Each Tiny Spark

Each Tiny Spark
Author: Pablo Cartaya
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2019-08-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0451479734

From award-winning author Pablo Cartaya comes a deeply moving middle grade novel about a daughter and father finding their way back to each other in the face of their changing family and community. A SCHNEIDER FAMILY BOOK AWARD HONOR FOR MIDDLE GRADE Emilia Torres has a wandering mind. It's hard for her to follow along at school, and sometimes she forgets to do what her mom or abuela asks. But she remembers what matters: a time when her family was whole and home made sense. When Dad returns from deployment, Emilia expects that her life will get back to normal. Instead, it unravels. Dad shuts himself in the back stall of their family's auto shop to work on an old car. Emilia peeks in on him daily, mesmerized by his welder. One day, Dad calls Emilia over. Then, he teaches her how to weld. And over time, flickers of her old dad reappear. But as Emilia finds a way to repair the relationship with her father at home, her community ruptures with some of her classmates, like her best friend, Gus, at the center of the conflict. Each Tiny Spark by Pablo Cartaya is a tender story about asking big questions and being brave enough to reckon with the answers.

Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
Author: Julio Cortázar
Publisher: North Point Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1989-10-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780865472044

Poems, essays, and anecdotes accompany stories about a man sinking into the ground, an invisible monster, a woman who hates yawns, and miniature jaguars

Five Quarters of the Orange

Five Quarters of the Orange
Author: Joanne Harris
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 477
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0061836702

When Framboise Simon returns to a small village on the banks of the Loire, the locals do not recognize her as the daughter of the infamous woman they hold responsible for a tragedy during the German occupation years ago. But the past and present are inextricably entwined, particularly in a scrapbook of recipes and memories that Framboise has inherited from her mother. And soon Framboise will realize that the journal also contains the key to the tragedy that indelibly marked that summer of her ninth year. . . .

Positive Behavior Principles

Positive Behavior Principles
Author: Dan St. Romain
Publisher: National Center for Youth Issues
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2020-09-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1937870715

Looking for Behavior Support? Although behaviors in the school system have changed a great deal in the past few decades, our strategies for supporting those behaviors have not. When we move beyond punitive practices for dealing with misbehavior, we find strategies that work. The information in this book is not a program, nor is it a one-size-fits-all set of strategies. It is a framework based on brain research for helping educators analyze their behavioral philosophy and practices. Positive Behavior Principles outlines nine core principles that can be used to design prevention, intervention and crisis strategies for supporting student behaviors in schools. This information complements both PBIS, as well as behavioral RTI efforts.

Teach Skills and Break Habits

Teach Skills and Break Habits
Author: Dan St. Romain
Publisher: National Center for Youth Issues
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2018-06-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1953945058

Good behavior is a skill that can be taught - and developed through practice. It just requires a shift in our perspective. If you have tried behavior folders, clip systems, or other interventions based on punishments and rewards, you've probably discovered these one-size-fitsall approaches to behavior management all too often prove to be ineffective with the very students they were designed to help. Teach Skills and Build Habits explores the reasons why what we've been doing isn't working, and how to find a new path and process that will lead to better behavior in the classroom, as well as success for students beyond their school years.This book is for you if:? You are an educator looking for help with student behaviors? You spend more time managing behaviors than teaching? Your current methods don't seem to be working? You are looking for practical behavior strategies that can be used in a variety of settingsYou will be empowered to:? Focus on behavior change as a process of continual improvement? Use behavior concerns as an opportunity to teach your students skills? Help your students build on their gifts, accept their challenges, and practice areas of concern? Build a foundation of good behavior in your students by establishing healthy relationships and creating a positive classroom climate

Understanding Steven Spielberg

Understanding Steven Spielberg
Author: Beatriz Peña-Acuña
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2018-12-14
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1527523373

This volume presents an in-depth discussion of the work of Steven Spielberg, an American director of Jewish origin. It offers a careful study of the audiovisual and documentary material in Spielberg’s filmography, exploring both the biographical and sociological parameters that influence his cinematographic work and his values, and the director’s own personal testimony and critics’ comments on the value of dignity and other subjects prevalent in his work. The book then goes on to analyse the formal elements used by the filmmaker in his work, and his maturity in relation to anthropological matters.

The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories

The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories
Author: Stewart Brown
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2001
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780192802293

The Caribbean is the source of one of the richest, most accessible, and yet technically adventurous traditions of contemporary world literature. This collection extends beyond the realm of English-speaking writers, to include stories published in Spanish, French, and Dutch. It brings together contributions from major figures such as V. S. Naipaul, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and work from the exciting new generation of Caribbean writers represented by Edwidge Danticat, and Jamaica Kincaid.

A History of Reading

A History of Reading
Author: Alberto Manguel
Publisher: Penguin Group
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997
Genre: Books
ISBN: 9780140166545

On history of reading