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Walter Benjamin for Children |
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Jeffrey Mehlman |
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Between 1929 and 1933 Benjamin, the German literary and cultural critic, wrote and broadcast a series of radio scripts for children, consisting of deceptively simple stories and fireside chats. He narrated tales about catastrophes--the destruction of Pompeii, the Lisbon earthquake of 1755, a Scottish railway disaster--as well as parables about fraud, including tales of philatelic forgeries and of mountebanks like Count Cagliostro, the 18th-century mystic who was revered as a saint. In a rigorous, dense scholarly study, Mehlman, professor of foreign languages at Boston University, persuasively argues that Benjamin's radio scripts for children--some 30 of which survive--reveal his preoccupation with the theme of a "false messiah," a prescient concern validated by the rise of Hitler. Establishing links between the... |
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Little Princess |
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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Harris's cultured British articulation fits the story, but her characterizations may not suit listeners familiar with the story. D.W. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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Enjoy a complete, unabridged classic spiced by the voice of film actress Wanda McCaddon as it narrates the classic story of young rich girl Sara Crewe, who finds herself impoverished and at the mercy of a cruel headmistress when her father dies. Enjoy a strong audio version which recreates the drama of the story.
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Gnomes |
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Wil Huygen, Rien Poortvliet |
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Text: English, Dutch (translation)
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Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria-France, 1769 (The Royal Diaries) |
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Kathryn Lasky |
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"I look up now into the oval mirror and see barely a trace of the mud-splattered girl tearing through the woodland on her horse, or the barefoot girl wading at Schonbrunn... I have become what Mama set out for me to be. Majestic. A Dauphine and eventually a Queen." So writes the headstrong 13-year-old Maria Antonia--future Queen of France--in her diary on October 23, 1769. In this engrossing addition to the Royal Diaries series (Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor, Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile), Kathryn Lasky invents a diary of the young Marie Antoinette in 1769--the year she is to be married off to Dauphin Louis Auguste, eldest grandson of the French king Louis XV. Arranged marriages were common in that day and age--as the Empress Theresa (of the Holy Roman Empire of the Germanic Nations) sought to... |
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Secret Gardens, Satanic Mills |
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Mary Jo Maynes |
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Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy (Children of the Red King Series #3) |
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Jenny Nimmo |
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British boy with catchy name and unusual powers, check. Wild hair, check. Students at boarding school, check. Owls and funny street names, check. Mysterious shape-shifting enemies out to get the affable boy protagonist, check. Jenny Nimmo's "Children of the Red King" series (starring Charlie Bone) has so many of the same trappings as the Harry Potter series that, unfortunately, comparison is unavoidable. Rowling's books clearly trump these simpler fantasies for younger readers--but the Charlie Bone books are finding their audience in those who need a boy-wizard fix and need it now. Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy, the third book in the author's planned quintet, begins when the magically "endowed" Charlie and his friend Emma discover a mostly invisible, strawberry jam-loving boy named Ollie Sparks imprisoned in the... |
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Secret Gardens, Satanic Mlls |
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Mary Jo Maynes |
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The Groovy Greeks AND the Rotten Romans (Horrible Histories Collections S.) |
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Terry Deary, Martin Brown (Illustrator) |
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Little Princess |
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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From AudioFile
Harris's cultured British articulation fits the story, but her characterizations may not suit listeners familiar with the story. D.W. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
--This text refers to the
Audio Cassette
edition.
Midwest Book Review
Enjoy a complete, unabridged classic spiced by the voice of film actress Wanda McCaddon as it narrates the classic story of young rich girl Sara Crewe, who finds herself impoverished and at the mercy of a cruel headmistress when her father dies. Enjoy a strong audio version which recreates the drama of the story.
--This text refers to the
Audio Cassette
edition.
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Poor Women and Children in the European Past |
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John Henderson |
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Women and children have always featured prominently among the critically disadvantaged. Poor Women and Children in the European Past provides a comparative survey of the poverty experienced by women and children in Europe by testing the applicability of the outline of the poverty life-cycle. Among the issues raised in a perceptive and wide-ranging introduction by the editors, John Henderson and Richard Wall, are the distinctive nature of women's poverty over the life-cycle, the relationship between family and demographic systems and the level of poverty, and the relative generosity of public and private charity provided by a range of European societies.
About the Author
John Henderson is Senior Research Fellow of Welcome Unit for the History of Medicine... |
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A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, and The Cricket on the Hearth (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) |
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Charles Dickens |
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Ruthless Romans (Horrible Histories S.) |
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Terry Deary, Martin Brown (Illustrator) |
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Catherine, Called Birdy |
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Karen Cushman |
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A Newbery Honor Book, this witty and wise fictive diary of a 13th-century English girl, according to PW, "introduces an admirable heroine and pungently evokes a largely unfamiliar setting." Ages 12-up. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
Grade 6-9-This unusual book provides an insider's look at the life of Birdy, 14, the daughter of a minor English nobleman. The year is 1290 and the vehicle for storytelling is the girl's witty, irreverent diary. She looks with a clear and critical eye upon the world around her, telling of the people she knows and of the daily events in her small manor house. Much of Birdy's energy is consumed by avoiding the various suitors her father chooses for her to marry. She sends them all packing with assorted... |
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The Child and the Hero |
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Mark Perini |
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Many generations of readers have noticed the prominence given to children and to heroes--usually young men--in the poems of Vergil and his contemporary Catullus. But until now it has not always been clear why Vergil and Catullus employ these characters, or what readers are to make of these sometimes odd figures.
