Ruth Campbell

Everyone who's ever seen Shawn Callahan, 12, play baseball is convinced that he'll become a professional pitcher when he grows up. It's his dream. But when Shawn loses his pitching arm to cancer, his hopes for the future are shattered. Because Shawn's health battle has been difficult on all of the Callahans, they rent a lakeside cabin for the entire summer in the hope that spending time away together will help their family get back to normal. While they're there, Shawn attends the local county fair and notices a young woman named Thora Hilliard cutting out silhouettes. In addition to making portraits, pale and silent Thora seems to have a supernatural ability to create silhouettes that depict memories, wishes, and predictions. As Shawn cautiously become friends with this mysterious stranger, he begins to suspect that Thora, too, may have suffered a tragic loss-about a hundred years earlier. If he's right about Thora's seemingly impossible past, Shawn might be the only one who can help her find true happiness again. But, first, he'll have to let go of the anger he's felt ever since his surgery and allow Thora to help him. If he can.

Summer Silhouettes

Josie Portillo

This Place Far Away

World War II is raging all across the globe and sixteen-year-old Peggy Preston is worried about her boyfriend. He's overseas, risking his life to protect England from Nazi air raids. So when a young British evacuee named Wilf Pemberton moves into the Pasadena house that Peggy shares with her mother, the teen isn't very welcoming to him. After all, if Wilf's homeland hadn't dragged America into its fight for survival, then her boyfriend wouldn't be in danger over there.As the summer passes, Peggy and Wilf spend their days working (reluctantly) together to help with the war effort. At the same time, Peggy begins to fall for a former schoolmate who's secretly been in love with her for years. While Peggy struggles to ignore her new feelings, Wilf experiences the torment of an unexpected first love, and neither suspects that--before the summer ends--careless decisions they've made will not only change the course of their own lives, but will also have a tragic impact on someone who's important to them both.

Smll Fry and the Winged Horse

Karen Dodd

Linda Worralk

One approach to the study of language has been to describe people whose ability to communicate is impaired. Some researchers have argued that it is possible to identify the component mental processes that contribute to the ability to communicate by describing the ways in which language can break down. Other researchers have expressed doubts about the extent to which data from impairment reflects normal language function. This volume reflects the problems of constructing theory of how the normal brain deals with language from data from impaired individuals from the perspective of a range of disciplines: psycholinguistics, linguistics, neurophysiology and speech-language pathology. The chapters include critiques of methodology; application of new technology; the study of bilingual people; and cross-linguistic studies. A range of language skills is discussed (phonology, prosody, syntax, semantics, reading and spelling) in the context of both developmental and acquired impairments (hearing loss, cerebellar dysarthria, sub-cortical aphasia, cortical aphasia, phonological disorder, and dyslexia). This book icludes contributions from researchers and clinicians on both sides of the Atlantic as well as from Australia and Hong Kong.

Evidence from Disordered Communication

Evaluating Theories of Language

Berit Ingersoll-Dayton

The Delicate Balance is a unique and insightful resource for gerontological professionals and students. Discover valuable and poignant lessons in these first-hand accounts of the diverse therapeutic relationships encountered when counseling older adults. Case studies range from traditional to in-home to facility-based settings, serving individuals, couples, groups, or whole family and community systems. Counseling services range from self-discovery courses to formal cognitive restructuring therapy to substance abuse interventions to care management.

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