Rebecca Dessertine

Peter Johnston

Diego Olmos

Originally published in single magazine form as Supernatural: Rising Son #1-6"--P. 2.

Rising Son

Supernatural

Gay Ivey

In a sea of troubling reporting about education, teaching, reading, and the wellbeing of teens, Ivey and Johnston bring some good news that shows what happens when we stop underestimating young people. This accessible book offers an engaging account of a 4-year study of adolescents who went from reluctant to enthusiastic readers. These youth reported that reading not only helped them manage their stress, but also helped them negotiate happier, more meaningful lives. This amazing transformation occurred when their teachers simply allowed them to select their own books, invited them to read, with no strings attached, and provided time for them to do so. These students, nearly all of whom reported a previously negative relationship with reading, began to read voraciously inside and outside of school; performed better on state tests; and transformed their personal, relational, emotional, and moral lives in the process. This illuminating book leads readers on a tour of adolescents’ reading lives in their own words, offering a long-overdue analysis of students’ deep engagement with literature. The text also includes research to inform arguments about what students should and should not read and the consequences of limiting students’ access to the books that interest them through censorship. Book Features: Links young adults’ reading engagement with socio-emotional and intellectual development.Provides nuanced descriptions of teaching practices that facilitate student agency in learning.Features student voices that have been absent in debates about what is appropriate for young people to read and under what circumstances.Connects student perspectives on reading, with positive outcomes of reading, to research from other disciplines.Illuminates the breadth and depth of the responsibilities of teaching English language arts.

Fostering Social, Emotional, and Intellectual Growth Through Books

Teens Choosing to Read

Ronald Edward Robinson

Overseas studies committee (Cambridge, GB)

The Rural Base for National Development

Martin Kratz

Philip E. Fites

Martin P. J. Kratz

Describes computer viruses, how they are spread, what problems they can cause, and what precautions should be taken

The Computer Virus Crisis

Charles Garrod

Harry James and His Orchestra: 1937-1946

Harry James and His Orchestra: 1955-1983

Peter Johnston, retired ambassador, tells a story of five years in the Canadian Army in the Second World War, much of them spent as a sergeant in counter-intelligence, including close to two years rounding up amateur spies and other nasties in Italy. He writes of later years in the Canadian foreign service, some of them working with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Security Service and many of them engaged in examining assessments of intelligence during the Cold War, entailing close contacts with the British and American intelligence authorities. He also writes of his life as an ambassador in Indonesia and of his subsequent adventures as an elections monitor in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Angola. Reviewing Johnston's book in the November issue of the Rockcliff News, Charles King, one-time Chief of the Ottawa Bureau of Southam News Services and former Associate Editor of the Ottawa Citizen, spoke of the author as "a snoop with a difference", as "an unconventional outsider looking in on the refinements of a diplomatic life", as "an intelligence officer in the dim, secret world of counter-espionage" who, "in all his adventures was sustained by an impish sense of the ridiculous nature of his role". Similar reactions were expressed in Bout de Papier, the quarterly journal of the Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers. David Peel, retired ambassador and Inspector General of the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service 1994-98, began his review by expressing his "big disappointment, for which you should prepare yourself, when you get to page 164 of this little book: it ends. Far too soon." Among Peel's comments on Johnston's experiences in the Second World War, he noted that, "he makes his adventures in the long advance of the Canadians up the boot of Italy sound funny, ridiculous and touching but they give a vivid picture of war and the men who fought in it". On his life as a diplomat and civil servant, Peel suggested that "His age and experience gave him a perspective that other newcomers lacked and his stories and comments on the situations and people he encountered are, while generally kind, great fun and sometimes scathing-the sort of thing we all wish we'd had the courage to say at the time". Peel concluded his summary of the book's contents by referring back to his opening remark, that "at page 164, that's just how I felt about his book-reluctant to let go".

Cooper's Snoopers and Other Follies

Peter Johnston

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