Sally and the Magical Sneeze

Sally and the Magical Sneeze
Author: Simon Taylor
Publisher: 'The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc'
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2021-07-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1499488645

Sally is home sick, feeling sad and lonely, but one magical sneeze changes everything. Suddenly, a rainbow horse spews from her lips! With each sneeze, a new magical creature appears, from a cow wearing Christmas lights to a bear on a bike. Swept up in this magical moment, Sally doesn’t feel so sick anymore. This comical story is sure to cheer up kids who are feeling sick or lonely, and sends a strong message of the power of imagination. Wacky illustrations bring this unforgettable story of magical sneezes and imagination to life.

Sally and the Magical Sneeze

Sally and the Magical Sneeze
Author: Simon Taylor
Publisher: 'The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc'
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2021-07-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1499488661

Sally is home sick, feeling sad and lonely, but one magical sneeze changes everything. Suddenly, a rainbow horse spews from her lips! With each sneeze, a new magical creature appears, from a cow wearing Christmas lights to a bear on a bike. Swept up in this magical moment, Sally doesn’t feel so sick anymore. This comical story is sure to cheer up kids who are feeling sick or lonely, and sends a strong message of the power of imagination. Wacky illustrations bring this unforgettable story of magical sneezes and imagination to life.

Cosmo and the Magic Sneeze

Cosmo and the Magic Sneeze
Author: Gwyneth Rees
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2008-09-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0330470736

Cosmo is delighted when he passes the special test and becomes a witch-cat, just like his father Mephisto. Now he will be able to ride on broomsticks and help Sybil the witch with her spells - and it's all because of his magic sneeze, the all-important ingredient for Sybil's cauldron. But Cosmo is one clever and curious kitty - and when scary Sybil starts cooking up a secret spell that produces golden statues his hackles are raised. Especially because the statues are in the shape of kittens . . . and look frighteningly ALIVE!

Out of Darkness

Out of Darkness
Author: Ashley Hope Pérez
Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab ®
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2015-09-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1467776785

A Michael L. Printz Honor Book "This is East Texas, and there's lines. Lines you cross, lines you don't cross. That clear?" New London, Texas. 1937. Naomi Vargas and Wash Fuller know about the lines in East Texas as well as anyone. They know the signs that mark them. They know the people who enforce them. But sometimes the attraction between two people is so powerful it breaks through even the most entrenched color lines. And the consequences can be explosive. Ashley Hope Pérez takes the facts of the 1937 New London school explosion—the worst school disaster in American history—as a backdrop for a riveting novel about segregation, love, family, and the forces that destroy people. "[This] layered tale of color lines, love and struggle in an East Texas oil town is a pit-in-the-stomach family drama that goes down like it should, with pain and fascination, like a mix of sugary medicine and artisanal moonshine."—The New York Times Book Review "Pérez deftly weaves [an] unflinchingly intense narrative....A powerful, layered tale of forbidden love in times of unrelenting racism."―starred, Kirkus Reviews "This book presents a range of human nature, from kindness and love to acts of racial and sexual violence. The work resonates with fear, hope, love, and the importance of memory....Set against the backdrop of an actual historical event, Pérez...gives voice to many long-omitted facets of U.S. history."―starred, School Library Journal

You Sound Like a White Girl

You Sound Like a White Girl
Author: Julissa Arce
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2022-03-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 125081281X

AN INDIE BESTSELLER Most Anticipated by ELLE • Bustle • Bloomberg • Kirkus • HipLatina • SheReads • BookPage • The Millions • The Mujerista • Ms. Magazine • and more “Unflinching” —Ms. Magazine • “Phenomenal” —BookRiot • "An essential read" —Kirkus, starred review • "Necessary" —Library Journal • "Powerful" —Joaquin Castro • "Illuminating" —Reyna Grande • "A love letter to our people" —José Olivarez • "I have been waiting for this book all my life" —Paul Ortiz Bestselling author Julissa Arce calls for a celebration of our uniqueness, our origins, our heritage, and the beauty of the differences that make us Americans in this powerful polemic against the myth that assimilation leads to happiness and belonging for immigrants. “You sound like a white girl.” These were the words spoken to Julissa by a high school crush as she struggled to find her place in America. As a brown immigrant from Mexico, assimilation had been demanded of her since the moment she set foot in San Antonio, Texas, in 1994. She’d spent so much time getting rid of her accent so no one could tell English was her second language that in that moment she felt those words—you sound like a white girl?—were a compliment. As a child, she didn’t yet understand that assimilating to “American” culture really meant imitating “white” America—that sounding like a white girl was a racist idea meant to tame her, change her, and make her small. She ran the race, completing each stage, but never quite fit in, until she stopped running altogether. In this dual polemic and manifesto, Julissa dives into and tears apart the lie that assimilation leads to belonging. She combs through history and her own story to break down this myth, arguing that assimilation is a moving finish line designed to keep Black and brown Americans and immigrants chasing racist American ideals. She talks about the Lie of Success, the Lie of Legality, the Lie of Whiteness, and the Lie of English—each promising that if you obtain these things, you will reach acceptance and won’t be an outsider anymore. Julissa deftly argues that these demands leave her and those like her in a purgatory—neither able to secure the power and belonging within whiteness nor find it in the community and cultures whiteness demands immigrants and people of color leave behind. In You Sound Like a White Girl, Julissa offers a bold new promise: Belonging only comes through celebrating yourself, your history, your culture, and everything that makes you uniquely you. Only in turning away from the white gaze can we truly make America beautiful. An America where difference is celebrated, heritage is shared and embraced, and belonging is for everyone. Through unearthing veiled history and reclaiming her own identity, Julissa shows us how to do this.

Charles Dickens as an Agent of Change

Charles Dickens as an Agent of Change
Author: Joachim Frenk
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2019-03-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1501736302

Sixteen scholars from across the globe come together in Charles Dickens as an Agent of Change to show how Dickens was (and still is) the consummate change agent. His works, bursting with restless energy in the Inimitable's protean style, registered and commented on the ongoing changes in the Victorian world while the Victorians' fictional and factional worlds kept (and keep) changing. The essays from notable Dickens scholars—Malcolm Andrews, Matthias Bauer, Joel J. Brattin, Doris Feldmann, Herbert Foltinek, Robert Heaman, Michael Hollington, Bert Hornback, Norbert Lennartz, Chris Louttit, Jerome Meckier, Nancy Aycock Metz, David Paroissien, Christopher Pittard, and Robert Tracy—suggest the many ways in which the notion of change has found entry into and is negotiated in Dickens' works through four aspects: social change, political and ideological change, literary change, and cultural change. An afterword by the late Edgar Rosenberg adds a personal account of how Dickens changed the life of one eminent Dickensian.