A Small Book of Kick-arse Poetry
Author: Lissa Elaine Judd
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Published: 2012
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ISBN-13: 9780473225643
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Author: Lissa Elaine Judd
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Published: 2012
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780473225643
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lissa Elaine Judd
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9780473240431
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lissa Elaine Judd
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 90
ISBN-13: 9780473266127
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFull of crazy poems which will make you laugh out loud. You may see yourself in them, or they may remind you of your children or grandchildren. In this follow-up to "A Small Book of Kick-Arse Poetry" Lissa Judd again focuses on the 12-15 tear-old who is reading-averse, but she succeeds in producing a book with wide appeal. The Kick-Arse Poetry books strive to entice those with poor reading skills who flounder at the edge of education systems: those who may have learned that reading is an onerous task with few rewards. These books attempt to engage the disengaged. Underpinning the wacky verse is a deliberate strategy to improve vocabulary and enhance self-esteem. They champion the average and the ordinary, and uplift the weary and downtrodden. A glossary has been included in this book - a breath of fresh air that blows away dull dictionary pages and replaces them with definitions and examples that are as hilarious as the poetry.
Author: Steve Niles
Publisher: Image Comics
Published: 2019-04-10
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 1534314342
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKick-Ass is taking over. Patience has wiped out Hoops Lucero and seized control of his criminal operations, feeding money back into the neighborhood. But not everyone's happy with Kick-Ass' new power, and her old enemies have been lying in wait. Violencia's set to bust out of jail and get his bloody revenge on your favorite superhero. Collects KICK-ASS #7-12
Author: Meg Medina
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2013-03-26
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 0763663549
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the 2014 Pura Belpré Author Award In Meg Medina’s compelling new novel, a Latina teen is targeted by a bully at her new school — and must discover resources she never knew she had. One morning before school, some girl tells Piddy Sanchez that Yaqui Delgado hates her and wants to kick her ass. Piddy doesn’t even know who Yaqui is, never mind what she’s done to piss her off. Word is that Yaqui thinks Piddy is stuck-up, shakes her stuff when she walks, and isn’t Latin enough with her white skin, good grades, and no accent. And Yaqui isn’t kidding around, so Piddy better watch her back. At first Piddy is more concerned with trying to find out more about the father she’s never met and how to balance honors courses with her weekend job at the neighborhood hair salon. But as the harassment escalates, avoiding Yaqui and her gang starts to take over Piddy’s life. Is there any way for Piddy to survive without closing herself off or running away? In an all-too-realistic novel, Meg Medina portrays a sympathetic heroine who is forced to decide who she really is.
Author: Kim Scott
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2019-10-01
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1250235383
DOWNLOAD EBOOK* New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller multiple years running * Translated into 20 languages, with more than half a million copies sold worldwide * A Hudson and Indigo Best Book of the Year * Recommended by Shona Brown, Rachel Hollis, Jeff Kinney, Daniel Pink, Sheryl Sandberg, and Gretchen Rubin Radical Candor has been embraced around the world by leaders of every stripe at companies of all sizes. Now a cultural touchstone, the concept has come to be applied to a wide range of human relationships. The idea is simple: You don't have to choose between being a pushover and a jerk. Using Radical Candor—avoiding the perils of Obnoxious Aggression, Manipulative Insincerity, and Ruinous Empathy—you can be kind and clear at the same time. Kim Scott was a highly successful leader at Google before decamping to Apple, where she developed and taught a management class. Since the original publication of Radical Candor in 2017, Scott has earned international fame with her vital approach to effective leadership and co-founded the Radical Candor executive education company, which helps companies put the book's philosophy into practice. Radical Candor is about caring personally and challenging directly, about soliciting criticism to improve your leadership and also providing guidance that helps others grow. It focuses on praise but doesn't shy away from criticism—to help you love your work and the people you work with. Radically Candid relationships with team members enable bosses to fulfill their three core responsibilities: 1. Create a culture of Compassionate Candor 2. Build a cohesive team 3. Achieve results collaboratively Required reading for the most successful organizations, Radical Candor has raised the bar for management practices worldwide.
Author: Kim Scott
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2017-03-14
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1250103509
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A high-profile business manager describes her development of an optimal management course designed to help business leaders become balanced and effective without resorting to insensitive aggression or overt permissiveness"--
Author: Rachel Caine
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2012-12-24
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780765364760
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn urban fantasy anthology of original stories featuring heroines who combat supernatural adversaries from dragons to demons.
Author: Lissa Elaine Judd
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 62
ISBN-13: 9780473225629
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is written particularly for youngsters who have reading difficulties, low self-esteem and behavioural problems. ADHD, dyslexia, oppositional defiant disorder, rage attacks and other behavioural problems and learning disabilities - these have a tendency to hang out together. They are an endless source of frustration for the afflicted child or teen, as well as their family and teachers One needs to chip away at the various stressors while at the same time dealing with the real baddie of the learning disabilities - poor flexibility and frustration tolerance. Life for some families is a war zone of explosive outbursts, defensive retreats and counter-attacks. It's high stress. It's low on fun. One of the stressors is the inability to read well. Reading is pretty fundamental to all school pursuits, and poor reading skills handicap you in all subjects. This inability to progress in even the subjects you like clobbers your self-esteem, and opens you up to ridicule (and worse) from your peers. If you have poor frustration tolerance this will foster inappropriate, often destructive behaviour. This poetry was one small part of the solution to the reading-averse, hyper-frustrated behaviour bomb teen. It gives parents, grandparents and teachers a well-deserved chuckle too. In my experience, teens who are reading-averse choose books by the thickness of their spine, and a book that is thin seems safe and manageable. In prose an unfamiliar word will stop the reading-averse in their tracks, whereas in poetry the rhythm gets them past it, and allows them to figure out the meaning by the context. Furthermore poetry, like the lyrics of a song, is easily remembered, which embeds new vocabulary in one's memory. There is much research to show that illustrations reduce reading comprehension rather than improving it, so with this book the reader must formulate their own images. Lastly, the book is not just a bunch of silly rhymes - there are plenty of serious subjects for discussion, such as death, bullying, bed-wetting, ADHD, to name a few. It champions the inarticulate, un-sporty, easily frustrated, wonderful children who have so much to offer, if given half a chance.
Author: Ross Gay
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 2023-09-19
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1643755471
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet, a book of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us. In Ross Gay’s new collection of small, daily wonders, again written over the course of a year, one of America’s most original voices continues his ongoing investigation of delight. For Gay, what delights us is what connects us, what gives us meaning, from the joy of hearing a nostalgic song blasting from a passing car to the pleasure of refusing the “nefarious” scannable QR code menus, from the tiny dog he fell hard for to his mother baking a dozen kinds of cookies for her grandchildren. As always, Gay revels in the natural world—sweet potatoes being harvested, a hummingbird carousing in the beebalm, a sunflower growing out of a wall around the cemetery, the shared bounty from a neighbor’s fig tree—and the trillion mysterious ways this glorious earth delights us. The Book of (More) Delights is a volume to savor and share.