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    Adventure, Day One: 7 Positive Strategies When Life's Journey Gets Rough
    Adventure, Day One: 7 Positive Strategies When Life's Journey Gets Rough
    Adventure, Day One: 7 Positive Strategies When Life's Journey Gets Rough
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    Adventure, Day One: 7 Positive Strategies When Life's Journey Gets Rough

    By P.J. Jackson

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    What if you could overcome a huge challenge in your life by choosing to be positive? When Rickey faced almost certain death from cancer, he and his wife P.J. turned to simple strategies that had seen them through some rough times in the past, and applied them to this greatest test of all.

    The first step they took was to change the way they viewed their challenge. Instead of believing that the days ahead would be overwhelming and unbearable, each day would be an adventure! That positive approach became their mainstay during the difficult times ahead.

    Learn their seven secrets for coping with lifes challenges in this powerful memoir and step-by-step guide. P.J. and Rickey will show you how you too can choose to face each day as an adventure, one that provides strength and peace during challenging times.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBalboa Press
    Release dateJul 10, 2014
    ISBN9781452514871
    Adventure, Day One: 7 Positive Strategies When Life's Journey Gets Rough
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    P.J. Jackson

    P.J. is a successful knowledge strategist, applied scientist, and self-proclaimed “inspiration-ologist.” She has pinpointed seven behaviors to help others face their challenges through a positive attitude, with the ultimate goal of inspiring one million people to make the conscious choice to be positive every day!

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    • 3/5
      I originally reviewed this book on my blog - The Cosy Dragon. For more recent reviews by me, please hop over there.

      Bowman and Kestrel are close twins. Within the city of Amaranth, everything is controled by tests and family ranking. Each of the districts has its own colour, and no one is allowed to swap - unless their family ranking moves up and down. Kestrel doesn't like the tests. When their baby sister fails her tests it doesn't impress the officials, and it doesn't make Kestrel feel any happier.

      Mumpo irritates me as much as he irritates Kestrel! Nose dribble, ugh. At the same time, he's representing so many things that kids take for granted. Being a slow/dumb kid means that you don't have friends. I think the ending for Mumpo is particularly suitable, although a little predictable.

      This book is really quite harrowing in a way. The Zars are killing machines, and they literally kill everything and are happy about it! Not that this is presented in a positive light, the Zars are really quite terrifying. It's a race to see who can survive, and it's cut very fine.

      Yes, the plot of this book is simple, somewhat predictable, and there is no character development to speak of. But it's a children's book! I think that the ideas presented in it are clear enough to children, and that's what is important - not what a 20 something year old thinks of it.

      I can understand why this book was a 'Gold Award Winner'. The themes and values expressed in it are so poignant. The values of family, and friends, and also not judging people all on the same basis. The character of Mumpo is for pitying, but at the same time, he surely must be good at something.

      This book reminds me of the Seventh Tower series by Garth Nix in a way. The castle with its different layers of people, each class not wanting to talk to the one below it. An emperor who is powerless or unhelpful. Of the two, I think I prefer the Seventh Tower, just because the character from that has a little more depth. As I've said before though, The Wind Singer is still enjoyable.

      This book actually brings to mind the Naplan tests that are currently sweeping over Australia. Kids in grade 3 are expected to answer all kinds of questions, and then their schools are ranked according to the answers. It's based on literacy and numercy - which are both important, but some kids' minds just don't work like that. I read the other day about kids in kindy being prepped for these big tests. There just is something wrong with ranking kids and schools like that, and then giving teachers rewards based on performance.

      This is the first book in a trilogy. I read all of these books when I was much younger (when they are actually age appropriate!). I picked this one up at the opshop, because I prefer the old covers. Amazon's offering for this one is a trilogy set only that I could find - but if you like the first one, you're probably going to like all three.
    • 4/5
      A brother and sister team rebel against their city's soulless and color-coded caste system, face dire consequences from the Chief Examiner, and instead escape the city walls and head out in search of the key to the Wind Singer (a strange and ancient device in the middle of the city). There are hints that finding and replacing the key will unlock the Wind Singer's song and along with it, the freedom of the citizens of Aramanth. But to get it they must travel a long way and face the Big Bad, Morah, and his creepy sort-of-undead marching-band army.A good story with good characters (the twins' parents, who also rebel in their own ways, are excellent too), but the world-building has some bare patches and the ending was a bit pat. I may continue the series at some point, but not just now, I think.
    • 2/5
      2,5 stars

