Daniel Newma

ARE YOU AN AWESOME ADJECTIVE CHANGER?Join the Adjective Changers as they go through their day, inspiring their friends and families with Awesome adjectives. Parent Note: Awesome Adjective Changers provide children with a creative way to address bullying, name-calling, and labels. Awesome Adjective Changers empowers and encourages children to fill their family and friends with Awesome Adjectives. J.M. Rials holds a master's degree in education, is a thirty-six-year veteran of preschool to sixth grade retired educator, and was awarded the distinct honor of the 2018-2019 Local School Teacher of The Year. She is the author of three outstanding books There Is No Moon at My House: Parenting Advice from A Veteran School Teacher, Awesome Adjective Changers, and Changing America's Adjectives One Child at a Time.

The AmerIcan Dream is at once an inspiring account of a young man's journey from defendant to defense attorney, a window into the inner workings of one of Miami's most notorious drug rings, and a chilling portrait of the streets that America's poverty-stricken youth call home.The hood is an addiction. An addiction that pulls as seductively and fiercely as the drugs hustled on its streets. Living in it is a daily exercise in survival.Raised impoverished in the streets of Miami, David Lee Windecher was only eleven years old when he was arrested for shoplifting. It didn't seem like a big deal at the time, deciding to take what he believed he deserved. But, that was the beginning for David. That was the day he started thinking like a hustler. He could stop waiting for the scales to tip in his favor. He could stop going without. He could take what life denied him. And he did.For the next seven years, David fought bitterly against his circumstances at the side of his gang-affiliate brothers. It began with selling dope to help his family eat, but quickly spiraled into the dark, seductive life of violence, drugs, money, and notoriety. David lost himself to the game. Before he turned eighteen, David built and masterminded a crime ring, was arrested thirteen times, and fought daily wars against rival gangs and dirty cops. Despite the gravity of his actions, deep inside David an idealistic boy dreamed of becoming an attorney and fighting for justice despite race. He was just waiting for someone to believe he existed.