Skim
Title | Skim PDF eBook |
Author | Mariko Tamaki |
Publisher | Groundwood Books Ltd |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 2014-04-29 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 1554980690 |
A New York Times Book Review choice as one of the 10 Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2008. Skim is Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a not-slim, would-be Wiccan goth stuck in a private girls' school in Toronto. When a classmate's boyfriend kills himself because he was rumoured to be gay, the school goes into mourning overdrive, each clique trying to find something to hold on to and something to believe in. It's a weird time to fall in love, but that's high school, and that's what happens to Skim when she starts to meet in secret with her neo-hippie English teacher, Ms. Archer. But when Ms. Archer abruptly leaves, Skim struggles to cope with her confusion and isolation, armed with her trusty journal and a desire to shed old friendships while cautiously approaching new ones. Depression, love, sexual identity, crushes, manipulative peers --teen life in all its dramatic complexities is explored in this touching, pitch-perfect, literary graphic masterpiece. Cousins Mariko and Jillian Tamaki collaborate brilliantly in this poignant glimpse into the heartache of being sixteen. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.7 Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem). CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3 Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6 Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.
Skim, Dive, Surface
Title | Skim, Dive, Surface PDF eBook |
Author | Jenae Cohn |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2021-06 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781952271038 |
Students are reading on screens more than ever--how can we teach them to be better digital readers?
Skim Deep
Title | Skim Deep PDF eBook |
Author | Max Allan Collins |
Publisher | Titan Books (US, CA) |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 2021-01-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1789091403 |
The first new Nolan novel in 33 years from one of the masters of the genre, Max Allan Collins, award-winning author of Road to Perdition. The onetime world-class thief Nolan - now happily gone straight with his own restaurant/nightclub - whisks his longtime lover Sherry off to Vegas for a trip to a wedding chapel and a honeymoon stay. But an eye-in-the-sky security cam at a casino spots Nolan, whose past catches up with him when he's thought to be casing the joint. An old "friend" sees Nolan as the perfect patsy for a scheme to heist the weekly skim haul, and when the former thief's young frequent accomplice, Jon - a musician in the casino's house band - finds the couple mysteriously, suspiciously missing, it's up to Nolan's Best Man to keep wedding bells from tolling a funeral march.
A Nickel's Worth of Skim Milk
Title | A Nickel's Worth of Skim Milk PDF eBook |
Author | Robert J. Hastings |
Publisher | SIU Press |
Pages | 172 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780809313051 |
Told from the point of view of a young boy, this account shows how a family "faced the 1930s head on and lived to tell the story." It is the story of growing up in southern Illinois, specifically the Marion, area during the Great Depression. But when it was first published in 1972 the book proved to be more than one writer's memories of depression-era southern Illinois. "People started writing me from all over the country," Hastings notes. "And all said much the same: 'You were writing about my family, as much as your own. That's how I remember the 1930s, too.'" As he proves time and again in this book, Hastings is a natural storyteller who can touch upon the detail that makes the tale both poignant and universal. He brings to life a period that marked every man, woman, and child who lived through it even as that national experience fades into the past.
Active Learning
Title | Active Learning PDF eBook |
Author | Sherrie L. Nist |
Publisher | Longman Publishing Group |
Pages | 422 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN |
Helps student to understand himself as a learner and what it takes to succeed. Focuses on four key factors; Students characteristics as learners; the tasks which must be completed in each class; the strategies that will help the student to read, understand and remember what professors expect him to learn and the texts with which the student interact.
Words Onscreen
Title | Words Onscreen PDF eBook |
Author | Naomi S. Baron |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 0199315760 |
In Words Onscreen, Naomi Baron offers a fascinating and timely look at how technology affects the way we read.
Haven's Secret (The Powers Book 1)
Title | Haven's Secret (The Powers Book 1) PDF eBook |
Author | Melissa Benoist |
Publisher | Abrams |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2021-10-26 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1647002109 |
Two sisters come to terms with their extraordinary powers in a new middle grade fantasy from Supergirl’s Melissa Benoist and her sister, the writer Jessica Benoist, with the New York Times bestselling author, Mariko Tamaki Ellie McFadden has intuitive gifts. She can sense what other living things are feeling. She can even talk to animals! Too bad she can’t connect with her twin sister, Parker. Parker McFadden has kinetic gifts. She can cause shocks to the earth and produce heat energy that explodes from her body like fire, especially when she is angry. The sisters aren’t aware of the legacy they inherited from their mother until, on their thirteenth birthday, two mysterious relatives on the Power side whisk them off to an isolated sanctuary called Haven. Ellie immediately adapts to their new routine, but Parker has one impulse: to get back to her normal life of friends and sports, fast. Unlocking Haven’s secrets is just the beginning of what Ellie and Parker can do if they choose to work together to harness their abilities. But the sinister force that took their mother has other plans; and if the sisters’ fragile relationship succumbs to The Danger, a terrible fate may befall the people they love. This epic tale of two remarkable girls and the powers they wield is sure to appeal to fans of Chris Colfer, Rick Riordan, and Tui T. Sutherland.