My Feet Aren't Ugly

My Feet Aren't Ugly
Author: Debra Beck
Publisher: Beaufort Books
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2020-10-27
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 0825308194

Updated Content, including three new chapters!Make healthy decisions in the face of peer pressure, have strong relationships with family and friends, and respect and love yourself for who you are. In My Feet Aren't Ugly, teen mentor Debra Beck provides sometimes funny and always honest personal stories along with quizzes, journaling exercises, and thoughts from teens themselves to help develop self-confidence.Whether you feel bad about yourself, have trouble fitting in, or have tough questions you are afraid to ask, this updated edition will help pre-teens, teens, and parents tackle these issues together.

The Beautification of Ugly Feet

The Beautification of Ugly Feet
Author: J. Rene Carter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2014-08-26
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9781500910334

The Beautification of Ugly Feet is a biblical perspective that examines the process of transforming the ugliness of apathy and defeat into the beauty of good success. This success only comes to fruition by releasing one's divinely given potential and passion. It's about pressing on to make it in spite of the odds against you and by purposely utilizing every life experience to magnify God's purpose. Keeping God's purpose first, will cause all things to work in your favor. In this book: I detail the account of how the Lord ordered my steps into a process that led me into a personalized predestined pathway of good success.

The Patron Saint of Ugly

The Patron Saint of Ugly
Author: Marie Manilla
Publisher: HMH
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2014-06-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 054413348X

Catholic lore, American tales, and Sicilian superstition blend in this “clever, funny, heartbreaking, and heartwarming” novel (Publishers Weekly). Born with unruly red hair, a sharp tongue, and wine-colored marks all over her body—marks that oddly mimick a map of the world and make her subject to endless ridicule—Garnet Ferrari would hardly consider herself blessed. So when an emissary from the Vatican shows up at her door, convinced that her seeming ability to cure the skin ailments of others qualifies her for sainthood, she’s not quite convinced—or pleased. Garnet sets off on a quest to better understand who she is and where she and her unusual gifts came from. Tracing a twisted path that leads from Sicily to West Virginia, poverty to riches, romance to loss, reality to mythology, Garnet uncovers a truth far more powerful than any dermatological miracle: that the things of which we are most ashamed often become our greatest strengths. “A cleareyed, touching fable of a girl learning the hard truths about herself and others.” —Kirkus Reviews

Wings and Tales

Wings and Tales
Author: Jennifer L. Kroll
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2011-02-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1598845985

Parents and teachers can use this book to engage children with the world outside by opening their eyes to fascinating common bird species. Once upon a time, common bird species all had well-known stories associated with them. Legends and folklore about birds abound in almost every culture. It's likely their ability to fly, their beauty and grace, their distinctive and puzzling calls, and the fact that they live all around us is what makes them popular subjects for fables. This book presents a sampling of traditional bird tales retold in a fresh way that makes them especially relevant and memorable for today's children. Each story is complemented by a "Feathered Fact File," a "Backyard Bird Watching Tip" for kids, a classroom/home school activity suggestion, and a story sharing suggestion for parents and teachers. The teaching activities are designed with flexibility so that they may be used to either introduce new concepts of science and math or reinforce familiar concepts in a hands-on fashion. Reading selections are written at third to fourth grade reading levels, but are designed to engage both younger listeners and older readers.

A Great Big Ugly Man Came Up and Tied His Horse to Me

A Great Big Ugly Man Came Up and Tied His Horse to Me
Author: Wallace Tripp
Publisher: Little Brown
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1974-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780316852814

A collection of nonsense poems which includes, "I do not like thee, Doctor Fell," "Moll-in-the-Wad," "My Pussy Cat has got the Gout," and many others.

Five Feet Apart

Five Feet Apart
Author: Rachael Lippincott
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2019-02-05
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1534451560

Now a major motion picture starring Cole Sprouse and Haley Lu Richardson! Goodreads Choice Winner, Best Young Adult Fiction of 2019 In this #1 New York Times bestselling novel that’s perfect for fans of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, two teens fall in love with just one minor complication—they can’t get within a few feet of each other without risking their lives. Can you love someone you can never touch? Stella Grant likes to be in control—even though her totally out of control lungs have sent her in and out of the hospital most of her life. At this point, what Stella needs to control most is keeping herself away from anyone or anything that might pass along an infection and jeopardize the possibility of a lung transplant. Six feet apart. No exceptions. The only thing Will Newman wants to be in control of is getting out of this hospital. He couldn’t care less about his treatments, or a fancy new clinical drug trial. Soon, he’ll turn eighteen and then he’ll be able to unplug all these machines and actually go see the world, not just its hospitals. Will’s exactly what Stella needs to stay away from. If he so much as breathes on Stella she could lose her spot on the transplant list. Either one of them could die. The only way to stay alive is to stay apart. But suddenly six feet doesn’t feel like safety. It feels like punishment. What if they could steal back just a little bit of the space their broken lungs have stolen from them? Would five feet apart really be so dangerous if it stops their hearts from breaking too?

Miranda and Her Daughters

Miranda and Her Daughters
Author: Cate Garrison
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2008-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1435715675

MIRANDA AND HER DAUGHTERS turns the Cinderella story on its head. Stepmothers traditionally get a terrible rap. Fathers and mothers--even mothers-in-law--may be good or bad, but stepmothers are always ""wicked."" But now that blended families are almost the norm, we need to challenge the stereotype. MIRANDA addresses the issue head-on in a way that is quirky, sexy, playful and, at times, serious. It takes the storyline from the Brothers Grimm, but brings it up to date, gives it a distinctly adult flavor, and sets it between London, England, and Portland, Oregon. The tale will appeal to women--and men--who take on the difficult job of raising other people's children, as well as their own. More, it provides the missing 'back story': how Cinderella's father met his second wife, or why the new wife's two daughters had a problem with shoes. Above all, it shows that the protagonists in most cobbled-together marriages are well-meaning, if only human.

Beyond Infinity

Beyond Infinity
Author: Eugenia Cheng
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2017-03-28
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0465094821

How one powerful concept reveals the biggest (and smallest) mathematical truths How big is the universe? How many numbers are there? And is infinity + 1 is the same as 1 + infinity? Such questions occur to young children and our greatest minds. And they are all the same question: What is infinity? In Beyond Infinity, Eugenia Cheng takes us on a staggering journey from elemental math to its loftiest abstractions. Along the way, she considers how to use a chessboard to plan a worldwide dinner party, how to make a chicken-sandwich sandwich, and how to create infinite cookies from a finite ball of dough. Beyond Infinity shows how one little symbol holds the biggest idea of all.

Muriélle

Muriélle
Author: James Kaye
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2004-05-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 146911996X

I met a Lady Full beautiful, a faerys child; Her hair was long. She took me to her elfin grot And there we slumbered on the moss. Excerpted from La Belle Dame sans Merci Keats-1819 Murille is about artistic vision and sensual awakening; the story of a young model coming of age while sitting for one of John William Waterhouses most popular works of art, La Belle Dame sans Merci, 1893, (front cover) inspired by his model and based on the poem by Keats

One More Time

One More Time
Author: Mike Royko
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2000-05-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780226730721

Culled from 7,500 columns and spanning four decades, the writings in this collection reflect a radically changing America as seen by a man whose keen sense of justice and humor never faltered. 11 halftones.