Download or read book Louder Lili written by Gennifer Choldenko and published by Putnam Juvenile. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lili is so shy that her voice is never heard in class until the day a good friend needs her help.

Download or read book Because We Can Change the World written by Mara Sapon-Shevin and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Change the world, one classroom at a time! Mara Sapon-Shevin skillfully blends vision statements, stories, and strategies to guide teachers in promoting social justice and creating classrooms that allow all children to experience academic success. This new edition of a highly acclaimed book: Provides a powerful vision of diverse, inclusive elementary classrooms Discusses the barriers to creating cooperative classrooms and how they can be overcome Offers activities, songs, and children’s literature that promote acceptance and understanding Includes new “Reframing Our Work” sections with reflective questions that help readers examine their own beliefs and teaching practices

Download or read book John s Whistle written by Lili Ferreiros and published by Cuento de Luz. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner at the 2014 Living Now Book Awards A tale full of tenderness that touches the heart, reminding us that music is the true language of the soul, and that our differences can be solved through good intentions and friendship. Guided Reading Level: N, Lexile Level: 940L

Download or read book My Name Is Light written by Elsa Osorio and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-08-05 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vacationing in Madrid with her husband and newborn son, Luz, a twenty-one-year-old Argentinean, secretly searches for her real father, a political activist who disappeared during the country's dictatorship in the 1970s. Original.

Download or read book Little Chanclas written by and published by Cinco Puntos Press. This book was released on 2015-08-10 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bilingual tale about Little Lilly Lujan who loves her chanclas (flip-flops) going slippety-slappety and flippity-flop. In fact, Lilly refuses any footwear except her favorite pair of flip-flops. "Why does Lilly love her chanclas so much?" her family cries. Lilly doesn't listen. That's why her family nicknames her "Little Chanclas." At baptisms, barbecues, quinceñeras, and picnics, you can hear Little Chanclas going slippety-slap and flippity-flop. Then one day Lilly dances a little too much at a fiesta, her chanclas come apart, a pit bull chews up the remains, and there is no more flip for her flop! Little Chanclas is inconsolable. Crisis ensues as she rejects shoe after shoe. But then a miracle happens. Lilly puts on a pair of soccer shoes. She's a natural. She goes clickety-click. She scores a goal. She's a star! José Lozano is a rising star in the thriving Latino art scene in Los Angeles, California. Born in Los Angeles, his family moved to Juárez, Chihuahua, México, when he was a baby. Growing up on the border, he found many of the cultural touchstones that continue to influence his work today—bad Mexican cinema, lucha libre, fotonovelas, ghost stories, and comic books. Lozano prefers to work in a series, focusing on themes like Mexican wrestlers, paper dolls, and lotería. In fact, the Los Angeles Metro System commissioned his loteria card portraits of various light rail riders for the La Brea/Expo Station. Lozano lives in Fullerton, California, and teaches elementary school in Anaheim.

Download or read book Thunder Cake written by Patricia Polacco and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1990-03-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A loud clap of thunder booms, and rattles the windows of Grandma's old farmhouse. "This is Thunder Cake baking weather," calls Grandma, as she and her granddaughter hurry to gather the ingredients around the farm. A real Thunder Cake must reach the oven before the storm arrives. But the list of ingredients is long and not easy to find . . . and the storm is coming closer all the time! Reaching once again into her rich childhood experience, Patricia Polacco tells the memorable story of how her grandma--her Babushka--helped her overcome her fear of thunder when she was a little girl. Ms. Polacco's vivid memories of her grandmother's endearing answer to a child's fear, accompanied by her bright folk-art illustrations, turn a frightening thunderstorm into an adventure and ultimately . . . a celebration! Whether the first clap of thunder finds you buried under the bedcovers or happily anticipating the coming storm, Thunder Cake is a story that will bring new meaning and possibility to the excitement of a thunderstorm.

Download or read book Too Loud Lily written by Sophie Laguna and published by Omnibus Books. This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Everyone in her family says Lily is too loud. She is too loud at home - she wakes the baby. She is too loud in class, too. But when Miss Loopiola comes to her school to teach music and drama, Lily Hippo finds she is loud in just the right way!" -- Back cover.

Download or read book Tr umerei Lili s Dream written by Bianca Pardue and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite a disastrous mishap during her audition, flutist Liliana Winter is accepted to the prestigious Music Program for Higher Tonal Arts in Germany. Here she finds friends, mystery, the love of her life and a new destiny. On a visit to Frankfurt she buys a tote bag at the flea market from a mysterious vendor. It contains a surprise that brings her adventure beyond her wildest dreams. Lili and her friends are transported back in time to the early 1900's. Meanwhile, a traitor in their midst will do anything to undermine Lili and her allies for his own evil gains. He is in for a reckoning when forced to battle "The Organization of Time Travel", whose duty is to safeguard historically weak composers and musicians destined for greatness so they complete their works for future generations to enjoy. Will the man with no music in his heart change history, as we know it? Or, has history already been re-written? Find out! Join Lili in her adventure of music, love, time travel, misdirection, seduction and murder!

