Kim Michelle Thompson Boeken

This informative guide helps allies who want to go beyond rigid Diversity and Inclusion best practices, with real tools to go from good intentions to making meaningful change in any situation or venue.

“Captures with unusually knowing and respectful perception the steps of a friend shift.” —BCCB (starred review) Two life-long best friends grow up and begin to grow apart in this honest, deeply felt middle grade debut. Sara and Nadine. Nadine and Sara. It’s only ever been the two of them. Two halves of the same person. Best friends forever—until they aren’t. Everything has changed this year. Nadine has suddenly skipped a grade and gone to high school without Sara. No matter how hard she fights to save their friendship, Sara can feel it slipping away. But change can happen from the inside, too. The forever-friend days of running through sprinklers and slurping up ice cream cones may be over. Yet in their place, Sara just might discover something new and wonderful: herself.

Based on a familiar fairy tale, this entertaining story uses rhyming, alliteration, and other Wordplay to convey the action in a humorous, exciting way. It concludes with a special resolution to an age-old conflict.

The main focus of the book is to encourage the acquisition of critical thinking skills across the curriculum of the English language. Each concept in the book is clearly and concisely explained with suitable substantiation. It is a book which is educational for any audience.

Inspired by working for a humanitarian aid agency in West Darfur, poet Michelle Green's collection of short stories explores some of the complexities of the ongoing war in Darfur, and draws upon her own experiences as well as her subsequent research. Though the stories are fictional, they are all rooted in a particular time and place, and informed by the day-to-day realities of life in a time of chaos and horror. They are stories of local traders, aid workers, soldiers, politicians, parents, and children, all living in the middle of what was described by the United Nations as "the world's worst humanitarian crisis." Exploring and exposing the causes, consequences, and conditions of the war, this collection is a stirring reminder of the intricate issues that still face Dafur since the separation of the Sudan.