![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As editor Rhoda Belleza writes in her introduction, after hearing about friends’ experiences being bullied, “Learning these details seems instrumental to my understanding of who they are now – and it inspired me to turn the mirror on myself. The authors in Cornered use their stories to take us inside the minds and skins of those who are being bullied, and the bullies themselves, to show readers just how wrong thinking teen-aged harassment is “not that bad” can be. There were times, many times, I wished I was dead.” And only people on the top, or at least not on the bottom, would ever, EVER say it wasn’t that bad. When teenager Bryan Forbes says, “It wasn’t that bad, was it?” to Tiffany Sanz, a girl he and a group of others bullied in elementary school, she replies: “It looks totally different from wherever you sit on the totem pole, my friend. In the light of the recent revelation that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney may have bullied a fellow student in high school, something said by character in “The Shift Sticks,” Josh Berk’s story in this collection, gains unexpected relevance. ‘Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance’ edited by Rhoda Belleza ![]()
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![]() And Meg has made a new friend, a grain spirit named Peaches who has a limited vocabulary. They survive with nothing worse than a nasty head cold. They will have a satyr companion, and Meg knows just who to call upon. With the aid of Percy Jackson, Apollo and Meg get as far as the western border of Camp Half-Blood before they’re attacked. ![]() There is one glimmer of hope in the gloom-filled prophecy: The cloven guide alone the way does know. The Hidden Oracle is the first book in The Trials of Apollo series by Rick Riordan. After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. While Leo flies ahead on Festus to warn the Roman camp, Lester and Meg must go through the Labyrinth to find the third emperor-and an Oracle who speaks in word puzzles-somewhere in the American Southwest. How do you punish an immortal By making him human. 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Now it roams the landscape looking for the perfect spot to settle down. ![]() Details From New York Times bestselling author Ben Hatke comes Things in the Basement, a young readers graphic novel about Milo, a young boy who discovers a portal to a secret world in his basement. ![]() Join us for a reading of Julia's House Goes Home -and the first two books in the Julia's House series-with picture book author-illustrator Ben Hatke, followed by a Q&A! Books purchased on the registration page will include a signed bookplate. by Ben Hatke (Author) See all formats and editions Hardcover 18.29 1 New from 18.29 Paperback 14.99 1 New from 14.99 Pre-order Price Guarantee. ![]() ![]() ![]() The team is aiming for a shot at the Junior Olympics. Ghost has natural talent, but he needs training and Coach is the guy to train him. All are terrific characters-both male and female-on this city team.īut can Ghost stay the game? He sure messes up a lot and Coach doesn’t tolerate that. 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![]() ![]() The only thing I do know is that my life is never, ever going to be the same. ![]() Now I have no friends and no idea how my gift fits in with all these warrior whiz kids. ![]() But even I don't want to know the secrets my friend Paige is hiding or the terrible loss that will send me to a new school - Mythos Academy, where the teachers aren't preparing us for the SATs, but to battle Reapers of Chaos. I want to know everything about everyone around me. Okay, okay, maybe a lot nosy-to the point of obsession sometimes. It's called psychometry - that's a fancy way of saying that I see images in my head and get flashes of other people's memories off almost everything I touch, even guys. First FrostI am Gwen Frost, and I have a Gypsy gift. ![]() ![]() Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Judgment of Paris chronicles the dramatic decade between two famous exhibitions - the scandalous Salon des Refuses in 1863 and the first Impressionist showing in 1874 - set against the rise and dramatic fall of Napoleon III and the Second Empire after the Franco-Prussian War. The drama of its birth, played out on canvas, would at times resemble a battlefield and, as Ross King reveals, Impressionism would reorder both history and culture as it resonated around the world. Indeed, no artistic movement has ever been, at its inception, quite so controversial. While the Civil War raged in America, another very different revolution was beginning to take shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris: The artists who would make Impressionism the most popular art form in history were showing their first paintings amidst scorn and derision from the French artistic establishment. ![]() |