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Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy
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Emily Bazelon
Judith Gips
, May 19, 2015
Emily Bazelon here gives us a wandering but ultimately connected view of three very different, recent cases of children and teens who are hazed and bullied in a school and Internet world. This book is valuable as Bazelon pushes beyond the simplistic dichotomy of victim and bully and provides a glimpse into a complex world of uneasy power relationships in the edgy world occupied by tweens and teens. An added attraction is the view into Facebook corporate "security" culture, what is is and what it can never be.
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Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy
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Emily Bazelon
Judith Gips
, May 19, 2015
Emily Bazelon here gives us a wandering but ultimately connected view of three very different, recent cases of children and teens who are hazed and bullied in a school and Internet world. This book is valuable as Bazelon pushes beyond the simplistic dichotomy of victim adn bully and provides a glimpse into a complex world of uneasy power relationships in the edgy world occupied by tweens and teens. An added attraction is the view into Facebook corporate "security" culture, what is is and what it can never be.
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My Mama Says There Aren't Any Zombies, Ghosts, Vampires, Demons, Monsters, Fiend
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Judith Viorst
Judith Gips
, December 01, 2014
Judth Viorst is once again at her funniest, most reassuring, mildly self-deprecatory humor when talking abut her own children (and by extension, everyone's children) and herself (and by extension, other loving and often confused parents.) This book bears a gentle "everyone makes mistakes" message that puts children's fears and parents' often flawed authority in a warm and raessurng context. Much like the better-known companion book, "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day," "My Mama Says..." gives children and adults perspective to laugh at their own foilbles and those of others, with no lecturing. Delightful, and very helpful for children who get edgy at Halloween, bedtime, and/or when their parents are just plain mistaken.
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Una Storia Segreta: The Secret History of Italian American Evacuation and Internment During World War II
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Lawrence Distasi
Judith Gips
, September 08, 2014
"Una Storia Segreta" is a well-presented anthology of narrative history and family anecdotes that tells a little-known (and ugly) history of the Italian people in the United States, especially on both coasts. Italian immigrants and their descendents were always somewhat marginalized by an Anglo-based US culture of soial power and access, and much of the harassment of Italians during WWII had its roots in this bias (rather than in any threat posed to the people of the US from fascist Italy via Italian Americans.) Through primary documents such as photograph and letters, oral history, and strong narrative writing, we come to know the shameful "secret history" of the Italian American exclusion that closed down farming, fishing, and other traditional industries and seripously disrupted family life in many communities in the improbable name of national security during wartime.
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The Cat Whisperer: Why Cats Do What They Do--And How to Get Them to Do What You Want
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Nagelschneider, Mieshelle
Judith Gips
, June 11, 2014
fascinating and very thoughtful guide to thinking like a cat to solve any problems you and your cat(s) may have. I have consulted with cat behavior specialists in the past but her ability to analyze and problem-solve is a step above even the very best advisors I have contacted If you want to live happily with your cat for many years to come, this is the book to consult. It's hard to think like a cat, but Mieschelle Nagelschneider does an exemplary job of helping us get a grip on the barely-domesticated feline world. I suspect this book will be interesting to those interested in ethology (animal behavior) even if they do not live with cats or have no behavior problems to address with their pets.
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How to Survive in Your Native Land
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Jack Herndon
Judith Gips
, February 27, 2014
James Herndon is one of the most honest and focused commentators on education that I have ever read. He taught junior high school in the San Farncisco Bay Area from the late 1950s to the late 1960s, and he captures both the times and their trends and universal truths about the relationships between adults and rpeteens, especailly in public education, well. His clear affection for childlren is unsentimental and frequently hilarious. The description of the student-led "creative project" involving anonymous undressed pictures in a photo booth capture the spirit of youth (from before instant digital photography), and his keen observation of the social interactions within a suscial day class including a boy who we would now understand as high functioning autistic spectrum is keen. The late mr. Herndon was just "a regualr guy" and I always return to this book wishing I had been fortunate enough to have him as a teacher, a parent, or a neighbor.
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Divine Rights Trip
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Gurney Norman
Judith Gips
, February 14, 2014
Divine Right's Trip was a fun saga when it first appeared in the corners of the last Whole Earth Catalog in the early 1970s, ( a truly novel way to present a novel) and it is still fun, over forty eyars later. DR Davenport, 21 years old, a wandering hippie-ish fellow with roots in Appalachia, is working at being an adult while traveling cross-country with Estelle, the practical-minded girlfriend he met at the disastrous rock concert at Altamont Pass in California.. His painted-up VW microbus, Urge, is not happy with him, and neither is Estelle. he's on his way to borrow back some money from his dealer friend, Eddie, in Saint Louis, but life is precarious for city hippies, and Eddie is dead before DR arrives there,. Will the care that DR gives his old Uncle Emmitt in his home in rural Kentucky redeem DR? Will he and Estelle work out after all? What, if anything, are the moral lessons to be gained from The Greek, who promotes a raw diet and bottles of acidophilus which "will stone you on life" who encourages his sole to disregard the advice of the I hHing even when it comes up "Stagnation?"
