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We Want America Back for the Sake of the Children Live |
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Steeles |
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Home Is Where We Live: Life at a Shelter Through a Young Girl's Eyes |
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Jane Hertensten (Editor), B. L. Groth (Photographer) |
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Kindergarten-Grade 3?Life in the Cornerstone Community Outreach Center, a shelter for women and children in Chicago, is presented through the eyes of a young girl who has just arrived. Through very simple language; short, declarative sentences; and a montage of photographs presented in quasi-collage format, she offers her impressions of shelter life. The book clearly seeks to demystify and de-stigmatize the experience, and casts as positive a light as possible on the residents. The black-and-white photographs (occasionally tinted) display a diverse population, and many of them show strong emotions as well. For the most part they correspond well to the brief text on each page. A lot of questions, however, remain unanswered. The economic circumstances of the narrator's family, whose belongings are in storage... |
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Where Does God Live (Skylight Lives) |
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August Gold |
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Ages 3-6. Little children have a natural curiosity about God, and this slim book will go a long way to answer their questions. A little girl asks, "Where does God live?" The answers come from her parents: "God lives in us all." But the child can't see God. Her parents' ongoing answers make her understand that she must see God through the eyes of her heart. Now many ways of seeing God begin to tumble out: God is in the sun and the dark, in flowers and in treetops. God lives in dreams. The sentiment is heartfelt and right at a child's level of understanding, though the text's rhyme gets a bit sing-songy. The well-conceived color photographs, some computer enhanced to dreamy effect, show kids of all races and religions as well as scenes of nature. A sweet, safe place to start a conversation about God. Ilene... |
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To My Child |
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Gary Morris |
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0883964473 |
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"Our wonderful family is like a candle that reflects its joy within our hearts. And it's like a fire that keeps us close and warm no matter how long we're apart." - Marin McKay For every parent who has wished for the words to express how much they care about a child who's living away from home; for every child (no matter how young or old) who needs a reminder from time to time that they are loved, believed in, and supported no matter what they do or how far away from home they are... comes this collection of contemporary poetry that will bring the hearts of parents and children everywhere closer together and unite them in a bond of sharing and love. This special collection is a gift that every parent can give with the knowledge that their deepest feelings and wishes have been conveyed in an unforgettable way. And... |
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Nothing Can Keep Us Together (Gossip Girl Series #8) |
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Cecily von Ziegesar |
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Gr. 10-12. This eighth Gossip Girls title will satisfy rabid fans of the series with a new round of scandals and exploits among the usual cast of gorgeous, wealthy teens, who amuse themselves in stylish Manhattan settings. In this installment, set during the teens' graduation from their exclusive high schools, sex and drugs figure more frankly into the plotlines, and a few sleazy teachers openly lust after students. Unapologetically lightweight and glamorous, and filled with snarky, humorous asides, this stays close to the series' best-selling formula, and the characters' questions about life after high school will draw even more teen interest. Gillian Engberg
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Gildaen: The Heroic Adventures of a Most Unusual Rabbit (Stories from Where We Live) |
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Emilie Buchwald, Barbara Flynn (Illustrator) |
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Having lost his memory, a boy with magical powers teams up with the rabbit Gildaen to search for his true identity.
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To My Child |
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Gary Morris |
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0883964740 |
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"Our wonderful family is like a candle that reflects its joy within our hearts. And it's like a fire that keeps us close and warm no matter how long we're apart." - Marin McKay For every parent who has wished for the words to express how much they care about a child who's living away from home; for every child (no matter how young or old) who needs a reminder from time to time that they are loved, believed in, and supported no matter what they do or how far away from home they are... comes this collection of contemporary poetry that will bring the hearts of parents and children everywhere closer together and unite them in a bond of sharing and love. This special collection is a gift that every parent can give with the knowledge that their deepest feelings and wishes have been conveyed in an unforgettable way. And... |
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower |
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Stephen Chbosky |
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What is most notable about this funny, touching, memorable first novel from Stephen Chbosky is the resounding accuracy with which the author captures the voice of a boy teetering on the brink of adulthood. Charlie is a freshman. And while's he's not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. He's a wallflower--shy and introspective, and intelligent beyond his years, if not very savvy in the social arts. We learn about Charlie through the letters he writes to someone of undisclosed name, age, and gender, a stylistic technique that adds to the heart-wrenching earnestness saturating this teen's story. Charlie encounters the same struggles that many kids face in high school--how to make friends, the intensity of a crush, family tensions, a first relationship, exploring sexuality, experimenting with drugs--but... |
