![]() ![]() All orders are packed with due care, in my smoke-free and pet free home in Wirral! The items I am selling have been collected or used by me or my family in Scotland or England. I use entirely reused, repurposed or recycled packaging when shipping. This is my second ETSY shop and I have been an artist who works with recycled materials for over thirty years and my green ethos applies to this shop too. I am based in the UK and only offer delivery to UK for environmental reasons. ![]() However talented she is at tennis, on and off the tennis court struggles with other issues, mainly herself. But the unlikeliest of them all, Nicky practises in secret. Noel Streatfeild Tennis Shoes Hardcover Januby Noel Streatfeild (Author), Richard Floethe (Illustrator) 143 ratings See all formats and editions Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 199.99 3 Used from 199.99 2 Collectible from 24.33 Paperback 11.91 9 Used from 4.63 11 New from 7.71 1 Collectible from 49. Tennis Shoes : A Puffin Book - Noel Streatfeild. Their Grandad and Dad were top players, and the twins look like they will follow in their footsteps. Noel Streatfeilds Holiday Stories : By the author of Ballet Shoes - Noel Streatfeild. In TENNIS SHOES, the children of the Heath family discover they have tennis in their blood. Illustrated by D.L.Mays, artist for Punch magazine ![]() My own name inscribed on inside ( as a child) Dust Jacket Condition: very worn and repaired badly ![]()
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![]() Narration also reveals that Nick’s mother loves horses, and has been invited to work with high-level racing horses in another state. ![]() Narration reveals that Nick’s father is a writer, and has published a dictionary of unusual but meaningful words, a dictionary that he wants Nick to memorize (throughout the book, examples of those words and their definitions appear in the text). Nick’s story begins on a day when everything seems to be relatively normal: he sleeps late, after playing on-line soccer into the night his parents are arguing and he is caught daydreaming in school. ![]() A "/" in the summary or a quote indicates a line break within a stanza a "//" in the summary or a quote indicates a break between stanzas. Dialogue poems, of which there are several, are printed with Nick’s dialogue in regular typeset, with the words of other speakers printed in italics. ![]() Most material is present tense, with the exception of remembered material, which is in past tense. The entire book is written, except where noted, in blank verse. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, New York. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Alexander, Kwame. ![]() ![]() If you are squeamish and want to avoid gory details and even another gruesome twist right at the end of the story, which wasn’t in the movie, then DO NOT read the book.įirst, let me say that I eagerly rushed out to watch the movie, directed by Ang Lee, and while I can’t say I really enjoyed watching the movie, because as anyone who knows something about the movie (and the book) it was about survival at sea I found the movie evocative and amazing. Please be warned that there are “spoilers” at the end of this review. Here is my very own personal review of the novel written by Yann Martel, “The Life of Pi.” Please do not read, unless you really do want to know what I thought about the book upon reading it. Published in 2007 by Canongate, Edinburgh, it consists of 449 pages. It is signed by both the author and the illustrator and is copy number 1173 of a limited run of 3,000 such books. ![]() I have a beautiful slip-cased copy of the book, illustrated by Tomislav Torianic. If you read this book, it will quite likely not leave you un-changed. ![]() ![]() "These stories just come to life in such an organic way," Schewe says. With a background in physics, he has always loved stories about time travel. The entire series of Bad Love Gang books lend themselves well to the big screen, which is clearly evidenced by the positive response Schewe has received from the first screenplay. ![]() The Bad Love Gang series, with three book installments to date, reflects the wide array of Schewe's interests and hobbies. The first was for Best Sci-Fi Screenplay from the Los Angeles Film Awards and came in late February. ![]() ![]() He just won the Gold Script Writing Award for SciFi Adventure from DOFIFF, the Depth of Field International Film Festival. Denver, CO-Kevin Schewe received a second award in three weeks for his Bad Love Strikes movie script. ![]() ![]() ![]() What’s the origin of that?ĬP: Thank you for asking this one. My sister is a photographer and lives in a small, beachfront town that hosts regular art shows. Local painters and shutterbugs exhibit and sell their work. But many of the buyers only want a cheap way to obtain expensive mattes and frames. They’ll pay ten dollars for a painting with two hundred dollars worth of framing and mounting, then discard the painting and exhibit their own work, using the frame, at the next art show. JW: I’m curious where the idea of the magical picture frame came from. JW: What excited you most about the main character finally teaming up with Tyler Durden?ĬP: I’ve never bought into the binary dynamic of protagonist versus antagonist. Most people, to my way of thinking, create their own obstacles and defeats. God knows I do. Rather than watch Tom and Jerry, or Heckle and Jeckle, or the Coyote and Roadrunner battle endlessly, I wanted to return Balthazar and Tyler to the friendship they had before they’d become foes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With wit and intelligence, Rankine strives toward an unprecedented clarity-of thought, imagination, and sentence-making-while arguing that recognition of others is the only salvation for ourselves, our art, and our government.