![]() On a moonlit night, a mustang comes to Sam. She's having trouble bonding with her new horse, Ace, the other ranchers treat her like the boss's spoiled daughter, and Blackie has been missing since the day of Sam's fateful accident. She moved away two years ago to recover from a bad fall off her beloved mustang, Blackie, and she's still not sure she can get back in the saddle. When thirteen-year-old Samantha returns home to her family's cattle ranch in Nevada, she's nervous. ![]() Book Synopsis The beloved first book in the middle grade Phantom Stallion series about a girl, her horse, and the beauty of the American West returns with a brand-new, stunning cover and bonus material! Perfect for fans of Canterwood Crest and classic horse stories like Black Beauty and My Friend Flicka. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In 1566 the so-called Roman Catechism was published in response to the request issued three years earlier by the Council of Trent. The creation of an official, authoritative, and authentic reference text for teaching and transmitting Catholic doctrine was not new, however. ![]() When we talk about “the catechism” today we are most likely referring to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, promulgated by Pope John Paul II in 1992 to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council.įor more than a decade bishops, theologians, and other experts worked on a “compendium of all Catholic doctrine regarding both faith and morals.” The fruit of their work was the catechism, an organized presentation of the essential teachings of the Catholic Church in regards to both faith and morals, “in the light of the Second Vatican Council and the whole of the church’s tradition.” ![]() ![]() Furthermore, Kate often calls her little sister “bon,” meaning “sister” in Bengali. ![]() These details indicate that the family is of Marathi ethnicity, which counterfeits the quintessentially North Indian name “Sharma.” The sisters refer to their late father as “appa,” a word used in South Indian languages. ![]() Season 2 outlines the origins of the Sharma sisters from Bombay, who speak the Indian languages of Marathi and Hindustani. Additionally, the use of such slang by a sophisticated woman like Kate Sharma is further unrealistic and unsettling. The usage of the phrase in the mid-1800s is impossible, considering the style of the language spoken back then. The introductory line of Kate Sharma in the season was during an unforeseen horse race between her and Anthony Bridgerton when she exclaimed, “Baap Re.” The Hindi phrase meaning “oh father” is a modern-day Indian vernacular used as an exclamation. See More: The MBTI Personality Of Every Main Character in ‘Bridgerton’ Series However, is the cultural and historical representation in the season fictitious too? Let’s find out! The second season of the series does the same by introducing Kate and Edwina Sharma to the fictitious world of the Bridgertons. ![]() ![]() The trend began with the black representation in season 1, with prominent characters like Simon Bassett, Queen Charlotte, Lady Danbury, and Marina Thompson. ![]() ![]() In this long-anticipated new chapter of the Warm Bodies series, Isaac Marion expands the scope of a powerfully simple story: a dead man's search for life in all its bloody rawness. ![]() A past life, an old shadow, crawling up from the basement. But there are some answers R doesn't want to find. ![]() With their home in the grip of madmen, R and Julie plunge into the wastelands of America in search of answers. The plague has many hosts, and some are far more terrifying than the Dead. These grinning strangers are more than they seem. Later, he wrote and published the first book of the bestselling. A mysterious army is coming to restore order, to bring back the good old days of stability and control and the strong eating the weak. Before penning the Warm Bodies book series, author Marion had self published 3 other novels. He can almost imagine a future with Julie, this girl who restarted his heart - building a new world from the ashes of the old one.Īnd then helicopters appear on the horizon. He's learning how to read, how to speak, maybe even how to love. ![]() ![]() There are certain books that have always remained popular choices for book parades and dress ups. This Book Week 2023 post is updated annually with the new CBCA Book Week theme and fun new ideas added. I have added in some less traditional book character costume ideas to suit the theme of the year too.Īnd if you’re not keen to make your own, you can grab a premade version of many of these costumes at Amazon, Amazon AU, Halloween Costumes store or Spotlight Stores. These Book Week costume ideas for girls and boys will help inspire you with loads of easy to create costumes that can be made at home. The 2023 Book Week theme is “ READ GROW INSPIRE ” and is scheduled for the week of August 19-25 in Australian schools.īook Week celebrations are a wonderful way to encourage a love of reading for children and motivate them to read more. More Book Character Costume Ideas For Kids & TeachersĮach year there are different Book Week themes for Australian Book Week and it takes place in August. ![]() ![]() Alice In Wonderland White Rabbit House Costume ![]() ![]() Ghosts aren’t all Cass finds in Edinburgh she also finds someone else who can pull back the Veil. These ghosts can pull her into the Veil, and can even steal her life force if she’s not careful! ![]() Edinburgh’s ghosts are a little more vengeful than the ghosts of the suburbs of New York City. Together, she and Jacob explore the Veil, experiencing ghosts’ memories, and trying (but often failing) to take pictures of what they see.