![]() Help your students build their background knowledge of 9 famous structures illustrated in the story, Iggy Peck, Architect. It could be utilized by SLPs, teachers, parents, ELL teachers, for enrichment of younger students, as supportive learning for older students struggling with reading and language skills, during summer book clubs. (There are a range of leveled materials and target concepts to make the story accessible and fun for a variety of ages and needs). I am using it with my speech/language pull-out and co-teaching groups across grade levels. This packet is jammed and crammed with opportunities to increase language skills. Use the TpT Digital Activity feature to include text boxes for directions and student responses on the remaining materials found in the downloadable pdf. One the second page labeled "contents" click on the green button to access google slides with movable pieces to allow for more interaction with the content during remote learning for: ![]() ***UPDATED FOR DISTANCE LEARNING TO ADD MOVABLE PIECES*** ![]() Speech & Language Book Companion: Iggy Peck, Architect ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in a stylish apartment in the city, going out with friends, and keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart. They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. ![]() Named One of the Hottest Reads of Summer 2022 by Today ∙ Parade ∙ PopSugar ∙ USA Today ∙ SheReads ∙ BuzzFeed ∙ BookBub ∙ Bustle ∙and more! "A radiant debut." - Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers ![]() ![]() ![]() Assigning source Provided by publisher Awards note Tayshas Reading Commended, 2016. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution"- Member ofĪward YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2016. Language eng Summary "Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. ![]() Brothers and sisters - Juvenile fiction. ![]() ![]() – Matthew Sullivan, author of Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore A thoroughly enjoyable read, kind-hearted and brimming with delightful bookish allusions.” It shows how literature can be a means of escape, a catalyst for human connection, and a moral center in grim times. “The Paris Library is a refreshing novel that celebrates libraries as cradles of community, especially when we need them the most. – Fiona Davis, national bestselling author of The Chelsea Girls Meticulously researched, The Paris Library is an irresistible, compelling read.” I fell in love with Odile and Lily, with their struggles and triumphs, from the very first page. ![]() ![]() ![]() “A fresh take on WWII France that will appeal to bibliophiles everywhere. – Tatiana de Rosnay, New York Times bestselling author of Sarah's Key “As a Parisian, an ardent bookworm, and a longtime fan of the American Library in Paris, I devoured The Paris Library in one hungry gulp. It is charming and moving, with a perfect balance between history and fiction.” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It appears she's been murdered, mere weeks before the trial in her $100 million lawsuit against her former financial manager, and Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta doubts it's a coincidence. It deals with the murder, of a young girl, which bears peculiar resemblance to numerous preceding deaths and puts the female protagonist, Dr Kay Scarpetta to stare in the face of what could possibly be a deep-seated, high-profile bureaucrat conspiracy and a plot which risks her own life at the mercy of a psychopathic serial killer.Ī body, oddly draped in an unusual cloth, has just been discovered inside the sheltered gates of MIT, and it's suspected the identity is that of missing computer engineering grad student Gail Shipton, last seen the night before at a trendy Cambridge bar. Dust is a 2013 crime novel written by crime author Patricia Cornwell, her 21st book by chronological order in the Kay Scarpetta series. ![]() ![]() ![]() I've read a few YA dystopians where rape came into play, but I have never encountered the subject treated as cavalier by an author and the main character. Enclave is a YA dystopian novel about an incredibly dark world. ![]() All that keeps ringing in my mind when I look at the cover of this book are quotes from the main character on the subject of rape. Generally, following the timeline of the book makes for a better review, but since I am so utterly horrified by the last third of the book I can't stomach talking about things like sewer systems, night vision, bad name choices, and human nature. I thought for a little bit about how to review this book, if I should go over all the weird mistakes and struggles with the world building chronologically or if I should just jump in at what bothered me most and work backwards. ![]() ![]() ![]() When the girls weren’t saying hateful things to each other (which was often, ‘You’re perfectly beastly!’), they were orchestrating midnight feasts, putting on pantomimes, playing lacrosse and generally having a jolly good time. Every September Darrell and Sally and all their school chums would bundle into their daddies’ cars and trundle down to the Cornish seaside for another spiffing year at Malory Towers. How boarding school was MEANT to be, (take note St. Here’s the Enid Blyton books you need to revisit to reclaim your book wormus excellence… READ MORE: Harry Styles* Fanfiction To Become Actual Film ![]() Thanks internet!īut with the news that Sam Mendes is directing a big screen adaption of The Magic Faraway Tree (about time too it’s only 69 years old), we started reminiscing about what it was like to choose to be a bookworm the whole going to bed early to read, staying up under the covers with a torch and ignoring all the scenery on your family holidays just to find out what hilarious hijinks the Famous Five had got up to this time. Which is weird, because now you struggle to even read the title of a book without giving up for an episode of The Good Wife and a long old nap. Hands up if you were the nerd that spent your weekends reading books instead of playing with your friends when you were a kid. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fierce Femmes was her first published book and first long-form piece of fiction she did not initially intend for it to be read by others, and aimed to write the book she would have most appreciated reading as a teenager. ![]() She came out as a transgender woman as a teenager. It experienced a resurgence of attention when Emma Watson chose it for her feminist book club, Our Shared Shelf, in 2019. ![]() The novel garnered critical praise and was a finalist for Transgender Fiction at the 29th Lambda Literary Awards. Two metaphors, those of killer bees living inside her and a Ghost Friend which can make her orgasm, represent after-effects of traumatic abuse. Characters are based on people from her life, as are plot points, but they are exaggerated and made surrealist. Thom aimed not to write a traditional transgender memoir targeted at explaining transgender issues to cisgender people, but to write the book that would have helped her as a transgender teenager. After one of them is killed, others form a gang and begin to attack men on the street. A surrealist novel, it follows an unnamed transgender woman protagonist who leaves home at a young age to live on the Street of Miracles-where various sex work takes place-with other " femmes" (trans women). Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir is a 2016 Canadian book by Kai Cheng Thom. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() Exhaustively researched, frighteningly convincing. The book inspires readers to look beneath the surface of our food system, consider its impact on society and, most of all, think for themselves. Fast Food Nation is as relevant today as it was a decade ago. In a new afterword for this edition, Schlosser discusses the growing interest in local and organic food, the continued exploitation of poor workers by the food industry, and the need to ensure that every American has access to good, healthy, affordable food. ![]() The book changed the way millions of people think about what they eat and helped to launch today’s food movement. Eric Schlosser’s exposé revealed how the fast food industry has altered the landscape of America, widened the gap between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and transformed food production throughout the world. In 2001, Fast Food Nation was published to critical acclaim and became an international bestseller. ![]() Fast Food Nation points the way but, to resurrect an old fast food slogan, the choice is yours.”- Los Angeles Times “Schlosser has a flair for dazzling scene-setting and an arsenal of startling facts. ![]() |