Hop on Pop Word Games from Simple Play Ideas: Awesome games and activities to help your kids extend the learning fun for Hop on Pop. Hop on Pop Number and Counting Game from Coffee Cups and Crayons: Cute ideas for a DIY number and counting game.Įarly Learning Activity from Powerful Mothering: Activity to help your kids match sight words to words in the book. Gross Motor Learning with Hop on Pop from What Can We Do With Paper and Glue: Another fun game that you can customize for your kids with letters, numbers, and sight words. Hop on Pop Rhyming Activity from Mom Inspired Life: Save that bubble wrap for this awesome game to pair with Hop on Pop. Hop on Pop Balloon Game from The Frugal Navy Wife: Fabulous game to play with kids to burn off energy after reading Hop on Pop. Hop on Pop Sight Words Game from The Chaos and The Clutter: Here’s a fun sight words game that will get your kids moving! Seuss from Rock Your Homeschool: This printable pack has sight words to pair with pictures to extend the learning fun with this book. More Awesome Ways to Have Enjoy Hop on Pop!įree Printables for Hop on Pop Fun with Dr.
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Matt Harmon is a volunteer reader at Charleston Montessori School in Kanawha County. Shurtliff for so elegantly illuminating key economic principles to children. They took gold, which only has value in exchange, and turned it into crops which have value in use. Jack and his sister Annabella save the day, with some help from the pixies, by turning the king’s golden eggs back into seeds that sprout plants. Under the gold standard era, France increased its share of world gold reserves by 20 percent, in essence taking money out of the world financial system and leading to a massive deflation spiral. What good is gold (or paper currency) if it cannot buy food? This is a lesson the world should have learned during the Great Depression, particularly France. This illuminates a fundamental principle of money-it exists to facilitate exchange, but it is not valuable in and of itself. When the people complain to King Barf that they are poor and hungry, he dismisses their concerns because the kingdom has so much gold, so it must be rich. Yet, his people are suffering a famine due to crop failure. Tim Federle, author of Better Nate than Ever 'A delightful story of family, perseverance, and courage. In the story, the giant King, King Barf, covets gold above all else he equates his massive gold stock with a rich kingdom. Liesl Shurtliff has the uncanny ability to make magical worlds feel utterly real, and the best part is: you don’t even need a beanstalk to visit them. It was a fun adventure tale, but couched within it are great lessons for kids regarding worth, value, and the nature of money. I read this to a group of 2nd-5th graders for the Read Aloud organization. Jack: The True Story of Jack and the Beanstalk by Liesl Shurtliff He takes his dad’s name, Morgan, and thus becomes Kid Morgan, a very fast shooter with exceptional shooting skills. Now, he fakes his death and establishes a new identity and sets off to track down the killers. Also, Conrad is also injured in the shootout that arises, and in his mind, he only needs to survive so that he ensures that all the men involved in his wife murder are brought to justice. Hoping for the best, that is when things go from worse to the worst when his wife is killed right before his eyes. So he collects the funds as demanded by the kidnappers and heads out to make the swap. Conrad is deeply in love with his wife and thus will do anything in capability to save his wife. However, the happiness is short-lived when a group of ruffians are hired to kidnap Conrad’s wife and take her hostage for a ransom of $50,000. Everything is running smoothly and perfects in the small town located in West of Nevada. He runs a successful business, and he is very much in love with his loving wife. The Loner: For Conrad Browning, life is going on great. These series include The Last Mountain Man, Christmas, the First Mountain Man and the Family Jensen series. The author has also contributed many of the series which were written by his uncle. Johnstone is popularly known for The Loner series. "A masterful, heart-pounding suspense that ushers in an astonishing new voice in crime fiction." -Samantha M. She had hoped her investigation would lay that suspicion to rest, but her podcast seems instead to be inciting new victims. While media and law enforcement long ago concluded that TCK had suicided, Elle has never believed TCK was dead. Then, within days, a child is abducted-a young girl who seems to fit suspiciously into the TCK sequence halted decades before. When Elle follows up on a listener tip only to discover the man's dead body, she feels at fault. Then, after he took his eleven-year-old victim, the pattern-and the murders-abruptly stopped. Twenty years ago, TCK was terrorizing the community, kidnapping and ritualistically murdering three girls over seven days, each a year younger than the last. After four seasons of successfully solving these cases in Minnesota's Twin Cities, Elle decides to tackle her white whale: The Countdown Killer. Now she hosts a popular true crime podcast that focuses on cold cases of missing and abducted children. Not only is the book difficult to put down, it's also an adroit exploration of the ethical quandaries of true-crime storytelling, particularly in podcasts." - The New York Times Book Review Elle Castillo once trained as a social worker, supporting young victims of violent crime. Take the internal suffering of Thomas Elefante, a gangster known as “The Elephant.” The only words he utters after a change of heart are “‘I wish. Indeed, these characters are so omnipresent because they were commonplace in mid-century New York. “The characters in ‘Deacon King Kong’ are people I’ve known and loved my whole life,” McBride says. Part of this dimensionality stems from personal experience. That said, McBride’s characters transcend their tropes because he humanizes them so well. have been done to the point of staleness. Some of the character archetypes - mobster with a heart who wants out, grizzled cop getting close to retirement, elderly woman with prescient information, etc. In the face of alarming structural and personal trauma, “Deacon King Kong” is undeniably human and life-affirming.