Author: Dick King-Smith
Publisher: Wayland
ISBN: 0750270608
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Emily was like her ninety-nine brothers and sisters, until she won all the eight-legged races at spider sports. People grew suspicious. And then, they counted her legs. She had ten! It's not her fault, but everyone turns against her. But there's something very special about Emily's legs that will change her life for ever . . .
Emily's Legs
Author: Dick King-Smith
Publisher: Wayland
ISBN: 0750270608
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Emily was like her ninety-nine brothers and sisters, until she won all the eight-legged races at spider sports. People grew suspicious. And then, they counted her legs. She had ten! It's not her fault, but everyone turns against her. But there's something very special about Emily's legs that will change her life for ever . . .
Publisher: Wayland
ISBN: 0750270608
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Emily was like her ninety-nine brothers and sisters, until she won all the eight-legged races at spider sports. People grew suspicious. And then, they counted her legs. She had ten! It's not her fault, but everyone turns against her. But there's something very special about Emily's legs that will change her life for ever . . .
The Tail of Emily Windsnap
Author: Liz Kessler
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763652407
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
A young girl learns she’s half mermaid and plunges into a scheme to reunite with her father in this entrancing, satisfying tale that beckons readers far below the waves. For as long as she can remember, twelve-year-old Emily Windsnap has lived on a boat. And, oddly enough, for just as long, her mother has seemed anxious to keep Emily away from the water. But when Mom finally agrees to let her take swimming lessons, Emily makes a startling discovery — about her own identity, the mysterious father she’s never met, and the thrilling possibilities and perils shimmering deep below the water’s surface. With a sure sense of suspense and richly imaginative details, first-time author Liz Kessler lures us into a glorious undersea world where mermaids study shipwrecks at school and Neptune rules with an iron trident — an enchanting fantasy about family secrets, loyal friendship, and the convention-defying power of love.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763652407
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
A young girl learns she’s half mermaid and plunges into a scheme to reunite with her father in this entrancing, satisfying tale that beckons readers far below the waves. For as long as she can remember, twelve-year-old Emily Windsnap has lived on a boat. And, oddly enough, for just as long, her mother has seemed anxious to keep Emily away from the water. But when Mom finally agrees to let her take swimming lessons, Emily makes a startling discovery — about her own identity, the mysterious father she’s never met, and the thrilling possibilities and perils shimmering deep below the water’s surface. With a sure sense of suspense and richly imaginative details, first-time author Liz Kessler lures us into a glorious undersea world where mermaids study shipwrecks at school and Neptune rules with an iron trident — an enchanting fantasy about family secrets, loyal friendship, and the convention-defying power of love.
The Comprehension Book
Author: Sue Dillon
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
ISBN: 0748734546
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
These worksheets draw on material from a variety of genres including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, journalism, advertising and public information. The varied topics and material are ideal for reinforcing understanding across the curriculum.
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
ISBN: 0748734546
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
These worksheets draw on material from a variety of genres including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, journalism, advertising and public information. The varied topics and material are ideal for reinforcing understanding across the curriculum.
Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg
Author: Emily Rapp Black
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1912559277
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
A New York Times-bestselling author's personal examination of how the experiences, art, and disabilities of Frida Kahlo shaped her life as an amputee. At first sight of Frida Kahlo’s painting The Two Fridas, Emily Rapp Black felt a connection with the artist. An amputee from childhood, Rapp Black grew up with a succession of prosthetic limbs and learned that she had to hide her disability from the world. Kahlo sustained lifelong injuries after a horrific bus crash, and her right leg was eventually amputated. In Kahlo’s art, Rapp Black recognized her own life, from the numerous operations to the compulsion to create to silence pain. Here she tells her story of losing her infant son to Tay-Sachs, giving birth to a daughter, and learning to accept her body. She writes of how Frida Kahlo inspired her to find a way forward when all seemed lost. Book cover image: Frida Kahlo, prosthetic limb. Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera Archives. Bank of Mexico, Fiduciary in the Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Museum Trust.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1912559277
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
A New York Times-bestselling author's personal examination of how the experiences, art, and disabilities of Frida Kahlo shaped her life as an amputee. At first sight of Frida Kahlo’s painting The Two Fridas, Emily Rapp Black felt a connection with the artist. An amputee from childhood, Rapp Black grew up with a succession of prosthetic limbs and learned that she had to hide her disability from the world. Kahlo sustained lifelong injuries after a horrific bus crash, and her right leg was eventually amputated. In Kahlo’s art, Rapp Black recognized her own life, from the numerous operations to the compulsion to create to silence pain. Here she tells her story of losing her infant son to Tay-Sachs, giving birth to a daughter, and learning to accept her body. She writes of how Frida Kahlo inspired her to find a way forward when all seemed lost. Book cover image: Frida Kahlo, prosthetic limb. Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera Archives. Bank of Mexico, Fiduciary in the Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Museum Trust.
