Balloons over broadway story6/28/2023 ![]() This project can be created as a quick and simple green screen image or can be created as a more extensive project with a green screen video that can feature individual students or include the entire class. ![]() Then those students can be part of the magic by floating their creations in the actual parade and can even be in the pictures themselves. Students can be like Tony Sarg and create their own Marionettes with STEAM supplies, balloons, whatever they want. We love this inspirational book and all the #STEAM creativity that students can learn and engage in because of this book. As an adult, he became famous for his marionettes which moved as if they were living creature and were featured in the Macy’s Day Parade. The story begins when Sarg was just a boy with a clever idea and a love of making still objects come to life with movement. It is the perfect book for November and Thanksgiving. White, winner of the NCTE Orbis Pictus award, Balloons Over Broadway, a Sibert winner, and The Right Word and A River of Words, both Caldecott Honors. “Balloons Over Broadway” by Melissa Sweet is the true story of puppeteer, Tony Sarg. ![]() ![]() Balloons over Broadway, a great STEAM project ![]()
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Shadow and bone siege and storm6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() No victory can come without sacrifice - and only she can face the oncoming storm. To save her country, Alina will have to choose between her power and the love she thought would always be her shelter. But as the truth of Alina's destiny unfolds, she slips deeper into the Darkling's deadly game of forbidden magic, and further away from her humanity. ![]() With nowhere else to turn, Alina enlists the help of an infamous privateer and sets out to lead the Grisha army. The Darkling is more determined than ever to claim Alina's magic and use it to take the Ravkan throne. ![]() But she and Mal can't outrun their enemies for long. She is the Sun Summoner - hunted across the True Sea, haunted by the lives she took on the Shadow Fold. Alina Starkov's power has grown, but not without a price. Now with a stunning new cover and exclusive bonus material: Nikolai Lantsov character art and a Q&A with Leigh Bardugo. Perfect for fans of Laini Taylor and Sarah J. Enter the Grishaverse with book two of the Shadow and Bone Trilogy by number one New York Times-bestselling author Leigh Bardugo. See the Grishaverse come to life on screen with Shadow and Bone, now a Netflix original series. ![]() Rachel maddow oil6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a suspense story built up carefully about an industry that plays ball with dictators, thugs, and murderers. She details how unprepared and unresponsive the oil industry is to environmental considerations and societal costs. ![]() She details the beginnings of industry protocols which began with the United States oil industry and takes us through the tragedies of the industry in Oklahoma, slickwater, production water and flow back water and their disastrous impact on climate change. Maddow demonstrates the free for all taken by the new oil titans. By focusing on the particulars of the delivery system, Ms. Daily, ninety million barrels of oil is demanded on a worldwide basis from one hundred countries. She begins the book with a story about a typical American family living on a tree-lined street in the suburbs and explodes it into an international three-ring circus. Her story about Teodoro Obiang from Equitorial Guinea and Rex Tillerson is chilling and well researched. Her book focuses on oil, hence the title, and traces the greed of individuals to build a case against the new robber barons. This gift combined with her skills as a reporter makes for a formidable entry into the current glut of new books about the Trump administration. ![]() Enlightenment now by steven pinker6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() With intellectual depth and literary flair, Pinker makes the case for reason, science, and humanism: the ideals we need to confront our problems and continue our progress.Įnlightenment Wars: Some Reflections on ‘Enlightenment Now,’ One Year Later The result is a corrosive fatalism and a willingness to wreck the precious institutions of liberal democracy and global cooperation. Many commentators, committed to political, religious, or romantic ideologies, fight a rearguard action against it. The Enlightenment project swims against currents of human nature-tribalism, authoritarianism, demonization, magical thinking-which demagogues are all too willing to exploit. ![]() But more than ever, it needs a vigorous defense. It is a gift of the Enlightenment: the conviction that reason and science can enhance human flourishing.įar from being a naïve hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. ![]() This progress is not the result of some cosmic force. Instead, follow the data: In 75 jaw-dropping graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. "My new favorite book of all time." - Bill Gates ![]() Stone fruit lee lai6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() With complexity, Stone fruit tackles romantic and familial love from a queer perspective. Ray returns to her sister as well and progressively rekindles their friendship. Bron is going back to her conservative Christian family that is not quite accepting of her transidentity and queerness, where she gets to discover her sister more. ![]() ![]() As they drift apart, their lives mirror each other. If they seem full of joy while babysitting Nessie, Ray’s niece, the tension is quick to come back once the latter goes back to her mom. As she is hanging up, her sister Ray goes back to her regular human self, and the blue tone of the panels suddenly appears cold and austere. ![]() But it’s time for one to go: Amanda is calling, it’s time for her daughter to come back. The mystical creatures, not animals but not quite human either, seem joyful and full of freedom. The book starts with a fantastical chase. Through Stone Fruit, she wanted to clarify her mind around parenthood while tackling the subject of chosen family. The young artist, born in