Students can use these cards to match the cause and effect relationships from the story. An ALA Notable Book, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is a great antidote to bad days everywhere, sure to put a smile on even the crabbiest of faces. Justine Greenlee Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day Cause and Effect Cards This product can be used in whole group, small group, or in a literacy center. Our hero's gum-styled hair and peevish countenance are artfully depicted by Ray Cruz's illustrations. Judith Viorst flawlessly and humorously captures a child's testy temperament, rendering Alexander sympathetic rather than whiny. He resolves several times to move to Australia. As Alexander's day progresses, he faces a barrage of bummers worthy of a country- western song: getting smushed in the middle seat of the car, a dessertless lunch sack, a cavity at the dentist's office, stripeless sneakers, witnessing kissing on television, and being forced to sleep in railroad-train pajamas. People of all ages have terrible, horrible days, and Alexander offers us the cranky commiseration we crave as well as a reminder that things may not be all that bad. So begin the trials and tribulations of the irascible Alexander, who has been earning the sympathy of readers since 1972. LANGUAGE : English, AGE : Children / Juvenile. "I went to sleep with gum in my mouth and now there's gum in my hair and when I got out of bed this morning I tripped on the skateboard and by mistake I dropped my sweater in the sink while the water was running and I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day." COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United States, IMPRINT : Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
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A blue-eyed Amerasian Susan Dey, the most white-looking of her siblings in her mixed-race Chinese and white family, she is also so serious, so driven, so good and responsible, she seems the least likely to go missing. The missing girl is Lydia Lee, apple of her father’s eye, her mother’s favorite daughter. If we know this story, we haven’t seen it yet in American fiction, not until now. This is familiar territory, but Ng returns to it to spin an unfamiliar tale, with a very different kind of girl from the ones we’ve been asked to follow before. The year is 1977, the setting, a quiet all-American town in Ohio, where everyone knows one another and nothing like this has ever happened before. Celeste Ng’s debut novel, “Everything I Never Told You,” is a literary thriller that begins with some stock elements: a missing girl, a lake, a local bad boy who was one of the last to see her and won’t say what he knows. 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Viva Las Vegas was one of Ann-Margaret’s early roles, and Peterson had no idea at the time that Ann-Margaret would become one of the biggest film stars in history with roles in films such as Carnal Knowledge, Grumpy Old Men, and Any Given Sunday.Īll Peterson knew was that Ann-Margaret was amazing. While there with her parents, Peterson saw the film Viva Las Vegas, which starred Ann-Margaret. Peterson went to Las Vegas as a teenager. Ann-Margaret Inspired Cassandra Peterson To Become An Actor The more horror-related Peterson’s toys were, the better. She did not know as a child that she would one day become one of the most recognized horror hostesses in the entertainment industry, but she did know she preferred to play with scary toys. Even from an early age, she was drawn to the horror genre. While her school-age friends played with Barbies and other dolls, Peterson had a unique toy preference. Growing up, Peterson was not interested in the same things her friends were interested in. Cassandra Peterson Had A Great Toy Preference Twyla Tharp receives an honorary degree at the Harvard University in 2018. Other than the mirrors, the boom box and me, the room is empty. The room is lined with eight-foot-high mirrors. I'm wearing a sweatshirt, faded jeans, and Nike cross-trainers. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. Tharp summons her best work from a naked space. To launch the necessary process, hard work must be rooted in something, a kernel that can germinate beginning. But there's a process that generates creativity-and you can learn it. No one can give you subject matter, your creative content if they could, it would be their creation and not yours. The book speaks to anyone, Tharp quickly dismisses the question of talent being enough (or that genius cannot be taught): she notes "Nobody worked harder than Mozart." More than anything, this book is about preparation: In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative. Renowned ballet choreographer and dancer Twyla Tharp (born July 1, 1941) gives us an energizing and stabilizing book, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use it for Life, to motivate the creative habit. It includes a helpful glossary and pronunciation guide, and colour plates of the artwork the sisters produced as well as a selection of their photographs. The sister’s memoirs are told separately - Ngarta’s is titled A Desert Tragedy, while Jukuna’s is My Life in the Desert - and there are short chapters, by Pat Lowe (who edited the stories) and Eirlys Richards (who translated them from the Walmajarri language), explaining how the book came into being and putting the sister’s lives into context. The book is comprised of several different parts. It’s also a fascinating and eye-opening portrait of the desert people’s way of life in the 1950s and early 60s and how the coming of the vast cattle stations changed everything. Two Sisters: Ngarta and Jukuna is a brilliantly evocative autobiography of two aboriginal sisters. ① - It put a ton of sexual tension back in the air. Let’s just admit that this start out a little like a daytime soap, I mean Charley has amnesia and while slightly annoying and maybe a bit plot devicey it facilitated some things that I really enjoyed: *spoilers will be present for previous books* I might not be as in love with this series as I was in book one and book FIVE *fans-self* but I’m coming closer and I have all that hope back that this series will end in a big bang instead of a whimper. But then you are like ’I’ve loved these characters for so long, I’m gonna give them one more chance….just one more shot to see if this can work for me.’ Well that is what I did and I’m glad. The entire baby drama and some of the silliness that happened (I fell into a well and had a baby) and uber lovey dovey Reyes *barf* and plot hole issues (the hell hounds…nuff said)…I had many. Maybe it’s me, but no…I think it is probably you.’ I felt that way after Eighth Grave After Dark. This might be when I need to break up with you. Have you ever been reading a long running series and thought… ’This might be it. Presented in a dual-language format, this is a wholly original book about exile, linguistic and otherwise, written with an intensity and clarity not seen since Vladimir Nabokov: a startling act of self-reflection and a provocative exploration of belonging and reinvention. In Other Words, an autobiographical work written in Italian, investigates the process of learning to express oneself in another language, and describes the journey of a writer seeking a new voice. There, she begins to read, and to write - initially in her journal - solely in Italian. In Other Words presents the same author with a different voicea new expressive vein. Seeking full immersion, she decides to move to Rome with her family, for "a trial by fire, a sort of baptism" into a new language and world. Lahiri’s exuberant tone may surprise readers used to the understatement and quiet grace of her acclaimed novels and short stories. Although Lahiri studied Italian for many years afterward, true mastery always eluded her. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivated and capsized her during a trip to Florence after college. It is at heart a love story - of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession: that of a writer for another language. From the best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful nonfiction debut - an "honest, engaging, and very moving account of a writer searching for herself in words." - Kirkus Reviews (starred) |