A magical selection of short stories including Sally Simple's Mistake, The Proud Fir Tree, The Little Carol Singer and The Toy Soldier's Adventure. Each tale contains charming and loveable characters and there is always a moral to the story! Children will fall in love with Enid Blyton's comforting creations, illustrated with detailed black and white line drawings.
STAND TALL. BE LOUD. GAME FACE ON. This pitch perfect graphic memoir about courage and competition, friendship and belonging is perfect for fans of Smile, New Kid, Rollergirl, and Real Friends. "A captivating middle-grade gem." - The New York Times Book Review ★ "Funny, relatable, and genuine." - Kirkus Reviews, starred review ★ "Captures every nuanced emotion." - School Library Journal, starred review ★ "Genuinely nail-biting." - Publishers Weekly, starred review ★ "Cringe-worthy in the best possible way...inspiring and insightful." - Shelf Awareness, starred review "Delightfully expressive...a standout." - Booklist When cheerleading tryouts are announced, Christina and her best friend, Megan, literally jump at the chance to join the squad. As two of the only kids of color in the school, they have always yearned to fit in-and the middle school cheerleaders are popular and accepted by everyone. But will the girls survive the terrifying tryouts, with their whole grade watching? And will their friendship withstand the pressures of competition? Hilarious and highly relatable, The Tryout by two-time Newbery Honoree Christina Soontornvat and shining new talent Joanna Cacao will make you laugh, cry, and cheer!
Drawing on ten years of experience working with more than 10,000 executives from companies around the globe, Nick Craig takes you on a revelatory journey to understand your purpose, find clarity and focus, and lead with inspiration. When uncovered, purpose becomes our most fundamental guiding principle. Explaining where true purpose lies and demystifying where it doesn't, Craig offers the methods through which anyone can find their purpose. He identifies three pathways that will assess where you are with your purpose and where you should be going. Illustrated by case studies of leaders from all walks of life and industries, Craig shares their unique stories to show how top leaders are energized by their purpose, finding in it the confidence they need to properly evaluate high-stakes decisions and take the optimal action. The best leaders access their purpose especially when facing the unknown, drawing on the source of it to energize themselves. Purpose also redefines their relationships to stress, allowing them to thrive where others just survived, and to postpone momentary, fleeting rewards in favor of leaving a sustained, meaningful impact. Accessible, methodical, and eminently practical, Leading from Purpose offers the comprehensive toolbox with which everyone -- whether a c-suite executive of behind-the-scenes office worker -- can live out their purpose and achieve success on their own terms. If you find yourself in an organization that is struggling to live its purpose, Craig's insights on how to bring your purpose and the organization's purpose into the same room at the same time is game-changing and will redefine your life and career.
In part one of The Lunatic we find that the protagonist, Nicholas Antonus, has been mistakenly sentenced by a court of law to the Guilford mental institution. The staff runs the asylum in a most decidedly, diabolical manner. Nicholas chronicles all the horrific treatment in a secret journal so that someday others will know of this place. As the months go by and more patients "disappear," Nicholas fears that he will soon be the next victim. He has no immediate family and the mail has long since been discontinued, access to any telephone is prohibited. There is not one professional in the entire building that he can trust and who could notify the proper authorities about the daily crimes committed by the doctors and nurses. Finally, on a drug-clear day, Nicholas realizes that the review board has no intention of releasing him back into society and that he must risk escape or he too will leave Guilford by its chimney flue. In the second part of the book Nicholas is on the lam, returning to the Greek isle of Loxos to seek refuge and to reunite with relatives. He is readily welcomed back into the Ninios household and luxuriates in his new freedom. Nikos' days are spent at harbor cafes, sketching the townspeople, or wandering the streets and hillside villages drawing scenes of daily life. At night Nikos goes to the tavernas to watch the men dance and drink with the wild and funny Micales the butcher and Hassan the lonely, bootblack dwarf. Soon the signs of Nikos' periodic illness resurface. At first he dismisses the symptoms because the interval between the first and second occurrence has been so great, leading him to believe that he is perfectly all right. But frighteningly, he has two other separate episodes in quick succession and it is these attacks that make it quite clear to him that something is terribly wrong. He then worries for his family's safety and plans to leave the island at once.
A moving story of a woman with early onset Alzheimer's disease, now a major Academy Award-winning film starring Julianne Moore and Kristen Stewart. Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At fifty, she's a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a renowned expert in linguistics, with a successful husband and three grown children. When she begins to grow forgetful and disoriented, she dismisses it for as long as she can until a tragic diagnosis changes her life - and her relationship with her family and the world around her - for ever. Unable to care for herself, Alice struggles to find meaning and purpose as her concept of self gradually slips away. But Alice is a remarkable woman, and her family learn more about her and each other in their quest to hold on to the Alice they know. Her memory hanging by a frayed thread, she is living in the moment, living for each day. But she is still Alice. 'Remarkable … illuminating … highly relevant today' Daily Mail 'The most accurate account of what it feels like to be inside the mind of an Alzheimer's patient I've ever read. Beautifully written and very illuminating' Rosie Boycot 'Utterly brilliant' Chrissy Iley
"For Robert Carter, life in his coastal Maine hometown is comfortably predictable. But in 1976, on his first day of eighth grade, he meets Nathan Tilly, who changes everything. Nathan is confident, fearless, impetuous--and fascinated by kites and flying. Robert and Nathan's budding friendship is forged in the crucible of two family tragedies, and as the boys struggle to come to terms with loss, they take summer jobs at the local rundown amusement park. It's there that Nathan's boundless capacity for optimism threatens to overwhelm them both, and where they learn some harsh truths about family, desire, and revenge"--Amazon.com.
Chloe and Kellen have begun to build a life together. They have a new home on Jupiter Island. The spa is doing well. Kellens gym franchise is expanding. They are happy and seem to have everything they could possibly want. Or do they? Planning for their future should be a time of happiness. But their plans for a future together are challenged. Does Kellens past continue to interfere with their plans? Chloes love for Kellen will be tested. She stands to lose everything, even those she loves. Will she be strong enough to face the demons before them? Will she stay or walk away from the man she loves? Will Kellen be able to lay his past to rest and keep the woman he loves by his side? The romance and heat continue in Palm Beach County as the story of Chloe and Kellen takes many turns. Some are good; some are not. Will they be strong enough to make it through what lies ahead? Only time and love will tell.
In this memorable story, a young boy finds solace flying his kite from the rooftop after soldiers take his father and brother away. Without his father and brother, the young boy’s life is turned upside down. He and his family have to stay inside, along with everyone else in town. At suppertime, he can’t stop looking at the two empty places at the table and his sister can’t stop crying. The boy looks out the window and is chilled to see a tank’s spotlight searching the park where he plays with his friends. He hears shouts and gunshots and catches sight of someone running in the street — if only they could fly away, he thinks. Each day the curfew is lifted briefly, and the boy goes to the park to see his friends. One day, inspired by the wind in the trees, he has an idea. Back at home he makes a kite, and that night he flies it from his rooftop, imagining what it can see. In this moving story from Anne Laurel Carter, with haunting illustrations by Akin Duzakin, a young boy finds strength through his creativity and imagination. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.3 Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
