Comic Book Nation
By:"Bradford W. Wright"
Published on 2003-09-18 by JHU Press
Portrays the role of comic books in shaping American youth and pop culture, from Batman's struggles with corrupt politicians during the Depression to Iron Man's Cold War battles.
This Book was ranked 6 by Google Books for keyword comics books.
Words about Pictures
By:"Perry Nodelman"
Published on 1990-08-01 by University of Georgia Press
A pioneering study of a unique narrative form, Words about Pictures examines the special qualities of picture books--books intended to educate or tell stories to young children. Drawing from a number of aesthetic and literary sources, Perry Nodelman explores the ways in which the interplay of the verbal and visual aspects of picture books conveys more narrative information and stimulation than either medium could achieve alone. Moving from \
This Book was ranked 5 by Google Books for keyword picture books.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
By:"L. Frank Baum"
Published on 1900 by Random House Books for Young Readers
In the first of L. Frank Baum's time-honored Oz novels, country girl Dorothy Gale gets whisked away by a cyclone to the fantastical Land of Oz. Dropped into the midst of trouble when her farmhouse crushes a tyrannical sorceress, Dorothy incurs the wrath of the Wicked Witch of the West. Dorothy is desperate to return to her native Kansas, and, aided by the Good Witch of the North, she sets out for the Emerald City to get help from the legendary Wizard. On her way, she meets three unlikely allies who embody key human virtues—the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion.
This Book was ranked 4 by Google Books for keyword children books.
Putting on a Play
By:"Paul DuBois Jacobs","Jennifer Swender","Debra Spina Dixon"
Published on 2005 by Gibbs Smith
Contains everything you need to put on your own play with your friends, including how to write a script, design a set, make costumes, and act a part.
This Book was ranked 13 by Google Books for keyword drama for children.
The Miss Pickerell MEGAPACK ®
By:"Ellen MacGregor"
Published on 2015-03-15 by Wildside Press LLC
The Miss Pickerell MEGAPACKTM collects 4 classic young adult science fiction adventures: Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars, Miss Pickerell and the Geiger Counter, Miss Pickerell Goes Undersea, and Miss Pickerell Goes to the Arctic. If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for \
This Book was ranked 1 by Google Books for keyword classic adventures.
Mark Twain, Travel Books, and Tourism
By:"Jeffrey Alan Melton"
Published on 2002-06-26 by University of Alabama Press
Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize for best manuscript in American Literature With the publication of The Innocents Abroad (1869), Mark Twain embarked on a long and successful career as the 19th century's best-selling travel writer. Jeffrey Melton treats Twain's travel narratives in depth, and in the context of his contemporary travel writers and a burgeoning tourism culture. As Melton shows, Twain's five major travel narratives--The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Life on the Mississippi, A Tramp Abroad, and Following the Equator--demonstrate Twain's mastery and reinvention of the genre.
This Book was ranked 3 by Google Books for keyword travel books.
Speaking Out
By:"Jack Zipes"
Published on 2004 by Psychology Press
In his successful Creative Storytelling, Jack Zipes showed how storytelling is a rich and powerful tool for self-expression and for building children's imaginations. In Speaking Out, this master storyteller goes further, speaking out against rote learning and testing and for the positive force within storytelling and creative drama during the K-12 years. For the past four years, Jack Zipes has worked with the Neighborhood Bridges Program of the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, taking his storytelling techniques into inner-city schools. Speaking Out is in part a record of the transformations storytelling can work on the minds and lives of young people. But it is also a vivid and exhilarating demonstration of a different kind of education - one built from deep inside each child. Speaking Out is a book for storytellers, educators, parents, and anyone who cares about helping kids find within themselves the keys to imagination.
This Book was ranked 17 by Google Books for keyword children books.
Females and Harry Potter
By:"Ruthann Mayes-Elma"
Published on 2006-01-01 by Rowman & Littlefield
Uses critical discourse analysis, feminist theory, and critical theory to examine the female characters in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, focusing on such themes as validating/enabling, intelligence, and mothering.
This Book was ranked 22 by Google Books for keyword harry potter.
Teaching Math with Favorite Picture Books
By:"Judi Hechtman","Deborah Ellermeyer","Sandra Ford Grove"
Published on 1999-02-01 by Scholastic Inc.
Each activity in this book takes the teacher from preparation to extensions. Some of the features of this book include: suggestions for introducing the literature selection to students; a list of the NCTM Standard(s) the activity supports; a complete list of all materials necessary for the activity; step-by-step directions, teaching tips, and grouping suggestions for doing the acitivty with your class; ready-to-use reproducible recording sheets and patterns; and across the curriculum extensions that link the literature selection to other areas of your curriculum such as social studies, language arts, and art.
This Book was ranked 31 by Google Books for keyword picture books.
Children of the River
By:"Linda Crew"
Published on 2009-01-21 by Laurel Leaf
Sundara fled Cambodia with her aunt's family to escape the Khmer Rouge army when she was thirteen, leaving behind her parents, her brother and sister, and the boy she had loved since she was a child. Now, four years later, she struggles to fit in at her Oregon high school and to be \
This Book was ranked 31 by Google Books for keyword children books.
Friends and Foes of Harry Potter
By:"Nikita Agarwal","Chitra Agarwal","Benjamin Vincent"
Published on 2005 by Texas World Publishing
Examines the meanings behind the names of people and places in the Harry Potter books.
This Book was ranked 15 by Google Books for keyword harry potter.
