![]() ![]() Language eng Summary Twelve-year-old Glad is a problem-solver at home and school, but knowing everyone's secrets means she has few friends and trying her best may not bring her mother home Tone Her poetry and prose have been featured in anthologies. ![]() Twelve-year-old Gladys Burke may not have many friends, but at least she has her empire. ![]() ![]() Label Let me fix that for you Title Let me fix that for you Statement of responsibility Janice Erlbaum Creator She is also the author of two books for tweens, Lucky Little Things and Let Me Fix That for You. A Bank Street Best Childrens Book of 2020 Janice Erlbaums Let Me Fix That for You is a quirky, touching, and laugh-out-loud middle-grade novel about a girl capable of fixing everything but her own life. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This way, anyone interested in examining the original text will be able to find the words with ease.Īlthough The Yearning was published in 2016, it only reached the number one spot on my ‘December reads’ list on 21 December 2017. The first number indicates the page on Mashigo’s novel and the second number shows the exact line on the page, whence the words come. In August 2017 the novel won the University of Johannesburg Debut Prize for South African Writing.īelow I show-instead of explaining-where I found the words. I found these three poems, ‘Yearning’, ‘This togetherness’ and ‘To necklace’, in The Yearning, Mashigo Mohale’s debut novel, published in 2016 by Picador Africa. Something that was never intended to be a poem-a newspaper article, a street sign, a letter, a scrap of conversation-is refashioned as a poem through lineation. The fire is eating away at his throat and his lungsĪ borrowed text, a piece of writing that takes existing text and resets it as a poem. ![]() It’s too late to do anything for the burning man ![]() ![]() Also in this issue: ‘We bury our stories and wonder why we are in so much pain’-Mohale Mashigo talks to Jennifer Malec about The Yearning.Xaba found these poems while reading Mohale Mashigo’s The Yearning, as she explains below. As part of our January Conversation Issue, we present new found poetry by The JRB Patron Makhosazana Xaba, a creative effort that creates a dialogue between two literary imaginations. ![]() ![]() ![]() Their solution was to peel the potatoes thickly - the thick peelings went for seed, and what was left of the middle was eaten. ![]() His family ended up with a potato harvest that was too small to both eat and save for seed in the spring. My husband's father was born in the early 1940s, but he still heard tales passed down from relatives about the terrible times during 1800-and-froze-to-death. Elizabeth Yates died Sunday at a hospice in Concord, New Hampshire on Jat the age of 95.Įlizabeth Yates' books have been described as "the result of extensive research, a strong underlying belief in God, and a vivid imagination." She also served as the Director of the New Hampshire Association for the Blind. Yates conducted writer's workshops at the University of New Hampshire, the University of Connecticut, and Indiana University. Yates won the Newbery Award in 1951 for her book, Amos Fortune, Free Man, a biography of an African prince who is enslaved and taken to America. ![]() She moved to England with her husband and wrote her first book, High Holiday, based on her travels in Switzerland with her three children. She worked a variety of jobs including reviewing book, writing short stories, and doing research. ![]() Determined to be an author, she moved to New York City to launch her career. Elizabeth Yates, author of over forty books for children, was born in New York State on December 6th, 1905. ![]() ![]() ![]() The loneliness experienced by a group of misfits. The cruelty of the elements, of seclusion. Janina is someone I will not soon forget.Īt the same time, this book is dark and tinged throughout with death. The way she capitalizes certain words, assigns her own names to people, ponders the proverbs of William Blake (where the fabulous title of this novel originates). I enjoyed being in the head of this marvellously unreliable narrator, smirked at her many amusing observations, her interactions with the people in her life and the natural world. ![]() Is it because Saturn is in the 8th house? Or because the animals have had enough, at long last? A middle aged woman in rural Poland, a woman who is best described as eccentric (obsessed with astrology, plagued by "ailments" both physical and psychological), finds herself in the middle of something of a murder mystery. These questions are asked in a most unique way. Asks the same questions that Dostoevsky asks in Crime and Punishment - who has the right to live? who has the right to kill? and what's the difference between a poacher and a hunter, anyway? (that last question is Tokarczuk's, not Dostoevsky's.) ![]() ![]() We cannot be held responsible for damages that are discovered and reported later.ĭue to high return shipping costs we do not offer replacements for non-EU countries and some EU island states: Balearic Islands, Malta, Cyprus. The waiting period until the complaint may not be longer than 5 days after receipt in the case of transport damage and the like ("externally visible damage") in the case of production issues ("internal damage") no longer than 30 days. 