![]() ![]() ![]() Years after the revolution ends and Tally Youngblood vanishes, society has re-built. Rating: 4/5 A New Exciting Look at What Happens After the Revolution Ends It’s the first time in quite a while that I’ve gone to a bookstore to get a book as soon as it came out. When I heard that he was returning to the Uglies world with a new book, I was ecstatic. To this day I regularly recommend his Uglies book series for fans of dystopian novels. I first started reading Scott Westerfeld’s YA novels years ago. With Impostors, master storyteller Scott Westerfeld returns with a new series set in the world of his mega-bestselling Uglies-a world full of twist and turns, rebellion and intrigue, where any wrong step could be Frey’s last.” and if she can risk becoming her own person. ![]() As the deal starts to crumble, Frey must decide if she can trust him with the truth. But Col, the son of a rival leader, is getting close enough to spot the killer inside her. When her father sends Frey in Rafi’s place as collateral in a precarious deal, she becomes the perfect impostor-as poised and charming as her sister. Her only purpose is to protect her sister, to sacrifice herself for Rafi if she must. So while Rafi was raised to be the perfect daughter, Frey has been taught to kill. Their powerful father has many enemies, and the world has grown dangerous as the old order falls apart. Frey is Rafi’s twin sister-and her body double. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The next day he was delivered to the county sheriff and lodged in the county jail in Jerusalem (now Courtland), Virginia. Nat Turner alone escaped-until October 30, when he was caught in the immediate vicinity, having used several hiding places over the previous 9½ weeks. ![]() By noon of Tuesday, August 23, the insurgents had been killed, captured, or dispersed by local militia. Over the next 36 hours, they were joined by as many as 60 other slaves and free blacks, and they killed at least 10 men, 14 women, and 31 infants and children. they began to enter local houses and kill the white inhabitants. Nat Turner (1800–1831) was known to his local “fellow servants” in Southampton County as “The Prophet.” On the evening of Sunday, August 21, 1831, he met six associates in the woods at Cabin Pond, and about 2:00 a.m. ![]() ![]() ![]() Don’t be discouraged if it takes multiple readings to get it. There is a lot of material packed into it. The focus is exclusively on JavaScript, which is just one of the languages the web developer must master. This is not a book about Ajax or web programming. Someday I hope to write a JavaScript: The First Parts book, but this is not that book. Instead, this book just contains the things that are really important. It doesn’t contain everything you’ll ever need to know. ![]() It is not exhaustive about the language and its quirks. JavaScript is a surprisingly powerful language. It is also intended for programmers who have been working with JavaScript at a novice level and are now ready for a more sophisticated relationship with the language. It is intended for programmers who, by happenstance or curiosity, are venturing into JavaScript for the first time. This is a book about the JavaScript programming language. (I love teaching, but you know teachers will be judged more hushly ) )
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Wendy, Master of Art explores the politics of open relationships and polyamoury, performative activism, the precarity of a life in the arts, as well as the complexities of gender identity, sex work, drug use, and more. What is the post-Jungian object as symbol? Will she ever understand her course readingor herself? What if shes just not smart enough? As she develops as an artist and a person, Wendy also finds herself in a teaching position, mentoring a perpetually sobbing grade-grubbing undergrad.Scotts incisively funny take on art school pretensions isnt the only focus. In Wendy, Master of Art, Walter Scotts sly wit and social commentary zero in on MFA culture as our hero decides to hunker down and complete a master of fine arts at the University of Hell in small-town Ontario.Finally Wendy has space to refine her artistic practice, but in this calm, all of her unresolved insecurities and fears explode at full volumeusually while hungover. The existential dread of making (or not making) art takes center stage in this trenchant satire of MFA cultureWendy is an aspiring contemporary artist whose adventures have taken her to galleries, art openings, and parties in Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Toronto. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The "Memorial Wall" is a collection of photos and writings gathered from friends and family - saved permanently in an elegant format, viewable from anywhere in the world via World Wide Web. Please take a moment to visit them here.and may they rest in peace knowing their untimely passing is helping the rest of us to learn how we can prevent this from happening to others. Their memory reminds us of the importance of our work to reduce drinking and driving in our communities and serves to demonstrate that drinking and driving statistics are not nameless faces.they are people loved and missed by their family and friends. National Every 15 Minutes Foundation hosts this virtual "Memorial Wall" in dedication to the friends and loved ones who were taken from us by an impaired driving tragedy. "Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness." 