Postmodern Picturebooks
By:"Lawrence R. Sipe","Sylvia Pantaleo"
Published on 2010-04-26 by Routledge
Over the past 15 years, there has been a pronounced trend toward a particular type of picturebook that many would label \
This Book was ranked 37 by Google Books for keyword picture books.
Randolph Caldecott's Picture Books
By:"Randolph Caldecott"
Published on 2008 by Huntington Library Press
Presents nine of the illustrator's books of nursery rhymes and other classic rhymes for children, including \
This Book was ranked 2 by Google Books for keyword picture books.
Middle-school Students Comprehending, Analyzing, and Evaluating Persuasive Texts
By:
Published on 2008 by ProQuest
When evaluating premises, a majority of students selected the evidence as their source, but verbal responses indicated that students reasoned from text-based evidence, prior knowledge and their beliefs, despite selecting the evidence basis. Their particular basis depended upon the premise statement being evaluated.
This Book was ranked 29 by Google Books for keyword middle graders.
Children's Literature in China: From Lu Xun to Mao Zedong
By:"Mary Ann Farquhar"
Published on 2015-04-22 by Routledge
This book introduces the major works and debates in Chinese children's literature within the framework of China's revolution and modernization. It demonstrates that the guiding rationale in children's literature was the political importance of children as the nation's future.
This Book was ranked 8 by Google Books for keyword children literature.
Mixing It Up With Harry Potter
By:"Owen Smith"
Published on 2007-05 by Church House Publishing
12 group sessions that use the popular Simpsons TV series to help young people connect with key Christian beliefs. Suitable for use with 9- to 13-year olds. Ideal for Sunday schools and mid-week groups.
This Book was ranked 36 by Google Books for keyword harry potter.
Effects of Early Elementary Reading Recovery Programs on Middle-school Students: A Longitudinal Evaluation
By:
Published on 2008 by ProQuest
Had they never had the intervention in first grade it is likely that they would have fallen far behind their peers. Skills learned in first grade may have led to a level of achievement for seventh graders that allows them to experience content at the secondary level without the struggle of literacy issues.
This Book was ranked 22 by Google Books for keyword middle graders.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
By:"J.K. Rowling"
Published on 2000-07-08 by Pottermore
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This Book was ranked 21 by Google Books for keyword harry potter.
Classic Connections
By:"Holly Koelling"
Published on 2004 by Libraries Unlimited
Getting teenage readers to read, let alone enjoy, classic literary fiction continues to challenge educators and librarians. But it doesn't have to. Offering a variety of techniques, Holly Koelling shows how to successfully select, present, promote, and otherwise connect teenagers with great literature in the library and in the school. After defining \
This Book was ranked 36 by Google Books for keyword books for teens.
The Irresistible Rise of Harry Potter
By:"Andrew Blake"
Published on 2002 by Verso
As the British state begins to unravel, and as journalists compete to pronounce on the death of Britain, a schoolboy from suburban Surrey who lives for most of the year in a semi-parallel universe becomes the most popular figure in contemporary world literature. Now read on – everyone else does... Harry Potter is English, a home-counties suburban child. An orphan, oppressed and abused by the adults around him, he retreats into a fantasy world where his problems are more elemental; everyday rituals, magic spells and supercharged broomsticks with only the occasional homicidal wizard to worry about. Ironically, as Andrew Blake makes clear, J. K. Rowling rescues her character through the reinvention of that apex of class privilege, the English public school, a literary conceit that problematises Harry Potter's status as a role model and raises important social questions about the state of education in Tony Blair's Britain. Andrew Blake's examination of the Harry Potter phenomenon also raises serious questions about the condition of the publishing industry, the state of bookselling and filmmaking, and the ways in which the Potter consumer campaign has changed our ideas about literature and reading. Blake reflects on how these connections, while drawn up in Britain, act as a template for Harry Potter's international success.
This Book was ranked 18 by Google Books for keyword harry potter.
Masters of American Comics
By:"John Carlin","Paul Karasik","Brian Walker","Stanley Crouch"
Published on 2005 by Yale University Press
Presents the work of America's most popular and influential comic artists, and includes critical essays accompanying each artist's drawings.
This Book was ranked 34 by Google Books for keyword comics books.
Looking at Pictures in Picture Books
By:"Jane Doonan"
Published on 1993 by
Discusses the place of the illustration in children's picture books, looking particularly at how pictures can express abstract themes, such as moods, which cannot be shown directly. Uses examples from well-known works to illustrate the points discussed.
