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Entwined (A Wattpad Novel)
by A. J. RosenAn epic story of romance, drama and mythology, for fans of Children of Blood and Bone and Oh My Gods.For Avery Montgomery, the descendent of a Greek god, turning eighteen is a big deal. Not only is it her ticket to the Court, the world's most lavish party for descendants, it also unlocks the ability to hear the thoughts of her one true soul mate.While her birthday looms, Avery finds herself drawn to two royal descendants who couldn't be more different. She hopes her soulmate will be Carlos, who is charming, handsome and her current obsession, but for some reason she starts to feel a pull to Vladimir, her best friend's annoying older brother. As Avery finds herself torn, she stumbles upon a dark side of The Court, which pushes her towards a revelation that will forever alter her past, and her future.
Environmental Crisis in Young Adult Fiction: A Poetics of Earth (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature)
by A. CurryThis pioneering study is the first full-length treatment of feminism and the environment in children's literature. Drawing on the history, philosophy and ethics of ecofeminism, it examines the ways in which post-apocalyptic landscapes in young adult fiction reflect contemporary attitudes towards environmental crisis and human responsibility.
Epic (The Avatar Chronicles #1)
by Conor Kostick#WELCOME TO EPIC: PRESS START TO PLAY#. On New Earth, Epic is not just a computer game, it's a matter of life and death. If you lose, you lose everything; if you win, the world is yours for the taking. Seeking revenge for the unjust treatment of his parents, Erik subverts the rules of the game, and he and his friends are drawn into a world of power-hungry, dangerous players. Now they must fight the ultimate masters of the game -- The Committee. But what Erik doesn't know is that The Committee has a sinister, deadly secret, and challenging it could destroy the whole world of Epic.
Équipe 1 (PDF)
by Sue Finnie Daniele Bourdaiséquipe is a popular series that combines rigorous grammar and language learning with a fun and motivating approach that suits all students. From day one students will enjoy learning French. Not only because of all the enjoyable and exciting features - the ongoing storyline featuring four French teenagers, the songs and cartoons, the website - but because they will develop an understanding of French and become confident in using language accurately. Part 1 Provides a strong emphasis on grammar teaching, pronunciation practice and developing students' personal study skills and learning strategiesClear objectives for each double-page spreadKey language highlighted for ease of referenceTwo parallel workbooks for reinforcement and extension.
Erinnerung reloaded?: (Re-)Inszenierungen des kulturellen Gedächtnisses in Kinder- und Jugendmedien (Studien zu Kinder- und Jugendliteratur und -medien #7)
by Ingrid Tomkowiak Gabriele Von Glasenapp Andre KagelmannDer Band lotet die Bedingungen des Erinnerns und Erzählens und damit einer Re-Inszenierung der Vergangenheit im Feld der Kinder- und Jugendmedien aus. Besonderes Augenmerk wurde auf das Spannungsfeld von ‚objektiver‘ Geschichtswissenschaft einerseits und Dichtung andererseits gelegt, angesiedelt zwischen den Polen Referenzialität und einem neuen Interesse am vermeintlich Authentischen sowie der Fiktionalisierung von Fakten. Dieser Widerspruch ist von besonderer Bedeutung für die geschichtserzählenden Kinder- und Jugendmedien mit ihrem spezifischen Funktionsrahmen von ästhetischer und pädagogischer Horizontbildung und -erweiterung. Neben den traditionellen kinder- und jugendliterarischen Erinnerungsmedien – erzählende Literatur, historische und zeitgeschichtliche Romane, (autofiktionale) Biographien – sowie Drama und Lyrik werden Bilderbücher, Comics, Filme, Serien und Computerspiele in den Blick genommen.
Escape (Signature Ser.)
by June OldhamMagdalen has always lived in the shadow of her charming, wealthy father. Going to university, she thinks, will finally give her a life of her own. Then she realizes that her father is determined to maintain a grip on her life, that he will never willingly let her go. Desperate to escape the terrible secret they share, she leaves home. With her goes Greg, whose gentle concern leaves Magdalen confused and irritated.As they drive across the country, a friendship slowly unfolds. And as her trust in Greg grows, so, too does Magdalen's resolve to confront her father, and leave the past behind . . .
