Download or read book Ahgottahandleonit written by Donovan Mixon and published by Cinco Puntos Press. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tim is bad news navigating Newark’s mean streets. An undiagnosed dyslexic, his neighborhood creds rest on riffing strange rap-rhymes. He’s packed into a 3-flat with his mother, sister and wise Uncle Gentrale. His drunkard father, recently evicted from the household, kills himself. Then it gets worse—Tim accidentally kills Chucky, a gangbanger who wanted to kick his brains out.
Download or read book Performance Ear Training written by Donovan Mixon and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a real ear training method that presents in an organized fashion a collection of study concepts that help you develop a functional knowledge and physical sensitivity to progressions, tensions, scales, intervals, and melodies. With clear step-by-step instructions all concepts are demonstrated live in real time by the author on the enclosed CDs.
Download or read book Bunk 9 s Guide to Growing Up written by Adah Nuchi and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONGRATS! YOU HAVE FOUND “THE BOOK”! Filled with facts, tips, advice, and illustrations, BUNK 9’S GUIDE TO GROWING UP is the girl-powered puberty book you’ll actually want to read. Written in the voice of the counselors in training at the fictional Camp Silver Moon, it’s like having your best friend or older sister share everything there is to know about being comfortable in your changing body. From periods, bras, and hormones to nutrition, exercise, and sleep—to crushes, that first kiss, and ALL the feels—it’s the head-to-toe guide to not only surviving puberty but totally, 100% owning it! GUARD THIS BOOK WITH YOUR LIFE AND USE ITS SECRETS WISELY. The Top Three Tips for the Best Puberty Ever A Field Guide to Breasts Acne: Self-Care and Skin Care The ‘No-Smell’ Basics Rocking Your First Period Why Sleep? Boys: They’re Changing, Too Crushing It
Download or read book I Like I Don t Like written by Anna Baccelliere and published by Eerdmans Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Council for the Social Studies-Children’s Book Council: 2018 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People An eye-opening introduction to an important issue The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child states that every child in the world has the right to play. Unfortunately, that universal right is not always respected. I Like, I Don't Like presents this reality to readers by showing how children in varying circumstances can see the same object very differently. With stark illustrations that perfectly capture the tone of the book, I Like, I Don't Like will inspire meaningful discussions about privilege and poverty.
Download or read book I m Mixed written by Maggy Williams and published by Loving Healing Press. This book was released on 2018-02-14 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl proudly claims her "mixed" identity as the child of a white mother and an African American father.
Download or read book Days with Dad written by Nari Hong and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl and her wheelchair-bound father share many special moments because she treasures all they can do together, although he apologizes for not being able to do more.
Download or read book Evangelina Takes Flight written by Diana J. Noble and published by Arte Público Press. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If they do come here, they’ll show us no mercy,” thirteen-year-old Evangelina overhears her father say as she gathers eggs in the chicken pen. Back at the house, Mamá brushes away her fears of revolutionaries. There are even more chores than usual to be done at Rancho Encantado because her sister’s quinceañera celebration is rapidly approaching! It’s the summer of 1911 in northern Mexico, and soon the de León family learns that the rumors of soldiers in the region are true. Evangelina’s father decides they must leave their home to avoid the violence. The trip north to a small town on the U.S. side of the border is filled with fear and anxiety as they worry about loved ones left behind and the uncertain future ahead. Life in Texas is confusing, though the signs in shop windows that say “No Mexicans” and some people’s reactions to them are all-too clear. At school, she encounters the same puzzling resentment. The teacher wants to give the Mexican children lessons on basic hygiene! And one girl in particular delights in taunting the foreign-born students. Why can’t people understand that—even though she’s only starting to learn English—she’s just like them? With the help and encouragement of the town’s doctor and the attentions of a handsome boy, Evangelina begins to imagine a new future for herself. This moving historical novel introduces teens to the tumultuous times of the Mexican Revolution and the experiences of immigrants, especially Mexican Americans, as they adjust to a new way of life.
Download or read book I Am Alfonso Jones written by Tony Medina and published by Tu Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. Alfonso can't wait to play the role of Hamlet in his school's hip-hop rendition of the classic play. But as he is buying his first suit, an off-duty police officer misatkes a clothes hanger for a gun and shoots Alfoso. When Alfonso wakes up in the afterlife, he's on a ghost train guided by well-known victims of police shootings, who teach him what he needs to know about this subterranean spiritual world. Meanwhile, Alfonso's family and friends struggle with their grief and seek justice for Alfonso in the streets.
Download or read book Banana Leaf Ball The written by Katie Smith Milway and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Separated from his family when they were forced to flee their home, a young East African boy named Deo lives alone in the Lukole refugee camp in Tanzania. With scarce resources, bullies have formed gangs to steal what they can, and one leader named Remy has begun targeting Deo. But when a coach organizes the children to play soccer, everything begins to change for Deo. And for Remy. By sharing the joy of play, ñno one feels so alone anymore.î Readers everywhere will be inspired to read how play can change lives.