Download or read book Blood Orange written by Karen Keskinen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though she specializes in missing persons cases, Santa Barbara private investigator Jaymie Zarlin agrees to look into the death of a local teenager, who's murdered just as she's been chosen for the coveted role of Daphne in the annual solstice parade.

Download or read book Dreams and Schemes written by Pattye Thomas and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In rural Montana in the early 1940s, a group of friends, boys and girls share secrets, dreams and ideas. Follow their intertwined paths leading to adventures, misadventures, escapades and disaster. Naive, not yet wise to the ways of the world, but on their way to maturity. They learn about sex, trust, right and wrong together. Enters Lou, she's older, hardened, wiser, manipulative and greedy! With drugs, lies and deceit she changes all of their lives forever. When their paths cross hers these young teens are forced to make decisions. For some of them the decisions they make cost them their lives. Others will be left with shattered dreams and a loss of innocence. Through sorrow, triumphs and defeats, others find life long friends.

Download or read book Al Capone Does My Shirts written by Gennifer Choldenko and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-04-20 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Newbery Honor Book and New York Times Bestseller that is historical fiction with a hint of mystery about living at Alcatraz not as a prisoner, but as a kid meeting some of the most famous criminals in our history. Al Capone Does My Shirts has become an instant classic for all kids to read! Today I moved to Alcatraz, a twelve-acre rock covered with cement, topped with bird turd and surrounded by water. I'm not the only kid who lives here. There are twenty-three other kids who live on the island because their dads work as guards or cooks or doctors or electricians for the prison, like my dad does. And then there are a ton of murderers, rapists, hit men, con men, stickup men, embezzlers, connivers, burglars, kidnappers and maybe even an innocent man or two, though I doubt it. The convicts we have are the kind other prisons don't want. I never knew prisons could be picky, but I guess they can. You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you're me. I came here because my mother said I had to. A Newbery Honor Book A New York Times Bestseller A People magazine "Best kid's Book" An ALA Book for Young Adults An ALA Notable Book A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Krikus Reviews Editor's Choice A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A Parents' Choice Silver Honor Book A New York Public Library "100 Titles for Reading and Sharing" Selection A New York Public Library Best Book for the Teen Age *"Choldenko's pacing is exquisite. . . . [A] great read."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review *"Exceptionally atmospheric, fast-paced and memorable!"—Publishers Weekly, starred review *"The story, told with humor and skill, will fascinate readers."—School Library Journal, starred review "Al is the perfect novel for a young guy or moll who digs books by Gordon Korman, or Louis Sachar."—Time Out New York for Kids "Funny situations and plot twists abound!"—People magazine "Heartstopping in some places, heartrending in others, and most of all, it is heartwarming."—San Francisco Chronicle

Download or read book Man Into Woman written by Lili Elbe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1930 Danish artist Einar Wegener underwent a series of surgeries to live as Lili Ilse Elvenes (more commonly known as Lili Elbe). Her life story, Fra Mand til Kvinde (From Man to Woman), published in Copenhagen in 1931, is the first popular full-length (auto)biographical narrative of a subject who undergoes genital transformation surgery (Genitalumwandlung). In Man Into Woman: A Comparative Scholarly Edition, Pamela L. Caughie and Sabine Meyer present the full text of the 1933 American edition of Elbe's work with comprehensive notes on textual and paratextual variants across the four published editions in three languages. This edition also includes a substantial scholarly introduction which situates the historical and intellectual context of Elbe's work, as well as new essays on the work by leading scholars in transgender studies and modernist literature, and critical coverage of the 2015 biopic, The Danish Girl. This print edition has a digital companion: the Lili Elbe Digital Archive (www.lilielbe.org). Launched on July 6, 2019, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science (Institut für Sexualwissenschaft) where Lili Elbe was initially examined, the Lili Elbe Digital Archive hosts the German typescript and all four editions of this narrative published in Danish, German, and English between 1931 and 1933, with English translations of the Danish edition and the typescript. Many letters from archives and contemporaneous articles noted in this print edition may be found in the digital archive.

