5/31/2023 0 Comments A Taste for Love by Jennifer Yen![]() ![]() ![]() With college just around the corner, Liza agrees to help out at the bakery's annual junior competition to prove to her mom that she's more than her rebellious tendencies once and for all. Yang is the owner of Houston's popular Yin & Yang Bakery. The one thing mother and daughter do agree on is their love of baking. Yang's traditional values, especially when it comes to dating. Compared to her older sister, Jeannie, Liza is stubborn, rebellious, and worst of all, determined to push back against all of Mrs. Smart, kind, and pretty, she dreams big and never shies away from a challenge. To her friends, high-school senior Liza Yang is nearly perfect. ![]() For fans of Jenny Han, Jane Austen, and The Great British Baking Show, A Taste for Love is a delicious rom-com about first love, familial expectations, and making the perfect bao. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Author's Afterward is a must read as the author briefly explains important events that transpired during her time there. It was not pertinent to the story of her life with Kurds and it took away from the culture of the book.Īlthough fictitious, this work is based upon the author’s time and experiences in Kurdish Iraq. At moments throughout her account in Iraq, she has moments of pining for her old life with her husband, and recounts details in her divorce often. I did not care for her anecdotal divorce history. So, it is only after her divorce that Theresa signs up to teach abroad in Iraq. As a teacher in this foreign land, her career is tested, and character threatened. Her local friends are not always making the best decisions, and Theresa must watch as they reap the consequences. Theresa seeks to help her new friend but understands she must respect the rules of her friend’s home and as an American woman has a hard time swallowing what she must accept. To her surprise, she experiences but a small taste of the caste system primarily through a Kurdish woman that she becomes friends with. ![]() ![]() It takes Theresa a while to adapt to the new environment and culture, but after purchasing a bike she is able to acclimate more rapidly. On her journey, she immerses the readers into the Kurdish culture. Although entering Iraq as a teacher, Theresa leaves having learned more than expected. The Kurdish Bike is the narrative account of an American teacher’s journey to Kurdish Iraq. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Howard thurman deep is the hunger![]() At a time when most black children did not attend public schools, he was graduated from the eighth grade and later attended Florida Baptist Academy high school, working as a janitor to pay for his education.Īfter graduating from Morehouse College in Atlanta and Colgate-Rochester Divinity School in Rochester in 1925, he was ordained a Baptist minister. He was director of of the Howard Thurman Educational Trust, a foundation that he began in 1951 to give aid to disadvantaged students and to help organizations with religious, cultural and educational programs.īorn in Daytona Beach, Fla., he was reared by his grandmother, who had been born a slave. ![]() Howard Thurman, one of the nation's leading black clergymen and educators and an early champion of a Christianity that emphasized the needs of the poor and disadvantaged, died Friday in San Francisco after a lingering illness. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments The Umbrella by Jan Brett![]() I leave these cards on the pocket chart so children can refer to them for assistance with other printables and activities such as sequencing, retelling, etc.! For story participation, pass out the character cards and let children come and put their card on a pocket chart near the circle-story time area when you come to that part in the story. I use these cards for sequencing, story participation and retellings. ![]() Word Cards, Number Cards and Ordinal Word Cards I bet you can guess what happens when the teeny tiny hummingbird tries to squeeze in! While he is up near the treetops, one by one the rainforest animals climb inside of his umbrella. When Carlos goes looking for animals, he drops his umbrella and climbs a tall fig tree to see if he can find any. ![]() Set in a Costa Rican cloud forest with loads of color and beautiful illustrations! If you LOVE Jan Brett's The Mitten and The Hat.this is perfect for a compare and contrast! I just love the book all by itself too! ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Foundation's edge![]() ![]() We left in a hurry and it never occurred to me to bring a supply, but really, Novi, there are only the two of us and we'll be together for some time in very close quarters and it's needless to be - to be - so concerned - about." He gestured vaguely, became aware of the horrified look in her eyes, and thought: Well, she's only a country girl after all and has her standards probably wouldn't object to improprieties of all kinds - but with her clothes on. "Look, I promise you that when this is over I shall see to it that you have a great deal of clothing - new and in the latest fashion. "You don't offend," said Gendibal cheerily. ![]() "I did not like to-to." (she looked down at herself) "offend." I should have taken them out and placed them in clear sight. They needed cleaning and they're in the detergent-hamper. "Your clothing?" Gendibal stared at her blankly for a moment and then rose to his feet in an access of contrition. "I be sorrow-laden." She paused and then said slowly, "I am very sorry to bother you, Master" (then she slipped again) "but I be loss-ridden for my clothing." Gendibal looked up from his charts and from his computer. She had a robe wrapped about her and was holding it tightly to herself in an agony of modesty. She had clearly been in the compact cleaning room, where oils, warm air, and a minimum of water freshened her body. Sura Novi now stepped into the control room of the small and rather old-fashioned ship that was carrying Stor Gendibal and herself across the parsecs in deliberate Jumps. ![]() |