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![]() ![]() In this upcoming blog post from healingSPACE staff members, parents and guardians will be given strategies on how to approach the seemingly difficult conversations of both consent and sexual health with children in grades 4-8.Īpril 15 | Children’s Book Reading – I Said NO! (Link to come.)Īpril 13 | How the Heck Do I Talk to My Kids About Consent? ![]() Join healingSPACE staff for a screening of the movie Hot Girls Wanted at 3 p.m. Through this book, children will learn about safe and unsafe feelings, private parts, safe and unsafe touch, and respecting body boundaries. for a read aloud of My Body! What I Say Goes by Jayneen Sanders. In this upcoming video post from healingSPACE, learn how to create a safe space in our surroundings and nurture ourselves with breath and mindfulness practice.Īpril 8 | Children’s Book Reading – My Body! What I Say Goes! Find out why it’s so important to have these discussions early, and learn how to teach your child that their body belongs to them with this blog post from healingSPACE staff.Īpril 7 | How to Practice Self-Care in Uncertain Times ![]() Talking to your young child about consent & boundaries is easier than you might expect. April 6 | How the Heck Do I Talk to My Kids About Consent? ![]() ![]() ![]() The afterword of the book explains some of the interesting historical details that enrich the novel. This historical young adult novel would be a great classroom assignment. In Copper Sun, Draper shows her readers glimpses of the horrors of slavery, but keeps her descriptions general, making this book accessible to the faint-hearted reader. In effetti una di quelle opere che ci porta a ragionare sulla categorizzazione 'libri per ragazzi'. Sharon Draper is the author of several Coretta Scott King award-winning books. Draper, 'una storia di grande impatto emotivo e notevole asciuttezza antiretorica, che dovrebbero leggere tutti: bambini e adulti.' Andersen. ![]() Polly is not happy about having to work with an African, but soon these two young women learn they share the same dream: freedom. An indentured white girl, Polly, is given the job of training Amari. 339 Daniels, Linda 339 Daniels, Pamlea 339 Daniles, Sharon 339 Danna. Amari would have given up completely, without the loving guidance of Avi, a woman she befriends on the ship to America. 159, 272, 339 Curtis, Lisa 318 Curtis, Melody 198, 228, 339 Curtis. She was then put on a slave ship, bound for America, where she would be bought as a gift for her owner’s sixteen-year-old son. Her village was burned and her family brutally murdered as she watched. In 1738, fifteen-year-old Amari’s peaceful village life in Africa came to an end. ![]() ![]() ![]() In The Word Detective, an intensely personal memoir and a joyful celebration of English, he weaves a story of how words come into being (and sometimes disappear), how culture shapes the language we use, and how technology has transformed not only the way we speak and write but also how words are made. Simpson spent almost four decades of his life immersed in the intricacies of our language, and guides us through its history with charmingly laconic wit. And there is no better guide to the dictionary’s many wonderments than the former chief editor of the OED, John Simpson. The answers to all of these questions - and a great many more - can be found in the pages of the Oxford English Dictionary, the definitive record of the English language. Can you drink a glass of balderdash? What do you call the part of a dog’s back it can’t scratch? And if, serendipitously, you find yourself in Serendip, then where exactly are you? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “ Gilded Cage is a heart-pounding combination of dark magic, political revolution, and forbidden romance that had me addicted from the first page!” -Danielle L. an absorbing first installment that presages an intriguing new fantasy series.” - Kirkus Reviews conjuring up the specters of Les Misérables and Downton Abbey. “An alternate modern-day England where enticing drama and social unrest mix with aristocratic scandal and glamorous magic. If ever there was a speculative fiction book that captured the zeitgeist of an era this is it.” - SFFWorld ![]() a lavishly opulent, yet brutally vivid, alternate England which subtly questions modern beliefs. “Beautifully characterised and compellingly plotted, Gilded Cage is an impressive debut.” - The Guardian Look for all three books in the mesmerizing Dark Gifts trilogy: They will all discover whether any magic is more powerful than the human spirit. But their destinies entwine when one family enters the service of the other. The families have only one thing in common: Each has three children. ![]() In its glittering milieu move the all-powerful Jardines and the everyday Hadleys. This is the darkly decadent world of Gilded Cage. Do them young, and you’ll never get over them. Do those years when you’re old, and you’ll never get through them. If you’re not one of the ultimate one-percenters-the magical elite-you owe them ten years of service. In a darkly fantastical debut set in modern-day Britain, magic users control everything: wealth, politics, power-and you. