![]() ![]() ![]() She's more interested in following her sister around and doing whatever she does, and, when her baby brother is born, taking care of him. Before Katie starts school, Lynn tells her that people may not want to talk to her because of her race, but Katie isn't really bothered by this. Katie adores and admires her older sister, Lynn, who sees everything as kira-kira - shining and glittering. When Katie is 5 years old, her family moves from Iowa to Georgia, where they become one of only 31 Japanese Americans in town. Otherwise, the book is very good with great messages and role models. As a parent, I would be upset if this book was in my child’s classroom. 10-12 year olds don’t need the sexy stuff. I don’t have time to look it up, but I would say there was mild profanity on 3-4 different occasions. Language: There is sporadic use of language through the book. She then concludes that making a baby is a lot of hard work. ![]() The main character didn’t know what it involved, so she listened at her parents’ door and heard a lot of grunting. ![]() There is talk of parents trying to make a baby. While playing scrabble, a boy cousin creates the word “sperm. Sexy stuff: 1) Main character talk of her sister showing her new breasts to her male cousins.Ģ)The main character wonders if her 15 year old sister is showing her breasts to the boy she is out with. I am surprised that the Common Sense Media Expert review and the parent reviews didn’t reveal some unnecessary content in the book. ![]()
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The Mist is a much shorter novel of his and has been adapted into a film like nearly every one of his books. ![]() ![]() I suppose there is a reason he’s so popular. Since then, I’ve quite enjoyed the few that I’ve read and will continue to read more. At the insistence of, well everyone, I picked up a random book of his and gave it another try. ![]() I decided then that I didn’t care much for King and didn’t try again for a very long time. When I was way too young to appreciate it I attempted to read The Shining. I’ve been slowly attempting to see what Stephen King is all about. ![]() ![]() ![]() So he drank it and died at Hums, and Mu`aawiyah fulfilled what he had guaranteed ibn Uthaal.’ So when Abd ar-Rahmaan returned from Rum, ibn Uthaal slipped him a poisoned drink through the means of his servants. Mu`aawiyah guaranteed him exemption from his tax for as long as he lived and that he would be placed in charge of the tax revenues of Homs (a land in central Syria). 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Barrie’s fantasy was published in 1906 with an amazing 50 full-color illustrations by the great Arthur Rackham. Pin-Up & Adult –You must be 18 or olderĪcclaimed by the Times of London as “one of the most charming books ever written,” J. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is the book/series that started my love for MM romance. Review by Twinsie Tenise I first read Try back in 2014. But what would happen if they both just gave in and…tried? Night after night Tate fends off the persistent advances of the undeniably charismatic man, but after an explosive moment in the bar, all bets are off as he finds his body stirring with a different desire than his mind.Īs arrogance, stubbornness and sexual tension sizzles between the two, it threatens to change the very course of their lives. Logan Mitchell – a regular at the bar and a man who always gets what he wants. ![]() The only problem is, Tate has caught the unwavering and unwelcome attention of Mr. He’s starting fresh and trying to get back on his feet with a new job at an upscale bar in downtown Chicago. Just coming out of a four-year marriage with an ex-wife from hell, a relationship is the last thing on Tate’s mind. He lives by one motto-if something interests you, why not just take a chance and try? Men and women alike fall into his bed-after all, Logan is not one to discriminate. Logan Mitchell loves it, and ever since he realized his raw sexual appeal at a young age, he has had no problem using it to his advantage. Try – verb: to make an attempt or effort to do something or in this case…someone. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the new land, the man goes through a lengthy administrative process and manages to find a small living space. I don't expect the book to change anybody's opinion about things, but if it at least makes them pause to think, I'll feel as if I've succeeded in something." Synopsis Ī man leaves his home to find work and support his family, whose home has apparently become unsafe. ![]() They just see them as a problem once they're here, without thinking about the bigger picture. Shaun Tan has said he wanted his book to build a kind of empathy in readers: "In Australia, people don't stop to imagine what it's like for some of these refugees. Tan differentiates The Arrival from children's picture books, explaining that there's more emphasis on continuity in texts with multiple frames and panels, and that a graphic novel text like his more closely resembles a film making process. ![]() Without the use of dialogue or text, Shaun Tan portrays the experience of a father emigrating to a new land. It features an immigrant's life in an imaginary world that sometimes vaguely resembles our own. 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Under no circumstance does the author claim any copyright of the those listed under fair use. Song titles, businesses, products, apps, and social medias mentioned in this book are under the fair use law. ![]() Names, places, characters and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, organizations, events or locales is entirely coincidental. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. © 2021, 2022 by Willow McQuerry & Rachel Taylor ![]() ![]() In this work, a series of BiOBr/BiOCl/AgBr ternary composite photocatalysts with excellent photocatalytic performance is synthesized by coprecipitation, and its photodegradation property in catalytic degradation of rhodamine B (RHB) dye under visible light irradiation is investigated. Silver bromide has strong photosensitivity but poor photocatalytic performance due to the serious recombination of photoelectron-hole pairs and the potential reaction between photoelectrons and silver ions. ![]() Bismuth compound BiOX (X = Cl, Br) is an excellent wide band gap semiconductor photocatalytic material but a greatly limited absorption of visible light. 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