Escape To Midas: Escape To Midas (The Mars Alone Trilogy #2)
by Andrew SticklandBook 2 in the Mars Alone Trilogy Last year Leo Fischer and Skater Monroe were normal kids living normal lives, worrying about school, dealing with family issues, planning their futures...This year they’re hiding out on Mars, hunted by a psychopathic megalomaniac – who happens to be the most powerful individual in the Solar System. He claims the two of them are interplanetary terrorists and is demanding their heads on a plate.In the thrilling second instalment of the Mars Alone Trilogy, Leo and Skater, together with an artificial intelligence called Taffy whose mind contains the knowledge of an ancient alien civilisation, must face the consequences of fighting an enemy who has been lying to the entire human race and will stop at nothing to protect his secrets.
Essentials KS3 English Yr9 Workbook
by Steven CroftThis workbook accompanies the new Key Stage 3 Year 9 English Coursebook. The questions test understanding of the topics covered in the coursebook, helping to reinforce and consolidate learning and develop skills. The questions are accessible to pupils working at both the lower and higher levels.The books are accessible to pupils working at all levels with stimulating and challenging tasks and exercises for all pupils, including those working at level 5 or above. The overall design of the books has been developed in response to feedback from customers and teachers to ensure they are clear, concise and student-friendly.
Eternity’s Wheel (Interworld #3)
by Neil Gaiman ReavesThe heart-pounding conclusion to the InterWorld series, by award-winning writers Neil Gaiman, Michael Reaves and Mallory Reaves
Ethical Literacies and Education for Sustainable Development: Young People, Subjectivity and Democratic Participation
by Olof Franck Christina OsbeckThis book explores the ethical dimensions surrounding the development of education for sustainable development within schools, and examines these issues through the lens of ethical literacy. The book argues that teaching children to engage with nature is crucial if they are to develop a true understanding of sustainability and climate issues, and claims that sustainability education is much more successful when pupils are treated as moral agents rather than being passive subjects of testing and assessment. The collection brings together a range of fresh and creative perspectives on how issues around ethical literacies can be elaborated and expanded with regard to democratic sustainability education. The use of children´s books in teaching about sustainability is carefully explored, as are the ethical and aesthetic dimensions of environmental education. Including an afterword by Arjen Wals, Professor of Transformative Learning for Socio-Ecological Sustainability, the book will be of great interest to students and researchers in the field of sustainability education.
Ethical Literacies and Education for Sustainable Development: Young People, Subjectivity and Democratic Participation
by Olof Franck Christina OsbeckThis book explores the ethical dimensions surrounding the development of education for sustainable development within schools, and examines these issues through the lens of ethical literacy. The book argues that teaching children to engage with nature is crucial if they are to develop a true understanding of sustainability and climate issues, and claims that sustainability education is much more successful when pupils are treated as moral agents rather than being passive subjects of testing and assessment. The collection brings together a range of fresh and creative perspectives on how issues around ethical literacies can be elaborated and expanded with regard to democratic sustainability education. The use of children´s books in teaching about sustainability is carefully explored, as are the ethical and aesthetic dimensions of environmental education. Including an afterword by Arjen Wals, Professor of Transformative Learning for Socio-Ecological Sustainability, the book will be of great interest to students and researchers in the field of sustainability education.