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As Barclay spends more time in the fantastical town of Sycomore, he bonds both with human allies and his own Beast. ![]() Together they seek a way to remove Barclay’s magic Beast Mark so he can one day return to Dullshire, a goal contingent upon his finishing first in the Exhibition, a dangerous competition where budding Lore Keepers prove their worth. Left on his own, he teams up with the headstrong Viola, a local Lore Keeper with a dragonlike Beast named Mitzi. So, when Barclay accidentally stumbles upon-and bonds with-a wolflike Beast in the forbidden Woods, the town banishes him. Dullshire prides itself on rules and prickliness, and its citizens abhor all notions of Lore Keepers, those who bond with Beasts and practice Lore magic. He’s worked diligently to prove himself since his parents perished in an attack by an otherworldly Beast seven years prior. ![]() An orphaned boy discovers belonging and friendship.Įleven-year-old Barclay Thorne is an apprentice to the mushroom farmer in the town of Dullshire. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, although her people are peaceful on the whole, the same cannot be said for the Khoush, who fan the flames of their ancient rivalry with the Meduse.įar from her village when the conflicts start, Binti hurries home, but anger and resentment has already claimed the lives of many close to her. The concluding part of the highly-acclaimed science fiction trilogy that began with Nnedi Okorafor's Hugo- and Nebula Award-winning BINTI.īinti has returned to her home planet, believing that the violence of the Meduse has been left behind. ![]() ![]() With a definite ability for writing as well, he manages to craft situations and protagonists that relate on a universal level, as his books are translated all over the globe. ![]() Clearly holding a gift for the form, he has an ability for creating characters that resonate with the reader, allowing them to immerse themselves in the story-lines with far more fluidity than that of other writers. An American writer, the author Varian Johnson is a novelist currently largely working within the field of young adult literature, as he has become a highly prolific figure within the industry, with a variety of different titles under his belt and a clear advocate for both him and his craft. ![]() ![]() ![]() Among them are Lettice and Hereward Palmer who arrive with two Pekinese dogs and the story of having left their young son behind in Europe. ![]() Robin continues to have trouble controlling his workers until he is told he should have a headman and Sammy arrives as part of the farm.Įlspeth is soon becoming acquainted with new neighbors who are also arriving with the hope of making farms in the region pay off. One of the men, Njombo, soon emerges as something of a spokesperson and becomes a friend to Elspeth. He finally goes to a chief and promises to pay the chief for any men who will work. ![]() One of the first orders of business is to find workers and Robin is dismayed to discover that the young men of the native tribes of the area have little interest in working, even for pay. Robin does not seem afraid to work and is putting his efforts into making the farm pay. ![]() Though the region is often harsh and unforgiving, Elspeth thrives and dreads the time when she might be force to leave the country, returning to Europe.Įlspeth's father is something of a dreamer and is working the farm now after a series of failed business endeavors. Elspeth is immediately enamored with the land and is caught up with the people she meets and the animals. Elspeth's father, Robin, has already arrived, having purchased the lease for a farm with plans to clear the land and grow coffee beans. Elspeth Huxley, the author, and her mother Tilly arrive in Africa in 1913. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not to mention when Moussa, the spoiled rotten Sissoko boy finds out he’s going to be a dad! How can he tell his old man, one of the richest and most feared men in the whole country? Aya of Yop City is a gorgeously rendered animated drama that places the Ivory Coast in a shimmering new light. Their ambition is to follow plan C: Combs, Clothes and Chasing Men! Big trouble comes to town when Adjoua realizes she’s pregnant. And unfortunately, this is something Aya of Yop City is unable to do. While Aya has dreams of becoming a doctor, her two best friends, Adjoua and Bintou, just like to hang out and spend their evenings dancing, drinking and flirting with boys. ![]() While Aya has dreams of becoming a doctor, her two best friends, Adjoua and Bintou, just like to hang out and spend their evenings dancing, drinking and flirting with boys. 2013 ‘Aya de Yopougon’ Directed by Marguerite Abouet, Clement Oubrerie. Her dad is a sales rep for a brewery, and certainly gets his fill of the product. Her mom Fanta is the neighborhood’s most trusted healer. It is always lively, with open markets, colorful fabrics, funky cafés and of course, music everywhere. ![]() Aya is 19, and she loves her neighborhood of Yop City in Abidjan, where everyone knows each other. From teen romance to parental tribulations, it offers a rare glimpse into the daily lives of Africans, and is adapted from a best-selling series of graphic novels. Against the colorful and spirited backdrop of the Ivory Coast in the 1970s, Aya of Yop City is a vibrant, beautifully animated film. ![]() |