Book Description
Hike alongside Rhoda as she collects rock after rock, "red ones and blue ones and stripy ones," from forest and river and lake, on a north woods adventure.
Author : Molly Beth Griffin
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,73 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780873519502
Hike alongside Rhoda as she collects rock after rock, "red ones and blue ones and stripy ones," from forest and river and lake, on a north woods adventure.
Author : Molly Beth Griffin
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,88 MB
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1632897903
A heartfelt story of changing perspectives, set in the Midwest. Ten Beautiful Things gently explores loss, a new home, and finding beauty wherever you are. Lily and her grandmother search for ten beautiful things as they take a long car ride to Iowa and Lily's new home with Gran. At first, Lily sees nothing beautiful in the April slush and cloudy sky. Soon though, Lily can see beauty in unexpected places, from the smell of spring mud to a cloud shaped like a swan to a dilapitated barn. A furious rainstorm mirrors Lily's anxiety, but as it clears Lily discovers the tenth beautiful thing: Lily and Gran and their love for each other. Ten Beautiful Things leaves the exact cause of Lily's move ambiguous, making it perfect for anyone helping a child navigate change, whether it be the loss of a parent, entering or leaving a foster home, or moving.
Author : Peggy Christian
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 40,33 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780152393397
Discover the joy of rock hunting.
Author : Molly Beth Griffin
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 10,69 MB
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1571318615
Growing up in the 1920s, sixteen-year-old Garnet Richardson watches the birds outside her window, admiring their freedom and beauty. Her mother, on the other hand, does not approve of Garnet climbing trees to peer into nests. She has Garnet’s life all planned out: after finishing high school, she’ll marry and tend to the home. When Garnet is sent away for the summer to stay with relatives in the lakeside resort town of Excelsior, Minnesota, she discovers a chance to spread her wings. There she finds herself under the supervision of oppressive guardians and her father’s wealthy cousin. But an amusement park and roaring dance hall beckon, and her explorations land her where she least expects—enthralled with a beautiful and daring flapper, Isabella. Caught between her family’s expectations and her own newfound passions, Garnet must decide whose dreams to follow. Tender and moving, Silhouette of a Sparrow is the tale of a young woman’s discovery of the science of risk, the art of rebellion, and, of course, the power of unexpected love.
Author : Rhoda Lerman
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 32,60 MB
Release : 2017-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1468315382
From the award-winning author of God’s Ear: A “wildly funny, achingly spiritual, profoundly Jewish and feminist” satire of religion and gender politics (The New York Times Book Review). Call Me Ishtar is the outrageous manifesto of a goddess determined to right the wrongs of the three-thousand-year-old patriarchy. She is Ishtar: Mother Goddess, Queen of Heaven, Angel of Death, and Whore of Babylon, and, returning to earth in this most recent incarnation, suburban housewife and sexual subversive. Gallivanting through upstate New York, Ishtar breaks into a Hostess factory to taint its products, catapults a rock band to stardom via satanic rituals, and rises from the coffin at her own funeral—all to overthrow the worship of phallic gods and resume her former glory in this “bouncy, tongue-in-cheek mythmash of The White Goddess and The Feminine Mystique” (Kirkus Reviews). “[Lerman’s] is a unique voice—wildly funny, achingly spiritual, profoundly Jewish and feminist at the same time.” —The New York Times Book Review
Author : Molly Beth Griffin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 46,83 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0547254873
A gentle read-aloud to help calm every young child's greatest fear.
Author : Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 17,93 MB
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1451659229
The behind-the-scenes story of the making of the classic television series offers insight into how the influential show reflected changing American perspectives and was a first situation comedy to employ numerous women as writers and producers.
Author : Maria Godsey
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 25,2 MB
Release : 2019-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781733857512
Luke is a wise, confident, and caring young boy. After seeing first-hand the damage caused to the environment and animals due to trash and waste, he's changed his ways and now thinks and acts green. He believes he can have a big impact on the world around him and protecting the planet has become his new passion.Using his helpful phrase, "Not for me, please!", he shares examples of how he chooses differently than others to act green. Luke hopes he can teach you why plastic, not recycling, and overconsumption are harmful to our planet and what you can do to impact this with the choices you make.
Author : Justin Barton
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,2 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781782798156
The future is alongside us, sometimes closer, sometimes further away. Hidden Valleys starts from the perception that the human world is an eerie place, particularly in relation to its stories and dreams. It also starts from events that took place in North Yorkshire, in 1978. A work of philosophy, an account of experiences, and a biography of a year, it is simultaneously a challenging cultural analysis, drawing on novels, songs and films. It argues for lucidity over reason, becomings over conventional gender and familialism, groups over state politics, and for an escape to wider realities in place of the delusions of religion. Most centrally it breaks open a view of a futural dimension that coexists with the present, and which intrinsically involves a heightened awareness and evaluation of the planet, of women, and of the abstract. Inseparably it is also a detective investigation into the causes of the eerie human predicament. The book reaches the planetary by starting from a singular place, it reaches reality by starting from dreams, and it reaches the future by finding a doorway in the past.
Author : Sharon Shaffer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 32,7 MB
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351332902
The twenty-first century is a time of change for early learning in museums, due in part to society's evolving view of childhood, from an age of innocence to understanding the robust learning that defines the first years of life. This perspective is a catalyst for international conversation and continues to raise attention and interest across society. Object Lessons and Early Learning leverages what is known about the cognitive development of young children to examine the power of learning through objects in museum and heritage settings. Exploring the history and modern day practice of object-based learning, Shaffer outlines the rationale for endorsing this approach in both formal and informal learning spaces. She argues that museums, as collecting institutions, are learning spaces uniquely positioned to allow children to make meaning about their world through personal connections to cultural artifacts, natural specimens, and works of art. A range of descriptive object lessons, inspired by objects in museums as well as from the everyday world, are presented throughout the text as examples of ways in which children can be encouraged to engage with museum collections. Object Lessons and Early Learning offers insights into strategies for engaging young children as learners in museum settings and in their everyday world, and, as such, will be essential reading for museum professionals, classroom educators, and students. It should also be of great interest to academics and researchers engaged in the study of museums and education.