Author: Judith Spearing
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780590404525
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Ghosts who Went to School
Author: Judith Spearing
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780590404525
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780590404525
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Ghosts in the Schoolyard
Author: Eve L. Ewing
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022652616X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
“Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools.” That’s how Eve L. Ewing opens Ghosts in the Schoolyard: describing Chicago Public Schools from the outside. The way politicians and pundits and parents of kids who attend other schools talk about them, with a mix of pity and contempt. But Ewing knows Chicago Public Schools from the inside: as a student, then a teacher, and now a scholar who studies them. And that perspective has shown her that public schools are not buildings full of failures—they’re an integral part of their neighborhoods, at the heart of their communities, storehouses of history and memory that bring people together. Never was that role more apparent than in 2013 when Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced an unprecedented wave of school closings. Pitched simultaneously as a solution to a budget problem, a response to declining enrollments, and a chance to purge bad schools that were dragging down the whole system, the plan was met with a roar of protest from parents, students, and teachers. But if these schools were so bad, why did people care so much about keeping them open, to the point that some would even go on a hunger strike? Ewing’s answer begins with a story of systemic racism, inequality, bad faith, and distrust that stretches deep into Chicago history. Rooting her exploration in the historic African American neighborhood of Bronzeville, Ewing reveals that this issue is about much more than just schools. Black communities see the closing of their schools—schools that are certainly less than perfect but that are theirs—as one more in a long line of racist policies. The fight to keep them open is yet another front in the ongoing struggle of black people in America to build successful lives and achieve true self-determination.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022652616X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
“Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools.” That’s how Eve L. Ewing opens Ghosts in the Schoolyard: describing Chicago Public Schools from the outside. The way politicians and pundits and parents of kids who attend other schools talk about them, with a mix of pity and contempt. But Ewing knows Chicago Public Schools from the inside: as a student, then a teacher, and now a scholar who studies them. And that perspective has shown her that public schools are not buildings full of failures—they’re an integral part of their neighborhoods, at the heart of their communities, storehouses of history and memory that bring people together. Never was that role more apparent than in 2013 when Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced an unprecedented wave of school closings. Pitched simultaneously as a solution to a budget problem, a response to declining enrollments, and a chance to purge bad schools that were dragging down the whole system, the plan was met with a roar of protest from parents, students, and teachers. But if these schools were so bad, why did people care so much about keeping them open, to the point that some would even go on a hunger strike? Ewing’s answer begins with a story of systemic racism, inequality, bad faith, and distrust that stretches deep into Chicago history. Rooting her exploration in the historic African American neighborhood of Bronzeville, Ewing reveals that this issue is about much more than just schools. Black communities see the closing of their schools—schools that are certainly less than perfect but that are theirs—as one more in a long line of racist policies. The fight to keep them open is yet another front in the ongoing struggle of black people in America to build successful lives and achieve true self-determination.
Ghosts be Gone!
Author: Marcia Thornton Jones
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780439560047
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
Andrew, the class bully, brings ghost-stopping slime to the school basement, but the Ghostville ghosts aren't planning on being caught.
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780439560047
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
Andrew, the class bully, brings ghost-stopping slime to the school basement, but the Ghostville ghosts aren't planning on being caught.
The Ghosts Of Ashbury High
Author: Jaclyn Moriarty
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545283256
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Bestselling author Jaclyn Moriarty returns to Ashbury High for a story of romance, mysterious new classmates, and the terrors of making it through your final year of high school. This is the story of Amelia and Riley, bad kids from bad Brookfield High who have transferred to Ashbury High for their final year. They've been in love since they were fourteen, they go out dancing every night, and sleep through school all day. And Ashbury can't get enough of them.Everyone's trying to get their attention; even teachers are dressing differently, trying to make their classes more interesting. Everyone wants to be cooler, tougher, funnier, hoping to be invited into their cool, self-contained world.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545283256
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Bestselling author Jaclyn Moriarty returns to Ashbury High for a story of romance, mysterious new classmates, and the terrors of making it through your final year of high school. This is the story of Amelia and Riley, bad kids from bad Brookfield High who have transferred to Ashbury High for their final year. They've been in love since they were fourteen, they go out dancing every night, and sleep through school all day. And Ashbury can't get enough of them.Everyone's trying to get their attention; even teachers are dressing differently, trying to make their classes more interesting. Everyone wants to be cooler, tougher, funnier, hoping to be invited into their cool, self-contained world.
Who Let the Ghosts Out?
Author: R.L. Stine
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0307549267
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
From R.L. Stine, master horror author of the Goosebumps series and the Fear Street trilogy—now streaming on Netflix—comes another spooky tale! Max’s life wasn’t going so well even before two ghosts moved into his closet. But when Nicky and Tara show up, claiming that they used to live in his room, everything changes for Max! Soon they’re following him to school, using their invisibility to embarrass him in front of the girl of his dreams. And to make matters worse, there’s some other totally evil spirit named Phears following him around turning animals inside out!
