![]() ![]() Max and Jordan bond over prickly pears, frozen lemonade, and chicken in the nearly unbearable Mesa, Arizona summer heat. Though Jordan and Max may seem very different, both are working through understanding their sexuality and carrying some heavy secrets. After he witnesses Jordan’s mom go into complete emotional meltdown (because they are clueless about how to run a food truck), Max offers to help them. ![]() Max just so happens to stop by Jordan’s food truck on the first day he and his mom have hatched a plan to bring them out of financial ruin, caused by his widowed mother’s addiction to gambling. He is very in touch with his feminine side and feels most comfortable around his two female BFFs, who he refers to as his wives. Jordan is a skinny white poet who is in a co-dependent relationship with his emotionally unstable mother. He’s tough, like his dad expects him to be, and won’t let anything get to him. Max is an athletic, half white/half Latino dude bro who is in the closet about his sexuality with his classmates and buds. ![]() Max and Jordan couldn’t be more different on the outside. Today we are featuring THE MUSIC OF WHAT HAPPENS by Bill Konigsberg! Welcome to Windows & Mirrors, where we feature books that provide us windows to lives outside our own and mirrors to our shared common human experiences. ![]()
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![]() The young woman lives alone, never receives visitors, and wanders around outside at night, which seems innocent enough, but this attracts Fountain’s interest. Fountain is renting a house in the French Riviera while she writes her latest manuscript when a young woman moves in next door. The story opens simply enough with Molly Fountain, a mystery novelist who had served as a secretary in British intelligence circles during the war, wondering who her mysterious new neighbor is. Though it doesn’t involve any of the protagonists of his earlier Black Magic novel (THE DEVIL RIDES OUT), TO THE DEVIL, A DAUGHTER is explicitly set in the same setting, with some of the events of RIDES OUT briefly alluded to in DAUGHTER. TO THE DEVIL, A DAUGHTER is one of Wheatley’s “Black Magic” novels (one of eleven out of his 60+ novels) recently reprinted by Bloomsbury. Long before William Peter Blatty’s THE EXORCIST ushered in a new-found fascination with the Devil, Satanism, and all things occult in the 1970s, Dennis Wheatley was penning occult thrillers that attracted readers by titillating them with tales of Satanic cults committing unspeakable acts in service of the Devil. ![]() ![]() Well, your two levels away from going to f, which is EVEN HARDER. ![]() G-Rate: The student's.What is level d on reading plus? Wiki User. Teachers can easily understand their students’ unique. The Screening Report groups students by instructional needs to determine which students need comprehension, vocabulary, and/or silent reading rate development support. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools.Assessment data informs placement within assigned instructional components as well as recommended instructional intensity. I love that the passages are expository and cover grade-level topics. Buy Oxford Reading Tree: Stages 6 & 7: Storybooks: The Red Planet by Hunt, Roderick, Brychta, Alex (ISBN: 9780198465751) from Amazon's Book Store.Reading Plus Answers Level J The daily use of Read Naturally has made ALL of my students improve in reading fluency, comprehension, and writing. Reading Plus provides five levels of high-interest, low-readability selections that are available to students in grades six and higher who are reading on a first-grade through fifth-grade. ![]() The reader’s Lexile Framework works in intervals of five with 5L being the lowest. ![]() ![]() The higher the Lexile measure, the higher the student’s reading level. Reading plus level d The Lexile level will always be shown as a number with an “L” after it - for example 770L = 770 Lexile. ![]() ![]() He took part in the Hamburg Massacre (July 8, 1876), in which rifle club members (known thereafter as “Red Shirts”) besieged a black militia unit, took many prisoners, and selected several militia men and local black officials from among them. During Reconstruction, he joined former slaveholders and ex-Confederate officers and soldiers in the rifle club movement, which threatened and assaulted South Carolina’s Republican officials and their black and white supporters. After the war, he supervised former slaves as agricultural laborers in Florida and South Carolina. Throughout that career, Tillman sought to reshape the post– Civil War nation by limiting the political and social freedoms of African Americans and those of any whites who challenged those limits.Īn illness during the Civil War kept Tillman out of the Confederate military and cost him his left eye. ![]() He served with a murderous paramilitary unit, agitated for agricultural reform, and was elected to two terms as South Carolina’s governor and four terms as a U.S. Benjamin Ryan (“Pitchfork Ben”) Tillman was born into a wealthy slaveholding family in the plantation district of Edge-field, South Carolina, on August 11, 1847. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Book request titles must contain details about the kind of book you’re looking for.Inflammatory titles like Does Anyone Else, Unpopular Opinion, or similar are not allowed.Gush and critique posts should contain the book title/author if applicable. Reviews and screenshots of book excerpts must contain the book title/author in the post title.Book request titles must contain details about the kind of book you’re looking for and/or keywords that will inform future searches.Rules Post titles must be clear and informative For updated information regarding ongoing community features includings upcoming AMAs, please visit 'new' Reddit. Resource links will direct you to Wiki pages, which we are maintaining. Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with informative links about Book Clubs, AMAs, etc. ![]() Home of the magic search button and endless book recommendations as well as discussions about tropes and characters, Author AMAs, book clubs, and more. R/RomanceBooks is a discussion sub for readers of romance novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Astrid also starts to notice she has powers no Outsider should-which could help her win the race, but also make her a target if anyone finds out. Though they team up in the race, as Astrid’s memories begin to resurface, she remembers just who he was to her-a scorned foe who may want revenge. One of them is Darius, a fellow racer Astrid meets but isn’t sure she can trust. ![]() With a dying father to think of, Astrid is desperate to prevail.įrom the beginning, the race is filled with twists and turns. But winning would mean not only freedom for Astrid, but citizenship and health care for her entire family. It’s not as simple as solving a puzzle, however-for a majority of the contestants, the race ends in death. To enter the race, an Outsider is administered the drug Oblivion, which wipes their memory clear of their past as they enter a new world with nothing to help them but a slip of paper bearing their name and the first clue. Astrid has no choice-she and her family are Outsiders, the lower class of people without magic and without citizenship.īut there is a way out of this life-competing in the deadly Race of Oblivion. ![]() Astrid is the surrogate for Princess Renya, which means she bears the physical punishment if Renya steps out of line. ![]() ![]() ![]() In later life her legal work centered on families in emotional and financial crisis. ![]() She has a Blog on her website, Her present book, coming out July 18, 2023, Framing a Life: Building the Space To Be Me, published by She Writes Press, a narrative non-fiction memoir, is about how, at 39-years old, and being a city woman who barely used a hammer, she set out alone to build the home of her dreams in the Maine woods, designing and helping build it.Īs a child living in an orphanage she dreamed of being Superman’s daughter flying above earth to save the world’s disenfranchised children, or being the Pied Piper leading the other kids back to their family homes. Another essay, Musings on the Word Atonement, was published in the anthology Art in the Time of Unbearable Crisis: Women Writers Respond to the Call, published June 2022. A story she wrote, called Unearthing Home was published in the Spring 2020 issue of the Yellow Arrow Publishing Journal. ![]() ![]() The name was inspired by Charlotte Joko Beck’s book Nothing Special, Living Zen. Her book is about how we look at life: the glass half empty or half full. She has published Everything Special, Living Joy, prose and poems to inspire. Roberta Kuriloff is a writer, author, speaker, community activist and former attorney. ![]() ![]() ![]() But racism against Indians requires her to have a white sponsor to hold her monies. The police aren’t real concerned about a hundred year old murder case, but Rowan is.ġ920s Will is white enough to attend the white school, but his detractors call him “half-breed.” His Osage mother has oil rights to Maple Ridge plus she’s inherited 2 other portions. That’s the background story.Īlternating voices take us back to Rowan who slips a mildewed wallet from a scrap of pocket off the skeleton before her mother calls the police. If you know your race riot history, you know Memorial Day weekend began the worst race riot of the nation, when white people burned 35 blocks of black Greenwood. In 1921, Greenwood was the wealthiest black neighborhood in the nation. In defense, Clarence pushes Will who falls and breaks his wrist. ![]() His manly pride injured, Will goes racist haywire on the black man, Clarence. It’s Prohibition, which doesn’t stop anyone from drinking, and Will is stumbling drunk. ![]() Sincere and ignorant Will sees Addie at a speakeasy with a handsome young black man. Will Tillman, 17, son of a white shop-owner and full-blooded Osage Indian mother, is in love with Addie, the prettiest girl at school, in 1921 Tulsa. ![]() Rowan Chase, 17, the daughter of a white oil magnate father and a black lawyer mother finds a skeleton under the floorboards in the “back house” of her spiffy Greenwood area Tulsa home in “Dreamland Burning” (Little Brown 2017) by Tulsa resident Jennifer Latham. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She’s cracked something with Mamo’s character development arc. It also just could be because Mamo takes place in a tranquil, patient setting-even when there’s danger, it’s slow-moving (or gives the appearance of slow-moving because moths aren’t fast until you’re trying to save one from a cat)-but I think it’s Milledge. Or maybe the artists never manage to pull it off because there’s a history of how reaction shots work in comics, and Milledge eschews it for something different. It’s filmic in a way comics, even talking head comics, rarely attempt. Milledge’s other pacing devices are expert, but this particular one seems singular. At least for her character’s “performances.” Throughout the issue (and never concurrently), protagonists Orla and Jo have these reaction shots where Milledge has just paced it so perfectly their emotions come alive. With each issue of Mamo, I consider starting by saying there’s no one like creator Sas Milledge in terms of visual pacing. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gods and Generals is a “personalized historical novel”. ![]() I just know that the story he created here in Gods and Generals is very good. It’s been too long since reading The Killer Angels for me to judge. I have read that he doesn’t quite write with the prose that his dad did. Well, I think writing is in the family genes. In actuality the idea for those two books came from the publishers. I had just assumed it was Jeff’s idea to continue his dad’s work, creating the two books that would sandwich his dad’s novel. Shaara didn’t get to realize this, but his son did. The recognition finally came when the movie Gettysburg, based on the book, was released in 1993. That’s sad to me, because it is such a good book. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1975, it did not receive the public recognition it deserved until after Michael Shaara’s death at age 50. ![]() Let me first talk about The Killer Angels. Without that great book, there would be no Gods and Generals, or the many other books Jeff has written since this first one. For those who may not know, Jeff Shaara is the son of Michael Shaara who wrote The Killer Angels. ![]() |