Author: Sonia Levitin
Publisher: Fawcett
ISBN: 9780449704417
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Laurel Wang knows that the ghost of her beloved great-grandfather lives in the oak tree outside her house. But now her grandparents are arriving from China, and the family must move to a bigger place, leaving the protective spirit behind. Twelve-year-old Jonathan and his family are moving into Laurel's house -- and he's not too happy either. He's living with a stepfather he can't stand and a dog he didn't choose; now he has to say goodbye to his old neighborhood and his wonderful Uncle Jake. But moving blues soon give way to angry ghosts, fortune cookies that predict the future, and a very scary accident, as the two teenagers with very different backgrounds join together to investigate a mystery and in the process discover something remarkable about each other.
The Golem and the Dragon Girl
Author: Sonia Levitin
Publisher: Fawcett
ISBN: 9780449704417
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Laurel Wang knows that the ghost of her beloved great-grandfather lives in the oak tree outside her house. But now her grandparents are arriving from China, and the family must move to a bigger place, leaving the protective spirit behind. Twelve-year-old Jonathan and his family are moving into Laurel's house -- and he's not too happy either. He's living with a stepfather he can't stand and a dog he didn't choose; now he has to say goodbye to his old neighborhood and his wonderful Uncle Jake. But moving blues soon give way to angry ghosts, fortune cookies that predict the future, and a very scary accident, as the two teenagers with very different backgrounds join together to investigate a mystery and in the process discover something remarkable about each other.
Publisher: Fawcett
ISBN: 9780449704417
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Laurel Wang knows that the ghost of her beloved great-grandfather lives in the oak tree outside her house. But now her grandparents are arriving from China, and the family must move to a bigger place, leaving the protective spirit behind. Twelve-year-old Jonathan and his family are moving into Laurel's house -- and he's not too happy either. He's living with a stepfather he can't stand and a dog he didn't choose; now he has to say goodbye to his old neighborhood and his wonderful Uncle Jake. But moving blues soon give way to angry ghosts, fortune cookies that predict the future, and a very scary accident, as the two teenagers with very different backgrounds join together to investigate a mystery and in the process discover something remarkable about each other.
Dragon Daddy Diaries: A Girl Grows to Greatness Volume 2
Author: Ameko Kaeruda
Publisher: J-Novel Club
ISBN: 1718383509
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Now in her second year at the Florence Royal Academy for Girls, Olivia can’t wait to start paying it forward by fulfilling her duty to look after the younger kids. However, little does she know that one of the new first-years is a bona fide powerhouse—and a new rival who’s eager to nab the King’s Pupil title away from her! Meanwhile, by the vicissitudes of fate, the dragon, the Dark Queen, and Clowria all end up at the academy as well. Is Olivia's school ready for all these big personalities?
Publisher: J-Novel Club
ISBN: 1718383509
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Now in her second year at the Florence Royal Academy for Girls, Olivia can’t wait to start paying it forward by fulfilling her duty to look after the younger kids. However, little does she know that one of the new first-years is a bona fide powerhouse—and a new rival who’s eager to nab the King’s Pupil title away from her! Meanwhile, by the vicissitudes of fate, the dragon, the Dark Queen, and Clowria all end up at the academy as well. Is Olivia's school ready for all these big personalities?
Learning About Cultures (ENHANCED eBook)
Author: John Gust
Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press
ISBN: 1429111100
Category : Multicultural education
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Experience African, Chinese, Jewish, Native American and other cultures through literature, celebrations, games and crafts. Each unit also includes an introduction, discussion of the culture's role in U.S. history, an extensive selection of recommended literature and a calendar presentation of significant events. The book concludes with a wonderful resource--reproducible illustrations of children from all the represented countries and cultures in native dress.
Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press
ISBN: 1429111100
Category : Multicultural education
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Experience African, Chinese, Jewish, Native American and other cultures through literature, celebrations, games and crafts. Each unit also includes an introduction, discussion of the culture's role in U.S. history, an extensive selection of recommended literature and a calendar presentation of significant events. The book concludes with a wonderful resource--reproducible illustrations of children from all the represented countries and cultures in native dress.
