Andie Grove must do one more assignment before she graduates from the fifth grade and spends her summer days swimming at Silver Lake. There is only one problem. She is terrified of public speaking. Old Blue loves history and has been the guardian of the Saint Jones River for 400 years. There is only one thing that he fears more than great-horned owls and bald eagles: the destruction of his river. For centuries, Blue's river has taken great care of people and other living beings, always giving them what they needed. Now the river has reached the point where it cannot give anymore. Old Blue believes Andie is the right human to save his river. Together, they travel through history where Andie learns how and why her town of Dover, Delaware, developed along the Saint Jones and how a growing population took advantage of a generous river. Can a ten-year-old girl who is afraid to do a simple speech save Blue's river?
Siobhan Doyle grew up with her Uncle Kee at their family pub, the Leeside, in rural Ireland. Kee has been staunchly overprotective of Siobhan ever since her mother's death in an IRA bombing, unwittingly isolating her from other people and the full richness of life. Still, Kee and Siobhan consider themselves comfortable in their quiet haven, serving drinks to locals and reading and discussing Irish poetry. But then fate intervenes. A visiting American literary scholar awakens Siobhan to the possibility of a fulfilling life away from the Leeside. Meanwhile, secrets from the past threaten to tarnish her relationship with Kee. In the face of these changes, Siobhan reaches a surprising decision about her future. Lyrical and heartfelt, Kathleen Anne Kenney's Girl on the Leeside deserves a place alongside contemporary literature's best-loved coming-of-age novels.
Kathleen Doyle never had a childhood. One of 12 children, she was always the 'big sister', the one her siblings turned to when mother was working or father was drinking. But through it all, the kids knew how to laugh, and in this book Kathleen describes an Ireland which has long since gone.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. One hundred and seventy-five years after one of the greatest documents ever written laid the foundation for a new country called the United States of America, little equality existed between descendants of former slaves, and descendants of former slave owners. The laws of the land suggested that all men were NOT created equal. The school system in much of America reinforced this belief. This is the story of two great men, one black, one white, one lawyer, one judge, both born into circumstances that should have kept them from achieving hero status, who laid the foundation to change the nationas most fundamental sign and cause of racism: an unequal school system separated by race. Louis Redding, Delawareas first black attorney, was the nationas first attorney to win a public school desegregation case and Collins Seitz, an Irish American, became the nationas first judge to suggest that desegregation was unconstitutional. In doing so, they helped America to come closer to the ideals laid out in the Declaration of Independence and the democracy laid out in the Constitution.
Illuminated manuscripts collected by the kings and queens of England from the 9th to the 16th century form the heart of a unique and visually stunning collection held by the British Library. A key figure in the formation of the collection is King Edward IV (1461-1483), who commissioned luxury manuscripts decorated with his arms. Subsequent monarchs added to this library, which was given to the nation by George II in 1757. Over 150 examples from this exceptional collection are presented in this catalogue, which accompanies a major British Library exhibition of the same name. These manuscripts contain paintings produced by some of the finest artists of the Middle Ages and together provide the most vivid surviving source for understanding royal identity, moral and religious beliefs, learning, faith and international politics.
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