There are a lot of inspirational, uplifting messages in this story that make it an absolutely amazing read and one I would recommend to all! Plus, recycling your second-hand books is a great way to care for the planet and keep products in circulation for longer…it’s smart for you, smart for the planet!

We accept hardbacks and paperbacks, so if you’ve got any old books lying around, we’re happy to help you make extra cash for them! When you’ve learnt all your colours together, why not try singing and signing along with a Singing Hands colour song to support what you’ve learnt in the book.Luckily, Trev is able to reassess his life and realize that the best way to live up to his promise is to use his hands for positive things like drawing. A handbook is a concise and comprehensive collection of information, facts, instructions, and processes about something.

This part lists the different policies, rules, codes of conduct, and various guidelines that parties need to follow. Not just immediate family, or the family you marry in to, but the family that is your community and the people that love you. How did we come to have such a weird set of parameters when judging the contributions of our fellow citizens to the common good? Many European societies, he observes, have managed to retain respect for “practical vocational intelligence” and people doing “basic jobs”. This book is all about choosing your path in life and how the people around you help you grow, learn and pave the way through life.If you are a winner, you must respond to us within 7 days to acknowledge you would like to claim the prize, otherwise we reserve the right to award the prize to a reserve winner. And with his authentic voice and whole heaping helpfuls of heart, his latest book Hands is one that your kids are NOT going to want to miss. Trev wants to protect his mom and sisters from his stepfather, but his community of uncles tries to sway him from learning to box, reminding him this isn’t the life his deceased dad wanted for him. A group of adult male mentors, blood uncles and men from the community, mentor Trevor to try to keep him out of adult problems and off the path of violence.

Ultimately, Trev knows his future is in his hands, and his hands are his own, and he has to choose how to use them. A handbook is a collection of facts, information, instructions, and significant details about a certain topic. Both honest and loving, it delves deep into the issues that boys (in particular) wrestle with when growing in a place where they feel compelled to protect their family.

I’ve always had a sense that Torrey Maldonado doesn’t so much solve everyone’s problems by the end of his books as give his characters additional options. He's told over and over again, even by his teacher, that he has promise, and is warned again and again that throwing hands will destroy his chances of escape.

AS I was reading, I felt like the character was actually talking to me--like I was in Trev's head (or maybe he was in mine!Now that I think about it, this story feels like the modern version of those books that now-dead philosophers wrote, where a main character goes around talking with others and learning what they believe in, and it's kind of more a moral treatise than a story. It’s a busy week for Poppy – learn the signs for the days of the week as Poppy ticks off all the jobs from her ‘to do’ list.