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Book Children of Other Lands

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  • Author : Watty Piper
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-04-05
  • ISBN : 9781773236810
  • Pages : 90 pages

Download or read book Children of Other Lands written by Watty Piper and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-05 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the Boys and Girls Who Will Read This Book You all want to cross the ocean in a big steamship, I'm sure. Perhaps some of you are looking forward to going by air some day. But there is an easier way to travel than that. It is the book way. Without the trouble of packing even an over-night bag, this book will take you to many far away and fascinating lands. Watty Piper hopes that it will do more than that. One of the pleasantest things about going to new places is making new friends, isn't it? The little folks from far away, whom you will meet in these pages, do not wear clothes like yours. They do not eat the same kind of food. But under their skins, you will find they are not so different from you after all. Surely you can be friends. And now we're off. A pleasant journey. WATTY PIPER. Text and illustrations introduce The Everyday Life Of Children In Various Countries Around The World. Written by the same man as "The Little Engine that Could".

Book Children of the Land

Download or read book Children of the Land written by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NPR Best Book of the Year A 2020 International Latino Book Award Finalist An Entertainment Weekly, The Millions, and LitHub Most Anticipated Book of the Year This unforgettable memoir from a prize-winning poet about growing up undocumented in the United States recounts the sorrows and joys of a family torn apart by draconian policies and chronicles one young man’s attempt to build a future in a nation that denies his existence. “You were not a ghost even though an entire country was scared of you. No one in this story was a ghost. This was not a story.” When Marcelo Hernandez Castillo was five years old and his family was preparing to cross the border between Mexico and the United States, he suffered temporary, stress-induced blindness. Castillo regained his vision, but quickly understood that he had to move into a threshold of invisibility before settling in California with his parents and siblings. Thus began a new life of hiding in plain sight and of paying extraordinarily careful attention at all times for fear of being truly seen. Before Castillo was one of the most celebrated poets of a generation, he was a boy who perfected his English in the hopes that he might never seem extraordinary. With beauty, grace, and honesty, Castillo recounts his and his family’s encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe, ordinary lives. He writes of the Sunday afternoon when he opened the door to an ICE officer who had one hand on his holster, of the hours he spent making a fake social security card so that he could work to support his family, of his father’s deportation and the decade that he spent waiting to return to his wife and children only to be denied reentry, and of his mother’s heartbreaking decision to leave her children and grandchildren so that she could be reunited with her estranged husband and retire from a life of hard labor. Children of the Land distills the trauma of displacement, illuminates the human lives behind the headlines and serves as a stunning meditation on what it means to be a man and a citizen.

Book Children of Other Lands

Download or read book Children of Other Lands written by Watty Piper and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief text and illustrations introduce the everyday life of children in various cultures around the world.

Book Land of Or

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  • Author : Katie Mullaly
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-06-04
  • ISBN : 9780986099700
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Land of Or written by Katie Mullaly and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel through the Land of OR to learn how to make good choices.

Book Children of the Stone

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  • Author : Sandy Tolan
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2015-07-16
  • ISBN : 1408853051
  • Pages : 502 pages

Download or read book Children of the Stone written by Sandy Tolan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children of the Stone is the unlikely story of Ramzi Hussein Aburedwan, a boy from a Palestinian refugee camp in Ramallah who confronts the occupying army, gets an education, masters an instrument, dreams of something much bigger than himself, and then inspires scores of others to work with him to make that dream a reality. That dream is of a music school in the midst of a refugee camp in Ramallah, a school that will transform the lives of thousands of children through music. Daniel Barenboim, the Israeli musician and music director of La Scala in Milan and the Berlin Opera, is among those who help Ramzi realize his dream. He has played with Ramzi frequently, at chamber music concerts in Al-Kamandjati, the school Ramzi worked so hard to build, and in the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra that Barenboim founded with the late Palestinian intellectual, Edward Said. Children of the Stone is a story about music, freedom and conflict; determination and vision. It's a vivid portrait of life amid checkpoints and military occupation, a growing movement of nonviolent resistance, the past and future of musical collaboration across the Israeli-Palestinian divide, and the potential of music to help children see new possibilities for their lives. Above all, Children of the Stone chronicles the journey of Ramzi Aburedwan, and how he worked against the odds to create something lasting and beautiful in a war-torn land.

Book Of Land and Sky

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  • Author : Toby Smith
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-05-12
  • ISBN : 9781714866304
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Of Land and Sky written by Toby Smith and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring collection of sixteen poems accompanied by the whimsical and wonderful artwork of Michelle McDowell Smith. The poems uplift, reassure and offer courage to children and adults alike. "Of Land and Sky" reminds us of how hopeful childhood can be and keeps us optimistic for the future.

