![]() Supporting characters, from Aaron’s father to his classmates, are also realistically portrayed.” “Kerz succeeds beautifully at crafting a convincing narrative centered on the life of a 12-year-old boy who cannot control his behavior…Aaron’s voice is convincing as a child desperate to understand his surroundings. When Aaron’s long-absent father returns, Aaron must cope with bullying at school, his grandmother’s illness and his father’s pregnant new wife.
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![]() ![]() But he LOVES his Zuri, and he'll do anything to make her - and her hair - happy. When Daddy steps in to style it for an extra special occasion, he has a lot to learn. It kinks, coils, and curls every which way. Cherry and New York Times bestselling illustrator Vashti Harrison. It's up to Daddy to give his daughter an extra-special hair style in this ode to self-confidence and the love between fathers and daughters, from former NFL wide receiver Matthew A. We need this." - Jordan Peele, Actor & Filmmaker Matthew leads the ranks of new creatives who are telling unique stories of the Black experience. ![]() Publisher's Synopsis: "I love that Hair Love is highlighting the relationship between a Black father and daughter. Reading Level: Early Childhood, Grade K, Grades 1-2, Grades 3-5 Presto! Just like that! There is nothing my hair can’t do!” Continue reading. Using before and after visual vignettes, Zuri explains, “From large to small it went. ![]() There’s even a nod to the “magic” of shrinkage, when stretched or straightened hair curls up tight and “shrinks” after getting wet. ![]() Zuri is a young African American girl who introduces readers to her fabulous hair, which “kinks, coils, and curls every which way.” Harrison’s dreamy digital artwork showcases Zuri’s different styles, including a ‘fro that literally sparkles, intricate braids and afro puffs that look as soft as the curling clouds that border the page. ![]() ![]() ![]() I said cover reveal!! I am SO excited to unveil the cover of NAMESAKE, the sequel to FABLE! You guys. ⭐️ COVER REVEAL ⭐️ No, you didn’t misread that. Together, they will have to survive more than the treacherous storms that haunt the Narrows if they’re going to stay alive. To do so Fable enlists the help of a young trader named West to get her off the island and across the Narrows to her father.īut her father’s rivalries and the dangers of his trading enterprise have only multiplied since she last saw him and Fable soon finds that West isn’t who he seems. The only thing that keeps her going is the goal of getting off the island, finding her father and demanding her rightful place beside him and his crew. To survive she must keep to herself, learn to trust no one and rely on the unique skills her mother taught her. The next day her father abandoned her on a legendary island filled with thieves and little food. ![]() ![]() It’s been four years since the night she watched her mother drown during an unforgiving storm. Where a young girl must find her place and her family while trying to survive in a world built for men.Īs the daughter of the most powerful trader in the Narrows, the sea is the only home seventeen-year-old Fable has ever known. ![]() Welcome to a world made dangerous by the sea and by those who wish to profit from it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Love and Freindship (the misspelling is one of many in the story) is clearly a parody of romantic novels Austen read as a child. The installments, written as letters from the heroine Laura, to Marianne, the daughter of her friend Isabel, may have come about as nightly readings by the young Jane in the Austen home. It was dedicated to her cousin Eliza de Feuillide, known as "La Comtesse de Feuillide". Written in epistolary form like her later unpublished novella, Lady Susan, Love and Freindship is thought to be one of the tales she wrote for the amusement of her family. ![]() If you carefully spell check the title of the book you would know Jane Austen's innocence while writing this work. They contain, among other works, Love and Freindship, written when she was fourteen, and The History of England, written when she was fifteen. These still exist, one in the Bodleian Library and the other two in the British Museum. From the age of eleven until she was eighteen, Austen wrote her tales in three notebooks. Love and Freindship is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790. ![]() |