Teenagers and Reading

Teenagers and Reading
Author: Jacqueline Manuel
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2012
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1743050976

This book brings together international research and practical perspectives on the current state of teenagers' reading. Contributions by teachers, researchers and other educators explore the 'what, how, when, where, and why' of adolescents' reading, advancing our grasp of the relationships between and among teenage readers, texts and contexts.

Hating Alison Ashley

Hating Alison Ashley
Author: Robin Klein
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 193
Release: 1985-10-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0140316728

A classic story of friendship and jealousy from a beloved Australian author. Erica has always believed herself to be the star of her sixth grade class. But then Alison Ashley shows up, and right from the start, seems to threaten Erica's position. Can these classmates ever see past their difficulties and find friendship?

Penny Pollard's Scrapbook

Penny Pollard's Scrapbook
Author: Robin Klein
Publisher: Hachette Children's Books Australia
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2004
Genre: Children's stories, Australian
ISBN: 9780733618086

At last a brand new Penny Pollard adventure! When Penny is given a school assignment about saints, she doesn t realise what she might be getting herself into Penny Pollard is one of Australia s most popular and enduring characters for children (and adults) everywhere. Written by award-winning and successful author, Robin Klein, and with amusing illustrations and photographs by Ann James, Penny Pollard s Scrapbook is guaranteed to join the ranks of the Penny Pollard classics, and delight a whole new generation of readers.

Who's who in Australia 2009

Who's who in Australia 2009
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 2300
Release: 2007
Genre: Australia
ISBN:

A biographic reference to notable people in Australia. Entrants are drawn from all areas of Australian life, including the arts, politics, education, medicine, defence, business, diplomatic service, and recipients of honours and awards.

Here We Are

Here We Are
Author: Kelly Jensen
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2017-01-24
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1616205865

LET'S GET THE FEMINIST PARTY STARTED! Have you ever wanted to be a superheroine? Join a fandom? Create the perfect empowering playlist? Understand exactly what it means to be a feminist in the twenty-first century? You’ve come to the right place. Forty-four writers, dancers, actors, and artists contribute essays, lists, poems, comics, and illustrations about everything from body positivity to romance to gender identity to intersectionality to the greatest girl friendships in fiction. Together, they share diverse perspectives on and insights into what feminism means and what it looks like. Come on in, turn the pages, and be inspired to find your own path to feminism by the awesome individuals in Here We Are. Welcome to one of the most life-changing parties around!

Two Old Potatoes and Me

Two Old Potatoes and Me
Author: John Coy
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2013-05-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 030779346X

One day at her dad’s house, a young girl finds two old potatoes in the cupboard. “Gross.” But before she can throw them away, her dad suggests they try to grow new potatoes from the old ones, which have sprouted eyes. Told from May to September, the potato-growing season, the story includes all the basic steps for growing potatoes while subtly dealing with the parents’ recent divorce. Just like the new potatoes that emerged from ugly old potatoes, this dad and daughter move on and make a new life together in the face of unavoidable and unpleasant change. Carolyn Fisher’s artwork will be instantly recognizable from her recent picture book debut, A Twisted Tale, and her trademark high-energy art and design infuse joy and humor into this heartwarming story.

The Secret History of Wonder Woman

The Secret History of Wonder Woman
Author: Jill Lepore
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2014-10-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0385354053

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Within the origin of one of the world’s most iconic superheroes hides a fascinating family story—and a crucial history of feminism in the twentieth-century. “Everything you might want in a page-turner…skeletons in the closet, a believe-it-or-not weirdness in its biographical details, and something else that secretly powers even the most “serious” feminist history—fun.” —Entertainment Weekly The Secret History of Wonder Woman is a tour de force of intellectual and cultural history. Wonder Woman, Jill Lepore argues, is the missing link in the history of the struggle for women’s rights—a chain of events that begins with the women’s suffrage campaigns of the early 1900s and ends with the troubled place of feminism a century later. Lepore, a Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, has uncovered an astonishing trove of documents, including the never-before-seen private papers of Wonder Woman’s creator, William Moulton Marston. The Marston family story is a tale of drama, intrigue, and irony. In the 1920s, Marston and his wife brought into their home Olive Byrne, the niece of Margaret Sanger, one of the most influential feminists of the twentieth century. Even while celebrating conventional family life in a regular column that Marston and Byrne wrote for Family Circle, they themselves pursued lives of extraordinary nonconformity. Marston, internationally known as an expert on truth—he invented the lie detector test—lived a life of secrets, only to spill them on the pages of Wonder Woman. Includes a new afterword with fresh revelations based on never before seen letters and photographs from the Marston family’s papers, and 161 illustrations and 16 pages in full color.