Download or read book Living in Rural Communities written by Kristin Sterling and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simple text and color photographs describe life in the country. Includes rural facts and a glossary.
Download or read book Living in Rural Communities written by Kristin Sterling and published by Lerner Publications ™. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the common characteristics of a rural community.
Download or read book Living in Suburban Communities written by Kristin Sterling and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defines what a suburb is and describes its main characteristics.
Download or read book Living in Suburban Communities written by Kristin Sterling and published by Lerner Publications ™. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the common characteristics of a suburban community.
Download or read book Country Kid City Kid written by Julie Cummins and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben lives on a quiet farm in the country where he wakes to the peaceful sounds of cows mooing and birds chirping. In the city, Jody lives in an apartment where she's awakened by honking horns and wailing sirens. Their lives are nothing alike--or are they? Full-color illustrations. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Download or read book Living in Urban Communities written by Kristin Sterling and published by Lerner Publications ™. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the common characteristics of an urban community.
Download or read book A Walking Life written by Antonia Malchik and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of On Trails, this is an incisive, utterly engaging exploration of walking: how it is fundamental to our being human, how we've designed it out of our lives, and how it is essential that we reembrace it. "I'm going for a walk." How often has this phrase been uttered by someone with a heart full of anger or sorrow? Or as an invitation, a precursor to a declaration of love? Our species and its predecessors have been bipedal walkers for at least six million years; by now, we take this seemingly arbitrary motion for granted. Yet how many of us still really walk in our everyday lives? Driven by a combination of a car-centric culture and an insatiable thirst for productivity and efficiency, we're spending more time sedentary and alone than we ever have before. If bipedal walking is truly what makes our species human, as paleoanthropologists claim, what does it mean that we are designing walking right out of our lives? Antonia Malchik asks essential questions at the center of humanity's evolution and social structures: Who gets to walk, and where? How did we lose the right to walk, and what implications does that have for the strength of our communities, the future of democracy, and the pervasive loneliness of individual lives? The loss of walking as an individual and a community act has the potential to destroy our deepest spiritual connections, our democratic society, our neighborhoods, and our freedom. But we can change the course of our mobility. And we need to. Delving into a wealth of science, history, and anecdote -- from our deepest origins as hominins to our first steps as babies, to universal design and social infrastructure, A Walking Life shows exactly how walking is essential, how deeply reliant our brains and bodies are on this simple pedestrian act -- and how we can reclaim it.
Download or read book Look Where We Live written by Scot Ritchie and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fun and informational picture book follows five friends as they explore their community during a street fair. The children find adventure close to home while learning about the businesses, public spaces and people in their neighborhood. Young readers will be inspired to re-create the fun-filled day in their own communities.
Download or read book Treat Us Like Dogs and We Will Become Wolves written by Carolyn Chute and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An intellectual page-turner” set in a secretive countercultural community by the author of The Beans of Egypt, Maine (O, The Oprah Magazine). It’s the height of summer 1999, when local Maine newspaper the Record Sun receives numerous tipoffs from anonymous callers warning of violence, weapons stockpiling, and rampant child abuse at the nearby homeschool on Heart’s Content Road. Hungry to break into serious journalism, Ivy Morelli sets out to meet the mysterious leader of the homeschool, Gordon St. Onge—referred to by many as “The Prophet.” Soon, Ivy ingratiates herself into the sprawling Settlement, a self-sufficient counterculture community that many locals suspect to be a wild cult. Despite her initial skepticism—not to mention the Settlement’s ever-growing group of pregnant teenage girls—Ivy finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gordon. Then, a newcomer—a gifted, disturbed young girl with wild orange hair—joins the community, and falls into a complicated relationship with the charismatic Prophet. When the Record Sun finally runs its piece on the leader of the Settlement, lives will be changed both within and beyond the community, in this novel by a writer described by the New York Times Book Review as “a James Joyce of the backcountry, a Proust of rural society.”
Download or read book A Place to Hang the Moon written by Kate Albus and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartwarming story about three siblings, evacuated from London to live in the countryside, looking for a permanent home--and a new meaning for family. A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year It is 1940 and William, 12, Edmund, 11, and Anna, 9, aren't terribly upset by the death of the not-so-grandmotherly grandmother who has taken care of them since their parents died. But the children do need a guardian, and in the dark days of World War II London, those are in short supply, especially if they hope to stay together. Could the mass wartime evacuation of children from London to the countryside be the answer? It's a preposterous plan, but off they go-- keeping their predicament a secret, and hoping to be placed in a temporary home that ends up lasting forever. Moving from one billet to another, the children suffer the cruel trickery of foster brothers, the cold realities of outdoor toilets and the hollowness of empty stomachs. But at least they find comfort in the village lending library-- a cozy shelter from the harshness of everyday life, filled with favorite stories and the quiet company of Nora Müller, the kind librarian. The children wonder if Nora could be the family they've been searching for. . . . But the shadow of the war, and the unknown whereaouts of Nora's German husband complicate matters. A Place to Hang the Moon is a story about the importance of family: the one you're given, and the one you choose. Filled with rich, sensory prose, allusions to classic children's stories like A Little Princess, Mary Poppins, and The Story of Ferdinand, this cozy tale with a classic feel is sure to warm your heart. Don't miss Kate Albus's Nothing Else But Miracles which takes place in New York City during WWII and was described as "historical fiction at its finest" in a starred review from School Library Journal. An ALSC Notable Children's Book An SCBWI Crystal Kite Award Winner A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection Named to the Pennsylvania Young Readers Choice List A CCBC Choice
Download or read book Lentil written by Robert McCloskey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1978-04-27 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Lentil wants to learn to sing, but no matter how hard he tries he can’t sing on key. He can’t even pucker his lips to whistle! So Lentil learns to play the harmonica instead and beautifully carries his tune through the winding streets of Alto, Ohio. Lentil masters his craft just as the beloved Colonel Carter returns to town and the Alto residents decide to plan a special celebration. But Old Sneep, the grouchiest man in town, doesn’t want anyone celebrating Colonel Carter’s homecoming. When Old Sneep stops the welcoming parade in its tracks, Lentil’s music turns out to be just what Alto needs. Robert McCloskey, the Caldecott-winning author and illustrator of Make Way for Ducklings, brings readers this delightful two color picture book.
Download or read book The Horn Book Guide to Children s and Young Adult Books written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book School Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forthcoming Books written by Rose Arny and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Teaching Tough Topics written by Larry Swartz and published by Pembroke Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching Tough Topics shows teachers how to lead students to become caring citizens as they read and respond to quality children’s literature. It focuses on topics that can be challenging or sensitive, yet are significant in order to build understanding of social justice, diversity, and equity. Racism, Homophobia, Bullying, Religious Intolerance, Poverty, and Physical and Mental Challenges are just some of the themes explored. The book is rooted in the belief that by using picture books, novels, poetry, and nonfiction, teachers can enrich learning with compassion and empathy as students make connections to texts, to others, and to the world.
Download or read book New York Libraries written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New York Libraries a Quarterly Devoted to the Interests of the Libraries of the State written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
