Download or read book Nekomah Creek written by Linda Crew and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life at Robby Hummer's house is wild, fun, and a big mess since his twin brother and sister were born. At school, he'd rather read quietly than play games at recess of watch a filmstrip. But his teacher thinks he reads too much and sends him to Mrs. Van Gent, the schol counselor. Sheesh! Since when is liking books a problem? Meanwhile, some kids at school think it's weired that Robby's father stays home to take care of the twins while his mother works. Robby worries that, if his family is not like everybody else's, the authorities could take him away from them. When he learns that Mrs. Van Gent is coming to dinner, he knows she plans to spy. He's got to turn the Hummers into a normal family-now!
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Download or read book Dictionary of American Children s Fiction 1990 1994 written by Agnes Regan Perkins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-11-01 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for librarians, teachers, and researchers, this is the second five-year supplement to the authors' Dictionary of American Children's Fiction, 1960-1984 (Greenwood, 1986). Its 567 entries cover 189 award-winning children's books by 136 authors published from 1990 to 1994. Included are concise critical reviews of novels, biographical profiles of authors, and descriptions of memorable characters. An appendix lists books by the awards they have won, and an extensive index allows complete access to the wealth of material contained within this reference work. Included are alphabetically arranged entries for those works that critics have singled out to receive awards or have placed on citation lists during the five years covered by the volume. The reference also contains biographical entries for leading authors of children's fiction, with entries focusing on how the author's life relates to children's literature and to particular works in this dictionary. The volume provides a list of awards, along with an appendix classifying individual works by the awards they have won. An extensive index provides full access to the wealth of information in this book.
Download or read book Join In written by Donald R. Gallo and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are seventeen original short stories that reflect young adults' views on friendships and prejudice, expectations and disappointments, and connections and confrontations.
Download or read book Nekomah Creek Christmas written by Linda Crew and published by Yearling. This book was released on 1995 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robby Hummer loves everything about Christmas except the school play. He dreads being an elf in green tights. But the joyful season wins him over to the play, as well as to the idea that while some people in Nekomah Creek have different beliefs than his family, the holiday spirit is universal.
Download or read book What Else Should I Read written by Matthew L. Berman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-08-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In answer to the perennial question "What else should I read?", these innovative resources go beyond linear listings of suggestions to help students find books through a variety of directions, including subject, author, and genre. Each guide contains approximately 30 displayable bookwebs that can be used as posters, with reproducible bookmarks that list related titles and fit into pockets on the posters. Each web leads users to 8 to 14 related topics that have lists of relevant books with their authors and brief LC descriptions. Detailed author, title, and subject indexes make further exploration easy. Hundreds of the best fiction books for young readers, titles commonly found in school library collections, are covered in the webs. The visual, nonlinear features of these books make them unique and user-friendly tools for educators and students alike. Perfect for the bulletin board, the bookwebs are a great way to stimulate reading!
Download or read book 101 Great Ready to Use Book Lists for Children written by Nancy J. Keane and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-04-13 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created in consultation with teachers and public librarians, this fantastic collection of 101 ready-to-use book lists provides invaluable help for any educator who plans activities for children that involve using literature. Nancy J. Keane is the author of the award-winning website Booktalks—Quick and Simple (nancykeane.com/booktalks), as well as the creator of the open collaboration wiki ATN Book Lists. With 101 Great, Ready-to-Use Book Lists for Children, she provides another indispensable resource for librarians and teachers. The lists in this book are the result of careful consultation with teachers and public librarians, and from discussions on professional email lists. These indispensable reading lists can be used in many ways—for example, as handouts to teachers as suggested reading, to create book displays, or as display posters in the library. This collection will help educators support the extended reading demands of today's children.
Download or read book Bully proofing Children written by Joanne Scaglione and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2006 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bully-Proofing Children is a comprehensive guide for parents, teachers, and all caretakers on the often overlooked but pervasive issue of bullying in our culture. Parents and teachers will be able to use the questioning techniques, scripts, tips and stories for dealing with this timeless issue. Children of all ages will relate to the real-life stories and they will also identify with the themes, characters, and feelings as they gain an insight and understanding of why bullying and teasing occurs and that it has nothing to do with them.
Download or read book Children of the River written by Linda Crew and published by Perfection Learning. This book was released on 1991-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having fled Cambodia four years earlier to escape the Khmer Rouge Army, 17-year-old Sundara is torn between remaining faithful to the customs of her own people while enjoying life in her Oregon high school as a regular American.
Download or read book Children s Catalog written by Anne Price and published by New York : H.W. Wilson. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fire on the Wind written by Linda Crew and published by . This book was released on 2009-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The summer before her fourteenth birthday, a fierce forest fire rages throughout northwestern Oregon and threatens the logging camp where Storie and her family live.
Download or read book A Heart for Any Fate written by Linda Crew and published by Ooligan Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lovisa King, 17, comes of age on the Oregon Trail and finds the strength to help her family survive a deadly shortcut on their journey to the Willamette Valley.
Download or read book Books in Print Supplement written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 2576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dear God Help Love Earl written by Barbara Park and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earl is ready to do anything to avoid the meanest kid in school-even if it means playing dead.
Download or read book Nekomah Creek Christmas written by Linda Crew and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robby and his boisterous family spend the Christmas season preparing for Robby's reluctant debut in the school play and his parents' income tax audit.
Download or read book Contemporary Authors written by Gale Group and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biographical and bibliographical guide to current writers in all fields including poetry, fiction and nonfiction, journalism, drama, television and movies. Information is provided by the authors themselves or drawn from published interviews, feature stories, book reviews and other materials provided by the authors/publishers.
Download or read book Brides of Eden written by Linda Crew and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this story based on true events, sixteen-year-old Eva and her female friends become obsessed with a charismatic young man who comes to Corvallis, Oregon, in 1904, claiming to be a Christian prophet.
