Newton and Me

Newton and Me
Author: Lynne Mayer
Publisher: Arbordale Publishing
Total Pages: 18
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1607188708

While at play with his dog, Newton, a young boy discovers the laws of force and motion in everyday activities such as throwing a ball, pulling a wagon, and riding a bike. Includes "For Creative Minds" section.

Just Like Me

Just Like Me
Author: Vanessa Brantley-Newton
Publisher: Dragonfly Books
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2022-07-12
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0593568796

An ode to the girl with scrapes on her knees and flowers in her hair, and every girl in between, this exquisite treasury will appeal to readers of Dear Girl and I Am Enough and have kids poring over it to find a poem that's just for them. I am a canvas Being painted on By the words of my family Friends And community From Vanessa Brantley-Newton, the author of Grandma's Purse, comes a collection of poetry filled with engaging mini-stories about girls of all kinds: girls who feel happy, sad, scared, powerful; girls who love their bodies and girls who don't; country girls, city girls; girls who love their mother and girls who wish they had a father. With bright portraits in Vanessa's signature style of vibrant colors and unique patterns and fabrics, this book invites readers to find themselves and each other within its pages. "A dynamic, uplifting, and welcoming world of girls."--Kirkus "Thoughtful, inclusive, and celebratory"--Publishers Weekly "Bursting with positivity, this would be a great book to use in primary school classrooms when discussing issues of friendship, diversity, and self-esteem."--Booklist

Ancestor Trouble

Ancestor Trouble
Author: Maud Newton
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2023-06-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0812987497

“Extraordinary and wide-ranging . . . a literary feat that simultaneously builds and excavates identity.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) Roxane Gay’s Audacious Book Club Pick • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize • An acclaimed writer goes searching for the truth about her complicated Southern family—and finds that our obsession with ancestors opens up new ways of seeing ourselves—in this “brilliant mix of personal memoir and cultural observation” (The Boston Globe). ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, NPR, Time, Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Esquire, Garden & Gun Maud Newton’s ancestors have fascinated her since she was a girl. Her mother’s father was said to have married thirteen times. Her mother’s grandfather killed a man with a hay hook. Mental illness and religious fanaticism percolated Maud’s maternal lines back to an ancestor accused of being a witch in Puritan-era Massachusetts. Newton’s family inspired in her a desire to understand family patterns: what we are destined to replicate and what we can leave behind. She set out to research her genealogy—her grandfather’s marriages, the accused witch, her ancestors’ roles in slavery and other harms. Her journey took her into the realms of genetics, epigenetics, and debates over intergenerational trauma. She mulled over modernity’s dismissal of ancestors along with psychoanalytic and spiritual traditions that center them. Searching and inspiring, Ancestor Trouble is one writer’s attempt to use genealogy—a once-niche hobby that has grown into a multi-billion-dollar industry—to make peace with the secrets and contradictions of her family's past and face its reverberations in the present, and to argue for the transformational possibilities that reckoning with our ancestors offers all of us.

Newton and the Counterfeiter

Newton and the Counterfeiter
Author: Thomas Levenson
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2011-03-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 0571265758

Already famous throughout Europe for his theories of planetary motion and gravity, Isaac Newton decided to take on the job of running the Royal Mint. And there, Newton became drawn into a battle with William Chaloner, the most skilful of counterfeiters, a man who not only got away with faking His Majesty's coins (a crime that the law equated with treason), but was trying to take over the Mint itself. But Chaloner had no idea who he was taking on. Newton pursued his enemy with the cold, implacable logic that he brought to his scientific research. Set against the backdrop of early eighteenth-century London with its sewers running down the middle of the streets, its fetid rivers, its packed houses, smoke and fog, its industries and its great port, this dark tale of obsession and revenge transforms our image of Britain's greatest scientist.

Margaret Mead Made Me Gay

Margaret Mead Made Me Gay
Author: Esther Newton
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2000-11-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780822326120

DIVA collection of essays by a pioneering queer anthropologist./div

Let Freedom Sing

Let Freedom Sing
Author: Vanessa Brantley-Newton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781609056841

On benches just for 'colored, ' black folks obeyed the rules. Rosa Parks at the front of the bus, she let her light shine. In the 1950's and 1960's, the struggle for civil rights forever changed the landscape of America. In her debut Blue Apple book, Vanessa Newton candid images illuminate anew the inequality that affected Americans, young and old. With an introduction by Ruby Bridges and text to the tune of "This Little Light of Mine," Newton's rich, mixed-media illustrations create a vivid message of hope.

Not in the House, Newton!

Not in the House, Newton!
Author: Judith Heide Gilliland
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2002-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780618246199

Everything Newton draws with his magic red crayon becomes real, and heeding his mother's admonition he flies the airplane he draws right out the window.

Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton
Author: Tom King
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2017-10-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9781979219945

Isaac Newton is considered one of the most important scientists in history. Even Albert Einstein said that Isaac Newton was the smartest person that ever lived. During his lifetime Newton developed the theory of gravity, the laws of motion (which became the basis for physics), a new type of mathematics called calculus, and made breakthroughs in the area of optics such as the reflecting telescope. In 1687 Newton published his most important work called the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (which means "Mathematical principals of Natural Philosophy"). In this work he described the three laws of motion as well as the law of universal gravity. This work would go down as one of the most important works in the history of science. It not only introduced the theory of gravity, but defined the principals of modern physics. Read the book to learn more about the surprising story of his life and work. "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." - Isaac Newton Buy Now and Read the True Story of Isaac Newton

My Three Best Friends and Me, Zulay

My Three Best Friends and Me, Zulay
Author: Cari Best
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2015-01-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0374388199

"Zulay is a blind girl who longs to be able to run in the race on field and track day at her school"--

Nine Lives Newton

Nine Lives Newton
Author: Alice McKinley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2020-03-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1471181197

'Brimming with charm' –? Benji Davies, creator of The Storm Whale. If Newton's got nine lives, he can be a daring dog of danger! Or can he. . .? Meet Newton – the dog who thinks he has nine lives and infinite luck. And if Newton has nine lives, then that means he can do all his favourite things but be MUCH more daring. But what if Newton's got it all wrong and he's not quite as invincible as he thinks he is?