īut when Cass’s parents take her on a trip for a TV show based on their best-selling supernatural book series, Cass gets to see the more dangerous side of her secret. Nobody knows her secret but Jacob, and he can’t exactly tell anyone. Ever since Cass drowned, and was saved/brought back by a ghost (Jacob), she’s been able to pass into the world of the dead. I enjoyed it very much, and I’m excited to discuss it with them, along with the other book we read.Ĭity of Ghosts is about Cass. ![]() City of Ghosts is a book that I read with my local library’s teen book club. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He explores the wit behind Poor Richard’s Almanac and the wisdom behind the Declaration of Independence, the new nation’s alliance with France, the treaty that ended the Revolution, and the compromises that created a near-perfect Constitution. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin’s life from Boston to Philadelphia to London and Paris and back, Walter Isaacson chronicles the adventures of the runaway apprentice who became, over the course of his eighty-four-year life, America’s best writer, inventor, media baron, scientist, diplomat, and business strategist, as well as one of its most practical and ingenious political leaders. ![]() In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character.īenjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. ![]() ![]() ![]() But they are so determined that their voices be heard, they overcome almost unbeatable odds to be bestselling authors. As they grow up, the Brontes discover that the real world isn't such a great place to be a girl. So they invent extraordinary imaginery worlds, full of wars and love stories, soldiers, heroes and villains, ruled over by powerful women. ![]() We are also given insight into the Bront famil. Growing up on the wild, lonely moors of Yorkshire, they have nothing to entertain them but their imaginations and each other. Anna Doherty, The Bronts The Bronts is a fantastic introduction to the remarkable lives of the Bront sisters and their wonderful, quietly feminist writing. Meet the Brontë family - fantastically feminist, rebelliously radical, incredibly inspiring and astonishing authors!Ĭharlotte, Emily, Anne and Branwell Bronte are no ordinary children. ![]() Published by Wren and Rook, Hachette Children's Group, March 2019 The Fantastically Feminist (and Totally True) Story of the Astonishing Authors ![]() ![]() ![]() Translated by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Wheeler. But the strength of her work lies in the subtle descriptions of ordinary people going about their lives through Ukraine’s often chaotic recent history. The author explores both the roots of Russia’s aggression and its ramifications for Ukraine and the rest of Europe. Major historical events marked this decade, including the Maidan revolution in 2014, Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the outbreak of war in the Donbas. Ms Pinkham spent ten years living in both Ukraine and Russia, having first travelled to the ex-Soviet region as a volunteer for the Red Cross in Siberia. ![]() Sophie Pinkham provides a very different form of travelogue in her reflective and humorous memoir about modern Ukrainian life. The besieged eastern cities of Kharkiv, Dnipro and Donetsk have remarkable histories, but face uncertain futures.īlack Square: Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine. But the evocations of places made newly familiar by Russia’s invasion are especially poignant. The descriptions of Kyiv’s ancient metropolis, Lviv’s central European architecture and Odessa’s Jewish history are fascinating. Karl Schlögel’s study explores these urban histories by providing “portraits” of eight Ukrainian cities. ![]() Even their names reflect the external forces that have shaped the country: the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, for example, has at various points been referred to as Lvov (in Russian), Lwow (in Polish) and Lemberg (in German). Ukraine’s complicated history is expressed through its cities. ![]() ![]() Addy, a musician, charms his way into possession of a Brazilian visa and into the first class piano lounge on a ship full of refugees bound for Rio Jakob marries the love of his life in an abandoned house to a soundtrack of air sirens Mila hides her daughter in a Catholic convent outside of Warsaw, only to return weeks later to find the convent in ruins Genek endures a brutal winter in a Siberian gulag before embarking with his wife and newborn son on a year-long exodus through Persia to fight for the Allies and Halina attempts to flee over the Austrian Alps on foot - while pregnant. When war breaks out and the family is cast to the wind, the five Kurc siblings do everything they can to find their way through a devastated continent to freedom. ![]() ![]() In the spring of 1939 three generations are living relatively normal lives in Poland, despite the hardships Jews face. ![]() The Kurc family shouldn't have survived the Holocaust. ![]() |