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Clip-On Pocket LED Flashlight / Book Light with Alarm Clock
$9.95 Large, easy-to-read LCD with snooze, alarm set, and PM indicatorsWake to electronic buzzer alarmSnooze/Repeat Alarm24 Hour Set & Forget Alarm with auto repeat and auto shutoffBuilt-in flashlight with 3 super bright white LEDsFolding design with integrated clip converts flashlight to book lightPush-button on/off light switchBuilt-in stand positions clock for easy readingFolds to compact size for ea... |
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Rite Lite LPL680B 2-LED Handheld/Handsfree Magnifier with Stand
$9.99 The Rite Lite LED magnifier has 3X and 5X magnification. This magnifier has two super bright white LED that will last up to 100,000 hours. Easy one-touch on/off operation with dimmer. The unique design allows for handheld or hands-free use. The built-in stand easily folds out for tabletop use and easily folds up for handheld use. Perfect for reading, hobbies such as crafts or scrap booking and tra... |
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Glass Door Bookcase - Oak
$139.99 Keep your books and collectables safe from dust and grime with this bookcase with two tempered glass doors. The four shelves, two of which are adjustable, will provide your office, living room, or family room with ample storage for books, collections and accessories. The two framed tempered glass doors of this bookshelf will keep your items safe and dust free while also allowing you to see insid... |
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As Seen On TV Lighted Magnifier Perfect for hands free Reading
$27.95 Illuminated 3.5x magnifying stand or hands free strap for precision task for easy seeing. Reading, Hobby... |
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Newspaper Stand With Page Holder
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is this book – Stand Tall by Joan Bauer – good?
i just got it. so do not ruin any surprises for me. that will be my summer reading book. Is this for punishment?
It's hard to imagine that a young general reader encountering a novel by Joan Bauer and not feeling at least a little better on the world. It revives the root of the desire we feel as fledgling readers that, at least in the pages of his books, authors be our friends. Bauer writes what is known as young adult novels, a term that has largely become a euphemism for social problem novels. In book after book, she manages to slip the noose of that cliché. Certainly there are lessons taught in Bauer's novels: messages about valuing honesty, integrity, pride and committed to their work, service to their community. The low-key miracle of her books is that those lessons come with the highlight, an artist born insurance. Bauer heroes heroines are not problem children. They do not suffer from addiction or abuse, are not runaways or pregnant teenagers. Bauer writes about ordinary adolescents facing problems common: the attackers (all ages), parents who are trying to be irregular running suppliers and nurturing, and above all attempts to reconcile young people his innate idealism and sense of justice with the fact that life is often unfair. Bauer's new book, Stand Tall'','' is another of his stories to adjust to new situations and discovering you have the strength and ability to meet challenges. His hero is the Tree of 12 years who has won his nickname because he is 6 feet 3 1 / 2 inches. Height''is full of great expectations,''said tree. It is also full of pain. Tree is at an age when anything different is enough to label him as a monster. Tree The poor boy is not even good at basketball. 'S height is the least their problems. Her parents have recently divorced (amicably), and because they share custody, the tree is going back and forth between the houses. Not the best situation when things already feel the opposite for him. Her parents try to keep things normal. But the Web site Tree's mother sets for himself and his two brothers (heymom.com) as a way of sharing your feelings is a comfort. And there are other challenges to be met. Tree grandfather, who shares a house with Papa Tree, is a Vietnam veteran is fitted with a prosthetic leg to replace the injured limb that has suffered for years. It aims to be able to march in the city's Memorial Day Parade. Objective Tree is much more difficult to find some reassuring constancy in his life. To Bauer's credit, not found, or at least not the peace that he craves. Which is not to Bauer writes books saying that without hope. Instead, his characters come to understand the loss and disappointment as part of growing up without being defeated by them. The good do not always win. But Bauer allows her characters conditional victories, which may be the most realistic and most important of all. Joan Bauer must have had a wonderful relationship with their grandparents. Her books are filled with older characters, grandparents or de facto grandparents who act as guides for their heroes and heroines. Most are taught by example. Bauer is not insensitive enough to equate the uncertainties Tree with combat experience from his grandfather. She, however, use the grandfather, as an example of how to respond to problems much worse than the tree has faced with dignity and courage. The most beautiful part of this presumption is the use of pain Bauer ''.'' ghost That's what doctors call the pain his grandfather feels in the leg that no longer exists. And do you feel when looking at an image tree parents smiling in happier times. Grandfather tree joins the other teachers of life lessons in Bauer's books: the grandmother of the young hero pool tiro''Sticks''; the owner of the cafe rural Wisconsin who suffers from cancer in Hope Was Here'','', The elderly owner of a chain of shoe shops en''Reglas of the road''(my favorite of his books), about to be evicted from his business for their money grubbing son and the creation of Bauer's most charming, Harry Bender, a shoe salesman world's largest (so revered in the trade is called Mahatma), who believes in the ability to change the world a couple of feet at a time. They teach young characters Bauer is like to be proud of what they do. His novels are some representations most loving of people working in service industries that have found. Jenna Boller (another character high Bauer), the shoe salesman de''Reglas teenage road''has the genuine pleasure in people's orientation toward shoes that are right for them. Hope, the waitress at the restaurant adolescencia''Hope Was Here,''has had the vision of her aunt Addie, a main restaurant chef, to heart. ''A person becomes a restaurant and again for one reason,''said Addie,''to feed his soul.''Vision Bauer optimistic does not square with what we know about the misery of low pay service jobs, many in the industry. But at a time when young people are pushed the university as an economic necessity (even if their families can barely pay tuition), the idea of finding fulfillment in society looks jobs down is important. This idea is at the heart of the simple decency of a work by Joan Bauer. The dreams do not come true for its young characters. People die, projects that people put their heart and soul never materialize. And the tree, like Jenna and Hope before him, discovers that he can live with that. Pain'' ghost is improved,''Tree come to learn. Bauer offers her young readers a view of life that includes compassion for the faults of people and a realistic hope for their future. The highest praise I can offer is its that, while writing novels for teenagers, not the game to them with adolescent novels.