This Book was ranked 36 by Google Books for keyword picture books.
The School for Good and Evil
By:"Soman Chainani"
Published on 2013-05-14 by Harper Collins
At the School for Good and Evil, failing your fairy tale is not an option. Welcome to the School for Good and Evil, where best friends Sophie and Agatha are about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime. With her glass slippers and devotion to good deeds, Sophie knows she'll earn top marks at the School for Good and join the ranks of past students like Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Snow White. Meanwhile, Agatha, with her shapeless black frocks and wicked black cat, seems a natural fit for the villains in the School for Evil. The two girls soon find their fortunes reversed—Sophie's dumped in the School for Evil to take Uglification, Death Curses, and Henchmen Training, while Agatha finds herself in the School for Good, thrust among handsome princes and fair maidens for classes in Princess Etiquette and Animal Communication. But what if the mistake is actually the first clue to discovering who Sophie and Agatha really are . . . ? The School for Good and Evil is an epic journey into a dazzling new world, where the only way out of a fairy tale is to live through one.
This Book was ranked 35 by Google Books for keyword middle graders.
Adolescents, Alcohol, and Substance Abuse
By:"Peter M. Monti","Suzanne M. Colby","Tracy A. O'Leary"
Published on 2004-07 by Guilford Press
This volume reviews a range of empirically supported approaches to prevention and treatment of adolescent substance use problems. The focus is on motivationally based brief interventions that can be delivered in a variety of contexts, that address key developmental considerations, and that draw on cutting-edge knowledge on addictive behavior change. From expert contributors, coverage encompasses alcohol skills training; integrative behavioral and family therapy; motivational interviewing; interventions for dually diagnosed youth; Internet-based education, prevention, and treatment; and applications to HIV prevention. The volume is extensively referenced and includes numerous clinical illustrations and vignettes.
This Book was ranked 18 by Google Books for keyword books for teens.
Graven Images
By:"A. David Lewis","Christine Hoff Kraemer"
Published on 2010-10-21 by A&C Black
Comic books have increasingly become a vehicle for serious social commentary and, specifically, for innovative religious thought. Practitioners of both traditional religions and new religious movements have begun to employ comics as a missionary tool, while humanists and religious progressives use comics' unique fusion of text and image to criticize traditional theologies and to offer alternatives. Addressing the increasing fervor with which the public has come to view comics as an art form and Americans' fraught but passionate relationship with religion, Graven Images explores with real insight the roles of religion in comic books and graphic novels. In essays by scholars and comics creators, Graven Images observes the frequency with which religious material\u0097in devout, educational, satirical, or critical contexts\u0097occurs in both independent and mainstream comics. Contributors identify the unique advantages of the comics medium for religious messages; analyze how comics communicate such messages; place the religious messages contained in comic books in appropriate cultural, social, and historical frameworks; and articulate the significance of the innovative theologies being developed in comics.
This Book was ranked 3 by Google Books for keyword comics books.
Into the Wild
By:"Jon Krakauer"
Published on 2011-07-06 by Pan Macmillan
By examining the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man, who in 1992 walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later, internationally bestselling author Jon Krakauer explores the obsession which leads some people to explore the outer limits of self, leave civilization behind and seek enlightenment through solitude and contact with nature. 'an astonishingly gifted writer: his account of 'Alex Supertramp' is powerfully dramatic, eliciting sympathy for both the idealistic, anti-consumerist boy - and his parents' Guardian 'a compelling tale of tragic idealism' The Times
This Book was ranked 32 by Google Books for keyword travel books.
Classic Adventures
By:"Steck-Vaughn Staff"
Published on 2000-09-01 by
This Book was ranked 17 by Google Books for keyword classic adventures.
Wonder
By:"R. J. Palacio"
Published on 2012-02-14 by Knopf Books for Young Readers
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JULIA ROBERTS, OWEN WILSON, AND JACOB TREMBLAY! Over 5 million people have read the #1 New York Times bestseller WONDER and have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face. The book that inspired the Choose Kind movement. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse. August Pullman was born with a facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid—but his new classmates can’t get past Auggie’s extraordinary face. WONDER, now a #1 New York Times bestseller and included on the Texas Bluebonnet Award master list, begins from Auggie’s point of view, but soon switches to include his classmates, his sister, her boyfriend, and others. These perspectives converge in a portrait of one community’s struggle with empathy, compassion, and acceptance. \
This Book was ranked 13 by Google Books for keyword middle graders.
