![]() ![]() Of course, anybody with half a brain would start wondering how someone could deliver a briefcase to someone’s bedroom closet! But that’s the least of Amari’s concerns at the moment. And it’s in the closet in Quinton’s room. A mysterious little guy show’s up at Amari’s door with the news that Amari’s brother sent her a briefcase holding something called a Broaden Your Horizons kit. Out of the blue, though, something completely unexpected happens. ![]() Not to mention a summer being worried while grounded! And, of course, Quinton is still missing too-the biggest issue of all. Now, Amari faces a summer worrying over where she’ll be going to school next fall. Mom kinda understands Amari’s actions, even though she’s disappointed. Because of the school’s no tolerance policy for violence … Amari loses her scholarship. But Amari’s mom gets called to the principal’s office. ![]() So when a snooty girl named Emily gets up in Amari’s face, again, and starts goading her that Quinton is probably dead, Amari snaps and pushes Emily down. ![]() Her brother, Quinton, has been inexplicably missing for weeks now, and Amari is incredibly worried. But on this particular day in the halls of Jefferson Academy-a fancy rich kid’s school that Amari can only attend thanks to a special scholarship-she isn’t in the mood to step away. And she’s usually wise enough to take her mom’s advice and step away from conflict when she is. Amari Peters knows she’s not the only kid who’s ever been bullied for being Black and poor. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Lauren Gunderson is the most-produced living playwright in the U.S. Wardrobe Assistants | Anna Chow and Cat Candow Written by Lauren Gunderson & Margot Melconįeaturing Caroline Bell, Caroline Coon, Kenzie Delo, Jeff Dingle, Patrick Jeffrey, Jillian Hanson and Natasha MacLellan.Īssistant Stage Manager | Patricia Vinluan The Wickhams is a charming holiday tale that explores the confines of class and the generosity of forgiveness. Wickham-Lydia’s rogue of a husband and Mr. But their work is interrupted by the midnight arrival of the definitely not invited Mr. Reynolds, a no-nonsense housekeeper Cassie, an eager new maid and Brian, a lovesick footman, are bustling with preparations for holiday guests. ![]() ![]() ![]() While last year’s production of Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley depicted the newly wed Darcys’ Christmas gathering on the ground floor of Pemberley, The Wickhams takes audiences to the downstairs servants’ quarters for that same celebration. In this delightful companion play to Miss Bennet, Gunderson and Melcon once again bring Austen’s beloved characters to the stage for a yuletide sequel to Pride and Prejudice. The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley By Lauren Gunderson & Margot Melcon ![]() ![]() ![]() Literally how did this win GR choice awards in YA fantasy with all the other amazing books on there? make it make sense Olivia has always wanted to belong somewhere, but will she take her place as a Prior, protecting our world against the Master of the House? Or will she take her place beside him? Now Olivia sees what has unraveled generations of her family, and where her father may have come from. The manor is crumbling, the ghouls are solid, and a mysterious figure rules over all. ![]() When she crosses a ruined wall at just the right moment, Olivia finds herself in a place that is Gallant-but not. Olivia knows that Gallant is hiding secrets, and she is determined to uncover them. But Olivia is not about to leave the first place that feels like home, it doesn’t matter if her cousin Matthew is hostile or if she sees half-formed ghouls haunting the hallways. Yet when Olivia arrives, no one is expecting her. ![]() Then, a letter invites Olivia to come home-to Gallant. Olivia Prior has grown up in Merilance School for girls, and all she has of her past is her mother’s journal-which seems to unravel into madness. A seam, where the shadow meets its source. And as with every shadow, there is a place where it must touch. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the countries of the West, House Berethnet are lost in the details of their own legend, rolling words like boulders about their queen, Sabran the Ninth, being the sacred source of the monster’s bindings. In this world, there are three empires at the brink of war-with one another, and within themselves. Legend goes that Galian Berethnet, wielding the mythical sword Ascalon, succeeded in drawing borders around the Nameless One’s power and consigning him to the Abyss, but whatever he did is melting away and the fire-breathing dragon will surge back with a vengeance, doling death in his wake. Without surrendering any spoilers, the story goes like this:Īfter a millennium of peace, rumors of the Nameless One’s return-gliding vulture-like in the skies above-had finally descended and sunk in their claws for good. This, I've come to realize, is the hallmark of a great book. The same experience of waking up just as the last vestiges of some delightful nocturnal adventure are disappearing. I barely felt time passing, and when I finished reading, I had the strange experience of looking up from the pages, feeling dreamy and obscure and so keenly aware of the world around me, almost to an abject degree. I feel like a thread of my heart had snagged in The Priory of The Orange Tree and is still trying to tug me back in. ![]() ![]() Only something lovely, vibrant and entirely delectable stops him. ![]() It's the life he never wanted, and there's one man to blame: the Duke of Bradenton. Only the father he never knew leaves him a title, wealth, lands and the responsibility to care for it all. Kenneth would much rather be in Scotland, the gorgeous country of his mother's ancestors, than in prim and proper England. If he won't abandon his revenge, she'll take matters into her own hands. When Kenneth Macleod, the new Duke of Foxworth, forges a feud against her brother, she doesn't care how powerful he is - or that neither man wants her involvement. Social justice crusader Sophia Hawkins will do anything to protect her family. Welcome to book 3 in the bestselling series The Secret Crusaders from the talented Melanie Rose Clarke What happens when the duke kidnaps her instead? When a Scottish duke targets her brother, Sophia will do anything to protect her family, including kidnapping the powerful lord. