Discover how a young girl who loved to read and write became a voting rights activist, a candidate for governor of Georgia, and an author in this exciting addition to the Who HQ Now series that features newsmakers and trending topics.
Presenting Who HQ Now: an exciting addition to the #1 New York Times Best-Selling Who Was? series!
Stacey Abrams began her career in politics at the age of seventeen when she was hired as a typist for a congressional campaign. From there, she worked hard to get into Yale law school and, eventually, was elected into the House of Representatives. In 2018, she became the first Black woman in the United States to be a major party's nominee for governor when she was selected as the Democratic candidate. Although she didn't win that race, she decided to run again in 2022, proving that she never backs down from a challenge. Stacey made it her mission to help ensure that all people who are eligible have the right and ability to vote. Her Fair Fight Action organization helps prevent voter suppression across the country.
When she was growing up, Stacey was taught three important principles by her parents: go to school, go to church, and take care of each other. And these are the same beliefs she holds today.
This program is read by the author, Estela Juarez.
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When Estela Juarez's mom is deported to Mexico, Estela knows she has to speak up for her family. Told in Estela's own words, Until Someone Listens is a true story about a young girl finding her voice and using it to make change.
Estela’s family lives together in a happy home full of love. Or, at least, they used to… until their home was torn apart.
My mom had to go back,
to the other side of the river,
because she wasn’t born in this country.
For years her family fought and fought for permission for her to stay in the U.S. But no one listened. When Estela was eight, her mother was deported to Mexico.
Estela knew she had to do something. So she wrote letters: to local newspapers, Congress, the President, and anyone else who could help. She wrote and wrote and wrote until, finally… someone listened.
In this heart wrenching, autobiographical story, Estela Juarez's letters take her from the local news all the way to the national stage, where she discovers the power in her words and pledges to keep using her voice until her family—and others like hers— are together again.
A Macmillan Audio production from Roaring Brook Press.
An enthralling, eye-opening portrayal of this barrier-breaking American hero as a lifelong, relentlessly proud fighter for Black justice and civil rights.
According to Martin Luther King, Jr., Jackie Robinson was “a sit-inner before the sit-ins, a freedom rider before the Freedom Rides.” According to Hank Aaron, Robinson was a leader of the Black Power movement before there was a Black Power movement. According to his wife, Rachel Robinson, he was always Jack, not Jackie—the diminutive form of his name bestowed on him in college by white sports writers. And throughout his whole life, Jack Robinson was a fighter for justice, an advocate for equality, and an inspiration beyond just baseball.
From prominent Robinson scholars Yohuru Williams and Michael G. Long comes Call Him Jack, an exciting biography that recovers the real person behind the legend, reanimating this famed figure’s legacy for new generations, widening our focus from the sportsman to the man as a whole, and deepening our appreciation for his achievements on the playing field in the process.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger comes a chapter book series about women who spoke up and rose up against the odds--including Diana Taurasi!
When Diana Taurasi was a girl, professional women's basketball didn't exist in the US. But she worked hard to create opportunities for herself, winning championships throughout college and eventually going on to play for the WNBA with the Phoenix Mercury and winning multiple Olympic gold medals.
In this chapter book biography by award-winning author Monica Brown, listeners learn about the amazing life of Diana Taurasi--and how she persisted.
Complete with an introduction from Chelsea Clinton, along with a list of ways that readers can follow in Diana Taurasi's footsteps and make a difference!
And don't miss out on the rest of the books in the She Persisted series, featuring so many more women who persisted!
In Marko Simsas neuer Reihe lernen wir Lina und Max kennen. Die beiden sind gute Freunde und freuen sich immer darüber, wenn Linas Papa ihnen etwas über klassische Musik erzählt. Gemeinsam entdecken sie die unterschiedlichsten Stücke der Konzertmusik, und bei jedem können sie mitmachen. So galoppieren sie wie Pferde durch die Wohnung, Küchengeschirr wird zur musikalischen Untermalung verwendet, und der Wohnzimmerteppich wird zur Eisscholle, über die Pinguine watscheln. Wer hätte gedacht, dass klassische Musik so vielseitig sein kann und so viel Spaß macht? Schon die erste Folge der Reihe weckt in den Kleinen die Freude an klassischer Musik. Marko Simsa bringt große Komponisten ins Kinderzimmer.
