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Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire

Author : Rafe Esquith
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143112864
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire written by Rafe Esquith and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read Rafe Esquith's posts on the Penguin Blog. The New York Times bestseller that is revolutionizing the way Americans educate their kids-"Rafe Esquith is a genius and a saint" (The New York Times) Perhaps the most famous fifth-grade teacher in America, Rafe Esquith has won numerous awards and even honorary citizenship in the British Empire for his outstandingly successful methods. In his Los Angeles public school classroom, he helps impoverished immigrant children understand Shakespeare, play Vivaldi, and become happy, self-confident people. This bestseller gives any teacher or parent all the techniques, exercises, and innovations that have made its author an educational icon, from personal codes of behavior to tips on tackling literature and algebra. The result is a powerful book for anyone concerned about the future of our children.

Lighting Their Fires

Author : Rafe Esquith
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143117661
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Lighting Their Fires written by Rafe Esquith and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling author of Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire shares his proven methods for creating compassionate children During twenty-five years of teaching at Hobart Elementary School in inner city Los Angeles, Rafe Esquith has helped thousands of children maximize their potential—and became the only teacher in history to receive the president's National Medal of Arts. In Lighting Their Fires, Esquith translates the inspiring methods from Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire for parents. Using lessons framed by a class trip to a Dodgers game, he moves inning by inning through concepts that explain how to teach children to be thoughtful and honorable people—as well as successful students—and to have fun in the process.

Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire

Author : Rafe Esquith
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780670038152
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire written by Rafe Esquith and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring guide to transforming education for children by an American Teacher Award recipient describes the methods through which he exposes first-generation immigrant students to classic culture, enables them to score in the top one percent on standardized tests, and helps them gain entry into Ivy League universities. 60,000 first printing.

Real Talk for Real Teachers

Author : Rafe Esquith
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143125613
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Real Talk for Real Teachers written by Rafe Esquith and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling author and world-renown teacher offers no-nonsense wisdom for teachers of all ages There’s no one teachers trust more to give them classroom advice than Rafe Esquith. After more than thirty years on the job, Esquith still puts in the countless classroom hours familiar to every dedicated educator. But where his New York Times bestseller Teach Like Your Hair’s on Fire was food for a teacher’s mind, Real Talk for Real Teachers is food for a teacher’s soul. Esquith candidly tackles the three stages of life for the career teacher and offers encouragement to see them through the difficult early years, advice on mid-career classroom building, and novel ideas for longtime educators. With his trademark mix of humor, practicality, and boundless compassion, Esquith proves the perfect companion for teachers who need a quick pick-me-up, a long heart-to-heart, or just a momentary reminder that they’re not alone.

Love, Teach

Author : Kelly Treleaven
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525533168
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Love, Teach written by Kelly Treleaven and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hopeful, hilarious musings and serious advice for new teachers from the formerly anonymous blogger behind Love, Teach. Every teacher will tell you the first years are the hardest, and even the most confident of the pack sometimes ask themselves, Am I cut out for this? Kelly Treleaven, the teacher and once-anonymous blogger behind Love, Teach, wants you to know that you're not alone, and that yes, she has cried under her desk, too. Treleaven's blog has become a sensation in the education world, known for its heartfelt, high-spirited dispatches straight from the trenches and its practical advice. In Treleaven's debut book, she gives rookie teachers the advice she wishes she'd had when she started out in a large district in Houston. From logistical questions like how to prep and organize a classroom, to deeper issues like how to build relationships with students, navigate administration, and avoid burnout, Love, Teach is an essential book for anyone working in education today or considering the profession. With raw feeling, humor, and a razor-sharp perspective, Love, Teach supports teachers in their fight for a better future, and helps them celebrate the victories, large and small.

