"Pie in the Sky is like enjoying a decadent cake. (Click on the image to go to the book's Amazon page!) Click the link below to learn more about Rajani, and check out the information at the end about our books to learn more about MIDSUMMER'S MAYHEM! To celebrate Rajani joining our team, MIDSUMMER'S MAYHEM will be our January 2020 MG Heart selection. We're also excited to welcome a new contributor to Middle Grade Heart this month- Rajani, LaRocca, author of MIDSUMMER'S MAYHEM! We're so excited to have Rajani on board. Each month, we share a variety of fun content to complement our chosen read, including recipes, activities, discussion questions, and even sometimes author interviews! This month, we're spotlighting our own illustrator Remy Lai's marvelous debut, PIE IN THE SKY. Hello, friends! We're a group of middle grade authors who are passionate about great middle grade reads. This month we are discussing PIE IN THE SKY by Remy Lai! Join us for this month's book club selection.
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My father, King Theodore, requires a lot from me and my brother. Life as a princess isn’t what you imagine it to be. Oh, what I would give for a day off with no responsibilities. The first question is, i f you had a free day with no responsibilities and your only mission was to enjoy yourself, what would you do? Thank you, Princess, for agreeing to be interviewed on Motivation for Creation. We're lucky today because Princess Madeline answered some questions for us, so we could get to know her and her world a little better. Follow Princess Madeline on this adventure as she battles evil in an attempt to create a future of love and magic. In a tense struggle to decide her future, Princess Madeline must choose where to put her trust… in the king’s tried and true plan, the wizard’s cryptic messages and maps, or her own sense of bravery. Rejection turns to obsession and battle is declared. 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Her mere allure and presence had been enough to create an influx of new clients, but it was her uncanny ability to find the overlooked detail and effectively shift the scales of justice her firm's way that kept the clients coming. Her career was beginning to shine as brilliantly as her personality and perfectly pearly whites. She was giddy with excitement about her future, feeling the power of being a young woman, and looking forward to putting her mark on the world. Amia Copeland was like any other recent college graduate having just landed her first great-paying job at one of the nation's most prestigious African American law firms. Pamela, who has come to Ireland in search of a memory and a man who may not have existed in the first place. Casey, a card-carrying member of the Irish Republican Army, who must face the fact that five years away has left him a stranger, a misfit in his own neighborhood where not everyone is sympathetic to a convicted rebel. They come from disparate backgrounds - Jamie a wealthy aristocrat whose life is like an imperfect but multi-faceted jewel-brilliant, flawed and with a glitter that is designed to distract the observer. All three lives are on a collision course with each other against the backdrop of the burgeoning civil rights movement and a nation on the brink of revolution. It is the spring of 1968 in Belfast and James Kirkpatrick has just lost his father under suspicious circumstances, Casey Riordan is released from prison after five years and Pamela O'Flaherty has crossed an ocean and a lifetime of memories to find the man she fell in love with as a little girl. In this sweeping and powerful epic the journey begins in the "terrible beauty" of Northern Ireland during a time when conflict reigns and no one is spared from tragedy and sorrow, the time known as The Troubles. 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We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. One story is cast as a manager’s memo another takes the form of a very strange diary. “Escape from Spiderhead” has all the trappings of science fiction, yet culminates in a profound meditation on free will and personal responsibility. And these are very much stories of these times, filled with economic struggles and class envy, with war and its effects, with drugs that serve as a substitute for deeper emotions (like love) and perhaps a cure (at least temporary) for what one of the stories calls “a sort of vast existential nausea.” On the surface, many of these stories are genre exercises. Even when he is subverting convention, letting the reader know throughout that there is an authorial presence pulling the strings, that these characters and their lives don’t exist beyond words, he seduces the reader with his warmth, humor and storytelling command. Literature that takes the sort of chances that Saunders does is rarely as much fun as his is. A new story collection from the most playful postmodernist since Donald Barthelme, with narratives that can be enjoyed on a number of different levels. While they inhabit these pages they live, and they do so gloriously and messily and magically, so that we are at last sorry to see them go, and we sit with those small moments we had with them and worry over them, enchanted, until they become something like our own memories, dimmed by time, but alive with the ghosts of the past, and burning with spirits." - New York Times Book Review "Read it aloud. 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The essays collected here are calls to the heart through the lens of the natural world and all its glorious mysteries: the innocent and heartrending questions she chronicles as her sons search for birds on National Audubon Bird Count Day, the painful shock and hopeful longing of a missing cockatiel, the aching memory of fresh citrus from the garden can bring. Nezhukumatathil's training as a poet shines through her descriptions and the details she coaxes to the page. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to playĮach essay is framed by an exploration of something from the natural world: whale sharks with their fairytale origin story (“the spots on his back look like a whole city of light, where everyone is always awake, trying to remember the simple sweet memory of soil”) the astonishingly pungent corpse flower, with an almost human-like temperature the sly movements of touch-me-nots. 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"Goldfinger" has to rank as one of the most famous James Bond movies of all time – and one of the best for that matter. Queen Charlotte shares his sense of moral purpose, and together they do everything they can to raise their tribe of thirteen sons and daughters in a climate of loving attention. For a long time, it seems as if, against the odds, George's great experiment might succeed. In A Royal Experiment, he is also a man with a poignant agenda, determined to be a new kind of king, one whose power will be rooted in the affection and approval of his people, and a new kind of man, a faithful husband capable of companionship and domestic harmony. To Americans, King George III has long been doubly famous-as the tyrant from whom colonial revolutionaries wrested their nation's liberty and, owing to his late-life illness, as the mad king. The stunning debut of an important new history writer In this magnificent biography of a marriage-between Great Britain's King George III and Queen Charlotte-Janice Hadlow exposes with astonishing emotional force King George's attempt to achieve what none of his forebears had accomplished: a happy family life. |