Melbourne, Australia, currently lives in Montreal. Stone Fruit is Lee Lai’s first graphic novel. We need more than perfect happy stories: we need sad stories, difficult stories, enraging stories, funny stories, complex stories. We have flaws just like others, that need to be shown in art and culture too. We don’t need to justify our worthiness by being perfect. As much as all queer relationships don’t end up in death and sorrow, they’re not just love and rainbow either. ![]() Keeper of lost cities lodestar6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() There are also going to be graphic novels, including the first half of the first book. The release date for it hasn't been announced yet, and further details have yet to be released. ![]() ![]() In January of 2021, a movie adaptation of the series was announced. It is known that there will be a tenth book, (as seen in Stellarlune) but is has not been named yet In Czech and Polish language there are five books. It is published in various languages, including but not limited to: English, French, Russian, and Spanish. Keeper of the Lost Cities is a book series written by Shannon Messenger that currently consists of ten books, named in the order of the following: Keeper of the Lost Cities, Exile, Everblaze, Neverseen, Lodestar, Nightfall, Flashback, Legacy, Unlocked, and Stellarlune. You may be looking for the live-action film adaptation, or Book 1: Keeper of the Lost Cities, the first book in the series. This article is about Keeper of the Lost Cities, the series written by Shannon Messenger. ![]() Remarkably bright creatures book review6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() It is here that she forms a bond with an octopus named Marcellus, who is the titular remarkably bright creature. Not one to spend her golden years wiling away the time, Tova works at the local aquarium, cleaning the facility after hours. Her son, Erik, has been missing and presumed dead for more than thirty years, and the circumstances of his death still puzzle and haunt Tova. She lost her husband a few years back, and lost her son an even longer time ago. Tova Sullivan is the 70-something main character. (This in no way affects the honesty of my reviews!) All commissions will be donated to the ALS Association.įirst, a quick summary of Remarkably Bright Creatures: As an Amazon Associate I earn a small commission, at no additional cost to you, from qualifying purchases. This post may contain Amazon Affiliate links. Add in terrific narration by Marin Ireland and Michael Urie, and you have a fantastic audio book. Filled with human decency, Remarkably Bright Creatures is Shelby Van Pelt’s “remarkably bright” debut novel. ![]() The scorpio race6/27/2023 ![]() A favorite book of mine back then was 'My Side of the Mountain'. Granted, I WAS only 12 when I read 'Homecoming' and had no clue what fending for yourself entails I remember being very enamored of the 'runaway kid living off the land' idea. As for it being believable or not in a book that they'd be too young to take care of themselves you should try by in it the main character, Dicey Tillerman takes care of her three younger siblings and takes them on a cross country trek one summer, (on foot, with no money), to a long-lost relative's house after their mother leaves them abandoned in their car in a supermarket shopping center and she was only 13. Printz Honor Book by the American Library Association. In some places a girl would be married already by then depending on customs, etc. Maggie Stiefvater is the 1 New York Times bestselling author of the novels Shiver, Linger, Forever, and Sinner.Her novel The Scorpio Races was named a Michael L. ![]() Based on the legends of the eich uisce the Celtic water horse Each November, water horses emerge from the black ocean and gallop the beach beneath the. Hmm, well, I kept imaging her as around 12-13. The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater is a novel about two teenagers, Sean and Puck, who take part in the dangerous Scorpio Races that take place on the island of Thisby each Fall. Finn couldn't be much younger than 14 since he's always drivi." Sean is 19, so it seems reasonable that Puck would be a similar age. Athalvard wrote: "I always imagined Puck being 17-19 and Finn being 14-15 years old. ![]() Revved by samantha towle6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Frustrated and angry, Leandro's days and nights are filled with limitless alcohol and faceless women. After enduring 12 months of physical therapy, Leandro is now physically able to race, but his mind is keeping him from the track. Now, at the age of 30, she's a highly respected therapist.Īt the top of his game as a Formula One driver, Leandro Silva had everything - until an accident on the track left him staring death in the face. Wanting to give her son the life she never had, she put herself through school and graduated with honors. Then, at a young age, a relationship with the wrong man left India pregnant. ![]() ![]() Abandoned as a baby, she and her twin brother, Kit, spent their lives in foster care, only having each other to rely on. India Harris didn't have the best start in life. Revived is a standalone, contemporary romance novel from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today best-selling author of Revved. ![]() My year of rest and relaxation cover6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Is a character-no matter how cruel, bitter, or immoral-someone you like to read about?.Is a non-existent fictional character a “good person” that you’d want to “be friends with”?. ![]() Part of what’s so irritating about the idea of “unlikeable characters” is that that it confuses two different questions. ![]() “If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble.” The exchange kicked off a debate about “unlikeable characters,” a concept that frustrates most authors, especially since - as Messud pointed out - readers are more likely to complain about a character’s likeability if the character is a woman. “For heaven’s sake, what kind of question is that?” Messud replied. In 2013, Claire Messud was asked by an interviewer if she’d want to be friends with one of her bitter protagonists. ![]() |