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Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"For many children around the world, getting an education is only a distant dream. War, poverty, discrimination, and violence are seemingly insurmountable obstacles to going to school. But there is hope. Fight to Learn presents the uplifting stories of the incredible people whose vision and drive have made the dream of education come true for many." -- Back cover.
6) 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.
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
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
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...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The author presents her story and life philosophy, describing how she wished for a magic pencil that she would use to fix the world's problems, and how she realized that even if she never found the pencil, she could still have a positive impact.
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
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, New York
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The founders of "National Novel Writing Month" offer practical advice on how to organize and commit to writing stories and novels, and includes motivating essays from such popular authors as John Green and Scott Westerfeld.
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