Download or read book Recycle this Book written by Dan Gutman and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With essays from renowned children’s book authors such as Ann Brashares, Jeanne DuPrau, Caroline B. Cooney, Laurie Halse Anderson, Bruce Coville, Gennifer Choldenko, and over 100 others, each piece is an informative and inspiring call to kids of all ages to understand what’s happening to the environment, and to take action in saving our world. Helpful tips and facts are interspersed throughout. This book will be a great classroom tool to teach young readers how they can help to make the Earth a greener place.

Download or read book Don t Ask Me Where I m From written by Jennifer De Leon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A funny, perceptive, and much-needed book telling a much-needed story.” —Celeste Ng, author of the New York Times bestseller Little Fires Everywhere First-generation American LatinX Liliana Cruz does what it takes to fit in at her new nearly all-white school. But when family secrets spill out and racism at school ramps up, she must decide what she believes in and take a stand. Liliana Cruz is a hitting a wall—or rather, walls. There’s the wall her mom has put up ever since Liliana’s dad left—again. There’s the wall that delineates Liliana’s diverse inner-city Boston neighborhood from Westburg, the wealthy—and white—suburban high school she’s just been accepted into. And there’s the wall Liliana creates within herself, because to survive at Westburg, she can’t just lighten up, she has to whiten up. So what if she changes her name? So what if she changes the way she talks? So what if she’s seeing her neighborhood in a different way? But then light is shed on some hard truths: It isn’t that her father doesn’t want to come home—he can’t…and her whole family is in jeopardy. And when racial tensions at school reach a fever pitch, the walls that divide feel insurmountable. But a wall isn’t always a barrier. It can be a foundation for something better. And Liliana must choose: Use this foundation as a platform to speak her truth, or risk crumbling under its weight.

Download or read book Tricking the Tallyman written by Jacqueline Davies and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are kids interested in learning about the very first American census? Probably not. Do young readers clamor for stories set in the very, very olden days of the late 18th century? Uh, not really. Okay, but do they like nutty cat-and-mouse trickery, wacky slapstick, and animals disguised as people? You bet! So let them have all that, and if they end up learning a thing or two about our country, its history, and the ways our government works, shhh . . . we won’t tell! Tricking the Tallyman accomplishes the tricky task of showing kids the way the 1790 census was tabulated (or tallied) and how the country’s new citizens came to understand (after much misunderstanding) how it worked to help them and the country. Excellent for classroom use or to put in the hands of bright kids with a taste for the quirky and irreverent, young readers may enjoy this story so much they might not even notice how much they’ve learned!

Download or read book Sun Maker written by Matt Wright and published by Matt Wright Author. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Matt Wright has crafted an expansive universe in his Sun Maker saga. Mirroring the struggles we face in our culture today, Matt has carved his path of truth through adversity - with a resonant paradigm of the importance of the choices his characters make! This epic could not have come to us at a better time.” —Dominician Gennari, author of The War for Ascension An old enemy returns, oaths are sworn, and the stars fade away… Sun Maker is the breathtaking conclusion to Matt Wright's Sun Maker Saga. Sina's Last Stand: Seeking refuge with the Dominion, a growing rebel force, Sina is the universe's last hope against the Vine. When the power of Temperance is stolen, Sina must decide whether to abandon those who need her protection or stand and fight. Hana's Battle for Her Daughter: In the midst of chaos, Hana finds herself in constant danger. Her daughter, Lili, hears a mysterious voice calling her—does it mean well, or will it lead to doom? Cazska's War: As a splintered shadow of her former self, Cazska must wage war to stop Daedal. Even if it means breaking herself into thousands of pieces, she is determined to save what remains of the universe. An Epic Conclusion: The stars are fading, and time is running out. Will our heroes find a way to bring light to the darkness, or will Tyranny end everything? Buy Sun Maker now and witness the stunning finale of the Sun Maker Saga. If you haven't started the saga yet, get the whole set and embark on an unforgettable adventure among the stars!

Download or read book The Cod s Tale written by Mark Kurlansky and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * “Accessible to middle-grade readers…The Cod’s Tale considers how the cod fits into human history. Excellent ink drawings, brightened with colorful washes, illustrate incidents from the text with clarity, a flair for the dramatic, and a sense of humor.” —Booklist, starred review What was it that enabled the Vikings, Christopher Columbus, and the Pilgrims to cross the cold Atlantic Ocean to America? What became a staple of the medieval diet in Europe, helped spur the American Revolution, and allowed the early New Englanders to start making money of their own? Would you believe that it was a fish? The cod! Based on Mark Kurlansky’s New York Times bestselling adult book, Cod, this picture book offers a unique look at over a thousand years of world history. “Breezy, kid-friendly prose...fascinating and informative...bound to hook young readers.” —The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books An ALA Notable Book Includes suggestions for further reading, factual sidebars, and timeline