Slumgirl Dreaming My Journey To The Stars

Author : Rubina Ali,Anne Berthod,Divya Dugar
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780385739085

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Slumgirl Dreaming by Rubina Ali,Anne Berthod,Divya Dugar Pdf

My name is Rubina Ali. I don't know when my birthday is, and nor does my father, but I do know that I am nine years old. Young Rubina is a one-in-a-million star. Plucked from among five hundred slumkids who auditioned for Danny Boyle's multi-Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, she saw her fairy-tale dream of stardom come true. Now that she has stepped into the limelight, what will life hold for a young girl from the Mumbai slums? Rubina tells her own incredible story, bringing to life a world of wastelands and rat-infested shanty dwellings, where she played marbles with her friends beside the sewers of Garib Nagar. She introduces her beloved father, a hardworking rickshaw puller, and her siblings. And then Rubina tells of the kindness of Danny Boyle and of the time she spent on the film sets--including the hilarious incident when her costar came to be covered in chocolate from head to toe. After her brief encounter with red-carpet glamour, how will Rubina come to terms with the conditions in which she, her family, and her friends continue to live since Hollywood came knocking? This is her compelling story.

Author : Rubina Ali
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Child actors
ISBN : 8184000278

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Slumgirl Dreaming: My Journey to the Stars by Rubina Ali Pdf

From the slums of Garib Nagar in Bandra East to the red carpet of the Oscars nineyear-old Rubina s journey has been an astonishing one, almost as astonishing as Jamal s quiz showvictory in Slumdog Millionaire. This is her story-of playing marbles in the gulees of Garib Nagar with her friends, reluctantlygoing to school and dreaming of acting in films, and then having it come true. But underneath thisfairy tale lies a grimmer reality, the reality that faces countless number of slum children. Rubinabrings alive the world of the chawls with its wastelands and shanty dwellings, the lives of thechildren who grow up in them, the story of her rickshaw puller father, and the rest of her family.She tells us about life on the film set, the aftermath of the Oscars (including the controversy overher father), and how it feels to have the media spotlight on her. What does it mean for a little girl tomove from slum to star so quickly? What will the future hold for her?

Author : Rubina Ali,Anne Berthod,Divya Dugar
Publisher : Random House
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780552776370

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Slumgirl Dreaming by Rubina Ali,Anne Berthod,Divya Dugar Pdf

Young Rubina is a one -in-a million-star. After being picked from among the five hundred slum children who auditioned for Danny Boyle's multi-Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, she saw her fairytale dream of stardom come true. But what does the future hold for a little girl now trapped between Hollywood glamour and the bleak poverty of her Mumbai slum?--"P [4] of cover

Author : Sonja Cole
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781598846140

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Booktalking Around the World by Sonja Cole Pdf

This text contains convenient, ready-to-go booktalks for contemporary fiction and nonfiction books set in every continent around the globe, useful for librarians and other educators of grades three through nine. A public librarian introducing young readers to stories from around the world. A social studies teacher wanting to offer students extra credit on a unit about ancient Greece. A Spanish teacher who needs to generate some excitement and interest about Hispanic culture. All of these educators can achieve their goals by utilizing the internationally themed booktalk suggestions in this text—Booktalking Around the World: Great Global Reads for Ages 9–14. This collection of booktalks and book lists is designed to be an invaluable resource for teachers as well as school and public librarians seeking geographically themed booktalks for newer books published from 2000–2010. Because studying the countries of the world is a major part of most school curricula, this book will support or extend this important curricular area. All the booktalks in this collection are aimed at children aged 9–14. All seven continents are represented, but the United States is excluded.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1588 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Indexes
ISBN : UCD:31175033803068

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The New York Times Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1290 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09
Category : Celebrities
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132677647

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People by Anonim Pdf

Author : Penni Russon
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780449816684

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Only Ever Always by Penni Russon Pdf

Have you ever woken from a dream feeling it was more real than your world? Could there be someone exactly like you living another life? Claire lives in an ordinary world where everything is whole. But now she feels broken into pieces as her world is suddenly shattered with grief. The silvery notes of her music box help her escape from her pain into a dream world, into Clara's world. Clara's world has always been broken. Her fragmented life revolves around scavenging and swapping objects to survive. She is determined to face the sinister side of her cracked reality to save the only family she has ever known. But the cost may be more than she bargained for. Though Claire and Clara live in different worlds, their paths are set to collide when the people they love most are faced with death. But which world is the dream? Who is the dreamer? Penni Russon has written a spellbinding tale that stretches the imagination about what is possible.

