THE OLDEST STUDENT: HOW MARY WALKER LEARNED TO READ.
Imagine learning to read at the age of 116! Discover the true story of Mary Walker, the nation’s oldest student who did just that, in this picture book from a Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator and a rising star author.
Set in 1989, a violent time in the history of Sri Lanka where civil wars were being fought on three fronts and there was no single enemy, the mystery of Maali’s death assumes the shape of a political thriller with elements of a ghost story, a dark comedy, and even a love story.
Shyness is often misunderstood. It's not a personality flaw, it's a complex trait with many positive aspects. However, shyness means many kids struggle to speak up in class, get involved in activities, make friends, put themselves forward, and compete.
#readandrise#shykids
“A loving documentary and brutal fable, a mix of compassion and stoicism [that] sums up the experience of the Holocaust with as much power and as little pretension as any other work I can think of.”
–The New Republic
#nazımhikmet#holocaust#maus#graphicnovel#graphicdesign
The book starts as an empowerment fantasy and turns into a dystopia.
The Power takes this typical model, in which the extraordinary abilities of one or a few women are generally anomalous, and pushes it to its darkest imaginative limits.
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#power#noamialderman#women
The wait is finally over!
Welcome your favorite and most awaited bookstore.
*Read and Rise* is a bookshop with a purpose. The purpose is to rebuild and relive the tradition of storytelling and reading in society.
We are located @ JAIPURIYA PLAZA, Shop No: 1, SECTOR - 26 NOIDA.