National Geographic supports K-12 educators with ELA Common Core Resources. This is a compelling tale that looks into a little known slice of history, sure to rivet young readers and adults alike. Northup is rescued from his master's cotton plantation in the deep South by friends in New York. Today, there is an historical sign commemorating Northup at the very place he was abducted. But the tale also has a remarkable ending. This remarkable story follows Northup through his 12 years of bondage as a man kidnapped into slavery, enduring the hardships of slave life in Louisiana. He managed to slip his hand into his pocket to look for his free papers that proved he was one of 400,000 free blacks in a nation where 2.5 million other African Americans were slaves. Slowly, he realized that he was handcuffed in a dark room and his feet were chained to the floor. Solomon Northup awoke in the middle of the night with his body trembling. The true story behind the acclaimed movie 12 Years a Slave, this book is based on the life of Solomon Northup, a free black man from New York who was captured in the United States and sold into slavery in Louisiana.
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We often assume that power flows to those with the loudest voice or the most commanding presence. It’s about how much we are needed and how well we take care of other people. It isn’t merely a function of status or hierarchy, either. Power exists in every relationship, not just at the top of big institutions. Grounded in over two decades’ worth of scientific research and inspired by the popular class of the same name at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Acting with Power offers a new and eye-opening paradigm that overturns everything we thought we knew about the nature of power.Īlthough we all feel powerless sometimes, we have more power than we tend to believe. There is so much we get wrong about power: who has it, what it looks like, and the role it plays in our lives. But how much do we really know about how to use power well? We all know what it looks like to use power badly. “A refreshing and enlightening new perspective on what it means to be powerful.”-Susan Cain, bestselling author of Quiet The series was the second to be launched in 2005 under DC's All-Star imprint, the first being All Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder. Some of the ideas planned for "Superman Now" were subsequently reused for All-Star Superman. Morrison originally planned a revamp of the Superman character, titled "Superman Now", but after the approach was declined, decided they wouldn't write anything related to Superman until DC Vice President Dan DiDio contacted them. The origin of the series started with Morrison's desire to tell a "timeless" Superman story that wasn't an origin story or followed a classic narrative. The series revolves around Superman, who is dying due to overexposure to the Sun, as he accomplishes many heroic feats (The Twelve Labors of Superman) and attempts to make peace with the world before his imminent death. The series was written by Grant Morrison, drawn by Frank Quitely, and digitally inked by Jamie Grant. The series ran from November 2005 to October 2008. All-Star Superman is a twelve-issue American comic book series featuring Superman that was published by DC Comics. "Tensions are high as the plot bounces between gameplay and sleuthing, ultimately reaching a satisfying conclusion. "Books like “Fast Pitch” are welcome evidence that writers for young readers are continuing to move beyond narratives in which the primary problem is a character’s marginalization." -The New York Times "Black girl magic hits a home run in Stone's latest novel." - Publishers Weekly, Starred Review What more could you want? A funny, charming page-turner.” –Adam Gidwitz, New York Times bestselling author It's up to Shenice to discover the truth about her family’s past-and fast-before secrets take the Firebirds out of the game forever. And Shenice’s teammates are beginning to wonder if she’s captain-qualified. Strike three: Broken focus means mistakes on the field. Strike two: Shenice’s focus gets shaken when her great-uncle Jack reveals that a career-ending-and family-name-ruining-crime may have been a setup. Strike one: As the sole team of all-brown faces, Shenice and the Firebirds have to work twice as hard to prove that Black girls belong at bat. But life has thrown some curveballs her way. Nothing can stop her from leading her team to the U12 fast-pitch softball regional championship. Shenice Lockwood, captain of the Fulton Firebirds, is hyper-focused when she steps up to the plate. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone comes a challenging and heartwarming coming-of-age story about a softball player looking to prove herself on and off the field. Suffering from terminal lung cancer, Constantine meets with the half-breed angel Gabriel to request an extension to his life in exchange for his work deporting Hell's forces. There, cynical occult expert John Constantine exorcises a demon from a young girl after witnessing its attempt to come through her to Earth, something that should be impossible because of a treaty between Heaven and Hell. In Mexico, a scavenger recovers the tip of the spear that pierced Jesus Christ from a ruined church and, after becoming possessed, takes it to Los Angeles. In the following years, it has been considered as a cult film. It grossed $230.9 million worldwide against a production budget between $70–100 million, but met with a mixed reception from film critics. Rachel Weisz, Shia LaBeouf, Tilda Swinton, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Djimon Hounsou, Gavin Rossdale, and Peter Stormare also feature.