Author : Ryan Gebhart
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780763670443

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There Will Be Bears by Ryan Gebhart Pdf

Tyson is determined to hunt an elk — even if it means sneaking his grandpa out of a nursing home — in a debut novel sparked with dry wit and wilderness adventure. Thirteen-year-old Tyson loves hanging out with his roughneck Grandpa Gene, who’s a lot more fun than Tyson’s ex–best friend, Brighton. These days, Bright just wants to be seen with the cool jocks who make fun of Tyson’s Taylor Swift obsession and dorky ways. So when Grandpa Gene has to move to a nursing home that can manage his kidney disease, Tyson feels like he’s losing his only friend. Not only that, but Tyson was counting on Grandpa Gene to take him on his first big hunt. So in defiance of Mom and Dad’s strict orders, and despite reports of a scary, stalking, man-eating grizzly named Sandy, the two sneak off to the Grand Tetons. Yes, there will be action, like shooting and dressing a six-hundred-pound elk. Is Tyson tough enough? There will be heart-pounding suspense: is Grandpa Gene too sick to handle the hunt, miles away from help? And, oh yes, there will be bears. . . .

Author : Shirley Parenteau
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780763680374

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Dolls of Hope by Shirley Parenteau Pdf

How daring is Chiyo prepared to be to keep the American Friendship Doll safe? Inspired by a little-known historical event, this engaging companion to Ship of Dolls is told from a Japanese girl’s point of view. When eleven-year-old Chiyo Tamura is sent from her home in a small Japanese mountain village to a girls’ school in the city of Tsuchiura, she never imagines that she will soon be in Tokyo helping to welcome more than twelve thousand Friendship Dolls from America—including Emily Grace, a gift to her own school. Nor could she dream that she’d have an important role in the crafting of Miss Tokyo, one of fifty-eight Japanese dolls to be sent to America in return. But when an excited Chiyo is asked to be Emily Grace’s official protector, one jealous classmate will stop at nothing to see her fail. How can Chiyo reveal the truth—and restore her own good name? In another heartwarming historical novel, the author of Ship of Dolls revisits the 1926 Friendship Doll exchange, in which teacher-missionary Sidney Gulick organized American children to send thousands of dolls to Japan in hopes of avoiding a future war.

Author : David Stenn
Publisher : Cooper Square Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000-03-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781461660910

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Clara Bow by David Stenn Pdf

Hollywood's first sex symbol, the ' It ' girl, Clara Bow was born in the slums of Brooklyn in a family plagued with alcoholism and insanity. She catapulted to fame after winning Motion Picture magazine's 1921 " Fame and Fortune" contest. The greatest box-office draw of her day—she once received 45,000 fan letters in a single month, Clara Bow's on screen vitality and allure that beguiled thousands, however, would be her undoing off-camera. David Stenn captures her legendary rise to stardom and fall from grace, her success marred by studio exploitation and sexual scandals.

Author : Lauren Child
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780763699475

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Ruby Redfort Blink and You Die by Lauren Child Pdf

Got a sixth sense for trouble? Read on, buster. Our favorite girl detective calls on her gut instincts in an exciting grand finale of the Ruby Redfort series. Ruby Redfort: you can count on her when the ice starts to crack. Falling through the air at 120 miles per hour? Just relax and think fast. But now even Ruby Redfort is running scared. A bunch of people want her dead, and worst of all, one of them is on her team. When your name is first on a mastermind’s hit list, do you lock the doors, switch off the lights, and wait for someone else to do something? Or do you get out there and save yourself? If you’re Ruby Redfort, genius code breaker and undercover agent, the choice is clear: death or glory. In a satisfying series finale, surprises are in store and Spectrum’s backstory comes to light as fans bid good-bye to Ruby Redfort, every smart kid’s smart kid.