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Becoming Visible: Women in European History |
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Renate Bridenthal (Editor), et al |
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Thematic emphases include the contacts between European women and those outside European frontiers; sexuality and its importance for the construction of gender over the centuries; coverage of women from all time periods and sociocultural backgrounds; the role of women in the great events and movements in European history and the impact of such events on them; and the interplay of gender and women's lives over the centuries.
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The Anti-Jacobin Novel |
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M. O. Grenby |
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'M. O. Grenby offers a beautifully written and illuminating account of a neglected but useful literary source for the British conservative response to the French Revolution and the 'Revolution crisis' in Britain ... this is a thorough study, yet one written with pace, cogency and brio, enlivened by many apt excerpts from the pithy, sometimes enjoyably caustic summaries of Dr Grenby's raw materials.' History
'Filling in a long-standing blank in our perception of the Romantic-era novel, The Anti-Jacobin Novel offers a valuable contribution to British literary history, as well as powerful arguments for revisiting the way in which literary criticism has tended to represent British politics and society of the 1790s in the last few decades. For these, and other reasons, Grenby has done the critical community a great service. ...... |
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A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver |
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E.L. Konigsburg |
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Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife to two kings, mother to two others, has been waiting in Heaven a long time -- eight centuries, more or less -- to be reunited with her second husband, Henry II of England. Finally, the day has come when Henry will be judged for admission. While Eleanor, never a patient woman in life or afterlife, waits, three people, each of whom was close to Eleanor during a time of her life, join her. Their reminiscences do far more than help distract Eleanor -- they also paint a rich portrait of an extraordinary woman who was front and center in a remarkable period in history and whose accomplishments have had an important influence on society through the ages.
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While waiting in heaven for divine judgement to be passed on her second... |
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The Midwife's Apprentice |
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Karen Cushman |
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Karen Cushman likes to write with her tongue firmly planted in her cheek, and her feisty female characters firmly planted in history. In The Midwife's Apprentice, which earned the 1996 Newbery Medal, this makes a winning combination for children and adult readers alike. Like her award-winning book Catherine, Called Birdy, the story takes place in medieval England. This time our protagonist is Alyce, who rises from the dung heap (literally) of homelessness and namelessness to find a station in life--apprentice to the crotchety, snaggletoothed midwife Jane Sharp. On Alyce's first solo outing as a midwife, she fails to deliver. Instead of facing her ignorance, Alyce chooses to run from failure--never a good choice. Disappointingly, Cushman does not offer any hardships or internal wrestling to warrant Alyce's final epiphanies,... |
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Centuries of Child Labour |
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Marjatta Rahikainen |
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DAC Study Guide For Advanced Placement European History |
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Fred Brown |
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This study guide was created by an AP teacher and tested by AP students. The ideas for this study guide came from many AP teachers and students. This book contains such featues as: Two Outlines Of European History, A Timeline of European History, A Glossary of AP European History, Essay Writing Guides, Rubrics for DBQ and FRQ, and Study and Test taking Tips. This guide was created to prepare the reader to take the AP European History test.It gives the student strategies to be as prepared as possible on test day. Suggestions are included for using web sites for further study.
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The Royal Diaries: Catherine, The Great Journey, Russia, 1743 |
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Kristiana Gregory |
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Grade 4-7 This novel is written from the viewpoint of Princess Sophie Augusta Fredericka of Anhalt-Zerbst, who later became Catherine the Great. The diary opens with an entry dated August 7, 1743, when Sophie is 14. Her mother obsesses over marrying her into a prestigious family. When the studious and rather plain-looking teen has an opportunity to marry Peter, Grand Duke of Russia, she must face the scrutiny of critical Empress Elizabeth. In her diary, Sophie talks about her home situation and recounts the hardships of travel to Russia, her efforts to please the empress, and her engagement. Gregory's strong characterizations bring the historically grounded figures to life. Events convey the difficulties of Russian life during 1743-1745. At first slow moving, the plot picks up speed when Sophie meets the... |
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Mary, Bloody Mary: A Young Royals Book |
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Carolyn Meyer |
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Teen fans of the movie Elizabeth will be fascinated with the pomp and sinister intrigue of Mary, Bloody Mary, an engrossing story about the teen years of Mary Tudor, half sister to Queen Elizabeth and daughter to Henry VIII. As a baby, Mary was adored by her father, who carried her around on his shoulder and displayed her for the court to admire. But as his marriage with her mother, Catherine of Aragon, waned for lack of a male heir, Henry began an affair with the beautiful Anne Boleyn. Mary was convinced that Anne was a witch. Didn't everyone know she had a sixth finger? And wasn't it Anne who persuaded Henry to declare his first marriage invalid (rendering Mary a bastard)? As the king grows ever colder, Mary is banished to a distant house, forbidden from seeing her mother, left to wear rags, and finally--at Anne's... |
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The Last Eyewitnesses |
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Waktoria Silwowska |
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Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Polish
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The Diary of Anne Frank (The Definitive Edition) |
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Anne Frank |
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Anne Frank's diaries have always been among the most moving and eloquent documents of the Holocaust. This new edition restores diary entries omitted from the original edition, revealing a new depth to Anne's dreams, irritations, hardships, and passions. Anne emerges as more real, more human, and more vital than ever. If you've never read this remarkable autobiography, do so. If you have read it, you owe it to yourself to read it again.