      Great beginning, but it gets too weird towards the middle and it starts to look more like a parody than a serious book.
    • 5/5
      Bought this in a charity book recently (Jan. 4th, 2010) coz I've been snowed in for almost the entire three weeks I've been on vacation and what a great book to start the year off. It's the perfect type to snuggle up with while sipping on a steaming cup of cocoa. It's remininiscent of The Guardians of Ga'Hoole series, which is also a brilliant series about beings in the masses who try to take over the world. The characters are beautifully depicted and you really get a sense of the closeness of the Hath family and just what they have to endure to set things right in a world that's robotic and dull. It's full of surprises and completely unlike anything I've ever read so if you're looking for a new series that's fresh and different, I highly recommend this one.
    • 5/5
      I started this book when I was much younger and didn't get to finish it. It plagued me until I asked for it as a birthday present. After that I read and re-read it and i've kept it close to my heart since. It is a fantasy novel that takes you on an amazing journey, never letting you go.
    • 5/5
      Kestrel Hath and her Brother, Bowman, are twins in the city of Aramanth in a wonderfully imagined world full of magic and surprises. But their world is not the perfect place it once was, for the Wind Singer that overlooks their city has been broken for many years, and in the mean time the city has been overtaken by a rigidly enforced regime that ensures everyone is put to work in the place best suited to their skills and effort.From the age of 2, children are educated and examined repeatedly, and their scores are added to the scores of their parents who also undertake regular examinations. The scores then calculate their priveleges, where they may live and what colour clothing they may wear.But the Hath family think differently to other people, and they see that the system - rather than achieving a wonderful egalitarian society - actually binds them and imprisons them. And when Kestrel one day snaps in a school lesson, she awakes a chain of events that bring down the wrath of the chief examiner and set in motion something much larger and more dangerous than anyone would have believed possible.I first looked at this book when it was newly published. I picked it up to buy it, but it was on one of those "3 for 2" displays where you can get 3 books for the price of two. As I could not find 3 books I wanted I resented paying full price for it and put it back! (Waterstones take note - you would sell me more books just by discounting them a little instead!) It is a pity it took me so long to actually buy this book, becauise it is excellent. I was expecting a good fantasy story, but the story I read exceeded my expectations on two counts: 1) The characterisations were very well done, and often very amusing. The conversation Bowman had with an official as Kestrel climbed the Wind Singer had me laughing out loud. I instantly fell in love with the Hath family. Not that they were a perfect family, and you see their warts and all - particularly as the discover friendship in an unlikely place.2) The world that Aramanth sits in is a richly imagined but very fresh and non stereotyped world. I get very fed up with fantasy books that set themselves in a kind of medieval world, just because that is how Tolkien did it. But this is not one of those books. The world described here shows the ability of the author to imagine something bold and new and very engaging.The book is written with young adults as an intended audience, but adult readers should enjoy this too - and younger children may well love it too. As a rough guide, I would probably not give it to anyone much younger than 10, or older than 95 (although the latter only because the print might then be a little too small!)All in all this was a richly imagined book with good characters, some good humour and plenty of action as well as things to make the reader pause and consider afterwards - particularly on the nature of freedom.
    • 5/5
      The Wind on Fire is one of my all time favourite series. The Wind Singer seemed to me a hefty read as there was so much going on. The world creation was very well done in this novel, and Nicholson has a great handle on suspense and writing to elicit emotion.