Connecting Cultures
Author: Rebecca L. Thomas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313080224
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 691
Book Description
A comprehensive guide to multicultural literature for children, this valuable resource features more than 1,600 titles—including fiction, folktales, poetry, and song books—that focus on diverse cultural groups. The selected titles, pubished between the 1970s and 1990s are suitable for use with preschoolers through sixth graders and are likely to be found on the shelves of school and public libraries. Topics are timely, with an emphasis on books that reflect the needs and interests of today's children. Each detailed entry includes bibliographic information. Use level is also included, as are cultural designation, subjects, and a summary. The invaluable Subject Access section incorporates use level culture information.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313080224
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 691
Book Description
A comprehensive guide to multicultural literature for children, this valuable resource features more than 1,600 titles—including fiction, folktales, poetry, and song books—that focus on diverse cultural groups. The selected titles, pubished between the 1970s and 1990s are suitable for use with preschoolers through sixth graders and are likely to be found on the shelves of school and public libraries. Topics are timely, with an emphasis on books that reflect the needs and interests of today's children. Each detailed entry includes bibliographic information. Use level is also included, as are cultural designation, subjects, and a summary. The invaluable Subject Access section incorporates use level culture information.
The Parent Project
Author: James Vopat
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
ISBN: 1571100016
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Involving parents in their children's schooling is a matter of intense concern in North America. Teachers and administrators want to construct a program that creates positive involvement. This is especially critical for Chapter I schools that are mandated to use a portion of their funds for home-and-school programs. Jim Vopat believes that parental involvement should strengthen the link between home and school, and to achieve this goal parents need to be introduced to the revitalized school classroom. The Parent Project calls on the most powerful aspects of school reform--workshops, journals, cooperative groups, shared reading, agenda building, interviewing, goal setting, and critical thinking-classroom learning strategies experienced by children every day. When parents work with these strategies, they understand them and discover how to support them. Using a workshop/process model, parents become involved with their children's classroom activities and are thus empowered to support their children's education. These workshops ensure participant ownership of a program's overall agenda while providing long-term structures for support and continued development. The Parent Project: Provides a framework for implementing ways to get parents involved and informed. Was developed in urban bilingual school settings and includes workshop formats in Spanish and English. Is a complete source-book for teaches and principals that provides materials for conducting workshops with parents in areas of writing, reading, self-esteem, and community-building. Supports your efforts with a detailed description of what the workshop approach is and how it functions.
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
ISBN: 1571100016
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Involving parents in their children's schooling is a matter of intense concern in North America. Teachers and administrators want to construct a program that creates positive involvement. This is especially critical for Chapter I schools that are mandated to use a portion of their funds for home-and-school programs. Jim Vopat believes that parental involvement should strengthen the link between home and school, and to achieve this goal parents need to be introduced to the revitalized school classroom. The Parent Project calls on the most powerful aspects of school reform--workshops, journals, cooperative groups, shared reading, agenda building, interviewing, goal setting, and critical thinking-classroom learning strategies experienced by children every day. When parents work with these strategies, they understand them and discover how to support them. Using a workshop/process model, parents become involved with their children's classroom activities and are thus empowered to support their children's education. These workshops ensure participant ownership of a program's overall agenda while providing long-term structures for support and continued development. The Parent Project: Provides a framework for implementing ways to get parents involved and informed. Was developed in urban bilingual school settings and includes workshop formats in Spanish and English. Is a complete source-book for teaches and principals that provides materials for conducting workshops with parents in areas of writing, reading, self-esteem, and community-building. Supports your efforts with a detailed description of what the workshop approach is and how it functions.
Best Jewish Books for Children and Teens
Author: Silver
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
ISBN: 0827611218
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Linda Silver selected the titles that "represent the best in writing, illustration, reader appeal, and authentically Jewish content--in picture books, fiction and non-fiction, for readers ranging from early childhood through the high school years."--P. [4] of cover.
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
ISBN: 0827611218
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Linda Silver selected the titles that "represent the best in writing, illustration, reader appeal, and authentically Jewish content--in picture books, fiction and non-fiction, for readers ranging from early childhood through the high school years."--P. [4] of cover.
