![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Serafina, Neela, Becca, Ava, Ling and Astrid are thrown together by adversity and destiny, and while a mission of global proportions awaits our heroines, discoveries about life, love and friendship are plentiful along the way. ![]() My exploration of the YA genre continues, and after some searching for something else about mermaids, I stumbled on Deep Blue, Rogue Wave, Dark Tide and Sea Spell. Whales? Well, why not, it’s all explained in The Waterfire Saga, an absorbing four-book YA fantasy series about…mermaids. Taking a deep breath, she pulled on everything strong and sure inside of her, and started to sing. But she needed it to be with her now, and she prayed to the gods that it would be. It didn’t settle until one was fully grown Serafina knew that. Magic depended on so many things – the depth of one’s gift, experience, dedication, the position of the moon, the rhythm of the tides, the proximity of whales. Around the Alster River in November November 2, 2020.Running in Heels in Hollywood Movies November 3, 2020.Lindsey Stirling’s New Music Video Brims with Joy November 10, 2020.Um, Not Asleep…German Language Moment January 4, 2021. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The kind of creativity that is rewarded at age fifteen is not always enough to propel someone through life at age thirty not everyone can sustain, in adulthood, what seemed so special in adolescence. In The Interestings, Wolitzer follows these characters from the height of youth through middle age, as their talents, fortunes, and degrees of satisfaction diverge. ![]() Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. It's everyone's."- Entertainment Weekly (A)įrom Meg Wolitzer, the New York Times–bestselling author of The Female Persuasion, a novel that has been called "genius" ( The Chicago Tribune), “wonderful” ( Vanity Fair), "ambitious" ( San Francisco Chronicle), and a “page-turner” ( Cosmopolitan). ![]() But the very human moments in her work hit you harder than the big ideas. She's every bit as literary as Franzen or Eugenides. The Interestings secures Wolitzer's place among the best novelists of her generation. With this book has surpassed herself.”- The New York Times Book Review Named a best book of the year by Entertainment Weekly, Time, and The Chicago Tribune, and named a notable book by The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post ![]() ![]() His views defy the facile labels of conservative, moderate, and liberal he is a political maverick, an educational renegade. He has been praised by Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, Mario Cuomo and William F. A feature film on his life and his teaching is in development. He was once named Citizen Of The Week for coming to the aid of a woman who had been robbed. ![]() He has lectured on James Joyce’s Ulysses at Cornell University, and taught philosophy at California State College. A seventh-grade teacher with twenty-six years’ experience, he has been named New York City Teacher Of The Year for three years running this year the New York Senate named him State Teacher Of The Year. In this, argues John Taylor Gatto, schools are a resounding success. ![]() But schools do more than educate they indoctrinate - and often at the expense of traditional educational objectives. ![]() Critics cite funding shortages, poor planning, and administrative incompetence. Our society no longer seems capable of educating itself. ![]() |