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Multicultural Books for the Primary Grades
Educational resource for teachers, parents and kids!
Read It Again, More
Imaginative ideas and activities for popular children's books involve kids in music, pantomime, cooking, math, storytelling, geography, and much more! Provides bulletin board ideas, reproducibles, and answer key.
Read It Again!
Read It Again! celebrates our rich literacy and cultural diversity with imaginative ideas and activities for 12 multicultural children's books. Books about Africans, Asians, Hispanics, and Native Americans help children appreciate the similarities as well as the differences among cultures. Includes activities suggestions for each story.
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American Book Publishing Record Cumulative 1993
Cited in BCL3, Sheehy, and Walford . Compiled from the 12 monthly issues of the ABPR, this edition of the annual cumulation lists by Dewey sequence some 41,700 titles for books published or distributed in the US. Entry information is derived from MARC II tapes and books submitted to R.R. Bowker, an
Michael and the Whiz Kids
Imagine a boy, five feet tall and one hundred pounds, who wants to play high school basketball. Now imagine that he was blind until the age of six and that he’s the first black student to attend his suburban school. And there you have Michael Thompson in 1965 in San Bruno, California. He played at the school where a young English teacher was coaching “lightweight basketball,” a competition for smaller players that has since disappeared. The team that Coach John Christgau put together came to be called the Whiz Kids for the way they rocketed up and down the court, led by Michael and invariably winning. Michael and the Whiz Kids tells the story of the team’s 1968 championship season. I...
In Defense of Housing
In every major city in the world there is a housing crisis. How did this happen and what can we do about it? Everyone needs and deserves housing. But today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making the inequalities of the city ever more acute. Profit has become more important than social need. The poor are forced to pay more for worse housing. Communities are faced with the violence of displacement and gentrification. And the benefits of decent housing are only available for those who can afford it. In Defense of Housing is the definitive statement on this crisis from leading urban planner Peter Marcuse and sociologist David Madden. They look at the causes and consequences of the housing problem and detail the need for progressive alternatives. The housing crisis cannot be solved by minor policy shifts, they argue. Rather, the housing crisis has deep political and economic roots—and therefore requires a radical response.
