Dream Catchers

Dream Catchers
Title Dream Catchers PDF eBook
Author Amy Friedman
Publisher
Total Pages
Release 2021
Genre
ISBN 9781952197079

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Dream Catchers, the seventh volume created by members of POPS the Club, is an enlightening and inspiring collection of art, prose, and poetry by high-school students with a unique perspective: they have encountered the pain of the prison system--most have incarcerated loved ones, and some have themselves been in detention. By telling and sharing their stories, they not only start the process of healing but also illuminate a world many of us are unfamiliar with. In its article about the book, Kirkus Reviews said, "Overall hopeful selections inspire a desire to rethink justice and enact change." POPS the Club offers a sacred space where students can draw, paint, write, photograph, talk, listen, and share their stories, untangling the web of shame, stigma, and sorrow they too often face. This collection represents the work of high school students from Los Angeles, Harrisburg, Atlanta, and New York City.

Dream Catchers: Pops the Club Anthology

Dream Catchers: Pops the Club Anthology
Title Dream Catchers: Pops the Club Anthology PDF eBook
Author Amy Friedman
Publisher
Total Pages 224
Release 2021-01-12
Genre Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN 9781952197062

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Anna's Test

Anna's Test
Title Anna's Test PDF eBook
Author Whitney Hollins
Publisher
Total Pages 40
Release 2019-06-10
Genre
ISBN 9781072977759

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Anna is an awesome student who looks forward to her spelling test each week so she can show her parents. Her dad is especially proud of her. When she goes to visit her dad in prison, Anna can't wait to share the good news with him! Written and illustrated by directly impacted individuals, Anna's Test is a book that fosters conversation and allows children with incarcerated parents to see themselves represented in literature. While Anna's story is not the story of every child with an incarcerated parent, it can serve to facilitate a much needed conversation about parental incarceration. Aiming to decrease the secrecy and stigma that is attached to parental incarceration and highlight the goodness of these families, Anna's Test focuses on positive family dynamics despite obstacles.

American Like Me

American Like Me
Title American Like Me PDF eBook
Author America Ferrera
Publisher Gallery Books
Total Pages 336
Release 2019-09-03
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1501180924

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From award-winning actress and political activist America Ferrera comes a vibrant and varied collection of first-person accounts from prominent figures about the experience of growing up between cultures. America Ferrera has always felt wholly American, and yet, her identity is inextricably linked to her parents’ homeland and Honduran culture. Speaking Spanish at home, having Saturday-morning-salsa-dance-parties in the kitchen, and eating tamales alongside apple pie at Christmas never seemed at odds with her American identity. Still, she yearned to see that identity reflected in the larger American narrative. Now, in American Like Me, America invites thirty-one of her friends, peers, and heroes to share their stories about life between cultures. We know them as actors, comedians, athletes, politicians, artists, and writers. However, they are also immigrants, children or grandchildren of immigrants, indigenous people, or people who otherwise grew up with deep and personal connections to more than one culture. Each of them struggled to establish a sense of self, find belonging, and feel seen. And they call themselves American enthusiastically, reluctantly, or not at all. Ranging from the heartfelt to the hilarious, their stories shine a light on a quintessentially American experience and will appeal to anyone with a complicated relationship to family, culture, and growing up.

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (National Book Award Finalist)

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (National Book Award Finalist)
Title The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (National Book Award Finalist) PDF eBook
Author E. Lockhart
Publisher Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages 350
Release 2009-09-17
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 1423136136

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The hilarious and razor-sharp story of how one girl went from geek to patriarchy-smashing criminal mastermind in two short years, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of We Were Liars and Genuine Fraud. * National Book Award finalist * * Printz Honor * Frankie Landau-Banks at age 14: Debate Club. Her father's "bunny rabbit." A mildly geeky girl attending a highly competitive boarding school. Frankie Landau-Banks at age 15: A knockout figure. A sharp tongue. A chip on her shoulder. And a gorgeous new senior boyfriend: the supremely goofy, word-obsessed Matthew Livingston. Frankie Landau-Banks. No longer the kind of girl to take "no" for an answer. Especially when "no" means she's excluded from her boyfriend's all-male secret society. Not when she knows she's smarter than any of them. When she knows Matthew's lying to her. And when there are so many pranks to be done. Frankie Landau-Banks, at age 16: Possibly a criminal mastermind. This is the story of how she got that way.

Crow Winter

Crow Winter
Title Crow Winter PDF eBook
Author Karen McBride
Publisher HarperAvenue
Total Pages 288
Release 2019-09-17
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9781443459679

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Nanabush. A name that has a certain weight on the tongue—a taste. Like lit sage in a windowless room or aluminum foil on a metal filling. Trickster. Storyteller. Shape-shifter. An ancient troublemaker with the power to do great things, only he doesn’t want to put in the work. Since coming home to Spirit Bear Point First Nation, Hazel Ellis has been dreaming of an old crow. He tells her he’s here to help her, save her. From what, exactly? Sure, her dad’s been dead for almost two years and she hasn’t quite reconciled that grief, but is that worth the time of an Algonquin demigod? Soon Hazel learns that there’s more at play than just her own sadness and doubt. The quarry that’s been lying unsullied for over a century on her father’s property is stirring the old magic that crosses the boundaries between this world and the next. With the aid of Nanabush, Hazel must unravel a web of deceit that, if left untouched, could destroy her family and her home on both sides of the Medicine Wheel.

The Complete Stephen King Universe

The Complete Stephen King Universe
Title The Complete Stephen King Universe PDF eBook
Author Stan Wiater
Publisher Macmillan
Total Pages 548
Release 2006-05-30
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780312324902

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"The Complete Stephen King Universe is the only definitive reference work that examines all of Stephen King?s novels, short stories, motion pictures, miniseries, and teleplays, and deciphers the threads that exist in all of his work. This ultimate resource includes in-depth story analyses, character breakdowns, little-known facts, and startling revelations on how the plots, themes, characters, and conflicts intertwine" -- publisher website (February 2007).