Books with title The Acceptance

Hidden underground, survival is all she knows.Humanity is on the brink of extinction. After being decimated by a deadly virus, Earth’s population was saved only by the genius of Farrow Corp. Now, the scientists in Farrow’s Labs work tirelessly to search for a cure to the genetic plague that has left everyone hiding below ground, suffering in fear. Underground survival is dark and dank, an existence Tylia will do anything to escape in order to save her mother from the ravages of illness. There is one answer: the Acceptance Trials. If she survives, her immunity guarantees her and her family a home in the Labs, and a renewed life for her mother.But the world above is vastly different from what she’s been led to believe. When Tylia is rescued from the jaws of death during the trials by a handsome stranger, and discovers that Farrow Corp’s security forces are hunting her, everything she once believed about humanity’s chances for survival are flipped on their head.Turns out, surviving the virus may be the least of Tylia’s concerns…

To save her mother’s life, Tylia is willing to sacrifice her own.Humanity is on the brink of extinction. After being decimated by a deadly virus, Earth’s population was saved only by the genius of Farrow Corp. Now, the scientists in Farrow’s Labs work tirelessly to search for a cure to the genetic plague that has left everyone hiding below ground, suffering in fear. Underground survival is dark and dank, an existence Tylia will do anything to escape in order to save her mother from the ravages of illness. So, the seventeen-year-old does what any loving daughter would: she hacks her way into the upcoming Acceptance trials so that she might face the infected world above. If she survives, her immunity guarantees her and her family a home in the Labs, and a renewed life for her mother.But the world above is vastly different from what she’s been led to believe. When Tylia is rescued from the jaws of death during the trails by a handsome stranger, and discovers that Farrow Corp’s security forces are hunting her, everything she once believed about humanity’s chances for survival are flipped on their head.Turns out, surviving the virus may be the least of Tylia’s concerns…

From the long bus rides, bike rides, or moms carpools, students were glad to be back in school in late August. The beginning of the football season was the most anticipated time of the year. No matter what the last season had brought, everyone just knew that this would be the season, the year, the championship year. Not only had the football team been learning their plays and working out, the cheerleaders, band members, and drill squad had put in long hours in the hot muggy south Louisiana sunshine getting ready for the first big game of the season. Ben was as ready as he could possibly be. He had not only practiced with the team in the spring and again in August, but also had kicked field goals, practiced punting and kick offs all summer long in his spacious back yard, still he had little hopes of getting in a game this season. Just his luck to grow up near Baton Rouge, the home of so many outstanding football players. Callie was ready for school and breathing room after surviving a rough patch at home with the family. Moving to a new and bigger house near her friends was great. Ann would like to press a Restart button, but then again, this was her first game to face the football field and really see the game. Maybe giving up a skimpy outfit, jumping, and screaming for an hour wasnt so great after allmaybe. The desire to be accepted guides the lives of Callie, Ben, and Ann. These middle school, junior and senior high school students experience both personal problems and personal successes. All in plain sight of each other and the rest of their classmates.

When destiny and desire collide... In a community full of supernatural powers, eighteen-year-old Jewel longs for a life of normalcy. But nothing in her life is ordinary. And suddenly she discover she's more abnormal than she ever realized--complete with a past she never knew existed. Once a goddess from ancient Greece, Jewel is the main reason everyone has their special abilities. As she struggles with her newfound knowledge, Jewel encounters the mysterious god of Egypt, Anubis. With a past she has no recollection of, she tries to deny the pull she has for the sexy god. But, destiny has other plans. As she uncovers more secrets about who she really is, Jewel is pulled into a dangerous world surrounded by a prophecy--a prophecy that both terrifies and intrigues her. Will Jewel accept who she once was for a chance to become who she's meant to be?

Some might say 14-year-old Brandon Williams is an over-privileged snowflake. He lives in a million-dollar house overlooking the ocean in Santa Cruz, California, gets a weekly allowance equal to the take-home pay of many service industry workers, and has gone to a private, all-white school from Kindergarten through eighth grade. Health-nazis would call him “obese," but Brandon is only slightly chubby, and handsome by Caucasian standards, though his looks are nothing special in a sunny, seaside environment of blond and blue-eyed surfer dudes. Brandon should be happy - or at least think he is - but he’s not. Like many young teens he’s sure there must be a better world somewhere, a "there" that's better than "here," and he's tried to find it in fantasy games, and has even created a website world with his best friend, 12-year-old Tommy Turner, a cheerful fat boy who lives next door. He's also tried to dull his angst in various chemical ways, and has wasted a year of his youth staying high. Brandon hopes to be a writer and use pen and PC to right wrongs in the world. Being who he is and living where he does, he’s never experienced discrimination or hate based on appearance or race. Despite the protests of his liberal-minded and loving, but career-oriented and somewhat distant parents, Brandon decides to attend public high school. He isn’t completely naive, thanks to his older brother, Chad, who also attends public high school and is now a senior; but Brandon’s first day is a reality-shock as he discovers what public education in the U.S. is all about... pounding just enough knowledge and mainstream values into kids’ empty skulls so they can get their McFreakin’ diplomas and become productive Proles. Since no one knows Brandon, he naturally falls in with the outcasts, who include Travis White, one of the school's few black students and also the fattest at five-hundred pounds. Other new friends include Danny Little-Wing, a Native-American boy from an almost forgotten local tribe and the second-fattest dude at school; Carlos, a fat gang member; Zach, a pot-bellied gainer; Rex Watson, a smaller-than-average boy with higher-than-average intelligence who was kicked into high school a year early; and dismal Jason Gray who is really not “obese” but who has been taught that he is and therefore to hate himself. There is also chubby Bosco Donatello, a world-class surfer though indifferent to his fame and seemingly oblivious to the present as if he’s been transported through time from 1963. Brandon has never been hated, and there is a question of whether a person can empathize with the suffering of others unless he or she has suffered. Along these lines Brandon discovers that most of what he “knows” about black people (and fat people) is only what he’s been taught. Brandon also delves into the mostly cyber universe of teen and pre-teen gainers, a rapidly growing (no pun intended) counter-culture that few young-adult authors, educators, and "experts" on youth seem aware of... or perhaps don't want to admit exists. Phat Acceptance is a mix of issues, including consumerism, advertising, propaganda, xenophobia, and how kids are brainwashed from the time they first turn on a TV into buying what they’re told to buy, wearing what they’re told to wear, eating what they’re told to eat, looking how they’re told to look - which now includes weighing what they’re told to weigh - and hating who they’re told to hate. It also illustrates how the “war on childhood obesity” gives haters a group of people whom it’s socially acceptable to hate, as well as how sheep-like people are in accepting how “unhealthy” they are because they're being told they are by a health and fitness industry with multi-billion dollar profits. The result is a new religion of "health" and a new holy war against those who won't worship.

