Children Of The Quicksands

Author : Efua Traoré
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338781946

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Children of the Quicksands by Efua Traoré Pdf

A richly imagined magical adventure set in West Africa by a prize-winning new voice in children's writing, Children of the Quicksands introduces readers to Yoruba myths and legends while showcasing the wealth of culture, traditions, adventure, joy, pride, and love found in Nigeria. In a remote Nigerian village, thirteen-year-old Simi is desperate to uncover a family secret. Ajao is nothing like Lagos -- no cells phones, no running water or electricity. Not a single human-made sound can be heard at night, just the noise of birds and animals rustling in the dark forest outside. Her witchlike grandmother dispenses advice and herbal medicine to the village, but she's tight lipped about their family history. Something must have happened, but what? Determined to find out, Simi disobeys her grandmother and goes exploring only to find herself sinking in the red quicksand of a forbidden lake and into the strange parallel world that lies beneath. It must have been a dream... right? Wrong. Something isn’t right. Children are disappearing and it’s up to Simi to discover the truth.

Author : Efua Traore
Publisher : Chicken House
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781913696962

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House of Shells by Efua Traore Pdf

Kuki is sure that the old family curse of the Abiku is a myth–she will not die young. But when she meets a girl, Enilo, in an extraordinary house, her greatest fear might just become a reality … unless her new best friend can break the curse that binds them.

Author : Denys Van Renen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496200464

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The Other Exchange by Denys Van Renen Pdf

Prompted by commercial and imperial expansion such as the creation of the Bank of England in 1694 and the publication and circulation of Ben Jonson's The Staple of News in 1626, rapidly changing cultural, economic, and political realities in early modern England generated a paradigmatic shift in class awareness. Denys Van Renen's The Other Exchange demonstrates how middle-class consciousness not only emerged in opposition to the lived and perceived abuses of the aristocratic elite but also was fostered by the economic and sociocultural influence of women and lower-class urban communities. Van Renen contends that, fascinated by the intellectual and cultural vibrancy of the urban underclass, many major authors and playwrights in the early modern era--Ben Jonson, Richard Brome, Aphra Behn, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Eliza Haywood, and Daniel Defoe--featured lower-class men and women and other marginalized groups in their work as a response to the shifting political and social terrain of the day. Van Renen illuminates this fascination with marginalized groups as a key element in the development of a middle-class mindset.

Author : Elizabeth Jane Clapp
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Law
ISBN : 0271017783

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Mothers of All Children by Elizabeth Jane Clapp Pdf

A history of the juvenile court movement in America, which focuses upon the central but neglected contribution of women reformers.The establishment of juvenile courts in cities across the United States was one of the earliest social welfare reforms of the Progressive Era. The first juvenile court law was passed in Illinois in 1899. Within a decade twenty-two other states had passed similar laws, based on the Illinois example. Mothers of All Children examines this movement, focusing especially on the role of women reformers and the importance of gender consciousness in influencing the shape of reform. Until recently historians have assumed that male reformers dominated many of the Progressive Era social reforms. Mothers of All Children goes beyond simply writing women back into the history of the juvenile court movement to reveal the complexity of their involvement. Some women operated within nineteenth-century ideals of motherhood and domesticity while others, trained in the social sciences and living in,the poor neighborhoods of America's cities, took a more pragmatic approach.Despite these differences, Clapp finds a common maternalist approach that distinguished women reformers from their male counterparts. Women were more willing to use the state to deal with wayward children, whereas men were more commonly involved as supporters of women reformers' initiatives rather than being themselves the initiators of reform.Firmly located in the context of recent scholarship on American women's history, Mothers of All Children has broad implications for American women's political history and the history of the welfare state.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : IND:32000000697484

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The Microcosm by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mrs. Martin LUCAS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026829370

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The Quicksands of Fashion: a Novel by Mrs. Martin LUCAS Pdf

Author : Noémie Ndiaye
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781512822649

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Scripts of Blackness by Noémie Ndiaye Pdf