Download or read book Strong Is the New Pretty written by Kate T. Parker and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Girls being fearless. Girls being silly. Girls being wild, stubborn, and proud. Girls whose faces are smeared with dirt and lit up with joy. So simple and yet so powerful, Strong Is the New Pretty celebrates, through more than 175 memorable photographs, the strength and spirit of girls being 100% themselves. Real beauty isn’t about being a certain size, acting a certain way, wearing the right clothes, or having your hair done (or even brushed). Real beauty is about being your authentic self and owning it. Kate T. Parker is a professional photographer who finds the real beauty in girls, capturing it for all the world to see in candid and arresting images. A celebration, a catalog of spirit in words and smiles, an affirmation of the fact that it’s what’s inside you that counts, Strong Is the New Pretty conveys a powerful message for every girl, for every mother and father of a girl, for every coach and mentor and teacher, for everyone in the village that it takes to raise a strong and self-confident person.
Download or read book My Real Name Is Hanna written by Tara Lynn Masih and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hanna Slivka is on the cusp of fourteen when Hitler's army crosses the border into Soviet-occupied Ukraine. Soon, the Gestapo closes in, determined to make the shtetele she lives in "free of Jews." Until the German occupation, Hanna spent her time exploring Kwasova with her younger siblings, admiring the drawings of the handsome Leon Stadnick, and helping her neighbor dye decorative pysanky eggs. But now she, Leon, and their families are forced to flee and hide in the forest outside their shtetele-and then in the dark caves beneath the rolling meadows, rumored to harbor evil spirits. Underground, they battle sickness and starvation, while the hunt continues above. When Hanna's father disappears, suddenly it's up to Hanna to find him-and to find a way to keep the rest of her family, and friends, alive. Sparse, resonant, and lyrical, weaving in tales of Jewish and Ukrainian folklore, My Real Name Is Hanna celebrates the sustaining bonds of family, the beauty of a helping hand, and the tenacity of the human spirit.
Download or read book Midnight Teacher written by Janet Halfmann and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical fiction picture book reveals the unknown story of Lilly Ann Granderson, an African-American teacher who risked her life to teach others during slavery.
Download or read book Wordwings written by Sydelle Pearl and published by Essential Prose. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is 1941 when twelve year old Rivka Rosenfeld lives in the midst of the Warsaw Ghetto with her grandfather and two sisters in the small sanctuary of a synagogue because housing is so scarce. When her grandfather's beard is slashed from his face by German soldiers simply because he is Jewish, Rivka becomes so angry that she is compelled to write in between the pages of a worn library book of fairytales by Hans Christian Andersen. As she hides her words in the rags of her pillow, she wishes she could bury them deep under the ground where someday they would be discovered after the war. Rivka charts her memories as well as her stories and learns that through her storytelling, she can transport, strengthen, and uplift her listeners who are mainly the homeless, orphaned, and beggar children. Rivka is especially drawn to stories of birds because of her wish to escape the horrors of Ghetto life. Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum, historian and founder of the Underground Archives-a written compilation of life experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto-is so impressed by her storytelling that he asks her to contribute her diary with her stories to this archives and Rivka agrees wholeheartedly, imagining her words rising up from the ground on wings of their own."--
Download or read book NotYourPrincess written by Lisa Charleyboy and published by Annick Press. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether looking back to a troubled past or welcoming a hopeful future, the powerful voices of Indigenous women across North America resound in this book. In the same style as the best-selling Dreaming in Indian, #Not Your Princess presents an eclectic collection of poems, essays, interviews, and art that combine to express the experience of being a Native woman. Stories of abuse, humiliation, and stereotyping are countered by the voices of passionate women making themselves heard and demanding change. Sometimes angry, often reflective, but always strong, the women in this book will give teen readers insight into the lives of women who, for so long, have been virtually invisible.
Download or read book Three Balls of Wool written by Henriqueta Cristina and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With three balls of wool and lots of ingenuity, this mother gets down to work and sparks a small revolution.
Download or read book Rethinking Bilingual Education written by Elizabeth Barbian and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of articles, teachers bring students' home languages into their classrooms-from powerful bilingual social justice curriculum to strategies for honoring students' languages in schools that do not have bilingual programs. Bilingual educators and advocates share how they work to keep equity at the center and build solidarity between diverse communities. Teachers and students speak to the tragedy of languages loss, but also about inspiring work to defend and expand bilingual programs. Book jacket.
Download or read book Stormy Seas written by Mary Beth Leatherdale and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phenomenon of desperate refugees risking their lives to reach safety is not new. For hundreds of years, people have left behind family, friends, and all they know in hope of a better life. This book presents five true stories about young people who lived through the harrowing experience of setting sail in search of asylum: Ruth and her family board the St. Louis to escape Nazism; Phu sets out alone from war-torn Vietnam; Jos tries to reach the U.S. from Cuba; Najeeba flees Afghanistan and the Taliban; Mohamed, an orphan, runs from his village on the Ivory Coast. Aimed at middle grade students, Stormy Seas combines a contemporary collage-based design, sidebars, fact boxes, timeline and further reading to produce a book that is ideal for both reading and research. Readers will gain new insights into a situation that has constantly been making the headlines.