![]() ![]() Huckleberry Finn may be based on Mark Twain's childhood friend. Despite this, the other children “wished they dared to be like him.” Huck also appears in Tom Sawyer, Detective, and Tom Sawyer Abroad. ![]() He wears cast-off adult clothes and sleeps in doorways and empty barrels. Huck is the “juvenile pariah of the village” and “son of the town drunkard,” Pap Finn. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a sequel to Tom Sawyer, Twain’s novel about his childhood in Hannibal, Missouri. Huckleberry Finn first appears in Tom Sawyer. It remains one of the most loved, and most banned, books in American history. on February 18, 1885-is a subversive confrontation of slavery and racism. But underneath, the book-which was published in the U.S. ![]() On its surface, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a straightforward story about a boy and a runaway slave floating down the Mississippi River. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This blessedly sprawling memoir is an invitation to join a conversation. In Recollections of My Nonexistence, her new memoir chronicling her coming of age as a poor white woman in San Francisco, acclaimed writer Rebecca Solnit embraces that sense of freedom and wants to share it with others. It’s a terrifying state of liberation that can exact a high price-or grant you a life far beyond your expectations. Women speak out because they can’t keep the truth a secret any longer. Silence becomes a personal liability when truth is on the line. Who are these women writers that couldn’t stay quiet? It’s not so much that they want to make a statement, to shatter glass ceilings it’s that they just can’t keep quiet anymore. Perhaps it’s this tension that makes women’s memoirs so compelling. It’s a lesson passed down in almost every social and cultural setting. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book explore the 12 habits that a lot of females tend to have (well, maybe not all 12, but some of them!) that are keeping them back from that next level, next promotion, next raise, or next job. ![]() ![]() You are not being told everything you need to do to succeed instead, it feels more like a conversation you are having with the authors, with them sharing their stories with you and you reading the stories of others. One thing that stood out from the beginning was the conversational tone the book takes. ![]() Helgesen and Goldsmith have both trained thousands of high achievers, of both genders, so they have seen it all - the good and the bad.īecause of this, they have seen firsthand the different roadblocks that women face in the working world than men do, which is how they are able to figure out these specific 12 habits, as they kept happening across the female they were working with. If you are a young female wanting to grow and progress her career, this book is for you. Helgesen is a Women’s Leadership Expert and Goldsmith is the bestselling author of “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There.” Here is my review of “How Women Rise.” But, after taking part in a future female leaders development program through work, I can say that there is a book I would recommend for every working female who wants to grow to read - “ How Women Rise” by Sally Helgesen and Marshall Goldsmith. Despite being an avid reader my whole life, I have never been one to read any sort of self-help or self-development types of books. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But it is also a heartbreaking story of the enduring bonds of love between a father and son. The Black Count is simultaneously a riveting adventure story, a lushly textured evocation of 18th-century France, and a window into the modern world’s first multi-racial society. Enlisting as a private, he rose to command armies at the height of the Revolution, in an audacious campaign across Europe and the Middle East – until he met an implacable enemy he could not defeat. Yet, hidden behind these swashbuckling adventures was an even more incredible secret: the real hero was the son of a black slave - who rose higher in the white world than any man of his race would before our own time.īorn in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), Alex Dumas was briefly sold into bondage but made his way to Paris where he was schooled as a sword-fighting member of the French aristocracy. The real-life protagonist of The Black Count, General Alex Dumas, is a man almost unknown today yet with a story that is strikingly familiar, because his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used it to create some of the best loved heroes of literature. ![]() Here is the remarkable true story of the real Count of Monte Cristo – a stunning feat of historical sleuthing that brings to life the forgotten hero who inspired such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. ![]() ![]() ![]() In all cases there is much to learn from and build upon. ![]() Against this inaccurate and self-defeating lapsarian story, Remaking Radicalism shows the period of 1973 to 2001 to be replete with radical thought, revolutionary action, and what Hobson and Berger call, after Stuart Hall, “usable pasts.” In most cases these pasts are inseparable from our present. Together, Hobson and Berger have compiled and thematically arranged a tremendous selection of key documents authored by radical organizers during a period commonly associated with the fall or disappearance of the left. Berger is associate professor of comparative ethnic studies at the University of Washington, Bothell, and author of Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era. ![]() Hobson is associate professor of history and gender, race, & identity at the university of Nevada, reno, and author of Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left. Hobson and Dan Berger, coeditors and curators of the recently published