Just Messing Around
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| Author | : Robert Hodum |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 125 |
| Release | : 2023-09-20 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 1663256012 |
Just Messing Around is a zany rollercoaster ride through a latchkey child’s world of antics and misadventures, laughter and fisticuffs, skirting problems, and hatching wacky schemes. The author, like so many of his generation, lived an unsupervised childhood that characterized many suburban Long Island communities of the early 60s. Absent parents, these kids ran wild in their rural, suburban world. They saw themselves as frontiersmen, daredevils, and self-confessed hellions. These children were also alone way too much, sometimes frightened, and in serious need of discipline and hugs. This heartwarming collection of stories, seen through the eyes of one kid, depicts their lives of roaming fields and woods, surviving their daily, madcap adventures, exploring haunted farmhouses, and, as we kids would say, just messing around.
| Author | : Mizuko Ito |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 441 |
| Release | : 2009-10-30 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 0262258269 |
An examination of young people's everyday new media practices—including video-game playing, text-messaging, digital media production, and social media use. Conventional wisdom about young people's use of digital technology often equates generational identity with technology identity: today's teens seem constantly plugged in to video games, social networking sites, and text messaging. Yet there is little actual research that investigates the intricate dynamics of youths' social and recreational use of digital media. Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out fills this gap, reporting on an ambitious three-year ethnographic investigation into how young people are living and learning with new media in varied settings—at home, in after-school programs, and in online spaces. Integrating twenty-three case studies—which include Harry Potter podcasting, video-game playing, music sharing, and online romantic breakups—in a unique collaborative authorship style, Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out is distinctive for its combination of in-depth description of specific group dynamics with conceptual analysis.
| Author | : Betsy Franco |
| Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
| Total Pages | : 52 |
| Release | : 2009-07-28 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9780763631741 |
Presents nineteen poems about daily life in school, including the school library, recess, and boring homework, with each poem designed to be read by two distinct voices.
| Author | : Mizuko Ito |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 121 |
| Release | : 2009-06-05 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 0262258277 |
This report summarizes the results of an ambitious three-year ethnographic study, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, into how young people are living and learning with new media in varied settings—at home, in after school programs, and in online spaces. It offers a condensed version of a longer treatment provided in the book Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out (MIT Press, 2009). The authors present empirical data on new media in the lives of American youth in order to reflect upon the relationship between new media and learning. In one of the largest qualitative and ethnographic studies of American youth culture, the authors view the relationship of youth and new media not simply in terms of technology trends but situated within the broader structural conditions of childhood and the negotiations with adults that frame the experience of youth in the United States. The book that this report summarizes was written as a collaborative effort by members of the Digital Youth Project, a three-year research effort funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and conducted at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Southern California. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Reports on Digital Media and Learning
| Author | : J. V. Carr |
| Publisher | : WestBow Press |
| Total Pages | : 283 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1449782825 |
What if messing up insanely in a video game could somehow cause serious catastrophic events on Earth? Like maybe a devastating hurricane or an airplane crash? That’s what happens to eighteen-year-old Bladen, after he’s chosen to play in the real-life game Arcis. At first he thinks it’s cool, until his dreams become plagued by a black widow spider that begs for his help; death players want to murder life players like him on Earth, and Bladen realizes that when a level is lost, disasters can’t be stopped. Bladen’s life becomes more and more tormented, as he stumbles between two worlds filled with hatred, jealousy, and love, until he hits a turning point and has to decide what he wants—to continue to sacrifice in the game, even if it costs him his life, or give it all up for his first love.
| Author | : Russell Stannard |
| Publisher | : Templeton Foundation Press |
| Total Pages | : 157 |
| Release | : 2002-03-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1932031014 |
Sam didn't think much of religion. What with science being able to explain almost everything about us and about the world we live in, there didn't seem much point to believing in God any more. But then came the day Sam was exploring the Internet, and stumbled across God's website! At least, that was what it claimed to be.Sam decides to investigate, and becomes engrossed in conversations with the mysterious person on the other end. Together they explore the great questions arising out of evolution, astronomy, cosmology, the laws of nature, and the possibility of miracles. Not that Sam knew much science. Fortunately the stranger was able to explain the science from scratch in a way that Sam could understand. They also tackled the problems of evil, suffering, and death; that really set Sam thinking.Readers will be challenged to form their own personal responses to the issues raised based on a listing of forty questions at the back of the book. Sample questions include: What do you hope to achieve in your lifetime? Does belief in God play a part in that? Do you believe in evolution—that you came from animals? Do you think there is life on other planets? If so, does that make human beings less important? Do the world religions contradict each other, or are they simply talking about the same God in somewhat different ways? How should belief in an afterlife affect the way you live this life?
| Author | : Donna Underwood |
| Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
| Total Pages | : 213 |
| Release | : 2022-02-25 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1665553073 |
This story is about young and older folks and their struggles with making meaningful choices. Choices that will enhance not diminish their lives and those they care about. The Dream Team is back again working together to do whatever possible to improve the lives of ex-cons, kids in and from juvenilehall and other people facing tough challenges.
| Author | : Melody Loomis |
| Publisher | : Melody Loomis |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2024-04-07 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Fourteen-year-old Gracie Taylor lives in a messy house, but it’s not her mess. Her mother has been a compulsive hoarder for the last six years, and it’s only getting worse. Their kitchen is covered with towers of Tupperware. The dining room table is buried under clutter. And in the living room, clothing fills every available space. Her back-at-home sister promises to help, but all she seems to do is argue with their mother. Her best friend Jilly is no help either. She’s too concerned about her new boyfriend at her new school to listen to Gracie’s problems. Meanwhile, her mother continues to fill the house with junk. If Gracie can’t get her mother’s hoarding under control, she can kiss her dreams of film school goodbye. Gracie is the one who takes out the trash. Gracie is the one who keeps the toilets functional. Gracie is the one who clears the clutter blocking the exits. If left to her own devices, her mother would become a level five hoarder in no time. Her only hope is to get her mother on Clean It Up!, a show that helps compulsive hoarders. But getting her on the show won’t be easy. Fortunately, with the help and support of her film club friends, Gracie forms a plan. It might just take filming the biggest documentary of her life to make it happen.
| Author | : Kevin Brooks |
| Publisher | : Chicken House |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2014-07-03 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1909489212 |
Joe is hooked from the moment he sees Candy. What is it that catches his eye? Is it her hair, her smile, or just the way she's standing? When they chat over coffee there's an instant attraction - but can love ever be this sweet?
| Author | : David K. O'Hara |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 71 |
| Release | : 2012-01-01 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1472515102 |
David K. O'Hara's The Upstairs Room is a modern take on Sartre's play Huis Clo, in which a man and two women find themselves confined together in a drawing room for eternity.
