Download or read book My Great grandmother s Gourd written by Cristina Kessler and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Residents of a Sudanese village rejoice when a traditional water storage method is replaced by modern technology, but Fatima's grandmother knows there is no substitute for the reliability of the baobab tree.
Download or read book Ng M rehu The Survivors 2nd Edition written by Judith Binney and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For much of women's history, memory is the only way of discovering the past. Other sources simply do not exist. This is true for any history of Maori women in this century. All the women in this book have lived through times of acute social disturbance. Their voices must be heard. Judith Binney, 1992. In eight remarkable oral histories, NGA MOREHU brings alive the experience of Maori women from in the mid-twentieth century. Heni Brown Reremoana Koopu, Maaka Jones, Hei Ariki Algie, Heni Sunderland, Miria Rua, Putiputi Onekawa and Te Akakura Rua talked with Judith Binney and Gillian Chaplin, sharing stories and memoires. These are the women whose 'voices must be heard'. The title, 'the survivors', refects the women's connection with the visionary leader Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki and his followers, who adopted the name 'Nga Morehu' during the wars of the 1860s. But these women are not only survivors: they are also the chosen ones, the leaders of their society. They speak here of richly diverse lives - of arranged marriages and whangai adoption traditions, of working in both Maori and Pakeha communities. They pay testimony to their strong sense of a shared identity created by religious and community teachings.
Download or read book A Thousand Miles of Dreams written by Sasha Su-Ling Welland and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Thousand Miles of Dreams is an evocative and intimate biography of two Chinese sisters who took very different paths in their quest to be independent women. Ling Shuhao arrived in Cleveland in 1925 to study medicine in the middle of a U.S. crackdown on Chinese immigrant communities, and her effort to assimilate began. She became an American named Amy, while her sister Ling Shuhua burst onto the Beijing literary scene as a writer of short fiction. They were both Chinese "modern girls" who sought to forge their own way in an era of social revolution and followed trajectories unimaginable to their parents' generation. The journeys of these extraordinary women spanned the twentieth century and three continents in a saga of East-West cultural exchange and personal struggle.
Download or read book Relics written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Daddy s Money written by Jo McDougall and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jo McDougall brings a poet's sensibility to memoir. Recounting five generations of Delta rice farmers, through family archives and oral histories, she traces how the clan made their way into the fabric of America, beginning with her Belgian-immigrant grandfather, a pioneer rice farmer on the Arkansas Delta at the turn of the twentieth century. As John Grisham has for a 1950s Arkansas cotton farm, McDougall illuminates an Arkansas rice farm in the 1930s and 1940s. The Garot family's acreage near DeWitt and the town itself provide the stage for McDougall's wry, compelling, and layered account of the day-to-day of rice growing on the farm that her father inherited. In that setting she discovers a rich "universe of words" in the Great Depression, comes of age during World War II, and finds her way alongside "that whole quirky, compelling cast of characters" that comprised her kin. In this conflicted, ironic, southern-but-universal account of betrayal, heartbreak, loss, and joy, "the vagaries and the grace" of the land join forces with the power of money as family bonds are both forged and dissolved. Deeply felt, unsentimental, and often humorous,Daddy's Money presents McDougall's life and the lives of her relatives in the way that all our lives are eventually framed-as stories. "When all else is lost," the author maintains, "the stories remain."
Download or read book Ready Set Grow written by Rebecca Spohn and published by Good Year Books. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaches kids how to grow house plants, fruits, vegetables, flowers, and herbs. Includes recipes and crafts.
Download or read book The Legend of Logjam written by Emily Gillespie Clement and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-09-24 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Mabel Crockett, the town of Logjam is a fine place to grow up. Sure, some folks are constructed of spare parts, and her own family flies around in a converted WW2 bomber. And over at Halfslips' Center for Botanical Research they're always growing something new and surprising. Not until the creepy Verdon Arbogast begins poking around does Mabel begin to suspect that something really peculiar is going on. Then Mabel receives a cryptic message, and discovers that it's up to her to unravel the secrets of Logjam. Secrets which might reveal more than Mabel wants to know...about herself.
Download or read book The Sojourner written by Ian X. Byrne and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many years ago in the land of the Iroquois a brave sets out on a quest for understanding. He meets strange and interesting people, has many adventures.
Download or read book Solo Passage written by Glenda Goodrich and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her search to find healing and meaning in midlife, Glenda Goodrich undertakes a series of wilderness quests into the backcountry of Oregon, Washington, and California to discover what the natural world has to teach her about life, death, happiness, spirituality, and forgiveness. This book chronicles the sacred ceremonies that connected Goodrich to the land, wove her into nature’s web, and transformed her from a woman who worked to please others into a woman who forged her own path. It is a brilliant collection of adventures—the touch of coyote fur, a snake’s kiss, a ceremonial blood offering—and a profound reflection on the healing and restorative power of nature.
Download or read book Watts Williams Vaughn and Taylor Pioneer Families of Johnson County Arkansas written by Clarence R. Williams, Ed.D. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book chronicles several families and their descendants, all connected with Revolutionary War soldier Garrett Z. Watts. The history underscores their adventures and family bonds as they seek to build their lives in Johnson County, Arkansas amidst the westward expansion from southeastern United States.
Download or read book A Life in the Law written by Mary M. Dunlap with Mary Kay Stein and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1949, when attorney Mary M. Dunlap moved her law practice and her young children from urban Denver, Colorado to their new home in Albuquerque, New Mexico she had no idea what was waiting for her, starting literally at the first stoplight in town. Her career would span more than forty years, bringing her into daily contact with crafty politicians, pueblo Indians, justices of the peace, and an improbable cast of clients—from nuclear scientists and Ziegfeld Follies stars to arsonists, hoboes, and petty criminals. And, to make life more interesting, she and her husband and their children ran a small farm at the same time. The days started early, the work was hard, and then it was time to go to the office, where the day was long, the work was hard, and then it was time to go home. She recalled that she was challenged by men who said that she couldn’t be a real lawyer because she was a woman, or had calluses on her hands or because she drove a pickup. They all changed their minds once they got into court.