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Alexander & the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day
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Viorst, Judith
Judith Gips
, July 10, 2013
One of my favorite children's books, though I am too old to have encountered it aqs a child.. I read this one to my child and to innumerable other children in schools, residential treatment programs, day care, at home and in libraries, and it never ceases to put a wry smile on my face, especially when I'm having a frustrating day myself. "Alexander and the Terrible...Day" didactic in a very gentle ironic voice; some days *are* just like that, even in the mythic "Australia" where Alexander imagines he should be able to escape the flat tires and spilled ink and groceries of everyday life. When I am tired of cloying New Age sweetness, on the one hand, and despair on the other, I can pull out the tale of the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day and put it all in perspective. Thank you Judith Viorst for this enduring gem.
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Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty
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Tim Sandlin
Judith Gips
, July 02, 2013
I had a grand time with this book. It's a cautionary tale on many levels. It's 2022, and there's a deceptively pleasant-looking, upscale retirement home populated almost entirely by aging hippies and freaks. Unfortunately, they are being patronized and in many ways abused by their avaricious adult children and by a corrupt management. When one resident's cat gets confiscated, the community pulls out of its cliquishness and takes two hostages, renames the grounds Pepperland, and figures out to govern themselves. There's a bit of a murder mystery and lots of intrigue as well as repeated "put down the book and chuckle" ironic humor in the residents' interactions and competitiveness over where they were in 1968. As a California native who often finds that writers from elsewhere are lax in their research and make silly errors in describing or characterizing this area, I must say that Sandlin, who hails from Wyoming, seems to have done his homework enough to understand the Bay Area. His futuristic world is an unexpected mix of dark underground journey and sweetly lit fable, and it's fun to observe from here.
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Mary Poppins Opens The Door
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P. L. Travers
Judith Gips
, November 05, 2012
I literally grew up reading the original Mary Poppins works by PL Travers, and this, the third volume in the PL Travers series that began in the 1930s or so, is perhaps my favorite. It opens on a bleak and gray Guy Fawkes Day in London, and the Banks household is, as usual when Mary Poppins is absent, in an uproar. The children have been saving their Gay Fawkes skyrockets all year, and go to the Park to shoot them off, when who should appear on the blue spark of what seem to be a dud firecracker but the deadpan, ever-proper figure of Mary Poppins, who brings the household into shape with her secretive and singular magic and her bottomless Carpet Bag once again. Mary Poppins is not just prim and strict; she is grouchy and vain and overall difficult, and unlike the figure with her name in the Disney musical of the 1960s, she does not sing sweet lullabies nor offer "a spoonful of sugar" to help the jobs get done. Her "Spit spot into the bathroom to brush your teeth!" is a directive, not a gentle suggestion. Se speaks rudely to shopkeepers and even to her employers, the Banks parents. Mary Poppins defies the rigid conventions of social class that pervade 20th century British society. Somehow, the children in her charge, and all who read the tales, know that all is made right by this mysterious and commanding presence who comes from another realm and knows far more than she will ever disclose.
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Possum Come A Knockin
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Nancy Van Laan
Judith Gips
, August 02, 2012
One of my abiding favorite children's books, with a seductively rollicking rhythm that will get children who think they are too old or too tech-savvy for "baby stuff" chiming in on the chorus "Possum come a'knockin' at the door, at the door/Possum come a knockin' at the door." The Booth illustrations border on a sort of caricature of rural mountain people that is discouraged in most circles these days, but somehow the overall kindly tone and playful buoyancy of the tale of the trickster possum (is there any other kind?) carries the day. I am a mother and a substitute schoolteacher, and the sly humor of the sneaky possum and the disbelieving family has saved many an afternoon with many types of children. Enjoy, even if you don't qualify as a kid any more.
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Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years
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Diane Di Prima
Judith Gips
, June 19, 2012
Moving and evocative, casting light on disparate phenomena that are foreer linked in di Prima's life and mind. To read Recollections of My Life as a Woman is to enter the very real, often rough world of the bohemian 1950s and early 1960s, often illuminated with a breath taking and surprising beauty despite the grit. di Prima reveals herself as vulnerable as well as New York street tough, mystical in equal measure to her pragmatism, loving and ironically detached. T enter the world of Diane di Prima's memoir is to discard shallow stereotypes f beatnik creative life and to enter, accompanied by a Muse worthy of Dante, , a complex and endlessly fascinating not far and yet light years away from our own. Diane di Prima reveals herself here not 9nly as poet, creative spirit, spiritual seeker, solitude craver, and lover, but as a pioneer Alternative Single Mother by choice.
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Baseball Saved Us
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Ken Mochizuki
Judith Gips
, June 11, 2012
This is one of my favorite 20th-century-history picture books, and I love to read it to school-aged children, especially those who have no idea of the shameful but of West Coast and US history that imprisoned people of Japanese ancestry in my parents' youth. The protagonist/narrator is a young boy when his family has to move from their comfortable middle class home in San Francisco to a desert internment camp. Life is tense; family relations are breaking down, and besides that, our hero is small and n good at sports, but his father knows they need a baseball team. Everyone is resourceful; the mothers and grandmothers sew uniforms out of mattress casings, and the young men gather logs for bleachers. And somehow it works: baseball brings the internees together again. Touching without being maudlin..
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