A Choir of Ill Children

This lyrical tale of evil, loss, and redemption is a stunning addition to the Southern gothic tradition of Flannery O’Connor and Harry Crews.A Choir of Ill Children is the startling story of Kingdom Come, a decaying, swamp backwater that draws the lost, ill-fated, and damned.Since his mother’s disappearance and his father’s suicide, Thomas has cared for his three brothers—conjoined triplets with separate bodies but one shared brain—and the town’s only industry, the Mill.Because of his family’s prominence, Thomas is feared and respected by the superstitious swamp folk. Granny witches cast hexes while Thomas’s childhood sweetheart drifts through his life like a vengeful ghost and his best friend, a reverend suffering from the power of tongues, is overcome with this curse as he tries to warn of impending menace. All Thomas learns is that“the carnival is coming.”Torn by responsibility and rage, Thomas must face his tormented past as well as the mysterious forces surging toward the town he loves and despises.

A Choir of Ill Children

This lyrical tale of evil, loss, and redemption is a stunning addition to the Southern gothic tradition of Flannery O’Connor and Harry Crews.A Choir of Ill Children is the startling story of Kingdom Come, a decaying, swamp backwater that draws the lost, ill-fated, and damned.Since his mother’s disappearance and his father’s suicide, Thomas has cared for his three brothers—conjoined triplets with separate bodies but one shared brain—and the town’s only industry, the Mill.Because of his family’s prominence, Thomas is feared and respected by the superstitious swamp folk. Granny witches cast hexes while Thomas’s childhood sweetheart drifts through his life like a vengeful ghost and his best friend, a reverend suffering from the power of tongues, is overcome with this curse as he tries to warn of impending menace. All Thomas learns is that“the carnival is coming.”Torn by responsibility and rage, Thomas must face his tormented past as well as the mysterious forces surging toward the town he loves and despises.

A Choir of Ill Children

This lyrical tale of evil, loss, and redemption is a stunning addition to the Southern gothic tradition of Flannery O’Connor and Harry Crews.A Choir of Ill Children is the startling story of Kingdom Come, a decaying, swamp backwater that draws the lost, ill-fated, and damned.Since his mother’s disappearance and his father’s suicide, Thomas has cared for his three brothers—conjoined triplets with separate bodies but one shared brain—and the town’s only industry, the Mill.Because of his family’s prominence, Thomas is feared and respected by the superstitious swamp folk. Granny witches cast hexes while Thomas’s childhood sweetheart drifts through his life like a vengeful ghost and his best friend, a reverend suffering from the power of tongues, is overcome with this curse as he tries to warn of impending menace. All Thomas learns is that“the carnival is coming.”Torn by responsibility and rage, Thomas must face his tormented past as well as the mysterious forces surging toward the town he loves and despises.

Raising Resilient Children: A Curriculum to Foster Strength, Hope, and O...

Share this strategy-filled nine-session curriculum and 70-minute companion video with parents to help them ensure that their children are emotionally prepared to cope with life's challenges. Based on the authors' best-selling book, the chapters in the manual and their corresponding video segments discuss the seven key guideposts to raising resilient children. In-class and at-home activities are also included to help parents recognize the important role they play in their children's emotional health. After completing the Raising Resilient Children curriculum, parents will be better prepared to accomplish their most important job--raising a confident, self-reliant child!

Raising Resilient Children: A Curriculum to Foster Strength, Hope, and O...

Share this strategy-filled nine-session curriculum and 70-minute companion video with parents to help them ensure that their children are emotionally prepared to cope with life's challenges. Based on the authors' best-selling book, the chapters in the manual and their corresponding video segments discuss the seven key guideposts to raising resilient children. In-class and at-home activities are also included to help parents recognize the important role they play in their children's emotional health. After completing the Raising Resilient Children curriculum, parents will be better prepared to accomplish their most important job--raising a confident, self-reliant child!

Raising Resilient Children: A Curriculum to Foster Strength, Hope, and O...

Share this strategy-filled nine-session curriculum and 70-minute companion video with parents to help them ensure that their children are emotionally prepared to cope with life's challenges. Based on the authors' best-selling book, the chapters in the manual and their corresponding video segments discuss the seven key guideposts to raising resilient children. In-class and at-home activities are also included to help parents recognize the important role they play in their children's emotional health. After completing the Raising Resilient Children curriculum, parents will be better prepared to accomplish their most important job--raising a confident, self-reliant child!

Raising Resilient Children: A Curriculum to Foster Strength, Hope, and O...

Share this strategy-filled nine-session curriculum and 70-minute companion video with parents to help them ensure that their children are emotionally prepared to cope with life's challenges. Based on the authors' best-selling book, the chapters in the manual and their corresponding video segments discuss the seven key guideposts to raising resilient children. In-class and at-home activities are also included to help parents recognize the important role they play in their children's emotional health. After completing the Raising Resilient Children curriculum, parents will be better prepared to accomplish their most important job--raising a confident, self-reliant child!

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Children, Adolescents, and the Media

This book overviews what is known about the impact of mass media on youth in the 21st century. The goal is to provide a comprehensive, research-oriented treatment of how children and adolescents interact with the media. Each chapter reviews the latest findings as well as seminal studies that have helped frame the issues in such areas as advertising, violence, video games, sexuality, drugs, body image and eating disorders, music, and the Internet. Because research alone can be dry and difficult to follow, each chapter is liberally sprinkled with illustrations, examples from the media, policy debates, and real-life instances of media impact. The intent is to show the relevance of social science research to media-related issues involving youth. The book concludes with chapters on media literacy and a series of recommendations for how students can help in the search for solutions to current media-related problems. The authors take an approach grounded in the media effects tradition, targeting areas that are most controversial and at the heart of debates about mass media and public health and equipping students to approach the media as critical consumers. 

Children, Adolescents, and the Media

This book overviews what is known about the impact of mass media on youth in the 21st century. The goal is to provide a comprehensive, research-oriented treatment of how children and adolescents interact with the media. Each chapter reviews the latest findings as well as seminal studies that have helped frame the issues in such areas as advertising, violence, video games, sexuality, drugs, body image and eating disorders, music, and the Internet. Because research alone can be dry and difficult to follow, each chapter is liberally sprinkled with illustrations, examples from the media, policy debates, and real-life instances of media impact. The intent is to show the relevance of social science research to media-related issues involving youth. The book concludes with chapters on media literacy and a series of recommendations for how students can help in the search for solutions to current media-related problems. The authors take an approach grounded in the media effects tradition, targeting areas that are most controversial and at the heart of debates about mass media and public health and equipping students to approach the media as critical consumers.