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![]() Claudia is particularly preoccupied with solving the mystery of who created this statue. They visit the library to read about Michelangelo, and they examine the statue after the museum has closed. Frankweiler for a few hundred dollars.Ĭlaudia and Jamie begin researching the angel statue. They learn that the curators of the museum suspect that Michelangelo himself may have created the piece, though it was purchased at auction from the collection of a Mrs. ![]() Claudia, immediately taken by its beauty, insists they discover why it’s garnering so much attention. One day, following a sizeable crowd, the children find themselves standing before a small angel statue. During the day, they slip into tour groups and learn more about the museum. They learn how to hide from the guards, sleep on ancient beds and bathe in the fountain. Their petty arguments over grammar and finances begin to fade as they settle into life at the museum. With his carefully-saved allowance and ill-won card-playing money, Jamie bankrolls most of the adventure. They’ll travel to New York City and hide out in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Intelligent and thorough, Claudia makes a detailed plan of their trip. ![]() She chooses 9-year-old Jamie, the wealthiest of her younger brothers, to accompany her. She decides if she runs away, her parents will learn to appreciate her. Claudia Kincaid is tired of the injustices and monotony in her life. ![]() ![]() ![]() As Zoey integrates herself into life at the Dellawisp, we meet her neighbors. Pets aren’t allowed, but no one can see Pigeon. Like the birds, she is curious, tentative and eager to a part of the community. It’s her first time alone, and she wants to reconnect with the memories of her mother, but also experience life at the Dellawisp and is hoping to meet its residence. Zoey is a recent high school graduate who is spending the summer in the condo she inherited from her mother. The author introduces us to the island and Dellawisp along with young Zoey. It’s tucked away beyond the main streets and provides a sanctuary for tiny turquoise birds who flutter about observing the tenants as they go about their day. I loved the island and the Dellawisp, a horseshoe cobblestone building with a courtyard that’s been converted to condos. ![]() ![]() ![]() But other levels involve forgiveness, perseverance, and friendship. So on one level, the book is about the developing relationship between Mariette and Thayne. Thus begins an unlikely romance, and I love that the author did not stop at the culmination of the romance with marriage as too many novels do, but rather had the characters marry early on and then deal with genuine adjustment and communication issues and a major unforeseen change. Not only is Thayne not the right man her mother has planned for Mariette, but he has a shady past, which he says he has put behind him now. Mariette doesn’t know what she wants…until she runs into Thayne Scott, the mail clerk at her father’s factory. Her father wants her to take advantage of the new possibilities open for women and go to college. Her mother wants her to meet and marry the right man (with the right family, right job, right bank account, right connections, etc.). It’s about Mariette Putnam, who has just graduated from boarding school in 1959 and returned to her privileged home in a small Georgia town, where her parents each have different plans for her. ![]() ![]() In some ways it is hard to pin down what This Fine Life by Eva Marie Everson is about, for it had many layers, and each one is rich and deep. ![]() ![]() ![]() After all, Tea Cake was nearly ten years younger than Janie. Surely her husband - they assume she married the man, the guitar-playing, roving Tea Cake - took her money and probably went off with a younger woman. ![]() ![]() How could she have the nerve not to stop and explain why she went off a year and a half ago in a blue satin dress and now she returns in dirty overalls? Janie speaks, acknowledges them, and goes on, and their indignation is great. The women see her as a disaster, but the men see her as still possessing physical attraction. They are astonished to see a bedraggled and weary-looking Janie Starks trudging into town, then turning her face in their direction. The porch sitters are spread out on the front porch of Pheoby and Sam Watson's home, happy to be free of the responsibilities of their long day's labor. ![]() ![]() The aging emperor, who was increasingly mentally unstable, was distrusted by both Catholics and Protestants. ![]() This was very much Rudolf II's (ruled 1576 –1612) fate during the last decade of his reign. The emperor's prerogatives had never been clearly defined a ruler who knew how to exploit his considerable informal powers of patronage could enjoy a great deal of authority, but a weak monarch could easily be reduced to a mere figurehead. The crisis had a constitutional and political as well as a religious dimension. THE CAUSES OF THE WARįor the outbreak of the war the deepening crisis of the Holy Roman Empire was of crucial importance. However, in central Europe, in