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M. G. Higgins

Autor(a) de Bi-Normal (Gravel Road)

43 Works 497 Membros 8 Críticas

Obras por M. G. Higgins

Bi-Normal (Gravel Road) (2013) 50 exemplares
Racer (2014) 36 exemplares
Fish Boy (2015) 35 exemplares
The Soldier (2014) 33 exemplares
I'm Just Me. (Gravel Road) (2014) 29 exemplares
The lost house (2014) 23 exemplares
Body Switch (2014) 19 exemplares
Power Hitter (Travel Team) (2012) 17 exemplares
Flyer (2014) 16 exemplares
Offside (Counterattack) (2013) 15 exemplares

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Bears hunt and kill people. Sharks seek out human blood. Are these facts or false claims? While it's true that wild animals can kill, harming people may not be their true nature. The fact is, we all must live together. Learn just what makes these animals deadly and the part people play in their behaviors. It could save your life!

Take a look inside White Lightning Nonfiction, a hi-lo nonfiction series for students in the middle grades. Mature, high-interest topics pull in readers and engage them with interesting information; full-color photographs and illustrations; detailed graphic elements including charts, tables, and infographics; and fascinating facts. A 20-word glossary is included for vocabulary support.… (mais)
 
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jessica.mckerrow | Sep 7, 2023 |
She's Got Books on Her Mind

Faith doesn't have the prospects the other girls in her soccer team have. She isn't very wealthy what wither her mom working night shifts to make ends meet without anyone to help her with her four children, well there is always Faith. Faith has been designated as her sibling's babysitter so her mom has some time to get some sleep between her shifts at the hospital. In exchange she gets to play soccer.

Faith is Faith Patel which means she's Indian which makes me oh so happy because hello! How many female Indian main characters have you met reading YA? The only problem is that I wish the book cover reflected her. Don't get me wrong, the girl on the book cover is very "I am woman. Hear me roar." but it would be nice if I can actually see Faith. Faith feels stressed out and like she's got the short end of the stick. Having to take care of your younger siblings - not fun. She's missed a lot of homework too but she doesn't even think she will be able to go to college so why bother?

Although Faith may sound annoyed that she has to take care of her siblings when something happens to one of them she shows a very caring side of her. Faith's very quiet so other on her soccer team may think she thinks she doesn't like them or maybe that she's even better than them. I don't know why the soccer team does this especially Caitlyn because have you never met a reserved person before? They are everywhere. You need to think about where that person's coming from. Caitlyn was her real trouble throughout the story. She would make snide remarks to her face. She's the one who got it in Faith's head that her coach, Coach Berg, liked her because he was letting her try out for another position on the team. When Faith started thinking that her coach liked her I couldn't help to laugh out loud. It was just so ridiculously funny. I mean this all in a good way. It's kind of sad that when someone was actually listening to her she felt that they must like her in a romantic way. It was like no one else had ever cared to bother to learn how she was feeling.

The book may have been just a little over one hundred pages but I really got a sense of who Faith is and what her story was telling me. I liked that it was just about a regular girl and like regular girls we tend to fall in love easily. I also liked it was about soccer which I played way back when. I wasn't good but it was nice to read about the action on the field. It made me reminisce. I don't know why but I think of this as a very "clean" book, one where girls can use to learn lessons from. I've read about the other Counterattack series and their summaries sound like that. I actually don't mind. They're very fun; light reads that I could see myself enjoying like I did with Offside.
… (mais)
 
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AdrianaGarcia | 1 outra crítica | Jul 10, 2018 |
Summary: This book is about a guy named Brett who discovers he may be bisexual after meeting a man named Zach. This book then goes through his fictional story about his struggles with trying to accept his feelings for Zach and his feelings for his girlfriend Jillia at the same time, and how he eventually comes to terms with it.
Review: This book makes a good fiction story because of its believable and no doubt relatable to some scenario of trying to find oneself in a judgemental and in some ways dangerous world where one mistake or one rumor can end a teenagers reputation and his life in a way. This book for this reason gets a decent rating and will be on the back of my mind in case I meet a person who would get some use out of reading it.… (mais)
 
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C-Roy | 3 outras críticas | Mar 19, 2017 |
Part of the Gravel Road series. Brett is a football player at Elkhead High, one of the most popular guys in school, and he plans on spending the rest of his life with his beautiful girlfriend Jillia. Brett’s life has its problems: his mother passed away and his father, a fisherman, struggles to support Brett and his sister, but this is nothing Brett can’t handle until he finds himself fantasizing about Zach from his art class. Brett struggles to control his feelings before turning to Nate, an openly gay classmate who he has bullied in the past, in order to understand his own confused sexuality. Despite some setbacks, Brett is able to take positive steps to come to terms with his sexual identity, come out to his father, and seek the help of positive role models. Introduces hi-lo readers to the spectrum of sexual identity and will be a relatable story for LGBTQ teens as told from Brett’s perspective. The portrayal of Brett as a character with traditionally masculine traits and interests will also help readers understand that sexuality is not bound by these characteristics. Recommended. Ages 14-18.… (mais)
 
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alovett | 3 outras críticas | Oct 16, 2014 |

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Obras
43
Membros
497
Popularidade
#49,748
Avaliação
½ 3.6
Críticas
8
ISBN
154

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