Download or read book Caroline and Papa written by Ronald B. Schram and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I had the career of a lifetime. I was a teacher. I began my teaching career believing that one person could make a difference, and throughout the years, I never lost sight of that conviction. Teaching connected me to my students in ways quite humorous, as well as heart breaking. I hope the reader laughs a lot and cries only a little, while walking in my footsteps as an educator. Laugh with me as you read about Fred, the crusty cockroach we set free to find his wife and eighty-seven children. In addition, there is always my favorite story about the scary monster under the bed holding a student's homework hostage. I fed a rooster and his hens bread crumbs for breakfast each morning, until they tried to follow me, in single file, into the school board building one day. Some difficult students in summer school mistakenly believed my black patent leather belt to be a black belt in Karate. Who was I to tell them differently? Coming right on top of the laughs were the times I went home to cry. I remember the student, new to our school, who went home one evening and hung himself, his cries for help coming too late. I remember with equal sadness, the foster child we sponsored in Kenya who died because help did not reach him in time. Closer to home was the overage student who was shot and killed while he participated in a home invasion, just days after he finished summer school. Outside factors reached inside our classroom as well, reeking havoc with the emotions of both the children and me. The disastrous space shuttle, with the teacher on board, happened before our very eyes; while the greatest tragedy of all was the destruction of the twin towers on 9/11. These stories and many more comprise my educational career, and although there was no easy button, I would do it all over again. I was a teacher.
Download or read book Meet Caroline written by Kathleen Ernst and published by American Girl Publishing Incorporated. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the British attack Caroline's village, she makes a daring choice that helps to win the day.
Download or read book Traitor in the Shipyard written by Kathleen Ernst and published by American Girl Publishing Incorporated. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caroline worries that British spies may be lurking in Sackets Harbor. When strange things start happening at Abbott's Shipyard, Caroline wonders if a spy, either someone she has known all her life or Papa's long-lost friend, is responsible.
Download or read book Changes for Caroline written by Kathleen Ernst and published by American Girl Publishing Incorporated. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continues the story of Caroline Abbott, a young girl living during the War of 1812.
Download or read book A Surprise for Caroline written by Kathleen Ernst and published by American Girl Publishing Incorporated. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continues the story of Caroline Abbott, a young girl living during the War of 1812.
Download or read book Lasting Love written by Caroline Wright and published by Rodale Kids. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gorgeous picture-book meditation on loss and family love is a useful tool for children navigating a first experience with death. When a family member or another loved one becomes ill, one of the scariest aspects of their sickness is the way they may change, both physically and in spirit. The feeling of loss can come so early as the person becomes more difficult to recognize. It's a hard thing for anyone to understand, and especially so for a child. This book offers a helpful visualization of a sick person's essence as a friendly creature who remains strong and warm, even as the illness progresses. The creature is always around and never tries to cheer the child up, but only serves to keep them company. Caroline Wright and Willow Heath clearly understand that, like the creature, a book cannot "fix" a painful situation or even make it a little better. Instead they simply reflect the pain of loss back to the reader and help them understand that they are not alone.
Download or read book A Zebra s World written by Caroline Arnold and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2015-02 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the black and white stripes of a baby zebra and discover what happens in a zebra's world.
Download or read book Caroline Takes a Chance written by Kathleen Ernst and published by American Girl Publishing Incorporated. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a warship threatens American supplies, can Caroline save the day?
Download or read book Riddle of the Prairie Bride written by Kathryn Reiss and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kansas prairie in 1878 is the setting for this mystery about a girl who gets a new stepmother—a woman who may not be what she appears Ida Kate Deming lives on the Kansas prairie with her father. Once a lonely outpost, Hays City is now a bustling town where the twelve-year-old impatiently awaits the arrival of papa’s mail-order bride. Ida Kate lost her beloved mother when she was ten. Now someone new will share their lives, along with the seemingly endless chores. And the best part is, Ida Kate will have a new mother and a new little brother, as well. But when Caroline Fairchild steps off the train, she doesn’t look at all the way she described herself in her letters. Instead of being tall and thin, she’s short. And her hair is the wrong color. And she definitely isn’t allergic to cats. As Ida Kate races to uncover the truth before her father marries Caroline, a blizzard endangers her new family, and Ida Kate has to figure out where her true loyalties lie. This ebook includes a historical afterword.
