![]() ![]() As her popularity grows, Steph is forced to make some difficult choices about who and what is truly important to her. Steph does not anticipate Lauren being so angry about her attempt to join the popular crowd or that Jason would be so hurt that she is leaving him behind. She sits with new people at lunch and organizes a talent auction. She is determined to be confident and enthusiastic about school. ![]() The book is full of useful tips, such as "No one likes an arrogant person who lords her supposed superiority over others." She follows the book's advice and begins the school year with flatironed hair and a new attitude. Luckily she finds an old copy of "How to be Popular." Steph has since been content to hang out with her best friend, Jason, but as she enters eleventh grade, she wants more out of high school. Lauren coined the phase "Don't be such a Steph Landry" to ensure she never lived it down. ![]() She has been the target of jokes since sixth grade when she spilled a red soda on Lauren Moffat's white D&G skirt. Steph Landry is tired of being unpopular. She’s got a secret weapon: An old book called-what else?-How to Be Popular.īut don’t forget the most important thing about popularity! Stephs been the least popular girl in her class since a certain. That’s why this year, she has a plan to get in with the It Crowd in no time flat. Do you want to be popularEveryone wants to be popular-or at least, Stephanie Landry does. ![]() Steph’s been the least popular girl in her class since a certain cherry Super Big Gulp catastrophe five years earlier. Everyone wants to be popular-or at least, Stephanie Landry does. ![]()
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Isabel isn't very enthusiastic about doing this, but when she is given the devastating news that Mrs. Lockton, and report anything she hears that might be useful to the Patriots. It isn't long before Isabel meets Curzon, a young slave working for the Patriots, and known for the red tricorn hat he is always seen wearing. The Locktons, who believe their bread is buttered on the side of the Loyalists and King George III, despise the Patriots who want independence from them and everything they stand for. ![]() ![]() Now, as the American Revolution begins, the sisters find themselves in a Loyalist household in New York City at the mercy of a cruel mistress, Mrs. And unlike most slaves at the time, Isabel knows how to read. But Miss Fitch had promised them freedom after her death and Isabel can't get that promise out of her head. Living in Rhode Island, Isabel, 13, and her younger sister Ruth are quickly sold by a greedy nephew for the money they will bring after their somewhat benevolent owner, Miss Fitch, passes away. It takes place during the American Revolution and he time period covered in this first book of a trilogy is M ay 27, 1776 to January 19, 1777. Much of this review was posted on my other blog, The Children's War, as part of a Revolutionary War Reading Challenge a few years ago.Ĭhains is the story of a young slave girl who yearns for freedom. ![]() ![]() ![]() Samantha Gordon's phone number is (972) 293-7558. ![]() Samantha Gordon's address is 1200 Pettigrew Ct, Cedar Hill, Tx, TX 75104. 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Valley Video, owner, 1980-85 Tahoe Truckee Reader, reporter, editor, 1992-96 Northern Nevada Family Magazine, editor, contributor, 2000-02 Juniper Creek Publishing, Inc., Carson City, NV, and Three Leaping Frogs, children's newspaper, publisher. E-mail- CAREER:Īuthor, poet, freelance writer, 1992. Hobbies and other interests: Hiking, biking, skiing, gardening, camping, fishing, and sports. Politics: "Rabid Democrat." Religion: Lutheran. Education: Attended University of California-Santa Barbara. ![]() Born March 26, 1955, in Long Beach, CA daughter of Albert and Valeria Wagner married Jerry Vancelette (divorced) married John Hopkins (a TV news assignment editor), Octochildren: Jaysen Vancelette, Cristal Thetford, Kelly Foutz. ![]() ![]() Homer’s hexameters run from 13 to 18 syllables. Among modern renderings hers is perhaps closest to Robert Fitzgerald’s 1961 version. Wilson returns to strict iambic pentameter. Recent translators have tried to split the difference between Greek and English Stanley Lombardo, Robert Fagles and Stephen Mitchell all use a looser, longer but still five-beat line. ![]() ![]() Chapman and Pope did the poems into rhyming couplets. But most have preferred iambic pentameter, the default meter for English poets. A few translators have tried to fashion an English equivalent Richmond Lattimore was perhaps the most successful. ![]() The “Iliad” and “Odyssey” are composed in a long dactylic line ( tumpety-tumpety-tum) that’s poorly suited to the natural rhythms of English. Norton trumpets it as “the first English translation of the ‘Odyssey’ by a woman.” (Anne Dacier’s French prose version appeared in 1708.) But Wilson’s rendering is remarkable in other ways as well.Īll English translators of Homer face a basic problem. Now we have an excellent new translation of the epic by the British classicist Emily Wilson. September brought us Daniel Mendelsohn’s “An Odyssey,” his memoir of teaching this poem about fathers and sons to a class at Bard College that included his own father. $39.95.