There Are No Shortcuts

Author : Rafe Esquith
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1400030838
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book There Are No Shortcuts written by Rafe Esquith and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2004-05-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Year after year, Rafe Esquith’s fifth-grade students excel. They read passionately, far above their grade level; tackle algebra; and stage Shakespeare so professionally that they often wow the great Shakespearen actor himself, Sir Ian McKellen. Yet Esquith teaches at an L.A. innercity school known as the Jungle, where few of his students speak English at home, and many are from poor or troubled families. What’s his winning recipe? A diet of intensive learning mixed with a lot of kindness and fun. His kids attend class from 6:30 A.M. until well after 4:00 P.M., right through most of their vacations. They take field trips to Europe and Yosemite. They play rock and roll. Mediocrity has no place in their classroom. And the results follow them for life, as they go on to colleges such as Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford. Possessed by a fierce idealism, Esquith works even harder than his students. As an outspoken maverick of public education (his heroes include Huck Finn and Atticus Finch), he admits to significant mistakes and heated fights with administrators and colleagues. We all—teachers, parents, citizens—have much to learn from his candor and uncompromising vision.

Hyperbole and a Half

Author : Allie Brosh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451666187
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Hyperbole and a Half written by Allie Brosh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times Bestseller “Funny and smart as hell” (Bill Gates), Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half showcases her unique voice, leaping wit, and her ability to capture complex emotions with deceptively simple illustrations. FROM THE PUBLISHER: Every time Allie Brosh posts something new on her hugely popular blog Hyperbole and a Half the internet rejoices. This full-color, beautifully illustrated edition features more than fifty percent new content, with ten never-before-seen essays and one wholly revised and expanded piece as well as classics from the website like, “The God of Cake,” “Dogs Don’t Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving,” and her astonishing, “Adventures in Depression,” and “Depression Part Two,” which have been hailed as some of the most insightful meditations on the disease ever written. Brosh’s debut marks the launch of a major new American humorist who will surely make even the biggest scrooge or snob laugh. We dare you not to. FROM THE AUTHOR: This is a book I wrote. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to explain what it is. I tried to write a long, third-person summary that would imply how great the book is and also sound vaguely authoritative—like maybe someone who isn’t me wrote it—but I soon discovered that I’m not sneaky enough to pull it off convincingly. So I decided to just make a list of things that are in the book: Pictures Words Stories about things that happened to me Stories about things that happened to other people because of me Eight billion dollars* Stories about dogs The secret to eternal happiness* *These are lies. Perhaps I have underestimated my sneakiness!

Reading Lolita in Tehran

Author : Azar Nafisi
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588360792
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Reading Lolita in Tehran written by Azar Nafisi and published by Random House. This book was released on 2003-12-30 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • We all have dreams—things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi’s dream and of the nightmare that made it come true. For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. They were all former students whom she had taught at university. Some came from conservative and religious families, others were progressive and secular; several had spent time in jail. They were shy and uncomfortable at first, unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, but soon they began to open up and to speak more freely, not only about the novels they were reading but also about themselves, their dreams and disappointments. Their stories intertwined with those they were reading—Pride and Prejudice, Washington Square, Daisy Miller and Lolita—their Lolita, as they imagined her in Tehran. Nafisi’s account flashes back to the early days of the revolution, when she first started teaching at the University of Tehran amid the swirl of protests and demonstrations. In those frenetic days, the students took control of the university, expelled faculty members and purged the curriculum. When a radical Islamist in Nafisi’s class questioned her decision to teach The Great Gatsby, which he saw as an immoral work that preached falsehoods of “the Great Satan,” she decided to let him put Gatsby on trial and stood as the sole witness for the defense. Azar Nafisi’s luminous tale offers a fascinating portrait of the Iran-Iraq war viewed from Tehran and gives us a rare glimpse, from the inside, of women’s lives in revolutionary Iran. It is a work of great passion and poetic beauty, written with a startlingly original voice. Praise for Reading Lolita in Tehran “Anyone who has ever belonged to a book group must read this book. Azar Nafisi takes us into the vivid lives of eight women who must meet in secret to explore the forbidden fiction of the West. It is at once a celebration of the power of the novel and a cry of outrage at the reality in which these women are trapped. The ayatollahs don’ t know it, but Nafisi is one of the heroes of the Islamic Republic.”—Geraldine Brooks, author of Nine Parts of Desire

