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Start: 6:00 pm
Thursday, April 29, 6:00 p.m.
Kingdom Keepers III: Disney in Shadows BUY NOW
Following the first two books of The Kingdom Keepers, Disney after Dark, and Disney at Dawn, Finn and his friends have much worse problems in the third book, Kingdom Keepers 3: Disney in Shadows. In a 'dream world' the five hologram teens, Finn, Philby, Willa, Charlene, and Maybeck search to find Wayne, their mentor and head Disney Imagineer who has mysteriously gone missing. They think Wayne has been abducted by the Overtakers--Disney villains--along with other Disney characters, who take over the parks. Turnstiles stop spinning, and the desperate Overtakers begin to steer the parks to a far darker place.
Quickly, the five kids pick up a major clue from a close friend, Jez, whose dreams (nightmares, really) can predict the future.
Then more clues from Jez's dream lead the kids into Disney's Hollywood Studios and Epcot--through imaginary worlds that become real, by imaginary kids who are real. Each clue seems tied to the last, and with the stakes growing ever higher, what starts out as a puzzle ends up as a fight for their lives.
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Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Menlo-Atherton PTA Parent Education Series presents NY Times Bestselling Author Po Bronson
Thursday, April 29th, 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children BUY NOW
Menlo-Atherton Performing Art Center (PAC) Cafeteria, 555 Middlefield Rd., Atherton
Bronson brilliantly analyzes the current research on child-rearing and developmental psychology to bring new insight into modern parenting. NurtureShock provides a revolutionary new perspective on childhood that upends a library’s worth of conventional wisdom. Po’s writing about children has been honored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Council on Contemporary Families.
Po Bronson is the author of six bestselling books including the #1 New York Times bestseller What Should I Do With My Life? NurtureShock was featured on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, ABC’s Nightline, and the cover of Newsweek magazine. It has been a New York Times bestseller for 12 weeks.
NurtureShock is one of the most important books you will read this year. As a writer, I was impressed with the prodigious research and keen analysis.” --Daniel H. Pink, author of A Whole New Mind
To RSVP, please contact Charlene Margot, Parent Education Series Chair, at parenteducation@mabearspta.org or call 650.868.0590.
Admission to all Parent Education Series events is FREE and open to the community. Parent Ed events are sponsored by the M-A PTA.
Start: 7:30 pm
Thursday, April 29, 7:30 p.m.
Encounters: A Lifetime Spent Crossing Cultural Frontiers BUY NOW
A carefree child of expatriate parents at age 10, a prisoner of the Japanese at 16, a valued source of intelligence to the U.S. military at 19, and a fervent advocate of public diplomacy throughout his long career as a Foreign Service Officer, Clifton Forster spent his life crossing and recrossing frontiers, determined to use dialogue, not conflict, to solve differences between nations.
In 2007, a year after her husband's death, Nancy Forster began to sort through the wealth of papers Cliff had tucked away in a Japanese tea chest, and to reexamine her own memories and writings from nearly 60 years of shared international adventures. Her compelling memoir could serve as a blueprint for a U.S. government newly dedicated to building bridges across frontiers.
Nancy Keeney Fortser shared the adventures and absorbed the stories of Clifton Forster for nearly six decades. Together, they journeyed across cultural frontiers from California to the Philippines, Japan, Burma, Washington, D.C., Israel, Hawaii, and back to California. During those years, Forster developed her own career as an educator in international schools and an administrator, inspector, and director in the International Baccalaureate (IB) program. She lives in Tiburon.
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