![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We discover that they are both curious and like to explore new places.īe sure to check out this book if you have not already done so. My students think comparing a boy with a city is fun. One of my favorite comparisons to make is how Liam and the City Garden are alike. This book is great to compare and contrast activities. The author, Peter Brown writes an Author’s Note at the end of the book encouraging people to cooperate with nature. The garden is curious and soon begins to expand into unique places.īy the end of the story, the whole city begins to discover the beauty of nature. Liam encounters some obstacles, but soon the garden begins to grow. He finds a patch of plants struggling to survive, so he takes initiative to help them grow. The Curious Garden is about a boy named Liam who lives in a dreary city. ![]() You will never infer a fee or charge for this. This helps me to build my collection of books so I can share ideas with you. This post may contain affiliate links, which means if you click on one of the product links and make a purchase, I’ll receive a small commission. It has wonderful illustrations that will keep any reader engaged. The Curious Garden is a great book to use for an interactive read-aloud. Have you ever been so curious about something that you did all you could to learn about it? The Curious Garden is a magical story written by Peter Brown that inspires you to use grit and determination to achieve your goals. ![]()
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![]() ![]() There’s also exposition in case we didn’t read the first book or the preceding 400 pages of this one. There’s this thing about how the missing cradle is back in the house and did the Grandmother take it to have an excuse to punish Carrie? And if so, why hadn’t she done it? ![]() There’s a long rambling passage about the dollhouse and tv and how poor Cory used to set up train tracks to run over and under everything. She steps back into their bedroom and it knocks her flat with how unchanged it is. ![]() She wants to make a dramatic midnight entrance, and has about an hour and a half to kill. So Cathy easily obtains the emerald and diamond jewelry Corrine wore 15 years ago. New silk brocade on the walls, Cathy notes! Plum instead of pink!Ĭorrine has not changed the combination on her jewelry safe ever. ![]() Almost every rule will apply in this chapter. We should not play the drinking game in this chapter. Andrews really wants to make sure you catch the echo effect between the two Christmas parties. For earlier entries, check out the archive.Ĭathy uses her key to sneak into Foxworth Hall! She slinks up the back stairs to stand by the cabinet where they hid at the party 15 years ago! She looks down, and once again sees Bart Winslow with her mother, this time in bright red lamé! We later learn that Corrine’s dress is backless and reveals a hint of butt cleavage!Īnd it’s been a while since we’ve had to drink for “golly-lolly” but there it is. ![]() ![]() ![]() If that’s not bad enough, there’s a war brewing between the Mortal and Immortal Realms, and one of these teens is destined to tip the scales. If they fail, they risk the destruction of the faerie and human worlds alike. A Dark and Hollow Star, by Ashley Shuttleworth, is a young adult fantasy novel filled with LGBTQ+ characters, an intriguing plot, and immersive worldbuilding. This arrangement has long kept peace in the Courts - until a series of gruesome and ritualistic murders rocks the city of Toronto and threatens to expose faeries to the human world.įour queer teens, each who hold a key piece of the truth behind these murders, must form a tenuous alliance in their effort to track down the mysterious killer behind these crimes. The prince’s brooding guardian, burdened with a terrible secret.įor centuries, the Eight Courts of Folk have lived among us, concealed by magic and bound by law to do no harm to humans. ![]() The “ironborn” half-fae outcast of her royal fae family.Ī tempestuous Fury, exiled to Earth from the Immortal Realm and hellbent on revenge.Ī dutiful fae prince, determined to earn his place on the throne. The Cruel Prince meets City of Bones in this thrilling urban fantasy set in the magical underworld of Toronto that follows a queer cast of characters racing to stop a serial killer whose crimes could expose the hidden world of faeries to humans. “Beautifully written and deliciously complex…I couldn’t get enough.” (Nicki Pau Preto, author of the Crown of Feathers series) ![]() ![]() The cliff hanger ending to each chapter was only enhanced by the little bits of music that were put there. They were different to the ones I’d created in my head as I read the book, but they worked so well. ![]() She managed to differentiate between characters with lovely accents. To reacquaint myself with it for a presentation I listened to the audio book. To stay in the safety of Nevermoor for good, Morrigan will need to find a way to pass the tests - or she'll have to leave the city to confront her deadly fate. Except for Morrigan, who doesn't seem to have any special talent at all. ![]() In order to join, she must compete in four difficult and dangerous trials against hundreds of other children, each boasting an extraordinary talent that sets them apart. It's there that Morrigan discovers Jupiter has chosen her to contend for a place in the city's most prestigious organisation: the Wundrous Society. Chased by black-smoke hounds and shadowy hunters on horseback, he whisks her away into the safety of a secret, magical city called Nevermoor. But as Morrigan awaits her fate, a strange and remarkable man named Jupiter North appears. ![]() ![]() Born on an unlucky day, she is blamed for all local misfortunes, from hailstorms to heart attacks - and, worst of all, the curse means that Morrigan is doomed to die at midnight on Eventide. A breathtaking, enchanting new series by debut Australian author Jessica Townsend, about a cursed girl who escapes death and finds herself in a magical world - but is then tested beyond her wildest imagination. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() James wrote widely on many topics, including epistemology, education, metaphysics, psychology, religion, and mysticism. Du Bois, Edmund Husserl, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Hilary Putnam, and Richard Rorty.īorn into a wealthy family, James was the son of the Swedenborgian theologian Henry James Sr and the brother of both the prominent novelist Henry James, and the diarist Alice James. ![]() James' work has influenced intellectuals such as Émile Durkheim, W. He also developed the philosophical perspective known as radical empiricism. Along with Charles Sanders Peirce and John Dewey, he is considered to be one of the greatest figures associated with the philosophical school known as pragmatism, and is also cited as one of the founders of the functional psychology. The first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States, James was one of the leading thinkers of the late nineteenth century and is believed by many to be one of the most influential philosophers the United States has ever produced, while others have labelled him the "Father of American psychology". William James (Janu– August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist who was also trained as a physician. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. ![]() |