Ethics and Children's Literature (Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present)
by Claudia MillsExploring the ethical questions posed by, in, and about children’s literature, this collection examines the way texts intended for children raise questions of value, depict the moral development of their characters, and call into attention shared moral presuppositions. The essays in Part I look at various past attempts at conveying moral messages to children and interrogate their underlying assumptions. What visions of childhood were conveyed by explicit attempts to cultivate specific virtues in children? What unstated cultural assumptions were expressed by growing resistance to didacticism? How should we prepare children to respond to racism in their books and in their society? Part II takes up the ethical orientations of various classic and contemporary texts, including 'prosaic ethics' in the Hundred Acre Wood, moral discernment in Narnia, ethical recognition in the distant worlds traversed by L’Engle, and virtuous transgression in recent Anglo-American children’s literature and in the emerging children’s literature of 1960s Taiwan. Part III’s essays engage in ethical criticism of arguably problematic messages about our relationship to nonhuman animals, about war, and about prejudice. The final section considers how we respond to children’s literature with ethically focused essays exploring a range of ways in which child readers and adult authorities react to children’s literature. Even as children’s literature has evolved in opposition to its origins in didactic Sunday school tracts and moralizing fables, authors, parents, librarians, and scholars remain sensitive to the values conveyed to children through the texts they choose to share with them.
Ethics and Children's Literature (Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present)
by Claudia MillsExploring the ethical questions posed by, in, and about children’s literature, this collection examines the way texts intended for children raise questions of value, depict the moral development of their characters, and call into attention shared moral presuppositions. The essays in Part I look at various past attempts at conveying moral messages to children and interrogate their underlying assumptions. What visions of childhood were conveyed by explicit attempts to cultivate specific virtues in children? What unstated cultural assumptions were expressed by growing resistance to didacticism? How should we prepare children to respond to racism in their books and in their society? Part II takes up the ethical orientations of various classic and contemporary texts, including 'prosaic ethics' in the Hundred Acre Wood, moral discernment in Narnia, ethical recognition in the distant worlds traversed by L’Engle, and virtuous transgression in recent Anglo-American children’s literature and in the emerging children’s literature of 1960s Taiwan. Part III’s essays engage in ethical criticism of arguably problematic messages about our relationship to nonhuman animals, about war, and about prejudice. The final section considers how we respond to children’s literature with ethically focused essays exploring a range of ways in which child readers and adult authorities react to children’s literature. Even as children’s literature has evolved in opposition to its origins in didactic Sunday school tracts and moralizing fables, authors, parents, librarians, and scholars remain sensitive to the values conveyed to children through the texts they choose to share with them.
Ethics and Form in Fantasy Literature: Tolkien, Rowling and Meyer
by Lykke Guanio-UluruEthics and Form in Fantasy Literature: Tolkien, Rowling and Meyer by Lykke Guanio-Uluru examines formal and ethical aspects of The Lord of the Rings , Harry Potter and the Twilight series in order to discover what best-selling fantasy texts can tell us about the values of contemporary Western culture.
Ethics in British Children's Literature: Unexamined Life (Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature)
by Lisa SainsburyFeaturing close readings of selected poetry, visual texts, short stories and novels published for children since 1945 from Naughty Amelia Jane to Watership Down, this is the first extensive study of the nature and form of ethical discourse in British children's literature.Ethics in British Children's Literature explores the extent to which contemporary writing for children might be considered philosophical, tackling ethical spheres relevant to and arising from books for young people, such as naughtiness, good and evil, family life, and environmental ethics. Rigorously engaging with influential moral philosophers, from Aristotle through Kant and Hegel, to Arno Leopold, Iris Murdoch, Mary Midgley, and Lars Svendsen, this book demonstrates the narrative strategies employed to engage young readers as moral agents.
Ethics in British Children's Literature: Unexamined Life (Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature)
by Lisa SainsburyFeaturing close readings of selected poetry, visual texts, short stories and novels published for children since 1945 from Naughty Amelia Jane to Watership Down, this is the first extensive study of the nature and form of ethical discourse in British children's literature.Ethics in British Children's Literature explores the extent to which contemporary writing for children might be considered philosophical, tackling ethical spheres relevant to and arising from books for young people, such as naughtiness, good and evil, family life, and environmental ethics. Rigorously engaging with influential moral philosophers, from Aristotle through Kant and Hegel, to Arno Leopold, Iris Murdoch, Mary Midgley, and Lars Svendsen, this book demonstrates the narrative strategies employed to engage young readers as moral agents.