I Guess This Dragon Who Lost Her Egg to Disaster Is My Mom Now Volume 2
Author: Suzume Kirisaki
Publisher: Cross Infinite World
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Dragon Family & Human Politics! With the attack on Mount Kugus taken care of, Lushera and Kaphal take a step forward as mother and daughter. Right after they do, Kaphal’s father makes an appearance and puts Lushera to the test to determine if she is truly worthy of joining the bottom ranks of the dragon race! Before the test begins, Lushera saves a golden-haired girl named Monica from an attacking golem, unaware that Monica is an unwanted child of Setrayu. Unable to abandon Monica, Lushera finds herself dragged into a plot that will shake the very foundations of Setrayu. Here starts the second installment of the story following an interspecies mother and daughter caught in a tangled web of cause and effect!
Publisher: Cross Infinite World
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Dragon Family & Human Politics! With the attack on Mount Kugus taken care of, Lushera and Kaphal take a step forward as mother and daughter. Right after they do, Kaphal’s father makes an appearance and puts Lushera to the test to determine if she is truly worthy of joining the bottom ranks of the dragon race! Before the test begins, Lushera saves a golden-haired girl named Monica from an attacking golem, unaware that Monica is an unwanted child of Setrayu. Unable to abandon Monica, Lushera finds herself dragged into a plot that will shake the very foundations of Setrayu. Here starts the second installment of the story following an interspecies mother and daughter caught in a tangled web of cause and effect!
The Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
Author: Bernice E. Cullinan
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826417787
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
Provides articles covering children's literature from around the world as well as biographical and critical reviews of authors including Avi, C.S. Lewis, J.K. Rowling, and Anno Mitsumasa.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826417787
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
Provides articles covering children's literature from around the world as well as biographical and critical reviews of authors including Avi, C.S. Lewis, J.K. Rowling, and Anno Mitsumasa.
Writers of Multicultural Fiction for Young Adults
Author: M. Daphne Kutzer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313064229
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Multicultural fiction is an essential part of the American literary landscape. This reference helps scholars, teachers, and librarians choose significant texts from both the past and present, and provides guidance in approaching multicultural issues as they are discussed in fiction for young adults. Included are entries for 51 writers, some of whom have nearly been forgotten, others who are just emerging. Each entry provides biographical, critical, and bibliographical information, while a general bibliography of works on multicultural literature concludes the book. Authors included range from the nearly forgotten, such as Laura Adams Armer, to the newly discovered, such as Graham Salisbury, winner of the 1994 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. The breadth of authors covered ensures an historical context for the issues raised by multiculturalism, and the sections on the critical reception of each author address such important issues as the authority and authenticity of the writer to comment on a different culture. Contributors are of many different ethnicities and include important scholars of children's literature, lending authenticity and authority to the volume itself.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313064229
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Multicultural fiction is an essential part of the American literary landscape. This reference helps scholars, teachers, and librarians choose significant texts from both the past and present, and provides guidance in approaching multicultural issues as they are discussed in fiction for young adults. Included are entries for 51 writers, some of whom have nearly been forgotten, others who are just emerging. Each entry provides biographical, critical, and bibliographical information, while a general bibliography of works on multicultural literature concludes the book. Authors included range from the nearly forgotten, such as Laura Adams Armer, to the newly discovered, such as Graham Salisbury, winner of the 1994 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. The breadth of authors covered ensures an historical context for the issues raised by multiculturalism, and the sections on the critical reception of each author address such important issues as the authority and authenticity of the writer to comment on a different culture. Contributors are of many different ethnicities and include important scholars of children's literature, lending authenticity and authority to the volume itself.
The Administration and Supervision of Reading Programs
Author: Shelley B. Wepner
Publisher: Teachers College Press
ISBN: 9780807741818
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Now in its Third Edition, this popular textbook offers valuable information about administering effective reading programs from the pre-elementary through the college level. All chapters have been revised to include the most current information, trends, and research, and a new chapters has been added on college/university reading programs.
Publisher: Teachers College Press
ISBN: 9780807741818
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Now in its Third Edition, this popular textbook offers valuable information about administering effective reading programs from the pre-elementary through the college level. All chapters have been revised to include the most current information, trends, and research, and a new chapters has been added on college/university reading programs.