She said, "Don't you know you're not supposed to touch them?" The white boy's mother nodded at my mom and said, "That's right, Mary." That's how I learned I should never touch another white person again. Then my mom came straight across the room, raised her hand, and gave me a backhand slap across my face. My mother saw us, and she saw that the boy's mother was watching. I held my hands up, palms out, and he put his hands up against my hands. The little white boy said, "Let me see, let me see, too." For some reason they all wanted to see my hands. I turned around to see what they were laughing at. Then some older white kids came in through the door and started laughing. I was standing in line at the general store when this little white boy cut in front of me. Jane Addams Children's Book Award Honor BookĬlaudette Colvin: I was about four years old the first time I ever saw what happened when you acted up to whites. YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction FinalistĬPL: Chicago Public Library Best of the Best YALSA Outstanding Books for the College Bound and Lifelong Learners Tennessee Intermediate Volunteer State Book Award Master List New Jersey Garden State Teen Book Award Master List Publishers Weekly Best Children's Books of the Year Vermont Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award Master List
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When Alesa was there, she asked some men on the street what they wanted in life and they all said they wanted to be free and unified in Kurdistan. Having them split among their enemies’ lands made them easier to control. Also, leaders knew the Kurds lived where the world’s major oil resource was. The idea of “divide and conquer” was prevalent in the tactics of leaders like Winston Churchill and others like him, because they knew how much power people like the Kurds had if they united. They are the world’s largest group of people without a country and have been a people since 500 B.C. She explained the origins and demographics of the Kurdish people which started with them spread out among the lands of Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Syria. Her story started with her son asking her a simple question, “if you could do anything, what would you do?” She turned her answer into action and decided to teach abroad in Kurdistan with the Peace Corps. Her book and her presentation were about her time there and the experiences she had with the people there in 2010. This was a talk about Alesa Lightbourne’s experience in Kurdish Iraq where she went there to teach abroad but ended up learning about herself and the new country she was living in. By Abiola A, a student volunteer from San Jose State University A new exhibition looks more closely at what is considered one of the first great masterpieces of American sculpture, focusing not just on the heroic figure of Shaw, but on the anonymous African American figures behind him. Since 1997, the National Gallery of Art has held a version of the Saint-Gaudens memorial, made of plaster coated to look like metal, and created after the bronze monument that stands on the edge of the Boston Common. We know exactly what he looked like from a photograph, showing him seated at a table, with a wispy mustache and one hand draped almost languidly into his lap. Robert Gould Shaw, who led the regiment into a maelstrom of Confederate fire 150 years ago this summer, was Harvard-educated and came from an elite family of Boston abolitionists. The central figure in Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s monument to the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, the first African American troop to fight in the Union army, is a handsome young white man whose uniform is straining at the buttons over his strongly built figure. 5/11/2023 0 Comments Rhapsodic booksThe narrative style complements the plot and increases the book’s overall enjoyability. The scene where Des asks Callie to finish watching the Harry Potter series with him – a hearken back to the early days of their relationship – had me grinning from ear to ear. You can tell that they truly care for one another and enjoy each other’s company. Sexual tension aside, their relationship also has a sweet, endearing side to it. You know that they will end up together it is just a matter of when, which is what keeps you turning the pages. The two have palpable chemistry that jumps off of the pages. The romance between Callie, the protagonist, and Des, the Bargainer and King of the Night, is why you read this book. Nonetheless, it is highly entertaining, owing to its easy-to-read writing and swoon-worthy love interest, who bears a striking resemblance to one of the fantasy genre’s most beloved male characters, Rhysand from the A Court of Thorns and Roses series. It is not the most well-written novel, nor is the plot particularly fleshed out. Rhapsodic is a true guilty pleasure read. TLDR: If you love the A Court of Thorns and Roses series and are looking for another steamy fantasy romance, give this one a try. 5/11/2023 0 Comments The penderwicks book 2It’s no good to say a book is “the next Penderwicks” or “Penderwicks meets ”. Now librarians must wade through the lot of them in the desperate hope that maybe one or two will be worth recommending. Imitators weren’t immediate, but as time has gone by they’ve cropped up like so many unwanted dandelions. Birdsall followed in her predecessors’ footsteps and did something unforgiveable: she made it look easy. Books that are touching a meaningful but never saccharine. Well, the creation of The Penderwicks was a good deed to children across the world in need of great fiction that’s homey and familiar without being cloying. A crime shared, I might add, by books written by authors like Dr. When Jeanne Birdsall’s first middle grade novel The Penderwicks was published in 2005 it committed a crime. