Skim
Title | Skim PDF eBook |
Author | Mariko Tamaki |
Publisher | Groundwood Books Ltd |
Total 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
Title | Skim PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Henege |
Publisher | Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited |
Total Pages | 276 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780897331906 |
The officers of the Manhattan Banking Corporation and their families, friends, and employees walk a dangerous tightrope when a billion-dollar loan is made to the corrupt West African Republic of Maraka.
Skim, Dive, Surface
Title | Skim, Dive, Surface PDF eBook |
Author | Jenae Cohn |
Publisher | |
Total 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) |
Total 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.
Comparative Skimming Qualities of Hostein and Jersey Milk
Title | Comparative Skimming Qualities of Hostein and Jersey Milk PDF eBook |
Author | William Dabney Saunders |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 20 |
Release | 1901 |
Genre | Dairy processing |
ISBN |
Oildom
Title | Oildom PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1034 |
Release | 1922 |
Genre | Petroleum industry and trade |
ISBN |
A Nickel's Worth of Skim Milk
Title | A Nickel's Worth of Skim Milk PDF eBook |
Author | Robert J. Hastings |
Publisher | SIU Press |
Total 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.