Here's to Not Catching Our Hair on Fire

Author : Stacey Turis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983827535
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Here's to Not Catching Our Hair on Fire written by Stacey Turis and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that if you forget to pay a speeding ticket you WILL get arrestedin front of your kids, the neighborsthe dogand anyone else who happens to be there? True story. And the thing is, Stacey Turis has a million of them, and she imparts these and other nuggets of wisdom to offer others suffering from ADHD some hope in knowing that they are not alone.A belly-laugh inducing romp through a life so convoluted and chaotic you know it has to be true, Stacey Turis's debut gives a voice to the genius yet tormented souls suffering from giftedness, ADHD, or a combination of both (a condition known as twice-exceptional) who are too afraid to speak.Chronicling her life journey from a state of self-loathing to one of self-acceptance, the stories flow timelessly, always incorporating the resulting lessons and reflections gleaned from each adventure. Including both the tragic, stomach churning details of a horrifically abusive time in her childhood to comic adventures such as deciding to dye her hair plum the day before an important presentation to a bank only to have it turn out purple, her life has never suffered from a dull moment. Though she often thought Karma was the reason she found herself in so many "pickles," a friend explained to her that when you put yourself out in the world more than anyone else, it's really just a matter of statistics. Lucky for Turis and the rest of us, putting herself out there all these years allows us all to look at life through her pair of less-struggle-more-sass glasses.With over three hundred million people suffering from ADHD worldwide and experiencing many of the same debilitating symptoms, Turis' goal is to share her experiences so that others afflicted can rid themselves of the shame of hiding their behavior. A rip-roaring and bracingly honest look at a twice-exceptional life, Here's to Not Catching Our Hair on Fire: An Absent-Minded Tale of Life with Giftedness and Attention DeficitOh Look! A Chicken! turns the rational on its head in a rollicking depiction of a life that seems to be constantly going off the rails.A belly-laugh inducing romp through a life so convoluted and chaotic you know it has to be true, Stacey Turis's debut gives a voice to the genius yet tormented souls suffering from giftedness, ADHD, or a combination of both (a condition known as twice-exceptional) who are too afraid to speak.Chronicling her life journey from a state of self-loathing to one of self-acceptance, the stories flow timelessly, always incorporating the resulting lessons and reflections gleaned from each adventure. Including both the tragic, stomach churning details of a horrifically abusive time in her childhood to comic adventures such as deciding to dye her hair plum the day before an important presentation to a bank only to have it turn out purple, her life has never suffered from a dull moment. Though she often thought Karma was the reason she found herself in so many "pickles," a friend explained to her that when you put yourself out in the world more than anyone else, it's really just a matter of statistics. Lucky for Turis and the rest of us, putting herself out there all these years allows us all to look at life through her pair of less-struggle-more-sass glasses.With over three hundred million people suffering from ADHD worldwide and experiencing many of the same debilitating symptoms, Turis' goal is to share her experiences so that others afflicted can rid themselves of the shame of hiding their behavior. A rip-roaring and bracingly honest look at a twice-exceptional life, Here's to Not Catching Our Hair on Fire: An Absent-Minded Tale of Life with Giftedness and Attention DeficitOh Look! A Chicken! turns the rational on its head in a rollicking depiction of a life that seems to be constantly going off the rails.

Curly Like Me

Author : Teri LaFlesh
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0470586141
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Curly Like Me written by Teri LaFlesh and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The simple secrets to growing your curls healthy and long. Tightly curly hair isn't like any other type of hair, and it needs totally different care to make it happy. Do you spend countless hours—and untold dollars—on weaves, perms, salon visits, and products that promise to change, heal, or make your hair more manageable, only to end up even more frustrated? Do you wrestle daily with hair you can't get a brush through? Do you struggle to keep from hurting your child when you comb through her tight curls? Would you like to grow your tightly curly hair long and healthy? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this book was written for you. It gives you the information and techniques you need to celebrate—not fight against—your very curly hair. You will learn how not only to care for your curls, but to cherish them, all the while saving time, effort, and money. Curly Like Me is the off-the-grid, do-it-yourself owner's manual for tightly curly hair: Learn how to wear your own curls in their natural curl patterns Over 250 photographs and illustrations Includes the best products, tools, ingredients, curl-enhancing hairstyle ideas, tips for growing out your perm, and more Shows you pain-free techniques on how to comb and style your curls or your child's curls Over thirty easy, curl-enhancing hairstyle ideas, tips for growing out your perm, and more Helps you save money by avoiding costly treatments, products, marketing misinformation, and frequent salon visits so you can enjoy your own curls without pain, chemicals, or the use of weaves or extensions The story (with lots of photos) of Teri's journey from hair broken by relaxers, texturizers, improper care, trying to force it to conform, and fighting her weave addiction to finally understanding her own curls. End your struggles with misunderstood, damaged hair and begin your journey to thriving natural curls.

