![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nagara was born and raised in Jakarta, Indonesia, and moved to the US in 1988. According to NPR, Nagara began writing children's books upon realizing that he could not find "a fun book" that "talked about the importance of social justice." Career He is also the founder of Design Action Collective, a self-described Marxist organization that believes " capitalism is an inherently exploitative and alienating system and that socialism presents a positive alternative." As well, the Design Action Collective believes "the US government is the main impediment to peace and justice on a global scale" and, as of 2010, actively supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel, a movement which has been criticized as antisemitic. He is the author of the alphabet book A is for Activist as well as the other children's books Counting on Community, My Night in the Planetarium, and the newly released The Wedding Portrait. Innosanto Nagara is a children's author, activist, and graphic designer. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Is tilt by Ellen Hopkins a series Publication Order of Standalone Novels. Now they have a second chance, and just maybe, with each other's help, they can find their way to a better life-but only if they're strong and can fight the demons that brought them here in the first place. Crank Series Complete 11 Book Set Ellen Hopkins (Burned, Impulse,Glass,Identical, Tricks, Fallout,Perfect,Smoke,Tilt, ,Crank,Rumble) Paperback. They grabbed the blade, the bottle, the gun-and tried to end it all. All three meet at Aspen Springs, a Residential Treatment Center for minors. In one instant each of these young people decided enough was enough. Impulse is a verse novel by Ellen Hopkins, centering around main protagonists Vanessa, Conner and Tony. But dig a little deeper and find a boy who is in constant battle with his parents, his life, himself. Tony, after suffering a painful childhood, can only find peace through pills.Īnd Conner, outwardly, has the perfect life. ![]() Vanessa is beautiful and smart, but her secrets keep her answering the call of the blade. Three lives, three different paths to the same destination: Aspen Springs, a psychiatric hospital for those who have attempted the ultimate act-suicide. ![]() But if you happen to, you know things will never be the same. Description From the bestselling author of Crank, the story of three kids whose lives collide at a mental hospital after each attempts suicide. ![]() ![]() Already “the end of men”-the phrase Rosin coined-has entered the lexicon as indelibly as Betty Friedan’s “feminine mystique,” Simone de Beauvoir’s “second sex,” Susan Faludi’s “backlash,” and Naomi Wolf’s “beauty myth” have. At this unprecedented moment, women are no longer merely gaining on men they have pulled decisively ahead by almost every measure. And yet, as journalist Hanna Rosin discovered, that long-held truth is no longer true. ![]() Men have been the dominant sex since, well, the dawn of mankind. –Peggy Orenstein, author of Schoolgirls and Waiting for Daisy “The End of Men” describes a new paradigm that can, finally, take us beyond ‘winners’ and ‘losers’ in an endless ‘gender war.’ What a relief! Ultimately, Rosin’s vision is both hope-filled and creative, allowing both sexes to become far more authentic: as workers, partners, parents…and people.” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Frances and Mehuru eventually fall in love, and Josiah risks ruin in financial schemes dependent on a single ship cruelly over-packed with captured Africans. Mehuru and ten others are chained in a cellar, where they are half-starved, raped by Josiah’s house guest and whipped, while spending afternoons in the parlor learning polite English. It is Josiah and Sarah’s new plan that a handful of slaves will be brought back to England where Frances will tutor them in the ways of the gentry, selling them for an enormous profit. To both, it is an even exchange-Josiah gets connections to circles of business he could never enter, and Frances has a home. He finds Frances Scott, niece to a prominent lord, but herself a penniless orphan. He and his sister Sarah have done all they can with their three modest vessels-they kidnap Africans, trade them for sugar and rum in the West Indies, then sell the goods in England-but since much of the better trade is denied them because of their class, Josiah decides to marry up. ![]() Mehuru is captured by the English and thrown onto a slave ship owned by Josiah Cole, a small Bristol merchant with dreams of advancement. In 1787 Africa, Mehuru, an envoy for his Yoruban king, is traveling the empire to deliver the king’s edict: Yorubans will desist in all slave-trading with white slavers. 2006, etc.) is a sobering account of the English slave trade, with a bit of romance thrown in. The latest page-turner from Gregory ( The Boleyn Inheritance, Dec. ![]() ![]() Shawneé Gibbs is the co-author of Ghost Roast and the Glyph Award–nominated adventure series The Invention of E.J. And when she meets Oliver, a friendly spirit, at the fancy mansion her dad is getting a handsome fee to exorcize, she realizes she has to save his after-life, even if it risks everything her father's worked for. ![]() Worst of all, her new job reveals an unexpected secret she has to keep: While Dad hunts ghosts with his own DIY tech, Chelsea can actually see them. Her punishment? Working for her dad at Paranormal Removal Services. Things are looking up-until a night on the town backfires spectacularly, landing her in hot water at home. This year, Chelsea's all grown up, attending one of the most prestigious high schools in the city, and she's finally made friends with the popular crowd. ![]() It's not easy to shake her reputation as Ghost Girl when Dad keeps advertising his business as a "paranormal removal expert" in big, bold, loud letters all over New Orleans! ![]() A stand-alone YA graphic novel from authors Shawneé and Shawnelle Gibbs and artist Emily Cannon!įor as long as she can remember, Chelsea Grant has tried everything she can think of to distance herself from the disastrous damage her father does to her social life. Ghost Roast delivers a paranormal adventure full of first crushes, lost histories, and the impossible task of fitting in when your dad is a professional ghosthunter. ![]() |