Comics as Philosophy
By:"Jeff McLaughlin"
Published on 2005 by Univ. Press of Mississippi
Through the combination of text and images, comic books offer a unique opportunity to explore deep questions about aesthetics, ethics, and epistemology in nontraditional ways. The essays in this collection focus on a wide variety of genres, from mainstream superhero comics, to graphic novels of social realism, to European adventure classics. Included among the contributions are essays on existentialism in Daniel Clowes's graphic novel \
This Book was ranked 37 by Google Books for keyword comics books.
Middle School Students' Quadrilateral Learning: A Comparison Study
By:
Published on 2007 by ProQuest
The objectives of this study were to investigate whether the use of technology, the Geometer's Sketchpad, is more effective than the use of traditional tools such as ruler and protractor to enhance eighth-grade students' understanding of quadrilaterals and their mathematical reasoning ability and to examine how the use of the Geometer's Sketchpad affects on the development of students' understanding and reasoning ability.
This Book was ranked 24 by Google Books for keyword middle graders.
Perspective! for Comic Book Artists
By:"David Chelsea"
Published on 1997 by Watson-Guptill Publications
Teaches comic book artists about artistic perspective, covering one, two, and three-point perspective, using circles, drawing the human figure, and explaining the horizon and vanishing point
This Book was ranked 30 by Google Books for keyword comics books.
Reader's Digest Travel Guide USA.
By:
Published on 1994 by Readers Digest
Features 198 detailed maps of the country, including descriptions of selected attractions.
This Book was ranked 18 by Google Books for keyword travel books.
A Travel Guide to Jewish Europe
By:"Ben G. Frank"
Published on by Pelican Publishing
This Book was ranked 9 by Google Books for keyword travel books.
Worth a Thousand Words
By:"Bette DeBruyne Ammon","Gale W. Sherman"
Published on 1996 by Libraries Unlimited
Offers ideas for using the listed childrens books in grades up to high school in such areas as math, drama, and writing
This Book was ranked 38 by Google Books for keyword picture books.
Mentor Texts
By:"Lynne R. Dorfman","Rose Cappelli"
Published on 2007-01-01 by Stenhouse Publishers
Shows teachers how to help students become confident, accomplished writers, using literature as their foundation. The book is organised around the characteristics of good writing: focus, content, organisation, style, and conventions.
This Book was ranked 23 by Google Books for keyword picture books.
Leading Middle School Students: Expectations of Memphis Middle and Middle/high School Principals' Leadership Proficiencies Based on the ISLLC Standards
By:
Published on 2007 by ProQuest
There is a major division between the faculty and the administration in many schools in the Memphis City Schools District. Although most principals were once teachers, the perception of the characteristics of a good leader, from the perspective of a teacher, are often different from that of a principal. The leadership skills necessary for principals have been identified by the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC). This study explored the difference in the prioritization of the ISLLC standards by teachers and principals in the true middle schools of Memphis as compared to those in the middle/high schools of the Memphis City Schools District. Contributing to the body of knowledge that prepares future teachers and leaders to create a positive atmosphere for the students in the schools of this district, this study found congruence in the ranking of the ISLLC standards among the teachers of middle school students in the Memphis City Schools District. Data in this study also revealed more congruence between the opinions of principals and teachers in the true middle schools of the district as opposed to the middle/high schools. These results expose a need for more communication between the principals and teachers regarding the goals of the school as they relate to leadership. An awareness and consensus of the most important ISLLC standards to each group at the beginning of each school year would foster a more collaborative atmosphere, stimulate higher ratings of job satisfaction, and create more opportunities for a successful school year for all stakeholders.
This Book was ranked 27 by Google Books for keyword middle graders.
Catwings
By:"Ursula K. Le Guin","S. D. Schindler"
Published on 2003 by Scholastic Inc.
Four young cats with wings leave the city slums in search of a safe place to live, finally meeting two children with kind hands.
This Book was ranked 11 by Google Books for keyword children books.
Master Comics #111
By:"Kari Therrian","Fawcett Publications"
Published on 2015-03-06 by
This Book was ranked 22 by Google Books for keyword classic adventures.
How to Read Superhero Comics and why
By:"Geoff Klock"
Published on 2002 by A&C Black
Superhero comic books are traditionally thought to have two distinct periods, two major waves of creativity: the Golden Age and the Silver Age. In simple terms, the Golden Age was the birth of the superhero proper out of the pulp novel characters of the early 1930s, and was primarily associated with the DC Comics Group. Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, and Wonder Woman are the most famous creations of this period. In the early 1960s, Marvel Comics launched a completely new line of heroes, the primary figures of the Silver Age: the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, the X-Men, the Avengers, Iron Man, and Daredevil. In this book, Geoff Klock presents a study of the Third Movement of superhero comic books. He avoids, at all costs, the temptation to refer to this movement as \
This Book was ranked 25 by Google Books for keyword comics books.
A Picture Book Primer
By:"Denise I. Matulka"
Published on 2008 by Greenwood Publishing Group
Presents information about children's picture books, describing their history, design, format, styles, genres, and how they are used to build literacy skills, and discusses such issues as censorship and mulitculturalism.
This Book was ranked 10 by Google Books for keyword picture books.
Not Much Just Chillin'
By:"Linda Perlstein"
Published on 2003-09-04 by Macmillan
A report from the front lines of the most formative-and least understood-years of children's lives Suddenly they go from striving for A's to barely passing, or obsessing for hours over \
This Book was ranked 5 by Google Books for keyword middle graders.
Sex
By:"Nikol Hasler"
Published on 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Discusses all aspects of sexuality and sexual behavior, including sexual orientation, masturbation, birth control, and sexually transmitted diseases, and answers teenagers' questions on sex in a straightforward and in-depth manner.
This Book was ranked 35 by Google Books for keyword books for teens.
