![]() ![]() Go for broke, and while you're at it, the high score. For every stanza your tongue trips up on, subtract one point. High Score Mode: There are fifty-eight stanzas in the book.Here are a couple of our favorite modes of play: The tongue twisters on the page are meant to challenge the reader while also being enjoyable, and you only get better as you play.Īs a bonus, Fox in Socks can be played by yourself or with your family and friends. Is One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish just about silly rhymes or is it about exploring a child's sense of wonder? Are the Sneetches just pot-bellied birds, or are they a warning against prejudice and capitalism? Thankfully, Seuss takes the guesswork out of Fox in Socks.īoth Fox and Knox refer to their word-bending endeavors as a "game" (31.4, 58.2), and that's exactly what Fox in Socks is really about: making language and reading a game. Sometimes Seuss can be sneaky with what his books are really about. ![]()
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![]() Like many locals, seventeen-year-old Penny Talbot has accepted the fate of the town. Now, for a brief time each summer, the sisters return, stealing the bodies of three weak-hearted girls so that they may seek their revenge, luring boys into the harbor and pulling them under. Stones were tied to their ankles and they were drowned in the deep waters surrounding the town. Where, two centuries ago, three sisters were sentenced to death for witchery. Hocus Pocus and Practical Magic meets the Salem Witch trials in this haunting story about three sisters on a quest for revenge-and how love may be the only thing powerful enough to stop them. “Eerie and enchanting.” -Jessica Spotswood, author of The Cahill Witch Chronicles “A story about the redemptive power of love.” -Amber Smith, New York Times bestselling author of The Way I Used to Be “Prepare to be bewitched.” -Paula Stokes, author of Girl Against the Universe “Complex and sweetly satisfying.” - Booklist ![]() “A wickedly chilling debut.” - School Library Journal ![]() ![]() ![]() And if Joey wants to go far in life, he needs to start dating more serious guys. On their one-year anniversary.īecause, according to Joey, Blaine is too goofy, too flighty, too…unserious. Popular of Wicker West High School, Joey-is going to invite Blaine to spend spring break with his family in beautiful, sunny Cabo San Lucas.Įxcept Joey breaks up with him instead. And he is absolutely, 100% positive that aforementioned perfect boyfriend-senior student council president and Mr. High school junior Blaine Bowers has it all-the perfect boyfriend, a pretty sweet gig as a muralist for local Windy City businesses, a loving family, and awesome, talented friends. ![]() ![]() After being dumped so his boyfriend can pursue more “serious” guys, a teen boy decides to prove he can be serious, too, by running for senior class president in this joyful romp from the author of The Sky Blues. ![]() ![]() In January, a Yorktown teenager was waived into adult jurisdiction for her alleged role in a fatal shooting in Muncie.ĭaisy Craft was 17 on Dec, 12 when she allegedly fired a gunshot that fatally wounded 17-year-old Kayden Devon Lee at a home in the 1500 block of West Stirling Drive. He is reportedly being held at a juvenile detention facility. The youth - whose name has not been released - was then arrested, and the other suspects were released. Members of the New Castle/Henry County Major Case team at first received names of four possible "subjects of interest." However, witnesses reported they had heard gunfire, and emergency responders determined Thornsberry had "injuries consistent with a gunshot wound," according to a release. More: Yorktown teen held in fatal shooting waived into adult court New Castle police had received a report of a possible hit-and-run accident involving a pedestrian at that intersection. The New Castle man was transported by ambulance to Henry County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. was found mortally wounded at 21st Street and A Avenue. ![]() The boy was arrested - on a preliminary count of murder - on May 3, hours after 47-year-old Ernest D. NEW CASTLE, Ind. - Henry County Prosecutor Michael Mahoney wants to charge a 13-year-old boy as an adult in a fatal shooting.Ī hearing will be held in juvenile court on Mahoney's motion to waive the juvenile's case into adult jurisdiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There was more emotion for me in the tenderness of Francine Rivers' Redeeming Love (some of the best Christian fiction ever written, in my opinion) than the extremely descriptive scene in chapter 32. I know I'm probably all alone in that thinking, but that's how I feel. Much like the Black Dagger Brotherhood, these books are not for the easily offended.