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A young Jewish girl living with her family in the town of Lida at the beginning of World War II recalls the horrors of life under first the Russians then the Nazis, before fleeing to join Tuvia Bielski, a partisan who tried to save as many Jews as possible. Based on a true story.
Blind and fatherless since the age of two, ten-year-old Jon struggles to fit in at his new public school and hide his growing interest in wood carving from his mom who still mourns the death of Jon's father who hoped to become a professional wood carver.
A family carrying ice skates passes villages, farms, and forests on the way to a frozen lake high in the hills. Fifteen paintings accompany brief descriptive text.
Tac, an island native, makes a visit to Steve in Pennsylvania and sees a life style different from his own.
Presents tips and advice for professionals who are creating or overseeing service-learning programs.
Focuses on how to teach, analyze, and assess arguments. Gives clear examples introducing terms from informal logic, naming particular fallacies, and analyzing samples of student writing to show the various approaches to argument being discussed.
"Children’s literature is a contested terrain, as is multicultural education. Taken together, they pose a formidable challenge to both classroom teachers and academics.... Rather than deny the inherent conflicts and tensions in the field, in Critical Multicultural Analysis of Children’s Literature: Mirrors, Windows, and Doors, Maria José Botelho and Masha Kabakow Rudman confront, deconstruct, and reconstruct these terrains by proposing a reframing of the field.... Surely all of us – children, teachers, and academics – can benefit from this more expansive understanding of what it means to read books." Sonia Nieto, From the Foreword Critical multicultural analysis provides a philosoph...
A rhyming story about a boy who is offered every kind of pet except the puppy he wants. When the book is turned over, the story is told from the dog's point of view.
Georgia artist Mattie Lou O'Kelley compellingly captured the comfort, security, companionship, and nurturing love provided by close family relationships in her 24 "Moving" pictures, which she created in 1987 - 1989 to illustrate her children's book, Moving to Town. The strong, recurring, autobiographical aspects of these paintings suggest that the facts of the artist's life are integral to her works. O'Kelley's words and pictures tell the tale of a family who abandon their farm for life in the city, then return to their country home less than a year later.