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Where We Live (Adventures in Architecture) |
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Achim Bode, et al |
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Grade 3-5-Cursory glances at two topics dealing with architecture and construction. Where We Live offers a hodgepodge of facts about the methods and materials humans have used to create shelter for themselves over the ages. Dark type is frequently placed on dark illustrations, and captions and text are often scattered around the double-page spreads. Philip Wilkinson's Building (Knopf, 1995) is broader in scope and presents information in a more interesting and lively manner. Joe and the Skyscraper traces the construction of the Empire State Building through the eyes of a 16-year-old water boy who worked on the project. Original photographs, many by Lewis W. Hine, offer fascinating views from the girders and pulleys. A note tells readers that Joe Carbonelli actually worked on the building but nothing... |
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Stories from Where We Live -- The Great North American Prairie |
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Sara St. Antoine (Editor), Trudy Nicholson (Illustrator) |
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Gr. 4-8. This companion to Stories from Where We Live: The North Atlantic Coast (2000) includes stories, poems, journal entries, and essays that reflect life on the prairies of the U.S and Canada. The selections, both historical and contemporary, comprise a good mix of fiction and information, and reflect the ethnic diversity of the inhabitants. St. Antoine showcases familiar authors such as Carl Sandburg, Willa Cather, and Louise Erdich, as well as lesser-known writers. Also valuable are the generous appendixes, which include maps of the region, a detailed discussion of various kinds of prairies, listings of flora and fauna, an index sorted by state or province, listings of parks and preserves, and bibliographies. Occasional line drawings break up the longer selections. A solid addition to classroom units that will yield... |
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Amazing You: Getting Smart About Your Private Parts |
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Gail Saltz |
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PreSchool-Grade 1–This title tackles basic body awareness and sex education. The text speaks directly to young children, differentiating between body parts that are visible most of the time and those that are kept hidden, showing the differences between girls and boys and offering a simple explanation of how babies are made without explicit reference to sex. Cravath's sunny cartoons show the various parts in a straightforward manner, though preschoolers may be confused about where the internal ones are. The text also uses terms such as "vagina" and "urinate" without actually explaining what they mean, and, curiously, the text does not discuss breasts at all, though there are side-by-side illustrations of a boy and girl in the baby, preschool, and adult stages. An author's note advises parents on the... |
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We All Sing with the Same Voice |
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J. Philip Miller |
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I live across the street,
In the mountains,
On the beach.
I come from everywhere.
And my name is you. No matter where they live, what they look like, who is in their families, or what they do, all children, at heart, are the same. This Sesame Street song by J. Philip Miller and Sheppard M. Greene comes to life with Paul Meisel's happy illustrations. Children from Texas, Peru, and southern France; with black hair, red hair, or yellow hair; named Jack or Amanda Sue or Kareem Abdu; rejoice in the fact that they all "sing with the same voice." Meisel paints a picture of diversity that is buoyant and beautiful. Children in their native garb, from serapes to woven vests to blue jeans, open their mouths wide in song, encouraging young readers to sing along with the accompanying CD. Meisel has ... |
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The Great Lakes: Stories from Where We Live (Stories from Where We Live Series) |
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Paul Mirocha, et al |
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This delightful anthology conveys not only the richness of nature in the Great Lakes region, but also the importance it holds for so many of its inhabitants. Shaped by glaciers, the area has been home to diverse Native American nations, explorers, trappers, loggers, and farmers. Readers meet an Ojibwe girl born in 1777 on the shores of Wisconsin's Chequamegon Bay, spend a summer hunting for rare plants in rural Indiana, and watch the Aurora Borealis from atop 400-foot dunes in Michigan. The book is filled with adventures past and present, including the thrill of sledding the highest hill in deep winter, crossing an ice bridge above Niagara Falls in the winter of 1899, and sailing on the Rouse Simmons, a schooner bringing Christmas trees from Michigan's Upper Peninsula to Chicago in 1912. Other pieces describe... |
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We Beat The Street: How A Friendship Led To Success |
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Sampson Davis |
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Grade 7 Up–The Three Doctors, as the subjects of this inspirational book call both themselves and their nonprofit foundation, grew up in a tough neighborhood in Newark, NJ. Draper tells an epiphanic story featuring each of the young men by turn, followed by his comments on how a single event affected him across time. Davis, for instance, remembers the hospital where he later became an emergency-medicine physician as the same one where his foot was treated after an incident when he was six. Hunt recalls first meeting Sampson and Jenkins in ninth grade. Jenkins tells of the friends' success at moving from high school to college. Draper adds dialogue and evokes the pivotal moment in each vignette as though it were a scene in one of her realistic novels. The book takes the young men through college and... |
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Netherlands (Where We Live Series) |
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Donna Bailey |
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Describes life in the busy capital city of Amsterdam, Holland.