Author : Christopher Moore
Publisher : Tundra Books
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0887766579

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Champlain by Christopher Moore Pdf

“One July day four hundred years ago, Samuel de Champlain stepped out of a small boat at Quebec and began a great adventure.” So begins Christopher Moore’s riveting account of the life of the extraordinary, daring “father of New France.” Samuel de Champlain helped found the first permanent French settlement in the New World; he established the village that eventually became the great city of Quebec; he was a skilled cartographer who gave us many of our first accurate maps of North America; he forged alliances with Native nations that laid the foundations for vast trading networks; and as governor, he set New France on the road to becoming a productive, self-sufficient, thriving colony. But Champlain was also a man who suffered his share of defeats and disappointments. That first permanent settlement was abandoned after a disastrous winter claimed the lives of half the colonists. His marriage to a child bride was unhappy and marked by long separations. Eventually Quebec had to be surrendered temporarily to the English in 1629. In this remarkable book, illustrated entirely with paintings, archival maps, and original artifacts, Christopher Moore brings to life this complex man and, through him, creates a portrait of Canada in its earliest days. Champlain is illustrated with archival maps and paintings. Additional artwork has been provided by Francis Back.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Modernista
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789180948654

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The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell Pdf

George Orwell provides a vivid and unflinching portrayal of working-class life in Northern England during the 1930s. Through his own experiences and meticulous investigative reporting, Orwell exposes the harsh living conditions, poverty, and social injustices faced by coal miners and other industrial workers in the region. He documents their struggles with unemployment, poor housing, and inadequate healthcare, as well as the pervasive sense of hopelessness and despair that permeates their lives. In the second half of the The Road to Wigan Pier Orwell delves into the complexities of political ideology, as he grapples with the shortcomings of both socialism and capitalism in addressing the needs of the working class. GEORGE ORWELL was born in India in 1903 and passed away in London in 1950. As a journalist, critic, and author, he was a sharp commentator on his era and its political conditions and consequences.

Author : Hiroshi Sakurazaka
Publisher : VIZ Media LLC
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781421539560

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Slum Online by Hiroshi Sakurazaka Pdf

Etsuro Sakagami is a college freshman who simply drifts through life, but when he logs on to the combat MMO Versus Town, he becomes Tetsuo, a karate champ on his way to becoming the most powerful martial artist around. While his relationship with new classmate Fumiko goes nowhere, Etsuro spends his days and nights online in search of the invincible Ganker Jack. Drifting between the virtual and the real, will Etsuro ever be ready to face his most formidable opponent? -- VIZ Media

Author : Alexis Henderson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593438473

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House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson Pdf

WANTED - Bloodmaid of exceptional taste. Must have a keen proclivity for life’s finer pleasures. Girls of weak will need not apply. A young woman is drawn into the upper echelons of a society where blood is power in this dark and enthralling Gothic novel from the author of The Year of the Witching. Marion Shaw has been raised in the slums, where want and deprivation are all she know. Despite longing to leave the city and its miseries, she has no real hope of escape until the day she spots a peculiar listing in the newspaper seeking a bloodmaid. Though she knows little about the far north—where wealthy nobles live in luxury and drink the blood of those in their service—Marion applies to the position. In a matter of days, she finds herself the newest bloodmaid at the notorious House of Hunger. There, Marion is swept into a world of dark debauchery. At the center of it all is Countess Lisavet. The countess, who presides over this hedonistic court, is loved and feared in equal measure. She takes a special interest in Marion. Lisavet is magnetic, and Marion is eager to please her new mistress. But when she discovers that the ancient walls of the House of Hunger hide even older secrets, Marion is thrust into a vicious game of cat and mouse. She’ll need to learn the rules of her new home—and fast—or its halls will soon become her grave.