Author: Jonathan Galassi
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
ISBN: 1635421993
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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The new novel from the acclaimed poet and publisher asks fundamental questions about love and sex, friendship and rivalry, desire and power, and the age-old dance of benevolence and attraction between teacher and student. Sam Brandt is a long-term denizen of Connecticut’s renowned Leverett School. As an English teacher he has dedicated his life to providing his students with the same challenges, encouragement, and sense of possibility that helped him and his friends become themselves here half a lifetime ago. Then Leverett’s headmaster asks Sam to help investigate a charge brought by one of his classmates that he was abused by a teacher. Sam is flooded with memories, above all of his overwhelming love for his friend Eddie and the support of his most inspiring mentor, Theodore Gibson. Sam’s search for the truth becomes a quest to get at the heart of Leverett, then and now. The school has changed enormously over the years, but at its core lie assumptions about privilege and responsibility untested for more than a century. And Sam’s assumptions about his own life are shaken, too, as he struggles to understand what really happened all those years ago.
Author: Robert B. Parker
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101205512
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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A horrifying school shooting draws Boston PI Spenser into a harrowing investigation in this thriller by New York Times bestselling author Robert B. Parker. When a Massachusetts boy is accused of mass murder, his socially prominent grandmother is convinced of his innocence and is willing to fight for him. But based on the boy’s resigned attitude and the evidence stacked against him, Spenser isn’t convinced of anything—except that there’s trouble ahead...
Author: Jean Marzollo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780439684194
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
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Rhyming verses ask readers to find hidden objects in the photographs.
Author: Barbara G. Hennessy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140541793
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Rhyming text and illustrations describe the familiar faces and objects of a day at school.
Author: Thomas Hughes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Author: Patrick Chamoiseau
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803263765
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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School Days (Chemin-d’Ecole) is a captivating narrative based on Patrick Chamoiseau’s childhood in Fort-de-France, Martinique. It is a revelatory account of the colonial world that shaped one of the liveliest and most creative voices in French and Caribbean literature today. Through the eyes of the boy Chamoiseau, we meet his severe, Francophile teacher, a man intent upon banishing all remnants of Creole from his students’ speech. This domineering man is succeeded by an equally autocratic teacher, an Africanist and proponent of “Negritude.” Along the way we are also introduced to Big Bellybutton, the class scapegoat, whose tales of Creole heroes and heroines, magic, zombies, and fantastic animals provide a fertile contrast to the imported French fairy tales told in school. In prose punctuated by Creolisms and ribald humor, Chamoiseau infuses the universal terrors, joys, and disappointments of a child’s early school days with the unique experiences of a Creole boy forced to confront the dominant culture in a colonial school. School Days mixes understanding with laughter, knowledge with entertainment—in ways that will fascinate and delight readers of all ages.
Author: Betty G. Birney
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0142421065
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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A new school year and new friends for everyone's favorite classroom pet! Humphrey is excited to get back to Room 26 and see all his old classmates. But on the first day of school, a bunch of strange kids arrive and no matter how loudly he squeaks up, they don't realize they're in the wrong room! Finally Humphrey realizes that these kids are his new classmates, and he sets off to learn all about them. He hasn't forgotten about his friends from last year, and of course they miss him a ton. But when they start talking about taking him from Mrs. Brisbane's room, Humphrey gets unsqueakably nervous. How could he say good-bye to Mrs. Brisbane and Og--not to mention his new friends--for good?
Author: Anne Rockwell
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0064437272
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Mrs. Madoff's class is counting pennies -- one for every day of school. When they get to 10 pennies, they know they've been going to school for 10 days. What will happen when they get to 100? How will they celebrate Day 100, and what will they do with their 100 pennies?
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Publisher: Charlesbridge
ISBN: 1607341913
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
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A collection of traditional rhymes illustrated and adapted to a school setting in which the characters are all dogs, with hidden objects for the reader to find in the illustrations.
Author: Margriet Ruurs
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1771380470
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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This informational picture book features fourteen real students from around the world on a typical school day. There is Johannes, who lives at his boarding school in Germany; Ana, who walks an hour to her school in Honduras; Amy and Gwen, who are homeschooled in the United States; and many others. Each school experience is different in this engaging book about the many places and ways children learn and play.