Some might say that 14-year-old Brandon Williams is an over-privileged snowflake. He lives in a million-dollar house overlooking the ocean in Santa Cruz, California, gets a weekly allowance equal to the take-home pay of many service industry workers, and has gone to a private, all-white school from Kindergarten through eighth grade. Health-nazis call him “obese," but to most normal people he's simply chubby, and handsome by Caucasian standards. Brandon should be happy -- or at least think he is -- but he’s not. Like many young teens he’s sure there must be a "there" somewhere that's better than "here," and he's tried to find it in fantasy games. He's also tried to dull his angst in various chemical ways, and wasted a year of his youth staying high. Brandon hopes to be a writer and use words to fight the wrongs in the world. Being who he is and living where he does, he’s never experienced discrimination or hate based on appearance or race. Despite the protests of his liberal-minded and loving, but career-oriented and somewhat distant parents, Brandon decides to attend public high school, but his first day is a shock as he discovers what public education in the U.S. is all about... pounding just enough knowledge and mainstream values into kids’ empty skulls so they can become productive Proles. Since no one knows him, he naturally falls in with the outcasts, which include Travis White, one of the school's few black students and the fattest at five-hundred pounds. There is also Bosco Donatello, a chubby but world-class surfer dude, though indifferent to his fame and seemingly oblivious to the present as if he’s been transported through time from 1963. Brandon struggles with the question of whether a person can empathize with the suffering of others unless he or she has suffered. Along these lines he discovers that most of what he “knows” about black people - and fat people - is only what he’s been taught. Phat Acceptance is a mix of issues, including consumerism, advertising, propaganda, xenophobia, and how kids are brainwashed from the time they first turn on a TV into buying what they’re told to buy, wearing what they’re told to wear, eating what they’re told to eat, looking how they’re told to look -- which now includes weighing what they’re told to weigh -- and hating who they’re told to hate. It also illustrates how the “war on childhood obesity” gives haters a group of people whom it’s socially acceptable to hate, as well as how sheep-like people are in accepting how “unhealthy” they are because they're being told they are by a health and fitness industry with multi-billion dollar profits. The result is a new religion of "health" and a new holy war against those who won't worship.

In December 2018, Second Lady Karen Pence accepted a teaching position at Immanuel Christian School that required her to sign a pledge stating that marriage could only exist between a man and a woman. This pledge not only discriminates against the LGBTQ community by barring its members from becoming students and teachers at that school, but it also runs counter to the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution and the 2015 Supreme Court ruling that holds that same-sex couples possess the fundamental right to marry. As a result, the pledge that Second Lady Karen Pence and her fellow teachers made is not only inaccurate, but also unconstitutional. Joseph & Marita Fox's well-timed and compassionate picture book helps children explore the meanings of "love," "marriage," and "liberty" and instills in them a culture of inclusion and acceptance rather than one of exclusion and condemnation. In so doing, "The Pledge of Acceptance" encourages kids to be active citizens in their society by soliciting their aid in helping the Second Lady of the United States come to terms with the constitutional meanings of love, liberty, and marriage—meanings that she is bound to honor and promote by virtue of her position as a representative of the United States of America and all of its peoples.

We need to love one another as we love ourselves, and this means we must accept who we are and be exactly who we were meant to be! You might want to grow up and be just like your mother or your father, but both of them will simply agree with the elephant and the mermaid and all of the other fun, Penelope Dyan characters in this book, that the best person you can possibly be is the person who is you! They will all tell you not to try to be like anyone else and to simply be yourself!Think about this very important subject as you practice your reading skills through the use of word recognition, and word repetition and rhyme, and as you travel through the pages of this fun, ‘learn to read’ book written by the award winning author, attorney and former teacher, Penelope Dyan. Never forget to have fun while you are learning, because learning should always be filled to the brim with fun!And when you are finished reading this book, you can go to the Bellissimavideo YouTube channel and watch the free, fun music video that goes with this book for even more learning fun!