Jumpin' Junior

Jumpin' Junior
Author: Tiffany Polino
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2019-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781944049232

Jump in and explore the exotic world of an African Bush Baby named Junior! This beautifully illustrated book is a journey through one night in the life of a bush baby family. Aimed at a pre-K through early elementary audience, Jumpin' Junior provides a stimulating experience to engage and educate your child. In addition to the story, this book offers science information and several activities. An original bush baby song sheet and dance movements are also included! The Bush Baby Junior song is available for download. Developed by educators, this book is great for parents as well as teachers. Jumpin' Junior is sure to be a hit with kids who love animals and music!

Jumpin' Junior Activity Book

Jumpin' Junior Activity Book
Author: Tiffany Polino
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2019-10-25
Genre: JUVENILE NONFICTION
ISBN: 9781944049294

TheJumpin' Junior Activity Bookoffers enrichment activities that complement Jumpin' Junior: A Bush Baby's Tale, a pre-K through early elementary book about African animals. Science vocabulary, music theory, counting practice, crafts, creative play, and word games all support a variety of student learning styles. Children will be engaged for hours with a maze, hidden pictures, crossword, finger puppets, word search, coloring pages, rhythm recognition, animal masks, and more! Parents, home-school educators, and classroom teachers will appreciate that this activity bookaligns with STEAM education goals and music curriculum standards. It is appropriate for learners ages 3-8.

Jump In!

Jump In!
Author: M. C. King
Publisher: Disney Press
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2006-12-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781423106838

Izzy (Bleu) is training for the Golden Gloves championship, and his neighbor Mary (Palmer) is working hard with her Double Dutch team, who are also hoping to win a championship. But when one of Mary’s teammates leaves the team, they’re in trouble. At first, Izzy has no interest in Double Dutch, but eventually, he joins the team—on a temporary basis—and sneaks to the gym to practice early in the morning, away from prying eyes. In the end, he admits to his father that his real passion is Double Dutch, and he and the rest of Mary’s team go on to win the championship.

Jump In!

Jump In!
Author: Doreen Spicer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2007
Genre: Contests
ISBN: 9789833853762

Diary of an Eco-Outlaw

Diary of an Eco-Outlaw
Author: Diane Wilson
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2011-04-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1603583823

Diane Wilson is an activist, shrimper, and all around hell-raiser whose first book, An Unreasonable Woman, told of her battle to save her bay in Seadrift, Texas. Back then, she was an accidental activist who worked with whistleblowers, organized protests, and eventually sunk her own boat to stop the plastic-manufacturing giant Formosa from releasing dangerous chemicals into water she shrimped in, grew up on, and loved. But, it turns out, the fight against Formosa was just the beginning. In Diary of an Eco-Outlaw, Diane writes about what happened as she began to fight injustice not just in Seadrift, but around the world-taking on Union Carbide for its failure to compensate those injured in the Bhopal disaster, cofounding the women's antiwar group Code Pink to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, attempting a citizens arrest of Dick Cheney, famously covering herself with fake oil and demanding the arrest of then BP CEO Tony Hayward as he testified before Congress, and otherwise becoming a world-class activist against corporate injustice, war, and environmental crimes. As George Bernard Shaw once said, "all progress depends on unreasonable women." And in the Diary of an Eco-Outlaw, the eminently unreasonable Wilson delivers a no-holds-barred account of how she-a fourth-generation shrimper, former boat captain, and mother of five-took a turn at midlife, unable to stand by quietly as she witnessed abuses of people and the environment. Since then, she has launched legislative campaigns, demonstrations, and hunger strikes-and generally gotten herself in all manner of trouble. All worth it, says Wilson. Jailed more than 50 times for civil disobedience, Wilson has stood up for environmental justice, and peace, around the world-a fact that has earned her many kudos from environmentalists and peace activists alike, and that has forced progress where progress was hard to come by.

An Unreasonable Woman

An Unreasonable Woman
Author: Diane Wilson
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2005-09-15
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1603580417

When Diane Wilson, fourth-generation shrimp-boat captain and mother of five, learns that she lives in the most polluted county in the United States, she decides to fight back. She launches a campaign against a multibillion-dollar corporation that has been covering up spills, silencing workers, flouting the EPA, and dumping lethal ethylene dichloride and vinyl chloride into the bays along her beloved Texas Gulf Coast. In an epic tale of bravery, Wilson takes her fight to the courts, to the gates of the chemical plant, and to the halls of power in Austin. Along the way she meets with scorn, bribery, character assassination, and death threats. Finally Wilson realizes that she must break the law to win justice: She resorts to nonviolent disobedience, direct action, and hunger strikes. Wilson's vivid South Texas dialogue resides somewhere between Alice Walker and William Faulkner, and her dazzling prose brings to mind the magic realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, replete with dreams and prophecies.

Jump In!

Jump In!
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2007
Genre: Contests
ISBN:

The Trees

The Trees
Author: Percival Everett
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2021-09-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1644451565

Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize Winner of the 2022 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Finalist for the 2022 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Longlisted for the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction An uncanny literary thriller addressing the painful legacy of lynching in the US, by the author of Telephone Percival Everett’s The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, they meet expected resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a string of racist White townsfolk. The murders present a puzzle, for at each crime scene there is a second dead body: that of a man who resembles Emmett Till. The detectives suspect that these are killings of retribution, but soon discover that eerily similar murders are taking place all over the country. Something truly strange is afoot. As the bodies pile up, the MBI detectives seek answers from a local root doctor who has been documenting every lynching in the country for years, uncovering a history that refuses to be buried. In this bold, provocative book, Everett takes direct aim at racism and police violence, and does so in a fast-paced style that ensures the reader can’t look away. The Trees is an enormously powerful novel of lasting importance from an author with his finger on America’s pulse.

Naming Your Boat

Naming Your Boat
Author: Joe Kilgore
Publisher: Old Mountain Press
Total Pages: 60
Release: 1997-08
Genre: Boat names
ISBN: 1884778224