'Dear Mom and Dad, every fifteen minutes someone in the United States dies from an alcohol related traffic collision, and today I died. Then each student will write a letter to his or her parents starting out with. Every 15 Minutes - Someone dies from an Alcohol Related Collision During the most powerful program of the retreat, the students will be taken through an audio - visualization of their own death. ![]() ![]() ![]() His reading confidence shot through the roof. Initially I read it to him, then he realised that he was able to decipher the words himself so we share read, until finally he was reading it all himself. But when he started in a (British) primary school at the tender age of four and reading became a blur of reading levels and reciting high frequency words, his enthusiasm stopped.īoring and mothballed home readers were killing his desire to read until the day we visited our local bookstore, when Harrison was aged 6, and he picked out Blabey’s Bad Guys. I read countless books daily, one bedtime story was never enough and I was happy to indulge. You see, from babyhood, Harrison loved books. Okay so I’m cheating a little here and choosing an entire series rather than just one book but Blabey’s series about a group of villainous anthropomorphs (who desperately want to be the heroes) was the key to reigniting Harrison’s love of reading. Sian from Teach Investigate Play has shared the books that turned around her son’s reluctance to read.Ī book that my child simply adores is The Bad Guys by Aaron Blabey. ![]() ![]() To celebrate CBCA Book Week 2018, I’ve asked some of my favourite bloggers to share a book that one or more of their children adores. ![]() ![]() ![]() - a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center. ![]() "Children are Not Colorblind: How Young Children Learn Race" by Erin N.Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture launched Talking About Race - an online portal to help facilitate conversations about race.These age-appropriate, anti-racist books can help inspire meaningful conversations with young people about racism to begin addressing and countering the inequity present in our society today.įor more resources, caregivers and educators can visit: Literature has the power to show readers what the world looks like from someone else's point of view and improve relationships. Social science research has consistently shown that children can have racial biases as young as 3 to 5 years old. Computers, Wi-Fi, Print, Scan, Copy, Faxīlack lives matter, and Black stories matter for readers of all ages.Free Online Resources for Children and Teens.Mandel Public Library of West Palm Beach. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Use my affiliate link to purchase “I am Jazz” today and support my blog. Reasons: Challenged and relocated for LGBTQIA+ content, for a transgender. Jazz’s story is based on her real-life experience and she tells it in a simple, clear way that will be appreciated by picture book readers, their parents, and teachers. I Am Jazz by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings, illustrated by Shelagh McNicholas. This confused her family, until they took her to a doctor who said that Jazz was transgender and that she was born that way. I Am Jazz Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings Illustrated by Shelagh McNicholas. She loved pink and dressing up as a mermaid and didn’t feel like herself in boys’ clothing. ![]() (who plays Sophia in “Orange Is the New Black”)įrom the time she was two years old, Jazz knew that she had a girl’s brain in a boy’s body. ![]() I found it deeply moving in its simplicity and honesty.” I wish I had had a book like this when I was a kid struggling with gender identity questions. “This is an essential tool for parents and teachers to share with children whether those kids identify as trans or not. She loved pink and dressing up as a mermaid and didnt feel like. The story of a transgender child based on the real-life experience of Jazz Jennings, who has become a spokesperson for transkids everywhere From the time she was two years old, Jazz knew that she had a girls brain in a boys body. ![]() ![]() ![]() Today, we’re taking another step toward making AI fair & ethical for everyone. Since then, we’ve heard from people all over the world-especially writers, artists, programmers, and other creators-who are concerned about AI systems being trained on vast amounts of copyrighted work with no consent, no credit, and no compensation. In November 2022, I teamed up with the amazingly excellent class-action litigators Joseph Saveri, Cadio Zirpoli, and Travis Manfredi at the Joseph Saveri Law Firm to file a lawsuit against GitHub Copilot for its “unprecedented open-source software piracy”. ![]() ![]() I’m a writer, designer, programmer, and lawyer. Because AI needs to be fair & ethical for everyone. Contact legal team We’ve filed a lawsuit challenging Stable Diffusion, a 21st-century collage tool that violates the rights of artists. ![]() ![]() I really enjoyed all of the books in this series, although I have yet to read the twelfth and final book, but my favourites would probably be Fighting Fit (based in Ancient Rome) and Keeping It Real (based in the present day at Mel’s old school in England).Ĥ. ![]() Mel and her friends, Lola and Reuben, would embark on missions to help various young people on earth, going to different countries and eras in each book. Angels Unlimited/Agent Angel by Annie DaltonĪs I was growing up, I loved reading the stories of Mel Beeby, a girl who died at the age of 13 and became an angel studying at the Angel Academy. Reading has always been one of my favourite things to do and I love sitting down to a good book series, as I get to spend more time with characters I love and immerse myself in exciting locations for a longer period of time. Last week, I ended on my Top 5 Christmas Songs, but now I’m going to move away from songs altogether and tell you my Top 5 Book Series. ![]() |