![]() There's the whiskered man with the crossword puzzle Milo imagines him playing solitaire in a cluttered apartment full of pets. To pass the time, he studies the faces around him and makes pictures of their lives. Milo is on a long subway ride with his older sister. The team behind the Newbery Medal winner and Caldecott Honor book Last Stop on Market Street and the award-winning New York Times bestseller Carmela Full of Wishes once again delivers a poignant and timely picture book that's sure to become an instant classic. Reading Level: Grade K, Grades 1-2, Grades 3-5Īlso by this author: Last Stop on Market Street, Love Genres: Art, Criminal Justice, Family, Incarceration ![]() Milo Imagines the World by Matt de la Peña ![]() When they walk down the electronics aisle at the department store./ When they cross into the fancy neighborhood.” Continue reading. For a boy wearing a suit and tie, Milo imagines “the clop clop clop of the horse-drawn carriage that will carry him to his castle.” For a trio of break-dancers who cavort in Milo’s train car and who, like him, aren’t white, he glumly foresees that “even after the performances are over, faces still follow their every move. To pass the time while his older sister is absorbed by her phone, Milo people-watches, using a notebook to record the places he imagines his fellow passengers going after they reach their stops. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Together they will discover that even in the vastness of space, they're not alone. Grounded, with nothing to do but wait, the trio, an exiled artist with an appointment to keep, a cargo runner at a personal crossroads, and a mysterious individual doing her best to help those on the fringes, are compelled to confront where they’ve been, where they might go, and what they are, or could be, to each other. When a freak technological failure halts all traffic to and from Gora, three strangers, all different species with different aims, are thrown together at the Five-Hop. The Five-Hop is run by an enterprising alien and her sometimes helpful child, who work hard to provide a little piece of home to everyone passing through. If deep space is a highway, Gora is just your average truck stop.Īt the Five-Hop One-Stop, long-haul spacers can stretch their legs (if they have legs, that is), and get fuel, transit permits, and assorted supplies. ![]() ![]() Winner of The Kitschie Red Tentacle for Best Novel.The stunning finale to the award-winning Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers, author of the beloved The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. ![]() The only thing it has going for it is a chance proximity to more popular worlds, making it a decent stopover for ships traveling between the wormholes that keep the Galactic Commons connected. FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES. With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The three Walker siblings at the center of the story are threatened by death constantly, and their loyalty to one another is tested luckily, they always come together in a crisis. But House of Secrets can get gory, too, with talk of live autopsies performed by the pirate captain, a couple of fatal stabbings, kids removing an arrow and stitching up the wound themselves, and an eyeball pierced by an arrow and then plucked out intact. With lots of action-violence featuring kids battling pirates, mercenaries, cursed skeletons, and supernatural forces, it feels a bit like Gremlins and The Goonies. Rowling gives it a plug on the front cover) and wrote scripts for the The Goonies and Gremlins - and YA author Ned Vizzini ( The Other Normals). Parents need to know that House of Secrets is co-written by Chris Columbus - who directed the first two Harry Pottermovies ( J. ![]() ![]() ![]() They had been examining the Jakobshavn Glacier on the west coast of Greenland because global warming was causing its ice to disappear at an alarming rate. Max realized that the fiery redhead could be talking about the earth or their current predicament. “We don’t have much time, Max!” shouted her friend and colleague, the twelve-year-old geoscientist (and certified genius) Siobhan. The ice rapidly melting beneath Max’s feet created snaking rivulets of turquoise blue water that widened into streams that sliced through the ice and made gaping holes that ended up as gushing waterfalls. ![]() Wishing some angry crew of mysterious mercenaries wasn’t chasing after her and Siobhan. Wishing she could somehow run faster, that her bulging backpack wasn’t slowing her down. Max Einstein raced across the slick surface of the glacier wishing she had worn something warmer than her flapping trench coat. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the '50s she starred in the sitcom "Life With Elizabeth," and her own talk program, "The Betty White Show." After the war, when she served as a member of the American Women's Voluntary Services, she began hosting a live variety show, "Hollywood on Television," in 1949. The Associated Press contributed to this gallery.įor generations, the actress, comedian and television presenter Betty White (January 17, 1922-December 31, 2021) was one of TV's most familiar and beloved faces, often hilariously playing against the sweet image of her smiling eyes and dimpled cheeks on the series "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "The Golden Girls."