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0307549267
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
From R.L. Stine, master horror author of the Goosebumps series and the Fear Street trilogy—now streaming on Netflix—comes another spooky tale! Max’s life wasn’t going so well even before two ghosts moved into his closet. But when Nicky and Tara show up, claiming that they used to live in his room, everything changes for Max! Soon they’re following him to school, using their invisibility to embarrass him in front of the girl of his dreams. And to make matters worse, there’s some other totally evil spirit named Phears following him around turning animals inside out!
The Ghost Collector
Author: Allison Mills
Publisher: Annick Press
ISBN: 1773212982
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Ghosts aren’t meant to stick around forever... Shelly and her grandmother catch ghosts. In their hair. Just like all the women in their family, they can see souls who haven’t transitioned yet; it’s their job to help the ghosts along their journey. When Shelly’s mom dies suddenly, Shelly’s relationship to ghosts—and death—changes. Instead of helping spirits move on, Shelly starts hoarding them. But no matter how many ghost cats, dogs, or people she hides in her room, Shelly can’t ignore the one ghost that’s missing. Why hasn’t her mom’s ghost come home yet? Rooted in a Cree worldview and inspired by stories about the author’s great-grandmother’s life, The Ghost Collector delves into questions of grief and loss, and introduces an exciting new voice in tween fiction that will appeal to fans of Kate DiCamillo’s Louisiana’s Way Home and Patrick Ness’s A Monster Calls.
Publisher: Annick Press
ISBN: 1773212982
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Ghosts aren’t meant to stick around forever... Shelly and her grandmother catch ghosts. In their hair. Just like all the women in their family, they can see souls who haven’t transitioned yet; it’s their job to help the ghosts along their journey. When Shelly’s mom dies suddenly, Shelly’s relationship to ghosts—and death—changes. Instead of helping spirits move on, Shelly starts hoarding them. But no matter how many ghost cats, dogs, or people she hides in her room, Shelly can’t ignore the one ghost that’s missing. Why hasn’t her mom’s ghost come home yet? Rooted in a Cree worldview and inspired by stories about the author’s great-grandmother’s life, The Ghost Collector delves into questions of grief and loss, and introduces an exciting new voice in tween fiction that will appeal to fans of Kate DiCamillo’s Louisiana’s Way Home and Patrick Ness’s A Monster Calls.
Ghosts I Have Been
Author: Richard Peck
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101664355
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Upon discovering that she has the gift of Second Sight, Blossom also learns that whether glimpsing the future or traveling into the past, one is powerless to alter history.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101664355
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Upon discovering that she has the gift of Second Sight, Blossom also learns that whether glimpsing the future or traveling into the past, one is powerless to alter history.
Boo La La: School for Ghost Girls
Author: Rebecca Gómez
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338190148
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Best friends Maude, CJ, and Tiny are so excited to start third grade at Boo Academy (affectionately called Boo La La), the world's premier haunting school! The ghost girls love their new dorm mother, Ms. Finley. But she has some strange characteristics that make them think that she might be... human. Could it be?! The ghost girls are determined to find out, for the sake of their school -- and the entire ghost world!
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338190148
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Best friends Maude, CJ, and Tiny are so excited to start third grade at Boo Academy (affectionately called Boo La La), the world's premier haunting school! The ghost girls love their new dorm mother, Ms. Finley. But she has some strange characteristics that make them think that she might be... human. Could it be?! The ghost girls are determined to find out, for the sake of their school -- and the entire ghost world!
The Ghosts Went Floating
Author: Kim Norman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 0374388601
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
A Bank Street Best Book of 2021 Inspired by the children's song "The Ants Went Marching" and involving early math concepts, writer Kim Norman and illustrator Jay Fleck's The Ghosts Went Floating is a spooktacular adventure perfect for Halloween. The ghosts went floating, one by one, BOO-rah! BOO-rah! when Halloween had just begun. BOO-rah! BOO-rah! The ghosts went floating, one by one, so why don’t YOU come join the fun? Trick-or-treat with ghosts, skeletons, witches, zombies, and all sorts of cute and creepy creatures in this fun-filled Halloween counting adventure!
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 0374388601
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
A Bank Street Best Book of 2021 Inspired by the children's song "The Ants Went Marching" and involving early math concepts, writer Kim Norman and illustrator Jay Fleck's The Ghosts Went Floating is a spooktacular adventure perfect for Halloween. The ghosts went floating, one by one, BOO-rah! BOO-rah! when Halloween had just begun. BOO-rah! BOO-rah! The ghosts went floating, one by one, so why don’t YOU come join the fun? Trick-or-treat with ghosts, skeletons, witches, zombies, and all sorts of cute and creepy creatures in this fun-filled Halloween counting adventure!
Ghost
Author: Jason Reynolds
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481450166
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Aspiring to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school's track team, gifted runner Ghost finds his goal challenged by a tragic past with a violent father.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481450166
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Aspiring to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school's track team, gifted runner Ghost finds his goal challenged by a tragic past with a violent father.