Ĭonstantine was released theatrically in the United States on February 18, 2005. The film stars Keanu Reeves as John Constantine, a cynical exorcist with the ability to perceive and communicate with half-angels and half-demons in their true forms and to travel between Earth and Hell. Written by Kevin Brodbin and Frank Cappello from a story by Brodbin, it is loosely based on the DC Comics/ Vertigo Comics Hellblazer graphic novels. Constantine is a 2005 American superhero horror film directed by Francis Lawrence in his directorial debut. Tally's initial prim and rather academic narration becomes richer and more dreamlike as her story unfolds. “The stunning, densely packed story is full of as much intoxicating poetry as meticulous scientific explanations. Fluid and aching, with a diverse cast and rich worldbuilding.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Tally's growth throughout is palpable, and the language-whether describing sex or music or nightmares-is breathtaking. She is the author of All Our Pretty Songs, Dirty Wings, and About a Girl. She has bicycled alone across two continents and worked as a domestic violence advocate, a circus performer, a clearcut surveyor, an archivist, and a letterpress printer. In August of 2009 she started the personal blog The blog currently has over a thousand followers and gets over 20,000 hits a month. Since 1999, she’s written and produced the zine Glossolalia it’s currently in the permanent collections of libraries across the country, including Columbia University, Barnard College, the Multnomah County Public Library, and the San Francisco Public Library. She has published essays in Listen Up: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation (Seal Press) and Voices of a New Generation: A Feminist Anthology (Prentice Hall). She is the recipient of a MacDowell Colony fellowship and has written for Glamour, The Stranger newspaper, the Huffington Post Books Blog, and Tor.com. Scott lives with his loving family in Northern California. He's currently a Story Supervisor at Pixar and has also worked for Cartoon Network, Disney, and Nickelodeon. Scott Morse is the award-winning author of many graphic novels for children and adults, as well as the creator of The Magic Pickle Graphic Novel and the Magic Pickle chapter book series with Graphix. For more information, visit and /goosebumps. You can connect with him on Twitter at or Facebook: /rlstine. His other popular children's books include the series Fear Street, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room, and Rotten School, and his picture books, with Marc Brown, The Little Shop of Monsters and Mary McScary. Goosebumps is one of the bestselling children's series of all-time and inspired a popular television show, as well as a feature film starring Jack Black that opened at #1 at the box office. Stine is the creator of the bestselling Goosebumps series, which has more than 400 million copies in print worldwide and celebrated 25 years in 2017. There's some sexual content (lots of kissing, it's implied one charatcer has sex with a boy), language (including "s–t"), and some pretty intense, if mostly age-appropriate, emotional situations. The characters do make some poor decisions, but they each grow and learn from them. Readers learn the rules to wearing the pants, which help the girls discover their inner strength and positive self-image. This book's emphasis on strong, supportive girl friendships may inspire readers to examine how they interact with their own friends and what they think being supportive to other people looks like. Parents need to know that The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is the first book in Ann Brashares' series about a group of girls who share a pair of "magical" pants to bond and stay connected to one another's experiences. These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. The information collected is used to measure user activity on the web and to create user navigation profiles, in order to improve the web, as well as the products and services offered. They are those that make it possible to monitor and analyze the behavior of users on our page. This type of cookies allows the user to navigate through a web page, platform or application and use the different options or services that exist in it, such as, for example, controlling traffic and data communication, identifying the session, access parts of restricted access, select the language, or share content through social networks. Cookies allow a web page, among other things, to store and retrieve information about the browsing habits of a user or their computer, manage user access to restricted areas of the web, etc. A cookie is a file that is downloaded to your computer when you access certain web pages. If someone doesn't have authentic experiences with diversity/humanity then it's hard to learn that - it will be superficial and will come across that way. I don't think it's different than any other book if you consciously live with diversity. How does writing a book with diverse characters and themes differ from writing any other book? In recent years, publishing has become much more accepting of diversity. Of course, I rely on his input to ensure I've done the best I can. I incorporate their feedback and then it's on to my literary agent. Once I'm done, I let it sit again and after re-reading it and being satisfied, I'll send it to my trusted critique partners and sometimes beta readers. And then I have periods where I let it sit and then return to it with fresh eyes. After that, it's butt-in-chair for certain hours a day or week when I try to write with a goal in mind usually scene or chapter goals (I'm not a word-count counting queen). I also look at visuals and spend time in places I want to use in my story. I do a lot of note-taking during this period - including yes, in the shower and in the middle of the night. This is when ideas are gathering and I'm settling on important threads, themes, characters, scenes, settings etc. It looks like it may be different each time but there are certain markers that appear to be the same. What's the journey from initial idea to completed project? Describe the novel writing process for you. |