The Crossover

Author : Kwame Alexander
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544107713
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book The Crossover written by Kwame Alexander and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A middle-grade novel in verse follows the experiences of twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan, who struggle with challenges on and off the court while their father ignores his declining health. 20,000 first printing.

Your Teacher Said What?!

Author : Joe Kernen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101515198
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Your Teacher Said What?! written by Joe Kernen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every morning on CNBC’s Squawk Box, Joe Kernen asks challenging questions. And at home he does the same with his young daughter, Blake. What are you learning in school? What TV shows do you like? What message did you get from that movie? Your teacher said what?! When Blake was nine, her answers told Joe that she had already absorbed a distorted view of economics—from her school, pop culture, and just about everywhere else. She was learning that capitalism is unavoidably immoral . . . that business people can’t be trusted, especially if they run big companies . . . that trade is bad because it hurts American workers . . . and that no matter how bad things get, the government will always bail us out. Joe was outraged. If he couldn’t fix our education system or Hollywood, at least he could teach Blake how capitalism really works, and why it’s worth defending. Ultimately, Joe convinced Blake that capitalism isn’t about greed; it’s about freedom. In today’s America, there’s no greater lesson to teach your children.

With the Fire on High

Author : Elizabeth Acevedo
Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1743586329
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book With the Fire on High written by Elizabeth Acevedo and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author of POET X comes a story of a girl with talent, pride and a little bit of magic that keeps her fire burning bright. Ever since she got pregnant during freshman year, Emoni Santiago’s life has been about making the tough decisions, doing what has to be done for her daughter and her abuela. The one place she can let all that go is in the kitchen. There, she lets her hands tell her what to cook, listening to her intuition and adding a little something magical every time, turning her food into straight-up goodness. Even though she’s always dreamed of working in a kitchen after she graduates, Emoni knows that it’s not worth her time to pursue the impossible. But then an opportunity presents itself to not only enrol in a culinary arts class in her high school, but also to travel abroad to Spain for an immersion program. Emoni knows that her decisions post high school have to be practical ones, but despite the rules she’s made for her life — and everyone else’s rules that she refuses to play by — once Emoni starts cooking, her only choice is to let her talent break free.