īorn in Oak Park, Illinois, and raised in California during the Great Depression, White performed on radio and for an experimental TV station in Los Angeles in the 1930s. Betty White, of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show." | CBS Photo Archive Getty ImagesĪ look back at the esteemed personalities who left us this year, who'd touched us with their innovation, creativity and humanity.īy senior producer David Morgan. ![]() ![]() ![]() Vincent is not only the hottest boy in school, he’s charming, sweet, and he’s got his eye on Ashley. ![]() The only thing Ashley didn’t count on is Sofia’s sexy twin brother Vincent. Sofia is everything Ashley left her old school to escape. Plus, since Brendan is the captain, making the school Mathletes team should be easy.īut when gorgeous new girl Sofia rolls in and steals Brendan, Ashley's place on the team, and her fragile foothold on the Mansfield Park Prep social totem pole, it’s on. But the camera she borrowed from her best friend and secret crush Brendan, and her off the charts math abilities, make things a lot more bearable. ![]() Ashley Price doesn’t have much in life after being bullied so hard she had to leave her old school to live with her aunt and uncle in Pittsburgh. ![]() ![]() Then an ambassador from Greth dome arrives, representing its new ruler in a trade a agreement. ![]() In her new home Brenya realizes how much she misses her old life and keeps defying Jacques, trying to keep her individuality and ideals. Jacques moves her from the beta sector and a job she enjoys to the center of the city, where she is force to live a life of an omega among the domes elite. He finds Brenya in an alley after her accident, realizing she's an omega and forcing her to submit. ![]() Our hero, Jacques, is much less likable but as always in Cain's book he starts growing on you. That is the beginning of Brenya's new life, our heroine realizes she's not a beta as she always thought. According to her, her life has meaning and purpose, until one day the cables holding her to the dome break and she's left hanging wounded and unconscious outside the dome. Stolen has a great heroine, Brenya, who is an engineer working at repairing the outside of Bernard Dome. ![]() Great new addition to the omegaverse universe! be warned, if you dont like dark erotica this might not be the book for you. ![]() ![]() ![]() Read more Houghton Mifflin Harcourt by Mythili G. ![]() Required to have a college education, speak two languages, and possess the political savvy of a Foreign Service officer, a jet-age stewardess serving on iconic Pan Am between 19 also had to be between 5′3" and 5′9", between 105 and 140 pounds, and under 26 years of age at the time of hire.Cooke’s intimate storytelling weaves together the real-life stories of a memorable cast of characters, from small-town girl Lynne Totten, a science major who decided life in a lab was not for her, to Hazel Bowie, one of the relatively few Black stewardesses of the era, as they embraced the liberation of their new jet-set life. Julia Cooke builds Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am on interviews with five women for whom working for the airline was transformative. ![]() ![]() Cooke brings to light the story of Pan Am stewardesses’ role in the Vietnam War, as the airline added runs from Saigon to Hong Kong for planeloads of weary young soldiers straight from the battlefields, who were off for five days of R&R, and then flown back to war. ![]() ![]() Poor Alice struggles under her strict rules, longing for the freedom that Poppy has. So when she's out of her house, Alice is ogled by older guys, and when she's home, she's nagged and told how she doesn't measure up by her grandma. According to her, Filipino teenagers worked hard, never talked back, and didn't draw on their hands with pens or want to be actresses, like Alice did. ![]() grew up in the Philippines and was fond of telling anyone who would listen how different things were over there. Plus her parents died when she was very young and she lives with her "superparanoid" (1.43) grandmother, Mrs. This doesn't make life easy for Alice, to say the least. ![]() In the meantime, other boys definitely notice Alice:īoys had been hassling her ever since she'd hit ten, gotten curves, and started looking a lot older than she was. Her best friend is Poppy, with whom she fights bitterly throughout the book, and she's also close with Zach, although their friendship might be turning into something more… if only he'll notice that she has a crush on him. ![]() Alice makes up one-third of the Zach, Poppy, Alice trio, and in addition to being a middle school student, she is a loyal friend and a budding actress. ![]() ![]() ![]() "This must-read is recommended for families with an infant on the way - especially readers ages 4-7 - who are gearing up for their responsibilities as a big brother or sister. Here's to dragon-taming." - Kirkus Reviews It doesn't matter whether or not they can be seen there's a little bit of dragon inside each of us. "McWilliam's pencil and digitally painted illustrations are wonderfully raucous and tongue-in-cheek, and his facial expressions are spot-on. ![]() "McWilliam makes adept use of varied visual perspectives, and his artwork has a sculptural depth and emotional vividness that, when combined with Moore’s second-person narration, will make readers feel like they are right there with this growing family, through all of its messy, noisy, and tender moments." - Publishers Weekly ![]() |