Malcolm's Share the Magic Foundation promotes the benefits of reading to kids in underserved communities. He's also the founder of an initiative called Read with Malcolm, which introduces book ownership to students, and works to improve literacy in schools. MALCOLM MITCHELL is the rookie who helped the New England Patriots win Super Bowl LI. His work has appeared on many children's products, greeting cards, books, toys, and magazines, and has received multiple recognitions from the Society of Illustrators. He spent ten years as a toy designer and character developer, before trying his hand at illustration. But one day, he gets the scariest homework assignment in the world: find your favorite book to share with the class tomorrow.īorn and raised in northern Ohio, MICHAEL ROBERTSON graduated from Bowling Green State University with a degree in painting. When he's supposed to be reading, he would rather do anything else. Hasta un día en que le dan la tarea más terrible del mundo: buscar su libro favorito para leerlo en la clase al día siguiente.Meet Henley, an all-around good kid, who hates to read. Cuando se supone que lea, él prefiere hacer cualquier otra cosa. Te presentamos a Henley, un buen chico que nunca ha leído un libro que realmente le guste. About the Book Henley hates to read, so his homework assignment to bring in his favorite book seems an impossible challenge-until his mother shows him a box of books he made himself when he was younger.īook Synopsis Henley doesn't like to read-but the right book is about to change that
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While the minutes tick away, Langdon joins forces with Vittoria Vetra, a beautiful and mysterious Italian scientist, to decipher the labyrinthine trail of ancient symbols that snakes across Rome to the long-forgotten Illuminati lair - a secret refuge wherein lies the only hope for the Vatican. Yet somewhere within the walls of the Vatican, an unstoppable bomb of terrifying power relentlessly counts down to oblivion. In Rome, the college of cardinals assembles to elect a new pope. His baffling conclusion: that it is the work of the Illuminati, a secret brotherhood presumed extinct for nearly four hundred years - reborn to continue their bitter vendetta against their most hated enemy, the Catholic church. 572 pages ex-library with usual markings, spine cocked, some edge wear to boards, corners bumped When a world renowned scientist is found brutally murdered in a Swiss research facility, a Harvard professor, Robert Langdon, is summoned to identify the mysterious symbol seared onto the dead man's chest. In my own house, each day was a perfectly contained lineup of hours where nothing unusual or unsettling was ever said. Mary Jane’s own family is straight-laced – her mother is a homemaker her father has a portrait of Nixon on the wall, and reads the newspaper during dinner each night and family outings are to church, where Mary Jane sings in the choir. Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau is a coming-of-age novel about fourteen-year-old Mary Jane, who has a summer job babysitting for a local family, the Cones. Seems small in the retelling but the audacity of the stickers and ice cream left an impression. My mum would have cracked it (and sent me back out for bread). On our return, her mother rolled her eyes, as if no bread was expected. My friend immediately informed me that we would spend the money on things other than bread – we went to the toy shop and bought scratch’n’sniff stickers, and the milk bar for ice creams. One took place when I visited a friend for the day, and her mother sent us to the shops for bread for lunch. Do you remember a time in your childhood when you went to someone else’s house and you realised that their family life was completely different to yours? I have a few such memories. But I'm glad I came to this book simply wanting to read it, because I dug through it with relish. Perhaps it's obstinance, or just a need for difference, I don't know. It's hard for me to come to a Classic with only the mindset of This Must Be Read. All of Atwood is worth reading, but this book best exemplifies the cultural and psychological impact that a work of fiction can create. And despite its scenarios of great despair, The Handmaid's Tale is ultimately a hopeful book - Offred, and others, simply cannot be human without the possibility of hope, and therein lies the strength of the resistance. The novel is as relevant today as ever feminist backlashes continue to wax and wane, but women's rights remain in the spotlight. The world of the narrator, Offred (from "Of Fred" - women no longer have their own names), is chilling, but she is a magnificent survivor and chronicler, and the details of everything from mundane daily life to ritualized sex and violence to her reminiscences of the time before (our contemporary reality, as seen in the '80s) are absolutely realistic. Atwood's classic dystopian novel of a terrifying (and terrifyingly plausible) future America has rewarded rereading like no other book I've probably read it 30 times by now. |