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I can’t possibly recommend them highly enough. The level of emotion conveyed in each of her books never fails to take my breath away and every one of her stories has left a permanent mark on my heart. Her characters are all endearing and her writing is just so vivid and effortlessly beautiful that I really feel as though I’m not just reading one of her books, I’m living them. There is something very special about her writing that speaks straight to my heart and soul. ©2012 Colleen Hoover (P)2013 Audible, Inc. Hopeless is a novel that will leave you breathless, entranced, and remembering your own first love. In celebration of Colleen Hoover’s upcoming novella, Finding Cinderella, that will be released for free on October 14th, she is giving away a signed set of all her books in paperback right here!! So, one lucky winner will receive signed copies of Slammed, Point Of Retreat, This Girl, Hopeless and Losing Hope! You can enter to win at the bottom of this post □Īs many of you know, Colleen Hoover is one of my most favorite authors of all-time. Only by courageously facing the stark revelations can Sky and Holder hope to heal their emotional scars and find a way to live and love without boundaries. SQUEEE!!! I have something EPIC for you today!!!! ![]() ![]() So I guess you've read/listened to the first two books? So you KNOW how seasick Jamie gets, right? One teeny tiny channel-crossing and he's half-dead. Scotland, the Caribbean, Voodoo and a Voyage Under her spell, listeners find themselves transported back through time to exciting, faraway places alive with people they would enjoy knowing. ![]() Can she risk everything, maybe even her life, on a gamble that their love has withstood the long, rigorous test of time?ĭiana Gabaldon's powerful, witty, and heroic characters lend themselves well to the rich, melodic narration accorded them by Davina Porter. It has been 20 years since she and Jamie were forced to separate. She aches to travel back through time again to find the love of her life, but, in order to do that, she must leave their daughter behind. Now that Claire knows Jamie survived the slaughter at Culloden, she is faced with the most difficult decision of her life. ![]() ![]() Set in the intriguing Scotland of 200 years ago, the third installment in the romantic adventures of Jamie and Claire is as compelling as the first. Diana Gabaldon's magnificent historical saga, begun with Outlander and Dragonfly in Amber, continues with this New York Times best seller. ![]() ![]() Na’s first time at the Perlman Music Program where his expression and musical identity were greatly influenced. During that time, the summer of 2004 was Mr. There he appeared as soloist with the Palisades Symphony, Brentwood Symphony, and Torrance Symphony. ![]() Receiving full scholarships to private high school Crossroads School of Arts and Sciences in Santa Monica, he moved to Los Angeles to study with renown violin teacher, Robert Lipsett, at The Colburn Music School. Na went on to win top prizes in The Sound of Music Festival, The Korea Times Youth Music Competition, the Chinese Music Teacher’s Association, The Menuhin Dowling Young Artist Competition, The Junior Bach Festival, VOCE of the Music Teacher’s Association of California, and The Pacific Musical Society. He quickly made his first performance with orchestra at age seven with the Peninsula Youth Symphony as the first prize winner of the concerto competition. Known for his sweet and “sumptuous” (New York Times) tone, American-born Doori Na took up violin at the age of four and began his studies with Li Lin at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The teenager uses her shallow, socialite trappings to hide her true purpose: her gossipy flutternotes are encrypted plans, her pampered sea mink is genetically engineered for spying, and her well-publicized new romance with handsome Galatean medic Justen Helo… is her most dangerous mission ever. On the neighboring island of Albion, no one suspects that the Wild Poppy is actually famously frivolous aristocrat Persis Blake. The revolutionaries’ weapon is a drug that damages their enemies’ brains, and the only hope is rescue by a mysterious spy known as the Wild Poppy. Yet on the isle of Galatea, an uprising against the ruling aristocrats has turned deadly. Centuries after wars nearly destroyed civilization, the two islands of New Pacifica stand alone, a terraformed paradise where even the Reduction-the devastating brain disorder that sparked the wars-is a distant memory. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Heffley family’s house undergoes a disastrous attempt at home improvement. Like Tales., this is light as Uncle Feather (that's Fudge's pet myna bird), reads like a breeze, and bubbles with fourth-grade-level humor. Peter, on the sidelines, has a few less dramatic experiences of his own-eating a neighbor's worm cookies is about the wildest-but his wry reporting of Fudge's doings gives the story his stamp, and through it all he manages to give the impression that he has a life of his own. ![]() And when he's not tampering with Tootsie, Fudge is terrorizing his kindergarten teacher or embarrassing the principal (and, indirectly, his older brother) at a school assembly. When Fudge can't sell Tootsie or give her away, he covers her with trading stamps in hopes of exchanging her. Now Peter is in sixth grade and Fudge, at four, is still the star of the family comedy-this despite the arrival of Tootsie, whom Peter anticipates with outrage and dismay and Fudge receives with characteristic manifestations of sibling displacement. In Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (1972), Peter Hatcher's amusing tales were really all about his two-and-a-half-year-old brother Fudge. ![]() |