Download or read book Bulletin of the Center for Children s Books written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Critical Literacy Across the K 6 Curriculum written by Vivian Maria Vasquez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through stories from kindergarten to sixth grade classrooms where students and teachers have attempted to put a critical edge on their teaching, this book shows critical literacy in action across the curriculum. Readers see students and teachers together using critical literacy discourse to frame conversations in ways that engage students in examining the meaning of the texts they read and acting on local and global social issues that emerge. Drawing on multiple perspectives such as cross-curricular explorations, multimedia, and child-centered inquiry pedagogies, the text features a theoretical toolkit; demonstrations from across the content areas including art, music, and media literacy; integration of technology; and attention to how critical literacy can inform decisions about standards and assessment. Annotated booklists, examples of students’ work, Reflection Questions, Try This (practical classroom strategies), and Resource Boxes can be used to encourage and support engaging in critical literacy work in different areas of the curriculum.
Download or read book Walking Patagonia written by Caspian Ray and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like a conquistador drawn to gold, glory, and God, Caspian Ray has always felt a magnetic pull toward Latin America. He visits anytime he has the chance. Of all the places that have captured his heart, Patagoniaa sparsely populated area shared by Argentina and Chilehas been the site of his defining adventure. Here is a fairy-tale land divinely undefinable. It is the land of the corderos and gauchos as well as screaming westerly winds that whip up from Antarctica. Here is the way to love, death, corruption, God, sex, and pure energy, and they mix together in a concoction that you will never forget. Join the author as he celebrates the spirit, and somehow finds love. In Walking Patagonia, everything is epic.
Download or read book On the Trail of the Pony Express written by and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2002-03-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responding to the enduring lure of the West that captured his imagination as a child, Jerry Ellis decides to follow the trail of the Pony Express, a short-lived, hell-for-leather mail delivery service that lasted just one and a half years starting in 1860 but has marked itself in national memory ever since. Starting his journey in St. Joseph, Missouri, Ellis follows the Pony Express trail across Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, and Nevada to the end of the line in San Francisco. Ellis succeeds in completing his twenty-one-hundred-mile journey by foot, horseback, covered wagon, hitchhiking, and canoe. Open to what he finds, including his own frailties, Ellis reports with sympathy and humor on the strange variety of the modern West.
Download or read book Mother Island written by Jamie Figueroa and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A searing memoir that explores the institutions that defined a Puerto Rican woman and what she unlearned to rediscover herself • "A lushly written, deeply felt investigation into the meanings of home, lineage and selfhood." —Melissa Febos, bestselling author of Body Work and Girlhood Growing up in the Midwest, raised by a Puerto Rican mother who was abandoned by her family, Jamie Figueroa and her sisters were estranged from their culture, consumed by the whiteness that surrounded them. In Mother Island, Figueroa traces her search for identity as shaped by and against a mother who settled into the safety of assimilation. In lyrical, blistering prose, Figueroa recalls a childhood in Ohio in which she was relegated to the background of her mother’s string of failed marriages; her own marriage in her early twenties to a man twice her age; how her work as a licensed massage therapist helped her heal her body trauma; and how becoming a mother has reshaped her relationship to her family and herself. Only as an adult in New Mexico was Figueroa able to forge her own path, using writing to recast her origin story. In a journey that takes her to Puerto Rico and back, Figueroa looks to her ancestors to reimagine her relationship to the past and to her mother’s native island, reaching beyond her own mother into a greater experience of mothering and claiming herself. In stunning prose that draws from Puerto Rican folklore and mythology, a literary lineage of women writers of color, and narratives of identity, Figueroa presents a cultural coming-of-age story. Candid and raw, Mother Island gets to the heart of the question: Who do we become when we are no longer trying to be someone else?
Download or read book Uncle John s UNCANNY Bathroom Reader written by Bathroom Readers' Institute and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved bathroom reader series continues with this twenty-ninth edition that’s overflowing with strange facts on an assortment of topics. What’s so uncanny about the twenty-ninth annual edition of Uncle John’s? This enduring book series has been delivering entertaining information to three generations of readers (so far) . . . and it’s still going strong! How do they do it? Back in 1988, Uncle John successfully predicted the way that twenty-first-century readers would want their information: in quick hits, concisely and cleverly written, and with details so delightful that you’re compelled to share them with someone else. (Kind of like the Internet, but without all those annoying ads.) This groundbreaking series has been imitated time and time again but never equaled. And Uncanny is the Bathroom Readers’ Institute at their very best. Covering a wide array of topics—incredible origins, forgotten history, weird news, amazing science, dumb crooks, and more—readers of all ages will enjoy these 512 pages of the best stuff in print. Here are but a few of the uncanny topics awaiting you: · The World’s Weirdest Protests · The Wit and Wisdom of Bill Murray · Forgotten Game Shows · Darth Vader’s Borderline Personality Disorder, and Other Real Psychiatric Diagnoses of Fictional Characters · Manly Historical Leaders and Their Manly Tattoos · NASA’s “Pillownaut” Experiment · The Secret Lives of Squatters · Cooking with Mr. Coffee · Odd Alcoholic Drinks from Around the World · The History of the Tooth Fairy · Zoo Escapes · And much more IBPA Benjamin Franklin Silver Award winner 2017!
