tell at a glance you’ve never doubted you’re good-looking and you still had the habit of checking a room to make sure you were the best-looking. ![]() Lock eyes, then look one another up and down. ![]() I saw you and you noticed me because you caught me looking at you, seeing you. Author of " Lady in the Lake." ( From The Reading ListĮxcerpt from "Lady in the Lake" by Laura Lippman Laura Lippman, journalist and one of the country's most successful crime novelists. (Lesley Unruh/Harper Collins) This article is more than 3 years old.īestselling crime novelist Laura Lippman discusses her new novel, and her city: Baltimore. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cole wants to take over the throne in the underworld and is convinced Nikki is the key to making it happen. But there’s just one problem, Cole, the smoldering immortal who enticed her to the Everneath in the first place, has followed Nikki home. Nikki longs to spend these precious months forgetting the Everneath and trying to reconnect with her boyfriend, Jack, the person most devastated by her disappearance and the one person she loves more than anything. ![]() She has six months before the Everneath comes to claim her, six months for good-byes she can’t find the words for, six months to find redemption, if it exists. Now she’s returned, to her old life, her family, her boyfriend, before she’s banished back to the underworld. ![]() Last spring, Nikki Beckett vanished, sucked into an underworld known as the Everneath. ![]() ![]() ![]() We consider how creators on the algorithmically driven social media platform TikTok responded to an open-ended 2019 prompt (“ayo, bisexual check”) to show off styles and accessories that project a bisexual display, and how these videos, understood collectively, contribute to the cohesion of a prototype for a bisexual social uniform.īy social uniform, we refer to informally standardised clothing that identifies members of a group but lacks the bureaucratic regulation of an institutional uniform (Joseph). ![]() ![]() While posed as tongue-in-cheek, the assignment of status as a signifier of bisexuality to seemingly arbitrary actions and items reinforces the notion that bi people seek a distinct visual and cultural identity and struggle to make one. A 2021 listicle pronouncing “10 Things That Are Bisexual Culture” concludes that “claiming that random things are ‘bi culture’ is the most bi-culture thing of all” (Wilber n.p.). ![]() |