Room 555 by Cristy Watson5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This Place: 150 Years Retold, a collection of stories from Indigenous writers Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Sonny Assu, Brandon Mitchell, Rachel and Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley, David A.In the Key of Nira Ghaniby Natasha Deen (Running Press Kids) because I'm a fan.You Are Never Alone, a new collaboration between by Elin Kelsey and Soyeon Kim (Owlkids) who brought us the award-winning You Are Stardust.You Owe Me a Murder by Eileen Cook (HMH for Young Readers) because she blends mystery, crime and romance into flawless stories.I'm Worried because I know Debbie Ridpath Ohi is the only one who could pull off making a potato look anxious.Smith (Penguin Teen) because she writes gold The Triumphant by Lesley Livingston (Razorbill) as it's the conclusion to her trilogy The Valiant ( The Valiant and The Defiant).The Beauty of the Moment by Tanaz Bhathena from Penguin Teen, because I loved A Girl Like That. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-303) Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience teaches how, by ordering the information that enters our consciousness, we can discover true happiness and greatly improve the quality of our lives ![]() In this new edition of his groundbreaking classic work, Csikszentmihalyi demonstrates the ways this positive state can be controlled, not just left to chance. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life. ![]() Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's famous investigations of "optimal experience" have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called flow. ![]() Our School Garden! by Rick Swann5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This is the perfect book to read alone, as well as share in the classroom or with the entire family. Award-winning artist Christy Hale ( Dreaming Up, Elizabeti's Doll series) captures the brilliant color of the season and the harvest. School librarian and gardener Rick Swann, in his picture book debut, describes the wonder of connecting with nature and the joy of growing and eating one's own harvest. ![]() Each season creates a new way to learn, explore and make friends. But the garden is much more than activities outdoors: making school garden stone soup, writing Found Poems and solving garden riddles, getting involved in community projects such as Harvest Day, food bank donations, and spring plant sales. Michael is feeling all alone-until he discovers the school garden! There's so many ways to learn, and so much work to do. ![]() A Call to Arms by Shiriluna Nott5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() The same goes for Mestor's romance but you will see hints of those two emerging love stories throughout the Valespian Pact. What I have in mind for him will happen outside the issue of the grid. Now I know there are a few who werelooking forward to Canry's story and honestly, I couldn't fit in a side plot that was attacked to the overall plot of the series. I took those lessons and applied them to the rest of the Valespian Pact series.įor those who haven't heard, this is now the series line:ģ) Bespoken - Prometheus, Vipre, and MalekĤ) Chosen - Axis and the Chimera triplets, Cilix, Phoenix, and CadmusĦ) Legends - back to Prometheus, Vipre, and Malek, but there will be returning POVs from the previous books. Writing Sumeria's Sons taught me a lot of what to do and not to do when writing a series. So far for the month of November, I've been prepping to write the third book of the Valespain Pact, Bespoken. ![]() Sailing alone around the room poem5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Pablo Neruda was born in Parral, Chile, in 1904. This touch-tone anthology drawn from the Poetry Society of America’s rich audio archives reminds us that poetry’s truths have no borders.Īnne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics at New York University. She was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2000 and is the author of Men in the Off Hours, The Beauty of the Husband, and Autobiography of Red. Initiated prior to the worldwide Black Lives Matter protests, Calling the World showcases an international group of voices ─ African, Asian, Caribbean, European, Latin American, and Middle Eastern ─ and encourages us to look outside our national boundaries as we reconnect with the world. The Poetry Society of America and Saint Flashlight present a dial-a-poem project: Calling the WorldĬalling the World was created in response to the isolation brought about by the current COVID-19 pandemic. ![]() |