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Girls' last tour. 5
\"Their search for water drives the girls into uncharted territory, but gethering supplies often leads to new discoveries about the people of old--and occationally, stores of delicious food! Each stratum the girls climb offers a chance for adventure, even if it sometimes proves dangerous\"--Back cover.
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Ice-Out
Walking on thin ice: on Rainy Lake, in the northern reaches of Minnesota, it's more than a saying. And for Owen Jensen, nineteen and suddenly responsible for keeping his mother and five brothers alive, the ice is thin indeed.
Ice-Out returns to the frigid and often brutal Prohibition-era borderland of Mary Casanova's beloved novelFrozen, and to the characters who made it a favorite among readers of all ages. Owen, smitten withFrozen's Sadie Rose, is struggling to make something of himself at a time when no one seems to hold the moral high ground. Bootlegging is rife, corruption is rampant, and lumber barons run roughshod over the people and the land. As hard as things seem when his father dies, stranding his impoverished family, they get considerably tougher-and more complicated-when Owen gets caught up in the suspicious deaths of a sheriff and deputy on the border.
Inspired by real events in early 1920s Minnesota, and by Mary Casanova's own family history,Ice-Outis at once a story of young romance against terrible odds and true grit on the border between license and responsibility, rich and poor, and right and wrong in early twentieth-century America.
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From Kwvtxhiaj and PajNtaub to Theater and Literature: The Role of Generation, Gender and Human Rights in the Expansion of Hmong American Art
After they arrived in the US, Hmong refugees expanded their artistic expressions from kwvtxhiaj (singing) and pajntaub (embroidery) to spoken word performances, plays, painting exhibits, poetry publications, and other creative genres. This article examines the thriving Hmong American arts scene in Minnesota to explain why these refugees invested scarce time and resources in art when they were still busy meeting basic needs and confronting external oppression. It presents the findings from content analysis of Hmong newspaper articles about 62 public art events involving 248 Hmong American artists from 2002 to 2011. The article shows that this ten-year period began with the first Hmong art exhibition and the first book of Hmong fiction in world history. These and other Hmong American art forms addressed three social problems: 1) intergenerational conflict; 2) gender inequality; and 3) human rights violations in Laos and the US. The development of Hmong American art was, therefore, a dynamic adaptation to new diaspora challenges rather than simply an attempt to preserve Hmong culture.
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Society at a Glance 2009
Society at a Glance offers a concise quantitative overview of social trends and policies across the OECD. This 2009 edition includes a wide range of information on social issues – such as demography and family characteristics, employment and unemployment, poverty and inequality, social and health care expenditure, and work and life satisfaction –as well as a guide to help readers understand the structure of OECD social indicators. In addition to updating some of the indicators from previous editions, Society at a Glance 2009 adds several new and innovative social indicators, including adult height, perceived health status, risky youth behaviour and bullying. For the first time, the report also provides a condensed set of headline social indicators summarising social well-being in OECD countries. In addition, a special chapter examines leisure time across the OECD.
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Implicit Protest in Elizabeth Madox Roberts' The Time of Man
Roberts scholars agree that the novel focuses on the inner life of its protagonist, Ellen Chesser, and that external environmental and social factors serve as backdrop for illuminating her spiritual growth as she matures into womanhood.2 Clearly, The Time of Man (1926) is neither political propaganda nor an overt piece of protest fiction. In a book-length study of Roberts, Rovit raises a valid question concerning Ellen Chesser's ability to function as an everyman figure, since her poor-white experiences were distinctly unlike those of Roberts' contemporary readers.4 In From Tobacco Road to Route 66, Cook even goes a step farther, stating: it is apparent that she [Ellen] will be an unlikely tool for propagandists out to reform the poor white's lot.. ..The reader is bound to respond with revulsion to the filth, vermin, pain, and hunger that Ellen accepts as the normal circumstances of her life and to be aware how much of her superb energy is being sapped battling needless obstacles.5 Ellen and the other characters in The Time of Man are necessarily concerned with meeting basic human needs that Roberts' audience would have taken (and probably still take) for granted, but the novel's readers also witness poor-white characters experiencing a variety of universal human emotions here, including vanity, jealousy, sadness, loneliness, and fear.
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Migrant Rationalities: Graduate Students and the Idea of Authority in the Writing Center
Uses Michele Le Doeuff's theories about reverie, reflection, and migrant rationality to rethink the crossroads in the writing center between individual desires and disciplinary ideals. Examines the situations of four graduate students who find themselves contained or restricted by the limitations of discourse in their disciplines. Discusses how discourse moves from either/or choice to eventful dialectic. (TB)
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Basic skills, gripping stories
Blum discusses several publishers that offer books for teenagers with a low reading age that are interesting and aspiring. Included are Folens, Barrington Stoke, Heinemann, and Oxford University Press.
Trade Publication Article
Puppets create bags of story fun
TES writers look at the latest classroom resources to be demonstrated at next week's exhibition. Carolyn Worth (below) reports on how toys and tapes have been luring pupils to a magical world of books
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Books are no longer for browsing
Carol Fox seeks to furnish a classroom at the NATE conference publishers' exhibition
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Arresting exercises for the weaker sex
Margaret Wallen, Peter Traves and Margaret Fairclough, members of a SCAA working party that investigated ways of improving boys' performance in English, offer some practical advice
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