Ethnic Literary Traditions in American Children's Literature
by M. Stewart Y. AtkinsonEsteemed contributors expand the range of possibilities for reading, understanding, and teaching children's literature as ethnic literature rather than children's literature in this ambitious collection.
The Etiology and Prevention of Drug Abuse Among Minority Youth
by Steven Schinke Gilbert J BotvinSince 1992, marijuana use among 8th graders has tripled, among 10th graders it has nearly doubled, and its use among high school seniors has increased by 50 percent. The use of other illicit drugs is also heavily on the rise. Yet, there exists very little research and literature on the etiology and prevention of drug abuse among those most at risk--disadvantaged, inner-city, minority youth. The Etiology and Prevention of Drug Abuse Among Minority Youth is an important first step in remedying this gap in the literature and for getting at the heart of the psychosocial factors that promote and sustain drug use among minority youth.The book’s chapters evolved from a program of research funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and Cornell University Medical College’s Institute for Prevention Research concerning drug abuse prevention with multi-ethnic youth. So that you might learn effective strategies for intervening with at-risk adolescents and teenagers, The Etiology and Prevention of Drug Abuse Among Minority Youth discusses: correlates and predictors of alcohol and drug use community-based skills interventions how youths offset feelings of distress or self-derogation by bonding with deviant peers the advantages of community-oriented outreach programs the role of cultural factors as they shape vulnerability to adolescent alcohol and drug use the role of ethnic identity as a moderator of psychosocial risk for alcohol and marijuana use the needs of youth at high risk for future use preventing gateway drug use drug use among youth living in homeless shelters the conditions of public housing and how they affect the etiology of drug abuseAn essential tool for policymakers, social workers, clinicians, researchers, psychiatrists, and other professionals in chemical dependency and narcotics rehabilitation, The Etiology and Prevention of Drug Abuse Among Minority Youth provides you with vital insight on the causes of drug use among minority adolescents, the strengths and limitations of different intervention approaches, and incentive to find appropriate ways for working with at-risk, minority teenagers.
The Etiology and Prevention of Drug Abuse Among Minority Youth
by Steven Schinke Gilbert J BotvinSince 1992, marijuana use among 8th graders has tripled, among 10th graders it has nearly doubled, and its use among high school seniors has increased by 50 percent. The use of other illicit drugs is also heavily on the rise. Yet, there exists very little research and literature on the etiology and prevention of drug abuse among those most at risk--disadvantaged, inner-city, minority youth. The Etiology and Prevention of Drug Abuse Among Minority Youth is an important first step in remedying this gap in the literature and for getting at the heart of the psychosocial factors that promote and sustain drug use among minority youth.The book’s chapters evolved from a program of research funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and Cornell University Medical College’s Institute for Prevention Research concerning drug abuse prevention with multi-ethnic youth. So that you might learn effective strategies for intervening with at-risk adolescents and teenagers, The Etiology and Prevention of Drug Abuse Among Minority Youth discusses: correlates and predictors of alcohol and drug use community-based skills interventions how youths offset feelings of distress or self-derogation by bonding with deviant peers the advantages of community-oriented outreach programs the role of cultural factors as they shape vulnerability to adolescent alcohol and drug use the role of ethnic identity as a moderator of psychosocial risk for alcohol and marijuana use the needs of youth at high risk for future use preventing gateway drug use drug use among youth living in homeless shelters the conditions of public housing and how they affect the etiology of drug abuseAn essential tool for policymakers, social workers, clinicians, researchers, psychiatrists, and other professionals in chemical dependency and narcotics rehabilitation, The Etiology and Prevention of Drug Abuse Among Minority Youth provides you with vital insight on the causes of drug use among minority adolescents, the strengths and limitations of different intervention approaches, and incentive to find appropriate ways for working with at-risk, minority teenagers.
