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Author | : Bajruzin Hajro Planjac |
Publisher | : Ukiyoto Publishing |
Total Pages | : 123 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9362691973 |
However, literature, as the domain of formative and expressive spirit, has never recognized and will never recognize the limits and restrictions imposed on it from the outside - even if it was represented from the outside by completely legitimate and indisputable experience, knowledge, and even "common sense". An important, perhaps the most important impulse on which it grows is precisely the courage and willingness of the writer to exceed.Bajruzin Hajro Planjac is one of the authors who, in the last two decades, has made his way to the very top of the current production in this field, among the best-selling and most-read writers for children and young people: he has already published about twenty books, some short novels, some collections narrative prose for children and young people, and he wrote about various topics, motives, preoccupations and problems related to the growing up and maturing of boys and girls who are on the way to becoming adults.
Author | : Lauren J. Silver |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2015-02-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1469622602 |
System Kids considers the daily lives of adolescent mothers as they negotiate the child welfare system to meet the needs of their children and themselves. Often categorized as dependent and delinquent, these young women routinely become wards of the state as they move across the legal and social borders of a fragmented urban bureaucracy. Combining critical policy study and ethnography, and drawing on current scholarship as well as her own experience as a welfare program manager, Lauren Silver demonstrates how social welfare "silos" construct the lives of youth as disconnected, reinforcing unforgiving policies and imposing demands on women the system was intended to help. As clients of a supervised independent living program, they are expected to make the transition into independent adulthood, but Silver finds a vast divide between these expectations and the young women's lived reality. Digging beneath the bureaucratic layers of urban America and bringing to light the daily experiences of young mothers and the caseworkers who assist them, System Kids illuminates the ignored work and personal ingenuity of clients and caseworkers alike. Ultimately reflecting on how her own understanding of the young women has changed in the years since she worked in the same social welfare program that is the focus of the book, Silver emphasizes the importance of empathy in research and in the formation of welfare policies.
Author | : Sallie Bingham |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2020-04-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0374711860 |
"Men who inherit great wealth are respected, but women who do the same are ridiculed. In The Silver Swan, Sallie Bingham rescues Doris Duke from this gendered prison and shows us just how brave, rebellious, and creative this unique woman really was, and how her generosity benefits us to this day.” —Gloria Steinem A bold portrait of Doris Duke, the defiant and notorious tobacco heiress who was perhaps the greatest modern woman philanthropist In The Silver Swan, Sallie Bingham chronicles one of the great underexplored lives of the twentieth century and the very archetype of the modern woman. “Don’t touch that girl, she’ll burn your fingers,” FBI director J. Edgar Hoover once said about Doris Duke, the inheritor of James Buchanan Duke’s billion-dollar tobacco fortune. During her lifetime, she would be blamed for scorching many, including her mother and various ex-lovers. She established her first foundation when she was twenty-one; cultivated friendships with the likes of Jackie Kennedy, Imelda Marcos, and Michael Jackson; flaunted interracial relationships; and adopted a thirty-two year-old woman she believed to be the reincarnation of her deceased daughter. This is also the story of the great houses she inhabited, including the classically proportioned limestone mansion on Fifth Avenue, the sprawling Duke Farms in New Jersey, the Gilded Age mansion Rough Point in Newport, Shangri La in Honolulu, and Falcon’s Lair overlooking Beverly Hills. Even though Duke was the subject of constant scrutiny, little beyond the tabloid accounts of her behavior has been publicly known. In 2012, when eight hundred linear feet of her personal papers were made available, Sallie Bingham set out to probe her identity. She found an alluring woman whose life was forged in the Jazz Age, who was not only an early war correspondent but also an environmentalist, a surfer, a collector of Islamic art, a savvy businesswoman who tripled her father’s fortune, and a major philanthropist with wide-ranging passions from dance to historic preservation to human rights. In The Silver Swan, Bingham is especially interested in dissecting the stereotypes that have defined Duke’s story while also confronting the disturbing questions that cleave to her legacy.
