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Author | : Jillian Roberts |
Publisher | : Orca Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2018-02-13 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1459816196 |
A gentle introduction to the issue of poverty, On Our Street explores the realities of people living with inadequate resources. Using age-appropriate language, this book addresses mental illness, homelessness and refugee status as they are connected to this issue. Insightful quotes from individuals and organizations such as UNICEF are included throughout to add further perspective on the issue. An invaluable section on how kids can help empowers readers to take what they have learned and use it to make a difference.
Author | : Richard Tulloch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Brothers and sisters |
ISBN | : 9780140553802 |
Summary: In three brief episodes, a family of children deal with a tree that traps toys and sometimes people, a boring rainy day, and a neighbor's freshly painted fence.
Author | : Deirdre Mask |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2020-04-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1250134781 |
Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction | One of Time Magazines's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 | Longlisted for the 2020 Porchlight Business Book Awards "An entertaining quest to trace the origins and implications of the names of the roads on which we reside." —Sarah Vowell, The New York Times Book Review When most people think about street addresses, if they think of them at all, it is in their capacity to ensure that the postman can deliver mail or a traveler won’t get lost. But street addresses were not invented to help you find your way; they were created to find you. In many parts of the world, your address can reveal your race and class. In this wide-ranging and remarkable book, Deirdre Mask looks at the fate of streets named after Martin Luther King Jr., the wayfinding means of ancient Romans, and how Nazis haunt the streets of modern Germany. The flipside of having an address is not having one, and we also see what that means for millions of people today, including those who live in the slums of Kolkata and on the streets of London. Filled with fascinating people and histories, The Address Book illuminates the complex and sometimes hidden stories behind street names and their power to name, to hide, to decide who counts, who doesn’t—and why.
Author | : Beck Lowe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020-11 |
Genre | : Attitude change |
ISBN | : 9780648845980 |
Join the kids living in a suburban Aussie street over seven decades, and into the near future. How do they live? What do they eat? How do their households work? Be inspired to make your home and street a happening place. Our Street is a fully illustrated story book for upper primary school age children, exploring how suburban life changes between the 1950s and 2020s, and providing a positive vision of the future. It is a useful tool for parents and educators to help inspire children with positive solutions for sustainable and resilient living, whilst reflecting on Australian history.
Author | : Shane Safir |
Publisher | : Corwin |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2021-02-12 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1071812661 |
Radically reimagine our ways of being, learning, and doing Education can be transformed if we eradicate our fixation on big data like standardized test scores as the supreme measure of equity and learning. Instead of the focus being on "fixing" and "filling" academic gaps, we must envision and rebuild the system from the student up—with classrooms, schools and systems built around students’ brilliance, cultural wealth, and intellectual potential. Street data reminds us that what is measurable is not the same as what is valuable and that data can be humanizing, liberatory and healing. By breaking down street data fundamentals: what it is, how to gather it, and how it can complement other forms of data to guide a school or district’s equity journey, Safir and Dugan offer an actionable framework for school transformation. Written for educators and policymakers, this book · Offers fresh ideas and innovative tools to apply immediately · Provides an asset-based model to help educators look for what’s right in our students and communities instead of seeking what’s wrong · Explores a different application of data, from its capacity to help us diagnose root causes of inequity, to its potential to transform learning, and its power to reshape adult culture Now is the time to take an antiracist stance, interrogate our assumptions about knowledge, measurement, and what really matters when it comes to educating young people.
Author | : Sandra Cisneros |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2013-04-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0345807197 |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago • Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. “Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage...and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.” —The New York Times Book Review The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. “In English my name means hope,” she says. “In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting." Told in a series of vignettes—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous—Cisneros’s masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time. Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street or Toni Morrison’s Sula, it makes a world through people and their voices, and it does so in language that is poetic and direct. This gorgeous coming-of-age novel is a celebration of the power of telling one’s story and of being proud of where you're from.
Author | : Melvin E. Giles |
Publisher | : Oakdale Press (IL) |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Chicago (Ill.) |
ISBN | : 9780965636407 |
Author | : Anne Millard |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 47 |
Release | : 2012-08-20 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1465407731 |
Steve Noon's award-winning A Street Through Time has been revised and updated for a new generation. In a series of fourteen unique illustrations, A Street Through Time tells the story of human history by exploring a street as it evolves from 10,000 BCE to the present day. Readers will see how the landscape and the daily lives of people changed as a small settlement grows into a city, is struck by war and plague, and gains trade and industry.
Author | : Cormac McCarthy |
Publisher | : Vintage Books |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307386457 |
In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity
Author | : Charlotte Guillain |
Publisher | : Words & Pictures |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 2017-03-23 |
Genre | : Earth (Planet) |
ISBN | : 9781784937317 |
Picked by the Guardian as one of '15 Modern Classics' books This double-sided foldout book takes you on a fascinating journey deep underground. One side of the foldout shows the ground beneath the city, whilst the reverse side shows the ground beneath the countryside. The underground scenes include tunnels and pipes, creatures' burrows, layers of rock and the planet's molten core, and run seamlessly into the next. Mixing urban and rural settings, covering subjects such as geology, archaeology and natural history, The Street Beneath My Feetoffers children the opportunity to explore their world through a detailed learning experience. This expansive concertina book opens out to an impressive 2.5 metres long, perfect for spreading out on the floor to pore over for hours.