Just Another Ordinary Day

Author : Katrina Kenison
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0446558095
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gift of an Ordinary Day written by Katrina Kenison and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-07 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gift of an Ordinary Day is an intimate memoir of a family in transition, with boys becoming teenagers, careers ending and new ones opening up, and an attempt to find a deeper sense of place—and a slower pace—in a small New England town. This is a story of mid-life longings and discoveries, of lessons learned in the search for home and a new sense of purpose, and the bittersweet intensity of life with teenagers—holding on, letting go. Poised on the threshold between family life as she's always known it and her older son's departure for college, Kenison is surprised to find that the times she treasures most are the ordinary, unremarkable moments of everyday life, the very moments that she once took for granted, or rushed right through without noticing at all. The relationships, hopes, and dreams that Kenison illuminates will touch women's hearts, and her words will inspire mothers everywhere as they try to make peace with the inevitable changes in store.

Author : Shirley Jackson
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241257956
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just an Ordinary Day written by Shirley Jackson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-02-02 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable collection of dark, funny and haunting short stories from the inimitable author of 'The Lottery'. An anxious devil, an elderly writer of poison pen letters and a mid-century Jack the Ripper; a pursuit though a nightmarish city, a small boy's thrilling train ride with a female thief, and a town where the possibility of evil lurks behind perfect rose bushes. This is the world of Shirley Jackson, by turns frightening, funny, strange and unforgettably revealed in this brilliant collection of short stories. 'Jackson at her best: plumbing the extraordinary from the depths of mid-twentieth-century common. [Just an Ordinary Day] is a gift to a new generation' - San Francisco Chronicle 'For Jackson devotees, as well as first-time readers, this is a feast ... A virtuoso collection' - Publishers Weekly

Author : Colin McNaughton
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 9780374356347
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Once Upon an Ordinary School Day written by Colin McNaughton and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2005-03-10 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of extraordinary teachers! The boy's breakfast is ordinary, his walk to school is ordinary, even his thoughts are ordinary. But when he goes to his classroom and sits down at his desk, his day begins to change - a new teacher, Mr. Gee, bursts into the classroom with an extraordinary idea that challenges all the children to use their imagination. Suddenly an ordinary day is turned topsy-turvy, and the boy is inspired in a way that will change him forever. The rollicking words and pictures celebrate the unexpected in this tribute to great teachers and students everywhere. Once Upon an Ordinary School Day is a 2006 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Author : Elana K. Arnold
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481472631
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Ordinary Day written by Elana K. Arnold and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ordinary day in an ordinary neighborhood turns out to be quite extraordinary in this moving story about the circle of life. It’s an average day in the neighborhood—children play, roses are watered, and a crow watches over it all. But then two visitors arrive at two houses, one to help a family say hello to a new baby and one to help a family say goodbye to a beloved pet. This sensitive picture book takes a gentle look at life, death, the bonds of family, and the extraordinary moments that make ordinary days so special.

Author : Lisa Katzenberger
Publisher : Penguin Workshop
ISBN 13 : 1524792403
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Regular Average Ordinary Day written by Lisa Katzenberger and published by Penguin Workshop. This book was released on 2020 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young boy decides to celebrate every holiday from National Underwear Day to National Waffle Day, so when he wakes up on a day that has no holiday, he decides to invent his own holiday only to realize that sometimes ordinary days can be worth celebrating too.

Author : Gene Weingarten
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399185836
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Day written by Gene Weingarten and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years”—Slate On New Year’s Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day—chosen completely at random—turned out to be Sunday, December 28, 1986, by any conventional measure a most ordinary day. Weingarten spent the next six years proving that there is no such thing. That Sunday between Christmas and New Year’s turned out to be filled with comedy, tragedy, implausible irony, cosmic comeuppances, kindness, cruelty, heroism, cowardice, genius, idiocy, prejudice, selflessness, coincidence, and startling moments of human connection, along with evocative foreshadowing of momentous events yet to come. Lives were lost. Lives were saved. Lives were altered in overwhelming ways. Many of these events never made it into the news; they were private dramas in the lives of private people. They were utterly compelling. One Day asks and answers the question of whether there is even such a thing as “ordinary” when we are talking about how we all lurch and stumble our way through the daily, daunting challenge of being human.

