If we are to provide equal opportunities for all students, the school library fund must be universal’. Additionally their family has depth, they support Maureen and Francine without being invasive or manipulative, but ultimately the parents make mistakes. Many in fact and they have to apologize and make amends for those mistakes. This book has so much depth, comedy, and a wonderful portrayal of complex emotions. Not to mention a microaggression moment in the mall that I FELT for the girls involved and I loved seeing a white presenting person saying something in the moment, showing what it looks like to be a comrade for people of color. Because the first Artemis Fowlbook is "rooted in the ancestral home of the Fowl family" and because Branagh so often shoots continuous shots moving from exterior to interior or otherwise roaming about, production designer Jim Clay deemed it necessarily to build a real, livable house instead of crafting it on a soundstage. The girls are still figuring out their new dynamic when Francine decides to run for student council, and by some stroke of fate, her shy, terrified-of-public-speaking sister is also running for president. Despite the ground rules laid by their parents, things get a bit messy as both girls try to establish their personal identities while fighting to reconcile their relationship as twins and sisters. The twins June and Jennifer Gibbons were sentenced to indefinite detention (life imprisonment) in Broadmoor, a notorious institution for the criminally insane. Broadmoor then used a most powerful tranquilizing drug and showed them who was boss.

This is a poem June wrote in 1983 while she was at Broadmoor Asylum, in the full grip of hopelessness and despair, and under the influence of psychotropic drugs prescribed to ensure her compliance: TL;DR Actually a great book. Nuanced, good character development. Pretty realistic and messy, which I appreciate. Everyone is basically a good person, despite hurting others on occasion. I enjoyed it and would recommend it to children and parents. Suitable for elementary kids. A new campaign, launched today by Children’s Books Ireland, has called for the reinstatement of the primary school library fund. The fund was formerly used to provide new books for libraries in schools throughout the country but was abolished in 2008.We are introduced to Cora and Margo, identical twins who couldn’t be any different. Margo is a live in nanny who is devoted to looking after the children in her care. She takes her job seriously and clearly has a lot of love and affection to give. Cora on the other hand is narcissistic, she would do anything to achieve her dancing dreams and no one is going to stop her.

I related so much to this story because I’m a girl, I’ve been through middle school, and I have a sister. I loved the full circle plot and how Maureen and Fran eventually learn that they can still be close while having different interests. il 1963 quando Jennifer e June Gibbons, di origine caraibica ma residenti in Inghilterra sin dalla prima infanzia, vedono la luce. Le gemelle, identiche in tutto e per tutto, sviluppano nel corso degli anni un rapporto talmente esclusivo da risultare morboso, godendo l’una della compagnia dell’altra e tagliando fuori chiunque altro, inclusa la loro famiglia.

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Astonishingly, new schools are being built with a library space provided but no funding to fill it.

It took two weeks to completely dress the house once construction was completed, according to set decorator Celia Bobak. "We did have fun finding wonderful items from the 20th century," Bobak revealed of rummaging auctions and antique fairs to obtain the manor's velvet curtains, Persian carpets and more than 12,000 books housed in the library. I loved every minute of this book and would highly recommend this one to fans of a twisty, unpredictable psychological thriller. Go ahead, add this one to your TBR, you will love this gripping, original tale!

After that, Maureen goes for president of student council, a position she KNOWS Francine is wanting and gunning for. Things devolve from there. In The Twins we follow twin sisters Margo and Cora and their turbulent relationship. Margo is experiencing memory loss and can’t remember parts of her childhood, particularly how her little sister Annie died when they were younger. Cora appears to be trying to stop Margo from remembering the truth. Margo is a live-in nanny and Cora is a dancer on the cusp of her big break into the dance world. They are very different, but as twins, they share a remarkable bond. Haunted by an unhappy childhood, the secrets of their past are returning to haunt them. Can their bond survive the jealousy and rivalry they are living with? Or will the past destroy them forever? Despite a lot of conflict on a lot of fronts (not only sister vs. sister), no one in the book is a bad person. They all care about each other, but make mistakes and sometimes cause each other pain. I liked that everyone was basically a good person, though flawed. There are no 'bad guys' in this book.