ĭoes “Deacon King Kong” feel original? Not especially. While other writers would focus on the senseless violence following such an event - such as Marlon James’ “A Brief History of Seven Killings” - McBride builds a hilariously improbable story of grace and redemption. Set in 1960s Brooklyn, “Deacon King Kong” examines the aftermath of an alcoholic’s attempted murder of a young drug dealer in the Causeway Housing Projects. National Humanities Medalist James McBride’s latest novel points to the good in people, no matter how many bad things they’ve done. One day, a tea of secret agents catches up to her which gives her the ability to find out some answers about who she is and where she came from. She doesn’t know why or what she is, but she’s a thief who is very good at her job thanks to her unique abilities. The book follows a woman named Kit Davenport, a woman with superhuman strength and the ability to heal life-threatening injuries quickly. One her most well-known series is the Kit Davenport series of books. Her books often feature powerful women in the “badass protagonist” role surrounded by sexy guys with some intriguing world building. James describes herself as a bit too sarcastic and someone who swears a bit too much for polite society while telling too many dirty jokes. She is not a morning person, so the coffee helps. When she is not writing, Tate enjoys reading, drinking red wine, cats, and a good cup of coffee. The two of them have a child as well as a pet. James was born in New Zealand, but moved to Australia after getting married to her husband. She is also the author of the Dark Legacy series with Jaymin Eve, the Undercover Sinners series with CM Stunich, and the Royals of Arbon Academy series with Jaymin Eve. She is the author of the Hijinks Harem series, the Kit Davenport series, and the Royal Trials trilogy of books. Tate James is an author out of New Zealand that writes books in the genres of fantasy, paranormal romance, urban fantasy, and romantic suspense. Penelope Ward is a New York Times, USA Today and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author. Once he drops a bombshell, will their love survive it? Told in two parts from both Nina and Jake’s points of view, Jake Undone is a STANDALONE novel. What Nina doesn’t realize, is that Jake has been living his own private hell. He just wasn’t expecting to fall hard for her in the process. When he agrees to tutor her, they forge a bet and the stakes are high as Jake forces Nina to face her demons. He makes it his mission to change Nina’s outlook on life. Behind Jake Green’s rough exterior and devilish smile, lies a heart of gold. When she moves to Brooklyn for nursing school, that life is turned upside down, as she develops an intense but unwanted attraction to her gorgeous roommate, who’s pierced, tattooed and just happens to be the smartest person she’s ever met. Planes, trains, heights…you name it, Nina was afraid of it and led a sheltered life ruled by irrational fears and phobias. AN AMAZON #1 BESTSELLER IN ROMANCE! Nina Kennedy was alive…but not living…until she met him. Through it all they manage to retain their love for their adopted home as well as one another. Armed with the passion-and haplessness-of wide-eyed newcomers they rescue goats and adopt chickens, do battle with skunks and bats and falling ice, and, most disastrously, buy a black hole of a general store. Louis and threw themselves into a wildly different life in small-town Vermont. most of us) only fantasize about, Ellen Stimson and her family packed up their house in St. "Taking a plunge that wimpier sorts (i.e. Stimson's voice is endearing: both in its self-deprecation and its rapture, as she sings an only slightly conflicted love song to Vermont." - Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have Shifted "Anyone who has ever dreamed of leaving the city and taking their lives back to nature (and who hasn't?) will find much to contemplate in this warm and hilarious tale of rural misadventure and small town quirk, even if they have never chased a goat in a bathing suit or called 911 because there were cows in the road. This novel was reviewed by the LA Times and The Washington Post. The Kindest Lie is a Book of the Month selection, an Amazon Editors' pick, as well as an IndieNext and LibraryReads pick. The novel explores race, class, identity, and the pursuit of the American dream. Nancy Johnson is the author of the debut novel THE KINDEST LIE, which is available now everywhere books are sold! This is the story of an unlikely connection between an Ivy League-educated Black engineer searching for the son she walked away from and a poor, young white boy who finds himself adrift in a dying Indiana factory town. Written with the full cooperation of the late princess's estate, 'Diana: The Portrait' tells Diana's story through her own words and the words of people, both famous, and, until now, unknown. Here, for the first time, is the Diana that many of those closest to her knew. No book yet written about Diana has come close to the person so many people speak of as having been a beacon of light in their lives. But who was this young woman who had come to symbolize so much to so many? How was it that she could reach out to touch lives not only of whole communities but individuals, too? What lay behind her inspiration - and what will be the lasting impact of her legacy? And in the days leading up to her funeral, it seemed as if the whole of humanity had spontaneously united to mourn her loss. No one who lived through those days in the late summer of 1997 will ever forget the unprecedented outpourings of grief, shock, and anger that followed. The tragic death of Diana, Princess of Wales, shook the world. |