Books with author R.H. Charles

After winning a spot in the Project Fresh Design Challenge, the hottest fashion competition for up and coming designers, it seems like all 14-year old Kaila Bradley’s dreams could come true. After all, she’s the youngest competitor ever and everyone knows she’s got tons of potential. Twin sister Zaria is also on the top of the world chasing her dreams of a State soccer championship.But, things go from bad to worse as Kaila struggles to balance friends, school, and family. And, after the ultimate fashion betrayal tears she and Zaria apart, Kaila loses the one person she thought would always be in her corner. Now, to take home both big wins, the Double Dutch Dolls will have to find their way back to each other and decide if they’re willing to do the one thing they swore never to do again. Is trading places their only chance or will it lead to Double Trouble?

Stefanie Reynolds is upset all around when she has to move to the little town of Greenville because her father has taken a new job. She had to leave all her friends back in the city to come to a dinky little town in the middle of nowhere where she doesn't know a soul. She's not looking forward to the most boring summer of her life! Then she sees a girl about her age who lives right next door, but the old woman who lives with her, won't let her come out to visit. When Stefanie meets a boy also about her age and they compare stories...she realizes that something is just not right in this little town. It isn't until she meets the old man with the knife that she understands she is in for the adventure of her young life!

CHAPTER ITHE END OF THE OLD 'ON the 25th of October, 1555, Charles V abdi-I cated the imperial crown, ceding Spain and the Netherlands to his favorite son, Philip II. The ;vent proved to be the prologue of a drama, which in ts immediate aspects involved the decay of Spain and he growth of Holland, but in its wider significance was o be the beginning of a new era.For the modern world dates from the seventeenth cen-ury, and its pioneers were the Hollanders of that period. Practically everything that we recognize to-day as char-Lcteristic of the modern spirit in politics, religion, sci-ince, society, industry, commerce, and art has its prototype amid that sturdy people; being either the lause or the product of their struggle for independence md their self-development. Nor, in paying honor to the Dutch, need we attempt to suggest that they were the nventors of these characteristics. Most of the latter v^ere, so to say, in the air. In the progress of things theyTHE STORY OF DUTCH PAINTINGhad been evolved. But our debt to the Hollanders is that they attracted them and gave them practical application, and thus set the world upon a definite path of new progress. It is particularly with the newness of their art that we are here concerned, but we will try to study it in its relation to the material and mental environment of the nation itself, of whose newness it was so immediate a product and so manifest an expression.For it is in this way that the art of every country may be studied with most interest and profit. Although there will appear from time to time certain individual artists, whose genius cannot be satisfactorily correlated to its environment, but will indeed, as in the case of Rembrandt's, seem to be actually contradictory to it, yet even they can be more fully comprehended through the very contrast that they offer to the mass of their contemporaries, whose relation to their environment is readily discernible. Apropos of this customary connection between the artist and the spirit of his time, may be quoted that phrase of Richard Wagner's, that all great art is produced in response to a common and collective need on the part of the community. It may serve as an excellent touchstone for testing the quahty of this new Dutch art which we are to study, so let us for a moment examine its face value, leaving the fuller application of its meaning to all the subsequent pages of this book.In Wagner's mind great art, as he conceived it, stood out in clear contrast against a background of less art, of art which is produced in response to some more restricted impulse than that of a conmion and collective need of the people; for example, in catering to the whims of fashion.luch was the major part of the art of France produced 1 the last days before the Revolution. The great mass f the people were too abased by ill rule and exactions to ave any consciousness but that of hunger, any common oUective need but to fill their bellies. The only articu-ite demand to reach the artists was from the ephemeral w'arm of courtiers, sycophants, and, as we should say D-day, "grafters," who buzzed in splendor and profli-acy at court. For a moment the glamour of this life in-pired a great artist, Watteau, who, however, it is to be oted, was a foreigner. What he himself was he owed to •"landers. To him the glamour of the French court was ut a pageant, a spectacle passing before his eyes, leav-ig his heart and conscience untouched. When, however, rtists of French birth, reared in the home environment, ollowed in his steps, they revealed nothing of Watteau's iealistic detachment from the grossness of the theme, ut became purveyors to the shallow profligacy of their latrons. And to this day Van Loo, Boucher, and Fra-:onard have no place with other old masters in the hearts f the people; they are still the favorites of fashion. Nor ras it until the upheaval of the Revolution had precipi-ated the gathering consciousness of a common and ...

Daniel, 8, and Mark, 11, never expect that a day spent tubing at Flatbed Creek will turn into one of the most exciting dinosaur finds in the past twenty years. But that's exactly what happens when they stumble upon impressions in the creek's shore that look a lot like dinosaur footprints.After calling a local paleontologist, it becomes clear the boys have discovered something very important. As word of the boys' find spreads, it brings footprint expert Rich McCrea and world-renowned paleontologist Philip Currie, who are both anxious to examine the prints.Daniel’s Dinosaurs follows Daniel as he works beside these dinosaur experts, surveying and measuring the trackway. In the process, numerous landmark discoveries are made, including a dinosaur bone in rocks that are 93 million years old. Further exploration of the site unearths the province’s first dinosaur skeleton, which is almost definitely a new species! Even more research reveals not just a single skeleton, but an entire dinosaur bone bed.Most kids only dream of hunting dinosaurs. Daniel's vision and curiosity made his dream a real life adventure story. Daniel's story has been featured in Reader's Digest and on the Discovery Channel.

Starting a new life after the death of her mother, Nora learns how to be strong. Are there wounds too deep to heal, pains too sharp to share? And if a family survives by cutting the ties that bind them, can they ever be whole again? After losing her mother to illness and her father to his work, Nora Mackenzie must leave her home in the interior of B.C. for a North Vancouver school. Estranged from her classmates, her family, and the life she’s lost, Nora walls herself off from the people around her. At the same time, her young cousin Lizzie is facing an uncertain future as one of the first children to undergo open-heart surgery. As the operation approaches, Nora discovers that she is not the only person in her family isolated by fear and grief.

Robbie Carter is adjusting to his new life in late-1950s Toronto with his single mother, an engineeer with the airplane manufacturer A.V. Roe. One night, waking to the buzz of voices, Robbie creeps downstairs and makes an astonishing discovery. His mother and her colleagues are working on plans for the Avro Arrow, a new fighter jet capable of unheard-of speeds! Determined not to miss a word, Robbie continues to spy on their meetings.

Kaila Bradley can't take any more bad news. Sascha's been her BFF since Ms. Hazel's first grade class and now Sascha is leaving Stylesboro. Not only is Kaila losing her best friend but the Stingray cheerleaders are losing one of their own. The squad is more than a team, they're like sisters. At least that's what they thought until Trinity stabs them in the back. Now, all the cheerleaders are on the chopping block.Watching the cheerleaders fall apart, Zaria and Alainna joke about the drama. But, it's no laughing matter when they also get caught up in the fighting and choosing sides puts their friendship to the ultimate test. All of the he-said-she-said and finger pointing leads to a major accident with all fingers now pointing to Kaila. Will the cheerleaders turn their back on her? Will Sacha be able to say goodbye? Will Zaria's jealousy be the end of she and Alainna's friendship? It's a disaster of epic proportion. Can the Double Dutch Dolls work Double Time to fix this mess?