Author : Deborah Ellis
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 155498176X
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Ordinary Day written by Deborah Ellis and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-08-10 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the SYRCA 2013 Diamond Willow Award, selected as an American Library Association 2012 Notable Children's Book, a Booklist Editors' Choice, nominated for the OLA Golden Oak Tree Award, and a finalist for the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Awards: Young Adult/Middle Reader Award, the Governor General's Literary Awards: Children's Text and the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award There's not much that upsets young Valli. Even though her days are spent picking coal and fighting with her cousins, life in the coal town of Jharia, India, is the only life she knows. The only sight that fills her with terror are the monsters who live on the other side of the train tracks -- the lepers. Valli and the other children throw stones at them. No matter how hard her life is, she tells herself, at least she will never be one of them. Then she discovers that she is not living with family after all, that her "aunt" was a stranger who was paid money to take Valli off her own family's hands. She decides to leave Jharia ... and so begins a series of adventures that takes her to Kolkata, the city of the gods. It's not so bad. Valli finds that she really doesn't need much to live. She can "borrow" the things she needs and then pass them on to people who need them more than she does. It helps that though her bare feet become raw wounds as she makes her way around the city, she somehow feels no pain. But when she happens to meet a doctor on the ghats by the river, Valli learns that she has leprosy. Despite being given a chance to receive medical care, she cannot bear the thought that she is one of those monsters she has always feared, and she flees, to an uncertain life on the street. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.3 Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character's thoughts, words, or actions). CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.3 Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact). CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6 Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.

Author : Emily Pearson
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 1423614313
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ordinary Mary's Extraordinary Deed written by Emily Pearson and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2002-04-29 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated children’s book celebrates the extraordinary potential of ordinary deeds—showing how one child’s act of kindness can change the world One ordinary day, Ordinary Mary stumbles upon some ordinary blueberries. When she decides to pick them for her neighbor, Mrs. Bishop, her thoughtful act starts a chain reaction that multiplies around the world. Mrs. Bishop makes blueberry muffins and gives them to her paperboy and four others—one of whom is Mr. Stevens, who then helps five different people with their luggage—one of whom is Maria, who then helps five other people—and so on, until the deed comes back to Mary.

Author : Leigh Sales
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 0143789961
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Any Ordinary Day written by Leigh Sales and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2019-02 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a journalist, Leigh Sales often encounters people experiencing the worst moments of their lives in the full glare of the media. But one particular string of bad news stories--and a terrifying brush with her own mortality--sent her looking for answers about how vulnerable each of us is to a life-changing event. What are our chances of actually experiencing one? What do we fear most and why? And when the worst does happen, what comes next? In this wise and layered book, Leigh talks intimately with people who've faced the unimaginable, from terrorism to natural disaster to simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Expecting broken lives, she instead finds strength, hope, even humor. Leigh brilliantly condenses the cutting-edge research on the way the human brain processes fear and grief, and poses the questions we too often ignore out of awkwardness. Along the way, she offers an unguarded account of her own challenges and what she's learned about coping with life's unexpected blows. Warm, candid, and empathetic, this book is about what happens when ordinary people, on ordinary days, are forced to suddenly find the resilience most of us don't know we have.

Author : Farnaz Fassihi
Publisher : Public Affairs
ISBN 13 : 9781586484750
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waiting for an Ordinary Day written by Farnaz Fassihi and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2008 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Iranian-American journalist chronicles the experiences of the disenfranchised, ordinary people of Iraq in a study that brings to life the very people whose goodwill the U.S. depended on for a successful operation.