Books with author JAN LIS

Tyrone is the skinniest chameleon in the swamp. No one wants him on their team. After going on a fitness program, Tyrone gets carried away with his new self and terrorizes his friends in Gnarly Tree Bend until he meets Sly, the meanest gator in the bayou. Looks like Tyrone is gumbo. The moral of this story? Someone is always bigger and badder than you, so you’d best make friends along the way. Tyrone the Terrible is a bullying tale. The feisty chameleon picks on his bayou buddies before meeting his match. In the process, he learns the value of friends and family and how actions have consequences. This delightful story is filled with swampy animal characters with a distinctly southern voice—not quite Brer Rabbit, but a good deep-south feel.

In ancient Israel, Nathaniel, his sister Miriam and their family can hardly contain their excitement at joining the colorful caravan headed to Bethleham for the census.When the children meet shepherd boy Caleb, and become separated from their family, Caleb offers to show them a short cut over the Judean Hills to Bethlehem.Join the two lost children in this noisy, bustling, city as they trace the path of Mary and Joseph. Filled with wonder, Nathaniel and Miriam find themselves at the foot of the Manger on that First Christmas.

Tyrone is the skinniest chameleon in the swamp. No one wants him on their team. After going on a fitness program, Tyrone gets carried away with his new self and terrorizes his friends in Gnarly Tree Bend until he meets Sly, the meanest gator in the bayou. Looks like Tyrone is gumbo. The moral of this story? Someone is always bigger and badder than you, so you’d best make friends along the way. Tyrone the Terrible is a bullying tale. The feisty chameleon picks on his bayou buddies before meeting his match. In the process, he learns the value of friends and family and how actions have consequences. This delightful story is filled with swampy animal characters with a distinctly southern voice—not quite Brer Rabbit, but a good deep-south feel.

Tyrone is the skinniest chameleon in the swamp. No one wants him on their team. After going on a fitness program, Tyrone gets carried away with his new self and terrorizes his friends in Gnarly Tree Bend until he meets Sly, the meanest gator in the bayou. Looks like Tyrone is gumbo.The moral of this story? Someone is always bigger and badder than you, so you'd best make friends along the way.Tyrone the Terrible is a bullying tale. The feisty chameleon picks on his bayou buddies before meeting his match. In the process, he learns the value of friends and family and how actions have consequences.This delightful story is filled with swampy animal characters with a distinctly southern voice--not quite Brer Rabbit, but a good deep-south feel.

When a winter storm snows the town in, Jessie and her brothers grab their toboggan, trudging up their favorite sledding hill to the imposing Victorian mansion overlooking the town.Rescue is on the way for stranded wealthy spinster Miss Emily.Hold onto your hat for a hilariously wild ride, and a joyous candle lit celebration sharing the true gift of love on Christmas Eve.

Samantha, her younger brother Robby, and school chums fight City Hall to save an endangered Florida hammock and Riding Stable.When Sam finds that her favorite horse Dolly, and the stable owned by the City are about to be sold to make way for a Mall, she is heart broken.All the kids at school get a lesson in petitioning their local government from teacher, Mrs. Hastings.Come celebrate with the whole City as Sam and friends find that the rewards of fighting for what you believe in are worth the effort. It is an outcome sure to warm your heart.