particular in the Holy Roman Empire, the military and political events of the thirty years between the defenestration of Prague in May 1618 and the signing of the Westphalian peace treaties in October 1648 formed one continuous conflict and were in fact already perceived as such by most contemporaries. If one looks at the Thirty Years' War in a European context, there is some truth in this argument. ![]() Some historians have argued that it was a series of separate wars that happened to overlap in time and space rather than one coherent sequence of military campaigns in which a clearly defined set of issues was at stake throughout. ![]() The Thirty Years' War was one of the greatest and longest armed contests of the early modern period. ![]() ![]() Label A perfect time for pandas, Mary Pope Osborne, (electronic resource) Link Target audience juvenile Transposition and arrangement not applicable Magic tree house series, Merlin missions., #20Īccompanying matter technical information on music Cataloging source TEFOD Osborne, Mary Pope Dewey number Form of composition not applicable Format of music not applicable LC call number PZ7.O81167 LC item number Pe 2012ab Literary text for sound recordings fiction Music parts not applicable PerformerNote Read by the author Series statement Magic tree house.Will it be their easiest adventure yet? Not a chance! Jack and Annie don't know it, but they've arrived on the day of a historic earthquake! Member of The magic tree house whisks them off to a village in the mountains of southeast China, close to a world-famous panda reserve. Language eng Summary Time-traveling brother-and-sister team Jack and Annie have to find a certain kind of food. JUVENILE FICTION - Action & Adventure | General. ![]() ![]() Label A perfect time for pandas Title A perfect time for pandas Statement of responsibility Mary Pope Osborne Creator ![]() ![]() ![]() The illustrations remind us of the connection we have with one another and with all of creation. This is an important children’s book for any library, in that it portrays a Native American child and family beyond the traditional Thanksgiving storybooks. How does the perspective on gender/race/culture/economics/ability make a difference to the story? Sherman Alexie has stated in interviews that he wrote this book to address the need for brown-skinned children in literature. ![]() ![]() For example, the boy wonders that if he was known for touching a wild orca, his name would be, “Not afraid of ten thousand teeth.” The illustrations from Mexican-American artist Yuyi Morales gives voice to Thunder Boy, his family, and the world around him. And the author employs great imagination on Thunder Boy’s part. ![]() Literary elements at work in the story: This lyrical text is expertly crafted, drawing on the rich tradition of names and the meaning of names in the Native American culture. Then, his father, recognizing Thunder Boy’s need, gives him a new name. What follows is an imaginative exploration into who he is and what his name could be. He would prefer a name that reveals who he is, instead of a smaller version of his father, Thunder Boy, Sr. Thunder Boy is a Native-American child who does not like his name. Summary: Sherman Alexie set out to write a children’s book featuring a non-white child. ![]() ![]() The dialogue is beautifully nuanced, and the characters are described in small, telling phrases: Patricia's mother, Ruth, for instance, paddles the canoe "with a bored efficiency." A Handful of Time has the depth and sophistication of an adult novel yet always stays true to the fleeting world of childhood. The complexity of Patricia's adventure is spun through a series of events that seem almost matter-of-fact on the surface, while barely containing time's shimmering elasticity. Patricia and her watch become "ghosts from the future" in a mirror world where the inhabitants of the present are held up to their earlier selves, at once both familiar and strange. Upon winding it, she is stunned to find herself 35 summers in the past, eavesdropping on another 12-year-old-her own mother. During a hot and lonely afternoon, Patricia uncovers an old watch hidden beneath the floorboards. Her cousins, led by the insufferable Kelly, tease her constantly before shunning her altogether. ![]() ![]() Patricia has never met her cousins before, and her shyness and lack of cottage savvy only increase her awkwardness. How miserable can a 12-year-old's summer vacation get? For starters, Patricia's domineering, emotionally distant mother sends her to her cousins' far-off cottage for the summer. ![]() ![]() ![]() I don’t know what it is, but they just make a story so much fun! Holly’s Inbox is another one that seems like it will be a lot of fun. ![]() On top of that, the few friends that have read this, only gave the book 3 stars.īooks with e-mails or texts have become favorites of mine. Adorkable was released in 2012, so I don’t know how easy it would be to find this book. Add a main character that has her own blog and you’ve got me. Part of me still wants to read this book, because this title is just so cute.
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