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22) Home safety
Author
Publisher
Child's World
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Offers basic rules for what to do and what not to do to be safe at home.
23) Cheating death
Author
Series
Inspector Ghote mysteries volume 20
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Inspector Ghote, 'one of the great creations of detective fiction' (Alexander McCall Smith), investigates the curious case of a stolen exam paper in this classic mystery - with a brand-new introduction by bestselling author Vaseem Khan.
Bombay University is in the grip of a cheating scandal, centred on one of its most deplorable colleges. A final exam paper has been stolen and sold prior to the test, leading to calls for the principal's immediate...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In this third wacky handbook about how to avoid danger of every kind--from vampiric teachers to haunted books--Dr. Noel Zone joins the teaching staff of the local school after a small mishap involving his Danger Mobile (a shopping cart). But any POD (Pupil of Dangerology) knows that schools are full of danger in the classrooms, in the lunchroom, and most definitely in the gymnasium. Thank goodness readers have a professional on their side!"--Provided...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A guide to assist families with making critical decisions about what to pay for college discusses the complex financial aid system, how to determine good value, and setting financial goals while figuring out how to save, borrow, and bargain for a better deal.
Author
Language
English
Description
America is in trouble. We face four major challenges on which our future depends, and we are failing to meet them—and if we delay any longer, soon it will be too late for us to pass along the American dream to future generations.
In That Used to Be Us, Thomas L. Friedman, one of our most influential columnists, and Michael Mandelbaum, one of our leading foreign policy thinkers, offer both a wake-up call and a call to collective
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Traces the stories of advocates and activists who risked danger and hardship to uphold the 1954 desegregation ruling by the Supreme Court, sharing additional information on how the NAACP strategized its responses to period racism.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The illustrations for this series were created by Scott McKowen, who, with his wife Christina Poddubiuk, operates Punch & Judy Inc., a company specializing in design and illustration for theater and performing arts. Their projects often involve research into the visual aspects of historical settings and characters. Christina is a theater set and costume designer and contributed advice on the period clothing for the illustrations.
Scott created these...
Author
Publisher
Maker Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
How can you consistently pull off hands-on tinkering with kids? How do you deal with questions that you can't answer? How do you know if tinkering kids are learning anything or not? Is there a line between fooling around with real stuff and learning? The idea of learning through tinkering is not so radical. From the dawn of time, whenever humanity has wanted to know more, we have achieved it most effectively by getting our hands dirty and making careful...
34) Diary of a worm
Author
Language
English
Description
A young worm discovers, day by day, that there are some very good and some not so good things about being a worm in this great big world.
Author
Publisher
New Harbinger Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In a world steeped in gender inequality and sexual violence, it's become more and more clear that we can't just teach girls to protect themselves. We must also teach boys not to do harm. Written by a clinical psychologist with expertise in modern families, Raising Feminist Boys is a parent's guide to having developmentally appropriate conversations with boys about sexual responsibility, consent, gender, empathy, and identity"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In 1982, a new executive at Sallie Mae took home the company's financial documents to review. "You ve got to be shitting me," he later told the company s CEO. "This place is a gold mine." Over the next four decades, the student loan industry that Sallie Mae and Congress created blew up into a crisis that would submerge a generation of Americans into $1.5 trillion in student debt. In The Debt Trap, Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Mitchell tells the...
37) We are a rainbow
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Simple text and illustrations explore some of the similarities and differences that a child recognizes after moving to the United States from a Spanish-speaking country.
Author
Publisher
DW Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The Left is waging an all-out battle on the American family, particularly the youngest members. Stolen Youth provides an urgent deep dive into issues surrounding the current woke indoctrination happening in politics, education, medicine, mental health, entertainment, and culture. These issues may seem subtle, insidious, and hard to make sense of, but armed with the information provided in this book, we now have a framework from which to fight. While...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of how wealthy businessman Julius Rosenwald came to financially support the building of 5,300 schools in rural African-American communities that desperately needed them over the course of twenty years.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"In August of 1966, Jim Grimsley entered the sixth grade in the same public school he had attended for the five previous years in his small eastern North Carolina hometown. But he knew that the first day of this school year was going to be different: forthe first time he'd be in a classroom with black children. That was the year federally mandated integration of the schools went into effect, at first allowing students to change schools through 'freedom...
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