Author : Sylvia Cassedy
Publisher : Harpercollins
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 27,30 MB
Release : 1992-03-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
Thirteen haiku about animals, translated from the Japanese and illustrated with collages and assemblages.
Author : Cao Wenxuan
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 20,58 MB
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1536209996
A 2023 Batchelder Honor Book From acclaimed Chinese author Cao Wenxuan, recipient of the Hans Christian Andersen Award, comes a compelling family saga spanning fifty years and three generations. Ah-Mei and her French grandmother, Nainai, share a rare bond. Maybe it’s because Ah-Mei is the only girl grandchild. Or maybe it’s because the pair look so much alike and neither resembles the rest of their Chinese family. Politics and war make 1960s Shanghai a hard place to grow up, especially when racism and bigotry are rife, and everyone seems suspicious of Nainai’s European heritage and interracial marriage. In this time of political upheaval, Ah-Mei and her family suffer much—and when the family silk business falters, they are left with almost nothing. Ah-Mei and her grandmother are resourceful, but will the tender connection they share bring them enough strength to carry through? This multigenerational saga by one of China’s most esteemed children’s authors takes the reader from 1920s France to a ravaged postwar Shanghai and through the convulsions of the Cultural Revolution.
Author : Jeanette Hanscome
Publisher : Bethany House Publishers
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 18,61 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781589970885
Solana's uncle is faced with losing his ranch after a bad injury. Can she and her friends help save the ranch or will the expenses be too much?
Author : Ginny Moore Kruse
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 35,77 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Children's literature, American
ISBN :
"A careful selection of children's and young adult books with multicultural themes and topics which were published in the United States and Canada between 1991 and 1996"--Preface, p. vii.
Author : Sophie Kinsella
Publisher : Dial Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 12,91 MB
Release : 2009-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0440338808
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Sophie Kinsella's Wedding Night. Lara Lington has always had an overactive imagination, but suddenly that imagination seems to be in overdrive. Normal professional twenty-something young women don’t get visited by ghosts. Or do they? When the spirit of Lara’s great-aunt Sadie—a feisty, demanding girl with firm ideas about fashion, love, and the right way to dance—mysteriously appears, she has one request: Lara must find a missing necklace that had been in Sadie’s possession for more than seventy-five years, because Sadie cannot rest without it. Lara and Sadie make a hilarious sparring duo, and at first it seems as though they have nothing in common. But as the mission to find Sadie’s necklace leads to intrigue and a new romance for Lara, these very different “twenties” girls learn some surprising truths from and about each other. Written with all the irrepressible charm and humor that have made Sophie Kinsella’s books beloved by millions, Twenties Girl is also a deeply moving testament to the transcendent bonds of friendship and family.
Author : John Galligan
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 16,49 MB
Release : 2001-11-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780970409898
A young American teacher disappears in small-town Japan. The next teacher, an older man on the run from his troubled life must find out the truth.
Author : Amelia Marie Whalen
Publisher :
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 22,38 MB
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : Adrenoleukodystrophy
ISBN : 9781946109927
You'll fall in love with this young couple! Amelia and Dave relish their full and carefree life together. The story turns to heartbreaking drama as Dave's bizarre personality changes cause their lives to spin out of control. Forced to face a terrifying reality, they buckle in for a rocket blast of spiritual discovery.
Author : Shirley McPhillips
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 21,91 MB
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 1003843980
In everything we have to understand, poetry can help. Tony Hoagland, Harper's , April 2013 In Poem Central: Word Journeys with Readers and Writers , Shirley McPhillips helps us better understand the central role poetry can play in our personal lives and in the life of our classrooms. She introduces us to professional poets, teachers, and students----people of different ages and walks of life---who are actively engaged in reading and making poems. Their stories and their work show us the power of poems to illuminate the ordinary, to nurture, inspire and stand alongside us for the journey. Poem Central is divided into three main parts-;weaving poetry into our lives and our classrooms, reading poems, and writing poems. McPhillipshas structured the book in short sections that are easy to read and dip into. Each section has a specific focus, provides background knowledge, shows poets at work, highlights information on crafting, defines poetic terms, features finished work, includes classroom examples, and lists additional resources. In Poem Central -; a place where people and poems meet-;teachers and students will discover how to find their way into a poem, have conversations around poems, and learn fresh and exciting ways to make poems. Readers will enjoy the dozens of poems throughout the book that serve to instruct, to inspire, and to send us on unique word journeys of the mind and heart.
Author : Alice Starmore
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 23,8 MB
Release : 2018-02-14
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1606600834
Enter the world of Scottish folklore with this unique hardcover guide. Retellings of traditional tales, full-color photographs of knitted costumes inspired by the stories, plus patterns for simpler versions of the original designs.
Author : Pamela S. Gates
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 20,75 MB
Release : 2010-08-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 1442206888
As multicultural education is becoming integral to the core curriculum, teachers often implement this aspect into their courses through literature. However, standards and criteria to teach and promote active discussion about this literature are sparse. Cultural Journeys introduces pre-service and experienced teachers to the use of literature to promote active discussions that lead students to think about racial diversity. More than just an annotated list of books for children, Pamela S. Gates and Dianne L. Hall Mark provide systematic guidelines that teachers can use throughout their careers to evaluate multicultural literature for students in grades K-8. At the same time, the text leads the reader to a deeper understanding of how to use multicultural literature throughout the entire curriculum and not just during specially designated months or time periods. With the example unit plans and extensive annotated bibliography, this book is a valuable resource that pre-service teachers will utilize when they begin teaching and in-service teachers will reference repeatedly during their planning periods.