Book CHILDREN OF OTHER LANDS

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  • Author : WATTY. PIPER
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 9781033080115
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book CHILDREN OF OTHER LANDS written by WATTY. PIPER and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Brave Children of Other Lands

Download or read book Brave Children of Other Lands written by E. F. Dodd and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Land of I AM

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  • Author : Katie Mullaly
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-11-10
  • ISBN : 9780986099748
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Land of I AM written by Katie Mullaly and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Marvellous Land of Snergs

Download or read book The Marvellous Land of Snergs written by Edward Augustin Wyke Smith and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human children Joe and Sylvia have magical adventures in the land of the snergs, a race of people only slightly taller than the average table.

Book Terry s Journey to Cf Land  Navigating the Adventures of Cystic Fibrosis

Download or read book Terry s Journey to Cf Land Navigating the Adventures of Cystic Fibrosis written by Terry Gene Wright and published by Clovercroft Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TERRY'S JOURNEY TO CF LAND: Navigating the Adventures of Cystic Fibrosis is a children's story coloring book that follows and depicts the surreal journey of Terry Wright, a 58-year old African American male Cystic Fibrosis (CF) patient (born August 1962) who is not diagnosed until the age of 54, although he has been hospitalized, seen by an array of healthcare practitioners, and unknowingly dealing with the devastating consequences of CF throughout his entire life.

Book Tommy Smith s Animals

Download or read book Tommy Smith s Animals written by Edmund Selous and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-28 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tommy Smith's Animals" by Edmund Selous is a delightful journey into the world of a young boy named Tommy Smith and his unique bond with animals. Selous masterfully captures the innocence and wonder of childhood through Tommy's adventures. From his encounters with friendly creatures to heartwarming stories of loyalty and friendship, this book is a heartening celebration of the pure connection between humans and animals. Selous' storytelling is both enchanting and educational, making "Tommy Smith's Animals" a timeless read for young and old alike.

Book Table Lands

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  • Author : Kara K. Keeling
  • Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Release : 2020-06-04
  • ISBN : 1496828364
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book Table Lands written by Kara K. Keeling and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2020-06-04 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food is a signifier of power for both adults and children, a sign of both inclusion and exclusion and of conformity and resistance. Many academic disciplines—from sociology to literary studies—have studied food and its function as a complex social discourse, and the wide variety of approaches to the topic provides multidisciplinary frames for understanding the construction and uses of food in all types of media, including children’s literature. Table Lands: Food in Children’s Literature is a survey of food’s function in children’s texts, showing how the sociocultural contexts of food reveal children’s agency. Authors Kara K. Keeling and Scott T. Pollard examine texts that vary from historical to contemporary, noncanonical to classics, and Anglo-American to multicultural traditions, including a variety of genres, formats, and audiences: realism, fantasy, cookbooks, picture books, chapter books, YA novels, and film. Table Lands offers a unified approach to studying food in a wide variety of texts for children. Spanning nearly 150 years of children’s literature, Keeling and Pollard’s analysis covers a selection of texts that show the omnipresence of food in children’s literature and culture and how they vary in representations of race, region, and class, due to the impact of these issues on food. Furthermore, they include not only classic children’s books, such as Winnie-the-Pooh, but recent award-winning multicultural novels as well as cookbooks and even one film, Pixar’s Ratatouille.

Book Children of the Land

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  • Author : Glen H. Elder Jr.
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2014-10-01
  • ISBN : 022622497X
  • Pages : 404 pages

Download or read book Children of the Land written by Glen H. Elder Jr. and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century ago, most Americans had ties to the land. Now only one in fifty is engaged in farming and little more than a fourth live in rural communities. Though not new, this exodus from the land represents one of the great social movements of our age and is also symptomatic of an unparalleled transformation of our society. In Children of the Land, the authors ask whether traditional observations about farm families—strong intergenerational ties, productive roles for youth in work and social leadership, dedicated parents and a network of positive engagement in church, school, and community life—apply to three hundred Iowa children who have grown up with some tie to the land. The answer, as this study shows, is a resounding yes. In spite of the hardships they faced during the agricultural crisis of the 1980s, these children, whose lives we follow from the seventh grade to after high school graduation, proved to be remarkably successful, both academically and socially. A moving testament to the distinctly positive lifestyle of Iowa families with connections to the land, this uplifting book also suggests important routes to success for youths in other high risk settings.

Book Children of the Land

Download or read book Children of the Land written by Jocelyn Linnekin and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Among the Hidden

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  • Author : Margaret Peterson Haddix
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2002-06-12
  • ISBN : 0689848072
  • Pages : 169 pages

Download or read book Among the Hidden written by Margaret Peterson Haddix and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-06-12 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke, an illegal third child, has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm in this start to the Shadow Children series from Margaret Peterson Haddix. Luke has never been to school. He's never had a birthday party, or gone to a friend's house for an overnight. In fact, Luke has never had a friend. Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child forbidden by the Population Police. He's lived his entire life in hiding, and now, with a new housing development replacing the woods next to his family's farm, he is no longer even allowed to go outside. Then, one day Luke sees a girl's face in the window of a house where he knows two other children already live. Finally, he's met a shadow child like himself. Jen is willing to risk everything to come out of the shadows—does Luke dare to become involved in her dangerous plan? Can he afford not to?