Author | : Nona Mock Wyman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2018-12-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780997748413 |
Left by her mother at the Ming Quong Orphanage for Chinese girls in Los Gatos, CA in 1935, two and a half year old Nona was the youngest girl there. This memoir tells the story of Nona's childhood and the lifelong friendships made with her new family.
Author | : Lev Grossman |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2020-09-03 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1526629429 |
'There's nothing so rare as a fantasy that elicits genuine wonder and that uses marvellous things to enrich a child's appreciation of ordinary ones. Lev Grossman's novel The Silver Arrow is something special.' WALL STREET JOURNAL _____________ Discover the magical, timeless children's adventure from Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians. Now a New York Times bestseller! When Kate is given a colossal steam train, the Silver Arrow, for her birthday, she can't believe her luck. After eleven years of waiting, adventure has finally found her! Soon the Silver Arrow is whisking Kate and her brother Tom to a magical station where their passengers stand ready to board. From the porcupine to the pangolin, each one is rare and wonderful. But these animals have been waiting a very long time too. Can Kate deliver them home ... before it's too late? _____________ Lev Grossman's first children's book is a journey you'll never forget: a rip-roaring adventure from desert plains to snow-covered mountains and everything in between. Packed with exciting creatures from the indignant porcupine to the lost polar bear and the adorable baby pangolin, The Silver Arrow is a classic story about saving our endangered animals and the places they live.
Author | : Cliff McNish |
Publisher | : Orion Children's Books |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 2010-12-23 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1444004182 |
Six children leave the comfort of their homes. They are drawn to Coldharbour - an eerie wasteland of wind, rats, seagulls and rubbish tips. Emily and Freda, the twins, scuttle bright eyed and insect-like in search of the others. They find Thomas on a food tip. The gentle giant boy Walter joins them and so does Helen, who can read minds. And at the centre of it all is luminous Milo, his skin hot and bright with silver. Each of them has a unique gift, but they must learn to use their skills fast. Drawing ever closer in a maelstrom of fury is the Roar, something vast and dreadful that wants to destroy them all. As in The Doomspell trilogy, Cliff's characters really are 'the children next door' until they discover the powers they possess and he sweeps them and the reader into his worlds of magical fantasy, writing exciting, breathtaking adventures with richly imagined, vividly drawn characters, and an infectious energy, warmth and humour. The Silver Child is book 1 in a heart-stopping new sequence.
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Publisher | : Workman Publishing |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780761136378 |
Presents a children's book for early readers about a little girl's dream to become the star ballerina in her school's recital and the special present her mother gave her in order to achieve her goal.
Author | : A. J. Lieberman |
Publisher | : Graphix |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Good and evil |
ISBN | : 9780329978419 |
"When a group of orphans discover they have a common connection, plucky heroine Phoebe leads them in a daring escape from their orphanage to an uninhabited moon. But their idyllic paradise is shattered when the powerful corporate boss who caused the deaths of their parents sends a relentless henchman to track them down. Now, with nowhere left to turn and tired of being on the run, these resourceful kids decide there's only one thing left to do: Fight back!"--Publisher's web site.
Author | : Willo Davis Roberts |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2017-10-03 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1534421327 |
“There’s something strange about that kid.” At least that’s what everyone says, but they don’t know the truth. Perfect for fans of Stranger Things, this classic novel continues to enthrall. Katie Welker is used to being alone. She would rather read a book than deal with other people. Other people don’t have silver eyes. Other people can’t make things happen just by thinking about them! But these special powers make Katie unusual, and it’s hard to make friends when you’re unusual. Katie knows that she’s different but she’s never done anything to hurt anyone so why is everyone afraid of her? Maybe there are other kids out there who have the same silver eyes…and the same talents…and maybe they’ll be willing to help her.
Author | : Alice Dalgliesh |
Publisher | : Puffin |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Authors |
ISBN | : 9780140347920 |
Janet uses the special pencil she received from her father to turn her life into stories.