The Blood-And-Thunder Adventure on Hurricane Peak
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Author : Margaret Mahy
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 50,91 MB
Release : 1991-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780440404224
Relates the tangled events that lead the students of the Unexpected School on Hurricane Peak to foil the wicked Sir Quincey and his accomplices and to solve several mysteries.
Author : Margaret Mahy
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Release : 1991
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Author : Phyllis J. Perry
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 22,80 MB
Release : 1996-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0313079730
Integrate language arts with science, social studies, and mathematics. This book provides summaries of children's literature and nonfiction books related to rain, wind, snow, and sunshine. Suggestions of books that combine elements of fiction and nonfiction help students move easily from fiction to nonfiction reading. Discussion starters and student activities extend learning with books that range from simple picture books to full-length chapter books. All have been recommended by children's librarians, and with copyrights after 1980, are readily available. Grades K-5.
Author : Liz Knowles
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 44,10 MB
Release : 1999-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0313079005
Here are more great topics and sample book club sessions to help you start a book club and keep it going! Chapters in this volume cover humor, families, social issues, folklore and mythology, sports, magazines, picture books as art, censorship, the Internet, middle school readers, gender bias, booktalks, and the arts. For each genre, the authors offer a general overview, discussion questions, a bibliography, resources for further reading, and appropriate Web sites. If you want to promote literacy and involve parents in the reading program, you'll love this book and its companion, The Reading Connection.
Author : Margaret Hobson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,84 MB
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429867530
First published in 1992, this Sourcebook is a basic working tool for all those concerned with children’s reading. It will help librarians and teachers to select a comprehensive stock of children’s’ fiction for their institutions.The authors in the sourcebook have been selected on the grounds of importance, popularity and current availability. Author entries are arranged in alphabetical order and indexes provided by title, series, age-range and genre. Each entry consists of some background information, and evaluative comment on style of the book, a list of the authors books with publisher, date and price, and literary agent where applicable. There is a suggestion of similar authors, sequels, related series and reader age range.
Author : Betty Gilderdale
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 38,64 MB
Release : 2013-04-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1742539033
Throughout her childhood she was making up stories. Before she could write she drew them. By the time she was seven she knew she wanted to write books. Margaret Mahy was a wizard of words and a spinner of magical stories. She was New Zealand's best known author for children, wrote more than 200 books and often appeared in a purple wig or a penguin suit while she delighted audiences with vivacious readings of her stories. But who was Margaret Mahy? What was she like as a child? How did she become a writer? Where did her weird and wonderful ideas come from? Turn these pages and step into a world of the magical Margaret Mahy.
Author : Carl M. Tomlinson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,13 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : 0810834472
A complete and current guide to international children's literature. The annotated bibliography contains over 700 titles from 29 different countries printed between 1950 and 1996. All titles are available in English; many have been translated and others have originated in other English-speaking countries. Indexes include Author-Title Index, Country of Origin Index, and Subject Index. Sponsored by the United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY)
Author : Phyllis J. Perry
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 30,42 MB
Release : 1996-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0313079749
Use the power of fiction and imagination to draw students into the world of science. Focusing on climate and weather, Perry suggests trade book titles that will fascinate young readers and build their scientific knowledge. Activities help educators implement an integrated approach to language arts, science, geography, and social studies. A final section provides additional resources. Grades 5-9.
Author : Anita Silvey
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 21,82 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780395653807
Unique in its coverage of contemporary American children's literature, this timely, single-volume reference covers the books our children are--or should be--reading now, from board books to young adult novels. Enriched with dozens of color illustrations and the voices of authors and illustrators themselves, it is a cornucopia of delight. 23 color, 153 b&w illustrations.