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If that weren’t enough, Clotho must face up to an old mistake she made several years ago that broke one of Zeus’s other rules: Never interrupt the telling of a fate. ![]() A competition where her identity as a fate could be revealed at any moment! During a secret trip to the Immortal Marketplace-where there is always a chance to run into mortals, too!-Clotho finds herself in over her head as she gets swept up in a competition to celebrate the opening a new store. There are a few rules that the all-powerful Zeus has decreed for them, including a strict no-mingling with mortals policy.Īfter Clotho discovers letterscrolls from unhappy mortals who don’t love their fates, she wishes there was a way to try and earn their respect. Together, they are all the Three Fates, with abilities to predict events in mortals’ lives. Get to know Clotho, one of the Three Fates, in this twenty-fifth Goddess Girls adventure!Įleven-year-old Clotho is always linked with her two big sisters. ![]() ![]() ![]() All the while, their own relationship with each other becomes strained.mostly because their lives now are taking different directions. Rebecca finds a job and Enid invests her energy in a social outcast, Seymour (Steve Buscemi). ![]() However, through the course of the film, these two sullen young ladies who try very hard not to care find themselves caring. They don't fit in with those around them and seem to enjoy giggling among themselves about how stupid and ridiculous everyone else is. In many ways, they are like hipster versions of Daria (from the wonderful cartoon series).but with a darker, nastier edge to them. ![]() However, they are far from the typical 17-18 year-olds. Enid (Thora Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson) just graduated from high school. It also features a vague ending.something which most film viewers would not appreciate. Its characters are certainly unusual but not necessarily crowd-pleasers. "Ghost World" is not a film for everyone. ![]() ![]() ![]() Do you remember when you were ten? How things would change from day-to-day? How you might struggle to understand what was going on in your world? Lois Lowry does such a great an impressive job of creating a real character, someone who really does exist, to some degree, in all of us, no matter what our age. Whether she’s mourning the disappearance of her wart or grappling with her grandmother’s dementia, you can see Anastasia’s life as a ten-year old over the course of a year in fifth grade. It is through Anastasia’s musings that we learn about the trials of being ten. On page fourteen, she keeps a list of things she loves and things she hates the items are always being updated. In fact, she has a green spiral notebook she keeps all of her lists in a list of words, beginnings of poems, and important events. She has a pet fish, Frank, and is about to become a big sister, something she is none too happy about realizes might be a wonderful thing. She is a bright, quirky ten-year old girl, the only daughter oldest child of a painter and a Harvard poetry professor. ![]() If you don’t know Anastasia, allow me to introduce her. But out of all those books, one is at the top of the list, Anastasia Krupnik by Lois Lowry. These books now line a shelf in my guest room and hold a special place in my heart. Storylines that resonated with me, characters I connected with. ![]() ![]() There are a handful of books that I’ve kept from my childhood. ![]() ![]() – Who is half monster and thus has to fight the 'evil' in his nature It does a good job dishing out elements that sound ripe for a good, fun, if not original time. ![]() This series seems popular, and I can see why. Show More lackluster writing is still irritating lackluster writing. The fate of the human world will be decided in the fight of Cal's life. ![]() And Cal is about to learn why they want him, why they've always wanted him.for he is the key to unleashing their hell on earth. He and his half-brother Niko have managed to stay a step ahead for three years, but now Cal's dad has found them again. Why? Cal hasn't exactly wanted to stick around long enough to find out. His father's dark lineage is the stuff of nightmares-and he and his entire otherworldly race are after Cal. Of course, most humans are oblivious to the preternatural nightlife around them, but Cal Leandros is only half-human. There's a troll under the Brooklyn Bridge, a boggle in Central Park, and a beautiful vampire in a penthouse on the Upper East Side-and that's only the beginning. I've known that ever since I can remember, just like I've always known I was one.Well, half of one, anyway." Welcome to the Big Apple. There always have been and there always will be. ![]() ![]() ![]() Robert Cargill had built feels more human and surreal that I have to remind myself that these characters are robots, not humans. But soon enough, the human-less world that C. Sure, humans (biological) are only mentioned in the book as no more than a remnant, memories of these robots that have now taken over the world. If you are looking for a book that is “less human” and more of like “artificial intelligence and robots” then you’d think Sea of Rust is the book for you. ![]() As she meets several robots, allies and enemies alike, she finds herself entangled in a mission to save the world that they (robots) thought they have saved! Robert Cargill’s Sea of Rust follows the story of Brittle, a scavenger robot (an almost humanlike AI), and her adventures in the wasteland called the Sea of Rust. Set in a post-apocalyptic world where robots now roamed the new Earth and humans have gone extinct, C. ![]() “It’s easy to cut off a hand to save the arm when you can grow that hand back overnight.” -Brittle, Sea of Rust ![]() |