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Something about Hensley's
Hensley's, a neighborhood general store, always seems to have what Molly, Kate, and their mother need.
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The Bogan Mondrian
A powerful and heart-stopping young adult novel from a master storyteller. This is Steven Herrick at his best. 'There are worse things than school.' Luke sleepwalks through his days wagging school, swimming at the reservoir and eating takeaway pizza. That is until Charlotte shows up. Rumour is she got expelled from her city school and her family moved to the Blue Mountains for a fresh start. But when Luke's invited to her house, he discovers there's a lot more going on than meets the eye.
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Don't tell anyone
Twelve-year-old Megan does not realize that feeding a group of feral cats living in a field near her house will involve her as a witness to a traffic accident and in the dangerous plan of an unstable criminal.
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The Anti-Social Effects of Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage: Fact or Fiction?
IntroductionPrevious research examines the effects of same-sex marriage on many child and family outcomes, but only a small subset examines the effects of laws on those outcomes. We evaluate the effects of same-sex marriage legalization in the USA on four socio-familial outcomes.MethodsWe use currently available public data from the U.S. Census and CDC to analyze changes in state-level legalization of same-sex marriage on rates of child poverty, divorce, marriage, and children living in single-parent households within each state from 2011 to 2016. The estimators use traditional cross-sectional time-series methodologies, along with adjusting for high-dimensional fixed-effects (HDFE) clustering to account for both spatial and temporal dependence of state-time observations.ResultsWe find no evidence to validate claims of negative ramifications from same-sex marriage legalization on these outcomes.DiscussionWith respect to the arguments articulated in Supreme Court amici briefs, we show that assertions of negative social effects of legalized same-sex marriage are largely unsupported.ConclusionIn addition to illustrating the gains from HDFE estimators, we conclude that warnings of likely negative effects from same-sex marriage, such as disallowing adoption by same-sex couples, are not credible.
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The seeing stone
When Mallory and Jared attempt to rescue Simon from goblins, they use a magical stone which enables them to see things that are normally invisible.
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The road out
Can one teacher truly make a difference in her students’ lives when everything is working against them? Can a love for literature and learning save the most vulnerable of youth from a life of poverty? The Road Out is a gripping account of one teacher’s journey of hope and discovery with her students—girls growing up poor in a neighborhood that was once home to white Appalachian workers, and is now a ghetto. Deborah Hicks, set out to give one group of girls something she never had: a first-rate education, and a chance to live their dreams. A contemporary tragedy is brought to life as she leads us deep into the worlds of Adriana, Blair, Mariah, Elizabeth, Shannon, Jessica, and Alicia: seven girls coming of age in poverty. This is a moving story about girls who have lost their childhoods, but who face the street’s torments with courage and resiliency. “I want out,” says 10-year-old Blair, a tiny but tough girl who is extremely poor and yet deeply imaginative and precocious. Hicks tries to convey to her students a sense of the power of fiction and of sisterhood to get them through the toughest years of adolescence. But by the time they’re sixteen, eight years after the start of the class, the girls are experiencing the collision of their youthful dreams with the pitfalls of growing up in chaotic single-parent families amid the deteriorating cityscape. Yet even as they face disappointments and sometimes despair, these girls cling to their desire for a better future. The author’s own life story—from a poorly educated girl in a small mountain town to a Harvard-educated writer, teacher, and social advocate—infuses this chronicle with a message of hope.
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Only Emma
Third-grader Emma's peaceful life as an only child is disrupted when she has to temporarily share her tidy bedroom with four-year-old Anthony Scarpetto, a bona fide \"pain in the patootie.\"
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Single motherhood as a site for feminist reimagination in Helen Garner's 'Monkey grip' and 'Other people's children'
Historically Australian single mothers were vilified as 'fallen' and considered a 'polluting influence' and 'a danger to [their] child[ren]' (Swain 10). Contemporarily, as Emily Wolfinger (2016) observes, the dominant critique of single mothers has shifted from concerns about their morality to their ability to provide economically for their children, suggesting that contemporary conservatism prioritises the financial over the social. Garner's single mothers in Monkey Grip (1977) and 'Other People's Children' (1980) existed in a socially experimental milieu; one that denounced historical vilification and preceded the contemporary negative rhetoric of neoliberalism which characterises single mothers as economically irresponsible, non-working and a burden on society. This milieu, viewed retrospectively, provides a fertile space in which to reimagine and reframe contemporary single motherhood, especially if contemporary single mothers are to be again judged according to outdated 'good' mother myths1 reinforced by economic neoliberalism. In this way, a re-examination of Garner's depiction of single motherhood, with its focus on domestic spaces and female concerns might reorient modern single mothers to a second-wave feminist style presumption of their 'natural' equal rights as women and mothers; bearing in mind that economic constraints, a major factor when contending agency, vary across class and time.
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Excellent Emma
Emma's third-grade class is getting ready for Winter Games Day, and Emma wants to win a prize more than anything, but the rest of the class has mixed feelings about the competition.
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Días de invierno
Nestor, a night-shift receptionist in a border town in northern Mexico, lives with his mother Lilia, who has lost her job and faces an uncertain future. Nestor longs to leave, but he feels guilty about leaving his mother alone.
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