'On Your Feet'-short stories
Author: Debbie Stevens
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411694724
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411694724
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
Two dear little feet
Author: Frances Elizabeth McFall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foot
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foot
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
The World of Emily Windsnap: Emily’s Big Discovery
Author: Liz Kessler
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 1536225541
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
Emily Windsnap doesn't know how to swim. Her mother has always cautioned her to stay out of the water. But it's hard to make friends at the beach when everyone else is having fun in the waves! So when swimming lessons start at school, Emily is excited to finally have the chance to learn. Standing beside the pool, she feels the water calling her, but when she jumps in, she gets a strange, kind of scary sensation... like her legs are stuck together. Eager to figure out what's happening, Emily later dives into the sea. She gets that weird feeling again, but this time she looks down to see that her legs are gone--replaced by a shiny, beautiful tail!
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 1536225541
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
Emily Windsnap doesn't know how to swim. Her mother has always cautioned her to stay out of the water. But it's hard to make friends at the beach when everyone else is having fun in the waves! So when swimming lessons start at school, Emily is excited to finally have the chance to learn. Standing beside the pool, she feels the water calling her, but when she jumps in, she gets a strange, kind of scary sensation... like her legs are stuck together. Eager to figure out what's happening, Emily later dives into the sea. She gets that weird feeling again, but this time she looks down to see that her legs are gone--replaced by a shiny, beautiful tail!
Poster Child
Author: Emily Rapp
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1596918896
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Emily Rapp was born with a congenital defect that required, at the age of four, that her left foot be amputated. By the time she was eight she'd had dozens of operations, had lost most of her leg, from just above the knee, and had become the smiling, indefatigable "poster child" for the March of Dimes. For years she made appearances at church suppers and rodeos, giving pep talks about how normal and happy she was. All the while she was learning to live with what she later described as "my grievous, irrevocable flaw," and the paradox that being extraordinary was the only way to be ordinary. Praise for Poster Child: "Rapp's precise and forthright descriptions of her exhausting physical ordeals and complex psychic wounds are simultaneously harrowing and fascinating, and they foster a strong bond between writer and reader...Rapp approaches the memoir as a supple, revelatory, involving and generous genre....She offers a fresh perspective on our obsession with physical perfection, especially the crushing expectations for women, and she writes delicately about the fears that disability engenders regarding intimacy and sex. Rapp's insider's view of the history of prostheses deepens our empathy and admiration for those who depend on artificial limbs, a growing population, once again, in yet another time of war and horrific injuries. Memoir, the conduit from the personal to the universal, is the surest way into the kind of significant psychological, sociological and spiritual truth Rapp is engaged in articulating. And there isn't one false note here. Not one inauthentic moment. No cheap manipulation. No self-importance...Her cauterizing specificity is compelling, her candor incandescent and her intelligence, courage and spiritual diligence stupendous."-Donna Seaman, Los Angeles Times "You can't put down this excellent memoir ...Poster Child beautifully illustrates every human being's sometimes overt, sometimes co
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1596918896
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Emily Rapp was born with a congenital defect that required, at the age of four, that her left foot be amputated. By the time she was eight she'd had dozens of operations, had lost most of her leg, from just above the knee, and had become the smiling, indefatigable "poster child" for the March of Dimes. For years she made appearances at church suppers and rodeos, giving pep talks about how normal and happy she was. All the while she was learning to live with what she later described as "my grievous, irrevocable flaw," and the paradox that being extraordinary was the only way to be ordinary. Praise for Poster Child: "Rapp's precise and forthright descriptions of her exhausting physical ordeals and complex psychic wounds are simultaneously harrowing and fascinating, and they foster a strong bond between writer and reader...Rapp approaches the memoir as a supple, revelatory, involving and generous genre....She offers a fresh perspective on our obsession with physical perfection, especially the crushing expectations for women, and she writes delicately about the fears that disability engenders regarding intimacy and sex. Rapp's insider's view of the history of prostheses deepens our empathy and admiration for those who depend on artificial limbs, a growing population, once again, in yet another time of war and horrific injuries. Memoir, the conduit from the personal to the universal, is the surest way into the kind of significant psychological, sociological and spiritual truth Rapp is engaged in articulating. And there isn't one false note here. Not one inauthentic moment. No cheap manipulation. No self-importance...Her cauterizing specificity is compelling, her candor incandescent and her intelligence, courage and spiritual diligence stupendous."-Donna Seaman, Los Angeles Times "You can't put down this excellent memoir ...Poster Child beautifully illustrates every human being's sometimes overt, sometimes co
