"Fascinating, brave, and tender.a triumph. How will she play her song for him?įull of heart and poignancy, this affecting story by sign language interpreter Lynne Kelly shows how a little determination can make big waves. Then she has an idea: she should invent a way to "sing" to him! But he's three thousand miles away. When she learns about Blue 55, a real whale who is unable to speak to other whales, Iris understands how he must feel. If you've ever felt like no one was listening to you, then you know how hard that can be. But she's the only deaf person in her school, so people often treat her like she's not very smart. Her 2019 novel Song For a Whale, about a deaf girl named Iris who forms an unlikely bond with the loneliest whale in the world, has been described as finely crafted, important, and uplifting by reviewers from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and School Library Journal. In the spirit of modern-day classics like Fish in a Tree and Counting by 7s comes the Schneider Family Book Award-winning story of a deaf girl's connection to a whale whose song can't be heard by his species, and the journey she takes to help him.įrom fixing the class computer to repairing old radios, twelve-year-old Iris is a tech genius.
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Too often, they are thought of as the inert backdrop to animal life. Because these organisms don’t look like us or outwardly behave like us-or have brains-they have traditionally been allocated a position somewhere at the bottom of the scale. According to these anthropocentric definitions, humans are always at the top of the intelligence rankings, followed by animals that look like us (chimpanzees, bonobos, etc.), followed again by other “higher” animals, and onward and downward in a league table-a great chain of intelligence drawn up by the ancient Greeks, which persists one way or another to this day. Classical scientific definitions of intelligence use humans as a yardstick by which all other species are measured. “Whether one calls slime molds, fungi, and plants “intelligent” depends on one’s point of view. Even with the help of his familiar Melchior, a sexy sorceress (who's also a mean programmer), and the webgoblin underground, it's going to be a close call. As a hacker, Ravirn is a big believer in free will, and when he not only refuses to debug her spell but actively opposes her, all hell breaks loose. Great Aunt Atropos, one of the three Fates, decides that humans having free will is really overrated and plans to rid herself of the annoyance-by coding a spell into the Fate Core, the server that rules destiny. But a world of problems is about to be downloaded on Ravirn-who's just trying to pass his college midterms. Now that twenty-first-century magic has gone digital that makes him a very talented sorcerer. A child of the Fates-literally-he's a hacker extraordinaire who can zero in on the fatal flaw in any program. Ravirn is not your average computer geek. Original.īook Synopsis Magic gets an upgrade in the first WebMage novel featuring a computer savvy sorcerer. When one of the three Fates uses a computerized spell to erase human free will, Ravirn opposes her-and all hell breaks loose in this first title of an all-new contemporary fantasy series. About the Book Ravirn is a computer hacker/sorcerer extraordinaire in 21st-century digital magic. Preferably with people who will tell you the truth about your writing, but will be terminal optimists, encouraging you even through the terrible early years. What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?įind a writer’s group to join. I’m now writing a treatment for something very different. Those two years were like a graduate course in creative writing. Richard edited Robert Ludlum’s books including the Bourne series. The person who has had the most influence on my writing is Richard Marek, with whom I worked for two years on The End Game. I tend to read anything that’s not moving faster than my eyeballs can track. What authors, or books have influenced you? That way no two stories should be similar. Every new work is an exploration for me of different techniques, different writing styles, different narration and perspective. Most of my novels have been written on airplanes and in hotel rooms as I travelled internationally. My latest novel is World Without Work which explores how people will struggle to overcome and triumph in a society that eliminates half of the jobs through automation. What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it? I’m a struggling terminally inquisitive narcissist who has published ten novels about the impact of technology change on human relationships, a novella about overcoming life’s labels, and two illustrated children’s readers for kids overcoming challenges. Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written. 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I don’t feel like I know her, or know her family, or really any characters in the book. I never felt a connection to Nujood, naturally on the premise I was cheering her on, but I would have cheered anyone in her position on. Her plight is powerful, but the telling of her story is awkward, unrelatable and in no way does her justice. Written on a 6.2 reading level, the story of this young girl, is not well developed. I don’t often read non-fiction, but like I am Malala, I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced seemed too compelling to turn down, plus it isn’t a long book, just 188 pages even with the epilogue, reading group guide, notes and acknowledgements. Writers Guild East, Dramatists Guild, PEN American Center. Has appeared on television and radio talk shows and as a lecturer in schools. Has performed as a vocalist, singing backup for John Cougar Melloncamp and in her play, Honk Tonk Angels. Theater director at regional and off-Broadway productions, including Anne Frank and Me. Performer in Broadway, off-Broadway, and regional theater productions, including Grease and When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder. E-mail - CareerĪuthor, playwright, and syndicated columnist. Hobbies and other interests: Trave, theater, film, reading, cooking. Anders, a joint pseudonym, Carrie Austen, Zoey Dean, a joint pseudonym) Personalīorn October 6, 1960, in Buffalo, NY daughter of Bennett Berman (a writer) and Roslyn (Ozur) Cantor (an educator) married Jeff Gottesfeld (a writer and producer), 1990 children: Igor. In Asch’s drama, brothel owner Yankl Tshaptshovitsh and his wife Sarah try in vain to protect their teenage daughter Rifkele from their own profession by commissioning the creation of a Torah scroll, which they plan to keep in her bedroom as a kind of talisman until she marries a “kosher,” or respectable, Jewish boy. The play revolves around the creation and production history-some real, some invented-of Sholem Asch’s Got fun nekome (God of Vengeance), one of the most frequently performed, and also most controversial, works in the history of the Yiddish stage. Next spring, it will be staged at the Vineyard Theatre in New York City. Paula Vogel’s drama Indecent premiered at the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, in October, and then moved to the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, where it just completed its run. |