Almost Us
Author: William H. Calvin
Publisher: William H. Calvin
Published: 2010-08-09
Total Pages: 648
ISBN-13: 0982916701
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William H. Calvin
Publisher: William H. Calvin
Published: 2010-08-09
Total Pages: 648
ISBN-13: 0982916701
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robin Ha
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2020-01-28
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 0062685112
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Harvey Award Nominee, Best Children or Young Adult Book A powerful and moving teen graphic novel memoir about immigration, belonging, and how arts can save a life—perfect for fans of American Born Chinese and Hey, Kiddo. For as long as she can remember, it’s been Robin and her mom against the world. Growing up as the only child of a single mother in Seoul, Korea, wasn’t always easy, but it has bonded them fiercely together. So when a vacation to visit friends in Huntsville, Alabama, unexpectedly becomes a permanent relocation—following her mother’s announcement that she’s getting married—Robin is devastated. Overnight, her life changes. She is dropped into a new school where she doesn’t understand the language and struggles to keep up. She is completely cut off from her friends in Seoul and has no access to her beloved comics. At home, she doesn’t fit in with her new stepfamily, and worst of all, she is furious with the one person she is closest to—her mother. Then one day Robin’s mother enrolls her in a local comic drawing class, which opens the window to a future Robin could never have imagined. This nonfiction graphic novel with four starred reviews is an excellent choice for teens and also accelerated tween readers, both for independent reading and units on immigration, memoirs, and the search for identity.
Author: John E. Ferling
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 694
ISBN-13: 0195382927
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes the military history of the American Revolution and the grim realities of the eight-year conflict while offering descriptions of the major engagements on land and sea and the decisions that influenced the course of the war.
Author: Steve Tally
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2000-11-21
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 0380800918
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Focusing on important events in which a single decision changes the course of history, an intriguing look at American history speculates about what would have happened if Washington had chosen not to cross the Delaware, Neil Armstrong had aborted the moon landing, or IBM had not asked Bill Gates and Microsoft to write the computer code for its first PC.
Author: S M Shade
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2023-01-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Strip everything away from us and love is what's left. It's what we get to keep." We thought things couldn't get worse but the passing days proved us wrong. I could handle the public backlash and the cops at my door. I could handle the doubt and disbelief of our friends. As long as we were together, I thought I could handle anything. As the threats loomed closer, our days together dwindled away. After losing everything that mattered to me, I had to ask myself how much sacrifice was too much? How far would I go for him?
Author: Sam Erman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1108415490
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tells the tragic story of Puerto Ricans who sought the post-Civil War regime of citizenship, rights, and statehood but instead received racist imperial governance.
Author: Esmeralda Santiago
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2012-06-12
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 0306821117
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Following the enchanting story recounted in When I Was Puerto Rican of the author’s emergence from the barrios of Brooklyn to the prestigious Performing Arts High School in Manhattan, Esmeralda Santiago delivers the tale of her young adulthood, where she continually strives to find a balance between becoming American and staying Puerto Rican. While translating for her mother Mami at the welfare office in the morning, starring as Cleopatra at New York’s prestigious Performing Arts High School in the afternoons, and dancing salsa all night, she begins to defy her mother’s protective rules, only to find that independence brings new dangers and dilemmas.
Author: Lin Oliver
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-09-27
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1101567147
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Identical twins Sammie and Charlie are starting out seventh grade at a brand-new school. As they make new friends, and join different clubs, the sisters (and once inseparable best friends) start to grow further and further apart. Told from Sammie's point of view, this moving yet funny story will be gobbled up by middle-school girls!
Author: Nikki Grimes
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2017-04-04
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 0425288552
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The third book in the Dyamonde Daniels series, by bestselling author Nikki Grimes, is perfect for fans of the Keena Ford, Judy Moody, and Magnificent Mya Tibbs series and includes illustrations by Coretta Scott King honor winner R. Gregory Christie. Dyamonde really wants red high-top sneakers. Too bad they're so expensive! A classmate tells her it's her mom's job to give her what she needs, but when Dyamonde tries that argument, her mom teaches her a lesson by literally only giving her what she needs. Now Dyamonde is down to almost zero outfits! But then she finds out one of her friends has it much worse, and she's determined to do what she can to help.
Author: Kenda Creasy Dean
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010-07-16
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 0199758662
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Based on the National Study of Youth and Religion--the same invaluable data as its predecessor, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers--Kenda Creasy Dean's compelling new book, Almost Christian, investigates why American teenagers are at once so positive about Christianity and at the same time so apathetic about genuine religious practice. In Soul Searching, Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton found that American teenagers have embraced a "Moralistic Therapeutic Deism"--a hodgepodge of banal, self-serving, feel-good beliefs that bears little resemblance to traditional Christianity. But far from faulting teens, Dean places the blame for this theological watering down squarely on the churches themselves. Instead of proclaiming a God who calls believers to lives of love, service and sacrifice, churches offer instead a bargain religion, easy to use, easy to forget, offering little and demanding less. But what is to be done? In order to produce ardent young Christians, Dean argues, churches must rediscover their sense of mission and model an understanding of being Christian as not something you do for yourself, but something that calls you to share God's love, in word and deed, with others. Dean found that the most committed young Christians shared four important traits: they could tell a personal and powerful story about God; they belonged to a significant faith community; they exhibited a sense of vocation; and they possessed a profound sense of hope. Based on these findings, Dean proposes an approach to Christian education that places the idea of mission at its core and offers a wealth of concrete suggestions for inspiring teens to live more authentically engaged Christian lives. Persuasively and accessibly written, Almost Christian is a wake up call no one concerned about the future of Christianity in America can afford to ignore.