Author: Meredith Migliorato
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781478744054
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Fickle Melinda McPickle can never make up her mind. She is simply no good at making decisions meaning she usually ends up making very silly choices. As she goes through her day, the lovable little girl finds a different way of doing things, often making multiple choices instead of just one. Through it all, Melinda McPickle remains her delightfully unique self. There is a little Melinda in all of us. Fickle Fickle Melinda McPickle is a lighthearted book with an important message: Be who you are, whoever that is because that person is perfect, just as they are. Through Melinda we learn it s OK to march to the beat of your own drum. Ageless, timeless and seasonless, the book resonates with readers of all ages as it explores themes of character development, self-confidence, and embracing and celebrating each other s and our own special differences."
Fickle Fickle Melinda McPickle
Author: Meredith Migliorato
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781478744054
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Fickle Melinda McPickle can never make up her mind. She is simply no good at making decisions meaning she usually ends up making very silly choices. As she goes through her day, the lovable little girl finds a different way of doing things, often making multiple choices instead of just one. Through it all, Melinda McPickle remains her delightfully unique self. There is a little Melinda in all of us. Fickle Fickle Melinda McPickle is a lighthearted book with an important message: Be who you are, whoever that is because that person is perfect, just as they are. Through Melinda we learn it s OK to march to the beat of your own drum. Ageless, timeless and seasonless, the book resonates with readers of all ages as it explores themes of character development, self-confidence, and embracing and celebrating each other s and our own special differences."
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781478744054
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Fickle Melinda McPickle can never make up her mind. She is simply no good at making decisions meaning she usually ends up making very silly choices. As she goes through her day, the lovable little girl finds a different way of doing things, often making multiple choices instead of just one. Through it all, Melinda McPickle remains her delightfully unique self. There is a little Melinda in all of us. Fickle Fickle Melinda McPickle is a lighthearted book with an important message: Be who you are, whoever that is because that person is perfect, just as they are. Through Melinda we learn it s OK to march to the beat of your own drum. Ageless, timeless and seasonless, the book resonates with readers of all ages as it explores themes of character development, self-confidence, and embracing and celebrating each other s and our own special differences."
Sour Heart
Author: Jenny Zhang
Publisher: Lenny
ISBN: 0399589392
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A sly debut story collection that conjures the experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese American girls growing up in New York City—for readers of Zadie Smith and Helen Oyeyemi. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction • Finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • NPR • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Guardian • Esquire • New York • BuzzFeed A fresh new voice emerges with the arrival of Sour Heart, establishing Jenny Zhang as a frank and subversive interpreter of the immigrant experience in America. Her stories cut across generations and continents, moving from the fraught halls of a public school in Flushing, Queens, to the tumultuous streets of Shanghai, China, during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s. In the absence of grown-ups, latchkey kids experiment on each other until one day the experiments turn violent; an overbearing mother abandons her artistic aspirations to come to America but relives her glory days through karaoke; and a shy loner struggles to master English so she can speak to God. Narrated by the daughters of Chinese immigrants who fled imperiled lives as artists back home only to struggle to stay afloat—dumpster diving for food and scamming Atlantic City casino buses to make a buck—these seven stories showcase Zhang’s compassion, moral courage, and a perverse sense of humor reminiscent of Portnoy’s Complaint. A darkly funny and intimate rendering of girlhood, Sour Heart examines what it means to belong to a family, to find your home, leave it, reject it, and return again. Praise for Sour Heart “[Jenny Zhang’s] coming-of-age tales are coarse and funny, sweet and sour, told in language that’s rough-hewn yet pulsating with energy.”—USA Today “One of the knockout fiction debuts of the year.”—New York “Compelling writing about what it means to be a teenager . . . It’s brilliant, it’s dark, but it’s also humorous and filled with love.”—Isaac Fitzgerald, Today “[A] combustible collection . . . in a class of its own.”—Booklist (starred review) “Gorgeous and grotesque . . . [a] tremendous debut.”—Slate
Publisher: Lenny
ISBN: 0399589392
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A sly debut story collection that conjures the experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese American girls growing up in New York City—for readers of Zadie Smith and Helen Oyeyemi. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction • Finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • NPR • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Guardian • Esquire • New York • BuzzFeed A fresh new voice emerges with the arrival of Sour Heart, establishing Jenny Zhang as a frank and subversive interpreter of the immigrant experience in America. Her stories cut across generations and continents, moving from the fraught halls of a public school in Flushing, Queens, to the tumultuous streets of Shanghai, China, during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s. In the absence of grown-ups, latchkey kids experiment on each other until one day the experiments turn violent; an overbearing mother abandons her artistic aspirations to come to America but relives her glory days through karaoke; and a shy loner struggles to master English so she can speak to God. Narrated by the daughters of Chinese immigrants who fled imperiled lives as artists back home only to struggle to stay afloat—dumpster diving for food and scamming Atlantic City casino buses to make a buck—these seven stories showcase Zhang’s compassion, moral courage, and a perverse sense of humor reminiscent of Portnoy’s Complaint. A darkly funny and intimate rendering of girlhood, Sour Heart examines what it means to belong to a family, to find your home, leave it, reject it, and return again. Praise for Sour Heart “[Jenny Zhang’s] coming-of-age tales are coarse and funny, sweet and sour, told in language that’s rough-hewn yet pulsating with energy.”—USA Today “One of the knockout fiction debuts of the year.”—New York “Compelling writing about what it means to be a teenager . . . It’s brilliant, it’s dark, but it’s also humorous and filled with love.”—Isaac Fitzgerald, Today “[A] combustible collection . . . in a class of its own.”—Booklist (starred review) “Gorgeous and grotesque . . . [a] tremendous debut.”—Slate
Dear Jenny, We are All Find
Author: Jenny Zhang
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985118204
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poetry. Asian American Studies. "Jenny Zhang's poems broadcast themselves with a surrealist anxiety. 'Can't I be my own dream?' she asks. The answer is always yes and always no. With dizzying energy and intelligence, Zhang forages through familial, global, and even anatomical configurations vainly outlining an identity that manifests only to shift and move restlessly on. This book brings to mind a 21st century Whitman, only female, Chinese, and profoundly scatological." Elizabeth Robinson"
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985118204
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poetry. Asian American Studies. "Jenny Zhang's poems broadcast themselves with a surrealist anxiety. 'Can't I be my own dream?' she asks. The answer is always yes and always no. With dizzying energy and intelligence, Zhang forages through familial, global, and even anatomical configurations vainly outlining an identity that manifests only to shift and move restlessly on. This book brings to mind a 21st century Whitman, only female, Chinese, and profoundly scatological." Elizabeth Robinson"