ĭismal as it has been in other respects, the fall of 2017 has been good to readers of Homer. ![]() THE ODYSSEY By Homer Translated by Emily Wilson 582 pp. ![]() ![]() ![]() In a speech at Penn State, where he spoke as a part of a Graphic Novel Speaker Series, Yang recalled that both of his parents always told him stories during his childhood. His parents instilled in him a strong work ethic and reinforced their Asian culture. They met at the San Jose State University Library during graduate school. ![]() ![]() He is the child of an electrical engineer from Taiwan and a programmer who grew up in Hong Kong and Taiwan, both of whom emigrated to the United States. Yang believes he was born in either Alameda or Fremont, California. That year he became the third graphic novelist, alongside Lauren Redniss, to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. Library of Congress named him Ambassador for Young People's Literature. In 2012, Yang joined the faculty at Hamline University, as a part of the Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adults (MFAC) program. In addition, he was the Director of Information Services and taught computer science at Bishop O'Dowd High School in Oakland, California. He is a frequent lecturer on the subjects of graphic novels and comics, at comic book conventions and universities, schools, and libraries. Gene Luen Yang (Chinese Traditional: 楊謹倫, Simplified: 杨谨伦, Pinyin: Yáng Jǐnlún born August 9, 1973) is an American cartoonist. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you really want to make us swoon, make him a prince too, or an uber-alpha, or a frigging king. We just want someone who can bench press twice our body weight. You’re going for caveman here, modern women don’t want a partner that can communicate feelings or sympathize with emotions. In every scene that you’re tempted to give him dialogue, instead make him brood over something. Your male lead should be over six feet tall, have dark hair, tattoos and so much testosterone-inflated muscle that he has to walk through doors sideways. It makes it seem more like it's fate when she meets the male lead and less like you’re trying to shove antiquated beliefs down your reader’s throats. I suggest creating a heroine that’s never even been attracted to a man before. Just an FYI, most writers go with a Mary, as the ideal of women remaining virgins until they find “The One” is allegedly still vastly appealing to the masses. This is a female lead that can either be a Mary Sue, a Jerk Sue or a Sympathetic Sue. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His books have reached millions, with the 2011 romance-disaster novel The Mountain Between Us turned into a movie in 2017, featuring major Hollywood stars Idris Elba and Kate Winslet.īut while working on his 2016 fiction book titled Long Way Gone, Martin felt God calling him to use his gifts to “push pause on fiction and tell the story of you and me.” “What if we forgave people who didn't deserve it? What if we forgive people who are currently sinning against us? What if we forgave, and then walked out in the sacrificial love of Jesus? If we did that, I believe the world would look really different.”Ī seasoned writer, Martin has written over 14 novels over the span of his 20-year career. “What if we just forgave everybody, for everything, for all time, the same way Jesus forgives us?’” he said in an interview with The Christian Post. In an increasingly divided society, New York Times bestselling author Charles Martin is challenging Christians to demonstrate Christ-like forgiveness - an act he believes has the power to “turn the world upside-down,” just like the first century believers. | The Bible Panorama/The Holy Scriptures in Picture and Story/Internet Archive Book Images/Wikimedia Commons The Holy Spirit descending upon the apostles. ![]() ![]() Like The Power, Octavia Butler’s The Parable of the Sower is set in our world, but with distinct changes. ‘The Parable of the Sower’ by Octavia Butler ![]() The work of speculative fiction follows detective Gaspery Roberts’ investigation of an anomaly that allows for time travel. John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility –a work of science fiction about simulation theory– “so wise, so graceful, so rich.” Like The Power, The Handmaid’s Tale is also a critique of power, but particularly that which religious leaders weaponize to make women conform to their standards and desires. Boasting its own TV adaptation, the novel follows Offred’s life as a handmaiden in the oppressive Republic of Gilead, where her value is dictated by her ability to conceive a child. ![]() Margaret Atwood’s scathing feminist work is a must-read for fans of The Power. If we’ve missed any you think should be included, let us know in the comments below! Here, we’ve gathered 10 books like The Power. If you’ve read Alderman’s book, you may be interested in picking up more like it. The Power ’s premise is that teenage girls across the world start developing mysterious new powers of electricity, causing a patriarchal world to scramble to adapt. The novel made waves when it was published in 2016 for its biting feminist critique of gender discrimination and hierarchical social structures. ![]() The Power, although now a Prime Video drama series, was first a book by Naomi Alderman. ![]() |