![]() ![]() Jackson Pearce lives in Atlanta, Georgia. ![]() ![]() Illustrated with Ellie's sketches and plans, and including backmatter with a fun how-to guide to tools, this is a STEM- and friendship-powered story full of fun!ĭimensions: 21.3 x 14.7 x 1.8 centimeters (0.27 kg) ![]() Will Ellie be able to pull off her biggest project yet, all while keeping a secret from Kit? As Kit's birthday nears, Ellie doesn't know what gift to make until the girls overhear Kit's mom talking about her present-the dog Kit always wanted! Ellie plans to make an amazing doghouse, but her plans grow so elaborate that she has to enlist help from the neighbor boys and crafty girls, even though the two groups don't get along. Together with her best friend Kit, Ellie can make anything. With a tool belt strapped over her favorite skirt (who says you can't wear a dress and have two kinds of screwdrivers handy, just in case?), she invents and builds amazing creations in her backyard workshop. Jones! Ellie the engineer is thinking, making, creating, and showing enthusiasm and brilliance with her creations! - School Library ConnectionĪ charming, hilarious illustrated middle grade about a girl who is an engineer-no, not the kind on a train, the kind that builds things! Perfect creative, STEM-powered fun for girls who have interests in how things work.Įllie is an engineer. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Before starting her singing career she moved to New York City in the late 1960s and worked as a secretary at BBC Radio's office there for one year. She graduated from Centenary College in Hackettstown, New Jersey, with an Associate of Arts degree in 1965. ![]() She attended Hawthorne High School, where she graduated in 1963. Harry was born in Miami, Florida, and adopted by Catherine and Richard Smith Harry, gift shop proprietors in Hawthorne, New Jersey. Her acting career spans over 30 film roles and numerous television appearances. She has also had success as a solo artist, and in the mid-1990s she recorded and performed with The Jazz Passengers. Debbie Harryĭeborah Ann "Debbie" Harry (born July 1, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter and actress best known for being the lead singer of the punk rock and new wave band Blondie. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m so pleased to finally welcome you back to the world of The Priory of the Orange Tree. When the Dreadmount erupts, bringing with it an age of terror and violence, these women must find the strength to protect humankind from a devastating threat. Now someone from her mother's past is coming to upend her fate. Dumai has spent her life in a Seiikinese mountain temple, trying to wake the gods from their long slumber. The dragons of the East have slept for centuries. ![]() Their daughter, Glorian, trails in their shadow – exactly where she wants to be. ![]() To the north, in the Queendom of Inys, Sabran the Ambitious has married the new King of Hróth, narrowly saving both realms from ruin. For fifty years, she has trained to slay wyrms – but none have appeared since the Nameless One, and the younger generation is starting to question the Priory's purpose. In A Day of Fallen Night, Samantha Shannon sweeps readers back to the universe of Priory of the Orange Tree and into the lives of four women, showing us a course of events that shaped their world for generations to come. ![]() ![]() Not a stylist in the sense in which Evelyn Waugh or Ford Madox Ford were stylists, he accomplished his art-and won his popularity-by concealing his art. In this witty, elegant, revelatory biography, Richard Greene states that his “book takes a very high view of Graham Greene’s accomplishments, and so endorses the common opinion of three generations of writers and critics that he is one of the most important figures in modern literature.” “Important” writers are not necessarily good writers in fact, they can be rather poor ones, especially if their importance hinges on their aping, or, worse, pandering to the prejudices of their age but Greene was a good writer despite the “importance” often attributed to him. Russian Roulette: The Life and Times of Graham Greene, by Richard Greene (Little Brown, 591 pp., $42.48) ![]() ![]() ![]() Yasmin the Painter: Yasmin’s school is having an art competition and Yasmin is nervous because she doesn’t consider herself a very good artist. While they stop at different stalls and Yasmin adds to her map, the temptation of a playground draws Yasmin away from her mom, but luckily her map can guide her back. Inspired, Yasmin decides to make her own map of the neighborhood, which gets really exciting when her mom asks her if she wants to join her on a shopping trip to the farmer’s market. ![]() Yasmin the Explorer: The book starts out with Yasmin’s dad telling her about explorers and maps. The individual stories are 6 x 9 and 32 pages, and whether you buy the collection or the individual stories, they are under $6. The version I have is 5.5 x 7 and 96 pages long which includes a Think About It, Talk About It section at the back as well as a glossary of Urdu words, some facts about Pakistan and a recipe for Mango and instructions to make a bookmark craft. You can buy each of the books separately in a larger format, and possibly a longer story. ![]() The book I have, Meet Yasmin! contains all four stories: Yasmin the Explorer, Yasmin the Painter, Yasmin the Builder, and Yasmin the Fashionista. Seriously, this book is overdue and so well done, I can’t wait for the author, illustrator, and publisher, to team up to do more. ![]() Yes! Yes! Yes! A strong and relatable 2nd grade, Pakistani-American Muslim girl, with stories written on a AR 2.4 -2.5 level, learns lessons and grows in everyday scenarios. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is the universality of human conditions and predicaments that helps works of art to travel beyond space and time. 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Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() A practice I have always found fundamental to the success of my own business (as the creator of several custom start-ups) is to allow each customer/client to feel that I work solely for them and that the are my most important client – much like the mantra of Jeff Bezos and Amazon. A large portion of the company’s success is attributed to the fact that regardless of its growth, it has always remained personalized and individually catered to its employees and customers, which Brad Stone chronicles in The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon. Upper management, including Jeff Bezos himself, has never let go of the the importance of creating a personal relationship with his entire staff – often still sitting in during the new-hire process. ![]() It is this mentality, one of prolonged and regular encouragement from the management team, that has kept Amazon’s goals, achievements and expectations attainable. Every success was celebrated, no matter how small or large. (It was only a few weeks before it started ringing so often that they had to turn it off.)" - The Everything Store, page 24Ī, just like every successful start-up, started on a shoestring budget with a small, family-like small business staff. When someone made a purchase, a bell would ring on Amazon’s computers, and everyone in the office would gather around to see if anyone knew the customer. ![]() ![]() "Each order during those early months brought a thrill to Amazon’s employees. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her novel, Finding Dorothy, is a richly imagined novel which tells the story behind The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the book that inspired the iconic film, through the eyes of author L. Her most recent book, The Ride of Her Life, is the triumphant true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pacific Ocean. ![]() ![]() Her second work of non-fiction, The Perfect Horse was a New York Times bestseller and the winner of the 2017 Pen USA Literary Award for Research Nonfiction and is available in a young reader edition. #1 New York Times Bestseller The Eighty-Dollar Champion was a 2011 Indie Next Pick, a Goodreads Reader’s Choice Finalist and winner of the 2012 Daniel P Lenehan Award for Media Excellence from the United States Equestrian Foundation and is currently in development as a feature film at MGM Studios. Elizabeth Letts is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of both historical fiction and non-fiction. ![]() |