![]() ![]() It is August of 1935, and easy-going, affable, athletic Moose and twenty-four other kids-all children of prison guards and employees-live with their families in a residential building on Alcatraz. Al Capone Shines My Shoes picks up where Al Capone Does My Shirts ends. As Moose navigates tricky relationships between friends, family, and new crushes, he also learns important lessons about self-reliance, honesty, and forgiveness. ![]() In this installment, first-person narrator Moose Flanagan, the twelve-year-old son of a prison guard on Alcatraz island, is alarmed when he learns it is his turn to do a favor for the legendary criminal Al Capone. The sequel to the Newbery-Honor winning Al Capone Does My Shirts, Gennifer Choldenko’s middle-grade historical novel Al Capone Shines My Shoes (2009), is the second book in her Tales from Alcatraz series. ![]()
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Naima Simone brings the heat in this story about friends, coworkers, and former in-laws Eden and Knox - both grappling with the death of Connor, Eden’s husband and Knox’s brother. ![]() ![]() If forbidden love is your literary cup of tea, look no further. ![]() ![]() ![]() She earned a BA in mathematics from Duke University MA in economics from Columbia University a PhD in economics from Duke University. In her civic role, she is a founding Director of The Commonwealth Institute Trustee, the MA Treasurer’s Economic Empowerment Trust Fund Advisory Board Member of both the Center for Women and Work, UMass Lowell and the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy, UMass Boston. ![]() This topic is one that Murphy has researched for. She has been a corporate director of six publicly traded, mutual and privately held corporations. The Women Are Getting Even Project is a nonprofit organization that works to eliminate the gender wage gap. Murphy is Director of Citizens Energy Corporation. Governor of Massachusetts, becoming the first woman in the state’s 200 year history to hold any constitutional office.ĭr. She served as MA Secretary of Environmental Affairs and later, Secretary of Economic Affairs. Now, she co-chairs of the Mayor Walsh’s Boston Women’s Workforce Council, working with employers to eliminate their gender wage gaps. Prior to turning over $tart $mart and Work $mart- salary negotiation workshops teaching women how to get paid what we are worth-to the American Association of University Women, WAGE facilitated these workshops in 49 states on 400 campuses and to working women. (WAGE), a nationwide, grassroots, action-organization dedicated to eliminating the gender wage gap. (WAGE)Įvelyn Murphy is founder and President of The WAGE Project, Inc. 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Looking for best rom com books to read in 2023? Then you will love this list of funny romance novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() We are plagued by crises threatening our lives, and this situation is unsustainable. ![]() The rich have gotten richer?the 1 percent, those with more than $1 million, own 44 percent of the world's wealth?while climate change is transforming?and in some cases wiping out?life on the planet. Longlisted for the 2021 Porchlight Business Book Awards, Big Ideas & New Perspectives ?She offers something both broad and scarce: a compelling new story about how to create a desirable future.?New York Times An award-winning author and leading international economist delivers a hard-hitting and much needed critique of modern capitalism in which she argues that, to solve the massive crises facing us, we must be innovative?we must use collaborative, mission-oriented thinking while also bringing a stakeholder view of public private partnerships which means not only taking risks together but also sharing the rewards. ![]() ![]() It's this beautiful spiral-bound guide to teaching guided reading. She has a very popular book called The Next Step Forward in Guided Reading. If you're at all familiar with guided reading, you know that Jan Richardson is way up there. ![]() ![]() It was sponsored by Pioneer Valley Books. When I hear people from the balanced literacy community defend things or word things a certain way, I can kind of see where they're coming from, but now that I have learned quite a bit, I can also see where the holes are.īecause of that background that I have, I want to share today my reaction to a video that recently came out. So I come from a balanced literacy background, and because of that, I think I have a unique perspective. It's only been in the past few years that I learned that a lot of things I thought were true were actually not aligned with the research. ![]() I was a balanced literacy teacher during my classroom teaching days, when I taught my oldest five kids to read, and for much of the time that I've been sharing online. I am a former classroom teacher, I've been sharing education resources on my website for ten years now, I'm Orton-Gillingham certified, I have a science of reading grad certificate, and I have a master's degree from quite a long time ago. ![]() If you're new to the podcast, I just want to give you a brief introduction to myself. Hello! Anna Geiger here from The Measured Mom. ![]() ![]() The hope is to foster scholarly writing that approaches more closely the polyphonic, multiperspectival nature of the world literature we wish to explore. Literatures as World Literature begins the task of filling in the devilish details by allowing scholars to move outward from their own area of specialization. ![]() ![]() World literature has been mapped and theorized in the abstract, but the majority of critical work, the filling in of what has been traced, lies ahead of us. ![]() Literatures as World Literature Literatures as World Literature takes a novel approach to world literature by analyzing specific constellations-according to language, nation, form, or theme-of literary texts and authors in their world-literary dimensions. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, girls he had known his entire life-girls who had sung in the church-went through puberty and became alluring. ![]() His friends had started flocking to the streets to drink and do drugs, and his father believed that Baldwin was going to follow them. 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"One of the best debut fantasy novels of the year." - BuzzFeed News "An amazing start to a new trilogy." - Culturess "It grabs you by the heart and the throat from the first pages and doesn't let go." - Sarah J. The Bone Shard Daughter is an unmissable debut from a major new voice in epic fantasy - a stunning tale of magic, mystery, and revolution in which the former heir to the emperor will fight to reclaim her power and her place on the throne. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her only constant is an online community called CatNet-a social media site where users upload cat pictures-a place she knows she is welcome. From the believable teenage voices to the shockingly effective thriller plot, it swings effortlessly from charming humor to visceral terror, grounding it all in beautiful friendships, budding romance, and radical acceptance." -The New York Times Because her mom is always on the move, Steph hasn't lived anyplace longer than six months. ![]() A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice/Staff PickA Kirkus Reviews Best BookA Junior Library Guild SelectionAn Edgar Award Winner for Best Young Adult NovelA Minnesota Book Award Winner for Best Young Adult NovelAn Andre Norton Nebula Award FinalistAn ITW Thriller Award for Best YA Novel NomineeA Lodestar Award Winner for Best Young Adult Book "A pure delight.that's as tender and funny as it is gripping and fast-paced. LODESTAR AWARD WINNER FOR BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK From Hugo and Locus Award-winning author Naomi Kritzer, Catfishing on CatNet is a thought-provoking near future YA thriller that could not be more timely as it explores issues of online privacy, artificial intelligence, and the power and perils of social networks. ![]() |