![]() ![]() They are the author of Not Quite Narwhal Harriet Gets Carried Away Love, Z Snow Pony and the Seven Miniature Ponies Spencer's New Pet Jules vs. Once they figured it out, they told their family and friends, who took it quite well. They grew up in a small town in southern New Jersey, unaware that they were a storyteller. ![]() Jessie Sima is an author/illustrator living and working in New York City. Quiz #/Name: 501294 / Harriet Gets Carried Away Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Can Harriet manage her way back to her dads (and the party hats!) in time for her special day? She may look like a penguin, but she's not so sure she belongs in the arctic. Harriet gets carried away by Jessie Sima, 2018, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers edition, in English. ![]() There's just one thing missing-party hats!īut when Harriet dons her special penguin errand-running costume and sets out to find the perfect ones, she finds something else instead-real penguins! Harriet gets carried away with the flock. ![]() Her dads have decorated everything for the party and Harriet has her most favorite costume all picked out for the big day. She wears them to the dentist, to the supermarket, and most importantly, to her super-special dress-up birthday party. From the author and illustrator of the bestselling Not Quite Narwhal comes a sweet and funny story about remembering where you belong, no matter how far you roam, or what you're wearing when you get there. ![]()
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Vivacious and determinedly independent blues singer named Shug Avery, Celie is merely a servant and an occasional sexual convenience. As a teen-ager she is repeatedly raped and beaten by her stepfather, then forced by him into loveless marriage to Albert, a widower with four children. Isolation and despair, she initially addresses to God. The tale is told primarily through her own letters, which, out of ![]() "The Color Purple" is foremost the story of Celie, a poor, barely literate Southern black woman who struggles to escape the brutality and degradation of her treatment by men. "The Color Purple," while easily satisfyingthat claim, brings into sharper focus many of the diverse themes that threaded their way through her past work. 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