Etiquette and Espionage: Number 1 in series (Finishing School #1)
by Gail CarrigerIt's one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It's quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to finishing school.Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper manners-and the family can only hope that company never sees her atrocious curtsy. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. So she enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality. But Sophronia soon realizes the school is not quite what her mother might have hoped. At Mademoiselle Geraldine's young ladies learn to finish . . . everything. Certainly, they learn the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but they also learn to deal out death, diversion, and espionage - in the politest possible ways, of course. Sophronia and her friends are in for a rousing first year's education.
Eva and the Hidden Diary (The Eva Series #4)
by Judi CurtinThe latest great book from the author of the best-selling ‘Eva’ and ‘Alice & Megan’ series. Eva Gordon’s great at solving problems, but surely even she can’t fix something that went wrong in the past? When Eva and Kate find an old diary, written long ago by a girl their own age, they end up determined to right old wrongs! But they can’t spend all their time living in the past as the present, too, is throwing all sorts of challenges at them … But when the girls get together they can handle anything! Eva and the Hidden Diary has been nominated for Novel of the Year in the Irish Book Awards! Cast your votes here, until 21 November: www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/
Eva's Holiday (The Eva Series #2)
by Judi CurtinEva Gordon likes fashion, fun and hanging out with friends, so she can't believe she has to spend the entire summer in a cottage in the countryside with her parents and eight-year-old Joey. Worse, it looks like she's going to be stuck with Kate, the girl next door who doesn't care about being cool … it's Eva's worst nightmare come true! But when the girls have to pull together to solve a problem, Eva finds out that there's more to life than having the right hair or clothes and sometimes 'weird' girls can make the best friends.
Eva's Journey (The Eva Series #1)
by Judi CurtinRich, spoilt, high-maintenance Eva Gordon likes fancy, sophisticated things so when her parents sell their sell their holiday home and their expensive car Eva can’t understand why. But when Eva’s dad loses his job and she has to move house and change schools, she realises life has changed for good. She’s determined to hate her new life, until a chance visit to a fortune teller gives her the idea that doing good may help her to get her old life back. Eva (with the help of her friend Victoria) starts to help all around her, whether they want it or not! The story of Eva’s Journey from spoilt princess to pretty cool girl!
Eve of Man: Eve of Man Trilogy, Book 1 (Eve of Man Trilogy #1)
by Tom Fletcher Giovanna FletcherThis is the electrifying dystopian love story, the first in the trilogy by bestselling authors Giovanna and Tom Fletcher.'. . . ONE OF THE BIG BOOKS OF THE YEAR. YOU'D BE A FOOL TO MISS IT' HEAT______________ Eve is like any other teenage girl . . .Except that the fate of the entire world lies on her shoulders.She's the first girl born in fifty years.She's the answer to their prayers.She's the final hope.Which means she has one function alone . . .At sixteen, Eve must face her destiny and make a choice.She will choose a man, one out of three carefully selected suitors.But what about Bram?The future of the planet hangs on Eve making the right choice.Will she?COULD YOU CHOOSE BETWEEN LOVE, AND THE FUTURE OF THE HUMAN RACE?
The Everlasting Rose (The\belles Ser. #2)
by Dhonielle ClaytonThe dazzling sequel to Dhonielle Clayton's Lodestar Award-nominated The Belles. Louise O'Neill's ONLY EVER YOURS meets Scott Westerfeld's UGLIES, welcome to a world where beauty is only ever skin deep . . . Camellia and her sisters are Belles. Only they can make us beautiful.All our lives, my sisters and I have served the people of Orleans.For years, they've held their abilities against us. Not anymore.Now the queen hunts us, because we know the truth about the rightful heir.Camellia murdered our princess and fled with her sisters.The princess is still alive, and we'll help her take back the throne.Together, we will return the Belles to their rightful place.The queen wants us caged. But we will not go quietly.Then they will give us what we deserve: beauty, everlasting.We demand our freedom. No matter what the cost.The New York Times bestselling series of beauty, obsession and magic.