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From Publishers Weekly
This startling new edition of Dutch Jewish teenager Anne Frank's classic diary?written in an Amsterdam warehouse, where for two years she hid from the Nazis with her family and friends?contains approximately 30% more material than the original 1947 edition. It... |
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Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot |
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Patricia C. Wrede |
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A great deal is happening in London and the country this season.
For starters, there's the witch who tried to poison Kate at the Royal College of Wizards. There's also the man who seems to be spying on Cecelia. (Though he's not doing a very good job of it--so just what are his intentions?) And then there's Oliver. Ever since he was turned into a tree, he hasn't bothered to tell anyone where he is.
Clearly, magic is a deadly and dangerous business. And the girls might be in fear for their lives . . . if only they weren't having so much fun!
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I Am a Holocaust Torah: The Story of the Saving of 1,564 Torahs Stolen by the Nazis |
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Alex J. Goldman |
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The story of I AM A HOLOCAUST TORAH began in Czechoslovakia during WW2. The Nazis stormed into the country destroying lives, property, and Synagogues. The Nazis stole Torah scrolls and Torah adornments such as crowns, breastplates, and mantles and stored them in Prague. By 1944, 1,564 Torahs and many adornments had beed gathered, and by the end of the War the Torahs were nearly forgotten. Twenty years later, in 1964, an English art dealer negotiated with the Czech authorities to transfer the Torahs to London. The Torahs were all brought to Westminster Synagogue where they were inspected, distributed, or housed. More than one thousand Torahs have found homes throughout the world. Those that remain are part of a permanent exhibit at the Czech Memorial Scrolls Center in Kent House of Westminster Synagogue, London. I... |
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Pride and Joy |
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Jan Baptist Bedaux |
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From Library Journal
A publication devoted for children's portraiture might seem a bit saccharine, but that does not hold true for the book under review. Contrary to the dust jacket's description, this exhibition catalog is quite scholarly. Compiled by two scholars specializing in portraiture, the catalog includes four essays and a series of detailed entries. The essays magnify specific aspects of child portraiture in the Netherlands during the 16th and 17th centuries: childishness and the Counter-Reformation, education and portraiture, and images of toys and children's costumes. Bedaux's introduction effectively establishes a groundwork upon which the individual entries are built. The artists represented are a veritable who's who of 16th- to 18th-century Dutch painters, with each entry including details of the subject, the artist, the... |
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Children Writing the Holocaust |
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Sue Vice |
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This book examines a wide range of works written by and about child survivors and victims of the Holocaust. The writers analyzed range from Anne Frank and Saul Friedlander to Ida Fink and Louis Begley; topics covered include the Kindertransport experience, exile to Siberia, living in hiding, Jewish children masquerading as Christian, and ghetto diaries. Throughout, the argument is made that these texts use such similar techniques and structures that children's-eye views of the Holocaust constitute a discrete literary genre.
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Spend the Day in Ancient Greece : Projects and Activities that Bring the Past to Life (Spend The Day Series) |
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Linda Honan |
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Chariot racing, peplos weaving, cooking, and helmet making! Anything can happen when you spend the day in ancient Greece! It is over two thousand years ago in Athens, Greece, and you are invited to join a typical family as they celebrate the birthday of the goddess Athena. Take a trip with twelve-year-old Alexander to see the athletes competing in the pentathlon. Work along with ten-year-old Helen as she weaves a gift for Athena. Meet their father, Philip, as he tends to sick patients, and their mother, Penelope, as she prepares for the special evening feast. Celebrate the history of ancient Greece with more than a dozen exciting activities! Write a letter using the Greek alphabet. Make a snake bracelet as a gift for a friend. Create masks to wear in your own play. Build a chariot that you can race... |
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Viking Ships at Sunrise (Magic Tree House Series #15) |
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Mary Pope Osborne |
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Jack and Annie are off in search of another story in jeopardy, this time at a monastery in ancient Ireland. Trouble arrives when Vikings land, and Jack and Annie must find a way to escape!
Card catalog description
Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to a monastery in medieval Ireland, where they try to retrieve a lost book while being menaced by Viking raiders.
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