Download or read book I m a Big Brother written by Ronne Randall and published by . This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A child eagerly welcomes home his new baby brother.
Download or read book Krik Krak written by Edwidge Danticat and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arriving one year after the Haitian-American's first novel (Breath, Eyes, Memory) alerted critics to her compelling voice, these 10 stories, some of which have appeared in small literary journals, confirm Danticat's reputation as a remarkably gifted writer. Examining the lives of ordinary Haitians, particularly those struggling to survive under the brutal Duvalier regime, Danticat illuminates the distance between people's desires and the stifling reality of their lives. A profound mix of Catholicism and voodoo spirituality informs the tales, bestowing a mythic importance on people described in the opening story, "Children of the Sea," as those "in this world whose names don't matter to anyone but themselves." The ceaseless grip of dictatorship often leads men to emotionally abandon their families, like the husband in "A Wall of Fire Rising," who dreams of escaping in a neighbor's hot-air balloon. The women exhibit more resilience, largely because of their insistence on finding meaning and solidarity through storytelling; but Danticat portrays these bonds with an honesty that shows that sisterhood, too, has its power plays. In the book's final piece, "Epilogue: Women Like Us," she writes: "Are there women who both cook and write? Kitchen poets, they call them. They slip phrases into their stew and wrap meaning around their pork before frying it. They make narrative dumplings and stuff their daughter's mouths so they say nothing more." The stories inform and enrich one another, as the female characters reveal a common ancestry and ties to the fictional Ville Rose. In addition to the power of Danticat's themes, the book is enhanced by an element of suspense (we're never certain, for example, if a rickety boat packed with refugees introduced in the first tale will reach the Florida coast). Spare, elegant and moving, these stories cohere into a superb collection.
Download or read book Speaking to Father written by George Ade and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Burning Up written by Caroline B. Cooney and published by Delacorte Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen-year-old Macey Clare loves her Connecticut hometown, where her mother grew up and her grandparents still live, and she likes visiting her grandparents even more now that their neighbors’ handsome grandson, Austin, has moved in. But when Macey decides to research the history of a burned-out barn across the street from her grandparents’ home for a school report, she gets a shock about what happened. Nobody can change the past, but is Macey ready to take the responsibility for the present and in the process reveal dark secrets about her town and the people she loves?
Download or read book The New York Drama written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Educating Caroline written by Meg Cabot and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With The Princess Diaries author Meg Cabot’s sparkling wit, this Victorian romance follows a young woman looking for lessons in love—now with a stunning new cover. Lady Caroline Linford is horrified to discover her fiancé, the Marquis of Winchilsea, in the arms of another woman. Unfortunately, the rest of Victorian society doesn’t seem to understand the betrayal. Such extracurriculars are par for the course—society believes there is certainly no reason for Caroline to cancel their imminent wedding. But Caroline is determined to make sure that the man she is to marry will desire only her, so she enlists the best teacher in the art of romance: London’s most notorious rake, Braden Granville. As their passionate tutelage begins, sparks fly and the lines between teacher and student get increasingly blurred. Now there is just one last lesson to learn: on the subject of true love, the heart chooses its own unpredictable ways.
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Download or read book Life s Pages written by Barbara E. Lithander and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-10-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life’s Pages invites you on a journey back in time and entices you to travel through this true story about a remarkable little girl and the two families that loved and shared her.Against the backdrop of Prohibition and the Great Depression, the characters come to life once more, weaving themselves into your heart as they survive some of life’s most difficult, and unimaginable events. Courage and hope move them forward, as they choose to fully live and enjoy each page of their life’s journey, taking the reader with them as they continue forward–one page at a time.Life’s Pages is a beautiful story, simply written, and generously shared–a slice of Americana everyone can appreciate and enjoy.