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Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers: More Mad, Marvy Confessions of Georgia Nicolson |
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Louise Rennison |
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Grade 7-9–Georgia Nicolson's life is full of drama and trauma, and no one seems to understand–not Mutti, not Vati, not her best friend, Jas. Georgia's family is off for the uncharted reaches of Hamburger-a-gogo-land, and she is sure she will see her crush, Masimo, there. Her family will be visiting Memphis, but surely Manhattan isn't far? And it shouldn't be difficult to track down a family called Scarlotti in Manhattan, right? When the Nicholsons return home, Masimo unseen, Georgia is sad. She is truly heartbroken, however, when he comes back and seems more interested in Wet Lindsay than in Georgia herself. This is not a stand-alone title; some of the situations are better understood by knowing the vast and storied history that is Georgia's life–her hatred for Wet Lindsay, for example, and... |
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Russia (Where We Live) |
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Jenny Vaughan, Chris Barnard |
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A brief descriptive tour of Leningrad.
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Stories from Where We Live: The North Atlantic Coast (Stories from Where We Live) |
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Sara St. Antoine (Editor), et al |
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Gr. 5-8. The first volume in the new series Stories from Where We Live, this anthology presents stories, essays, folktales, journal entries, songs, and poems inspired by the places and people of the North Atlantic coast, from Newfoundland to Delaware. Notable authors represented include Henry David Thoreau, Farley Mowatt, and Nikki Giovanni, but relatively unknown writers contributed some of the most effective selections. For example, Jeff W. Bens' memorable story "The Legend of Big Claw," which takes places on Black Island in Rhode Island, tells of the capture of a legendary lobster. Put on display in the lobster tank of a seafood restaurant, Big Claw soon makes his escape, aided by sympathetic locals. Ink drawings illustrate many of the selections. Reflecting themes in the writing, the pictures most often focus on... |
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Year Down Yonder |
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Richard Peck |
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Grandma Dowdel's back! She's just as feisty and terrifying and goodhearted as she was in Richard Peck's A Long Way from Chicago, and every bit as funny. In the first book, a Newbery Honor winner, Grandma's rampages were seen through the eyes of her grandson Joey, who, with his sister, Mary Alice, was sent down from Chicago for a week every summer to visit. But now it's 1937 and Joey has gone off to work for the Civilian Conservation Corps, while 15-year-old Mary Alice has to go stay with Grandma alone--for a whole year, maybe longer. From the very first moment when she arrives at the depot clutching her Philco portable radio and her cat, Bootsie, Mary Alice knows it won't be easy. And it's not. She has to sleep alone in the attic, attend a hick town school where in spite of her worn-out coat she's "the rich girl... |
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The Ivy Chronicles |
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Karen Quinn |
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Karen Quinn's The Ivy Chronicles is the amusing story of what happens when a New Yorker loses her job, her husband, and her ritzy Park Avenue pad and is forced to carve out a new niche for herself and her two private school-educated daughters. After transferring the girls to public school and renting a shabby-chic (at best) flat upstairs from a knicherie, Ivy Ames takes her billionaire friend Faith's advice and starts a consulting business to help privileged pre-schoolers get into the city's premier kindergartens. Light on substance yet heavy on laughs, Quinn does a reasonably successful job of following in the well-heeled footsteps of earlier gossip lit standouts such as The Nanny Diaries and The Devil Wears Prada. While Ivy's moral quandaries (is it really wrong to accept an alligator-skin Prada in exchange for... |
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Stories from Where We Live -- The California Coast |
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Sara St. Antoine (Editor) |
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Gr. 4-7. Focused on the natural history of coastal California, this anthology includes poetry, excerpts from biographies, and essays, as well as stories from contemporary and historical sources. Loosely organized by subject, the selections feature the diverse animal and plant life of the region, as well as climate and geology. Some of the pieces are gems that children are unlikely to find elsewhere, but a few are better teaching tools than stories. Some are clearly for elementary-school students, while others are better suited for middle-schoolers. Appendixes include maps, a description of the climate, an outline of basic habitats, a brief register of animals and plants, a selective list of parks and preserves, a map indicating selections by region, and a limited bibliography of recommended reading. A thoughtful... |
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Where We Live |
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Reg Cartwright |
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The Teenage Guy's Survival Guide |
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Jeremy Daldry |
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Without being overly earnest or condescending, this American version of the 1997 British book Boys Behaving Badly is frank in both language and description as it tackles everything from asking a girl out to demystifying the emotional and physical minefield of adolescence--from pimples to pornography. Daldry's tone is irreverent and warmly sarcastic as he trashes myths about masturbation ("It won't make you go crazy or blind") and homosexuality ("It doesn't mean that you have to start wearing women's underwear") and helps readers cope with being dumped, having mood swings, the temptations of drugs, and finding out that their mothers know about their stash of porn magazines. Cartoon illustrations and the use of a variety of typefaces enhance both the humor and the message. Important phrases leap off the page,... |
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