The Druidess of Elkaza
Author: Franklin Newman
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1450058299
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 775
Book Description
Kylie Moriarty is in her ninth month of pregnancy now. But the return of Princess Victoria Sheridan from her self-exile in the Orc nation Jirenzia exposes Kylie to her mortal enemy, the evil psychic and plane-shifter, Simon Freznik. After the assassination of Queen Rolaina, Kylie, her superhero husband Steve, and nine teenagers from Ivy Bay, California, are kidnapped and forced to play a dangerous game. Kylie thwarts Freznik as best as she can, but her pregnancy's coming due, and the outbreak of zombie disease causes Freznik to lose control of his own game. Only registered nurse Kylie and her paramedic assistant, Nolan, stand a chance at finding a cure for this insideous disease, before it's too late. It also reveals to Kylie who her true enemy, the real villain of Callistor, has actually been all this time. Seizing control over the zombies as they spread through Elkaza Island like wildfire, the villain races toward Thaydon to conquer it with the zombies, and claim the power Callistor as the ultimate prize! When her shelter is compromised, Kylie realizes the only true way to stop the traitor is to make the ultimate sacrifice . . .
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1450058299
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 775
Book Description
Kylie Moriarty is in her ninth month of pregnancy now. But the return of Princess Victoria Sheridan from her self-exile in the Orc nation Jirenzia exposes Kylie to her mortal enemy, the evil psychic and plane-shifter, Simon Freznik. After the assassination of Queen Rolaina, Kylie, her superhero husband Steve, and nine teenagers from Ivy Bay, California, are kidnapped and forced to play a dangerous game. Kylie thwarts Freznik as best as she can, but her pregnancy's coming due, and the outbreak of zombie disease causes Freznik to lose control of his own game. Only registered nurse Kylie and her paramedic assistant, Nolan, stand a chance at finding a cure for this insideous disease, before it's too late. It also reveals to Kylie who her true enemy, the real villain of Callistor, has actually been all this time. Seizing control over the zombies as they spread through Elkaza Island like wildfire, the villain races toward Thaydon to conquer it with the zombies, and claim the power Callistor as the ultimate prize! When her shelter is compromised, Kylie realizes the only true way to stop the traitor is to make the ultimate sacrifice . . .
Equites : Book 4 of the Heku Series
Author: T.M. Nielsen
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1435785223
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Equites, Book 4 in the Heku Series, starts off with the beginnings of a war. Damon and Emily are still fighting while the Equites defends itself against attacks from both the Valle and the Encala. An accident sends Emily to the hospital, and the tension with the Valle becomes more explosive. Emily suspects the heku have a secret, and will go to any measure to find out what it is. She comes face-to-face with the darker side of the heku and quickly comes to terms with it. An agricultural coven takes her in and her views of the sinister heku begin to change. Emily’s past with Keith comes back to haunt her, and a vile attack shows the Equites how far the Valle and Encala are willing to go to gain possession of the Winchester Heirs. Sam’s loyalty comes into question as Emily finds a small niche out in the world with the mortals. Attacks on her become more dangerous, and she finds that the heku may not be as indestructible as she once thought. An ultimatum is placed that could upend the entire species.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1435785223
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Equites, Book 4 in the Heku Series, starts off with the beginnings of a war. Damon and Emily are still fighting while the Equites defends itself against attacks from both the Valle and the Encala. An accident sends Emily to the hospital, and the tension with the Valle becomes more explosive. Emily suspects the heku have a secret, and will go to any measure to find out what it is. She comes face-to-face with the darker side of the heku and quickly comes to terms with it. An agricultural coven takes her in and her views of the sinister heku begin to change. Emily’s past with Keith comes back to haunt her, and a vile attack shows the Equites how far the Valle and Encala are willing to go to gain possession of the Winchester Heirs. Sam’s loyalty comes into question as Emily finds a small niche out in the world with the mortals. Attacks on her become more dangerous, and she finds that the heku may not be as indestructible as she once thought. An ultimatum is placed that could upend the entire species.