ĭon't Let Me Be Lonely is an important new confrontation with our culture, with a voice at its heart bewildered by its inadequacy in the face of race riots, terrorist attacks, medicated depression, and the antagonism of the television that won't leave us alone. The award-winning poet Claudia Rankine, well known for her experimental multigenre writing, fuses the lyric, the essay, and the visual in this politically and morally fierce examination of solitude in the rapacious and media-driven assault on selfhood that is contemporary America. ![]() or our American optimism the sadness lives in the recognition that a life can not matter. Acknowledged authors Claudia, Rankine wrote Dont Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric comprising 168 pages back in 2004. The sadness is not really about George W. The award-winning poet Claudia Rankine, well known for her experimental multigenre writing, fuses the lyric, the essay, and the visual in this politically and. A chancellor emerita of the Academy of American Poets, she is recipient of many honours including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Forward Prize and a. In this powerful sequence of TV images and essay, Claudia Rankine explores the personal and political unrest of our volatile new century ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Of course, it is, but not within the young mind of a frightened boy orphaned boy facing a brand new kind of existence he's never know practically overnight. ![]() So, that answers that wonder no more about whether the title is merely some sort of metaphorical cage with symbolic animals. This is the answer to the query posed to Sister Clair: why are the animals caged at night. It's not the best thing, but it's the only way we have to take care of them." Sister Clair ![]() If we didn't cage them up in one place, we might lose them, they might get hurt or damaged. You see, the animals that are given to us we have to take care of. “We don't want to, Jennings, but we have to. The narrator is about to learn all about strict rules and the necessity to rebel against some of them. All the stuff animals are collected by the nuns and caged at night. When he wakes up he is surprised to find Doggie missing and is informed by Mark about the rules. They cage the animals at night! It’s the rules.” MarkĪt the Home of Angels orphanage after the narrator is unceremoniously dropped off by his mother with a promise to come back soon worth the price of a cup of coffee in 1930, a terrified and sad little boy is given a stuff animal by one of the nuns that he names Doggie. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() This was the perfect book for the season and for fans of Stephen King's Carrie with a twist. And what they don't know is that Maddy still has another secret. The popular white class president convinces her Black superstar quarterback boyfriend to ask Maddy to be his date, leaving Maddy wondering if it's possible to have a normal life.īut some of her classmates aren't done with her just yet. She has been passing for white her entire life at the behest of her fanatical white father, Thomas Washington.Īfter a viral bullying video pulls back the curtain on Springville High's racist roots, student leaders come up with a plan to change their image: host the school's first integrated prom as a show of unity. Until the morning a surprise rainstorm reveals her most closely kept secret: Maddy is biracial. And she's dealt with it because she has more pressing problems to manage. Maddy did it.Īn outcast at her small-town Georgia high school, Madison Washington has always been a teasing target for bullies. When Springville residents-at least the ones still alive-are questioned about what happened on prom night, they all have the same explanation. A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection! ![]() Jackson ramps up the horror and tackles America’s history and legacy of racism in this suspenseful YA novel following a biracial teenager as her Georgia high school hosts its first integrated prom. New York Times bestselling author Tiffany D. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the night she tried to buy her freedom, she nearly paid with her life. Even if it means wielding death itself"-Ī life in slavery taught Tisaanah how to survive with nothing but a sharp eye, a quick mind, and a touch of magic. Even if it means forfeiting her freedom and sacrificing her heart. ![]() But Tisaanah will stop at nothing to save those she abandoned. The Orders have bigger plans for Tisaanah. And as her feelings for Maxantarius deepen, she is forced to decide how much she is willing to trade away for revenge. Under looming war, Tisaanah must master her magic and survive the Orders demands. But as the Orders' grip tightens around them both, his bloody past may be the key to her future. To earn her place, Tisaanah is forced into an apprenticeship with Maxantarius Farlione, a handsome and reclusive fire Wielder who despises the Orders. ![]() Forced to flee, she has only one chance at saving those she left behind: pledging herself to the Orders, an organization of magic Wielders strong enough to destroy her former masters. Instead, she murdered the most powerful man in Threll. About the Book "A life in slavery taught Tisaanah how to survive with nothing but a sharp eye, a quick mind, and a touch of magic. ![]() ![]() Then his former nemesis, Masha, emerges with a thumbdrive containing WikiLeaks-style evidence of government wrongdoing. ![]() Can one brilliant teenage hacker actually fight back? Maybe, but only if he’s very careful.and if he chooses his friends well.Ī few years after the events of Little Brother, California’s economy collapses and Marcus finds himself employed by a crusading politician who promises reform. ![]() He knows that no one will believe him, which leaves him one option: to take down the DHS himself. ![]() When the DHS finally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has become a police state. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his friends are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison where they are brutally interrogated for days. Marcus Yallow is seventeen years old when he skips school and finds himself caught in the aftermath of a terrorist attack on San Francisco. I’d recommend Little Brother over pretty muchĪny book I’ve read this year.” –Neil Gaiman Cory Doctorow’s two New York Times-bestselling novels of youthful rebellion against the torture-and-surveillance state – now available in a softcover omnibus ![]() |