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Shelley Davidow (MSEd) is a teacher, author, end trained facilitator in Restorative Practice. She has taught students ages five to eighty in a wide variety of settings. She runs workshops internationally on the impact and management of stress at home, in the workplace, and in the classroom. With mostrar mais her focus on social and emotional health, Shelley has worked across the United States, the UK, and Australia in schools conducting readings, workshops, and facilitating discussions with young people on the many issues they confront. mostrar menos

Obras de Shelley Davidow

The Secret Pet (2008) 26 cópias
The Secret Door (2012) 13 cópias
Jake the Snake (2012) 12 cópias
Sam Cat and Nat Rat (2012) 11 cópias
Ned and Fred (2012) 11 cópias
Len Bug and Jen Slug (2012) 10 cópias
Tim's Boat (2012) 10 cópias
Kay and Jay (2012) 8 cópias
The Secret Wish (2014) 6 cópias
Shadow sisters (2018) 6 cópias
Whisperings in the blood (2016) 5 cópias
Lights Over Emerald Creek (2014) 4 cópias
The Lost Keys (2011) 1 exemplar(es)
To Have & to Hold (Pacesetter S.) (1998) 1 exemplar(es)
Rainy Season (Trendsetters S.) (1997) 1 exemplar(es)
The Eye of the Moon (2007) 1 exemplar(es)
Early Readers, Set of 6 1 exemplar(es)
All Anna's children (1996) 1 exemplar(es)

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#notpregnant ;)

Just wondering if it had some answers for my stress-prone mind. And it was interesting.
 
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OutOfTheBestBooks | Sep 24, 2021 |
Shelley Davidow was born and educated in South Africa but now lives in Queensland where she teaches education and creative writing at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Throughout an international career, she has published widely, including poetry; fiction for adults, YA and children; and non-fiction on a variety of topics. Shadow Sisters is her absorbing memoir of life in an activist family under the Apartheid regime in the 1970s and 80s.

It is an extraordinary story. The blurb describes it well:

During the terrifying years of Apartheid in South Africa, Shelley Davidow’s family was a crime. At a time when it was illegal for black and white people to live together, Shelley’s social activist parents took in Rosie, an abandoned black three-year-old. Rosie grew up as a beloved daughter and sister in a white household. Against the backdrop of racist laws and ever-present threats of violence, Shelley’s parents did all they could to provide a safe, happy home for their five children. But when Rosie was sixteen, devastating truths came to light, shattering the family’s understanding of the past.


The hero of this story is Shelley’s mother, who daily ventures into a black township to teach in school founded by Franz Auerbach, who was a white member of the ANC. This was when there were widespread riots against the segregated education system which fitted non-whites only for menial work.

… an outbreak of education riots exploded in the townships. Black children and teens protested their lot. During the early 1980s, they had to contend with underqualified teachers (some Bantu Education teachers only had the equivalent of Grade Ten), a limited curriculum, crowded classrooms with 60 to 100 children in a room. Beatings and intimidation by teachers and principals were the only form of behaviour management for thousands of youngsters. Everything that came courtesy of the Apartheid regime insisted that these children stay in positions as ‘hewers of wood and drawers of water’.

While the Fairvale students learned three foreign languages and strolled across well-kept grounds in the northern suburbs, the army moved into classrooms in Alexandra and Soweto. Teachers taught with armed soldiers in their rooms. Discipline now maintained through the barrels of guns. (p.27)


To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2018/08/08/shadow-sisters-by-shelley-davidow-bookreview...
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anzlitlovers | Aug 7, 2018 |
Thanks to Hague Publishing for the ARC I received, via netgalley, in return for an honest review.

Lucy Wright is a 16 year old paraplegic living with her father on a 10,000 acre farm in Queensland, Australia. One night, Lucy sees some mysterious lights over the creek at the bottom of the farm and discovers a peculiar shape in the sand, which she discovers is a cymatic.
The mystery deepens when Lucy is somehow transported to an alternate universe connected to our own by sound. As if this wasn't enough, a Scottish University student Lucy has been corresponding with is drawn to the curious place too.

Part fantasy mystery, with some romance and sci-fi thrown in for good measure, this short story of 196 pages is an enigma. It struggles to decide which genre it wants to be and I feel it becomes confusing as a result.
I enjoyed it in parts; Lucy is an engaging character and fun to read; at times there was enough mystery to keep me entertained. The plot is different from anything I've read, but I feel there was something missing. It didn't quite engage me enough.
3/5
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claireh18 | outras 2 resenhas | Sep 24, 2014 |
This was a very strange story. Lucy Wright is a young paraplegic girl who lives with her father in Australia. She became a paraplegic while driving a car with her mother during a bad storm several months ago. Her mother was killed in this accident, and both Lucy and her father have had some difficulty getting through their grief over her mother’s death. Lucy is sort of a prodigy as far as music is concerned. She has perfect tone and can play the cello extremely well. She also had lots of friends before her accident, most of who now have drifted away, leaving her peeved and lonely. One evening, Lucy experiences a strange phenomenon while sitting, playing her cello, beside Emerald Creek, which is fairly close to her house. She watches strange lights appear and disappear and move in strange ways over the creek. Lucy does an Internet search to see if she can find explanations for this strange occurrence, and befriends a music student in Scotland, who is also interested in strange lights that appear around the world. Their friendship grows and grows until it becomes a first real love for both of them. I found the story of their love interesting, but wondered how her father, in good conscience could ever let Lucy come and go the way she did, sometimes for days at a time, without flimsy explanations and no significant repercussions for Lucy. It was also difficult to envision a paraplegic moving around as she did. I know a lot can be learned, but some of the story stretched my mind to grasp it. In addition, I found it strange the way she came and went, with no apparent boundaries or rules. Obviously, her father’s parenting of this seventeen year old leaves a lot to be desired. The story involves Lucy and her Scottish friend experiencing the strange lights. However, I found the way the author moved between Lucy’s world and this strange new dimension she and her friend get caught up in to be difficult to follow at times. I often never knew which dimension or world they were in. Nevertheless, some research showed me the basis for this strange phenomenon is real, as scientists are studying how sounds react with different types of matter, but the author never really did make all this as clear as she should have for the reader. The book was well written and the characters well developed, but it lacked grounding in reality for me. I think the author writes well, but I am not sure who her intended audience would be (YA or adult, paranormal or mystery enthusiast). I received this from NetGalley to read and review.… (mais)
 
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KMT01 | outras 2 resenhas | Feb 18, 2014 |

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Obras
39
Membros
222
Popularidade
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Avaliação
4.0
Resenhas
5
ISBNs
61
Idiomas
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