Take one sheet of construction paper and cut it in half. Glue several of these in a cluster to form a flower. Glue the paper onto construction paper at the center. Have the kids put a pencil in the center of a square, then pull the paper up around the pencil. Volunteers cut small squares of tissue paper. Can you match the names with the kind of flowers?Īre flowers involved in any celebrations in your family? Ĭut different flowers out of construction paper. In the story, several kinds of flowers are mentioned. In the pictures, what different shapes or colors of flowers do you see? Where do you go with your mom or dad together? Do you go shopping with them? Where? What do you shop for? What do you do for your mother on special days like Mother’s Day or her birthday?ĭo you have a flower garden at your house or nearby or at your school? What kinds of flowers or plants can you identify?ĭiscussion topics for during/after reading: Rhyming verse carries the brief story, while wonderful, warm, full-color illustrations present scenes from novel angles, and depict a loving family with a sense of intimacy, sincerity, and joy. An urban African-American girl and her father buy plants, potting soil, and a window box at the supermarket, ride the bus to their apartment, and put together a colorful gift for the child's mother. Grade Level: 1st (GLCs: Click here for grade level guidelines.)įrom School Library Journal: A comforting, richly illustrated story about a birthday surprise. 158 kids attended our April clubs! Click here to see who volunteered.
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Mountbatten’s tactics included urging the Maharaja to refrain from making a decision until the situation was a little clearer, and to err on the side of caution and sign Standstill Agreements with both India and Pakistan. He would later say that his sole motive in Kashmir had always been to persuade Hari Singh that it was his choice that would determine the future of Kashmir. Kashmir, wrote Nehru was, “of the first importance to India as a whole, not only because of the past year’s occurrences there, which have drawn attention to it, but also because of the great strategic importance of that frontier state.” Just what Mountbatten felt on the issue, nobody will ever know, given the former Viceroy’s gift of the garble. The note made a strong case for Sheikh Abdullah’s popularity in Kashmir and Prime Minister Kak’s corruption, which had over the months, isolated and terrified the Maharaja. The second letter-which is not mentioned by VP, but which most certainly was received by the Viceroy-was a long and elaborate note by Nehru. The gist of his screed appeared to be that British policy was now shifting focus to Pakistan, which (via the accession of Kashmir) could be developed as an eastern frontier of a British sphere of influence in the Middle East. One was a confused and rambling note from Krishna Menon, who insisted that Jammu and Kashmir had to be part of Indian territory. What Mountbatten actually said has never been made fully clear, but before the Viceroy departed from Delhi, he was the recipient of two letters. sure, loads of them are still silly and forgettable, but there are also complete gems of books out there for stronger, smarter teen readers looking to be exposed to something new, something challenging.Īnd this book delivers that with a brainpunch i'm still feeling. and when i finally came around on the contemporary YA fiction bandwagon, i was impressed with both the variety of topics and treatment of those topics and most importantly, the range of sophistication of the writing itself. they were either morally-didactic or cheesy horror-mysteries with very little intellectual fiber. when i was a teen, YA novels were largely disposable, empty-calorie entertainment trifles meant to keep us off the streets, off drugs, and not full of babies. YA has been breaking free of its presumed confines for years. i've lost half of you book snobs right there. Patrick ness has written a game-changer that i'm not even really sure how to approach. This book treated me like a dog treats a ragdoll. Luckily for us, Lizzie kept a secret diary. Suddenly Lizzie - who always considered herself a fairly normal young woman - was a public figure. When rich, handsome Bing Lee comes to town, along with his stuck-up friend William Darcy, things really start to get interesting for the Bennets - and for Lizzie’s viewers. What may have started as her grad student thesis grew into so much more, as the videos came to inform and reflect her life and that of her sisters. The Lizzie Bennet Diaries chronicled Lizzie’s life as a 24-year-old grad student, struggling under a mountain of student loans and living at home with her two sisters - beautiful Jane and reckless Lydia. Lizzie Bennet should know, having become a YouTube sensation over the course of her year-long video diary project. There is a great deal that goes into making a video blog. A modern adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice based on the Emmy Award-winning phenomenon, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. The basic premise: a college student, Joe, needs to write a biography about anyone of his choosing and he just so happens to choose a convicted murderer living in a nursing home and dying of cancer. The fascinating aspect of this book is its simplicity. Trust me, this is one you won't want to put down. It's been a while since a book has had me so engrossed and completely captured within its pages. Not because it was short, but because it was absolutely incredible. I read this book in just under four hours - no kidding. Will Joe discover the truth before it’s too late to escape the fallout? But as he and Lila dig deeper into the circumstances of the crime, the stakes grow higher. Thread by thread, Joe unravels the tapestry of Carl’s conviction. With only a few months to live, he has been medically paroled to a nursing home, after spending thirty years in prison for the crimes of rape and murder. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same.Ĭarl is a dying Vietnam veteran-and a convicted murderer. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. Before long, she's infiltrated his work, his kitchen - and his spare bedroom. Now his arm is broken, his B&B is understaffed, and the dangerously unpredictable Eve is fluttering around, trying to help. Then she hits him with her car - supposedly by accident. The uptight B&B owner expects nothing less than perfection from his employees, so when a purple-haired tornado of a woman applies for his open chef position, he tells her the brutal truth: not a chance in hell. It's time for Eve to grow up and prove herself - even though she's not entirely sure how. But when her personal brand of chaos ruins a wedding, her parents draw the line. No matter how hard she strives to do right, her life always goes horribly wrong - so she's given up trying. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Įve Brown is a certified hot mess. No matter how hard she strives to do right, her life always goes horribly wr. Perfect for fans of Sally Thorne, Jasmine Guillory and Helen Hoang!Įve Brown is a certified hot mess. In New York Times bestselling author Talia Hibbert's newest romcom, the flightiest Brown sister crashes into the life of an uptight B&B owner and has him falling hard - literally. 'Talia Hibbert is a rockstar! 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Having centered her life on her husband and child, her daughter’s definition of family is not one she can accept. Ideally, a steady income and, most importantly, a good husband with whom to start a family.īut when Green turns up with her long-term girlfriend in tow, her mother is enraged and unwilling to welcome their relationship into her home. When a widowed, aging mother allows Green, her thirty-something daughter, to move into her apartment, all she wants for her is a stable and quiet existence like her own. Prize-winning Korean author Kim Hye-Jin’s debut confronts familial love, duty, mortality, and generational schism through the incendiary gaze of a tradition-bound mother faced with her daughter’s queer relationship. He made fundamental contributions to the current understanding of metabolism at a molecular level. Urn:lcp:lehningerprincip00lehn_0:lcpdf:629f0331-d836-4e9f-8d16-9e2379bc3c67 Albert Lester Lehninger (Febru March 4, 1986) was an American biochemist in the field of bioenergetics. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:54:43 Boxid IA161607 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorīurlingamepubliclibrary Edition 4th ed. Second book of the A Song of Ice and Fire series. For when kings clash, the whole land trembles. New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, 1999. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside. It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. They travel the world looking for support to ultimately seize the throne of the faction for which they are claimant. Just like the original Warband (not entirely verified) there is one claimant per faction that resides in a foreign court. And from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. In ACOK 1.4, there are several claimants to the thrones of Westeros and Essos. A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. A Clash of Kings transports us to a world of revelry and revenge, wizardry and warfare unlike any we have ever experienced. Martin has created a work of unsurpassed vision, power, and imagination. 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