Scripts of Blackness shows how the early modern mass media of theatre and performance culture at-large helped turn blackness into a racial category, that is, into a type of difference justifying emerging social hierarchies and power relations in a new world order driven by colonialism and capitalism. In this book, Noémie Ndiaye explores the techniques of impersonation used by white performers to represent Afro-diasporic people in England, France, and Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, using a comparative and transnational framework. She reconstructs three specific performance techniques—black-up (cosmetic blackness), blackspeak (acoustic blackness), and black dances (kinetic blackness)—in order to map out the poetics of those techniques, and track a number of metaphorical strains that early modern playtexts regularly associated with them. Those metaphorical strains, the titular scripts of blackness of this book, operated across national borders and constituted resources, as they provided spectators and participants with new ways of thinking about the Afro-diasporic people who lived or could/would ultimately live in their midst. Those scripts were often gendered and hinged on notions of demonization, exclusion, exploitation, animalization, commodification, sexualization, consensual enslavement, misogynoir, infantilization, and evocative association with other racialized minorities. Scripts of Blackness attempts to grasp the stories that Western Europeans told themselves through performative blackness, and the effects of those fictions on early modern Afro-diasporic subjects.

Author : Efua Traore
Publisher : Chicken House (english)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1913696715

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The House of Shells by Efua Traore Pdf

Kuki is sure that the old family curse of the Abiku is a myth - she will not die young. But when she meets a girl, Enilo, in an extraordinary house, her greatest fear might just become a reality ... unless her new best friend can break the curse that binds them.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924011944497

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Children's Missionary Magazine of the United Presbyterian Church by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gene Stratton-Porter
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066397371

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Michael O'Halloran (Children's Adventure Novel) by Gene Stratton-Porter Pdf

Michael O'Halloran, or simply Mickey, is a spunky 10-year-old orphan boy who lives alone in the streets of a big mid-western city, hiding from the Children's home. Mickey works as a newsboy to support himself, following the rules his mother gave him before she died. One day, Mickey runs into a poor, little crippled girl called Peaches sobbing because her abusive granny has died and the Children's Home will be coming after her. Mickey takes her to his home, cleans her up, and claims her as his family. He takes upon himself to raise the money so he can send her to cure her back. Sweet and honorable Mickey continues to spread good values as him and Peaches find new family and friends. Effects of his small good deeds reach far, influencing and helping many people around him.

Author : Gene Stratton-Porter
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 2905 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547717324

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The Beloved Children's Book Classics of Gene Stratton-Porter by Gene Stratton-Porter Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Freckles A Girl of the Limberlost Laddie The Harvester Michael O'Halloran A Daughter of the Land At the Foot of the Rainbow Her Father's Daughter The White Flag The Song of the Cardinal The Fire Bird

Author : Edith Nesbit
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 1990 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547811060

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TALES OF FANTASTICAL ADVENTURES – E. Nesbit Collection of Children's Books (Illustrated) by Edith Nesbit Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "TALES OF FANTASTICAL ADVENTURES – E. Nesbit Collection of Children's Books (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) was the author of world famous books for children - the tales of fantastical adventures, journeys back in time and travel to magical worlds. Nesbit also wrote for adults, including novels, short stories and four collections of horror stories. Content: The Psammead Trilogy: Five Children and It The Phoenix and the Carpet The Story of the Amulet The Mouldiwarp Chronicles: The House of Arden Harding's Luck The Enchanted Castle The Magic City The Wonderful Garden Wet Magic The Book of Dragons: The Book of Beasts Uncle James, or The Purple Stranger The Deliverers of Their Country The Ice Dragon, or Do as You Are Told The Island of the Nine Whirlpools The Dragon Tamers The Fiery Dragon, or The Heart of Stone and the Heart of Gold Kind Little Edmund, or The Caves and the Cockatrice The Magic World: The Cat-hood of Maurice The Mixed Mine Accidental Magic The Princess and the Hedge-pig Septimus Septimusson The White Cat Belinda and Bellamant Justnowland The Related Muff The Aunt and Amabel Kenneth and the Carp The Magician's Heart Nine Unlikely Tales: The Cockatoucan Where you want to go to The Blue Mountain The Prince, Two, Mice, and some Kitchen Maids Melisande Fortunatus Rex and Co. The Sums That Came Right The Town in the Library, in the Town in the Library The Plush Usurpe Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) was the author of world famous books for children - the tales of fantastical adventures, journeys back in time and travel to magical worlds. Nesbit also wrote for adults, including novels, short stories and four collections of horror stories.

