Book Description
Set in an English preparatory school, recounts the comical adventures of Jennings.
Author : Anthony Buckeridge
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 36,85 MB
Release : 2001-08-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0755113683
Set in an English preparatory school, recounts the comical adventures of Jennings.
Author : Anthony Buckeridge
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 23,57 MB
Release : 2008-01-12
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 0755101537
Jennings turns journalist when he receives a printing kit for his birthday, and dubs himself editor of the Form Three Times.
Author : Anthony Buckeridge
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 44,70 MB
Release : 2008-11-28
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 0755101650
The boys at Linbury Court Prep are eager to speed up space travel. Jennings' task is to find a suitable helmet. But is it really a good idea to take a dome-shaped glass-case, which housed a stuffed woodpecker? Petrified paintpots! Jennings and Darbishire's luck is in when they attempt to apprehend a suspected burglar? Bat-witted clodpoll!
Author : Jessica Herthel
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 41,4 MB
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0698176731
The story of a transgender child based on the real-life experience of Jazz Jennings, who has become a spokesperson for transkids everywhere "This is an essential tool for parents and teachers to share with children whether those kids identify as trans or not. I wish I had had a book like this when I was a kid struggling with gender identity questions. I found it deeply moving in its simplicity and honesty."—Laverne Cox (who plays Sophia in “Orange Is the New Black”) From the time she was two years old, Jazz knew that she had a girl's brain in a boy's body. She loved pink and dressing up as a mermaid and didn't feel like herself in boys' clothing. This confused her family, until they took her to a doctor who said that Jazz was transgender and that she was born that way. Jazz's story is based on her real-life experience and she tells it in a simple, clear way that will be appreciated by picture book readers, their parents, and teachers.
Author : Anthony Buckeridge
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 15,15 MB
Release : 1991
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Author : Anthony Buckeridge
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 40,11 MB
Release : 2008-11-28
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 0755101707
Jennings and Darbishire discover a mysterious stranger, and believe he is a spy. Armed with a lemonade bottle and some chalk dust, their attempts to turn detective go astray. Then, there is the abominable snow-cat and the incident with Mr Wilkin's vases. It's going to be difficult to stay out of trouble this term. - Fantabulous!
Author : Anthony Buckeridge
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 11,30 MB
Release : 2001-08-05
Category :
ISBN : 0755113675
Jennings decides to build huts out of reeds and branches. He and Darbishire are thrilled with them. They include a patented ventilating shaft, a special drainage canal and a pontoon suspension bridge! Things go horribly wrong when he is put in charge of Elmer, the treasured goldfish, and even worse when the Head visits. Gruesome hornswoggler!
Author : Ron Suskind
Publisher : Crown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 13,73 MB
Release : 2010-08-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0307763080
The inspiring, true coming-of-age story of a ferociously determined young man who, armed only with his intellect and his willpower, fights his way out of despair. In 1993, Cedric Jennings was a bright and ferociously determined honor student at Ballou, a high school in one of Washington D.C.’s most dangerous neighborhoods, where the dropout rate was well into double digits and just 80 students out of more than 1,350 boasted an average of B or better. At Ballou, Cedric had almost no friends. He ate lunch in a classroom most days, plowing through the extra work he asked for, knowing that he was really competing with kids from other, harder schools. Cedric Jennings’s driving ambition—which was fully supported by his forceful mother—was to attend a top college. In September 1995, after years of near superhuman dedication, he realized that ambition when he began as a freshman at Brown University. But he didn't leave his struggles behind. He found himself unprepared for college: he struggled to master classwork and fit in with the white upper-class students. Having traveled too far to turn back, Cedric was left to rely on his intelligence and his determination to maintain hope in the unseen—a future of acceptance and reward. In this updated edition, A Hope in the Unseen chronicles Cedric’s odyssey during his last two years of high school, follows him through his difficult first year at Brown, and tells the story of his subsequent successes in college and the world of work. Eye-opening, sometimes humorous, and often deeply moving, A Hope in the Unseen weaves a crucial new thread into the rich and ongoing narrative of the American experience.
Author : Anthony Buckeridge
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 37,19 MB
Release : 2008-01-12
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 0755101553
Linbury goes green, and Jennings and Darbishire offer to do their bit distributing leaflets. Darbishire's shoelace refuses to stay tied and Jennings removes the rubber band holding the leaflets. All seems fine until a gust of wind hurls them over Marina Gardens. It's poor Mr Wilkins who's going to get the blame. 'Addle-pated eyewash!'
Author : Jack Jennings
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 12,49 MB
Release : 2020-04-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 1475851308
After a half-a-century of school reform, a majority of Americans consider the public schools as worse today than when they attended school. Those reforms missed the mark because they were not focused on the backgrounds of the students’ parents--by far the most important indicator of students’ progress in school. The importance of parents was documented by the Coleman Report more than 50 years ago. School reform must be continued but re-directed to over-come the power of low parental socio-economic status. The best way to improve the schools is to create a better, fairer economy providing parents with good jobs and decent wages. In the meantime, good pre-school, after-school, and other aids are needed to help students from low income families. Teacher quality, although not as influential as the parents’ backgrounds, is the second most significant indicator of student success. Teachers, like parents, have not been the focus of the attention their importance deserves. In particular, teachers should be fairly paid, and their verbal and cognitive skills improved. The Coleman Report again documented the importance of those skills more than half-a-century ago. Instead, money, time, and effort have been spent on reforms that won’t bring about great improvement because they did not address adequately those two important factors.