Mozart and the Whale

2007-01-09
Mozart and the Whale

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  • Author: Jerry Newport
  • Publisher: Simon and Schuster
  • ISBN: 0743288920
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 273

An unforgettable love story and the incredible chronicle of a musical genius and a mathematical prodigy who share a diagnosis of Asperger’s syndrome. When Jerry and Mary Newport met, the connection was instant. A musical genius and a mathematical wonder, the two shared astronomic IQs, but they also shared something else—they both were diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism that affects millions of Americans and makes social contact painfully unbearable. When Jerry and Mary married, they were catapulted into the limelight. They appeared on 60 Minutes and soon were known as "superstars in the world of autism," shining examples of two people who refused to give up in the face of their mutual challenge. But just when it appeared that their lives would enjoy a fairy-tale ending, their marriage fell apart. The Hollywood feeding frenzy was too much to handle, and they divorced. After heartbreaking years of soul searching, Jerry and Mary remarried. Today, with their union stronger than ever, they have dedicated themselves to helping countless other people with Asperger's and autism lead lives of dignity.

The Art of Autism

2012-03-21
The Art of Autism

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  • Author: Debra Hosseini
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9780983983408
  • Category : Art and mental illness
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 144

Position Pieces for Cello

Position Pieces for Cello

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  • Author: Rick Mooney
  • Publisher: Alfred Music
  • ISBN: 9781457404986
  • Category : Music
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 68

Position Pieces for Cello is designed to give students a logical and fun way to learn their way around the fingerboard. Each hand position is introduced with exercises called "Target Practice," "Geography Quiz," and "Names and Numbers." Following these exercises are tuneful cello duets which have been specifically composed to require students to play in that hand position. In this way, students gain a thorough knowledge of how to find the hand positions and, once there, which notes are possible to play. Using these pieces (with names like "I Was a Teenage Monster," "The Irish Tenor," and "I've Got the Blues, Baby"), position study on the cello has never been so much fun!

Singing Home the Whale

2014-09-05
Singing Home the Whale

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  • Author: Mandy Hager
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
  • ISBN: 1775536580
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 284

An award-winning and extraordinary story of a boy who protects a baby whale that locals believe is threatening their livelihood. Winner of the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2015 Young Adult Category Winner New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2015 Storylines Notable Young Adult Fiction Award 2015 Will Jackson is hiding out, a city boy reluctantly staying with his uncle in small town New Zealand while he struggles to recover from a brutal attack and the aftermath of a humiliating YouTube clip gone viral. After he discovers a young abandoned orca whale his life is further thrown into chaos, when he rallies to help protect it against hostile, threatening interests. This threatens to tear apart the small fishing community and forever changes Will’s life. The boy and the whale develop a special bond, linked by Will's love of singing. With echoes of classic book and film The whalerider this powerful connection is utterly convincing on the page. An exciting plot-driven story full of drama, tension and romance, this magical book captures both heart and mind to hold the reader enthralled from start to finish. These qualities, along with its lyrical use of language and its compelling and persuasive exploration of many global concerns, makes this a beautifully touching, rich and multi-layered story by an award-winning writer for young adults. Singing Home the Whale will appeal to all readers of high-quality New Zealand fiction.

Your Life is Not a Label

2001
Your Life is Not a Label

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  • Author: Jerry Newport
  • Publisher: Future Horizons
  • ISBN: 9781885477774
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 340

Jerry Newport, diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome / High Functioning Autism at age 47, wrote this book for those with developmental disorders, but it resonates with people with any disability. His message: everyone has the power, and the right, to improve the quality of their lives despite their disability. Don't believe you must be "normal" to be happy; learn to co-exist with neuro-typicals, and become the best human being you can be. Jerry candidly reveals his own failures and successes. His heartfelt advice stems from a deep sense of caring for "his people" on the spectrum. If you read only one personal account about autism, this should be it!

Emma and the Whale

2017-03-07
Emma and the Whale

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  • Author: Julie Case
  • Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
  • ISBN: 0553538470
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 41

In this lyrical picture book with subtle conservation themes, a girl helps rescue a whale who has washed ashore. Here is a beautifully written, moving story that will appeal to all animal lovers, and to those interested in protecting our oceans and marine life. Emma lives in a crooked house in an old whaling town, and often takes her dog, Nemo, to the beach. On their walks, they find amazing treasures, like shells and stones and sea glass—and even a loggerhead turtle. But one day, they find something completely unexpected: a baby whale, washed ashore. Emma empathizes with the animal’s suffering, imagining what the whale is thinking and feeling. When the tide starts to come in, Emma pushes as the water swirls and rises, and eventually the whale swims free, back to her mother.

The Boy and the Whale

2017-11-21
The Boy and the Whale

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  • Author: Mordicai Gerstein
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 1626725055
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 42

Abelardo defies his father's instructions and sets out to free a whale caught in their tangled fishing net.

Quest for a Job

2013
Quest for a Job

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  • Author: Red Rose Elk
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Budgets, Personal
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 20

"The Empowerment Saga is a series of stories to engage youth 14-18 years of age in developing basic financial skills so they will learn how to build and preserve their own financial wealth. These stories, offered in colorful comic-style graphics, are reservation-cased in order to bring "home" to Native youth the message of handling their finances from an early age." --From publisher's description.

Dear Scarlett

2013-02-07
Dear Scarlett

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  • Author: Fleur Hitchcock
  • Publisher: Nosy Crow
  • ISBN: 0857631519
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 213

All this time Scarlett's thought her dad was a thief, but years after his death a strange man turns up at the door and hands her a box, "on her father's instructions". Inside is a baffling series of clues that leads Scarlett and her friend, Ellie, on a wild, scary, often funny journey of discovery about her father and his mysterious life. But the more the girls learn, the more danger they're in. They must stay one step ahead of the sinister mayoress and her chauffer as they race to unravel her dad's final clue: Keep looking up... From the acclaimed author of Saving Sophia and Murder in Midwinter. "Fleur Hitchcock has cornered the market in hard-boilers for beginners." - Alex O'Connell, The Times

Autism and Representation

2010-04-26
Autism and Representation

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  • Author: Mark Osteen
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1135911495
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 322

Autism, a neuro-developmental disability, has received wide but often sensationalistic treatment in the popular media. A great deal of clinical and medical research has been devoted to autism, but the traditional humanities disciplines and the new field of Disability Studies have yet to explore it. This volume, the first scholarly book on autism in the humanities, brings scholars from several disciplines together with adults on the autism spectrum to investigate the diverse ways that autism has been represented in novels, poems, autobiographies, films, and clinical discourses, and to explore the connections and demarcations between autistic and "neurotypical" creativity. Using an empathetic scholarship that unites professional rigor with experiential knowledge derived from the contributors’ lives with or as autistic people, the essays address such questions as: In what novel forms does autistic creativity appear, and what unusual strengths does it possess? How do autistic representations--whether by or about autistic people--revise conventional ideas of cognition, creativity, language, (dis)ability and sociability? This timely and important collection breaks new ground in literary and film criticism, aesthetics, psychology, and Disability Studies.