Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon

Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon
Author: Patty Lovell
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2011-06-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1101653876

Be yourself like Molly Lou Melon no matter what a bully may do. Molly Lou Melon is short and clumsy, has buck teeth, and has a voice that sounds like a bullfrog being squeezed by a boa constrictor. She doesn't mind. Her grandmother has always told her to walk proud, smile big, and sing loud, and she takes that advice to heart. But then Molly Lou has to start in a new school. A horrible bully picks on her on the very first day, but Molly Lou Melon knows just what to do about that.

A Tower Stands Tall

A Tower Stands Tall
Author: Kylie Burns
Publisher:
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2019
Genre: Structural engineering
ISBN: 9781549080098

"Towers are tall, narrow structures used for many purposes, from measuring and predicting weather to offering a bird's-eye view of surroundings. This interesting book takes children through the engineering design process, giving them an inside look at how engineers design towers to suit specific purposes and hold steady in different environments. Reader-centered examples illustrate concepts for children, and a model-building activity allows them to design their own tower solution."--

A Tower Stands Tall

A Tower Stands Tall
Author: Kylie Burns
Publisher: Be An Engineer! Designing to Solve Problems
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-09-25
Genre: Structural engineering
ISBN: 9780778751663

This interesting book takes children through the engineering design process, giving them an inside look at how engineers design towers to suit specific purposes and hold steady in different environments.

Standing Tall

Standing Tall
Author: Tom Benford
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2011-01-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1452043965

In the spring of 2005, Tom Benford seemed to have it all: a successful career, a loving family and dreams of retirement. Then lightning struck: his daughter, Andrea, was diagnosed with small-cell ovarian cancer. Standing Tall is the story of Tom and Andrea's year together: the laughter, the tears, and most importantly, the lessons learned through a debilitating illness. Told lovingly through a father's eyes, Standing Tall is the story of family, love and a parent holding on -- then letting go.

Stand Tall!

Stand Tall!
Author: Cheri J. Meiners
Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2015-05-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1575425211

Integrity is an important trait for children to develop—especially as they grow, learn, and have more opportunities to make choices for themselves. With this encouraging book, support children in knowing right from wrong, making positive decisions, keeping promises, and staying true to themselves. Back matter includes advice for teaching integrity at home, at school, and in childcare. Being the Best Me Series: From the author of the popular Learning to Get Along® books comes a one-of-a-kind character-development series. Each of the first six books in the Being the Best Me! series helps children learn, understand, and develop attitudes and positive character traits that strengthen self-confidence and a sense of purpose. Each book focuses on a specific attitude or character trait—optimism, self-esteem, assertiveness, resilience, integrity, and forgiveness. Also included are discussion questions, games, activities, and additional information for adults. Filled with diversity, these social story books will be welcome in school, home, and childcare settings.

Standing Tall in a Falling World

Standing Tall in a Falling World
Author: Angelique Du Toit
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2015-05-18
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1781806144

Do you find yourself straining under the pressures of your day-to-day life? Are you on an emotional roller coaster, feeling physically drained and in poor health? Are you angry, anxious, fearful and guilt-ridden as you juggle the demands of your work with your family life? Standing Tall in a Falling World is a practical book offering instant inspirational applications to help you rise above all of your circumstances and be everything you were created to be. The insights contained in these pages will encourage you to bring change to your life, your business and your future. These writings have been birthed out of life experience. They are written from a Christian perspective and are not mere theory. Written in daily conversational style, Angelique will connect with you in ways that you can relate to, with the assurance that you can make the necessary changes to stand tall with confidence, authority and with joy, as the mundane issues of your life shrink into relative insignificance.

