Strange Son

2007-11-06
Strange Son

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  • Author: Portia Iversen
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • ISBN: 1101217510
  • Category : Family & Relationships
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 448

Strange Son is the powerful tale of two mothers from opposite sides of the world who, united by their fierce determination to help their severely autistic sons, have challenged everything we thought we knew about autism. Tito Mukhopadhyay, an autistic boy from India who spends most of his time flapping his fingers in front of his eyes, has an IQ of 185. He favors the writings of Wordsworth and Ibsen. He loves philosophy, reads People, and worries about conflict in the Middle East. He also writes beautiful poetry.That Tito can communicate at all is due to his mother, Soma, who single-handedly developed a revolutionary method of teaching him in their one-room apartment in Bangalore, a "classroom" that lacked even running water. Iversen weaves the twin stories of Soma and Tito (and how Soma's methods mystified experts) together with her own story of how she and her family came to understand Dov. The result is a book suffused with uplifting human drama.

It's Your Camino

2019-07-27
It's Your Camino

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  • Author: Kenneth Richard Strange Jr
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781098837884
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 194

This is the story of one couple's 500-mile, 31-day pilgrimage across northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela in 2018.

Strange Star

2018-03-20
Strange Star

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  • Author: Emma Carroll
  • Publisher: Delacorte Press
  • ISBN: 0399556079
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 228

From the critically acclaimed author of In Darkling Wood comes a spine-tingling novel inspired by Frankenstein with more than a hint of mystery and suspense. One stormy June evening, five friends meet at Villa Diodati, the summer home of Lord Byron. After dinner is served, they challenge each other to tell ghost stories that will freeze the blood. But one of the guests--Mary Shelley--is stuck for a story to share. Then there's an unexpected knock at the front door. Collapsed on the doorstep is a girl with strange scars on her face. She has traveled a long way with her own tale to tell, and now they all must listen. Hers is no ordinary ghost story, though. What starts as a simple tale of village life soon turns to tragedy and the darkest, most dangerous of secrets. Sometimes the truth is far more terrifying than fiction . . . and the consequences are even more devastating. Praise for Emma Carroll's In Darkling Wood: "A haunting and poignant exploration of family, loss, and redemption." --Booklist, Starred "A tale brimming with emotion and atmosphere. . . . [In Darkling Wood] is absorbing and well written. Hand this to readers who enjoy fantasy, fairy tales, and magical realism."--School Library Journal, Starred "Magic and mystery adds appeal to this already compelling family drama...and Carroll manages to wrap all of the threads into a wholly satisfying ending."--Bulletin

The Strange Child

2016-03-23
The Strange Child

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  • Author: Andrea Gevurtz Arai
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • ISBN: 0804798567
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 252

The Strange Child examines how the Japanese financial crisis of the 1990s gave rise to "the child problem," a powerful discourse of social anxiety that refocused concerns about precarious economic futures and shifting ideologies of national identity onto the young. Andrea Gevurtz Arai's ethnography details the different forms of social and cultural dislocation that erupted in Japan starting in the late 1990s. Arai reveals the effects of shifting educational practices; increased privatization of social services; recessionary vocabulary of self-development and independence; and the neoliberalization of patriotism. Arai argues that the child problem and the social unease out of which it emerged provided a rationale for reimagining governance in education, liberalizing the job market, and a new role for psychology in the overturning of national-cultural ideologies. The Strange Child uncovers the state of nationalism in contemporary Japan, the politics of distraction around the child, and the altered life conditions of—and alternatives created by—the recessionary generation.

Strange Children. A sermon [on Ps. cxliv. 11, 12] preached ... May 19th, 1854

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Strange Children. A sermon [on Ps. cxliv. 11, 12] preached ... May 19th, 1854

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  • Author: Henry Thomas FLETCHER
  • Publisher:
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  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 20

The Strange Birds of Flannery O'Connor

2020-07-21
The Strange Birds of Flannery O'Connor

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  • Author: Amy Alznauer
  • Publisher: Abrams
  • ISBN: 1592703437
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 60

“I intend to stand firm and let the peacocks multiply, for I am sure that, in the end, the last word will be theirs.” —Flannery O’Connor When she was young, the writer Flannery O’Connor was captivated by the chickens in her yard. She’d watch their wings flap, their beaks peck, and their eyes glint. At age six, her life was forever changed when she and a chicken she had been training to walk forwards and backwards were featured in the Pathé News, and she realized that people want to see what is odd and strange in life. But while she loved birds of all varieties and kept several species around the house, it was the peacocks that came to dominate her life. Written by Amy Alznauer with devotional attention to all things odd and illustrated in radiant paint by Ping Zhu, The Strange Birds of Flannery O’Connor explores the beginnings of one author’s lifelong obsession. Amy Alznauer lives in Chicago with her husband, two children, a dog, a parakeet, sometimes chicks, and a part-time fish, but, as of today, no elephants or peacocks. Ping Zhu is a freelance illustrator who has worked with clients big and small, won some awards based on the work she did for aforementioned clients, attracted new clients with shiny awards, and is hoping to maintain her livelihood in Brooklyn by repeating that cycle.

Strange Days

2018
Strange Days

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  • Author: Constantine Singer
  • Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
  • ISBN: 1524740241
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 434

When inexplicable events begin to occur, Los Angeles native Alex Mata uses his special ability of time travel to save the world from alien invasion in this captivating debut novel that weaves sci-fi and contemporary fiction.

the strange children

the strange children

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  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN:
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  • Languages : en
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Jason Strange: Strays

Jason Strange: Strays

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  • Author: Jason Strange
  • Publisher: Capstone
  • ISBN: 1434299554
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 72

After Quentin’s bike breaks down in a strange town, he and his friend become surrounded by feral cats.

Little Lit Strange Stories for Strange Kids

2001-09-18
Little Lit Strange Stories for Strange Kids

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  • Author: Art Spiegelman
  • Publisher: HarperColl
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Humor
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 72

A collecton of comic strips and cartoons by various artists.