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Sam and Dave Dig a Hole

Author : Mac Barnett

Publisher : Candlewick Press

Page : 40 pages

File Size : 48,83 MB

Release : 2024-09-17

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1536245704

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A 2015 Caldecott Honor Book With perfect pacing, the multi-award-winning, New York Times best-selling team of Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen dig down for a deadpan tale full of visual humor. Sam and Dave are on a mission. A mission to find something spectacular. So they dig a hole. And they keep digging. And they find . . . nothing. Yet the day turns out to be pretty spectacular after all. Attentive readers will be rewarded with a rare treasure in this witty story of looking for the extraordinary — and finding it in a manner you’d never expect.



Surprising Things We Do for Beauty

Author : Monika Davies

Publisher : Teacher Created Materials

Page : 67 pages

File Size : 42,54 MB

Release : 2017-03-31

Category : Young Adult Nonfiction

ISBN : 1480757403

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Weird Things We Do for Beauty offers an exciting nonfiction reader that builds critical reading skills while students are immersed in engaging subject area content. This text is purposefully leveled to increase comprehension with different learner types. Weird Things We Do for Beauty features complex and rigorous content appropriate for middle school students. Aligned with Common Core State Standards, this text connects with McREL, WIDA/TESOL standards and prepares students for college and career readiness.



The Coast of Chicago

Author : Stuart Dybek

Publisher : Macmillan + ORM

Page : 187 pages

File Size : 29,39 MB

Release : 2004-04-03

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1466806370

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The stolid landscape of Chicago suddenly turns dreamlike and otherworldly in Stuart Dybek's classic story collection. A child's collection of bottle caps becomes the tombstones of a graveyard. A lowly rightfielder's inexplicable death turns him into a martyr to baseball. Strains of Chopin floating down the tenement airshaft are transformed into a mysterious anthem of loss. Combining homely detail and heartbreakingly familiar voices with grand leaps of imagination, The Coast of Chicago is a masterpiece from one of America's most highly regarded writers.



On Beauty

Author : Zadie Smith

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 356 pages

File Size : 48,62 MB

Release : 2005-09-13

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1101218118

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One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century Winner of the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction, another bestselling masterwork from the celebrated author of Swing Time and White Teeth "In this sharp, engaging satire, beauty's only skin-deep, but funny cuts to the bone." —Kirkus Reviews Having hit bestseller lists from the New York Times to the San Francisco Chronicle, this wise, hilarious novel reminds us why Zadie Smith has rocketed to literary stardom. On Beauty is the story of an interracial family living in the university town of Wellington, Massachusetts, whose misadventures in the culture wars—on both sides of the Atlantic—serve to skewer everything from family life to political correctness to the combustive collision between the personal and the political. Full of dead-on wit and relentlessly funny, this tour de force confirms Zadie Smith's reputation as a major literary talent.



Surprising Things We Do for Beauty 6-Pack

Author : Monika Davies

Publisher : Teacher Created Materials

Page : 67 pages

File Size : 31,6 MB

Release : 2017-03-31

Category : Young Adult Nonfiction

ISBN : 1493837265

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The perception of beauty varies from person to person and culture to culture. Learning more about another cultures interpretation of what makes people beautiful gives meaningful insight into that cultures way of life. Developed by Timothy Rasinski-a leading expert in reading research-this 6-Pack of nonfiction readers guides students to increased fluency and comprehension of nonfiction text. The complex text structure adds rigor and allows students to delve deeply into the subject matter. The images support the text in abstract ways to challenge students to think more deeply about the topics and develop their higher-order thinking skills. Informational text features include a table of contents, sidebars, captions, bold font, an extensive glossary, and a detailed index to further understanding and build academic vocabulary. The Reader's Guide and Try It! culminating activity require students to connect back to the text, and provide opportunities for additional language-development activities. Aligned with state standards, this text connects with McREL, WIDA/TESOL standards and prepares students for college and career. This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan.



Dust & Grooves

Author : Eilon Paz

Publisher : Ten Speed Press

Page : 577 pages

File Size : 43,33 MB

Release : 2015-09-15

Category : Music

ISBN : 1607748703

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A photographic look into the world of vinyl record collectors—including Questlove—in the most intimate of environments—their record rooms. Compelling photographic essays from photographer Eilon Paz are paired with in-depth and insightful interviews to illustrate what motivates these collectors to keep digging for more records. The reader gets an up close and personal look at a variety of well-known vinyl champions, including Gilles Peterson and King Britt, as well as a glimpse into the collections of known and unknown DJs, producers, record dealers, and everyday enthusiasts. Driven by his love for vinyl records, Paz takes us on a five-year journey unearthing the very soul of the vinyl community.



Digging the Wells of Revival

Author : Lou Engle

Publisher : Destiny Image Publishers

Page : 449 pages

File Size : 32,39 MB

Release : 2011-07-28

Category : Religion

ISBN : 0768499755

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Do you know that just beneath your feet are deep wells of revival? Are you aware that you are standing on bottomless geysers and founts of the anointing and mandates of our spiritual forefathers and mothers that are just waiting be released afresh to you? God is calling us as instruments today to unstop the wells and reclaim the spiritual inheritance of our nation. This same God who visited America in the Great Awakening, the Azusa Street Revival, the Jesus Movement, the Charismatic Outpouring, and more, wants to again honor His eternal convenants with the men and women of faith who have gone before us. God is ready to loose revival fires and miracles to the spiritual descendants of people like Jonathan Edwards, Henrietta Mears, Aimee Semple McPherson, Charles Finney, William Seymour, and Frank Bartleman. But who will contend for the mantle they wore? Will you? As America stands on the brink of the judgement of God for her sins, revival is our most glori! ous hope. This book is a prophetic call from the heart of a pastor in Los Angeles who calls his city, his country, and you to renew covenant with God, reclaim our glorious roots, and believe for the greatest revival the world has ever known.



What Beauty There Is

Author : Cory Anderson

Publisher : Roaring Brook Press

Page : 285 pages

File Size : 22,46 MB

Release : 2021-04-06

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN : 1250268109

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A 2022 William C. Morris YA Debut Award Finalist, What Beauty There Is is Cory Anderson's stunning novel about brutality and beauty, and about broken people trying to survive—"Intense, brutal, and searingly honest," perfect for fans of Patrick Ness, Laura Ruby, and Meg Rosoff. To understand the truth, you have to start at the beginning. Ava Bardem lives in isolation, a life of silence. For seventeen years, Ava’s father, a merciless man, has controlled her fate. He’s taught her to love no one. But then she meets Jack. Living in poverty, Jack Dahl is holding his breath. He and his younger brother have nothing—except each other. With their parents gone, Jack faces a stark choice: lose his brother to foster care or find the drug money that sent his father to prison. He chooses the money. Suddenly, Jack’s and Ava’s fates become intimately—and dangerously—linked as Ava’s father hunts for the same money as Jack. When he picks up on Jack’s trail, Ava must make her own wrenching choice: remain silent or speak and fight for Jack’s survival. Choices. They come at a price.



The Earth's Blanket

Author : Nancy J. Turner

Publisher : University of Washington Press

Page : 304 pages

File Size : 45,27 MB

Release : 2015-08-03

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0295997869

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This is a thought-provoking look at Native American stories, cultural institutions, and ways of knowing, and what they can teach us about living sustainably.



Novelist's Library

Author : Tobias George Smollett

Publisher :

Page : 744 pages

File Size : 10,76 MB

Release : 1821

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