      Highly recommended.
    • 5/5
      The opening chapters may make this seem to be simply a satire on the extreme value sometimes placed on a certain form of education, but it swiftly becomes something far broader and more imaginative.Kestrel and her twin brother Bowman are citizens of Aramanth, a mysterious walled city in which exams determine everything, from where people live, to how they dress, to their ambitions. Essentially, Kestrel rebels against the ethos of Aramanth and then refuses to accept the awful punishment that the Chief Examiner has planned for her. This leads her to accept that the only hope for herself, her family and her city is to retrieve the voice of the mysterious wind singer that dominates the centre of the city. Thus Kestrel, Bowman and the class dunce, Mumpo, set out on a dangerous quest to retrieve the voice and meet some unlikely allies along the way. This is where the fantastical elements begin to creep in but the way other characters live makes them seem plausible and warm characters. It is unclear whether or not this city state is set in the past of future, but it contains damning similarities with our own stratified culture, which are most clearly revealed when the Hath family are forced to move from Orange to Grey, from a whole house to a dank room. Class envy and ambition are rife; the citizens of Aramanth watch the Hath family's fall gleefully and without a trace of understanding or pity. It becomes clear that Kestrel's wrath at life in Aramanth has a foundation not simply in the way education is used, but in the way its people are treated and treat each other: there is a deep evil pervading a society which sees itself as fair and just. Some people have criticized these books for lacking the depth of Philip Pullman's tales, but I would argue this view fails to recognise the subtle comparisons that Nicholson invites.Another example of depth may be seen in the relationships between the characters. As the twins continue on this journey they begin to adjust their attitude to Mumpo, whom they are used to thinking of (when they deign to think of him at all) with a vague pity. Initially only tolerated because he refuses to leave, Mumpo soon demonstrates that academic achievements are not the only valuable accomplishments a person might possess. Gradually, the twins come to value him for his own skills and personality, a key lesson that Nicholson demonstrates without ever preaching about. That said, the book is massively enjoyable and almost unputdownable (the Wind battle does go on a bit), which may account for some people's reactions to it - it seems too enjoyable to contain real depth of meaning! Certainly, there are events and characters that are not yet explained, like the history of the Zars, and presumably will be later on in the trilogy, but the events themselves are chillingly and clearly told. One event leads seamlessly into another and the drama ebbs and flows perfectly until the dramatic climax of the novel.Overall, this is an imaginative read that will engage children and adults alike in a world where compassionate values are successfully enmeshed with danger and excitement.
    • 4/5
      This was suggested by my YA daughter as a trilogy needed for our library. I was instantly engaged. I love the close relationship between the twins in this book. I also like that fact that there is such a strong female lead without it becoming a "girl" book.
    • 5/5
      I typically don't read Young Reader books. But, when my son's 7th grade teacher recommended this to me, I took it on. Glad I did. "The Wind Singer" is an amazing story on par with J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit". It is an illustrative and adventurous story about Kestrel, her brother Bowman, and Mumpo who flee from an oppressive, performance-based society in order to find the voice to the Wind Singer machine built many generations ago by an unknown people. If found and brought back to Aramanth, this voice would restart the Wind Singer, ultimately resulting in happiness being restored, void of academic achievement and oppression. While encountering everything from an underground Mud People, desert warriors, overly-aged children, oversized flying predators, wolves, and a marching army; Kestrel and her team must hurry home with the voice in order to save her parents and the people of Aramanth.If you like fantasy along the lines of The Hobbit with a real-life message behind it, I highly recommend "The Wind Singer".
    • 4/5
      I quite enjoyed this one. Kestrel and Bowman live in a society where families are constantly tested and ranked according to their results. I liked that the Hath family were against the testing and stood up for their beliefs even during many scary situations. It was fast paced, interesting and fun to read. It got a bit weak for about thirty pages or so but picked back up again towards the end. The ending was nice and I'm interested as to what the sequel will bring.
    • 5/5
      Teen siblings and an outcast undertake a fearsome quest across hostile landscapes in the face of magical opponents to save their family from an over-regimented society. The richly described characters interact effectively although there is a tendency to caricature. The story is exciting and compelling with strong messages for mid-teens.
    • 5/5
      The Wind Singer by William Nicholson I loved this book!!! My mom calls books such as this one "junk food books". In other words: they have no substance and are usually read only once by people. But as this is true for almost every book I read [even Harry Potter], I don't really care. I would recommend this book for science fiction and fantasy lovers that don't mind seeing people die in their minds [not one or more of my previous teachers]. It is also good summer reading for slower readers, because it is 486 pages long. However speed readers will finish it in 1-3 days.
    • 4/5
      Some wonderful ideas went into the backdrop of this story. I would say this book is too short and these ideas could have been developed much more - they are worth pause for thought. Otherwise a great story and some great characters.
    • 1/5
      This might possibly be the worst thing I've ever read. The names? And the stupid words? And the writing? I quite liked the prologue. It seemed a nice idea: a building built to sing with the wind. But then what the fuck happens? It's like a 5 year old started writing it after that. There's never any need to write a children's book like this, never. It is so detrimental to all who will read it.
    • 4/5
      Book 1 of the Wind On Fire trilogy. This is a good tale in its own right, focusing on themes of friendship and responsibility in a somewhat dystopian society.
    • 4/5
      Unlike many young adult dystopian fictions, I find this one most challenging for my own blinkered inability to see the dis in the utopia. The society is built on a meritocracy, with people who work hard, meet targets and perform well in exams being promoted up the colours and into larger houses. When the heroine, Kestrel, rebels and announces 'I won't reach higher! I won't strive harder! I won't make tomorrow better than today!' I have a very instinctive squick against her.Anyway, that is mostly about me and not about the book. The book is a fantasy where Kestrel and her brother Bowman journey out of her city to recover the voice of the wind singer and set her people free to love and be merry. And it is much more of a fantasy / fairy tail / mythical quest than most other young adult dystopias. The Morah and the Zars don't make sense, and there is no attempt to rationalise the mystery of why Kestrel has to do what she does and how it works. But there are some beautiful, poetic insightful bits in this novel. One of the saddest bits for me was the Emperor, who dare not leave his room because he is afraid the chocolate buttens will run out - he does not particularly like them, but the fear of living without them consumes him.
    • 2/5
      Given its reputation, I felt highly disappointed by The Wind Singer. I did really find the themes that it portrayed to be interesting - a satire portraying the weakness of a society that put the highest importance on academic success - but beyond this the novel just seemed to be lacking in something fundamental.The style of prose seemed too childish to be readily appreciated by young adults and the events of the novel occurred far to quickly for any kind of suspense to be built. On top of this, the primary cast seemed to be very flat and unmemorable.On the whole, the book was okay but I did not feel that there was anything really remarkable about it.

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