Amber Was Brave Essie Was Smart

Author : Vera B. Williams
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060294604
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart written by Vera B. Williams and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2001-08-21 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A funny book that makes you cry. A sad book that makes you laugh. A book about two sisters and their family that makes you wish you were part of it--and grateful that you are not. In short, this book is one surprise after another. The only thing that is not a surprise is that Vera B. Williams has created a wholly unforgettable, absolutely wonderful portrait of Amber, Essie, and their world. Open the book. You will never be the same again.

Author : Vera B. Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780605970168
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart written by Vera B. Williams and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 : 9781591123385
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart with CD [With Paperback Book] written by and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of poems tells how two sisters help each other deal with life while their mother is working and their father has been sent to jail.

Author : Vera B. Williams
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0688065260
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Something Special for Me written by Vera B. Williams and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1986-09-29 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The money jar that Rosa, Mama, and Grandma filled with their coins will be emptied to buy Rosa whatever she wants for her birthday. But what can Rosa choose that special enough-unless it's a gift they can all enjoy!

Author : Roni Natov
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135721777
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Childhood written by Roni Natov and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poetics of Childhood investigates the sensibility of childhood and the ways writers try to recapture it. It explores the earliest conceptions of innocence and the development of literature about children through contemporary times. It encompasses the pastoral, the dark pastoral, the anti-pastoral; it addresses picture books, fantasy, and realism. It looks with originality at the literature of childhood, inclusive of children's literature and literature about childhood, so that the child and adult can be seen reflexively--the child in the adult and the various stages of childhood as they are remembered and retained in adulthood. It confronts issues of primal and socially constructed desire adn the use of childhood to talk about desire. It is a poetics, a way of imagining the experience of childhood and explores childhood as a particulary fluid and porous time, it also addresses issues of creativity. This is an essential reference for teachers, parents, artists, and writers.

Author : Vera B. Williams
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0688078117
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music, Music for Everyone written by Vera B. Williams and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1988-06-22 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rosa organizes her friends into the Oak Street Band in order to earn money her family needs because of her Grandma's illness....Community, family and personal triumphs converge, making unforgettable music for everyone."--School Library Journal.

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Publisher : Contemporary Authors New Revis
ISBN 13 : 9780787667153
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Authors written by and published by Contemporary Authors New Revis. This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These exciting and unique author profiles are essential to your holdings because sketches are entirely revised and up-to-date, and completely replace the original Contemporary Authors entries. A softcover cumulative index is published twice per year (included in subscription).

Author : Kathi Appelt
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805069785
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poems from Homeroom written by Kathi Appelt and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems about the experiences of young people and a section with information about how each poem was written to enable readers to create their own original poems.

Author : Harry Eiss
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443844888
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke written by Harry Eiss and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Dadd is a trickster, a pre-post-modern enigma wrapped in a Shakespearean Midsummer Night’s Dream; an Elizabethan Puck living in a smothering Victorian insane asylum, foreshadowing and, in brilliant, Mad Hatter conundrums, entering the fragmented shards of today’s nightmarish oxymorons long before the artists currently trying to give them the joker’s ephemeral maps of discourse. The author thinks of Bob Dylan’s “Ballad of a Thin Man,” that cryptic refusal to reduce the warped mirrors of reality to prosaic lies, or, perhaps “All Along the Watchtower” or “Mr Tambourine Man.” Even more than Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, which curiously enough comes off as overly esoteric, too studied, too conscious, Dadd’s entire existence foreshadows the forbidden entrance into the numinous, the realization of the inexplicable labyrinths of contemporary existence, that wonderfully rich Marcel Duchamp landscape of puns and satiric paradigms, that surrealistic parallax of the brilliant gamester Salvador Dali, that smirking irony of the works of Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, and Robert Indiana; that fragmented, meta-fictional struggle of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five. John Lennon certainly sensed it and couldn’t help but push into meta-real worlds in his own lyrics. Think of “Strawberry Fields Forever,” “I Am the Walrus,” and the more self-conscious “Revolution Number 9.” In “Yer Blues,” he even refers to Dylan’s main character, Mr Jones from “Ballad of a Thin Man.” If Lennon’s song is taken seriously, literally, then it is a dark crying out by a suicidal man, “Lord, I’m lonely, wanna die”; or, if taken as a metaphor for a lover’s lost feelings about his unfulfilled love, it falls into the romantic rant of a typical blues or teenage rock-and-roll song. However, even on this level, it has an irony about it, a sense of laughing at itself and at Dylan’s Mr Jones, who knows something is going on but just not what it is, and then, by extension, all of us who have awakened to the fact that the studied Western world doesn’t make sense, all of us who struggle to find meaning in the nonsense images, characters, and happenings in the song, and perhaps, coming to a conclusion that the nonsense is the sense.

Author : Janet Fitch
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0759568170
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Oleander written by Janet Fitch and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unforgettable story of a young woman's odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes on her journey to redemption. Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed poet who wields her luminous beauty to intimidate and manipulate men. Astrid worships her mother and cherishes their private world full of ritual and mystery - but their idyll is shattered when Astrid's mother falls apart over a lover. Deranged by rejection, Ingrid murders the man, and is sentenced to life in prison. White Oleander is the unforgettable story of Astrid's journey through a series of foster homes and her efforts to find a place for herself in impossible circumstances. Each home is its own universe, with a new set of laws and lessons to be learned. With determination and humor, Astrid confronts the challenges of loneliness and poverty, and strives to learn who a motherless child in an indifferent world can become. Oprah Winfrey enjoyed this gripping first novel so much that she not only made it her book club pick, she asked if she could narrate the audio release.