![]() ![]() To cope, she develops an overwhelming desire for blue eyes, eventually collapsing emotionally and physically under the weight of deep trauma, self-hatred, and white supremacy. Published in 1970, The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, and centers the trials and tribulations of a young Black girl growing up in post–Depression era Ohio. Pecola Breedlove struggles to thrive while experiencing familial abuse and consistently being diminished as "ugly" by her community for her dark skin. ![]() Our aim is to inspire educators to breathe fresh life into lessons around these works by giving students new context to understand why these classics are still relevant today.īe sure to check out the 2022 “Refreshing the Canon” lists for more read-alikes of longtime summer reading picks. ![]() Inspired by the most popular titles that emerged, SLJ editors and members of NCTE’s Build Your Stack® Committee have curated this year’s round of “Refreshing the Canon” selections.Īdditionally, we’ve put together multimodal lists of recommendations-including nonfiction, graphic novels, documentaries, and more-that educators can feature in classrooms and libraries alongside the exemplar texts. ![]() Last month, SLJ asked librarians and educators to weigh in on which classics should remain on summer reading lists. ![]()
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![]() Readers of Boothe’s work will especially appreciate his intentional efforts to make the bible and theology accessible to his original audience. Along with Strickland’s insightful introduction, this book’s reprinting provides another example (among many) of the contributions of black Christians to Christianity, their contributions to evangelical biblical and theological discourse, and their contributions to the intellectual environment of evangelical Christianity. Strickland has provided Christians with a helpful biblical and theological resource. a book written for the average sharecropper, Walter R. Praise for Plain Theology for Plain People By reprinting. Logos Research Subscription for Schools. ![]() ![]() ![]() Claire's wild sister Sydney, still trying to leave her past behind, is about to combust with her desire for another new beginning. Quiet Claire Waverley has started a successful new venture, Waverley's Candies, but it's nothing like she thought it would be, and it's slowly taking over her life. ![]() ![]() But the Waverleys have enough trouble on their hands. He has stories to tell, stories that could change the lives of the Waverley women forever. Sarah Addison Allen, beloved author of Garden Spells, returns with a luminous story of the trouble with hanging on too long, and the magic that happens when you finally let go.Īutumn has finally arrived in the small town of Bascom, North Carolina, heralded by a strange old man appearing with a beat-up suitcase. ![]() ![]() ![]() Readers can find the autobiographical roots of this story in The Invisible Thread (1991), along with many other examples of the courage and determination that enabled Uchida's family, like Emi's, to survive imprisonment with values and spirit intact. This account of injustice and dislocation-based on the author's own experiences and previously published as a short story-achieves its wrenching effect by the accumulation of details: a beloved garden left untended, matching registration tags attached to family members and their belongings, the squalid ``apartment'' in a horse stall at an abandoned racetrack. ![]() Emi is desolate, but soon realizes she won't need a keepsake to remember her friend-the memories that fill her heart will always be with her. ![]() Emi, a young Japanese-American whose family leaves Berkeley to be interned at the beginning of WW II, receives a bracelet as a parting gift from her best friend, but it's lost on the first day at the camp. ![]() ![]() Then the ravenous cats turn their attention to people. These bigger, stronger, and more aggressive animals begin to prey on small game in the area. Meanwhile, animal rights activists release the cats involved in the testing because they are scheduled to be euthanized. When an employee threatens to expose the pet food as a threat to public safety, she finds herself out of work, her home ransacked, and all her carefully gathered proof missing. The special food causes cats to add muscle, gain weight, and exhibit extremely aggressive behavior. I’d like to give special thanks to Jason Merrick for the great cover.Īlcorn Pet Food Corporation is working with an experimental cat food laced with hormones and appetite enhancers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I must have been closer to sleep than I thought, because I jumped when my instant messenger dinged at me. It was getting late, and the words on the screen were all starting to blur together. My eyes drooped as I lay stretched out on the plush couch, head propped up on the armrest, staring at the computer on my lap. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.įor Karie, since this book really is all your fault. The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book. SUBSCRIBE to Kelly’s newsletter to get your free copy!Įdited by Jennifer Henkes (All rights reserved. When Cassie’s older brother and his best friend-the lovable, sexy cowboy, Jared-discover her secret, Jared takes it upon himself to make sure her birthday wish comes true. ![]() All Cassie Caldwell wants for her sixteenth birthday is to finally be kissed. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this post, we will instead be looking outside of Southeast Asia to take a look at some of the most popular American franchises and how much they cost.Ĭompared to local Malaysian or Southeast Asian franchises, American franchises can be a lot costlier. ![]() I have already covered franchises from Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines. Nonetheless, for people who have enough capital and an interest in getting started quickly, a franchise business will be a perfect fit. You have to pay a large sum of money to get started and have very little say in the business’ grand plans. The only drawback with franchising is that they can often be costly and inflexible. The franchisor will also provide you the necessary training and systems to run the business on a day-to-day basis. When you buy a franchise, you are buying a part of an established brand already known to customers. With franchising, you don’t have to build a brand or business from the ground up. As I’ve written before, franchising can be a faster way of getting a business up and running. Franchising remains one of the most popular ways of starting a business or growing a business empire in Malaysia. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() Carl Iverson is a Vietnam veteran with a friend who is convinced he was innocent of the rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl. ![]() Joe’s assignment leads him to interviewing a convicted murderer who is in hospice from jail at a local nursing home. A lot of people want to read this book and I can see why. I’ve waited a few months for it to be available to borrow from my library through Overdrive. Soon after starting a school assignment to write a biography, he receives a call that his mom has been arrested and he has to take care of his brother.Ī friend from book club recommended this book and it has been on my to-read list for a while. ![]() By working hard and hiding money, he has been able to escape away to college, although he worries about his now 18-year-old brother’s welfare living with his mom and her sometimes-abusive boyfriends. His mother is bipolar and his little brother has autism. Joe Talbert is doing his best to get away from a bad situation. “No matter how hard you try, there are some things you just can’t run away from.” But in the end, there’s no hole deep enough.” He looked up at me. “I thought that by going to prison, I might silence my ghosts – bury that part of my life, those things I did in Vietnam. This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Fiction on by Sarah Anne Carter ![]() |