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Medicine and Health in Children's and YA Lit: A Long Walk To Water
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Medicine and Health in Children's and YA Lit. Reflections of Medicine and Health in fiction and non-fiction. For more about Janice Scully, please check out http:/ janicescully.writersresidence.com. Sunday, June 17, 2012. A Long Walk To Water. Upon hearing a story of impossible journeys, filled with physical torment, uncertainty, loneliness and loss, we ask, "How do human beings survive such things? Think of the courage of Cambodian refugees in the novel Never Fall Down,. What boosts his courage? When the...
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Medicine and Health in Children's and YA Lit: A Thousand Splendid Suns
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Medicine and Health in Children's and YA Lit. Reflections of Medicine and Health in fiction and non-fiction. For more about Janice Scully, please check out http:/ janicescully.writersresidence.com. Friday, February 21, 2014. A Thousand Splendid Suns. A Thousand Splendid Suns,. Dead or injured relatives abound, usually well before the age of twenty in the lives of most kids. But there is also a love story that feels very much like Romeo and Juliet. I felt the book was honest and evocative and well worth r...
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Medicine and Health in Children's and YA Lit: The Healing Spell
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Medicine and Health in Children's and YA Lit. Reflections of Medicine and Health in fiction and non-fiction. For more about Janice Scully, please check out http:/ janicescully.writersresidence.com. Monday, February 6, 2012. The most compelling middle grade characters have indomitable wills, in other words, they will stop at nothing to get what they want. Think: Bud in Bud Not Buddy. And Jody in The Yearling. And how they faced impossible circumstances with grit. By author Kimberley Griffiths Little.
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Medicine and Health in Children's and YA Lit: You Are The Best Medicine
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Medicine and Health in Children's and YA Lit. Reflections of Medicine and Health in fiction and non-fiction. For more about Janice Scully, please check out http:/ janicescully.writersresidence.com. Wednesday, February 23, 2011. You Are The Best Medicine. The theme of this beautifully illustrated picture book by Julie Aigner Clark. And illustrator Jana Christy. Is stated clearly in the last eight words: "love and kindness really are the best medicine." Do they convince us? February 24, 2011 at 8:17 AM.
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Medicine and Health in Children's and YA Lit: Eleanor and Park
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Medicine and Health in Children's and YA Lit. Reflections of Medicine and Health in fiction and non-fiction. For more about Janice Scully, please check out http:/ janicescully.writersresidence.com. Tuesday, January 21, 2014. To read the YA novel Eleanor and Park. I was afraid to continue, though I had to. Rowell's storytelling is great. I thought the ending was just right. Would that all modern Romeos were as responsible. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Fayetteville, New York. Inspired by my experien...
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Medicine and Health in Children's and YA Lit: Abina and The Important Men: A Graphic History
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Medicine and Health in Children's and YA Lit. Reflections of Medicine and Health in fiction and non-fiction. For more about Janice Scully, please check out http:/ janicescully.writersresidence.com. Saturday, March 8, 2014. Abina and The Important Men: A Graphic History. I would not have known about the graphic novel Abina and The Important Men. By Trevor R. Getz and Liz Clarke if it hadn't been for Monica Edinger's excellent Horn Book article entitled "Books About Africa.". In Abina and The Important Men.
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Medicine and Health in Children's and YA Lit: Women Explorers: Perils, Pistols, and Petticoats
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Medicine and Health in Children's and YA Lit. Reflections of Medicine and Health in fiction and non-fiction. For more about Janice Scully, please check out http:/ janicescully.writersresidence.com. Saturday, January 4, 2014. Women Explorers: Perils, Pistols, and Petticoats. Between the covers of Women Explorers: Perils, Pistols, and Petticoats. But as some explorers were drawn to frigid climates, others made names for themselves traveling the Amazon, climbing the Matterhorn, searching for the source of t...
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Medicine and Health in Children's and YA Lit: A respite from my blog: "Medicine and Health in Children's and YA Lit."
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Medicine and Health in Children's and YA Lit. Reflections of Medicine and Health in fiction and non-fiction. For more about Janice Scully, please check out http:/ janicescully.writersresidence.com. Friday, April 11, 2014. A respite from my blog: "Medicine and Health in Children's and YA Lit.". It's spring ( 2014! What would you do? I have enjoyed posting here, but need to focus on my own creative work. In the meantime, thank all of you who have kindly read what I've written. Fayetteville, New York. I am ...
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Works - Loosely Tethered
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Finding Fruit Among Thorns. Finding Fruit Among Thorns, is an exploration of the meanings of home, a place she finds in Texas and upstate New York and in family and love. These are beautiful, heartfelt American poems imbued with the colors of rural Texas landscape. This book is so alive. I love it! Winner of the American Book Award. Grimes performs a sort of miraculous poetic sleight-of-hand, and we, as. Readers, can only gasp as she whisks the cloak away from our world, finding that the. Christie Grim...
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