collection Remaking Radicalism: A Grassroots Documentary Reader of the United States, 1973-2001. ![]() ![]() ![]() The paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids This edition also includes the original source for 'Benito Cereno'. The texts of all the stories are reprinted from the most authoritative recent editions. ![]() All show Melville a master of irony, point-of-view, and tone whose fables ripple out in ever-increasing circles of meaning. Several of the tales - 'Bartleby the Scrivener', 'Benito Cereno', 'the Encantadas', and 'The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids' - are acknowledged masterpieces. The eight shorter tales included here establish Melville, with Hawthorne and Poe, as the greatest American story writer of hi age. Outwardly a compelling narrative of events aboard a British man-of-war during the Napoleonic Wars, billy Budd, Sailor is a nautical recasting of the Fall, a parable of good and evil, a meditation on justice and political governance, and a searching portrait of the three extraordinary men. So wrote Melville of Billy Budd, Sailor, among the most problematic. 'Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.' ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Stanley helps win a boat race and rescues a girl from a dangerous building. Stanley, Flat Again Stanley is back, and he is flat - again! Even his brother Arthur can not come up with a plan to re-inflate Stanley this time. But being invisible is not as easy as it looks! Invisible Stanley Out of Sight! It is a shock at first, but Stanley finds you can do amazing things when you are invisible. Being famous is exhausting! Soon everyone longs for life to get back to normal. Now the Lampchops can wish for anything in the world: fame, a magical pet, superpowers. Stanley will meet the Queen of England, have his birthday in outer space and face a city full of aliens! Stanley and the Magic Lamp Stanley finds a real genie inside his mothers teapot. Flat Stanley Jeff Brown Collection Magic Lamp 6 Books SetĪ fresh new look for the one-and-only 2D hero! Stanley in Space The President of the United States chooses Stanley and his family to become the first humans aboard a new top-secret spaceship. ![]() ![]() ![]() īoth Hurricane Child and Callender's young adult debut, This is Kind of an Epic Love Story, were nominated for a 2019 Lambda Literary Award in the category LGBTQ* Children's/Young Adult. Their debut novel, Hurricane Child, about a twelve-year-old born during a hurricane who believes herself to be cursed, was published by Scholastic in 2018 and received the Stonewall Book Award in 2019. Callender debuted their new name when announcing their next young adult novel Felix Ever After in May 2019. Ĭallender is Black, queer, trans, and uses they/them and he/him pronouns. In 2018, in reaction to Hurricane Irma, Callender launched the online auction #USVIPubFund, under which they and other book publishing professionals raised $104,000 to support the U.S. Prior to becoming an author, Callender was an editor at Little, Brown. ![]() Callender also has a bachelor's degree from Sarah Lawrence College in Japanese and Creative Writing and a MFA from The New School's Writing for Children program. Personal life Ĭallender was born as Kheryn (in 1989) and raised in Saint Thomas, U.S. Their fantasy novel, Queen of the Conquered, is the 2020 winner of the World Fantasy Award and King and the Dragonflies won the 2020 National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Children's/Middle Grade. ![]() Kacen Callender is a Saint Thomian author of children's fiction and fantasy, best known for their Stonewall Book Award and Lambda Literary Award-winning middle grade debut Hurricane Child. ![]() ![]() ![]() Scientific research has yielded several models that attempt to simplify and explain the complexity of the reading process. What are the Common Models of the Reading Process? It is a “vast, unfinished, continuously growing, and evolving interdisciplinary body of scientifically based research about reading and issues related to reading and writing.” Because reading science continues to evolve, the “science” of reading is subject to numerous interpretations when it’s applied to reading instruction (Seidenberg, Borkenhagen, and Kearns, 2020, Afflerbach, 2022, Aukerman, 2022, Thomas, 2022). This paper will briefly review the major tenets of the “Science of Reading.” It will then present the Next Step Small Group lesson framework (Scholastic, 2016) and explain how the lesson components align with current reading science and research.Īccording to the Science of Reading Defining Guide, the Science of Reading is not a reading program, a one-size-fits-all program of instruction, or a single component of instruction. Next Step Forward Guided Reading Framework ![]() ![]() ![]() Paul O'Hanrahan of the Balloonatics Theatre Company performs readings from James Joyce's Ulysses during Bloomsday, June 16, 2013. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL 6 / 11 Show Caption + Hide Caption – ![]() Army) VIEW ORIGINAL 5 / 11 Show Caption + Hide Caption – (Photo Credit: U.S. During Bloomsday in Dublin, celebrated June 16 in honor of the novel, tourists visit t. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL 4 / 11 Show Caption + Hide Caption –ĭuring the action of the novel Ulysses by James Joyce, the central character Leopold Bloom visits a chemist called Sweny's to purchase a bar of lemon-scented soap. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL 3 / 11 Show Caption + Hide Caption – (Photo Credit: U.S. ![]() The fort has been converted to a museum dedicated to James Joyce who lived in the tower. The tower is where the first chapter of James Joyce's novel Ulysses takes place June 16, 1904. Martello Tower, right of center, rises over Dublin Bay in Ireland. 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