Do It With Words

Author : Kfir Luzzatto
Publisher : PINE TEN, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1938212274
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Do It With Words written by Kfir Luzzatto and published by PINE TEN, LLC. This book was released on 2014-12-20 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regrow Lost Hair and Restore Its Natural Color to Gray Hair - Do It With Your Mind Do It With Words - No "Magic" Potions or Lotions Needed You can make changes to your body with your mind? What nonsense! Snake oil! B-S! That’s what some people will tell you. So let me show you in a few seconds how wrong they are. Close your eyes. Imagine looking at a juicy half lemon that you hold in your hand. Now imagine squeezing it and seeing its juices flow. When you start salivating, open your eyes and go on reading. You just saw how your mind affects your body and turns your salivary glands on. It can also make your hair follicles go back to work. Let’s be realistic: The method taught in this book will not give you back the same thick hair that you had in high school. Hair loss and graying is a natural process. We can slow it down, reverse it to some extent, but we cannot make it go away altogether. If you are reading these lines, it means that you are worried because you are losing hair or graying fast, and the first thing to do is to stop that process. Too many people make money by selling useless preparations; they don’t want you to hear a simple secret: You already hold the power to make it better. You just need to learn how to use it. If you carefully follow the technique taught in this book, hair loss will stop or significantly slow down. Then, you will see hair growing back in places where it had stopped growing a long time ago. You can also restore color to your hair, which may not be exactly the color you had in your teens (mine grew of a color darker than before), but it will look and feel better, and so will you. You already have what you need to succeed – your mind. You don’t have to buy anything or to concoct any “magic” potion. You must understand how your mind communicates its orders to your body, and learn how to make this channel of communication work to improve the health of your hair. In fact, as you will see when you read the book, this is a particular application of a general principle that you can exploit in many other areas. But I want to be very clear: There is no magic wand in the book. Achieving a positive result requires a will to succeed. Your mind runs your body and you have to learn how to put it to work for you. The good news is that when you begin to use the techniques taught in the book, you also start to reap benefits immediately, which adds to your motivation to succeed. Two highly respected practitioners in the field expressed their opinion of the value of this technique: “It’s a wonderful application of something that I have believed in for many years now – the power of mind over body . . . This technique is worthy of serious attention.” - Michael J. Hadfield, D. Hyp., MBSCH “Kfir Luzzatto . . . has laid down a path for you to reach many goals traditionally considered difficult or impossible. I see Kfir as very much a visionary pioneer in the mind-body field. We are fortunate to read what he has discovered and reveals . . .” - Forbes Robbins Blair Do It With Words is a straightforward guide into the power of your mind. I am a former skeptic, who reformed after witnessing how mind-body practices deliver tangible results. The book provides visual proof and a precise blueprint of the mind-body experiment in which I succeeded in my attempt to regrow lost hair and to restore its natural color to gray hair. The book describes in precise detail how I: regrew lost hair;restored its natural, dark brown color to my previously white hair;used self-hypnosis, guided imagery and meditation to achieve all results without the aid of any external preparation. Scroll up and grab a copy to start learning today how it is done.

No Study Without Struggle

Author : Leigh Patel
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0807055638
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book No Study Without Struggle written by Leigh Patel and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how student protest against structural inequalities on campus pushes academic institutions to reckon with their legacy built on slavery and stolen Indigenous lands Using campus social justice movements as an entry point, Leigh Patel shows how the struggles in higher education often directly challenged the tension between narratives of education as a pathway to improvement and the structural reality of settler colonialism that creates and protects wealth for a select few. Through original research and interviews with activists and organizers from Black Lives Matter, The Black Panther party, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Combahee River Collective, and the Young Lords, Patel argues that the struggle on campuses reflect a starting point for higher education to confront settler strategies. She reveals how blurring the histories of slavery and Indigenous removal only traps us in history and perpetuates race, class, and gender inequalities. By acknowledging and challenging settler colonialism, Patel outlines the importance of understanding the relationship between the struggle and study and how this understanding is vital for societal improvement.

Ninth Ward

Author : Jewell Parker Rhodes
Publisher : Orbit Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Ninth Ward written by Jewell Parker Rhodes and published by Orbit Books. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In New Orleans' Ninth Ward, twelve-year-old Lanesha, who can see spirits, and her adopted grandmother have no choice but to stay and weather the storm as Hurricane Katrina bears down upon them.

Into the Firestorm: A Novel of San Francisco, 1906

Author : Deborah Hopkinson
Publisher : Yearling
ISBN 13 : 0440421292
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Into the Firestorm: A Novel of San Francisco, 1906 written by Deborah Hopkinson and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I believe I can just see you on the streets of that bright city.” Gran’s gone now, but her words live on with Nicholas Dray, almost twelve, as he makes his way from the hot cotton fields to that Queen of Cities: San Francisco. Nick’s on his own for the first time, with nowhere to turn. Then he meets jaunty, talkative Pat Patterson, owner of the most beautiful store–and the friendliest golden dog–in all the city. And for the first time in months, Nick feels safe. Safe in San Francisco. But the year is 1906, the month is April, and early one morning the walls begin to shake. The floor begins to buckle. And the earth opens up. A devastating earthquake and then raging firestorms ravage the city, and Nick is right in the middle of it all. But for a young boy who’s got few ties and nothing to lose, what’s the right choice: escape to safety or stay–at deadly risk–to help others? From acclaimed author Deborah Hopkinson comes a suspenseful and carefully researched novel of the Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire and of one boy’s heroic fight to survive it.