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Author : Leonard S. Marcus
Release : 2008
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 079/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Minders of Make-believe by : Leonard S. Marcus
Download or read book Minders of Make-believe written by Leonard S. Marcus. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcus offers this animated history of the visionaries--editors, illustrators, and others--whose books have transformed American childhood and American culture.
Author : Michele Jaffe
Release : 2014-01-30
Genre : Young Adult Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 414/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Minders by : Michele Jaffe
Download or read book Minders written by Michele Jaffe. This book was released on 2014-01-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A dark, dangerous and twisty near-future mystery from the incomparable Michelle Jaffe. Don't miss this book!"--Melissa de la Cruz, New York Times Bestselling Author of Blue Bloods Q: If the boy you love commits a crime, would you turn him in? Sadie Ames is a type-A teenager from the wealthy suburbs. She's been accepted to the prestigious Mind Corps Fellowship program, where she'll spend six weeks as an observer inside the head of Ford, a troubled boy with a passion for the crumbling architecture of the inner city. There's just one problem: Sadie's fallen in love with him. Q: What if the crime is murder? Ford Winters is haunted by the murder of his older brother, James. As Sadie falls deeper into his world, dazzled by the shimmering pinpricks of color that form images in his mind, she begins to think she knows him. Then Ford does something unthinkable. Q: What if you saw it happen from inside his mind? Back in her own body, Sadie is faced with the ultimate dilemma. With Ford's life in her hands, she must decide what is right and what is wrong. And how well she can really ever know someone, even someone she loves. A high concept, cinematic read with a surprising twist, MINDERS asks the question: who is really watching who?
Author : Charlie Jeffries
Release : 2022-06-17
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 795/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Teenage Dreams by : Charlie Jeffries
Download or read book Teenage Dreams written by Charlie Jeffries. This book was released on 2022-06-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teenage girls and the new right -- Women and children? Sexual speech and sexual harm -- Explicit content: cultures of girlhood -- The third wave and the third way -- Medicine, education, and sexualization -- Epilogue: girlhood sexualities in the contemporary culture wars.
Author : Stephanie L. Derrick
Release : 2018-07-18
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 523/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Fame of C. S. Lewis by : Stephanie L. Derrick
Download or read book The Fame of C. S. Lewis written by Stephanie L. Derrick. This book was released on 2018-07-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C. S. Lewis, long renowned for his children's books as well as his Christian apologetics, has been the subject of wide interest since he first stepped-up to the BBC's microphone during the Second World War. Until now, however, the reasons why this medievalist began writing books for a popular audience, and why these books have continued to be so popular, had not been fully explored. In fact Lewis, who once described himself as by nature an 'extreme anarchist', was a critical controversialist in his time-and not to everyone's liking. Yet, somehow, Lewis's books directed at children and middlebrow Christians have continued to resonate in the decades since his death in 1963. Stephanie L. Derrick considers why this is the case, and why it is more true in America than in Lewis's home-country of Britain. The story of C. S. Lewis's fame is one that takes us from his childhood in Edwardian Belfast, to the height of international conflict during the 1940s, to the rapid expansion of the paperback market, and on to readers' experiences in the 1980s and 1990s, and, finally, to London in November 2013, where Lewis was honoured with a stone in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey. Derrick shows that, in fact, the author himself was only one actor among many shaping a multi-faceted image. The Fame of C. S. Lewis is the most comprehensive account of Lewis's popularity to date, drawing on a wealth of fresh material and with much to interest scholars and C. S. Lewis admirers alike.
Author : Russell W. Dalton
Release : 2015-11-19
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 168/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Children’s Bibles in America by : Russell W. Dalton
Download or read book Children’s Bibles in America written by Russell W. Dalton. This book was released on 2015-11-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children's Bibles have been among the most popular and influential types of religious publications in the United States, providing many Americans with their first formative experiences of the Bible and its stories. In Children's Bibles in America, Russell W. Dalton explores the variety of ways in which children's Bibles have adapted, illustrated, and retold Bible stories for children throughout U.S. history. This reception history of the story of Noah as it appears in children's Bibles provides striking examples of the multivalence and malleability of biblical texts, and offers intriguing snapshots of American culture and American religion in their most basic forms. Dalton demonstrates the ways in which children's Bibles reflect and reveal America's diverse and changing beliefs about God, childhood, morality, and what must be passed on to the next generation. Dalton uses the popular story of Noah's ark as a case study, exploring how it has been adapted and appropriated to serve in a variety of social agendas. Throughout America's history, the image of God in children's Bible adaptations of the story of Noah has ranged from that of a powerful, angry God who might destroy children at any time to that of a friendly God who will always keep children safe. At the same time, Noah has been lifted up as a model of virtues ranging from hard work and humble obedience to patience and positive thinking. Dalton explores these uses of the story of Noah and more as he engages the fields of biblical studies, the history of religion in America, religious education, childhood studies, and children's literature.
