Books with author Joseph Thompson

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This is a story for ESL students overseas. It is to be read by advanced students, but it is divided up into sections. It can be read one section per week if the students don't have much time. It is about a boy that writes a story to raise money to help his friends family. His friend moves to NY from PA, but will move back before the fall. Both boys are only ten years old in the story, from the present day.

Lisa, a 3rd Grader, is sad. Her school is closing. She wants to do something to keep the memory of her school alive. Her mother, who is the Vice-President of the PTA, (Parent's -Teacher's Association). They get many parents to put on a bake sale to raise money to help out a Children's room at a library. The money they raise through what becomes more than a bake sale, changes the Children's room. It gets improvements that are two decades overdue. At the end of the book, three words on a plaque on the wall of the Children's room at the library shows Lisa that she did a good thing.This book is for younger readers (2nd to 4th grade). They might need help to understand some of the words. It was written to show girls that they can make a difference in this world.If you like the story, please comment on it. Thank you.

While the study of children's poetry has always had a place in the realm of children's literature, scholars have not typically considered it in relation to the larger scope of contemporary poetry. In this volume, Joseph T. Thomas, Jr., explores the "playground" of children's poetry within the world of contemporary adult poetic discourse, bringing the complex social relations of play and games, cliques and fashions, and drama and humor in children's poetry to light for the first time. Poetry's Playground considers children's poetry published in the United States from the mid-twentieth century onward, a time when many established adult poets began writing for young audiences. Through the work of major figures like Robert Frost, Gwendolyn Brooks, Carl Sandburg, Randall Jarrell, Theodore Roethke, Shel Silverstein, and Jack Prelutsky, Thomas explores children's poems within the critical and historical conversations surrounding adult texts, arguing at the same time that children's poetry is an oft-neglected but crucial part of the American poetic tradition. Canonical issues are central to Poetry's Playground. The volume begins by tracing Robert Frost's emergence as the United States' official school poet, exploring the political and aesthetic dimensions of his canonization and considering which other poets were pushed aside as a result. The study also includes a look at eight major anthologies of children's poems in the United States, offering a descriptive canon that will be invaluable to future scholarship. Additionally, Poetry's Playground addresses poetry actually written and performed by children, exploring the connections between folk poetry produced both on playgrounds and in the classroom.Poetry's Playground is a groundbreaking study that makes bold connections between children's and adult poetry. This book will be of interest to poets, scholars of poetry and children's literature, as well as students and teachers of literary history, cultural anthropology, and contemporary poetry.

Byeong, an 8th grader in a private school in Korea is given a chance to get his dead twin back. He finds out that changing the past could be dangerous. The boy that gave him the chance goes back and makes the ultimate sacrifice to save Byeong's brother, knowing that he will see Byeong and Yeong again, but it will a different version of themselves. At the end of the story you come to find that the boy that went back in time had written it as a story, but you're not sure what was real and what was fiction.

Two boys come to stay at a youth home where there is already a 12 year old girl Chris (also 12) and his younger brother called Cap (age 8) all the children have secrets, and hidden pain. Cap doesn't talk for awhile because of physical abuse. He only speaks when his brother gets sick. He is taken to the hospital and the sexual abuse from his mother's live in boyfriend comes to light. He is tested for HIV (negative). The children go exploring in the woods, and find a treasure that will help their new "mom" Ms. Lee, save the home where they live. 10 years later Chris and Beth will get married. (7000 + words)

Would you be willing to break the law in order to protect your family?Blinded by compassion, Collin Russell thrusts his entire family into jeopardy while dealing with a homeless man who collapses on his doorstep. Having no idea Brock has formerly been accused of cannibalism, he gives the stranger a sweet taste of northern hospitality – inadvertently enlisting his family in more intense spiritual warfare than he’s ever known.When Brock’s questionable past comes to light, Collin and his family plunge themselves into a bout of private detective work where they are forced to deal with physical assaults, threats, kidnappings, and murder. Unmasking the truth behind a decade worth of missing persons proves to be a more daunting task than the Russells bargained for with unexpected twists and turns around every corner.Devoted to discovering the truth, the Russell family refuses to be crippled by fear. Quitting is not an option.This book is free of foul language and inappropriate bedroom scenes, but does deal with heavy topics.

This is a short story for teachers of English as a Second Language. It is about a teenager named Kevin that is given the chance to go back in time for one hour. While he is in the past he can help his grandfather out, and affect his grandfather's future. The story would take many days, depending on the reading skills of the students in class. (I thought of the idea for students in countries like Korea and Japan, where stories with characters their ages, written on an easy level, can be tough to find).After the story there are discussion questions. If you could change the past, should you? It is for an ESL classroom. It is written on a level that American children that know English already would find to easy.

Young Kim, a 13 year old from North Carolina, gets the chance to travel in time one summer day. He meets his future self, along with his future son and wife. He is witnessed to by his son about sin, salvation, and the Saving Grace of Jesus.When attending a revival service, he sees his future self get shot on stage. He wakes up back in the woods where he disappeared from, and wonders if it had been a real trip or just a dream.When he grows up, things seem to happen just as they did the first time, or nearly like they had. He is a minister and his younger self comes for a visit. Will he die in the revised future or will he live?