Fire in the Heart
By:"Deepak Chopra"
Published on 2004-05-01 by Simon and Schuster
Offers young adult readers an inspirational tale designed to encourage spiritual thinking and a connection with a higher power. 100,000 first printing.
This Book was ranked 34 by Google Books for keyword books for teens.
Children's Literature and its Effects
By:"Cedric Cullingford"
Published on 2000-11-01 by A&C Black
A study of children's authors who are typical of their time, such as Enid Blyton, Angela Brazil, Judy Blume and Ronald Dahl. The book discusses comics as well as \
This Book was ranked 31 by Google Books for keyword children literature.
Speak
By:"Laurie Halse Anderson"
Published on 2011-05-10 by Macmillan
The first ten lies they tell you in high school. \
This Book was ranked 25 by Google Books for keyword middle graders.
Children's Literature
By:"Seth Lerer"
Published on 2009-04-01 by University of Chicago Press
Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children’s literature. Children’s Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop’s fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from Where the Wild Things Are to Harry Potter. The only single-volume work to capture the rich and diverse history of children’s literature in its full panorama, this extraordinary book reveals why J. R. R. Tolkien, Dr. Seuss, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Beatrix Potter, and many others, despite their divergent styles and subject matter, have all resonated with generations of readers. Children’s Literature is an exhilarating quest across centuries, continents, and genres to discover how, and why, we first fall in love with the written word. “Lerer has accomplished something magical. Unlike the many handbooks to children’s literature that synopsize, evaluate, or otherwise guide adults in the selection of materials for children, this work presents a true critical history of the genre. . . . Scholarly, erudite, and all but exhaustive, it is also entertaining and accessible. Lerer takes his subject seriously without making it dull.”—Library Journal (starred review) “Lerer’s history reminds us of the wealth of literature written during the past 2,600 years. . . . With his vast and multidimensional knowledge of literature, he underscores the vital role it plays in forming a child’s imagination. We are made, he suggests, by the books we read.”—San Francisco Chronicle “There are dazzling chapters on John Locke and Empire, and nonsense, and Darwin, but Lerer’s most interesting chapter focuses on girls’ fiction. . . . A brilliant series of readings.”—Diane Purkiss, Times Literary Supplement
This Book was ranked 4 by Google Books for keyword children literature.
Devil on the Moon : and I Died Yesterday
By:"Kenneth Robeson","Lester Dent","Will Murray","Laurence Donovan"
Published on 2009 by
This Book was ranked 21 by Google Books for keyword classic adventures.
Rick Steves Europe Through the Back Door 2015
By:"Rick Steves"
Published on 2014-09-02 by Avalon Travel
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling through Europe, including how to: Plan your itinerary and maximize your time Pack light—and right Find good-value hotels and restaurants Travel smoothly by train, bus, car, and plane Avoid crowds and tourist scams Hurdle the language barrier Understand cultural differences and connect with localsSave money while enjoying the trip of a lifetime After 30 years of exploring Europe, Rick considers this travel skills handbook his life’s work. He shares his favorite off-the-beaten-path towns, trails, and natural wonders. With this guidebook, you’ll experience the culture like a local, spend less money, and have more fun.
This Book was ranked 21 by Google Books for keyword travel books.
Measuring Cognitive and Psychological Engagement in Middle School Students
By:
Published on 2008 by ProQuest
Information from the survey was extracted using inferential statistical analyses, including the Pearson product-moment correlation, t test, and the one-way ANOVA to analyze the strength and direction of the relationships identified in the research questions.
This Book was ranked 32 by Google Books for keyword middle graders.
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
By:"E.L. Konigsburg"
Published on 2010-12-21 by Simon and Schuster
When suburban Claudia Kincaid decides to run away, she knows she doesn't just want to run from somewhere, she wants to run to somewhere -- to a place that is comfortable, beautiful, and, preferably, elegant. She chooses the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Knowing that her younger brother Jamie has money and thus can help her with a serious cash-flow problem, she invites him along. Once settled into the museum, Claudia and Jamie find themselves caught up in the mystery of an angel statue that the museum purchased at auction for a bargain price of $225. The statue is possibly an early work of the Renaissance master, Michelangelo, and therefore worth millions. Is it? Or isn't it? Claudia is determined to find out. Her quest leads her to Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, the remarkable old woman who sold the statue, and to some equally remarkable discoveries about herself.
This Book was ranked 1 by Google Books for keyword middle graders.