Die neue Marko-Simsa-Reihe für Kinder ab 3 Jahren mit vielen Mitmach-Ideen für die Kita und zu Hause. Die gleichnamige Buchausgabe erscheint im JUMBO Verlag.
Biplanes have been flying the mail in short hops all over the country—during daylight hours, when pilots can see where they’re going. But crashes are still too common, so lawmakers decide to cut funding for the U.S. Air Mail Service.
Outraged officials and pilots concoct a daring plan to save the service—a nonstop, coast-to-coast race—to prove that keeping mail in the air is the fastest way to move it across America.
But when a crash, exhaustion, and a snowstorm threaten the race, Jack Knight steps up. All he has to do is fly all night long. Through a blizzard. Over land he’s never covered. With a nearly empty fuel tank.
What could go wrong?
For nine-year-old Lorraine Jackson, the Sanitation Strike of 1968 hit close to home.
Lorraine marched with her daddy and other sanitation workers through the streets of Memphis fighting for equal rights and safer working conditions. With her mother, she boycotted stores. Lorraine’s life was forever changed when she heard Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preach his famous sermon
“I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” to the tired and frustrated strikers. Dr. King was tragically killed the next day, and hope seemed shattered. But Lorraine, her family, and the people of Memphis pushed through those difficult times, because dreamers never quit.
Author Alice Faye Duncan based the character of Lorraine Jackson on a teacher who participated in the Memphis Sanitation Strike as a child. Using a riveting combination of poetry and prose, Alice Faye reveals the inspiring story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s final stand for justice.
Cuentos mágicos trata la narrativa de cuentos especiales para meditar y ser alguien mas sabio, si eres amante de los cuentos este libro es para ti, aquí encontraras:cuentos de un minuto con valores y enseñanzas, cuentos sabios, cuentos con valores sabiduría ancestral, cuentos cortos sobre la vida con grandes enseñanzas, cuentos cortos la filosofía de los simple , cuentos de un minuto con valores y enseñanzas corrigiendo, así que adelante y sumérgete en este maravilloso mar de conocimiento y aventura, espero que también puedas compartir este libro con alguien mas que como tu sea amante de los cuentos. Gracias
Gustavo Adolfo Claudio Domínguez Bastida (Sevilla, 17 de febrero de 1836-Madrid, 22 de diciembre de 1870),1 más conocido como Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, fue un poeta y narrador español, perteneciente al movimiento del Romanticismo (aunque la historiografía literaria concuerda con que realmente pertenece al Posromanticismo por fechas y por temas y estilo literarios). Aunque en vida ya alcanzó cierta fama, solo después de su muerte y tras la publicación del conjunto de sus escritos obtuvo el prestigio que hoy tiene.
Su obra más célebre es Rimas y Leyendas, un conjunto de poemas dispersos y relatos reunidos en uno de los libros más populares de la literatura hispana.
Just South Of The Rainbow is as entertaining as her other published works, Whichever Way The Wind Blows and From An Ant Hill Springs A Mountain. The poems are understandable, interesting, and a lot of fun: a sure recipe for appeal to a wide audience. Included are a few two-line poems called couplets.
L'Inferno è la prima delle tre cantiche della Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri, corrispondente al primo dei Tre Regni dell'Oltretomba dove regna Lucifero (che originariamente significava «angelo della luce») e il primo luogo visitato da Dante nel suo pellegrinaggio ultraterreno, viaggio destinato a portarlo alla Salvezza. Il mondo dei dannati, suddiviso secondo una precisa logica morale derivante dall'Etica Nicomachea di Aristotele, è frutto della somma e della sintesi del sapere a lui contemporaneo. L'inferno dantesco è il luogo della miseria morale in cui versa l'umanità decaduta, privata ormai della Grazia divina capace di illuminare le azioni degli uomini. Le successive cantiche sono il Purgatorio ed il Paradiso.
