Girls With Guts

Author : Debbie Gonzales
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1632895676
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Girls with Guts! written by Debbie Gonzales and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No chasing! No stretching or straining! And never, ever sweat. These were the rules girls were forced to play by until Title IX passed in 1972. And it was a game-changer. A celebration of the strength, endurance, and athleticism of women and girls throughout the ages, Girls With Guts! keeps score with examples of women athletes from the late 1800s up through the 1970s, sharing how women refused to take no for an answer, and how finally, they pushed for a law to protect their right to play, compete, and be athletes. "I find that this book tells the story of courageous and remarkable women that has brought the opportunities for today’s girls in a positive and fun way even though the fight has not always been easy. But this book captures history in way where the first thought is strength and will of these remarkable ladies. It is also a good book to remind that it is not that long ago that we were in a very different situation still. A good reminder that even though there are still things and attitudes to change, women’s sport has come a long way to the point we had in Buenos Aires Youth Olympic Games for the first time ever, 50/50 female and male athletes competing!" —Emma Terho, a multiple-time Olympic and Women’s World Championship bronze medalist

Author : Raina Telgemeier
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545852536
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guts: A Graphic Novel written by Raina Telgemeier and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story from Raina Telgemeier, the #1 New York Timesbestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of Smile, Sisters, Drama, and Ghosts! Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Her mom has one, too, so it's probably just a bug. Raina eventually returns to school, where she's dealing with the usual highs and lows: friends, not-friends, and classmates who think the school year is just one long gross-out session. It soon becomes clear that Raina's tummy trouble isn't going away... and it coincides with her worries about food, school, and changing friendships. What's going on?Raina Telgemeier once again brings us a thoughtful, charming, and funny true story about growing up and gathering the courage to face -- and conquer -- her fears.

Author : Michelle Ann Abate
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496820770
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Funny Girls written by Michelle Ann Abate and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For several generations, comics were regarded as a boys’ club—created by, for, and about men and boys. In the twenty-first century, however, comics have seen a rise of female creators, characters, and readers. While this sudden presence of women and girls in comics is being regarded as new and noteworthy, the observation is not true for the genre’s entire history. Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, the medium was enjoyed equally by both sexes, and girls were the protagonists of some of the earliest, most successful, and most influential comics. In Funny Girls: Guffaws, Guts, and Gender in Classic American Comics, Michelle Ann Abate examines the important but long-overlooked cadre of young female protagonists in US comics during the first half of the twentieth century. She treats characters ranging from Little Orphan Annie and Nancy to Little Lulu, Little Audrey of the Harvey Girls, and Li’l Tomboy—a group that collectively forms a tradition of Funny Girls in American comics. Abate demonstrates the massive popularity these Funny Girls enjoyed, revealing their unexplored narrative richness, aesthetic complexity, and critical possibility. Much of the humor in these comics arose from questioning gender roles, challenging social manners, and defying the status quo. Further, they embodied powerful points of collection about both the construction and intersection of race, class, gender, and age, as well as popular perceptions about children, representations of girlhood, and changing attitudes regarding youth. Finally, but just as importantly, these strips shed light on another major phenomenon within comics: branding, licensing, and merchandising. Collectively, these comics did far more than provide amusement—they were serious agents for cultural commentary and sociopolitical change.

Author : Debbie Gonzales
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1580897479
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Girls with Guts! written by Debbie Gonzales and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate women athletes who played all kinds of sports before Title IX finally allowed them to compete in the Olympics, tournaments, and in leagues across America. No chasing! No stretching or straining! And never, ever sweat. These were the rules girls were forced to play by until Title IX passed in 1972. From Melpomene in 1896 to Althea Gibson in 1956 and beyond, readers will meet the women athletes who refused to take no for an answer. Learn how they paved the way for the women who pushed for a law to protect their right to play, compete, and be athletes.

Author : Adeline Foo
Publisher : Epigram Books
ISBN 13 : 9810732082
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diary of Amos Lee (Girls, Guts and Glory!) written by Adeline Foo and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I write my diary in the toilet to get away from my troubles, like having to compete with Michael, the bully who’s in the swim team with me, and falling out with my best friend, Alvin, over a girl! My diary goes wherever I go as there are those who want to read it. For I know secrets, like how to break my sister’s curse and how babies are made…

Author : Jerry D. Mathes (II.)
Publisher : Stephen F. Austin University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781936205851
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fever and Guts written by Jerry D. Mathes (II.) and published by Stephen F. Austin University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerry D. Mathes' Fever and Guts is hard-hitting literary nonfiction. Reminiscent of the exacting sharpness found in Hemingway's bullfighting stories and as deeply reflective as Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, Mathes takes his readers to the fringes of American society, a subculture where war stories are handed down from fathers to sons and then are lived by those sons; where fathers brace against the weather of daughters' illnesses; where language and speech is music, poetry, and violence. Mathes journeys us to the mountains of Idaho, the deserts of the Southwest and of Desert Storm, the icy plains of Antarctica, and into the dark, gloomy backrooms of bars and hotels. Amidst storms and forests ablaze, he makes us feel the thunder's rumble, the smoke settled in our lungs. Although Mathes puts us into proximity of things most of us have been lucky to escape, he makes such existences seem amazingly and beautifully normal, makes it seem as if we have missed out. In this manner, Mathes turns his personal histories into works of mad, provocative art, so skillfully and innovatively turned that the reader will not let the stories go and, in the aftermath of reading, not turn them loose from memory. This is nonfiction of the best sort, real and ballsy as a life lived real and with bravado.