The promises and conflicts faced by public figures, artists, and leaders of Northeast Los Angeles as they enliven and defend their neighborhoods Los Angeles is well known as a sprawling metropolis with endless freeways that can make the city feel isolating and separate its communities. Yet in the past decade, as Jan Lin argues in Taking Back the Boulevard, there has been a noticeable renewal of public life on several of the city’s iconic boulevards, including Atlantic, Crenshaw, Lankershim, Sunset, Western, and Wilshire. These arteries connect neighborhoods across the city, traverse socioeconomic divides and ethnic enclaves, and can be understood as the true locational heart of public life in the metropolis. Focusing especially on the cultural scene of Northeast Los Angeles, Lin shows how these gentrifying communities help satisfy a white middle-class consumer demand for authentic experiences of “living on the edge” and a spirit of cultural rebellion. These neighborhoods have gone through several stages, from streetcar suburbs, to disinvested neighborhoods with the construction of freeways and white flight, to immigrant enclaves, to the home of Chicano/a artists in the 1970s. Those artists were then followed by non-Chicano/a, white artists, who were later threatened with displacement by gentrifiers attracted by the neighborhoods’ culture, street life, and green amenities that earlier inhabitants had worked to create. Lin argues that gentrification is not a single transition, but a series of changes that disinvest and re-invest neighborhoods with financial and cultural capital. Drawing on community survey research, interviews with community residents and leaders, and ethnographic observation, this book argues that the revitalization in Northeast LA by arts leaders and neighborhood activists marks a departure in the political culture from the older civic engagement to more socially progressive coalition work involving preservationists, environmentalists, citizen protestors, and arts organizers. Finally, Lin explores how accelerated gentrification and mass displacement of Latino/a and working-class households in the 2010s has sparked new rounds of activism as the community grapples with new class conflicts and racial divides in the struggle to self-determine its future.

ALL THE STORIES IN ONE BOOK/ BOOKS 1-5142 pages55 color illustrationsThe White Cat’s Fairy Tales is a collection of kind stories for children. The White Cat tells interesting and captivating histories about himself, about the young brother and sister, whom their near relatives call Prince and Princess, and about their funny friends. Every day something happens to the cheerful children and to their companions. However, all these incredible and sometimes rather dreadful adventures end happily because Prince, Princess and their friends are amicable, brave and have a ready wit. BOOK 1. Hello, dear children! Let’s get acquainted! My name is the White Cat. You do not know yet that my best friends – young Prince and Princess – cannot live without adventures. (I want to tell you, as a great secret, that they are the grandchildren of my Granny’s sister and their real names are Alex and Mary but they like very much when they are called Prince and Princess.). Oh, yes! Every day something happens to these fidgets! However, all their adventures end happily because they and their friends are extremely brave and kind. We will begin with the following: in a thick magic forest, in a rather big but comfortable and cosy house, surrounded by an orchard, lives my Granny. She is so old that even she herself does not remember how old she is… For sure, she does know her age but she prefers not to tell it to anybody. We only know that in her youth she wBOOK 2. Hello, dear children! I am already acquainted with many of you!You already know that my best friends – the young Prince and Princess – cannot imagine their life without adventures. Almost every day something happens to these nice fidgets! This time, however, I – your White Cat, got into trouble. Well, I have really had a fright! It is nice that I have devoted friends. They had not left their old friend in trouble. And all that happened later until now remains a surprise for me... I am not going to keep you in suspense any longer and therefore I begin to tell my story…BOOK 3. Hello, dear children! Here we are together again!You already know that my best friends – the young Prince and Princess and I cannot imagine our life without adventures. Yes, something always happens to us! This time all started with a harmless visit of a resident from the neighbouring planet. Well, and what happened further I must, by all means, tell you! When a friend needs our help, nothing can stop us! Neither the flight by balloon, nor hordes of wicked monsters are able to frighten us truly. Perhaps, just a little bit.Take comfortable seats and listen to my story…BOOK 4. Hello, dear children! I am glad to meet you again!You already know that my best friends – the young Prince and Princess and I cannot imagine our life without adventures. Yes,something always happens to us! However, not only to us. Our friends often need help, too.This time we paid a visit to our old friend right in the moment when he found himself in difficulties. However, thekindness and wisdom of Prince and Princess was of use as usual. After this adventure, I feel myself happier! Why? Right now, Iwill tell you everything…BOOK 5. Hello, dear children! I am glad to meet you again!You already know that my best friends – the young Prince and Princess and I cannot imagine our life without adventures. Yes, something always happens to us! However, this time I will tell you what has happened to me.“Live and learn”, – my Granny likes to say repeatedly. But this time my wish to learn nearly cost me my life. Yes, the life of sucha talented and charming cat hung by a thread… But, as my new acquaintance said, – “The main thing is not to surrender andnever lose courage!”… You ready to listen to this story, aren’t you? Then I will begin…The storyteller and artist Janna Lis has written down and illustrated the White Cat’s histories.