From a Taller Tower

From a Taller Tower
Author: Seamus McGraw
Publisher: Univ of TX + ORM
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2021-04-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1477322639

A history of the American mass shooter since 1966, and an analysis of how the nation makes sense of the senseless violence. We, as a nation, have become desensitized to the shock and pain in the wake of mass shootings. In the bottomless silence between gunshots, as political stalemate ensures inaction, the killing continues; the dying continues. From a Taller Tower attends to the silence that has left us empty in the aftermath of these atrocities. Veteran journalist Seamus McGraw chronicles the rise of the mass shooter to dismantle the myths we have constructed around the murderers and ourselves. In 1966, America’s first mass shooter, from atop the University of Texas tower, unleashed a new reality: the fear that any of us may be targeted by a killer, and the complicity we bear in granting these murderers the fame or infamy they crave. Addressing individual cases in the epidemic that began in Austin, From a Taller Tower bluntly confronts our obsession with the shooters?and explores the isolation, narcissism, and sense of victimhood that fan their obsessions. Drawing on the experiences of survivors and first responders as well as the knowledge of mental health experts, McGraw challenges the notion of the “good guy with a gun,” the idolization of guns (including his own), and the reliability of traumatized memory. Yet in this terrible history, McGraw reminds us of the humanity that can stop the killing and the dying. “An important and extraordinary book that takes us into the mind of the mass shooter and also explores our own complicity in the numbing tragedies that have become far too routine in America. Still, Seamus McGraw manages to leave us with hope that there’s a way out of the despair.” —Perri Pelitz, director and producer, Axios on HBO “A meditative history of mass murder by gunfire. . . . A memorable, necessary contribution to the national conversation on gun violence.” —Kirkus Reviews “[From a Taller Tower] traces the history of the American mass shooter and the troubling ways we make sense of senseless violence . . . There’s a tragic timeliness to McGraw’s book.” —InsideHook “One of the most important books you can read this or any year. It’s impossible to read this work without nodding or wincing or even crying.” —Patrick Skinner, detective, Savannah, Georgia “From a Taller Tower is a careful, even cathartic, look at mass shooters and the culture that ushers them forth. McGraw dispels the myths “forged in gunfire” with a riveting examination of the before, during, and after of mass shootings.” —Amye Archer, co-editor, If I Don’t Make It, I Love You: Survivors in the Aftermath of School Shootings

Devils Tower

Devils Tower
Author: Stephen L. Norton
Publisher: Kc Publications
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1991
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780887140518

Learn the fascinating story of America's first national monument, this imposing 867-foot rock shaft, centerpiece of Indian legends. This 9" x 12" book is overflowing with beautiful photos and interpretive text on this National Park for your enjoyment.

The Stand

The Stand
Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 1474
Release: 2011
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307743683

A monumentally devastating plague leaves only a few survivors who, while experiencing dreams of a battle between good and evil, move toward an actual confrontation as they migrate to Boulder, Colorado.

W is for Windy City

W is for Windy City
Author: Steven L. Layne
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2010-08-06
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 158536570X

Lake Shore Drive, the Magnificent Mile, Navy Pier...just the mention of these iconic sights conjures up a skyline known the world over as the Windy City. Welcome to Chicago! And there's no better guidebook to the city than W is for Windy City: A Chicago Alphabet. Following the alphabet, the city's character and familiar landmarks are fully captured in poem and expository text. A is for Art Institute or Adler Planetarium. And if we want a "triple A," we'll add the Shedd Aquarium. Young readers can marvel at the treasures on display at the renowned Art Institute, go window shopping along Michigan Avenue's mile-long Magnificent Mile, or take in an afternoon game at Wrigley Field with the Chicago Cubs. W is for Windy City brings this famous city to life.A faculty member in the Department of Education at Judson University in Elgin, Illinois, Dr. Steven L. Layne is a respected literacy consultant and keynote speaker, working with educators and children at schools and conferences throughout the world. With more than 20 years as an educator, Deborah Dover Layne has worked at elementary and middle school levels and has been a reading specialist. Currently, she is an elementary principal in Elgin. The Laynes live in St. Charles, Illinois. Rhode Island School of Design graduate Michael Hays teaches illustration and drawing at Columbia College and lives in Oak Park, Illinois. Judy MacDonald and Michael started Painted Pony Studio in Chicago several years ago, each of them bringing their own unique style to the drawing table while illustrating books and creating art for children.