Ĭhapter 32 went too far. The Night Huntress series is toeing the line of way too much sexuality for me personally, but I think the plots are great and will keep reading for the cleverness of the writing. Now I get it.while I was prepared for the heavy-handedness of that particular bedroom scene I was not prepared for it to be enmeshed in such a good story. ![]() I've seen plenty of people around the blogosphere talking about Bones and Chapter 32 but I didn't know what all that was about until I read One Foot in the Grave. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Robyn Hood: Age of Darkness is from about three months back, and it is set at an earlier time of the event timeline as the Dark Queen prepares for her army to take over the Grimm-verse and Robyn is dragged into the queen’s web of conspiracy and mystery and deceit. ![]() This time I went a bit farther into Robyn’s history than the Robyn Hood: Legend #1 issue I read over the weekend. That I am coming in to these books in the “middle” of the story hasn’t really bothered me, and that too has been a good thing. And in particular, I’ve found their gender-bending spin on Robin Hood to be one of the best things about their Grimm-verse right now, because Robyn Locksley aka Robyn Hood has proven to be quite a feisty and interesting character. I haven’t dabbled too much into it as yet, but what little I’ve read has proven to be better than I expected, much better, and that in itself is quite rewarding. Getting back into Zenescope’s various books with their Age of Darkness crossover event has been quite a fun experience. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ogion tries to teach Ged about magic and the balance of powers. The boy uses that magic to defend his town when raiders attack.īecause of his success with the raiders, the boy is taken in as an apprentice by the mage Ogion, who gives the boy his true name, Ged. ![]() The slightly less brief version: a wild boy is born, doesn't like his dad's work, and learns some magic from his witchy aunt. Once he's grown up a bit, we see him try to fix the terrible mistake he made.Īnd that's that! Wait, you're intrigued? You want more? OK, then, here goes… ![]() We meet a young boy who is wild and proud, then we see him make a terrible mistake and face something that he's not powerful enough to deal with. Here's the incredibly brief version: A Wizard of Earthsea is a coming-of-age story. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() it was a rule of life that the Family of Ur was discovering: the more committed a family becomes to a given project, the more vulnerable it also becomes.But the fear which the family was now discovering was of another kind: it sprang from the slow-maturing apprehension regarding the relationship of man to his world, the gnawing suspicion that perhaps things were not so simple as they seemed on this average autumn day when ripening grain hid in the stalks and a rumor of deer echoed in the forest.You need these people very much, Cullinane, but we can’t spare them and you’re too frightened to take them.” They’re built by the units we saw tonight. Symphonies and cathedrals are not built by the children of upper-middle-class families.that work, productive work, is the salvation of man, and especially of the Jew. ![]() ![]() ![]() Helen is so entranced by the images the music creates in her mind that she leaves, inadvertently taking an umbrella that belongs to Leonard Bast. ![]() Not long after, the Schlegel sisters attend a concert featuring a performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. She is attracted to the younger Wilcox son, Paul, and they become engaged in haste but soon regret their decision, breaking off the engagement by mutual consent. Helen, the younger Schlegel daughter, visits the Wilcoxes at their country house, Howards End. The Schlegels had briefly met and befriended the Wilcoxes when both families were in Germany. ( June 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. ![]() This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. ![]() ![]() ![]() It has adventure, mystery, gruesome villains, hidden treasures and a trio of friends you can laugh along with. "There's only one word for The Deep Enders, unputdownable. The Deep Enders is a wild ride for readers!" – Leah James (Film Producer) "An action-packed adventure filled with wonderful characters, life and color. “A gripping read that will have you on the edge of your seat.” – BookBuzz Magazine As Japanese warships close in on the Australian coastline, the trio is suddenly thrust into a murderous adventure - all set against the backdrop of a true WWII tragedy, so brutal that it was immediately covered up by the Government. Murph is quickly taken under wing by Banjo - a cheeky Aboriginal scamp with a passion for pyrotechnics - and Micki, a beautiful teenager on the run from authorities. The Deep Enders BOOK TRAILER - by Dave Reardon (young adult fiction) Watch on A gripping read that will have you on the edge of your seat. Instead, the troubled teen discovers a wild and lawless place brimming with espionage, treachery and romance. ![]() His home destroyed in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, Murph Turner stumbles into the exotic town of Broome seeking safe refuge. ![]() |