Author : Kathleen Wehnert
Publisher : Diplomica Verlag
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783836685115

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Passing by Kathleen Wehnert Pdf

Larsen and other African-American writers, including James Weldon Johnson, explored the intricacies and contradictions of the concept of race at the beginning of the 20th century, in particular by addressing the phenomenon of 'passing'. Passing has many definitions, most often it is associated with the term 'passing for white', which implies the crossing of the colour line from black to white in order to transcend racial barriers. Until the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, writers hardly had addressed the passing figure in literature. Passing has always been a much camouflaged topic because the successful passer does not want their identity to be uncloaked. This constitutes probably also the main reason why only little, and rather pioneering, research has been conducted up to today and why it still remains difficult to investigate the issue. The sole witnesses of the concepts of passing in the time period are passing narratives. James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man (1912), Nella Larsen's Quicksand (1928) and her novella Passing (1929) are perhaps the most exemplary examples of an analysis of the passing figure and classic epitomes of the racial situations during the Harlem Renaissance. The novels challenge stereotypes of race and disclose concepts of doubleness and visibility. In order to disentangle the complexities of the theme, these novels, will serve to examine in depth in the nature and the motifs of the phenomenon of passing. In this book, I will be exploring the motifs of passing in these novels of the Harlem Renaissance in the context of DuBois' concept of double consciousness and the discourse of race. Chapter One will set the critical historical and cultural context for the passing narratives, as this is indispensable and crucial for the understanding of the motifs of the theme. With this in mind, the second Chapter will account for what destabilizes the African-American identity and thus identify the motives of p

Author : Edith Nesbit
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 3142 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547811138

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The Greatest Children's Books - E. Nesbit Collection: Fantastical Adventures, Tales of Magical Creatures & Journeys into Enchanting Worlds (Illustrated) by Edith Nesbit Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Greatest Children's Books - E. Nesbit Collection: Fantastical Adventures, Tales of Magical Creatures & Journeys into Enchanting Worlds (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Bastable Trilogy The Story of the Treasure Seekers The Wouldbegoods The New Treasure Seekers The Psammead Trilogy Five Children and It The Phoenix and the Carpet The Story of the Amulet The Mouldiwarp Chronicles The House of Arden Harding's Luck Other Novels The Railway Children The Enchanted Castle The Magic City The Wonderful Garden Wet Magic Short Story Collections The Book of Dragons: The Book of Beasts Uncle James, or The Purple Stranger The Deliverers of Their Country The Ice Dragon, or Do as You Are Told The Island of the Nine Whirlpools The Dragon Tamers The Fiery Dragon, or The Heart of Stone and the Heart of Gold Kind Little Edmund, or The Caves and the Cockatrice Royal Children of English History: Alfred the Great Prince Arthur Henry the Third The First Prince of Wales Edward the Black Prince Henry the Fifth and the Baby King Pussy and Doggy Tales: Too Clever by Half The White Persian A Powerful Friend A Silly Question The Selfish Pussy Meddlesome Pussy Nine Lives The Magic World The Cat-hood of Maurice The Mixed Mine Accidental Magic The Princess and the Hedge-pig Septimus Septimusson The White Cat Belinda and Bellamant Justnowland The Related Muff The Aunt and Amabel Kenneth and the Carp The Magician's Heart Nine Unlikely Tales The Cockatoucan Whereyouwanttogoto The Blue Mountain The Prince, Two, Mice, and some Kitchen Maids Melisande Fortunatus Rex and Co. The Sums That Came Right The Town in the Library, in the Town in the Library The Plush Usurpe Oswald Bastable and Others ... Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) was the author of world famous books for children - the tales of fantastical adventures, jou

Author : Nick Easingwood,John Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-07-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134201921

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ICT and Primary Mathematics by Nick Easingwood,John Williams Pdf

This book, written for practising teachers and student teachers, will demonstrate how ICT can be used to develop and enhance investigative primary mathematics.