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Lost souls book lisa jacksonThe stodgy Catholic university has lured edgy new professor to its campus and gained a reputation for envelope-pushing, with classes like the very popular “The Influence of Vampirism in English Literature” and elaborately staged morality plays that feel more like the titillating entertainment of some underground club than religious spectacles. All Saints has changed a lot since Kristi was an undergraduate. She decides to enroll, following their same steps. The police think they’re runaways, but Kristi senses there’s something that links them, something terrifying. All three were “lost souls”–troubled, vulnerable girls with no one to care about them, no one to come looking if they disappeared. Three girls have disappeared at All Saints College in less than two years. She hasn’t given up her dream of being a true-crime writer–of exploring the darkest recesses of evil–and now she just may get her chance. But if anything, Kristi’s experiences have made her even more fascinated by the mind of the serial killer. Her dad, New Orleans detective, Rick Bentz, wants Kristi to stay in New Orleans and out of danger. Not many people her age have nearly died twice at the hands of a serial killer, and lived to tell about it. Twenty-seven-year-old Kristi Bentz is lucky to be alive. And she can't resist cursing her enemy with the "kiss of hate". Now she has not only one unconscious Jacobite rebel at her mercy, but two. Martha Wantage wears every reason she hates the Scots on her body-in the scars from a violent, fiery attack that killed her family. It's just a matter of time before Jack is turned over to the Crown as a traitor, but Fraser's attempt to rescue his friend is met with the blunt end of a candlestick. But when a kindly English family takes Jack in to be cared for by the governess and healer at their Derbyshire estate, Fraser can only watch helplessly. The Georgian Rebel Series, Book 1 Stranded in the heart of England after Bonnie Prince Charlie's hasty retreat, highlander Fraser Lachlan has sworn to stay by his injured friend's side. A passion that burns away centuries of hate. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Sliding Headfirst by Kristin Lee“Do not dive into a relationship headfirst, it could be a bad decision. “Everything that you do, do not do headfirst, even in a relationship,” Iery said. “So I really got back into it when Keith Prater, who was a high school coach of Lewis county, invited me up to talk to the kids,” Iery said.Įventually starting up The David Iery Foundation, he now travels around the state, speaking to students, changing the way youth athletes view choices and decisions in their lives. Of course, with all that going on, it’s like you feel kind of guilty or ashamed to get back into baseball,” Iery said.īut what baseball took from him, baseball also gave back to him. “I got out of baseball for a little while there. They aren’t healing, there’s no cure for it,” Iery said.Īnd for a long time, Iery had a difficult time getting back into the sport. You don’t want to break your neck because it ain’t going to heal your nerve cells. Now paralyzed from the chest down, he uses his experience to teach students about spinal cord injuries. “I broke my neck playing baseball in high school when I was a senior in 1989 sliding headfirst into home plate,” Iery said. Iery travels around the state talking with students, bringing an awareness to spinal cord awarenessĬertain choices and decisions are what left David Iery with a spinal cord injury at 17 years old.The accident left Iery paralyzed from the chest down. Many African and Africanist historians appear to believe that some African countries would be industrialized today if the Europeans had not come by to disrupt things. French colonial troops attack Africans in Dahomey As we have seen, it was terribly easy for the industrialized European nations to defeat and colonize the agrarian African kingdoms and village confederacies they encountered. It goes without saying that if African polities were industrialized in 1885, colonizing them would have been a far more dangerous and difficult-even impossible-proposition for Europeans than it was. The economically and militarily dominant powers on the planet today are industrialized nation states. The countries they partially or wholly colonized around the world were not. The countries that colonized Africa were industrialized nation states. Were African kingdoms and polities on the road to industrialization before the Europeans came by to disrupt their progress? Were the colonial powers stifling all attempts at industrialization by Africans under their control? These are questions that far too many people imagine have straightforward unimpeachable answers. 5/10/2023 0 Comments 5th book of mortal instrumentsBoth of these stories explore the ideas of found family (the best trope i will not be taking criticism) and family not ending with blood. however, the one redeeming quality was the similarites it had to Bratz: The Movie (2007). also the incest reveal was gross and unnecessary, and i was planning to rate this book 2 stars but it got demoted to 1 simply because of that part. "My best friend is a RAT!" will never fail to make me smile. whenever im sad i like to reread that scene. however i did like simon turning into a rat that was pretty funny. i couldn't stand the two leads, clay and jacey boy, and none of the side characters had bratitude (although Isabelle did have that attitude, so she was my favorite). It wasn't funky and fabulous, and CERTAINLY wasn't rowdy or real. it met my expectations, and i expected it to be pretty bad, so the best thing i can say about it is that I knew what i was getting into. |