realistic fiction book I chose to read was Bloomability. This book was written by Sharon Creech and was published in 1998 by Harper Trophy of HarperCollins Publishers Inc. It was written on the reading level of ages 8 - 12‚ or grades 5 8. Bloomability has won the following awards: IRA/CBC Children ’s Choices 1999‚ Parenting Magazine Reading Magic Award 1998‚ and Chicago Public Library Best Books 1998. Sharon Creech uses her life as a basis for many of her books‚ and Bloomability
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Anger- Towards the Author Anger Robert A.F. Thurman Oxford University Press Copyright 2005 125 Pages Reviewed by: Connell Depatie The book Anger‚ written by Robert Thurman‚ belongs to a series of books individually written by different authors about the “Seven Deadly Sins” and the different ways to conquer them. This particular book tells the reader what anger really is‚ with a western definition followed by an eastern definition‚ and goes on to tell the reader several steps through which
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Some of the books go into great detail in how rumspringa occurs and how it follows through. Some books like the one Tom Shachtman wrote titled To Be or Not To Be Amish goes into detail but its from an amish teens point of view. He talks about how rumspringa works and what parents can actually learn from this
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Black Like Me Book Review #4 John Howard Griffin‚ the author of Black Like Me‚ writes an autobiographical account what he passed through for a period of about 10 months. Howard has an idea that has been haunting him for a long duration of time; he wondered the various kinds of life changes that a white man would need to be labeled a Negro in the southern region of the United States. Howard wanted to acquire first hand information of the daily experiences of the African Americans in the Deep South
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administrators different ways to handle students who are just not easy to discipline because of personal reasons. Jeffrey Benson gives detailed stories of real life students who were truly challenging to the teachers‚ administrators‚ and other students. This book has lists of strategies and ways to develop individualized plans that help challenging students. The examples are also provided with stories that put the plans in action. Jeffrey Benson has recommendations at the end of every
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turmoil. US was still recovering from the war‚ there was the Watts Riots‚ the North East blackout and before just the year before that‚ on July 2nd the civil right act of 1964 was signed which put into law that segregation as illegal but ironically the Jim crow laws remained in effect. However‚ the major event that year was the racial violence between blacks and white that erupted in Selma Alabama. The voter’s rights movement‚ to sum up was when blacks marched out to Edmund Pettus Bridge‚ when they got
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Timothy Wilson’s book‚ Redirect‚ is definitely a great read for those of us who are skeptical yet somehow intrigued by the self-help industry. Wilson provides an innovative theory which is “so crazy it just might work.” He debunked life fulfillment myths often propagated by the self-help industry and also provided in-depth explanations of how thought patterns are developed through four key scenarios: The first- semester college student who did poorly on their first exam‚ child abuse‚ teenage pregnancy
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Of course Thorin is one of the most important character of this book‚ the entire book evolves around this very proud dwarf. Thorin is the one besides the very wise Gandalf with the most knowledge and intelligence about the mountain‚ Smaug and the treasure. Something that none of the dwarves could predict were the very many difficulties and setbacks they would have to challenge on their way to the treasure. Throughout the book Thorin is often described as a stubborn‚ bulging and stern dwarf but
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The Unwinding is the perfect title for this book. It portrays and revolves around the sad and unsettling history of the last four decades in the United States. His topic is the fall of the structure of the national government. Packer makes remarks regarding the unraveling of unspoken agreements about the limits to Wall Street’s greed‚ about what a congressman would or wouldn’t do for the right price‚ about what a company owes its workers‚ and what the wealthy should contribute in tax. As Packers
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Book Review of "Goal" 1. What is the problem? Alex Rogo was a plant manager at the Barrington Plant of Uniware‚ a division of UniCo. One day Bill Peach‚ division vice president visited his plant and found that there were lots of problems with schedule arrangement‚ quality‚ cost & inventory control in his plant. These problems had already made the organization lose money. At last Bill gave Alex three months to improve‚ otherwise‚ the plant would be closed. Three months?! That was all Alex Rogo was
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