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Series
Publisher
Bantam Dell Pub
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
The best way to nurture your child's reading and writing abilities is to provide rich literary experiences and find frequent and varied opportunities to work and play with language. By the end of second grade, children have developed a reading vocabulary of familiar words and can decode the letter-sound patterns of many unfamiliar one- and two- syllable words. During third grade, as they increase their knowledge about words (including the concepts...
62) Unfair advantage: the power of financial education : what schools will never teach you about money
Author
Publisher
Plata
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
True financial education is the path to creating the life you want for yourself and your family. Kiyosaki challenges people to change the one thing that is within your control: yourself. He demonstrates how real financial education gives you an unfair advantage, and delivers measurable results.
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Born in 1966 in Ghulja in the Xinjiang region, Gulbahar Haitiwaji was an executive in the Chinese oil industry before leaving for France in 2006 with her husband and children, who obtained the status of political refugees. In 2017 she was summoned in China for an administrative issue. Once there, she was arrested and spent more than two years in a re-education camp. Thanks to the efforts of her family and the French foreign ministry she was freed...
65) Electricity
Language
English
Description
Safety Smart Science with Bill Nye the Science Guy explores the science of safety by going behind the scenes at Underwriters Laboratories and discovering how products that use electricity are tested to keep us safe. Learn the shocking truth about conductors and insulators and why electricity can be dangerous if you become part of the circuit.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
The author describes how, after working as a humanitarian around the world, he realized that he could do nothing to stop violence or prevent people from becoming refugees and soon joined the elite Navy SEALs, where he drew on his humanitarian training as he battled injustice.
67) Simple justice: the history of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's struggle for equality
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1976.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Encounter Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Liberal education, if it does not discover how to speak to society in ways our culture understands, and if it cannot make its virtues apparent to the democracy in which we live, will make itself smaller and smaller, lose the audience it wishes to hold, and die by diminishment. The liberal arts are dying because most Americans don't see the point of them. They don't get why anyone would study literature or history or the classics-or, more contemporarily,...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An autobiographical picture book tells the story of a young African American girl who lived during the shutdown of public schools in Farmville, Virginia, following the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
To mark its 100-year anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman to bring together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century...
76) The American presidents: 1850-1900, Civil War and Reconstruction ; development of the industrial U.S
Series
Publisher
Disney Educational Productions
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A fresh and relevant narrative about the men who led this country through change and the lives they affected, from an early idea of democracy to our first African-American President.
Author
Publisher
M.E. Sharpe
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
"Videogames and education are not necessarily antithetical. In this mind-expanding work, Harry J. Brown shows how videogames have become a powerful form of political, ethical, and religious discourse that influences the way we teach, learn, and create. He traces the major trends in game design, the public controversies surrounding videogames, and the major positions in game criticism. The book speaks to thoughtful educators, parents, and players who...
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