Author : Todd Robinson
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 0758285191
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood, Guts, and Whiskey written by Todd Robinson and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She had an ass like a heart turned upside down and cut in half--and that's what we call foreshadowing, friend. Gruesome and glam, vicious and violent, this collection of the best new neo-noir fiction will hit you like a biker boot to the skull. Unleashed from the net's most hardcore award-winning site, these down, dirty, and deeply depraved tales don't just cut the edge . . . they pour gasoline on it and toss it in a meth lab full of C-4 . . . "Just because I killed my best friend with my bare hands doesn't make me all that bad. . . Christ, I loved the guy like a brother." Throw down a shot with the last word in badass--a scheming stripper playing one fool too far; the rage-haunted lesbian who's the last word in nightmare revenge; a mercenary sheriff doomed by ruthless payback; avenging street angels unleashing holy hell --and just try and stagger away intact. . . "This country's got a motto. It's pura vida, and it means when life gets you down, put your feet up, sister. But I lift my legs for no man." So settle back with your favorite rot-gut, keep your brass knuckles handy, and hang where the odds are never good, darkness is a permanent state of mind, and the house always takes all . . . Blood, Guts, And Whiskey "Lean, mean stories. . .today's brightest writers provide some of the darkest tales you've ever read." –Max Allan Collins Big Daddy Thug/Todd Robinson's writing has appeared in Plots With Guns, Danger City, Demolition, Out Of The Gutter, Pulp Pusher, Crimespree and Writers Digest's The Year's Best Writing 2003. He was nominated for a 2006 Derringer Award from the Short Mystery Fiction Society, and is the creator and chief editor of Thuglit.com. The stories he's edited for Thuglit.com have been nominated for several awards, including The Derringer and The Million Writer's Award, and been have been selected for The Best American Mystery Stories and Best Noir 2006. He lives and works in New York with his wife (Lady Detroit), a ferret named Matilda, and three freakin' cats.

Author : Adeline Foo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789810726782
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Girls, Guts and Glory! the Diary of Amos Lee written by Adeline Foo and published by . This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401207844
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engaging with Literature of Commitment. Volume 1 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection ranges far and wide, as befits the personality and accomplishments of the dedicatee, Geoffrey V. Davis, German studies and exile literature scholar, postcolonialist (if there are ‘specialties’, then Australia, Canada, India, South Africa, Black Britain), journal and book series editor.... Themes covered include publishing in Africa, charisma in African drama, the rediscovery of apartheid-era South African literature, Truth and Reconciliation commissions, South African cinema, children’s theatre in England and Eritrea, and the Third Chimurenga in literary anthologies. Surveyed are texts from Botswana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. Writers discussed (or interviewed: Angela Makholwa) include Ayi Kwei Armah, Seydou Badian, J.M. Coetzee, Chielo Zona Eze, Ruth First, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Bessie Head, Ian Holding, Kavevangua Kahengua, Njabulo Ndebele, Lara Foot Newton, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o/Micere Githae Mugo, Sol Plaatje, Ken Saro–Wiwa, Mongane Wally Serote, Wole Soyinka, and Ed¬gar Wallace, together with essays on the artist Sokari Douglas Camp and the filmmaker Rayda Jacobs. Because Geoff’s commitment to literature has always been ‘hands-on’, the book closes with a selection of poems and an entertaining travelogue/memoir.

Author : Salim Khan Anmol
Publisher : Sakha Global Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9334050500
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How To Make A Girl Fall For You written by Salim Khan Anmol and published by Sakha Global Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Make A Girl Fall For You:- Master the Art of Talking to Girls:- Striking out in the girl department? It could be your conversation techniques. Here's all you need to know about how to talk to girls How to make a girl fall for you? If you’re interested in a girl, there are some ways to inspire her interest. It requires some time and effort but the process can be fun. The challenge is not just to make her fall in love with you, but to ensure she continues to be with you even after the hormones calm down and reality sets in. How to make a woman fall in love with you? It is absolutely important to treat her right and you should also know what not to say or do. These pieces of advice will guide you in the right direction. The key to a successful relationship is to personalize the dating rules and etiquettes according to the situation to win a woman’s heart. When it comes to making a girl fall in love with you the best way to do it is to create intimate moments and memories. These can make a woman fall in love with you so much faster, as it strengthens the bond between the two of you. Perhaps after a while of making sure you stay connected you take her out to a movie she had been dying to see for the first date and hug her tightly at some point during the film. Or perhaps you could time your outing so that you can walk through her favorite shop during the best time to be alone together. These are just examples as there are lots of ways to curate fun and precious moments as you enter the world of romance with anyone. Being attetive means understanding what she’s interested in. Women in general want you to be attentive to them whenever you are out together. And if you aren’t paying attention, they may assume you aren’t having fun or that you are more interested in talking with other women. Whenever you are with her, make sure she’s the center of your world for that time. Talk with her about her favorite things, put your phone on mute, and don’t worry about the guys or other phone notifications you may get. Those can wait for a little while. Listen to her talk, laugh at her jokes, keep your conversation with her moving and use your words and actions to make her feel loved. By showing your attentiveness you not only build trust between the two of you but also show off your good side. That’s so easy to ensure that you have a better chance at making her your girlfriend in the future! Related reading: Quality Time – It’s a Love Language ...I just hope, it works well to you in time ahead. Regards...!!! Salim Khan Anmol, Sakha Global Books, Inc. ..........**********............. ▪︎Keywords :- Psychology | Modern Books | History | Relationship | Religion | How To | Short Stories | Free Costs |Inspiring | Motivational | Quotations