With this support buoying her, Ellie might finally be able to cast aside the Fat Girl Rules and starfish in real life-by unapologetically being her own fabulous self. Then students use the same format to create an iceberg that represents themselves and their own identity. To cope, she tries to live by the Fat Girl Rules like no making waves, avoid eating in public, and don’t move so fast that your body jiggles. After reading the book ‘Starfish’ by Lisa Fipps, an eighth-grade student created this iceberg to represent the main character, Ellie. Fortunately, Ellie has allies in her dad, her therapist, and her new neighbor, Catalina, who loves Ellie for who she is. Starfish by Author Lisa Fipps: A Verse Novel for Grades 5-8 Starfish Ever since Ellie wore a whale swimsuit and made a big splash at her fifth birthday party, she’s been bullied about her weight. It's also where she can get away from her pushy mom, who thinks criticizing Ellie's weight will motivate her to diet. In the water, she can stretch herself out like a starfish and take up all the room she wants. To cope, she tries to live by the Fat Girl Rules-like "no making waves," "avoid eating in public," and "don't move so fast that your body jiggles." And she's found her safe space-her swimming pool-where she feels weightless in a fat-obsessed world. Ellie is tired of being fat-shamed and does something about it in this poignant debut novel-in-verse.Įver since Ellie wore a whale swimsuit and made a big splash at her fifth birthday party, she's been bullied about her weight.
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I wondered if this book would be a good stretch read for her or if the content would get too dark or too intense. She loves magical and danger-filled fantasies where a kid or teen has a quest to complete that will save the world. The problem is finding YA books with a more middle-grade sensibility.or at least that don't cross into too many older teen themes like hyper image obsession, intense sexual desire, alcohol, and bloody violence. I have an 11 year old whose main hobby has always been reading, and as a result she wants challenging YA books. In case it helps other parents, here's a little personal context. The world Tomi Adeyemi builds has depths of danger, resistance, power, fear, and wonder that are rare and make a magical and loosely-real place feel completely alive. This book and author are gems for young adult literature. Achilles decides to defy the gods by mutilating Hector’s corpse, but every night, the gods restore his body as if it had never been violated. To avenge Patroclus' death, Achilles kills Hector, and as Hector is dying, he predicts that Achilles will soon be dead as well. He had decided to withdraw from the battle, after Agamemnon, the leader of the Greeks, decided to take Achilles’ slave. He also thinks of his son, Neoptolemus, and of his fallen close friend, Patroclus.Īchilles feels responsible for his friend's death because Patroclus was killed by Hector when Achilles wasn't in the battle to protect him. The narrative opens in medias res: after ten long, grueling years of combat against the city of Troy, Achilles is enjoying a moment alone on the beach, and his thoughts turn to his mother, a goddess of the sea. Ransom is a modern adaptation of Homer's Iliad, which is the story of the last year of the mythical Trojan war. When problems start causing her to fear her new life, and memories that are better left forgotten start rushing to the surface the last thing she needs is a ghost from her past to come knocking on her door.Īxel never thought he would look into the eyes of Isabelle West again, and he wasn’t sure he wanted to now. All she has to do is jump over the last hurdle…her ex-husband. She has a thriving business, great friends, and her life back. One thing Isabelle knew for sure fate was consistent with was taking away everything she ever loved.įor the last two years Isabelle has been slowly clearing the clouds of her past. It can hand you dreams on silver platters, but it can snatch them right back and hand you nightmares. Isabelle has learned the hard way how hard life can be when fate isn’t by your side. In fact, fate has been a downright bitch. Fate hasn’t always been friends with Isabelle West. Most leaves and stalks are arranged across opposite sides of the stem. Their often quadrangular stems are unbranched or branched, erect, ascending or spreading. The perennial species have underground rhizomes. They can reach, depending on the type, location and nutrient status, a height of 10–300 centimetres (3.9–118.1 in). Urtica species grow as annuals or perennial herbaceous plants, rarely shrubs. The generic name Urtica derives from the Latin for sting. Urtica species are food for the caterpillars of numerous Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), such as the tortrix moth Syricoris lacunana and several Nymphalidae, such as Vanessa atalanta, one of the red admiral butterflies. Many species have stinging hairs and may be called nettles or stinging nettles, although the latter name applies particularly to Urtica dioica. Urtica is a genus of flowering plants in the family Urticaceae. This award is presented "to an openly lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender individual who has made a significant difference in promoting equal rights for any of those communities". In 2003, Clive Barker received The Davidson/Valentini Award at the 15th GLAAD Media Awards. Barker's second long-term relationship, with photographer David Armstrong, ended in 2009. It was in Liverpool in 1975 that he met his first partner, John Gregson, with whom he lived until 1986. Educated at Dovedale Primary School and Quarry Bank High School, he studied English and Philosophy at Liverpool University and his picture now hangs in the entrance hallway to the Philosophy Department. Clive Barker was born in Liverpool, England, the son of Joan Rubie (née Revill), a painter and school welfare officer, and Leonard Barker, a personnel director for an industrial relations firm. You may also opt to downgrade to Standard Digital, a robust journalistic offering that fulfils many user’s needs. 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She fixates on him and when he is eventually hers, she becomes one of those girlfriends where their boyfriends are their life. She treats people like they're minions and her one goal in life is to be with Stefan. Granted, I am not a huge fan of her on the show, but I hate her even more in the book. One character I just cannot get over is Elena. For starters, the characters aren't even the same people as the show and when I mean they aren't the same, I mean names, descriptions, and personalities. Usually I read the book before the adaption, but I decided to make an exception since I love this tv show so much. Recently, I discovered the show was loosely based off a book series. I recently was introduced to it by my friend and I have been binge watching it for months. Now "The Vampire Diaries" is one of my favorite tv shows. Jeanette Winterson, quote from Lighthousekeeping Names are still magic even Sharon, Karen, Darren, and Warren are magic to somebody somewhere. Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1st Harvest ed. Jeanette Winterson, quote from Lighthousekeeping I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson (Harcourt 23) ApIn her sea-soaked and hypnotic eighth novel, Winterson turns the tale of an orphaned young girl and a blind old man into a. She later published Lighthousekeeping (2004), an exploration of the nature of. Catherine’s College, Oxford, and held various jobs while working on her writing. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:43:08 Boxid IA179301 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Orlando, Fla. Jeanette Winterson, (born August 27, 1959, Manchester, England), British writer noted for her quirky, unconventional, and often comic novels. The memoir is formatted in fragments, or excerpts: memories, conversations, and events which add up to a cohesive (and largely chronological) whole. Vanasco obsesses over details, events, conversations-are they remembered correctly? Do they help demonstrate who her father was? What emerges in her attempts to answer these questions is not only a rich portrait of a flawed man who meant the world to his youngest daughter, but a rich portrait of her own humanity. The book isn’t plot driven it doesn’t try to create a single, simple, chronological narrative. “Describing my dad through the metaphor of his eye comes easy encapsulating him in plain language feels impossible.” The title alludes to her father’s “glass” eye, which she only fixated on after he died. How does she grieve over this tremendous loss? How does she encompass his life story (and hers) in a book? Vanasco acutely and poignantly maps her struggle with the process of writing the book as well as the struggles which make up its content. It is, foremost, a memoir, documenting the life and death of Jeannie’s beloved father through the lens of Jeannie herself. Over the next ten years, Jeannie Vanasco attempted to fulfill that promise: numerous attempts to write about her father, all called The Glass Eye, followed this powerful book is the culmination of that project. “The night before he died, I promised my dad I would write a book for him.” |